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In its wake, a football club was born.", "The singer, who was the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One single, had been in ill health.", "BA, Ryanair and EasyJet are challenging plans to force inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days.", "The film is a brutally honest, first-person account of what can happen to a family when tragedy strikes.", "Red pandas in Nepal are being monitored in their last stronghold in the mountainous forests of Nepal.", "The comedian's criticism comes after an episode was temporarily pulled by UKTV due to \"racial slurs\".", "The moment Rita Kenyon sees her three grandchildren for the first time in weeks is caught on camera.", "The Sun says its article, and headline \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\", weren't meant to glorify abuse.", "Shintaro Tsuj steps down after six decades at the helm of the company that created the character.", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "A celebration was held at Windsor after the Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled due to coronavirus.", "Neglect of the past and belief in progress has left many unaware of the scope of US racial tensions.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "There are warnings BAME prisoners are being disproportionately affected by the use of the synthetic spray.", "The war-time leader's granddaughter says the statue may be safer in a museum if protests continue.", "Racism and social inequality may exacerbate Covid-19 risk to UK minorities, a leaked report says.", "The former chancellor worked as the editor of the London newspaper for more than three years.", "Hundreds of people stage peaceful protests two towns in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "The episode will now carry a warning about \"potentially offensive content and language\".", "British Airways is a firm in crisis, struggling with Covid-19 and in conflict with its employees.", "Many people will reunite with loved ones on Saturday, as lockdown rules ease for those who live alone.", "Large demonstrations take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh despite authorities urging people to stay away.", "On the show this week, Matt Hancock, Lisa Nandy, Sen Rick Scott, David Olusoga and Sam Mendes.", "Hospital bosses in England felt \"in the dark\" over changes to policies on face masks and visitors.", "Protests following the death of George Floyd have brought some important phrases into the spotlight.", "The singing legend, who is celebrating his 80th birthday, shares memories of his life and career.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "Thousands of people gather at a number of demonstrations, despite ministers urging people to avoid mass gatherings.", "Protesters march in support of George Floyd and indigenous Australians despite coronavirus warnings.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Government advice to reopen for individual prayer would \"cause more challenges\", says Imam Qari Asim", "World Bank President David Malpass says billions of people will have their livelihoods affected.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were discovered on Sunday.", "Coronavirus disrupted Harry Billinge's D-Day plans. But he got to meet a face from his past instead.", "Sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US, thousands gather globally to say black lives matter.", "The former Commons speaker tells the BBC he \"made a lot of enemies\" but denies bullying allegations.", "Scientists are gathering data on how new diseases emerge in the hope of identifying future pandemics.", "Some 80% of Welsh Government staff are working on Covid-19, says Wales' top civil servant.", "But Health Secretary Jeane Freeman urges caution and warns further deaths are \"still likely\".", "The text calling for the military to be used to quell unrest in the US caused revolt in the newsroom.", "Kameko inflicts a first defeat on Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas, the first British Classic of the season, in a record time.", "The group that owns Crieff Hydro gives notice that a quarter of its employees face losing their jobs.", "Prof John Edmunds - who advises the government - says he wishes the UK had entered lockdown sooner.", "The airline threatened to dismiss all its pilots and rehire them under new contracts, Balpa says.", "A further 77 UK deaths are recorded but none in Scotland or Northern Ireland.", "Conor McGregor says he has retired from fighting - for the third time in four years.", "Mark Drakeford asks protesters not to put themselves and others \"at risk\" during the pandemic.", "An oil worker who was in quarantine wore a disguise so he could watch his children from a distance.", "Churches, mosques and synagogues have been closed in England since lockdown restrictions began.", "The weapon, which is being forensically examined, was found along with a fully-primed bomb.", "A further 77 UK coronavirus deaths are reported in the UK - the lowest daily total since 23 March.", "Thousands of protesters line the streets from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square.", "Protests in London have been largely peaceful but were marred by scuffles outside Downing Street.", "Coronavirus has changed the face of weddings - what's it like getting married with the new rules?", "Bristol anti-racism protesters dump a statue to Edward Colston into the city's harbour.", "Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all hold friendly matches at their home stadiums to prepare for the season restart.", "England forward Raheem Sterling backs protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".", "Researchers say aerial photographs taken during a heatwave identify Roman forts and roads in Wales.", "Archaeologists say the structure is more than 4,500 years old and its size is unprecedented.", "Lower-income households \"twice as likely than richer ones\" to have increased debts during the crisis.", "Sajid Javid calls for lower taxes on businesses to aid the UK's economic recovery.", "Joel Schumacher made St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, Falling Down and two Batman films.", "The corporation has announced it will allocate greater funding to reflect more diverse audiences.", "One of the UK's top experts on diplomacy pours scorn on claims suspect in Harry Dunn death had immunity.", "\"Hundreds of people\" gathered at a courtyard in Moss Side, Manchester, prior to the shooting.", "Images from the aftermath of a multiple fatal stabbing at Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading.", "The first minister says it could happen if advisers to the Welsh Government say it is safe.", "The prince, who turns 38 on Sunday, posed for photographs at home with his three young children.", "As Scotland's lockdown eases with dentists and places of worship opening a new rule on face coverings comes into force.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.", "Two friends who died have been named, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "The lead author of a review into the events says her recommendations need to be implemented.", "BBC One's Panorama reveals covert recordings of teenagers being groomed by a neo-Nazi militant group.", "Bailiffs are still banned from knocking on doors to collect unpaid parking fines or council tax.", "Mixer will close in a month's time, with partners being offered similar deals on Facebook Gaming.", "Burnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' that was towed by an aircraft over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.", "The duchess made the pledge to Stuart and Carla Delf, whose son Fraser died of a rare syndrome.", "The UK prime minister says that if there are lessons to learn after the terror attack the government will learn them.", "Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human activity.", "A ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will end, but with no big celebrations allowed.", "The event celebrates MP Jo Cox in a slightly different way this year amid lockdown, her sister says.", "Friends pay tribute to the three people who died after a stabbing attack in Reading on Saturday.", "The firm will now custom-design the chips that power its future desktop and laptop computers.", "Official figures also show a further 15 people have died after testing positive for the virus.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "The latest reaction following the terror attack in central Reading.", "There are a lot of talented female politicians in the running - and they each have a special power.", "Joshua Flynn, his son, his daughter and the family dog were all killed while walking on Father's Day.", "The move follows clashes with residents who tried to break through a police cordon.", "Just 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black, compared to 3% of the population.", "Images are released of 15 people police want to speak to about criminal damage.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Five-year-old Tony Hudgell set a target of raising £500 for the hospital which saved his life.", "Boris Johnson is also expected to announce a relaxation of the 2m distancing rule in England.", "Next year's exam season in England could be delayed to allow more teaching time, MPs are told.", "The Republic's health authority presses ahead with Apple-Google tech, despite the UK being unready.", "A 47-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and dangerous driving.", "From 6 July those most vulnerable to the virus in England will have more freedom to see other people.", "Sandwich chain to address its \"job situation\" as weekly sales fall about 85% during lockdown.", "The day's main developments as non-essential shops are allowed to reopen in Wales.", "Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez both score twice as Manchester City thrash Burnley to ensure Liverpool have to wait a little longer to wrap up the title.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "The driver of the van is seriously injured in the crash, but no-one on the train is hurt.", "More than 100 students gathered at the gates to hold a silence at the school where James Furlong taught.", "People were relaxing in a park when an attacker \"darted round\" stabbing people, one witness said.", "More than 400 staff have now been tested following the outbreak at the chicken factory on Thursday.", "Khairi Saadallah held over three deaths came to the attention of security services in 2019, sources say.", "James Furlong, one of three people to die, was described as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".", "But Public Health Wales says there is no evidence of \"widespread community transmission\".", "Matt Hancock says he \"very much hopes\" to lower the social distancing measure in England.", "Paul and Elaine Gait say they are \"delighted to be vindicated\" after a long fight for justice.", "Neuroscientists call for urgent attention to the well-being of young people isolated from friends.", "The Met Police said officers had arrested a man on suspicion of outraging public decency.", "Police, teachers and community leaders have put forward their hopes for change in Bristol.", "Rescuers say the fin whale may not survive after so many hours out of the water from beaching twice.", "A Portuguese police source rejects criticism over their investigation into the missing three-year-old.", "The victim, in his 50s, one of three hurt in the gun attack after a party in Harlow, Essex.", "The hoard, worth around £152,000, was found left behind on a train in Switzerland last October.", "The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km.", "Labour's David Lammy urged the government to \"do something\" to protect ethnic minorities from Covid-19.", "New emergency plans are announced in Delhi to cope with a surge in Covid-19 cases.", "Groups from around the country, including right-wing activists, said they were protecting statues.", "Three years ago, 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell fire. In its wake, a football club was born.", "Survivors of the fire speak out on the third anniversary of the fire, which killed 72 people.", "What compromises might the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal?", "Patrick Hutchinson was pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between demonstrators.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "The whale dies after getting stranded on the Dee estuary again, the Coastguard confirms.", "The moment Rita Kenyon sees her three grandchildren for the first time in weeks is caught on camera.", "Chief scout Bear Grylls says \"if he were here today we would disagree with him on many things\".", "Hundreds of people attend more protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "There have been concerns the hospitality sector will struggle to be viable with the rule in place.", "Two illegal raves attracted about 6,000 people and led to \"tragic consequences\".", "Non-essential shops in England can reopen on Monday and many staff can't wait to get back to business.", "The stars of sketch show Little Britain say they \"regret that we played characters of other races\".", "Education Secretary John Swinney says it is a \"working assumption\" they will go ahead in 2021.", "It is suggested the coronavirus crisis has shown up private care homes but they say they need better funding.", "The pandemic will affect jobs and livelihoods, Chancellor Rishi Sunak admits.", "A celebration was held at Windsor after the Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled due to coronavirus.", "Andrew Banks, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency.", "The war-time leader's granddaughter says the statue may be safer in a museum if protests continue.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "Hundreds of people stage peaceful protests two towns in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "Colombian national Alex Nain Saab is wanted in the US on charges of corruption and money laundering.", "Some teachers and students across England are heading back to school this week, so how are they feeling?", "Leading psychologists warn the education secretary that children's mental health is at risk.", "The episode will now carry a warning about \"potentially offensive content and language\".", "New data shows people living alone are at greater risk of loneliness during lockdown.", "From violence caught on video to coronavirus inequalities, what is making protesters react so strongly?", "The film and television actor was found dead in his apartment in the city of Mumbai, police said.", "The money is needed to help worst-hit towns, say the Welsh Conservatives.", "Many people will reunite with loved ones on Saturday, as lockdown rules ease for those who live alone.", "Statistics from England show more people from BAME backgrounds are dying than those from white ethnic groups.", "The PM says people living alone in England can form a \"bubble\" with one other household from Saturday.", "These areas propelled the outsider to victory in 2016 - what do they think of the protests?", "Graduates of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama speak about their experiences.", "Exams have been cancelled because of the lockdown, with grades now being estimated by teachers.", "Tourism minister Fergus Ewing tells Holyrood that the tourism and leisure sector should prepare to open from the middle of next month.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Some families say they are \"completely cut off\" by visiting restrictions during the pandemic.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "The owners of Frankie and Benny's, Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz are restructuring their businesses.", "There was no one 'patient zero' that started the UK epidemic, research shows.", "Health experts say passengers should wear face masks and board planes one row at a time.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands.", "Neville Staple was \"astounded\" when his profile vanished after being wrongly associated with racism.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel brands footage of a surrounded officer on the ground \"disgraceful\".", "Sir Keir Starmer launches a stinging attack on government plans for schooling during the pandemic.", "The presenting duo say they would not make the sketches today and \"realise that this was wrong\".", "China removes pangolins from its official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, reports say.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are shown at Windsor Castle, where they are staying during lockdown.", "The UK's most senior black and minority ethnic officer says forces \"need to listen to communities\".", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had gathered in Fryent Country Park to celebrate a birthday.", "More information is needed from the public to take the new suspect to court, German prosecutors say.", "Labour press minister over approval for £1bn scheme after it emerges developer donated money to Tories.", "Editors of the dictionary made the decision after receiving an email from a young black woman.", "People are being encouraged to join a \"countrywide thank you\" to key workers on 5 July.", "The government's adviser on extremism is investigating if it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.", "Boris Johnson says the move will be subject to distancing measures being in place.", "A total of 4,000 deaths in Scotland have now been linked to Covid-19, according to the latest figures.", "There is a risk that tonnes of diesel oil could drift from the lake to the Arctic Ocean.", "Boris Johnson eases lockdown rules in England further in an effort to combat loneliness.", "The brother of George Floyd, Philonise, urged lawmakers \"to make sure his death isn’t in vain\".", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "Boris Johnson vows action to mitigate higher coronavirus risks for black and minority ethnic people.", "The corporation says \"times have changed\" since the sketch show first aired.", "An Indian family became its own cluster when 11 out of 17 members tested positive for Covid-19.", "Global economic growth will turn \"sharply negative\" this year due to the pandemic, the IMF warns.", "The service says the 1939 film will return alongside a \"discussion of its historical context\".", "A senior officer says coronavirus has also had an impact on the ability to police terror threats.", "The video call app allowed some patients to see recordings of others' sessions with medics.", "More than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown, Cancer Research UK says.", "The author becomes the first black British writer to top the overall UK book chart.", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to a committee of MPs.", "Boris Johnson hints that further measures to ease the lockdown in England will be announced later.", "Residents, who acted before the council could remove it, vowed to return the head \"at a later date\".", "The coronavirus crisis could destroy any gains made, the government watchdog says.", "A University of Liverpool building was named after William Gladstone who benefited from slavery.", "The OECD says the UK economy is likely to shrink 11.5% this year - the most among developed countries.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who haven't been home since the pandemic began.", "Health leaders warn the coronavirus crisis will impact the number of people waiting for treatment.", "The police watchdog used its powers to instruct the Met Police to refer the case.", "The Canal and River Trust says the Robert Milligan statue's removal \"recognises community wishes\" .", "US Navy veteran Michael White is released by Iran, where he had been detained since 2018.", "The 43-year-old German was seen driving a camper van in the resort where she disappeared, police say.", "Space on services will be \"vastly reduced\" for safety during the pandemic, Wales' economy minister says.", "It comes as UK police chiefs say they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by the death.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Meghan urges young people to rebuild society after the African-American man died in police custody.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is considering making face coverings compulsory in enclosed places like shops and on public transport.", "Social network posts an article flagging two disputed statements in one of the president's tweets.", "Police say many people officers spoke to were from England and thought lockdown rules were the same.", "The business secretary is tested for coronavirus as MPs row over the physical return to Parliament.", "Messages that appear on stolen phones suggest the authorities are also being alerted.", "A German man, 43, is being investigated on suspicion of murder over the British girl’s disappearance.", "The travel industry warns the mandatory two-week self-isolation will put tourists off UK visits.", "At the UK-hosted summit, Boris Johnson said up to eight millions lives will be saved by the funding.", "Officials advise Covid-19 tests for those protesting against George Floyd's killing in virus-hit cities.", "Developments as the chief medical officer says opening schools in June is his \"second-best\" option.", "The Lookers dealership cuts 1,500 staff and Aston Martin sheds 500, as latest figures show plunge in sales.", "Keith Ellison warns that convicting the four ex-officers charged in the case \"will be hard\".", "The child and three adults are in hospital following the attack in north London on Wednesday night.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "The firm, which makes its luxury cars in Crewe, says up to 1,000 jobs will go.", "The demonstration was one of many held globally in the wake of the 46-year-old's death.", "The business secretary has been self-isolating at home since he became unwell on Wednesday.", "The business secretary is self-isolating at home and is waiting for a coronavirus test result.", "Kemi Badenoch urges MPs not to use evidence of higher ethnic minority death rates to stoke racial tension.", "More than half the population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, especially younger people.", "George Floyd's story \"has been the story of black folks\", Rev Sharpton told the Minneapolis service.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "In total 166 migrants attempt to cross the English Channel in 24 hours - with 64 people on one boat.", "The prince says he was \"lucky\" to have mild symptoms as other endure \"unbelievably testing\" times.", "More than £11m has been spent on the Metropolitan Police inquiry since it began in 2011.", "After 13 years, the hunt for the missing three year old may be a step closer to a conclusion.", "Rough sleepers given emergency accommodation could be evicted within weeks, a charity says.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "Watch as land continues to collapse during the rescue effort.", "The chain will reopen three shops in Northern Ireland on Monday, followed by 50 in England a week later.", "Campaigners demand the government prioritises the environment in any post-Covid-19 stimulus package.", "The latest statistics show that for the fifth week running Covid-19 linked deaths were down, with the majority aged 75 and over.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The venue's first concert since lockdown will take place on 13 June, conducted by Antonio Pappano.", "The press secretary compares the president to the British wartime leader inspecting bomb damage.", "Photographs of some of the key moments since the three-year-old went missing in Portugal in 2007.", "The US is battling a resurgence of the coronavirus, with several states seeing record new cases.", "Prof Neil Ferguson tells the BBC he expects to see a targeted approach to tackling local outbreaks.", "A government plan for the performing arts is met with calls for financial support and a timetable.", "The band are the latest to change their name in light of the anti-racism movement.", "Peter Kraus posted pictures of monkeys next to images of Black Lives Matter protesters.", "Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern.", "The 33.3C reached at Heathrow Airport on Thursday surpassed Wednesday's high of 32.6C.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain remains in place.", "BBC Sport looks at 10 games which have shaped Jurgen Klopp's reign at Liverpool as they celebrate winning the Premier League title.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Supermarkets impose one or two-pack limits on toilet roll as Covid-19 cases in Victoria spike.", "Intu, the owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside centres, fails to reach a deal with lenders.", "BBC Sport takes a look at the statistics behind Liverpool's 30-year wait to win their 19th top-flight league title.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Inspectors find serious failings at a Kettering home closed after deaths during the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Shopping centres including Trafford and Lakeside will continue to trade under administrators KPMG.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 June and 26 June.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says the findings of its survey are \"shocking\".", "Ministers fear over-reliance on US-based GPS in the event of an attack or technical failure.", "It was one of several \"challenges\" identified in an audit of federal pandemic relief programmes.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says \"everything is possible\" for his side if they stay \"humble\" after completing the club's first title win in 30 years.", "Jurgen Klopp describes guiding Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years as \"more than I ever thought possible\".", "Six people, including a police officer, are being treated in hospital for their injuries after the attack.", "NHS and public service volunteers are being recruited across England for an antibody test study.", "A man is shot dead by police after a major incident in Glasgow in which at least six people were stabbed.", "Liverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title is over after Manchester City lose 2-1 at Chelsea to confirm the Reds as Premier League champions.", "Researchers at the University of Oxford identified the pattern in hospital case data for England.", "The unnamed officers were arrested by the Independent Office for Police Conduct on 22 June.", "Post-mortem tests reveal the three men were fatally wounded by a single blow in the knife attack.", "Police issue a dispersal order after crowds gather for a second night despite coronavirus fears.", "The mother of two sisters murdered in a London park says the images \"dehumanised\" her children.", "The US president launches a new legal challenge to his predecessor's signature law.", "Hundreds of cans and bottles are left dumped after the hottest day of the year.", "The supermarket says that in the three months to May, the number of trips fell by nearly a third.", "The National Audit Office is concerned about missing elements such as aircraft and support ships.", "Tourist spots have seen bookings boom after the government gave holidays the go ahead from 4 July.", "If left unchecked the resurgences will \"push health systems to the brink once again\", the WHO warns.", "PC David Whyte was seriously injured dealing with a multiple stabbing before a suspect was killed.", "Two anonymous Twitter accounts made sexual assault allegations against the singer last week.", "Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick condemns the \"utterly unacceptable\" behaviour.", "A major incident is declared in Bournemouth as thousands hit the coast in soaring heat.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says his \"first priority\" is tackling anti-Semitism after firing shadow minister.", "Thousands of supporters gather at the club's ground, with some setting off flares and fireworks.", "The Labour leader fired his shadow education minister after vowing to get tough on anti-Semitism.", "Jurgen Klopp is the man behind Liverpool's transformation into Premier League title winners. This is the inside story of how he did it.", "The UK's chief medical adviser says coronavirus cases will rise if people ignore social distancing.", "Two unnamed officers were suspended after non-official images of the scene were shared.", "Stores with access from the street will open; face coverings will be mandatory on public transport but outdoor hospitality, such as pub gardens, will not open.", "Bank of England announces huge stimulus to aid recovery from the \"unprecedented\" coronavirus downturn.", "Greene King and Lloyd's of London pledge to make donations to black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.", "Labour has a \"mountain to climb\" to regain power, a major review of its 2019 election defeat says.", "Lord Bethell says the coronavirus-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and has no firm launch date.", "The first minister criticises disorder in Glasgow's George Square as six men are arrested.", "Downing Street says there are no reports of any injuries following the incident.", "Matthew Wain filmed himself telling hospital staff in Birmingham he hoped they \"die of coronavirus\".", "Plans for a national tutoring service in England to help pupils hit by school closures are expected.", "The health secretary slaps a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite the two-metre rule.", "Mary Trump is due to release a book that describes her uncle as the world's most dangerous man.", "The boy, who cannot be named, is accused of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist act.", "Matt Hancock says there is no scheduled release date after switch to Apple and Google's technology.", "It is thought to be a \"retaliation attack\" for the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol.", "She was the Forces' Sweetheart, whose songs did so much to boost morale during World War Two.", "Boris Johnson says he does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review the song's use.", "The boy, who cannot be named, is accused of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist act.", "Grace Millane's cousin says it was \"truly horrendous\" to have to listen to her killer lie in court.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.", "Oriel College's governors vote to take down the statue of the Victorian colonialist Cecil Rhodes.", "After City institutions apologise for slavery ties, historian Sir Hilary Beckles says firms must go further.", "The UK's biggest building society is lowering its ceiling on mortgage lending to new customers.", "Germany, Japan and Ireland press ahead with contact-tracing apps, but NHS Covid-19's future is unclear.", "The baby's death is announced as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirms a child died there on Monday.", "The weekly report on Covid-19 linked deaths show that there has been a total of 4.070 fatalities.", "The tax office has had thousands of complaints, some from staff who have been made to work while on furlough.", "The leaders mark 80 years since a BBC broadcast in which France was urged to keep fighting Hitler.", "The Queen and Sir Paul pay their respects to the Forces' Sweetheart, who has died aged 103.", "Leaders of coronavirus-hit social services warn of \"catastrophic consequences\" without investment.", "The education minister also indicates that the target date for pupils' return is now 24 August.", "The song was one of the first to feature a synth, was accused of being too \"slushy\" for the troops.", "People who get news from social media are also more likely to break lockdown rules, a study suggests.", "1,700 pages of \"factual reports\" have been released, which show new details of helicopter crash.", "George Carey's permission to officiate is revoked amid an inquiry in abuse committed by a barrister.", "Video lectures and no freshers' week make for tough decisions", "The Xenon 1T experiment may have found signs of a previously undetected dark matter particle.", "The field hospitals were set up at the cost of £166m to help ease the burden on the NHS during the pandemic.", "Oxford's Oriel College voted to take down the colonialist's statue but removal will not be immediate.", "Residents in the Rhondda Valley town of Pentre say they have been hit by flooding again.", "The latest developments on the pandemic in Wales.", "Leo Vardkar says the vote recognises Ireland's \"work on the world stage over many decades\"", "The boss of Oakman Inns says that if pubs don't reopen \"they'll continue to bleed cash\".", "The singer of We’ll Meet Again, who entertained British troops in World War Two, has died.", "Look back at the beloved singer's life, from childhood to World War Two and later success.", "Powerful statements, an eerie atmosphere and unexpected controversy - BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty reflects on a surreal return to action at Villa Park.", "Raheem Sterling says it was a \"massive step\" that Premier League players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "Arsenal's David Luiz is sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secure a comfortable victory behind closed doors.", "British Empire Medal recipient Neomi Bennett overturned her conviction for obstructing police.", "But advice to stay within five miles of your home is likely to remain in place.", "Google's ex-chief raises security concerns but says West should not disengage from Chinese tech.", "Bonnie Pointer was an original member of the group, best known for the hit Jump (For My Love).", "The researchers say the death toll would have been \"huge\" without a lockdown.", "Sweden's relaxed lockdown has attracted growing numbers of British and European tourists.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Jacob Roberts broke his leg falling into a 4m-deep well while running away from a dog.", "Large demonstrations take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh despite authorities urging people to stay away.", "All the latest news, travel and coronavirus updates from the West of England", "A further 55 people have died - the lowest daily rise since before lockdown on 23 March.", "Despite the sombre outlook, WHO chief reports \"positive signs\" in several countries fighting Covid-19.", "Simeon Francis was found unresponsive in a cell in Torquay 17 hours after his arrest in Exeter.", "Chinese firm buys online and newspaper ads as officials reconsider if it poses a security risk.", "Should Edward Colston's name be stripped from the streets of Bristol?", "Instructors say learners \"have no clear guidance\" on when they will be able to take their tests.", "Government advice to reopen for individual prayer would \"cause more challenges\", says Imam Qari Asim", "The travel industry warns the mandatory two-week self-isolation will put tourists off UK visits.", "Prince Andrew has been heavily criticised for his friendship with the disgraced US financier.", "Economists say America's economic expansion ended in February, but markets remain on the upswing.", "The bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were discovered on Sunday.", "But Mark Drakeford says he cannot make any promises about reopening pubs and restaurants.", "Republic Records, one of the most powerful labels in the US, says the term is outdated.", "Homeless people given a bed in the pandemic will not be returned to Welsh streets, a minister says.", "Dental health faces \"impending disaster\" as surgeries remain closed in Wales, a letter to ministers warns.", "The first minister was speaking as no new coronavirus deaths were registered in Scotland for the second day running.", "The text calling for the military to be used to quell unrest in the US caused revolt in the newsroom.", "PM Jacinda Ardern says she \"did a little dance\" as it was confirmed NZ had no active virus cases.", "Eddie Hunn turned 100 on Sunday but could not see family or friends nearby because of social distancing.", "Postmasters were accused of theft despite evidence of computer system issues, BBC Panorama reveals.", "Lewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" following the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.", "A further 77 UK deaths are recorded but none in Scotland or Northern Ireland.", "Large retailers and shops in retail parks in Northern Ireland opened from today.", "The airline threatened to dismiss all its pilots and rehire them under new contracts, Balpa says.", "A report suggests activity improved last month but Scotland still saw the smallest recovery of any UK area.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "Prince Andrew's lawyers have clashed with US prosecutors over the duke's co-operation with the inquiry.", "Two young carers describe how their lives have changed under the coronavirus pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says if progress continues she is \"optimistic\" that on 18 June Phase 2 of lifting more restrictions can begin.", "Battery-maker Catl says it is ready to make a product that could power a car over 1.2 million miles.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Tensions in Minneapolis did not start with the death of George Floyd. They've been years in the making.", "The weapon, which is being forensically examined, was found along with a fully-primed bomb.", "US attorney claims Prince Andrew has \"repeatedly declined\" requests to schedule an interview.", "Thousands of protesters line the streets from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "The \"Rhodes Must Fall\" campaign says Oxford University has \"failed to address institutional racism\".", "Bristol anti-racism protesters dump a statue to Edward Colston into the city's harbour.", "The oil giant plans to slash around 15% of its workforce in response coronavirus crisis.", "England forward Raheem Sterling backs protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".", "Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all hold friendly matches at their home stadiums to prepare for the season restart.", "The Archbishop of Cardiff says the priest had to deal with a \"very difficult pastoral situation\".", "A man is charged with grievous bodily harm after Debbie Kaore posts video footage of an assault.", "Couples in England and Wales will not have to prove one party is at fault to start proceedings.", "Actress Rachel Adedeji said she has witnessed racism while working on the Channel 4 soap.", "Hydroxychloroquine has become controversial but it is not a treatment for Covid, say Oxford researchers.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Police say many people officers spoke to were from England and thought lockdown rules were the same.", "Alexis Ohanian says the move was inspired by protests over the death of George Floyd.", "Police ask for the CPS to look into Belly Mujinga's death in light of \"wider public interest\".", "Deaths due to dementia rose in the first two months of the pandemic, official figures show.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "New images of the British Normandy Memorial, currently under construction, are released to mark date.", "The star's sixth album, Chromatica, outsold the rest of the Top 10 combined to debut at number one.", "News and updates on the response to the pandemic in Wales on Friday 5 June.", "After 13 years, the hunt for the missing three year old may be a step closer to a conclusion.", "Tory Bob Seely says he did not know other people would be present when he visited a journalist.", "Stores around the world have been forced to shut their doors due to the virus pandemic.", "Scientists are concerned the test-and-trace system is not effective enough to prevent this.", "The ex-English Defence League leader is bailed after saying he acted in self-defence.", "Photographs of some of the key moments since the three-year-old went missing in Portugal in 2007.", "A 2018 MERS outbreak exercise in Scotland revealed concerns over protective gear, the BBC learns.", "The firm, which makes its luxury cars in Crewe, says up to 1,000 jobs will go.", "Footage shows raves have been taking place in London, but organisers claim the parties are simply a community of people exercising to house music.", "The business secretary has been self-isolating at home since he became unwell on Wednesday.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The World Health Organization changes its policy on the use of face masks by healthy people.", "Neglect of the past and belief in progress has left many unaware of the scope of US racial tensions.", "A top climate scientist has called for more investment in climate computing.", "Watch as land continues to collapse during the rescue effort.", "The health secretary says UK has 'reasonable' demands after both sides report little progress in talks.", "A BBC investigation uncovers a company organising secret raves in breach of lockdown rules.", "The venue's first concert since lockdown will take place on 13 June, conducted by Antonio Pappano.", "China is hitting back at the US for supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations last year.", "He was an athlete, friend and father whose life and struggles were emblematic of any American.", "Brazil has seen high numbers of coronavirus deaths and ordinary people are trying to help cities cope.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "The vouchers have cost more than £129m in England and are worth £15 per week for each eligible child.", "The government says it's open to \"innovative\" ideas, after a union urges it to ease social distancing.", "Though medical staff are in the Covid-19 firing line, there has been a surge of interest in healthcare as a career.", "At the UK-hosted summit, Boris Johnson said up to eight millions lives will be saved by the funding.", "AstraZeneca says it could provide two billion doses of a potential vaccine, helped by backing from Bill Gates.", "The glam rock star scored hits with Ballroom Blitz and Blockbuster in the 1970s.", "Wendell Baker was deemed suitable for release but his 66-year-old victim's family were not consulted.", "TV presenter Kate Garraway's partner has been in a coma for nearly 10 weeks, after catching Covid-19.", "Fee rises of more than £100 a week add \"insult to injury\" after the wave of infections, says Age UK.", "Scientists want people to send them recordings of their wildlife experiences under the lockdown.", "The estimate is based on swab tests of people living in 9,000 households in England.", "Crowds of people paid their respects to George Floyd at the spot where he was killed in Minneapolis.", "The companies promise big tax savings, but some NHS staff could end up severely out of pocket.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "Airline owner IAG is meeting lawyers to decide whether to challenge government over quarantine plans.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "More than £16bn has been handed out to some household names including BA, Tottenham Hotspur and M&S.", "A German man, 43, is being investigated on suspicion of murder over the British girl’s disappearance.", "The man was investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old girl in 2015, German media reports.", "The demonstration was one of many held globally in the wake of the 46-year-old's death.", "The Equalities and Human Rights Commission says the virus has \"laid bare\" racial disparities.", "The app will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\", a government minister says.", "The retail giant writes to the Welsh Government asking for a review of the rates it pays on shops.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The lingerie retailer had already furloughed 785 of its employees in the UK amid the pandemic.", "Florence Eshalomi says the frequency she is confused with black female MPs is \"worrying\".", "No-one will be evicted from their home this summer, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says.", "Tens of thousands of people have flocked to the Dorset coast since lockdown restrictions were eased.", "Prof Neil Ferguson tells the BBC he expects to see a targeted approach to tackling local outbreaks.", "The Stretford and Urmston MP replaces Rebecca Long-Bailey, who was sacked from the role this week.", "As cases soar in India's capital, its chief minister warns of health care shortages and more deaths.", "Who is left and what are the big questions as the FA Cup resumes this weekend.", "It comes as police officers broke up another illegal street party held in London.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain remains in place.", "Original members of the Gay Liberation Front gathered to mark the anniversary of its formation.", "The Red Arrows leave a smoke trail of red, white and blue over North Yorkshire.", "Police say Badreddin Abadlla Adam, from Sudan, was killed in the attack at a Glasgow hotel on Friday.", "Supermarkets impose one or two-pack limits on toilet roll as Covid-19 cases in Victoria spike.", "Some states delay plans to reopen after more than 40,000 new cases were recorded on Friday.", "Jonathan Edwards describes it as the \"biggest regret\" of his life, while his wife accepts his apology.", "Milton Glaser also created a famous poster of Bob Dylan and co-founded New York magazine.", "\"Anarchists\" who damage US monuments should face up to a decade in prison, the president says.", "Harry Maguire scores deep into extra-time as Manchester United overcome valiant 10-man Norwich to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.", "Police do not believe there was any foul play in the disappearance of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe.", "The Corkman will lead a three-party coalition of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.", "Police issue a dispersal order after crowds gather for a second night despite coronavirus fears.", "The mother of two sisters murdered in a London park says the images \"dehumanised\" her children.", "PC David Whyte was seriously injured dealing with a multiple stabbing before a suspect was killed.", "Three people are in a serious condition in hospital after fans gathered despite restrictions.", "The decision by the US comedy show follows years of criticism over a white actor playing an Indian.", "More than a million people signed a petition about the case of 12-year-old Shukri Yahye-Abdi.", "Two anonymous Twitter accounts made sexual assault allegations against the singer last week.", "The company condemns racism and seeks more accountability from Facebook and other platforms.", "Khairi Saadallah, 25, is accused of killing three men in a public park in Reading last Saturday.", "The mother of two sisters stabbed to death in a Wembley park spoke to the BBC's Martin Bashir.", "The Scottish government says a UK announcement on travel has been made without talks taking place first.", "Maternity units in England are being asked to provide more checks and support during the pandemic.", "The move comes after IBM ended its facial recognition activities amid concerns over racial bias.", "The PM says people living alone in England can form a \"bubble\" with one other household from Saturday.", "The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh remain on BBC iPlayer despite being taken off Netflix.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "The tie-up comes as demand for food deliveries has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "British world heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to a two-fight deal, says promoter Eddie Hearn.", "The latest data on the re-infection rate shows that on June 5 it was between 0.6 and 0.8.", "The app, first tested on the Isle of Wight, had been expected to be rolled out at the end of May.", "An MoJ document shows offenders in England and Wales may not have been closely monitored in lockdown.", "US stock markets have seen steep falls, while several states report rising Covid-19 cases.", "Latest developments on the response to the pandemic in Wales.", "The BBC newsreader says the disease has spread from his bowel to his lungs.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel brands footage of a surrounded officer on the ground \"disgraceful\".", "A symbolic monument to Brazil's coronavirus victims is mocked by Bolsonaro supporters, organisers say.", "The presenting duo say they would not make the sketches today and \"realise that this was wrong\".", "Sir Keir Starmer launches a stinging attack on government plans for schooling during the pandemic.", "No savings and less chance to cut spending means an income fall hits the young hardest, the ONS says.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had gathered in Fryent Country Park to celebrate a birthday.", "Labour press minister over approval for £1bn scheme after it emerges developer donated money to Tories.", "Editors of the dictionary made the decision after receiving an email from a young black woman.", "Most cuts will fall in the UK as the firm seeks to \"arrest the decline\" of it's business.", "UK firms will not be able to withstand a no-deal Brexit after Covid-19, the outgoing CBI boss warns.", "Prince Joachim, who contracted coronavirus days after arrived in Spain, has been fined €10,400.", "A switch to the Google-Apple model is being considered, but developers believe it would be a mistake.", "An anonymous tracer told the BBC they've made one call and don't feel they've had much training.", "Lady Antebellum become Lady A, and say they are \"deeply sorry for the hurt\" their old name caused.", "Ben Ashman drove a 4x4 at guests in a rampage outside his brother's wedding party, a court hears.", "A drug charity says it has seen a \"significant reduction\" in addict numbers making contact.", "Campaigners accuse Robert Baden-Powell of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler.", "An Indian family became its own cluster when 11 out of 17 members tested positive for Covid-19.", "A senior officer says coronavirus has also had an impact on the ability to police terror threats.", "Conservative backbenchers say easing the restriction in England is essential for economic recovery.", "The government says minister Robert Jenrick acted properly over a decision to approve a £1bn project.", "Black Lives Matter demonstrators tore down the statue of the slave trader at an anti-racism protest.", "People in England and Wales have been fined for house parties, meeting in big groups and camping.", "Almost a third of students think their courses were poor value in a year of campus strikes and Covid.", "See the potential in everyone and do not allow intolerance, the UK's most senior military officer says.", "A group of Welsh tourism leaders warns of \"economic disaster\" without the prospect of reopening.", "A grim Fed outlook and uptick in virus cases in some US states fans concerns about economic recovery.", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to a committee of MPs.", "Dozens of games were teased including a return to the Spider-Man, Horizon and Gran Turismo franchises.", "Care chiefs said homes suffered from a lack of testing and of personal protective equipment.", "The PM will review post-Brexit trade talks with EU figures, ahead of a deadline for extending the negotiations.", "The PM's spokesman promises an extended scheme to help pupils get back on track in England.", "The Brexit Party leader steps down from his talk show with \"immediate effect\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Oxford's vice chancellor warns against \"hiding history\" as protesters want to remove colonial statue.", "Statues connected to slavery and colonialism are targeted as George Floyd protests continue.", "Milford Haven Waterway will host a marine power test site, generating up to 1,800 jobs over 15 years.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who haven't been home since the pandemic began.", "But the boss of the Welsh NHS says the restoration of full services will be slow.", "An investment company pulls out of a £100m waterfront development in Pembrokeshire.", "Dental health faces \"impending disaster\" as surgeries remain closed in Wales, a letter to ministers warns.", "There is growing hope among ministers that the rule will be relaxed.", "The couple were on their Ipswich driveway when they filmed the officers who had approached them.", "The police watchdog used its powers to instruct the Met Police to refer the case.", "Port applies for detailed planning permission for multi-million pound redevelopment.", "The housing secretary defends the approval of a Conservative donor's application amid Labour calls for inquiry.", "Five men have been arrested in connection with the shooting but no one has been charged.", "Andrew Banks had drunk 16 pints and was in central London to \"protect statues\", a court hears.", "The ceremony was due to take place in February but has been pushed back due to Covid-19.", "Paul and Elaine Gait say they are \"delighted to be vindicated\" after a long fight for justice.", "The Duke of Cambridge spoke with Leanne and her five-year-old-son, who has cystic fibrosis.", "The Body Coach is moving to a reduced timetable, saying he needs \"a little bit of a break\".", "Report tells ministers to plug gaps in aid schemes to fulfil a promise to \"do whatever it takes\".", "Nicola Sturgeon says she wants pupils to be back in classrooms full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".", "A Portuguese police source rejects criticism over their investigation into the missing three-year-old.", "The victim, in his 50s, one of three hurt in the gun attack after a party in Harlow, Essex.", "It is \"unfair\" that low paid workers are facing charges of thousands of pounds to remain in the UK, MPs say.", "The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km.", "The hoard, worth around £152,000, was found left behind on a train in Switzerland last October.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors, we asked people in Milton Keynes what they bought.", "Non-essential shops reopened in England, as France reopened cafes, restaurants, and borders.", "President Trump defends promoting hydroxychloroquine as the FDA says there is no evidence it works.", "There are huge queues outside some shops across England as non-essential retailers reopen.", "What compromises might the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal?", "Patrick Hutchinson was pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between demonstrators.", "Non-essential retailers open their doors with strict safety measures.", "Pictures on social media appear to show big crowds at the popular designer outlet in Oxfordshire.", "The RSC says it is \"appalled\" at a Sunday Times TV listing which it said \"devalued\" the actors.", "A report said there were a \"series of problems\" with the design and build of a Glasgow hospital campus.", "From violence caught on video to coronavirus inequalities, what is making protesters react so strongly?", "The furniture giant is looking to repay governments, but not in the UK where it did not take state aid.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says retailers will be \"well-prepared\" if shops are given the go-ahead.", "Manchester United and England's Marcus Rashford writes an open letter calling on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.", "Two illegal raves attracted about 6,000 people and led to \"tragic consequences\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Andrew Banks, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency.", "Thousands of extra staff are deployed as passengers are told to cover their faces or risk being fined.", "News and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "Marcus Rashford says he will fight on after the government confirms it will not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.", "Council planning for the new academic year will \"maximise the time young people spend in a school environment\", says Nicola Sturgeon.", "The Greater Manchester Police chief said the behaviour of some of the 6,000 ravers was \"appalling\".", "The F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed shortly after 09:30 BST.", "No 10 declines to say if it will be done by the time hospitality venues in England are due to reopen.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "Luce Douady was seen as a future star of the climbing world after wowing in senior competition.", "Paul Whelan is sentenced to 16 years in prison after being arrested with a flash drive.", "The East Dunbartonshire MP has undergone neurosurgery after collapsing at her home.", "Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai home, in what police believe to be a case of suicide.", "As shops re-open in England it is clear Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on the retail sector.", "The PM says the talks need \"a bit of oomph\" and sees no reason why a deal cannot be \"done in July\".", "The comments come as the airline begins offering a limited numbers of flights on mainly domestic routes.", "Police have released CCTV images after the vandalism at a black family's home.", "The tensions between the desire to move on and judgements about what's best to protect life remain clear.", "Foreign tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and executives will be affected.", "Sajid Javid calls for lower taxes on businesses to aid the UK's economic recovery.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she wants pupils to be back in classrooms full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".", "Shops are due to pay their quarterly rent bill on Wednesday as landlords expect a shortfall.", "Mixer will close in a month's time, with partners being offered similar deals on Facebook Gaming.", "Burnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' that was towed by an aircraft over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.", "Intu, owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside shopping centres, puts administrators on standby.", "The Brazilian leader has belittled the risk posed by coronavirus and attended anti-lockdown rallies.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged youngsters in England, says Social Mobility Commission.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "Experts are investigating whether coronavirus could have been passed through the mother's placenta.", "Hairdressers can reopen from 4 July - and customers are clearly desperate for a cut.", "Hospitality businesses are ramping up for reopening, but their businesses are set to be different.", "Despite two attempts to fix it, the copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has been left unrecognisable.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "Laser labs that detect ripples in space-time may have witnessed a new class of cosmic object.", "Tina Fey and co-creator Robert Carlock have asked for four episodes to be removed.", "Eight areas of Wales saw no deaths involving coronavirus for the week, latest figures show.", "Measuring people's oxygen levels is key to tackling a second wave, a top doctor says.", "The Downing Street briefings began in March, when the UK's coronavirus death toll stood at 55.", "The duchess made the pledge to Stuart and Carla Delf, whose son Fraser died of a rare syndrome.", "Schools are due to reopen on 29 June but not all councils will be making provisions, a union warns.", "The move follows a BBC investigation into items looted in Syria and Iraq being sold on Facebook.", "Even under one metre distancing rules, many pubs say they would still lose money.", "Holiday lets and hotels, which can reopen on 4 July, say they are expecting a surge of pent-up demand.", "Current social distancing will remain in Scotland but will be reduced in England and a plan is being worked on to see schools open fully in August.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Joel Schumacher made St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, Falling Down and two Batman films.", "The home secretary says the Windrush generation suffered \"unspeakable injustices\" and promises to act.", "Mumbai's densely-packed Dharavi has tamed Covid-19 without social distancing.", "The industry's trade body says it needs help to restart production and prevent more redundancies.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.", "Pubs can also open up following a review of the 2m distancing rule, Boris Johnson is expected to say.", "World number one Novak Djokovic becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.", "A jury hears PC Andrew Harper died after being dragged for a mile by a car on a country road.", "Boris Johnson announces pubs and restaurants can reopen as long as safety guidelines are followed.", "The man has not been seen since he entered a stretch of the River Thames in Cookham, police say.", "Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of the Highlands' Suilven to raise almost £350,000.", "Boris Johnson is also expected to announce a relaxation of the 2m distancing rule in England.", "Tens of thousands of people will need to be checked to see if they have permanent damage, doctors say.", "The 67-year-old, who is one of the biggest names in pornography, could face up to 90 years in jail.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.", "Allowing pubs to open and relaxing distancing is \"reasonable\" but not without risks, say top advisers.", "Blackpool Airport suspends banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed over Etihad Stadium.", "Updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Tuesday 23 June.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there will be no decision on whether to follow England until at least next week.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland's five-mile advisory limit on travelling for leisure and recreation remains in place.", "Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human activity.", "The firm will now custom-design the chips that power its future desktop and laptop computers.", "Tottenham pick up their first victory in eight games to leave West Ham with a battle to stay in the Premier League.", "Nissan and Renault deny their vehicles are equipped with devices designed to cheat emissions tests", "The site said the filter was \"not serving any purpose\".", "From 4 July the two metre rule is to be relaxed to \"one metre plus\" where 2m is not possible.", "Actress Elizabeth Hurley remembers the good times with Steve Bing after his death at the age of 55.", "A coroner says the Wales international's death may have been linked to an \"industrial disease\".", "The monarch is pictured riding outside Windsor Castle, where she is isolating with Prince Philip.", "Nasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken complete their 19-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory.", "Venezuela's fuel crisis is so acute that even funeral homes are struggling to transport bodies to the cemetery.", "Police say people have been seen jumping again from Durdle Door despite three people getting badly hurt.", "The health secretary says the system is successful but gives no data on the number of people contacted.", "A doctor gives his guide to dealing with death at the time of coronavirus.", "Protests in major cities, including New York and Washington, continue for an eighth night.", "Many children have returned to their classrooms in England for the first time since lockdown began.", "More than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown, Cancer Research UK says.", "The ex-home secretary is leading a \"no holds barred\" investigation into the issue in the UK.", "The Bulgarian-born artist, known for his monumental projects, dies at his home in New York.", "People chant \"black lives matter\" after the killing of a black man by police in the US.", "Coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, the first minister says.", "Riot police clash with demonstrators in the US capital as crowds gather near the White House.", "Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick says he is \"reasonably confident\" the steps will be \"manageable\".", "Parts of Yorkshire have been left an \"eyesore\" by an influx of visitors", "Coastal areas have been overrun by tourists since travel limits were lifted, the government is told.", "Updates on the pandemic in Wales from Monday 1 June.", "The LGBT app says it has a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism\" and will remove the filter.", "The fashion chain says it has built up almost £2bn-worth of stock, but there will be no discounts.", "The pandemic has highlighted the \"stark nature of inequalities\" in the UK, according to the first minister.", "A letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel follows calls last week from MPs to reconsider the rules.", "Prince Joachim, who contracted coronavirus after attending a party in Spain, \"regrets\" his actions.", "African-American man whose death sparked protests died due to police officers' actions, examiners say.", "The man, 82, was out walking with his wife when he was attacked, police have said.", "Outdoor markets and car showrooms in England are allowed to reopen from Monday amid the pandemic.", "Zodiakos creates history with victory at Newcastle racecourse and Judd Trump wins at the snooker as elite sport returns to England after coronavirus.", "Paddleboarder Mike Wiley hauled the man to the surface after finding him unconscious on the seabed.", "A head teacher explains how she is piecing school life back together before children return.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "Thousands have queued to get into the furniture giant's stores amid strict social distancing measures.", "Liverpool players displayed a message of support by taking a knee around the centre circle at Anfield after the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis.", "After the death of George Floyd, young African-Americans in Minneapolis say they are scared for their safety.", "Protests after the death of George Floyd have led to a surge in misleading videos and unfounded theories.", "Pupils return to find their desks in rows facing forward, the windows wide open and lots of hand-sanitizer.", "A car and garage slide down a cliff face in Kent as a further landfall leaves homes at risk.", "The displays, at secret locations across Japan, were designed to lift spirits amid the pandemic.", "There were more than 3,000 war crimes allegations made against British troops relating to the conflict.", "A UN agency has endorsed coronavirus flight safety recommendations for governments around the world.", "The first minister says she will not hesitate to use the law to enforce group sizes and travel distances after increased traffic and a five-fold rise in police dispersal orders.", "Images show how unrest spread in Minnesota after the death of George Floyd in police custody.", "The UK should be leading the response to China's treatment of Hong Kong, seven former foreign secretaries say.", "Simon Waddup, from Coventry, wins £1m in the Euromillions draw.", "The charity says it will begin reopening its network of charity shops in England from 15 June.", "Meteorologists say the switch from an extremely wet winter to an extremely dry spring is not \"British\".", "More than 100 incidents are being investigated by press groups, including apparently deliberate targeting.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England as schools begin to reopen.", "Spain's tourism minister says UK Covid-19 figures \"have to improve\" before tourists can come back.", "Shetland was one of the UK areas worst hit by Covid-19 - now there have been no new cases for six weeks. How did they do it?", "Bonnie Pointer was an original member of the group, best known for the hit Jump (For My Love).", "The researchers say the death toll would have been \"huge\" without a lockdown.", "A teaching union says schools in Wales are facing \"mind-boggling\" challenges.", "The video call app allowed some patients to see recordings of others' sessions with medics.", "A further 55 people have died - the lowest daily rise since before lockdown on 23 March.", "People with sight loss are verbally abused and struggling to access services during the pandemic.", "The education secretary says he would like school with capacity to bring back more children before the holidays.", "These areas propelled the outsider to victory in 2016 - what do they think of the protests?", "The WHO's head of emerging diseases said evidence from 'two or three' studies suggested people with symptoms should be the main focus.", "People in New Zealand, Canada, London and Germany are protesting in support of Black Lives Matter.", "Actress Rachel Adedeji said she has witnessed racism while working on the Channel 4 soap.", "One in five say their income has dropped, the Office for National Statistics finds.", "More information is needed from the public to take the new suspect to court, German prosecutors say.", "The League One and League Two seasons are both ended early after a formal vote by clubs on Tuesday.", "Simeon Francis was found unresponsive in a cell in Torquay 17 hours after his arrest in Exeter.", "A senior official had earlier said it was \"very rare\" for asymptomatic people to pass the disease on.", "Car-maker says cyber-attack has affected production, sales and development worldwide.", "The government's adviser on extremism is investigating if it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.", "The transgender model was dropped by the brand in 2017 after she posted comments about racism.", "UK Border Force workers in France will get hurt as a result of a government order, a union says.", "Economists say America's economic expansion ended in February, but markets remain on the upswing.", "Less than a fifth of UK deaths in the last week of May were linked to coronavirus, Office for National Statistics figures show.", "Boris Johnson says the move will be subject to distancing measures being in place.", "Couples in England and Wales will not have to prove one party is at fault to start proceedings.", "Jasmine Paget is asking customers to check their deliveries to see if her ring can be found.", "Nicola Sturgeon confirms seven registered virus fatalities over the last 24 hours, but she adds that the trend is continuing downwards.", "Aiming to have all pupils back piles uncertainty and pressure on school communities, say governors.", "A Help for Heroes field guide is now available to health workers on the coronavirus front line.", "There is a risk that tonnes of diesel oil could drift from the lake to the Arctic Ocean.", "North Korea announces it will cut all official communication channels with South Korea from Tuesday.", "A hate crime investigation is underway after a Virginia man allegedly drove his car into protesters.", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "Lewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" following the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.", "If class sizes in England are going to be 15 to a room, how can a whole school go back together?", "The intensive care unit is now gearing up for a second wave of coronavirus infections.", "She cannot claim legal aid because there is equity in the home she owns with her ex-partner.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The corporation says \"times have changed\" since the sketch show first aired.", "On Wednesday, Britain will mark two months without burning any coal to generate power.", "While some parents are keen for schools to reopen, others are concerned about safety.", "The scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has now cost £19.6bn.", "Two young carers describe how their lives have changed under the coronavirus pandemic.", "Subscribers had problems making and receiving calls but could still text and use mobile data.", "US attorney claims Prince Andrew has \"repeatedly declined\" requests to schedule an interview.", "A \"Miss Hitler\" beauty pageant entrant and three others are jailed for being National Action members.", "The Canal and River Trust says the Robert Milligan statue's removal \"recognises community wishes\" .", "Marta Kauffman says she would now make \"very different decisions\" about the hit sitcom.", "Regulators got a \"significant proportion\" of complaints about the firm behind Hoseasons and Cottages.com.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are shown at Windsor Castle, where they are staying during lockdown.", "Residents, who acted before the council could remove it, vowed to return the head \"at a later date\".", "Labour has a \"mountain to climb\" to regain power, a major review of its 2019 election defeat says.", "The virus is now \"in general circulation\" with a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" possible.", "Theodora Dickinson is being investigated after tweeting Labour's Naz Shah should \"go back to Pakistan\".", "Head teachers welcome the move but want more details as some children face six months out of school.", "The campaigner survived a shot to the head by Taliban soldiers for her views on girls and education.", "The reopening of DIY shops and garden centres lifted sales, but they still remain far below normal levels.", "A tutoring service has been announced but how many pupils will benefit?", "Lee Waters says Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has abandoned a \"science-led\" approach.", "Leaked transcripts show staff say they were discouraged from raising concerns at NHS child gender clinic.", "An adviser to Wales' chief medical officer says \"the purpose of the journey should be considered\".", "Nina Ambrose says she feels \"so, so lucky\" to be able to spend this time with her dad.", "Boris Johnson says he does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review the song's use.", "The boss of Wales' largest pub chain says the rule must be relaxed or thousands of jobs will be lost.", "The veteran actor, who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, dies peacefully in hospital.", "Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.", "All staff at the chicken factory are self-isolating after 61 workers tested positive for Covid-19.", "After City institutions apologise for slavery ties, historian Sir Hilary Beckles says firms must go further.", "May's record borrowing as income drops and spending balloons sees country's debt outstrips its economy.", "The World Health Organization says there were 150,000 new cases on Thursday - half from the Americas.", "Zoo owners praise fundraisers, but say the government has failed to recognise their dire plight.", "The baby's death is announced as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirms a child died there on Monday.", "The leaders mark 80 years since a BBC broadcast in which France was urged to keep fighting Hitler.", "Patients are younger than white counterparts and far more likely to have diabetes, analysis shows.", "Apple says the UK government has not spoken to it about plans to develop a new \"hybrid\" tracing app.", "The Queen and Sir Paul pay their respects to the Forces' Sweetheart, who has died aged 103.", "The Royal College of Nursing wants more done to look after staff on the front line or coronavirus care.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Updates from across Scotland as the UK's coronavirus alert level is downgraded from four to three.", "Scientists say samples from Milan and Turin showed virus traces long before cases were confirmed.", "Twitter says that, unlike a previous ban, Ms Hopkins has been removed from the platform for good.", "The police chief accused the officer of \"blindly\" firing into Breonna Taylor's apartment.", "Pupils in every year group will return full-time next term, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says.", "As a legal challenge to the president's event is dismissed, Tulsa braces for protests.", "While some parents are keen for schools to reopen, others are concerned about safety.", "Education Minister Peter Weir publishes new guidance setting out how schools should reopen in August.", "The boss of Oakman Inns says that if pubs don't reopen \"they'll continue to bleed cash\".", "Scotland's most senior judge says legislation is needed, as measures so far have just been \"tinkering at the edges\".", "Karen Mannering warned others to take Covid-19 seriously in a video appeal from her hospital bed.", "Bruno Fernandes scores a late penalty as Manchester United hold Tottenham to a 1-1 draw on their return to Premier League action.", "After months of work the UK has ditched the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works. So what went wrong?", "How countries have had to change focus to fight the new threat of Covid-19.", "A cross-party letter urges Equalities Minister Liz Truss to \"do the right thing\" over gender identity.", "British Empire Medal recipient Neomi Bennett overturned her conviction for obstructing police.", "Hospital bosses in England felt \"in the dark\" over changes to policies on face masks and visitors.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The government says it's open to \"innovative\" ideas, after a union urges it to ease social distancing.", "Protesters march in support of George Floyd and indigenous Australians despite coronavirus warnings.", "A Public Health Wales doctor says they could have an effect on transmission if used by more people.", "Protesters are urged to follow social distancing while tourist sites reopen with new restrictions.", "Businesses offering outdoor activities may \"disappear off the map\" without more support, an MP says.", "Scots are urged to stick to the rules as the country begins its second weekend since the easing of restrictions", "Alexis Ohanian says the move was inspired by protests over the death of George Floyd.", "The former Commons speaker tells the BBC he \"made a lot of enemies\" but denies bullying allegations.", "Coronavirus disrupted Harry Billinge's D-Day plans. But he got to meet a face from his past instead.", "Sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US, thousands gather globally to say black lives matter.", "Scientists are gathering data on how new diseases emerge in the hope of identifying future pandemics.", "New images of the British Normandy Memorial, currently under construction, are released to mark date.", "The singer has a \"newly glued forehead\" but has not broken any bones, she tells fans on Instagram.", "Kameko inflicts a first defeat on Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas, the first British Classic of the season, in a record time.", "Fee rises of more than £100 a week add \"insult to injury\" after the wave of infections, says Age UK.", "Protesters gather despite warnings after concerns that coronavirus is spreading again.", "Joe Biden passes the 1,991 delegate threshold and will take on Donald Trump for the presidency.", "Churches, mosques and synagogues have been closed in England since lockdown restrictions began.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The companies promise big tax savings, but some NHS staff could end up severely out of pocket.", "Scientists are concerned the test-and-trace system is not effective enough to prevent this.", "Oliver, 15, and Luke, 13, are living in a \"history lesson\" while their parents \"hold the Roman fort\".", "Tributes are paid to Rose Paterson, the chairman of Aintree Racecourse, who has been found dead near her Shropshire home.", "Labour say documents show \"discrepancies\" in housing secretary's account of controversial scheme.", "Shops are due to pay their quarterly rent bill on Wednesday as landlords expect a shortfall.", "The self-balancing vehicle was launched 19 years ago with the aim of revolutionising personal transport.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged youngsters in England, says Social Mobility Commission.", "The Stop Hate For Profit campaign is calling on the tech giant to take tougher action against racist content.", "Hairdressers can reopen from 4 July - and customers are clearly desperate for a cut.", "A graduate who moved to Bristol says it is harder for black and Asian people to get work in Wales.", "\"Sweeping reforms\" aimed at protecting domestic abuse victims follow a BBC investigation.", "Scotland's plan out of lockdown will see the hospitality sector, hairdressers and shopping centres fully open by mid-July.", "Amnesty International calls on NI's police force to stop using the guards during the pandemic.", "Labour says Robert Jenrick must clear up \"discrepancies\" in his account of controversial planning decision.", "Laser labs that detect ripples in space-time may have witnessed a new class of cosmic object.", "A high of 32.6C is recorded at Heathrow, with temperatures likely to rise as the week continues.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Kathy is one of about 300 people who will be immunised to help find a vaccine for Covid-19.", "The Downing Street briefings began in March, when the UK's coronavirus death toll stood at 55.", "A woman and two children have been seriously injured after the blast.", "New York, New Jersey and Connecticut ask people coming from virus hotspots to self-isolate.", "The women say they want to \"challenge the persistent failure\" of the Child Maintenance Service.", "For the eighth consecutive week, the death total from coronavirus in Scotland falls.", "The US police comedy will \"start over\" and reflect the anti-racist movement, one of its stars says.", "Car taxes should be raised to help fund the battle against climate change, the government is urged.", "Holiday lets and hotels, which can reopen on 4 July, say they are expecting a surge of pent-up demand.", "Boris Johnson faces questions about virus test and trace programme", "The US Defense Department has compiled a list of 20 firms it says are backed by Chinese military.", "The lightning set fire to the roof in what a neighbour calls a \"one in a million\" chance.", "Jordan Walker-Brown tells the BBC he posed no threat to officers during the incident in May.", "England's nurseries and pre-schools warn of huge losses and mass closures without government intervention.", "Sir Mick Jagger pays tribute to the filmmaker and philanthropist, who died this week aged 55.", "World number one Novak Djokovic becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.", "The BBC says adjustments will be made \"to ensure the high standards audiences know and love\".", "Signed by more than 1,000 parliamentarians, it calls for Israel to face \"commensurate consequences\".", "The first crewless boat is now ready for a trial alongside a Royal Navy warship later this year.", "The man has not been seen since he entered a stretch of the River Thames in Cookham, police say.", "More than 4,500 jobs could be lost at the ground handling firm due to coronavirus effects on air travel.", "An estimated 14,500 people had been helped under a scheme to take rough sleepers off the streets.", "The family of Cheriff Tall, who was shot dead at the event in Moss Side, say they are \"broken\".", "How the biggest trial in the world found life-saving coronavirus drug dexamethasone in record time.", "The body of a man in his 30s is found after \"extensive searches\" of a stretch of river in Berkshire.", "Abayomi Ajose was looking after a friend when he was shot dead in Manchester, his family say.", "The warning comes as the prime minister announced sweeping relaxations to lockdown rules in England.", "Revellers have hosted events at properties booked on Airbnb and Booking.com, an industry body claims.", "James Antell used his shirt to try to stop the bleeding of three men stabbed to death in Reading.", "Owner Greg Glassman stepped down as chief executive earlier this month.", "Pubs and hairdressers are among the places which will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July.", "The 67-year-old, who is one of the biggest names in pornography, could face up to 90 years in jail.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.", "Blackpool Airport suspends banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed over Etihad Stadium.", "Eyewitnesses say a garage door was sent flying across the street in the blast.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there will be no decision on whether to follow England until at least next week.", "Highlights of previous boardroom highs and lows will be broadcast later this year instead.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Liverpool move within two points of their first league title in 30 years with a thrashing over Crystal Palace at Anfield.", "Mark Drakeford said the original social distancing advice is staying in place in Wales.", "The travel firms blame service cuts on falling demand and difficulties implementing protection measures.", "The Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield was raided by police during the coronavirus lockdown on 24 April.", "Coronavirus will leave a digital legacy as UK finds solace online, says Ofcom.", "NHS staff will be prioritised for the blood tests, which check if someone has already had the coronavirus.", "Naked Wines and Mr Kipling-maker Premier Foods see revenues jump amid stockpiling and home cooking demand.", "Actress Elizabeth Hurley remembers the good times with Steve Bing after his death at the age of 55.", "The suspect is accused of feeding his victims with a substance \"twice as strong\" as pepper spray.", "Academy leaders call for an \"honest discussion\" about how schools will really go back in the autumn.", "Nicola Sturgeon warns that figures next week are likely to show big increase in Scottish unemployment.", "MPs say the airline's planned job cuts are a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the virus crisis.", "The US president comes out against neck restraints after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.", "Charles and Camilla will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during lockdown.", "Neuroscientists call for urgent attention to the well-being of young people isolated from friends.", "Mark Drakeford says he will not change strategy on easing the lockdown \"however loud the demands\".", "Full PPE, 'red zones' and cleaning the room between patients are now part of everyday practice.", "Few businesses are unscathed by the lockdown, but these firms can see light at the end of tunnel.", "The National Audit Office identified shortcomings in PPE provision for health and care staff.", "The four-year-old had only been able to wave to his dad who was on the vessel 100m away from their garden in Oban.", "People in England and Wales have been fined for house parties, meeting in big groups and camping.", "Alister Jack says the current 2m social distance rule should be cut as soon as it is safe to do so.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Warning comes after Michael Gove tells firms to prepare for post-Brexit border checks from January.", "Shoppers faced a year's worth of grocery price rises in one month as promotions were withdrawn, researchers say.", "Statues of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph were targeted during last week's anti-racism protest.", "Face coverings will be compulsory on public transport and in hospitals in England from Monday.", "A grim Fed outlook and uptick in virus cases in some US states fans concerns about economic recovery.", "Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with the number of patients they’re getting.", "The singer, who was the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One single, had been in ill health.", "BA, Ryanair and EasyJet are challenging plans to force inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days.", "Holly King-Mand has gained more than 50,000 followers but says she now needs a rest.", "The signs on the street immortalised in a Beatles song in 1967 were attacked overnight.", "The comedian's criticism comes after an episode was temporarily pulled by UKTV due to \"racial slurs\".", "The government should step in if building owners do not remove dangerous cladding, they say.", "The Sun says its article, and headline \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\", weren't meant to glorify abuse.", "Dozens of games were teased including a return to the Spider-Man, Horizon and Gran Turismo franchises.", "Dr Cathy Gardner is taking legal action after her father died of probable Covid-19 in April.", "An anonymous tracer told the BBC they've made one call and don't feel they've had much training.", "Shintaro Tsuj steps down after six decades at the helm of the company that created the character.", "A statue honouring the Jamaican poet, actor and playwright Alfred Fagon is damaged in Bristol.", "Care chiefs said homes suffered from a lack of testing and of personal protective equipment.", "Lady Antebellum become Lady A, and say they are \"deeply sorry for the hurt\" their old name caused.", "A symbolic monument to Brazil's coronavirus victims is mocked by Bolsonaro supporters, organisers say.", "The PM will review post-Brexit trade talks with EU figures, ahead of a deadline for extending the negotiations.", "A start-up company says it will produce its electric car batteries in either St Athan or Coventry.", "The couple were on their Ipswich driveway when they filmed the officers who had approached them.", "New government data reveals which parts of the country have the most workers on the support scheme.", "One in 1,700 people are thought to be infected, based on 20,000 tests in households.", "Wales' health minister says it is an \"issue\" having a prime minister who used \"offensive language\".", "The PM's spokesman promises an extended scheme to help pupils get back on track in England.", "Drivers in London will have to verify they are following the rules with a photograph.", "London was overwhelmingly the hardest-hit area in the country, says the Office for National Statistics.", "The former chancellor worked as the editor of the London newspaper for more than three years.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found stabbed to death in a Wembley park nearly a week ago.", "The health secretary says UK has 'reasonable' demands after both sides report little progress in talks.", "An immediate public inquiry could help save lives, say relatives of 450 virus victims.", "Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.", "A statue of the war-time prime minister has been boxed up ahead of Black Lives Matter protests.", "Ministers say it will give firms \"time to adjust\" as UK formally rules out extending transition period.", "The housing secretary defends the approval of a Conservative donor's application amid Labour calls for inquiry.", "Eyewitnesses filmed a twister near Brecon and then another 40 miles away in Ceredigion.", "The ceremony was due to take place in February but has been pushed back due to Covid-19.", "More and more survivors of coronavirus are discovering its impact on their health is long-term.", "The challenges of life in the Navajo Nation have made containing Covid-19 even more difficult.", "Superstar Sir Elton John has said he was \"blown away\" by a music video made by a group of students.", "Like many other transplant patients, Ana-Rose's hope for a new liver was put on hold due to Covid.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors, we asked people in Milton Keynes what they bought.", "Wales' economy minister says over-16s will be offered help finding work, education or training.", "Tourism businesses, national park officials and conservationists look ahead to Snowdonia reopening.", "Pictures on social media appear to show big crowds at the popular designer outlet in Oxfordshire.", "Remdesivir shortens recovery time by about four days, research suggests.", "The Public Health England report says racism may be a factor in increased risks for ethnic minorities.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 credits a drug trial with saving her life.", "A group promoting alternatives to the car said one garden village could be seven miles from a shop.", "Only 4% of an annual target of 2,000 hectares was planted in Wales last year.", "The F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed shortly after 09:30 BST.", "The unemployment rate for people aged over 16 rose to 4.6%, a 1.1% increase on the previous quarter.", "Some 12 million gamers got into the much-anticipated event, but many more had to watch on Twitch.", "Queens \"quack\" when ready to hatch - but if two are free at the same time, they fight to the death.", "Vouchers are offered to help 10,000 families in England keep their children learning online.", "The Duke of Cambridge spoke with Leanne and her five-year-old-son, who has cystic fibrosis.", "The Body Coach is moving to a reduced timetable, saying he needs \"a little bit of a break\".", "Families say they rely on food vouchers and back Marcus Rashford's plea to keep them over the summer.", "President Trump defends promoting hydroxychloroquine as the FDA says there is no evidence it works.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Tributes are paid to the politician, who had represented South Wales East for more than 13 years.", "Dexamethasone cuts by a third the risk of dying for those on ventilators, researchers find.", "A cabinet minister is criticised for her response to the footballer's fresh calls to extend the scheme.", "Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after \"fantastic\" trial results, experts say.", "The government will help feed children over the summer holidays after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that may spread infection, study finds.", "James Bowen wrote six books about his pet Bob who he chanced upon while battling drug addiction.", "Kim Leadbeater urges people to \"pull together with compassion\" four years on from the killing.", "The main developments in the response to the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "The Manchester United player spoke to BBC Breakfast about his phone call with Boris Johnson.", "Fourteen men and 12 women, mainly from Walsall, are charged with historical child sex offences.", "Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death.", "The author becomes the first black British writer to top the overall UK book chart.", "The PM says the talks need \"a bit of oomph\" and sees no reason why a deal cannot be \"done in July\".", "A report finds Instagram doubled its news audience last year - and could overtake Twitter by 2021.", "One engaged couple start a petition to relax coronavirus restrictions on wedding ceremonies in Wales.", "The RSC says it is \"appalled\" at a Sunday Times TV listing which it said \"devalued\" the actors.", "Firm is investigated for limiting app sales to its own store and imposing other rules on developers.", "Officers followed the vehicle through Swindon and the man was shot as they intercepted it.", "The town of Newquay, which depends on tourism and hospitality, has been hit hard by the lockdown.", "Campaigners welcome commitment to prevent lawyers using justification for violence.", "Nicola Sturgeon says coronavirus is causing an \"economic crisis\" but warns against easing restrictions \"too quickly\".", "Teachers say pupils are not doing as much work as normal for this time of year, as lockdown goes on.", "No Queen, no spectators but plenty of action as Royal Ascot begins behind closed doors for the first time on Tuesday.", "The move has prompted criticism from opposition parties, charities and former PM David Cameron.", "Leading psychologists warn the education secretary that children's mental health is at risk.", "The prince discusses his experience with Covid-19 as the royals return to public engagements.", "AstraZeneca agrees deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, providing it works.", "After scrapping the plan for all primary years to return, what happens next for those out of school?", "Daunted by many more weeks of home-schooling? 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So what went wrong?", "A coroner says the Wales international's death may have been linked to an \"industrial disease\".", "The government has relaxed the lockdown, despite advisers warning against reducing the Covid-19 alert level.", "Wales is the latest part of the UK to launch a tracing system, but how do they work?", "Many people have have seen family members for the first time since lockdown was enforced in the UK.", "Being black or from an ethnic minority is a \"major risk factor\" in coronavirus, Matt Hancock says.", "Protests in major cities, including New York and Washington, continue for an eighth night.", "The theatre company makes the \"difficult decision\" due to continuing social distancing rules.", "MPs end remote voting but those who can't come to Parliament say they have been disenfranchised.", "Deaths of people with learning disabilities in England rise by 134%, Care Quality Commission says.", "One volunteer says people shouted at her \"when I asked them nicely to 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administration due to coronavirus after almost 120 years in business.\n\nLee Longlands was established in 1902 and opened its flagship store in Birmingham 30 years later.\n\nThe family-run business said it had been forced into administration as a result of the \"the devastating impact of the coronavirus lockdown\".\n\nThe firm has a number of showrooms across the Midlands and was described as \"a household name\" in the region.\n\nThe company's shops have not been able to trade for three months because of lockdown\n\nIts shops in Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Kidderminster, Abingdon, Derby and Cheltenham were closed for three months and have only just re-opened as lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nRobert Lee is the fourth generation to run the business, which was established by Robert Lee and George Longland.\n\n\"For almost 120 years our family business and our employees have put our customers at the heart of everything we do,\" he said, adding that the company would be working to fulfil orders \"to restore our short term finances\".\n\nThe company's founders were pioneers - in 1907 they became the first store outside of London to install window display lighting after closing time.\n\nIts flagship store in Birmingham was used to store food rations during the Second World War, and the company also contributed to the war effort by producing \"blackout fabric\" to cover windows, making it harder for enemy bombers to identify targets.\n\n\"Lee Longlands is a household name across the Midlands,\" Matt Ingram, from administrator Duff and Phelps said.\n\n\"The fact that the appointment of administrators has been necessary, demonstrates the devastating financial impact that this pandemic will leave in its wake.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he is \"appalled and sickened\" by Reading stabbing attacks\n\nThe prime minister says he is \"appalled and sickened\" by the stabbing attack in Reading that left three people dead.\n\nPolice arrested a 25-year-old man from Reading at the scene and say they are not looking for anyone else over the \"terrorist incident\".\n\nBoris Johnson has paid tribute to unarmed officers who detained the suspect, after he had also injured three other people.\n\nAnd the PM promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I'm appalled and sickened that people should lose their lives in this way and our thoughts are very much with the families and friends of the victims today.\"\n\nHe said he had spoken to the chief constable of Thames Valley Police and praised the bravery of his officers, during the attack at Forbury Gardens, a park in Reading town centre.\n\n\"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, said: \"This was an atrocity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neil Basu: \"Officers have found nothing to suggest anyone else was involved in this attack\"\n\nHe said police have found \"nothing to suggest anyone else was involved\" in the incident at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nSecurity sources told the BBC the man arrested, who lives in Reading, is thought to be Libyan.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also praised members of the public who provided emergency first aid at the scene and said 41 witnesses had so far come forward.\n\nHe said \"the motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but added it was clear that it was not associated with an earlier peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration at Forbury Gardens, the site of the attack.\n\nMr Basu said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\n\"Let me be clear, there is no specific intelligence to suggest anyone attending crowded places is at risk, but I would ask the public: please continue with your daily lives, but be alert, not alarmed, when you are out in public,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nAn eyewitness to the attack at Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of Reading, said he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park, trying to stab them.\n\nThree people died in the attack, and another three were seriously injured. Two of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe arrested man had previously been in prison in the UK for a relatively minor conviction, not a terrorism offence, sources told the BBC.\n\nA large cordon remains in place following the incident\n\nReading appears desolate and in mourning this morning. Large areas outside the gardens are taped up and there are not many people here, mainly journalists and their TV cameras.\n\nA strong wind is rattling litter in grey, deserted streets, most of which are being patrolled by armed police. Commuters are struggling to get to work as so many roads have been cordoned off with police tape.\n\nThe few people arriving from Reading station expressed \"shock\". Marie Castro from Slough works at a Costa coffee shop in Reading and said: \"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work.\"\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she added.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nA block of flats on Basingstoke Road in Reading was raided by more than a dozen armed police officers carrying shields at about 23:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAbout an hour and a half after they entered, a loud bang was heard at the scene, after which several of the armed officers left.\n\nCraig O'Leary, chairman of the Thames Valley Police Federation, said the \"swift action\" of officers at the scene prevented \"potentially more lives from being lost\".\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\n\"There are barely words to describe their bravery - officers who ran towards danger with the sole thought of protecting the public we serve,\" he said.\n\nOne officer \"rugby tackled\" the suspect to the ground, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror.\n\nFloral tributes to the victims have been left at the scene. One read: \"\"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\n\n\"Our prayers are with all the victims and their families and friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There can be no post-pandemic economic recovery without a strong and healthy steel industry, according to Labour MP Stephen Kinnock.\n\nOpposition MPs are calling on the UK government to provide loans to steel firms experiencing a sudden drop in demand due to coronavirus.\n\nIt said it was \"committed to supporting the sector's economic recovery\".\n\nAberavon MP Mr Kinnock told BBC Politics Wales support was needed in \"days not weeks\" to help the industry.\n\nIn May, 10 Welsh MPs wrote to the chancellor asking for extra support for the sector during the pandemic.\n\nAs shops start reopening, and pressure builds on the government to outline its plans for the UK's economic recovery, big questions still remain about the part steel will play in the country's economic bounce back.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Newport East Labour MP Jessica Morden told Boris Johnson: \"Plants like Tata's Llanwern and the Orb steel works - the only electrical steel plant in the UK - can play a key part in that recovery, but three months into this crisis and steel companies are still waiting for government liquidity support which is critical.\n\n\"Will the prime minister commit to address this now?\"\n\nMr Johnson said ministers would do \"everything they can\" to maintain UK steel production, but no bailout has been promised yet.\n\nMr Kinnock said steel was the \"backbone of our manufacturing sector\".\n\n\"Nothing, really, can work in this country in terms of the manufacturing sector without steel,\" he said.\n\n\"Steel is in the offices we work in, the cars that we drive, the trains that we ride, even the cutlery that we eat our food with.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock: \"Nothing, really, can work in this country in terms of the manufacturing sector without steel\"\n\nDemand for steel has dropped massively during the coronavirus crisis, especially with industries like car manufacturing grinding to a halt.\n\nBefore the pandemic, Tata Steel had suffered £371m in pre-tax losses last year and there was continuing uncertainty for the wider industry because of Brexit.\n\nThere have been reports the UK government may consider so-called \"last resort\" loans for viable companies, if their failure would disproportionately harm the economy.\n\nBut ministers will want some certainty any loans will be paid back to \"protect\" the taxpayer.\n\nMr Kinnock said he believed loans to steel firms would be returned and he has urged the government to consider the costs to the taxpayer of not stepping in to support them.\n\n\"We are urging the government to support the industry now and also think about the cost of doing nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"There are 4,000 relatively well paid men and women working in the Port Talbot steel works, thousands more relatively well paid jobs in the steel industry across the country.\n\n\"Imagine the cost of losing those jobs.\n\n\"Imagine the cost of decommissioning a steelworks with blast furnaces and the vast cost that would cause the government.\n\n\"So we are saying to the government - give the temporary loan.\n\n\"It is a loan that will be paid back in order to avoid the massive cost of doing nothing.\"\n\nSteel industry analyst Dr Kathryn Ringwald-Wildman said the pandemic has hit firms at an already tough time.\n\n\"We've got uncertainty building on uncertainty,\" she said.\n\n\"The position of the steel industries is quite desperate at the moment and they will need government support to survive.\n\n\"They would've needed government support without the pandemic.\n\n\"If they are to weather this particular storm they will need support.\n\n\"The question is: this is taxpayer's money. Is this a bridge over the pandemic crisis or is it a bridge over the pandemic crisis only to find the economic situation post-pandemic is much more serious globally than we might imagine?\"\n\nBeyond questions around the cost of recovery, with Tata Steel reportedly needing at least £500m through the pandemic, government decisions to support steel or not are inherently political - with the effect on areas like Port Talbot hanging in the mix.\n\n\"You take the steel industry out of Port Talbot you have got nothing. You haven't got anything to take its place,\" said Dr Ringwald-Wildman.\n\n\"The decision that's made now will resonate for many years.\n\n\"It may be that the politicians will decide to defer the decision to end steel manufacturing in the UK - let the companies sink or swim.\n\n\"They might choose to defer that because of the consequences down the line.\n\n\"It would take a very brave government to say we don't need a steel industry in the UK.\n\n\"The emphasis has been, in conversations around the edge of the Brexit decision, we will make our own steel, use our own steel, buy our own steel.\n\n\"We will, of course, be trading on the international market.\n\n\"But the notion that our domestic steel industry would be one of our major suppliers to our manufacturing industry was fundamental.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Tata Steel, which has furloughed about 2,400 staff across UK sites, said: \"The ultimate impact of coronavirus has been the sudden drop in demand for steel.\n\n\"But it is a storm that we are weathering, and we're looking to come out of the other side.\n\n\"We are in negotiations with both UK and Welsh governments to seek all available support that we can.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said it has \"engaged with businesses across the economy, and has already increased the scope and scale of many of our support schemes, including loans to steel companies with a turnover of over £45m\".\n\n\"We recognise that economic conditions continue to be challenging and we are committed to supporting the sector's economic recovery.\"", "The attack happened in a residential courtyard in Moss Side\n\nTwo men have died in a shooting after a lockdown party of \"hundreds of people\".\n\nPolice were called to reports that gun shots had been heard in Caythorpe Street in Moss Side, Manchester, at about 01:00 BST.\n\nThe two victims, aged in their 20s and 30s, \"self-presented\" in hospital and died a short time later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the shooting happened at \"an unplanned event\" near to the location of an \"earlier community event\".\n\nNo arrests have been made yet.\n\nA local resident said the shooting followed a lockdown party with a DJ and \"hundreds of people\".\n\nFootage on social media showed crowds dancing to loud music in a courtyard.\n\nA cordon was placed around a courtyard between Caythorpe Street, Broadfield Road and Bowes Street.\n\nA teacher, who lives nearby, said he heard music from about 22:00 BST into the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe man, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's a really normal neighbourhood with an occasional spike in violence.\n\n\"I had a walk out to see what was happening and I would say there were hundreds of people around but I did see police patrols. Later, we heard a helicopter overhead.\"\n\nOfficers gather evidence at a courtyard where \"hundreds\" of people attended a party\n\nHe said people who rang police were told that officers were unable to break up the party because it was too large.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Butterworth said: \"We are aware that, a number of hours before this incident, there was a community event in Moss Side.\n\n\"This event was attended by Greater Manchester Police along with local people and partner agencies - it was not an illegal rave and it had concluded prior to this incident.\n\n\"It does appear that the incident took place at what we believe was an unplanned event near to the location of the earlier community event.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a forensic tent was seen partially covering a car, with alcohol bottles and canisters of laughing gas surrounding the area.\n\nSince the 1980s, Moss Side has been associated with problems due to drugs and violence, although in recent years, there have been fewer shootings and money has been spent on redeveloping the area.\n\nThousands attended raves last weekend in Greater Manchester (above), despite gatherings of more than six people being illegal due to coronavirus\n\nEarlier this week, Greater Manchester Police said it would take \"serious action\" to deter more illegal gatherings after raves in Trafford and Oldham last weekend, when a 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose and an 18-year-old woman was raped.\n\nMore than 6,000 people attended the events, where three men were stabbed.\n\nAsst Ch Con Nick Bailey said prevention was the key to controlling illegal parties but conceded that senior officers could decide it was more dangerous to close an event because of its scale, and factors such as terrain and darkness.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A large police investigation is underway in Reading, Berkshire, following a stabbing incident at Forbury Gardens.\n\nThames Valley Police have confirmed three people have died and another three are in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nA man was arrested at the scene and is now in custody.", "New pictures showing the Duke of Cambridge playing with his children have been released to mark both Father's Day and the duke's birthday.\n\nOne image shows Prince William, who turned 38 on Sunday, being jumped on by Prince George, aged six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two.\n\nAnother shows the children posing with their father on a swing at Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nBoth scenes were captured earlier this month by the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nA third photograph taken by Catherine, showing a beaming William with his arm around his father Prince Charles, was released by Clarence House to wish the duke a happy birthday.\n\nWilliam's birthday is the latest in what has been a busy birthday season for the royals, since the UK went into lockdown due to coronavirus.\n\nPictures, also taken by keen photographer Catherine, have been released to mark Charlotte and Louis' birthdays recently.\n\nLast month, new photographs showed the young princess delivering homemade care packages to those in need.\n\nPrince Louis was also pictured in April making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the lockdown.\n\nThe pair were also joined by their eldest brother George to join with the first Clap for Carers event in March, to applaud NHS staff and care workers.\n\nWilliam spoke about fatherhood during a BBC documentary on mental health last month.\n\nIn the interview, he said having children was the \"biggest life-changing moment\" and described fatherhood as a \"very different phase of life\" to his younger days.\n\nAsked about becoming a father, he added: \"I think when you've been through something traumatic in life - and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger - your emotions come back in leaps and bounds because it's a very different phase of life.\n\n\"And there's no one there to, kind of, help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William on being a parent: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life, but also one of the scariest\" (Video from May 2020)\n\nPrince Charles, has also marked Father's Day, writing on Twitter: \"Whether you are a Father, a Dad, a Daddy or a Pa, wishing you a Happy Father's Day!\"\n\nThe post featured an archive photograph of Charles with his own sons - William and the Duke of Sussex - in matching polo shirts.\n\nA second picture showed a young Charles being held by his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the 1950s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, who are both currently shielding at Windsor Castle, have also celebrated birthdays recently.\n\nThe Queen made her first official public appearance since the lockdown began to mark her official birthday last week.\n\nAnd the Duke of Edinburgh posed with the Queen in an official photograph released two weeks ago as he turned 99.", "The black is where we still need modern measurements at a reasonable resolution\n\nWe've just become a little less ignorant about Planet Earth.\n\nThe initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of this task has now been completed.\n\nWhen the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was launched in 2017, only 6% of the global ocean bottom had been surveyed to what might be called modern standards.\n\nThat number now stands at 19%, up from 15% in just the last year.\n\nSome 14.5 million sq km of new bathymetric (depth) data was included in the GEBCO grid in 2019 - an area equivalent to almost twice that of Australia.\n\nIt does, however, still leave a great swathe of the planet in need of mapping to an acceptable degree.\n\n\"Today we stand at the 19% level. That means we've got another 81% of the oceans still to survey, still to map. That's an area about twice the size of Mars that we have to capture in the next decade,\" project director Jamie McMichael-Phillips told BBC News.\n\nThe map at the top of this page illustrates the challenge faced by GEBCO in the coming years.\n\nBlack represents those areas where we have yet to get direct echosounding measurements of the shape of the ocean floor. Blues correspond to water depth (deeper is purple, shallower is lighter blue).\n\nIt's not true to say we have no idea of what's in the black zones; satellites have actually taught us a great deal. Certain spacecraft carry altimeter instruments that can infer seafloor topography from the way its gravity sculpts the water surface above - but this only gives a best resolution at over a kilometre, and Seabed 2030 has a desire for a resolution of at least 100m everywhere.\n\nSatellites: The shape of the sea surface traces at coarse resolution the shape of the seafloor\n\nBetter seafloor maps are needed for a host of reasons.\n\nThey are essential for navigation, of course, and for laying underwater cables and pipelines.\n\nThey are also important for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around the underwater mountains that wildlife tends to congregate. Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot.\n\nIn addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water.\n\nThis is information required to improve the models that forecast future climate change - because it is the oceans that play a critical role in moving heat around the planet. And if you want to understand precisely how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must.\n\nMuch of the data that's been imported into the GEBCO grid recently has been in existence for some time but was \"sitting on a shelf\" out of the public domain. The companies, institutions and governments that were holding this information have now handed it over - and there is probably a lot more of this hidden resource still to be released.\n\nThe Mariana Trench in the Pacific is the deepest ocean location on Earth - but very well mapped\n\nBut new acquisitions will also be required. Some of these will come from a great crowdsourcing effort - from ships, big and small, routinely operating their echo-sounding equipment as they transit the globe. Even small vessels - fishing boats and yachts - can play their part by attaching data-loggers to their sonar and navigation equipment.\n\nOne very effective strategy is evidenced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which operates in the more remote parts of the globe - and that is simply to mix up the routes taken by ships.\n\n\"Very early on we adopted the ethos that data should be collected on passage - on the way to where we were going, not just at the site of interest,\" explained BAS scientist Dr Rob Larter.\n\n\"A beautiful example of this is the recent bathymetric map of the Drake Passage area (between South America and Antarctica). A lot of that was acquired by different research projects as they fanned out and moved back and forth to the places they were going.\"\n\nArtwork: Robot vessels can help close the gaps\n\nNew technology will be absolutely central to the GEBCO quest.\n\nOcean Infinity, a prominent UK-US company that conducts seafloor surveys, is currently building a fleet of robotic surface vessels through a subsidiary it calls Armada. This start-up's MD, Dan Hook, says low-cost, uncrewed vehicles may be the only way to close some of the gaps in the more out-of-the-way locations in the 2030 grid.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"When you look at the the mapping of the seabed in areas closer to shore, you see the business case very quickly. Whether it's for wind farms or cable-laying - there are lots of people that want to know what's down there. But when it's those very remote areas of the planet, the case then is really only a scientific one.\"\n\nJamie McMichael-Phillips is confident his project's target can be met if everyone pulls together.\n\n\"I am confident, but to do it we will need partnerships. We need governments, we need industry, we need academics, we need philanthropists, and we need citizen scientists. We need all these individuals to come together if we're to deliver an ocean map that is absolutely fundamental and essential to humankind.\"\n\nGEBCO stands for General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans. It is the only intergovernmental organisation with a mandate to map the entire ocean floor. The latest status of its Seabed 2030 project was announced to coincide with World Hydrography Day.\n\nDrake Passage is the stretch of water between South America and Antarctica\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya: \"British visitors can arrive freely and without the need for quarantine\"\n\nUK tourists will be able to visit Spain without having to quarantine on arrival from Sunday, Spanish officials say.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister has told the BBC that British citizens will be allowed to enter the country freely, without the need to self-isolate.\n\nShe said the decision had been made \"out of respect\" for the 400,000 Britons who have second homes in Spain.\n\nBut current rules state that anyone returning to - or entering - the UK still has to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIt is understood the UK's quarantine restrictions will be reviewed on 29 June.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is still warning against all but essential international travel.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister Arancha González Laya said UK visitors will go through a \"triple check\" upon arrival to Spain.\n\nThey will be asked for their country of origin and to register \"so we know we have a contact point to trace them\", she said. They will also undergo a temperature check.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we welcome visitors, but we want to do this in safety and security for them, as well as for the Spaniards,\" she said.\n\nMs González Laya said discussions were continuing with the government about exempting Spanish visitors from the UK's current quarantine travel rules.\n\n\"We do hope that [the British authorities] will be sensitive to the 250,000 Spaniards that are also living in the UK and would very much like to enter the UK without quarantine,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"We also respect that countries look at entry or exit restrictions on the basis of their own data.\"\n\nSpanish officials are also identifying locations in each of the country's regions where travellers \"will be isolated and treated\" should they require hospital treatment, according to Ms González Laya.\n\nMany Britons have homes in Spain - and it is also popular with tourists\n\nSince 8 June, people arriving in the UK have been required to self-isolate for 14 days to help slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is now planning to relax its travel quarantine rules for some countries in early July.\n\nUK officials are talking to their counterparts in Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, and ministers are hoping to make an announcement on 29 June that the government has secured a number of \"travel corridors\".\n\nThe government had previously said that the quarantine would be reviewed every three weeks and 29 June marks the end of the first three-week period.\n\nHowever, one leading British scientist has called on ministers to drop the policy \"as soon as possible\".\n\nProf Peter Piot, who is renowned for his work on Ebola and HIV, said the policy \"only would have made sense\" at the start of the outbreak when there were fewer cases.\n\n\"Today that is not going to contribute much and the damage it causes to the country, to the economy, is going to be enormous,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"Let's hope that rule is dropped as soon as possible and let's concentrate on what works.\"\n\nHis comments follow earlier criticism of the move by UK airlines. British Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's policy.\n\nSpain's latest announcement follows confusion earlier in the week over the country's plans for allowing UK travellers to visit.\n\nSpanish officials had said on Monday that travellers from the UK would not have to quarantine on arrival from Sunday.\n\nBut Spain's foreign affairs minister then suggested the country would impose a two-week quarantine on Britons, if the UK maintained its current travel rules.\n\nThe mixed messages began after Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announced last weekend that Spain's borders would reopen to travellers from all EU countries on Sunday 21 June - with the exception of Portugal.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said the UK's quarantine system was \"informed by science, backed by the public and designed to help prevent a devastating second wave of this disease\".\n\n\"We are supporting tourism businesses through one of the most generous economic packages in the world, and continue to look at options to increase international travel, when it is safe to do so,\" she added.", "The author of a report into the Windrush scandal is warning there is a \"grave risk\" of similar failures happening again if the government does not implement its recommendations.\n\nWendy Williams told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour the Home Office still needed to \"make good on its commitment to learn the lessons\".\n\nPeople from the Commonwealth were told wrongly they were illegally in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said the home secretary intends to \"right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams' warning comes as the country pays tribute to the outstanding and ongoing contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.\n\nNational Windrush Day, on Monday, commemorates the day, 72 years ago, when the ship HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, carrying migrants to help fill jobs in the UK.\n\nIn a video message, the Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"debt of gratitude\" the nation owes the Windrush generation.\n\n\"Today offers an opportunity to express the debt of gratitude we owe to that first Windrush generation for accepting the invitation to come to Britain and, above all, to recognise the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to so many aspects of our public life,\" said Prince Charles.\n\n\"I dearly hope that we can continue to listen to each other's stories and to learn from one another.\"\n\n\"The diversity of our society is its greatest strength and gives us so much to celebrate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Kirton: \"It's all of our history\"\n\nIn honour of Windrush Day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair of the Windrush Working Group, and representatives of the British Caribbean community.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, co-chaired by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Bishop Webley, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\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.\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\nMs William's review, published in March, was critical of the \"hostile environment\" policy operated by successive governments to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nShe told The Westminster Hour the Home Office and ministers \"should have realised the impact\" of the legislation on different groups of people.\n\nThe report concluded the Home Office had shown \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\" on the issue of race when some people were incorrectly told they did not have the right to be in Britain.\n\nMs Williams, an inspector of constabulary, previously called on the government in March to provide an \"unqualified apology\" to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said in House of Commons 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\nWendy Williams warns there is a risk that a similar scandal could happen again\n\nMs Williams said the risks posed by the controversial policy were flagged to the Home Office by \"other groups and stakeholders\" but because ministers ignored the warnings, the outcome of the Windrush scandal was \"both foreseeable and avoidable\".\n\nShe said: \"The Home Office has a very stark choice. It can decide not to implement my recommendations and, if that happens, then I think there is a very grave risk of something similar happening again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement the home secretary has been clear that the mistreatment of the Windrush generation by successive governments was \"completely unacceptable and she will right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams also said the compensation scheme for victims of the scandal is not demonstrating the benefits it should and applications need to be processed quickly and sensitively, with interim payments made where possible.\n\nHowever, the Home Office pointed out that the scheme made the first payment within four months of opening and has offered claimants over £640,000 in the first year.\n\nIt said that Ms Patel will give an update on her intended response to the review before the summer recess and will then provide a detailed formal response in September.\n\nIt added the Commonwealth Citizens Taskforce has granted over 12,000 people a form of documentation that confirms their right to remain in the UK and guarantee their access to public services.", "Singer Alexandra Burke has spoken out about her experiences of racism in the music industry, revealing she was asked to bleach her skin \"to look whiter\".\n\nAfter winning X Factor, Burke said she was told she would \"have to work 10 times harder than a white artist, because of the colour of your skin\".\n\nIn a 15-minute Instagram video, she recalls being told: \"You can't have braids, you can't have an afro.\n\n\"You have to have hair... that appeals to white people.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old star, who won the TV talent show in 2008 at the age of 19, described the experiences as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBurke, who refused to bleach her skin, said she was inspired to tell her story by fellow X Factor contestant Misha B, who recently spoke out about \"being devalued\" at the hands of the music industry.\n\nMisha B claimed the X Factor projected \"this angry black girl narrative\", using words such as \"feisty\" and \"bully\" to describe her after one live performance on the show. The 2011 contestant said it left her feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I could have spoken up much earlier, but was too scared to,\" said Burke, whose Instagram post has attracted a lot of attention, and sympathy, on social media.\n\nThe music star revealed the micro-aggressions she experienced at the hands of record labels, being told regularly that she \"comes across aggressive\".\n\nShe said she was told: \"You can't release this kind of music, because white people don't understand that\", and added: \"I am so upset with myself that I allowed that.\"\n\nBurke, whose hit singles Hallelujah, Bad Boys and All Night Long were all nominated for Brit Awards, also played the lead in the critically acclaimed West End musical The Bodyguard.\n\nThe singer said was told: \"Because you're a black girl, you won't make it that far in the industry... if you were white, you would be bigger than what you are now, you could sell more records, you'd be a Brit Award-winner\".\n\nBurke went on to become a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017\n\nShe was raised in north London by her mother, Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell, who died in August 2017 - just before Burke was due to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nShe recalled how one journalist accused her of \"being a diva\" when she asked not to do any publicity on the show's red carpet, which happened to be taking place on the same day as her mother died.\n\n\"That was the image they had of me, because of the papers.\" she said. \"I was so scared on that show. So many trolls, telling me all kinds of stuff.\n\n\"I have no idea how I got through it. I don't even like thinking about that experience. It's simply because of me being a black, strong woman.\n\n\"I can speak up for myself because that's how I've been taught. But I would never do it in a way that offends people or hurts anyone.\"\n\nShe said the Black Lives Matter movement had persuaded her to share her experiences because \"the truth is all we've got\".\n\n\"I just feel like people need to not see colour,\" said Burke. \"My mum always raised me to never see colour. I will continue that way because that's what makes me happy.\n\n\"People are people. We are all human, we all have feelings. So be kind.\"", "Members of \"The Base\" posed for photos that were used as propaganda\n\nSecret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings.\n\nThey capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalise them.\n\nThe FBI has described the group as seeking to unite white supremacists around the world and incite a race war.\n\nThe recordings were passed to US civil rights organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center, before some were shared with BBC One's Panorama.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro, founder of The Base, is a 47-year-old American. Earlier this year the BBC revealed he was directing the organisation from his upmarket flat in St. Petersburg, Russia.\n\nThe interviews, which took place via conference call on an encrypted app, followed a pattern - prospective members were asked by Nazzaro about their personal history, ethnicity, radicalisation journey and experience with weapons, before a panel of senior members posed their own questions.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro is now living in Russia\n\nThe would-be recruits were quizzed on what books they had read, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and were encouraged to familiarise themselves with the group's white supremacist ideology, which predicts and seeks to accelerate racial warfare, requiring followers to prepare for conflict and social breakdown.\n\nDuring the calls, Nazzaro can be heard welcoming members of other extremist groups.\n\nThe young applicants, who hide behind aliases and display varying degrees of ideological awareness, describe their radicalisation by online videos and propaganda.\n\nWhen interviewees left the calls, senior members discussed their potential before arranging to vet them in person at a later date.\n\nThe recordings make clear that The Base sought to recruit soldiers from western militaries to draw on their training with tactics and firearms.\n\nNazzaro, who the BBC investigation has been told used to work as an analyst for the FBI and as a contractor for the Pentagon, informed one British teenager that the idea of societal collapse was a \"guiding philosophy\".\n\nA European teenager was told that such a collapse would be desirable, even at a local level, if it offered a \"power vacuum that we can take advantage of\".\n\nOne boy was told \"we have a goal of initially creating two to three man cells in as many areas as possible\" and that the \"UK is a place that we think there is a lot of potential\".\n\nDuring a post-interview discussion about a 17-year-old from Europe, one older man spoke of \"shaping\" his belief system, with Nazzaro saying he needed a \"little work ideologically\" but was \"definitely headed in the right direction\".\n\nCommenting on one British teenager, Nazzaro suggested he probably needed to \"mature ideologically\".\n\nDr Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, describes the recordings as a \"highly unusual glimpse\" into this extreme world, showing there was \"no singular pathway to radicalization\".\n\nShe says those applying to The Base came from a variety of backgrounds.\n\n\"I think the fact that a lot of these people are so utterly normal is in itself significant.\n\n\"They didn't possess some traits that predispose them to want to become a terrorist or to become attracted to extremist ideology.\n\n\"I think it's really best to think of them as a reflection of a society that is so deeply politically polarized\".\n\nFrom left: Jacob Kaderli, Michael Helterbrand and Luke Austin Lane, face charges in Georgia\n\nIn the American State of Georgia, three members of The Base are currently facing conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to murder an anti-fascist couple.\n\nThe Base is the latest underground organisation to emerge from an international neo-Nazi network originally generated by a now-defunct web forum called Iron March.\n\nOther organisations include the banned British groups National Action and the Sonnenkrieg Division, as well as the Atomwaffen Division in the USA, which has been dismantled by a nationwide FBI investigation.\n\nThe BBC investigation reveals the real identity of a man who is both a senior member of The Base and the creator of a successor online forum linked to several UK terrorism prosecutions involving teenagers.\n\nMatthew Baccari, an unemployed 25-year-old from Southern California, used the alias 'Mathias' to run a notorious website called Fascist Forge, where terrorism and sexual violence were openly encouraged.\n\nHe was a vocal presence on The Base interview calls and promoted the group on his website, which he took offline earlier this year following significant attention by law enforcement.\n\nMatthew Baccari (r), posing for a propaganda image, is an unemployed 25-year-old from California\n\nThe forum was central to the case of a boy from Durham, who last year - aged 16 - became the youngest person convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK.\n\nTwo other young British members of Fascist Forge, one aged 15, are separately making their way through the youth court system charged with a combined 25 terrorism offences.\n\nBaccari refused to leave his bedroom when a BBC team went to his house to ask questions.\n\nBaccari and Nazzaro did not respond to letters setting out the evidence against them.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Panorama: Hunting the Neo-Nazis, Monday 22 June at 7.30pm on BBC One, and by listening to File on 4, Tuesday 23 June at 8.00pm on BBC Radio Four\n\nIf you have information or experiences to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Chris Lewis, when he was still on the island with his dog Jet Image caption: Chris Lewis, when he was still on the island with his dog Jet\n\nA former British paratrooper has left the previously uninhabited island where he had been isolating after lockdown measures were introduced during a fundraising challenge.\n\nChris Lewis, from Swansea, had walked 12,000 miles (19,300km) of the UK coastline after setting off from Wales in August 2017.\n\nHe was given special permission to live in the only house on Hildasay, Shetland, with his dog Jet .\n\n\"I feel I left a part of me behind,\" he said.\n\nThe 39-year-old was originally sleeping in a tent on mainland Shetland when lockdown restrictions were imposed on 23 March.\n\nThis is the only house on the island Image caption: This is the only house on the island\n\nHe was offered the keys to a former shepherd's hut on Hildasay when its owners heard he was camping. The hut had no running water, heating or electricity.\n\nA regular boat brought him fresh water and coal. He collected driftwood, foraged and fished for food, and always made sure he had a three-week supply of dog food for Jet.\n\nHe said he had been \"the happiest I've ever been\" while living on the island.", "Ceremonies can go ahead from 22 June, but must remain socially distanced\n\nA lockdown ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will be lifted from Monday - but there will be no big celebrations allowed.\n\nThe announcement was added to new rules published by the Welsh Government.\n\nHowever, the ban on social gatherings remain, as do social distancing rules.\n\nInvited wedding guests can now also travel any distance to be at a ceremony - but services must be small enough to stay safe.\n\nIt comes as easing other restrictions in Wales mean non-essential shops will also reopen on Monday.\n\nThe new wedding measures follow calls from couples to marry, even if it means a ceremony with just witnesses and a registrar.\n\nIt prompted 22-year-old Elizabeth Facer and her fiancé Ian Choi, 22, from Cardiff to launch a petition after being forced to abandon their plans for a wedding with 300 guests.\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate,\" explained Ms Facer.\n\n\"We're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married.\"\n\nThe changes include a provision for travel outside of a local area to a venue to \"attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership\".\n\nWeddings and civil partnership ceremonies can go ahead, but only in places of worship and register offices, and if they choose to open.\n\nThis means that other venues, such as hotels, cannot be used for these ceremonies.\n\nWhen it updated its coronavirus regulations last week, the Welsh government said all weddings and civil partnerships could now proceed, subject to social distancing.\n\nBut it has now clarified that this only applies to places of worship, such as churches and register offices.\n\nIt brings it into line with the rules on attending funerals, where the number of mourners has been severely restricted by venue sizes.\n\nThe change of heart on marriage and partnership ceremonies follows moves to relax other restrictions, including changes to allow private prayer in places of worship.\n\nIt will also mean sports such as tennis can be played for the first time since the covid restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHowever, First Minister Mark Drakeford has asked the Welsh public to adhere to the stay local message for another two weeks.\n\nHe used the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday to state the movement rule would be lifted on 6 July, as long as cases of coronavirus continued to fall.", "Boris Johnson has said his thoughts are with the families of the three people killed in a stabbing attack in Reading.\n\nThe prime minister said that if there were lessons to be learnt after the attack the government would not hesitate to take action.", "The events were opened in Batley with a cake bake\n\nA weekend of nationwide events to honour murdered MP Jo Cox is under way.\n\nThe Great Get Together began in 2017 using the Batley and Spen MP's Commons speech that said we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThe fourth event has to be celebrated in a \"slightly different way\" because of the coronavirus social distancing rules, her sister Kim Leadbeater said.\n\nOlympic medalist, Tom Daley said: \"It's a perfect way to illustrate the power of community.\"\n\nMrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June 2016. Thomas Mair was convicted of her murder later that year.\n\nMonday would have been Jo Cox's 46th birthday.\n\nThe event was set up to honour the message in Jo Cox's maiden speech\n\nThis weekend sees neighbours, friends, and community members gathering to celebrate what they have in common while complying with social distancing.\n\nThe events started with a bake off at Upper Batley High School in Ms Cox's former constituency.\n\nHer parents, Gordon and Jean Ledbeater, and Kim, took part in the judging.\n\nMr Daley features in a nine-hour community radio get-together on Sunday, at what is traditionally the biggest Great Get Together in Bankside, South London.\n\nKim Leadbeater pictured with Tom Daley before social distancing rules came into force, said those rule meant this year's events would be done differently\n\nThis year everybody can also take part in the Run for Jo on Sunday, wherever they live, to run or walk along your own chosen route, while observing social distancing.\n\nDue to coronavirus restrictions on visits in person the Muslim Council of Britain will instead bring the mosque to everybody with a series of virtual tours across the weekend.\n\nA virtual service with people of many faiths and beliefs took place on Saturday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Great Get Together 'doing Jo proud'\n• None The Great Get Together – Jo Cox Foundation The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bobby Storey was previously chairman of Sinn Féin and a close friend of Gerry Adams\n\nSenior republican figure Bobby Storey has died following a period of illness.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald expressed \"deep sadness\" at his death, describing him as \"a great republican\".\n\nThe north Belfast man was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s and was named as such under parliamentary privilege.\n\nSecurity sources linked him to several major incidents, including the £26m Northern Bank robbery in 2004.\n\nThe north Belfast man was considered the IRA head of intelligence in the mid-1990s\n\nMore recently, he was chairman of Sinn Féin.\n\nMr Storey, who was 64, spent more than 20 years in jail, beginning with internment without trial when he was 17, a year after he joined the IRA in 1972.\n\nIn 1981, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for possession of a rifle following an attack on the Army.\n\nHe was a close and lifelong ally of former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams.\n\nWhen he was released from jail in 1994, Mr Storey was seen as a key individual in selling the peace process to republican hardliners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was arrested twice in recent years.\n\nIn 2014, he was questioned about the disappearance of Jean McConville.\n\nA year later, he was detained over the murder of Belfast republican Kevin McGuigan - at the time, Mr Storey was the chairman of Sinn Féin.\n\nFollowing his release without charge, he famously likened the IRA to a butterfly that had flown away.\n\nBobby Storey was a lifelong ally of former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams\n\nIn a statement following news of his death, Mary Lou McDonald said: \"Bobby was extremely committed to the pursuit of a united Ireland with equality and social justice for all.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed. Today we have lost a great republican.\"\n\nTributes have also been paid by Sinn Féin vice-president and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who said he \"played a vital role in developing the peace and political process over the past two decades\".\n\nMs O'Neill said: \"He was a committed, selfless comrade, whose contribution to the struggle for national liberation earned him the full respect of his generation.\n\n\"He was an enduring tower of strength and will be deeply missed by us all.\"", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThree children have died and their mother is critically ill after a fire at their flat in Paisley.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nThe children's 39-year-old mother was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in a critical condition.\n\nAlex Gibson, their father, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA police spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact officers.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bidding for the iconic instrument started at $1m\n\nA guitar played by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a rare acoustic concert has sold for a record $6m (£4.9m).\n\nCobain played the retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E during a legendary MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, just five months before he died.\n\nAt $6.01m after fees, the guitar is the most expensive ever sold at auction, Julien's Auctions said.\n\nBidding in Los Angeles opened at $1m and was won by Rode Microphones founder Peter Freedman.\n\nNirvana's acoustic performance for the MTV Unplugged series on 18 November 1993 is now considered one of history's greatest live performances.\n\nCobain died just five months after the performance\n\nMr Freedman said he planned to take the guitar on a worldwide tour, with proceeds to go to supporting the performing arts.\n\nHe described buying the guitar as \"a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\", according to the auction house.\n\nThe guitar came with its case, which Cobain had decorated with a poster from the band Poison Idea's 1990 album Feel the Darkness.\n\nBefore this, the most expensive guitar sold in history was a Fender Stratocaster used by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. It fetched almost $4m at a charity sale in June 2019.", "Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died from a head injury in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child after his six-year-old son died from head injuries.\n\nArthur Labinjo-Hughes was found unresponsive at a house on Cranmore Road, Shirley, in Solihull, on Tuesday and later died in hospital.\n\nThomas Hughes, 27, and his partner Emma Tustin, 31, who both lived at the address, face the same charge.\n\nEmergency services were called to Cranmore Road in Shirley at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday\n\nThey are due to appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\n\"Arthur's death is deeply distressing,\" Det Insp Laura Harrison, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\n\"We have specialist officers with his family as they grieve his loss.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police seized equipment including a generator and speakers during the arrests\n\nThirteen people have been arrested in a police crackdown on lockdown raves.\n\nStaffordshire Police detained the 11 men and two women in connection with illegal raves planned in Cannock over the weekend.\n\nThe force also seized a generator, speakers and an amplifier.\n\nIt comes after police warned against planned raves across the county border in the Black Country on Saturday, and gatherings in Greater Manchester, where one man died and three were hurt.\n\nPolice warned the raves \"are not safe\" after a man died and three were stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nSupt Carl Ratcliffe, from Staffordshire Police, said: \"These gatherings are both illegal and irresponsible and put people at risk with the current global pandemic still not over.\n\n\"We will do all we can to stop these illegal raves from taking place.\"\n\nFive of the arrested men were detained on suspicion of conspiring to commit a public nuisance and have since been granted conditional bail.\n\nThe remaining suspects were arrested for drug offences and remain in police custody.\n\nThe force also put a dispersal order in place in the Chasewater area, covering Norton Canes, Brownhills and Heath Hayes, for Saturday night to deter gatherings.\n\nOfficers worked with colleagues from West Midlands Police after intelligence suggested a rave was being planned in \"a remote location\" in the Black Country.\n\nBrookhay Woods was left strewn with litter after an illegal rave in Lichfield on 13 June\n\nIt followed a gathering, of more than 1,000 people in Lichfield, on 13 June which had to be dispersed by police.\n\nThe same night, police were called to raves in Carrington and Daisy Nook Country Park in Greater Manchester where one man died, three were stabbed and a woman was also raped.\n\n\"We are in an unprecedented time and we won't accept anyone putting our communities at risk by holding these illegal raves,\" Supt Ratcliffe said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people have died after they were stabbed in a park in Reading in southern England. Three more were injured.\n\nEyewitness Lawrence Wort told the BBC he saw a man stab several people in Forbury Gardens in the town.", "Maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy, amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLebanon’s economy is collapsing with the country’s currency losing 70% of its value in the past six months.\n\nNow many of the country’s middle class claim they can no longer afford to pay their domestic maids.\n\nMore than 100 Ethiopian migrant workers have been dumped outside their embassy in the capital in recent days.\n\nThe BBC's Martin Patience reports from the Ethiopian embassy in Lebanon.", "During the final Democratic primary debate in March, Joe Biden pledged that if he were to win the party's presidential nomination, he would choose a woman as his running mate.\n\nA lot has happened since then, not the least of which is Biden securing the required Democratic Convention delegates to become his party's presumptive nominee. Even before that point, however, speculation swirled around a dozen or so contenders to be Biden's running mate.\n\nBuzz around the various candidates has risen and fallen as the nation has been buffeted by a viral pandemic, economic disruption and mass protests and racial tension.\n\nIf the former vice-president follows through with his pledge, it would mark only the third time a major party has selected a woman for the number two spot - four years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be a presidential nominee.\n\nThe move would suggest the Democrats are looking to secure the advantage they have among female voters according to polls, and perhaps insulate Biden from allegations that he engaged in unwanted physical contact with women.\n\nBiden has said he will announce his choice in early August. In the meantime, here are the current top contenders - and how they stack up.\n\nKamala Harris is widely considered the front-runner. She has a resume that includes time in the US Senate and as California's attorney general, as well as San Francisco's district attorney. She has a diverse background, with a mother from India and father from Jamaica. She's at least been somewhat vetted by the national media, given that she ran for president last year and was considered, for a time, as a top-tier candidate.\n\nShe did have a dust-up with Biden in the first primary debate last June, where she suggested his past views against desegregating schools through mandatory busing was hurtful, but that was a lifetime ago in modern US politics.\n\nHarris brings access to California money (she raised $2m for Biden in a recent virtual event), she's quick on her feet, and she would satisfy those who are calling for Biden to add a black woman to the ticket. She has won praise from a wide range of Democrats for being an outspoken advocate for police reform during the recent mass demonstrations. Biden-Harris felt like the obvious ticket a year ago - and it still does.\n\nSusan Rice is a bit of a surprise entry on this list, given that she has no experience holding elected office or campaigning in general, and is a relative unknown for most Americans. The diplomat is well-known to Biden, however, as she served in the Obama White House with him as national security adviser after a stint as the US representative to the United Nations.\n\nIf Rice is the pick, she could play a key role in a Biden foreign policy team, suggesting that international relations will be a focus for his administration.\n\nRice was a lightning rod for criticism during her Obama years, however. Republicans accused her of deceiving the American public about the reasons behind the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.\n\nRice has recently emerged as one of the front-runners for the spot, along with Kamala Harris. If she ends up as Biden's pick, it could indicate that he's more interested in having a loyal and knowledgeable second-in-command than in anointing a political heir.\n\nJust a few months ago, there wasn't a lot of buzz around Gretchen Whitmer, a former state legislator in her second year as Michigan's governor. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and she became the face of her state's response, which included occasional criticism of what she viewed as the federal government's lacklustre handling of the outbreak. That made her a target for Donald Trump's vitriol - and elevated her national profile.\n\nHer decision to enact sweeping social distancing and business-shutdown measures as Michigan became one of the top US hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak also led to several angry conservative-organised protests in her state, boosting her standing among Democrats.\n\nIn 2016 Hillary Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Donald Trump - one of the upsets that helped decide the election. If Biden hopes to avoid a similar outcome, he might decide to put a Michigan native on the ticket.\n\nTammy Duckworth, the junior senator from Illinois, has a CV that jumps off the page. She lost both her legs when the Army helicopter she was piloting was shot down by insurgents in Iraq. She stayed in the military and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel, before becoming an assistant secretary in President Barack Obama's Department of Veteran Affairs.\n\nDuckworth served in the House of Representatives and then won her Senate seat in 2016. She is the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, as well as the first double-amputee woman. In 2018 she became the first woman to give birth while serving in the Senate.\n\nIllinois is a safe Democratic state, but its proximity to key Midwest battlegrounds - as well as her middle-of-the-road politics - could make her an attractive pick for Biden.\n\nElizabeth Warren's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is a story of what might have been. Her \"I have a plan for that\" mantra seemed to strike a chord with Democrats, and she led the polls for months in mid-2019, drawing enthusiastic crowds and cruising through the early debates with seeming ease. Then her support faded, as many progressives drifted back to Bernie Sanders, while moderates opted for younger candidates like Pete Buttigieg.\n\nMany progressives expected her to endorse Sanders when she dropped out of the race in early March, so her decision to hold back may have earned her some appreciation from the Biden team.\n\nNow they have the opportunity to return the favour by offering Warren the running-mate spot. While there was some friction between the Sanders and Warren camps, Warren would still be a significant signal that Biden wants to reach out to his party's left wing - and govern as more of a progressive than he let on during the campaign.\n\nWith the nation facing a serious economic crisis, Warren could lend some liberal policy heft to the Democratic ticket.\n\nKaren Bass was a late addition to Biden's vice-presidential contender list. With numerous senators and governors under consideration, a soft-spoken five-term congresswoman from California was not an obvious choice for the position. The death of George Floyd and the subsequent national protest movement, however, has elevated concerns about institutional racism and policing - and increased pressure on Biden to pick an African-American woman for the number-two spot.\n\nThat's when talk of Bass, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus and former speaker of California's state assembly, began to circulate - and, unlike some little-known contenders whose prospects have peaked and then subsided, she's stayed in the mix as a safe, broadly acceptable choice. Perhaps the biggest cause for concern among some Democrats is prior positive comments Bass made about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which could hurt Biden's chances with the anti-communist Cuban vote in swing-state Florida.\n\nIf Biden wants to bring diversity to his ticket without having a flashy running mate who upstages him on the campaign trail or is angling for the presidency (i.e., not Kamala Harris), 66-year-old Bass might be the answer.\n\nFour years ago, Hillary Clinton was lambasted for never campaigning in Wisconsin during the general election, then losing the pivotal state to Donald Trump as her Midwest Democratic \"blue wall\" crumbled. Democrats have pledged not to repeat that mistake, going so far as to pick Milwaukee as the site of their (now entirely virtual) national convention.\n\nIf Biden wants to lean into the whole \"don't ignore Wisconsin\" theme, he couldn't do much better than to pick an actual Wisconsinite as his running mate. Tammy Baldwin is in her second term as one of the state's senators, having served in the House of Representatives for 14 years prior to that.\n\nHer selection would also be historic, as she would become the first openly gay person to serve on a major party's ticket - just as she became the first openly gay member of the Senate. In a season where Pete Buttigieg, who is also gay, proved to be a potent electoral force in Democratic politics, there may be particular appeal for such a move.\n\nThere's a line of thought among Democrats that this election's Wisconsin is not, in fact, Wisconsin, it's Arizona. The desert state, they say, will be the \"tipping point\" that delivers the election to Biden, freeing him from worrying about fickle Wisconsin voters. Polls suggest Biden's brand of political moderation, combined with Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric on immigration, have the state leaning toward the Democrats. One strategy for securing that lead would be to put an Arizonan on the ticket.\n\nIn 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win an Arizona Senate seat in 30 years. She's young, telegenic and politically centrist - perhaps too centrist, according to the party's left-wing activists.\n\nShe is a bit quirky - turning heads recently when she wore a purple wig on the floor of the Senate. It could present a beneficial contrast with the often staid Biden.\n\nIf Biden picks her as his running mate, she would make history as the first openly bisexual person on a presidential ticket.\n\nLast year, Val Demings was a little-known Democratic back-bencher in Congress. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her a high-visibility role as one of the impeachment managers - the congressional equivalent of prosecutors - during Donald Trump's January Senate trial.\n\nEven before the mass protests over the death of George Floyd made racial justice a top issue among voters, the black former chief-of-police from Orlando, Florida, was on the Biden team's radar as a possible vice-presidential pick. Now she's getting more than just a passing mention.\n\nCutting against her is her relative lack of political experience and low name recognition. But if Biden feels she can hold up under the intense scrutiny of being on a national ticket, she could be the woman for this particular national moment - and a signal that Biden is serious about making tackling racism and police reform his top issues.\n\nDuring the primaries, Hispanics were consistently one of Biden's weakest voting blocs. In states like California, Texas and Nevada, liberal champion Bernie Sanders outpaced Biden among a demographic that is well represented in numerous states that will be battlegrounds in the November general election.\n\nIf Biden decides he needs to shore up his support among one of the fastest-growing segments of the US electorate, New Mexico's first-term governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is the most obvious choice for a running mate now that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has said she's not interested.\n\nUnlike Masto's Nevada, New Mexico is a reliable Democratic state in presidential races, with few electoral votes. Lujan was comfortably elected governor after Republicans held the office for two terms, however. The 60-year-old Lujan previously served in Congress and as her state's health secretary - a helpful CV entry in the pandemic age.\n\nStacey Abrams doesn't have much of a traditional political CV for a vice-presidential pick. She spent 10 years as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She ran and narrowly lost the 2018 race to be the state's governor - a defeat she attributed, in part, to what she alleges was voter suppression by her Republican opponent.\n\nWhat Abrams has, however, is a voice that has resonated powerfully with much of the Democratic base. Her activism on voting rights has helped boost it as an issue for the party. She gave the Democratic response to Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, making her the first black woman chosen for the task.\n\nUnlike her rivals, Abrams has actively campaigned to be Biden's vice-presidential pick - a move that has elicited cringes from some, while others see it as refreshing honesty. Abrams is a rising star within the party, the face of a demographic segment of the Democratic Party that has traditionally been underrepresented in leadership positions. Even if she doesn't become the pick, the early buzz around her has helped advance the prospects of all the black women under Biden's consideration.\n\nThe nationwide protests over George Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police gave a handful of big-city mayors a national platform, as they dealt with difficult issues of racism, law enforcement and civil unrest in their jurisdictions. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, in particular, proved particularly adept at balancing official responsibilities while expressing her personal experiences as a black woman raising four children in these turbulent times.\n\nA heartfelt Vice interview, in which she explained the challenge of having to tell her 12-year-old son not to play with toy guns lest he provoke an incident with police, was praised as both raw and powerful.\n\nA first-term mayor would be an unconventional pick for Biden, but Bottoms is from Georgia - a traditionally conservative state that is trending toward being an electoral battleground. She's also won praise from Democrats for waging political battles with the state's Republican governor over when and how to ease business closures and shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn early July, Bottoms announced that she and her family had tested positive for Covid-19, although they had minimal symptoms. They have since fully recovered.\n\nThe traditional first rule for selecting a vice-president is to do no harm. Given that the choice doesn't offer much of a boost to the ticket, the theory goes, it is better to pick someone safe, who minimises the risk of embarrassment and won't overshadow the presidential nominee.\n\nMost of the other candidates on this list fall somewhere on the \"very safe\" to \"mostly safe\" spectrum. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama is in a category by herself.\n\nShe's beloved by a large swathe of the American public and is a near universally recognisable figure. Yes, she might steal the stage from Biden, but what better way for Biden to cast himself as the continuation of Obama's presidential legacy than to put his wife on the ticket?\n\nA Biden-Obama ticket would electrify the Democratic base - particularly black voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama-Biden in 2008 and 2012.\n\nThe only kink in such a bold plan is that Michelle Obama has shown less than zero interest in entering politics. In her autobiography she frequently complained about the toll her husband's political career took on her life and marriage - and she seems very happy to have those travails in the rear-view mirror.", "The family are next heading for the Everest Base Camp\n\nA family from Aberdeen have been told they can continue their round-the-world trip after having to spend three months in lockdown in a remote town in Nepal.\n\nKris and Julie Smith and their two children - nine-year-old Erihn and four-year-old Jacob - can now resume their journey to Everest Base Camp.\n\nThey left Aberdeen in almost exactly a year ago to fulfil a \"big crazy dream\" of travelling around the globe.\n\nHowever, coronavirus lockdown measures came into force in March.\n\nSince then, they have been in a hotel next to an airport runway in Lukla - a small town in the Solukhumbu region - thousands of miles from home.\n\nOn Facebook the family wrote: \"After much running about by our friend Kevin Sherpa to achieve many signatures from many authorities we have been given the green light to start walking.\n\n\"After leaving Kathmandu on the 18th March we only managed a 7 day trek before lockdown arrived. A little break in between of 3 months and off we go again\n\n\"Cannot express how excited and grateful we all are that we can continue our walk and our dream to walk onto Sagarmatha National Park and witness the worlds tallest mountain with our own eyes.\"\n\nBefore reaching Nepal, they had been to 18 countries including India, Jordan, Albania, Serbia and Hungary.\n\nMr Smith, 41, had told BBC Scotland this month that conditions in Lukla were \"quite basic\" and they only had a stove in the living-room to keep warm at night.\n\nVietnam and Sri Lanka are among locations the family still hope to reach, added Mrs Smith, 46.", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow\n\nThe father of three children who died after a flat fire in Paisley has paid tribute to his \"little angels\".\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died following the blaze, which broke out at about 21:00 on Friday.\n\nTheir 39-year-old mother remains critically ill in the town's Royal Alexandra Hospital.\n\nThe children's father, Alex Gibson, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident are ongoing.\n\n\"The 39-year-old woman remains in a critical condition within the RAH.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze in the upper cottage flat on Renfrew Road.\n\nThe siblings were taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow but died a short time later.\n\nA JustGiving page was also posted on Mr Gibson's Facebook page, set up by a family friend,\n\nThe fundraiser hit its £10,000 target within hours, and raised more than £16,000 by Sunday evening.\n\nFlowers and cuddly toys were left at the scene throughout the weekend.\n\nBishop John Keenan, of the Archdiocese of Paisley, said the \"three lovely children\" all attended nearby St Catherine's Primary School.\n\nBishop John Keenan said the local community was \"absolutely devastated\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland at the scene, Bishop Keenan said: \"We are all absolutely devastated.\n\n\"Paisley is a small, close-knit town but this a tragedy on a national scale.\n\n\"You can feel the sadness right across the whole of the town.\"\n\nOne passer-by said local people were left \"shocked\" by what happened, and simply added: \"God bless those weans.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nPaisley and Renfrewshire South MP Mhairi Black posted: \"Just devastating. All over Renfrewshire we are mourning for you Fiona, Alexander and Phillip.\"\n\nAmong the flowers left at the scene were some from Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, who wrote on a card: \"We are all so sorry for your heartbreaking loss. \"Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.\"\n• None Three children die and mother critical after fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We're going to get our lives back to normal slowly, and it will be a new normal\"\n\nMinisters will announce in the coming week whether the 2m social distancing rule in England will be relaxed, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe government has been reviewing the advice, amid warnings many businesses will not survive under current rules.\n\nMr Sunak said the outcome of the review will \"make an enormous difference\" to businesses \"keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has said it hopes to reopen pubs, restaurants and hotels from the beginning of July, if safe.\n\nIt has yet to give a definitive date for the hospitality sector, but ministers are preparing to ease more coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 4 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to shops in North Yorkshire, the chancellor said although the review was yet to be completed, it was \"something that will make an enormous difference, I think, to many businesses who are keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"very understanding of the calls for action on that, particularly for our hospitality industry, for our pubs, for our restaurants\".\n\nHis comments came after a raft of measures reported in the Times revealed how parts of the hospitality sector could look significantly different compared to pre-lockdown.\n\nPubs could be patrolled and people could be encouraged to use apps to order drinks, according to the newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak toured several shops in North Yorkshire on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson commissioned the review on 14 June, saying there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m social distancing rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe other nations of the UK have not announced any plans to change the 2m distance.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nEarlier, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that the government's review of the 2m rule will be \"concluding shortly, within the coming days\".\n\nOther new measures for the hospitality sector reported in the Times include:\n\nKate Nicholls, CEO of UK Hospitality, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the guidelines seen by the industry involve businesses carrying out their own risk assessments, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for \"everything from a burger van in a park to the Fat Duck in Bray\".\n\nMs Nicholls said a third of pubs and restaurants could not reopen with the 2m rule in place, although all hotels could. But reducing it to 1m meant rather than generating 30% of normal revenue and losing money, businesses could break even at 70% of normal revenue.\n\n\"Every day we have delay and uncertainty about that opening date, the industry is haemorrhaging cash and jobs and livelihoods are at risk,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nProf Calum Semple at the University of Liverpool, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, said he had changed his personal view on the need for social distancing because there were now \"low levels, and sustained low levels, of transmission throughout the country\".\n\nHe said 2m was still safer than 1m, but it was \"now a reasonable political decision to relax these rules\" and to open businesses where the 2m rule is harder to maintain, as long as there are other precautions in place.\n\nIf the UK faces a second wave of infections, Prof Semple said it might consider imposing social distancing rules on a regional basis, with different requirements for London compared to Carlisle, for example.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nTourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level was downgraded from four to three on Friday. Under level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" - whereas in level four transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nOn the day, the government announced that all pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, alongside a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nMore workers have tested positive for coronavirus after an outbreak at a chicken factory on Anglesey.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday the number had risen to 75, Public Health Wales confirmed.\n\nHealth officials said the number of cases was expected to rise and samples have been taken from about 350 staff.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, said the process of taking samples from all workers was \"nearly concluded\" and \"testing was underway\".\n\n\"What's clear is that the system is working as it should - we are actively screening employees at the facility and this is helping us to identify contacts of individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19,\" said Dr Christopher Johnson from Public Health Wales.\n\n\"The advice for these contacts is to self-isolate to prevent further spread. The aim of the testing is to identify more cases and we're likely to see an increase in overall cases in the coming days.\"\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nAnglesey council has also confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"", "The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said \"people are united in their grief\" following the terror attack in Reading.\n\n\"This was a horrific incident, our thoughts and our hearts go out to all those affected, particularly the family and friends of those who tragically died,\" he said.\n\n\"I think across Reading, across the country, people are united in their grief at this incident.”\n\n\"It’s very important that the investigation runs its course, but I will want to work with the government in response to this, to look at whether there’s lessons that can be learned, whether there need to be changes to the law.\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics.\"", "Efforts to increase the number of black managers at British companies have stalled, according to a business group.\n\nJust 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black.\n\nThat compares to 3% of the population of England and Wales.\n\nWhile the ratio is an improvement on the 1.4% of 2014, there is much ground still to cover, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community, which has campaigned for workplace racial equality for 25 years.\n\n\"It is clear that black people continue to be under-represented at a senior level,\" she said.\n\n\"Black livelihoods matter and employers need to take urgent action to ensure that their organisation is inclusive and a place where people of any ethnic background can thrive and succeed.\"\n\nThe new figures coincide with the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, which brought workers from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nEmployers should make their companies welcoming to black workers, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community\n\nThey also come amid global protests over racial inequality and as some older British companies come to terms with their historical links with the slave trade.\n\nPub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London apologised for those ties last week.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nLloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\".\n\nIn March, a report from the Carnegie Trust, University College London's Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Operation Black Vote said young BAME members are 47% more likely to to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe researchers compared the experiences of 25-year-olds in England.\n\nThey looked at people who are white, as well mixed-race, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black African and Caribbean, and other minority ethnicities, sometimes collectively known as BAME workers.\n\nThat report followed research from February that about a third of FTSE 100 firms have no ethnic minority board members.", "One of the many shop fronts vandalised in central Stuttgart\n\nGroups of people have smashed shop windows, looted, and attacked police vehicles in central Stuttgart during hours of night-time disturbances.\n\nGerman police say more than a dozen police officers were hurt during the violence, in south-west Germany.\n\nVideo clips on Twitter show people vandalising shops in the city centre and hurling big stones and other objects at police vehicles.\n\nStuttgart police say the violence began after police checked a drugs incident.\n\nThe situation escalated after a 17-year-old was questioned for an alleged drug offence, the city's police vice-president Thomas Berger told reporters.\n\nA group of between 100 and 200 people responded by throwing stones and bottles at the police on the central Schlossplatz, a large square.\n\nThis then grew, he said, to between 400 and 500 people attacking police. Many of the rioters were said to be hooded and masked.\n\nPolice president Frank Lutz suggested the situation had become more tense over the past three to four weeks.\n\nWhat he described as people from the \"party and event scene\" in Stuttgart had been getting drunk in public and adopted an aggressive and insulting tone towards police on social media.\n\nBroken glass and other debris littered the city centre on Sunday morning\n\nLocal politicians and ordinary citizens expressed shock, saying the scale of the rampage was unprecedented for Stuttgart in recent years.\n\nA mobile phone shop and a jewellery store were among the businesses attacked and looted. Some fast food outlets were also vandalised, public broadcaster SWR reports.\n\nIn total, 40 shops were damaged, and nine looted.\n\nSome rioters threw chunks of paving stone and other missiles at passing police cars. At one point, the police said, the situation was \"out of control\".\n\nPolice guarding one of the damaged vehicles\n\nMore than 200 extra police were rushed into the city centre, where shops had been attacked apparently at random.\n\nThe situation was calmer after dawn and firefighters and civil protection volunteers (THW) began repairing the many damaged shop fronts.\n\nTwenty-four people were arrested - 12 Germans and 12 described as non-German. Police have appealed for witness evidence including mobile phone footage.\n\nCity mayor Fritz Kuhn said: \"I was very shocked this morning when I learned about what happened overnight. Stuttgart has never witnessed a night like this, with such attacks on the police.\"\n\nHe said such behaviour was unacceptable, regardless of the cause, be it alcohol or incitement via social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "In Room 3324 of Moscow's Metropol hotel, Paul Whelan was getting dressed for a friend's wedding when Russian intelligence officers burst in.\n\nThe American disappeared without trace for three days until his twin stumbled across a news report announcing that his brother had been charged with espionage.\n\nThat was New Year's Eve 2018 and the start of a case that would embroil four western governments and pile pressure on relations with Russia that had already sunk to a post-Cold War low.\n\nAlmost 18 months later, Whelan has been convicted of spying - receiving Russian state secrets - after a short trial conducted entirely behind closed doors.\n\nThe former US Marine - who also has British, Irish and Canadian citizenship - has always insisted on his innocence, and in court this week he described himself the victim of \"greasy, slimy Russian politics\".\n\nAs his family step-up their appeals to bring him home, officials in Moscow are already hinting at a possible prisoner swap adding to suspicions that the man from Michigan is a pawn in a political game that has yet to play out.\n\nOn 15 June, it took the chief judge just 1 minute 20 seconds to reach the key words in his verdict.\n\n\"Moscow City Court…finds Paul Nicholas Whelan guilty,\" he read from the typed sheet, adding that the 16-year sentence would be served in a high-security facility for the most dangerous offenders.\n\nThe judge then turned to address the defendant, who was standing in a glass cage guarded by two FSB security officers in black balaclavas. Watching from the wooden courtroom benches, socially distanced and in medical facemasks, were the ambassadors of the US, UK and Canada.\n\n\"Whelan, do you understand the sentence?\" he asked.\n\nThe American, whose glasses, side parting and blue sweater that he wore to each court appearance gave him the look of a neat, middle-aged librarian, looked back at the judge blankly.\n\nHis Russian wasn't up to this.\n\n\"Nothing's translated, Your Honour,\" the 50-year-old protested, sending an interpreter scurrying over to explain his fate. The three judges swept off the podium and out of court.\n\nIt was a flat, abrupt end to a spy trial that had taken just a handful of closed hearings. Moscow's Covid-19 lockdown had cloaked proceedings in an even thicker layer of secrecy, with both press and public barred from the building right up until the final verdict.\n\nThe first time I saw Whelan in court, well over a year ago, he arrived with a weak smile and a brown cardboard box hugged to his chest containing a packed prison lunch. He was flanked by FSB guards, faces covered so they couldn't be identified.\n\nState TV crews, hovering for their shots in the hallway, were already referring to the accused man as \"the American spy\".\n\nPaul Whelan would be brought for multiple custody hearings and appeals over the months and we squeezed in almost every time. Although we were only allowed to attend for the opening remarks, we managed to snatch several conversations with him.\n\nThat first day, though - in a cage, with a dozen cameras trained on him - he looked tense and spoke little.\n\nAlmost two months had passed since his arrest, and he said he was coping \"fine\". But when I asked for his side of the story, his eyes flicked towards the guards. \"If I do that, I'll be in a bad way,\" Whelan told me, warily. \"They don't want me to speak with you.\"\n\nA member of his defence team has since revealed that he was coming under intense pressure from the FSB to confess, interrogated several times without his lawyers present.\n\n\"[They'd say] things like, 'There's no hope for you, tell us the truth. You're a spy, you'll be convicted,'\" Olga Karlova told me last summer.\n\nThe American refused and as his time in custody was extended repeatedly, he gradually grew bolder in court.\n\nPaul Whelan arrives handcuffed and holds a personal statement up in court\n\nWhelan, who at the time of his arrest was the head of global security for a US-based car parts firm, began to denounce the charge of espionage as \"ridiculous\", and declare that he was being tried by a \"kangaroo court\". He'd prepare a speech for each session, writing it out on a sheet of paper vetted and stamped by the prison censors.\n\n\"Russia says it caught James Bond on a spy mission,\" Whelan announced one day, as we waited for the judge. \"In reality, they abducted Mr Bean on holiday.\"\n\nBy then, we'd learned that the American had visited Russia multiple times. On his latest trip, in December 2018, he was in Moscow for the wedding of a fellow ex-Marine to a Russian woman. But Whelan never made it to the ceremony. He was arrested in his room, just hours after showing some of the other wedding guests around the grounds of the Kremlin.\n\nSo, at a court hearing late last year, I raised my voice over a wall of bailiffs to ask him once again what had happened.\n\nHe paused a little, before calling back.\n\n\"I'm not allowed to give you details, but I can tell you I was set-up. I did not commit a crime,\" Whelan said, telling me that a friend had turned-up at his hotel that evening unannounced.\n\nWhen Whelan was arrested, the FSB found a USB drive in his pocket containing the classified information it alleges he had requested. He now told me his friend had planted the device in his pocket, without him realising.\n\n\"That person was an FSB officer. He's someone I've known for ten years,\" he revealed for the first time.\n\n\"There's absolutely no reason he should have been in my room and no reason he should have given me any sort of device.\"\n\nWhen the judge returned to court, to extend his stay in prison once again, Whelan's frustration erupted.\n\n\"I can talk louder than you, Your Honour,\" he shouted from the cage. \"As my cousins in England would say, this is complete bollocks.\"\n\nAt that, the judge ordered the TV cameras to be removed from court. Filming was barred at all future hearings to stop the press capturing any more protests.\n\nJust two weeks after his arrest, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that the American had been caught \"red-handed\" conducting a \"concrete, illegal act\".\n\nThe case was immediately big news that grew further when it emerged that Whelan was a citizen of four countries.\n\nBorn in Canada to British parents of Irish heritage, he later moved to the US entitling him to multiple passports as a result.\n\nPaul Whelan was a US police officer when he was younger\n\nIn early 2019, the drama of his now multi-national arrest was developing against a hostile political backdrop, with mutual sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and East-West tension not felt since Soviet times.\n\nNine months earlier, the UK had accused Russia of poisoning Sergei Skripal, a former double-agent, on the streets of Salisbury. At the same time, Washington was still accusing Moscow of meddling in its elections.\n\nSo when Whelan's plight became public, there was speculation that he could be the human collateral.\n\nThe FSB was already dripping details of the case it would make in court.\n\nThe Russian Rosbalt news agency quoted a source claiming that Whelan was working directly for US intelligence, tasked with obtaining a list of personnel at \"one of Russia's secret institutions\". It said that information was the object of \"intense interest\" to the Americans, and that Whelan had been cultivating potential contacts, online, for over a decade.\n\nSpy trials in Russia are not only heard in secret, the defence lawyers have to sign non-disclosure agreements covering the entire case. So no evidence - the wire taps or surveillance footage the case is reportedly based on - has been made public.\n\nIn Whelan's case, there's the added nuance that his defence team were appointed and paid for by the Russian state. His family decided not to change them, reasoning that a bill of over $150,000 (£121,000) was \"an awful lot of resources for what would have been zero impact\".\n\n\"Secrecy, provocation and falsification, that's the arsenal of our opponents,\" says Ivan Pavlov, a human rights lawyer who has gone up against the FSB in many espionage cases.\n\nHe mostly represents Russians accused of selling secrets to the West and says the number of such cases has grown significantly since the political climate turned cold again in 2014.\n\nThe lawyer warns that the FSB is the \"mightiest secret service, not only in Russia,\" and uses its own experts to examine any evidence for the court.\n\n\"If you've got mixed up in something like this, then you're in the most complicated story of your life,\" Ivan Pavlov says. \"It will be very difficult to mount a defence.\"\n\nPaul Whelan's travels in Russia began more than a decade ago.\n\n\"This is 'Lubyanka' where the KGB has our spies locked in the basement!!\", he joked in 2007 on a personal website.\n\nThe image was of the headquarters of Russia's notorious security services, now known as the FSB.\n\nEleven years later, its officers would drive him there for interrogation.\n\nThe photograph dates from Whelan's first trip to Moscow, made while he was serving with the US military in Iraq. That year he told a Marines news site that he'd taken advantage of a programme that funded a two-week break abroad for those on long deployments.\n\nWhelan had plumped to visit Russia, explaining that, for a \"single man like me\" the scheme was \"an opportunity to travel throughout the world…and experience the diversity of culture\".\n\nSince his arrest, the Marine Corps has disclosed that he was discharged in 2008 for bad conduct, a revelation that \"absolutely stunned\" his twin brother David.\n\n\"He was always absolutely positive about the [Marines] experience. There's a Marines' flag flying right below the American flag on my parents' property the whole time,\" David told the BBC from Canada.\n\nPaul Whelan as a US marine and the front gate at his parents' property\n\nAnd yet, unknown to those closest to him, Paul had been court-martialled for trying to steal more than $10,000 from the US government.\n\nIt was with this scandal breaking behind the scenes, that he first headed for Moscow.\n\n\"Having grown up during the Cold War, it was a dream of mine to visit Russia and meet some of the sneaky Russians who had kept the western world at bay for so long!!\" Whelan joked back then on his website, which has since been archived.\n\nIts pages document the trip with shots of tourist spots and captions laden with exclamation marks.\n\nA decade later, he would message home regularly from trips to Russia displaying similar almost child-like wonder at new discoveries.\n\nThe website content does support later descriptions of Paul Whelan by contacts, colleagues and family as an enthusiastic world traveller who \"made friends pretty much everywhere\" and had an interest in Russian culture.\n\n\"I remember making small talk once and I said, 'You travel a lot for work, where do you travel for fun?',\" a former colleague, Skotti Fietsam, told the BBC. \"He said Russia!\"\n\nShe recalled her surprise at his reply.\n\n\"He said it's beautiful and he liked the cold and he had quite a few friends there.\"\n\nAn entire section of his old website is dedicated to the cute cartoon character Cheburashka, describing the big-eared, wide-eyed creature as \"one good thing to come from the Soviet era\". Another link leads to a homemade guide to the Cyrillic alphabet and some basic first words in Russian.\n\nThe pages also reveal his first friends in the Russian military.\n\nRussia would later insinuate, via anonymous sources quoted in the press, that the CIA had selected candidates for Paul Whelan to cultivate for intelligence. It was noticeable, one such report said, that he chose only to befriend men and not \"pretty Russian girls\".\n\nWhelan was friends with young servicemen in the US, though, too. His website describes his \"respect and admiration\" for three Naval Academy graduates who'd just joined the Marines.\n\nAnd he didn't hide his interests and encounters.\n\nIn 2009, he took his own parents to visit Russia, where they've told me they met several of his young friends in military uniform.\n\nPaul Whelan with his parents in Moscow\n\nMeanwhile, the front page of his website invited visitors to click on the image of a young Russian soldier to learn more about his \"hobbies and military service\". The link led to Maxim, who explained that his new friend, Paul Whelan, was helping with his English which he planned to study at university.\n\nThe Russian described the two spending several days \"touring Moscow\" together, eating sushi and caviar-filled pancakes.\n\nWhelan went on to seek out more Russian friends, using the country's social networking service VK among others.\n\nA scroll through their profiles, soon after his arrest, revealed almost all to be men - most considerably younger than him. Some do have clear military connections - including photographs in uniform - though not all, and no-one who replied to my messages had seen any reason to doubt Whelan's motives.\n\nOne replied to tell me he'd been a student and supermarket night-guard when the American first made contact. The two met in person for a few hours in 2008 when Whelan was touring Russia, visiting multiple friends in various cities.\n\n\"I don't believe that Paul is a spy,\" the man wrote to me. \"I… don't know anything what [sic] might be interesting to foreign spy.\"\n\nAnother man gave his friend a sightseeing tour of his own town that same year. He has no apparent link to the military himself and joked to me via VK that the American \"didn't request to see anything suspicious :))\"\n\nA Moscow hairdresser, meanwhile, was contacted by Whelan on Instagram around five years back. They talked about foreign travel and never met.\n\nOne VK friend still in the military told me the American first messaged when he was a cadet and the two have chatted online two or three times a week ever since.\n\n\"He seemed nice and was fascinated by our country, its history and our traditions and people!\" the man replied to my enquiries, adding that his own interest was in the ex-Marine's time in Iraq.\n\nHe had no idea his friend had been arrested. \"No way? He's the kindest soul! If he's a spy, then I'm Michael Jackson!!!!\" he wrote.\n\nThe man Whelan accuses of framing him was one of his oldest friends in Russia. He is also a serving intelligence officer.\n\nDefence lawyers disclosed some details of the men's relationship early on in the case, including how the American had visited his friend's house in Sergiev Posad outside Moscow for \"saunas and kebabs\" the winter before his arrest.\n\nThey also said he owed Whelan around 80,000 roubles ($1,147; £930) which the FSB claimed was advance payment for intelligence. The defence team said the Russian had requested a loan to buy a gift for his wife, as part of his trap.\n\nThe town of Sergiev Posad is home to the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church - the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius\n\nThe Whelan family eventually found a name and even a photograph.\n\nAs he still works for the FSB, I can't identify him so I'll call him \"Dmitry\". But Whelan chatted openly to relatives on email about his friend, including which \"FSB school\" he'd attended.\n\n'''Dmitry' says hello!\", Whelan breezily told his parents after one Facetime chat with the Russian. It seems unusual behaviour if he was trying to recruit the man for US intelligence.\n\nIt's possible he even introduced his parents to \"Dmitry\" on their 2009 trip to Russia, they can't be sure.\n\nIn messages home from Moscow in January 2018 - a free holiday to use up his air miles - the American described visiting restaurants with his agent-friend, as well as the museums of the Kremlin and even a British pub.\n\nA year later, just days before his arrest, Mr Whelan took \"Dmitry\" and another man for Christmas dinner at a restaurant opposite his hotel. He snapped a picture of his guests, \"Dmitry\" smiling with a glass of wine and his fork raised over a juicy steak.\n\nLabelling it \"Dinner with Tovarishi\", or comrades, he messaged the image to a third Russian friend - even as he was supposedly discussing how to transfer classified intelligence.\n\n\"It all sounds incredibly naïve now,\" his brother concedes of the relationship, after finally obtaining the passwords for Paul's computers and trawling through his files.\n\nHe says his brother's VK messages were deleted after his arrest.\n\n\"He has friends in other countries with a military background, I think it was a social thing,\" David Whelan argues. \"The FSB thing wasn't a big deal, until he was entrapped.\"\n\nPaul Whelan's lawyers have now confirmed that he was being watched for some time and his communications monitored.\n\nA recent newspaper report claimed that the American had come to FSB attention over a decade ago when, as Kommersant's source says, he \"actively\" began contacting Russian servicemen.\n\nBut the espionage case was based entirely on Whelan's ties to one officer, with all the evidence gathered in 2018 shortly before his arrest.\n\n\"Had this been an independent court, they would have reached only one decision - not guilty,\" his lawyer, Vladimir Zherebyonkov said after the verdict. He said the evidence was only ever examined by \"incompetent and interested parties\".\n\nIvan Pavlov believes Whelan's claim he was framed is \"always possible\" with FSB intelligence officers.\n\n\"The temptation is high: to rise in rank; for promotion; for more stars on your epaulettes,\" the lawyer says. \"This is how FSB careers are made; people rise on the back of such cases, like mushrooms after the rain.\"\n\nOfficers typically bide their time, he explains, calling it \"calf-rearing\", before a target is culled.\n\nIf so, it appears that Paul Whelan was blind to the threat.\n\nIn one email exchange during his early 2018 trip to Moscow, a relative joked: \"Don't get into any trouble we can't get you out of, haha!\"\n\n\"I will be with guys from the FSB, so should be okay!\", the American wrote back.\n\nThe surge in East-West tensions has made espionage both more complex - and more urgent - in recent years.\n\nAfter the Salisbury poisoning in early 2018, more than 100 Russian diplomats identified as intelligence agents were expelled from embassies around the world in a co-ordinated act of protest. Russia responded with a mirror mass expulsion of Western diplomats.\n\nAt the time, one ambassador told me the move had hit Moscow's spying capacity hard. But the same is presumably true in reverse.\n\nThere were signs of problems even earlier.\n\nAlmost exactly a year before Paul Whelan's arrest, a Norwegian staying at the same central Moscow hotel was arrested and charged with espionage. A retired border guard, Frode Berg admitted to delivering envelopes of cash and spy instructions on behalf of Norwegian military intelligence agency.\n\nHis arrest and 14-year prison sentence caused a scandal back home when it emerged that civilians with no diplomatic cover were being used for high-risk espionage. There were even allegations that Norway was under pressure to obtain the information from its partners in Nato.\n\nFormer CIA officers have dismissed any suggestion that Whelan could be involved in something similar, operating without diplomatic immunity: the idea, floated by one retired Russian officer, that his arrest was a \"great failure\" of US intelligence.\n\nThe US Embassy and government have been very vocal about Whelan's detention. \"Paul Whelan is innocent,\" Ambassador John Sullivan told me emphatically last week, calling the trial a \"mockery of justice\".\n\nUS Ambassador John Sullivan outside court after Paul Whelan's sentencing\n\nAnd while Paul Whelan's dishonourable discharge from the Marines shows there are parts of his life of which even his family have no idea, his supporters point to the theft charge as a positive.\n\n\"The intelligence community would never use someone with that past, especially in a situation like this when you'd be sent into a very, very difficult environment,\" argues Ryan Fayhee, the family's lawyer in the US who cites intelligence contacts from his days prosecuting cases of counter-espionage.\n\n\"It just wouldn't happen,\" Fayhee believes. \"Trust is the most important thing when you are out there, living on the edge.\"\n\nPerhaps Whelan enjoyed the element of danger that came from flirting with the FSB, hanging out with intelligence officers.\n\nOne friend who didn't want to be named told me he was \"a little quirky\", and liked to \"push the line a bit\". He wondered whether some comment, or joke might have been disastrously misconstrued. Whelan's own defence lawyer once hinted at that possibility.\n\nSkotti Fietsam, his former colleague, found Whelan serious and supportive, but also laughed at how he would insist on using heavily armed guards when he visited the factory she managed in Mexico, even posting them outside restaurants while they ate.\n\n\"I don't know if it was machismo; to show off,\" Fietsam said. \"But it was very unusual.\"\n\nOn Whelan's old website, alongside Harry Potter books and War and Peace, his recommended reading includes a long list of Cold War thrillers by Tom Clancy.\n\nBut there's nothing glamorous about prison life in Lefortovo.\n\nThe high wall and barbed wire of Lefortovo jail\n\n\"The porridge, some days it goes direct to the toilet,\" Frode Berg wrote to me from northern Norway of life in the FSB prison. He's now back home after a prisoner-swap.\n\nHis own cellmate in Lefortovo used to joke that the inmates were fed dog food in the mornings.\n\n\"We never see or meet other prisoners. When we go to a meeting, prisoners were hidden from each other,\" Berg describes the lonely routine of life inside the K-shape jail, whose tall outer walls now butt-up against Soviet apartment blocks.\n\nPaul Whelan is being held in the renovated wing, where the Norwegian says there is hot water in the cells now as well as a fridge, TV and toilet. But the space measures 9.5 square metres between two prisoners and exercise is one hour a day on the roof.\n\nCellmates get to shower once a week, together, in the basement. One light remains on in the cell 24/7.\n\nWhelan and his family say letters have been held back for months by investigators and parcels returned. He wasn't allowed a phone call home for 16 months. And adding to his discomfort was chronic pain from a hernia that eventually strangulated, resulting in emergency surgery.\n\nSentenced to a high-security prison, Paul Whelan won't be leaving Lefortovo just yet.\n\nHis lawyers do plan to appeal against the verdict but other, bigger forces are already at play. The minute the American was convicted, the focus shifted to a possible prisoner swap.\n\n\"They want Yaroshenko and Bout, that's who they want back,\" Paul Whelan claimed, naming two high-profile Russian prisoners in America as the court bailiffs ushered me and my microphone out of the room. \"That's the only reason they've done this,\" he alleged.\n\nLawyer Vladimir Zherebyonkov was soon saying the same, now claiming the FSB had been planning a swap all along.\n\n\"No-one's hiding that, everyone talks about it, all the officials,\" he told the press.\n\nSo the prisoner who has always called himself a political hostage is now looking to the politicians to do a deal for his release.\n\nAll the signs so far suggest Moscow is opening with a high bid - Viktor Bout, a weapons dealer serving 25 years in America and Konstantin Yaroshenko, sentenced to 20 years for drugs smuggling.\n\nUndated photo of Konstantin Yaroshenko (left) and Viktor Bout in 2010\n\nOn Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman called on Washington to show \"humanity\" and release Yaroshenko \"and other unjustly convicted\" Russians.\n\nThe US has said repeatedly the two men were convicted in open and fair trials.\n\n\"We are not looking for an exchange, we are looking for justice for Paul,\" US Ambassador John Sullivan insisted, emerging from the verdict at Moscow City Court to a wall of microphones and cameras.\n\nWhelan's family are already pushing for action after a sentence that his brother, David, called \"a gut punch'.\n\nBut he knows it took months of complex, confidential diplomacy to arrange a suitable swap for Frode Berg that eventually involved Russian agents in prison in Lithuania. Norway wasn't holding any convicted spies to trade and neither is America.\n\n\"I'm trying to focus on immediate goals, so I don't get distracted by how awful it is that he could spend 16 years behind bars,\" David Whelan told me, imagining how his twin would have felt, convicted of spying and heading back to his prison cell.\n\n\"I think Paul will be taking it very hard. It is an extraordinarily long time.\"\n• None US 'outraged' as Russia jails American for spying", "Three people have died following a road crash in Cumbria.\n\nThe crash, which involved a single car and pedestrians, happened in Abbey Road, Dalton-in-Furness, at about 14:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe victims, all pedestrians, are believed to be from the same family.\n\nPolice said the driver of a Peugeot, a 47-year-old local man, has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police said: \"The family are currently being supported by our family liaison officers.\n\n\"Officers are urging anyone who might have witnessed the incident or the vehicle in the area to contact the serious collision investigation unit or call 101.\n\n\"Officers are also keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage which may have captured the collision or the moments immediately before or after.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The statue was unveiled next to a poster that reads: 'Don't give anti-communism a chance'\n\nA far-left party in Germany has erected a controversial statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin.\n\nThe tiny Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed the statue in front of its headquarters in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.\n\nCity authorities had attempted to stop the statue being installed and launched an online hashtag saying there was \"no place for Lenin\".\n\nBut courts blocked their appeals and the unveiling went ahead on Saturday.\n\nLenin was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and led the country until his death in 1924, when he was succeeded by Josef Stalin. However, he has remained a symbol of communism rule across the world, both among supporters and those who remember the human rights abuses that took place under the USSR.\n\nGermany itself was divided for decades between the West and the communist East, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.\n\nIn the debate surrounding the Gelsenkirchen statue, which was made in Czechoslovakia, as it was then known, in 1957, both sides drew parallels to the tearing down of monuments linked to slavery which has taken place in anti-racism protests across the world in recent weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters across America toppled statues associated with slavery\n\n\"We live in a time in which many countries of the world are reflecting on memorials,\" said mayor Frank Baranowski in one of a series of YouTube videos posted by the city council against the statue.\n\n\"It's hard to put up with the fact that a dictator from the 21st Century is being placed on a pedestal and a memorial is being made out of it. Unfortunately the courts have decided otherwise, we must accept that, but not without comment.\"\n\nHowever, MLPD's chair, Gabi Fechtner, described the communist leader as \"an ahead-of-his-time thinker of world-historical importance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy\", according to the AFP news agency.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praised \"world class\" goalkeeper Alisson after his late save secured a point against Everton in the Merseyside derby.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin's close-range flick was kept out by the Brazilian before Tom Davies' shot from the loose ball struck the post.\n\nThat was the closest either side came to scoring in a low-key Goodison Park encounter, which ended goalless.\n\n\"We should not take him [Alisson] for granted,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"Absolutely outstanding. That's what a world-class goalkeeper is - nothing to do for pretty much 90 minutes then he's there.\"\n\nLiverpool now need five points to be sure of the Premier League title and can still clinch their first top-flight trophy in 30 years against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Wednesday - but only if Manchester City fail to beat Burnley at Etihad Stadium on Monday.\n\nAlisson also saved well from Brazilian compatriot Richarlison as a largely tame game, with the surreal atmosphere of a derby played behind closed doors, sprang to life.\n\nEverton keeper Jordan Pickford saved well from Fabinho's free-kick in the closing moments but it was a game that highlighted two understandably rusty sides - although Liverpool's coronation will come soon.\n\nLiverpool would have hoped to set up a potential title win at Anfield on Wednesday with victory here at Goodison Park - but after 106 days out of action, it was perhaps understandable that a side that have overpowered so many were short of their best.\n\nForward Mohamed Salah was only fit enough for the bench while left-back Andy Robertson was injured. Both were missed as Liverpool saw plenty of the ball but struggled to seriously test Pickford.\n\nNaby Keita looked energetic until he came off but boss Jurgen Klopp now has further concerns over James Milner, who sustained a hamstring injury, and Joel Matip who also limped off - although Joe Gomez is an ideal replacement there.\n\nLiverpool's star of the show was keeper Alisson, who was in superb form when called upon in those crucial late moments.\n\nThis point - and Liverpool certainly did not deserve more - means the celebratory champagne may be on ice a little longer but it is only a matter of time, even days, before they are back at the peak of the domestic game by clinching that long-awaited title.\n\n\"The point is one we deserve,\" added Klopp.\n\n\"Everton were well organised so we had to run a lot but we looked fit and ready.\n\n\"Now we've got three days. Crystal Palace looked good on Saturday and we have to make sure we are ready for Wednesday.\"\n\nAncelotti can be pleased with Everton\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti's predecessor Marco Silva was sacked after a 5-2 derby capitulation at Anfield in December - and the difference the decorated Italian has made since was in evidence here.\n\nAncelotti had already made a good start to his Goodison career before the season was halted, but he has now had more of a chance to impart his methods and can be well pleased with what he saw here. In fact, he may feel disappointed his side did not win.\n\nEverton conceded possession for long periods but were superbly organised defensively, and Alisson was much the busier goalkeeper.\n\nCaptain Seamus Coleman was simply outstanding for Everton, while the budding leadership qualities of young defender Mason Holgate could be heard as his instructions echoed around Goodison Park.\n\nAncelotti also has two dangerous forwards in Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison while talented teenager Anthony Gordon, who struggled to make an impact, will be better for the experience.\n\nAncelotti will know he needs more strength and physical presence in central midfield but this is a different Everton side to the one that capitulated so miserably in December, before also losing to a youthful Liverpool side in the FA Cup third round under the new manager.\n\nEverton will be better when Ancelotti has more of his own signings in the team, but the signs are still promising.\n\n\"Honestly we were really close to winning but it was a tough game, difficult game,\" Ancelotti said.\n\n\"We performed really well. We were focused, we sacrificed. We had opportunities to score at the end.\n\n\"Liverpool played a good game, they had more possession but defensively we were really good.\"\n• None Seven of the last eight Premier League Merseyside derbies at Goodison Park have ended level. Indeed, Everton-Liverpool has finished goalless on more occasions than any other Premier League fixture (11, includes Anfield meetings).\n• None Liverpool have gone 22 games without defeat against Everton in all competitions, since a 0-2 loss at Goodison in October 2010 (W11 D11) - the Reds' joint-longest unbeaten run against a single opponent in their history (also a run of 22 games without defeat against Aston Villa from 1981-92).\n• None Everton remain winless in their last 22 matches against Liverpool in all competitions (D11 L11) - only against Chelsea (24 games from 2001-09) have the Toffees gone longer without a victory against a single opponent.\n• None Everton are the only Premier League side to remain unbeaten at home in 2020 in all competitions (P5 W2 D3).\n• None Liverpool have failed to win two of their last three Premier League games (W1 D1 L1) - as many as in their previous 38 (W36 D2).\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has managed more games against Everton in all competitions without defeat than against any other opponent in his managerial career (P11 W7 D4).\n• None The average age of Everton's starting XI here was 24 years 356 days - the Toffees' youngest starting line-up for a league match against Liverpool since February 1986 (24 years 250 days), when they won 2-0 at Anfield.\n• None Liverpool's James Milner made his 535th Premier League appearance in this game, the joint-fifth highest total in the competition's history, alongside Gary Speed.\n\nEverton travel to Norwich on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST) while Liverpool will hope to cement the Premier League title (if Manchester City fail to win on Monday) when they host Crystal Palace on the same night (20:15).\n• None Attempt saved. Fabinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucas Digne. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The man held on suspicion of killing three people at a park in Reading was known to MI5, security sources say.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, from the town, was arrested on Saturday and police say they are not looking for anyone else over the terror incident.\n\nSources told the BBC he is originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nOne victim has been named as teacher James Furlong - described by his family as \"a wonderful man\".\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Furlong, 36, head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, his parents Gary and Janet said: \"He was beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East (CTSPE) said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nSecurity sources said the suspect came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nWhen the information was further investigated, as the first stage of looking into a potential lead, no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified.\n\nNo case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nTeacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe Holt School said Mr Furlong was a \"kind and gentle man\" with a \"real sense of duty\".\n\nIn a statement, Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce - co-head teachers of the secondary school for girls - said Mr Furlong \"truly inspired everyone he taught through his passion for his subject and his dedication\".\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" they said.\n\nMr Johnson has promised action following the incident \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described it as an \"atrocity\" and said his \"deepest sympathies go to the families who will be mourning loved ones after this horrific act\".\n\nMr Basu said investigators are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nSaturday's horrifying killings may be another example of what security chiefs call a \"lone actor\" attack where a single individual turns extremist beliefs into murderous actions.\n\nIn November last year, the UK's official threat level from terrorism was reduced from \"severe\" to \"substantial\" - meaning it remained likely - but there was no intelligence of an immediate risk to life.\n\nSince then, there have already been three major incidents in which two people have died. Two of those attacks were carried out by lone individuals.\n\nToday, detectives will be interviewing their suspect - and a huge operation will have swung into operation.\n\nElectronic analysts will delve into any social media accounts linked to the suspect; they'll trawl every call and text message going back years, looking for contacts with extremists.\n\nIntelligence officers at MI5 will review both their open and closed case files on so-called \"subjects of interest\".\n\nA picture will emerge of the suspect's movements. What led to the attack may be very difficult to identify.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of CTPSE, said the investigation \"continues to move at a fast pace\".\n\nThe suspect was arrested within five minutes of the first emergency call made to police, and a number of officers were quickly on the scene, she confirmed.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whisky and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nMr Sandford was also told by neighbours of the suspect that he once threw a television out of a top floor window and was regularly visited by a mental health key worker.\n\nA witness told the BBC he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park in Reading town centre, trying to stab them.\n\nThree other people were injured in the attack, which took place at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this.\"\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics,\" he said.\n\n\"It's incumbent on all of us to pull together in response to this on a cross party basis.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said on Sunday morning the attack was now being treated as terrorism and that Counter Terrorism Policing South East would be taking over the investigation.\n\nSpeaking to reporters later, the force's chief constable, John Campbell, said lives had been \"devastated\", but added that there was not believed to be a wider risk to the public and there was nothing to suggest anyone else was involved.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure we would all want to recognise the bravery of those police officers responding, but also that a number of members of the public were helping my officers and the victims at what was a very distressing scene.\"\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\nOfficers in forensic suits were seen walking near to the scene on Sunday\n\nThe prime minister has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers over the incident.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nOf the three injured people, one was seen at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where they were discharged without being admitted to hospital.\n\nTwo were admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. One has been discharged, while another remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place around Forbury Gardens - which is a short walk from the train station - and blue and white tents have been erected next to the walls of the park.\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level of \"substantial\" is the third of five ratings at which the threat level can stand.", "Teacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe parents of a teacher who was killed in the Reading stabbing attack have paid tribute to their \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" son.\n\nJames Furlong, 36, head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, was described by his family as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nHis school colleagues said he was \"talented and inspirational\".\n\nMr Furlong was one of three people who died in Saturday's attack that police are treating as a terror incident.\n\nTwo other people who were injured have subsequently been discharged, while a third remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Furlong was in Reading's Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of town, when witnesses say a lone attacker with a knife targeted a group of people at about 19:00 BST.\n\nAn eyewitness described how an individual in the park \"suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old man who lived locally, was arrested on Saturday and remains in custody.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nPolice have been carrying out investigations in Forbury Gardens\n\nIn a statement, his parents Gary and Janet described their son as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nThey said: \"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all.\"\n\n\"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nIn their statement, The Holt School's co-heads Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce described Mr Furlong as a \"kind and gentle man\" who had a \"real sense of duty\".\n\n\"As a Holt community, we all now need to absorb this sad news,\" they said. \"He truly inspired everyone he taught.\"\n\nAs head of history and government and politics at the school, Mr Furlong's \"passion for his subject\" and \"his dedication\" was praised.\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" the head teachers said.\n\nThey said lessons would be cancelled on Monday, with counsellors available at school for staff and students.\n\n\"Words cannot describe our shock and sadness at this time. Our thoughts are with his mum, dad, brother and family, and his friends and colleagues.\n\n\"He was a cherished colleague and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nJade Simon, a former pupil at The Holt School, remembered Mr Furlong as \"an incredible teacher\".\n\n\"He was funny and kind and always made history fun and entertaining,\" she told the Press Association.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Keith Power, whose daughter currently attends the school.\n\n\"He was a wonderful man. He was so helpful and supportive of my daughter.\"\n\n\"It's so senseless,\" he added. \"So much hatred in the world right now. I fear for my kid's futures.\"\n\nSt Francis Xavier's College in Liverpool, where Mr Furlong is reported to have grown up, paid tribute to their former pupil.\n\n\"Our prayers are with him and his family,\" said a statement posted by the secondary school on Instagram.\n\nPupils of Mr Furlong have posted tributes on Instagram.\n\nSophie McEwan said Mr Furlong \"really was an inspirational teacher, he genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nAnd Emily Mugnier wrote: \"Thank you for being an incredible, enthusiastic teacher and lover of life.\"\n\nWokingham Labour tweeted: \"His loss is a devastating blow to his family, colleagues, students, the wider Holt family and our whole community. Our thoughts are with them all.\"\n\nThe names of the two other victims in the attack have yet to be made public.\n\nThe suspect was detained within five minutes of the first call made to the emergency services, with the Sunday Mirror reporting that a police officer \"rugby tackled\" the perpetrator to the ground.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Saadallah had previously come to the attention of MI5 after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Mr Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whiskey and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack and promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the attack as an \"atrocity\" and thanked the \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" officers who attended the scene.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said \"multiple ambulance resources\" were sent to the scene, including five ambulance crews and a helicopter.\n\nMr Basu said the \"motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but said investigators were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nHe said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nMore than 40 witnesses came forward within 24 hours of the incident, which took place on a sunny afternoon in a popular area of town.\n\nOne eyewitness described a man carrying \"a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches, minimum\".\n\n\"The park was pretty full, a lot of people sat around drinking with friends when one lone person walked through, suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them,\" Laurence Wort, 20, told the BBC.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nHave you been personally affected by the attack in Reading? If you feel able to do so 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.", "Groups had been relaxing in Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading when the attack happened\n\nReading's Forbury Gardens were dotted with groups of friends relaxing in the early evening sunshine when the peace was shattered by a commotion and frantic shouts of \"run\". Three people had been stabbed to death in an attack that has left the town reeling.\n\n\"Everyone was just having fun and then suddenly a man shouted,\" said Lawrence Wort, who had been sitting nearby.\n\nThe 20-year-old said he could not make out the words or in what language they were spoken.\n\nWhat he could see was a man with a \"massive knife\".\n\n\"He stabbed the first person - they were sat in a circle in a big group of about eight to ten people - and he darted round anti-clockwise, got one, went to another, stabbed the next one, went to another and stabbed them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested at the scene by unarmed officers who have been praised for their \"incredible bravery\".\n\nHe remains in police custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nAs well as those killed in the attack, three more people were injured.\n\nGreg Wilton, who tried to help the victims, said he had been left \"very shocked and shaken\".\n\nHe was having a picnic with his wife and three friends, after listening to speeches at a Black Lives Matter protest held in the park earlier in the day.\n\n\"We stayed in the park as the weather was nice and had some drinks,\" he said.\n\n\"At one point without much noise we noticed a commotion on the other side of the park.\n\n\"We ran over and without seeing an attacker we found three men lying on the floor bleeding profusely from what we thought was their heads, necks or body.\n\n\"Another member of the public took off his t shirt and tried to stop the bleeding alongside someone we assume to be his girlfriend.\n\n\"Me and my friend, Tom, put a second victim in the recovery position and tried to stem his bleeding from his ear with my canvas shopping bag.\"\n\nHe said Reading as normally a \"relatively peaceful\" town.\n\nAlice Penney said she felt like she had \"cheated death\"\n\nOn Sunday, an atmosphere of shock and mourning was palpable in the town centre - where bloodied roads were cordoned off by police.\n\nLarge areas outside the gardens are taped up, and the streets are largely deserted but for police officers, journalists and TV crews.\n\nLocals who had ventured into the town said they were frightened.\n\n\"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work,\" said Marie Castro, from Slough, who works at a coffee shop in the town.\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she said.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nAlice Penney, who moved to Reading from Kent a year ago, said she left the town and went to a friend's house after hearing about the stabbings.\n\n\"I was absolutely mortified. I had been at the protest a few hours earlier when I heard the news. It was something I couldn't process.\n\n\"I feel like we cheated death. It's a safe place, normally. It's very confusing.\"\n\nJournalists have descended on the town centre's streets\n\nCordons and police tape are now a common sight on the deserted streets\n\nJames Hill is among those who have laid flowers at the scene to remember the victims\n\nAs helicopters patrol the town from above, on the ground floral tributes have been laid.\n\nJames Hill, from Reading, said: \"I've come here today because I've lived in Reading all my life.\n\n\"This park is very close to my heart - I know it very well - and I feel obliged when something as bad as this happens, that I play my part and make a tribute.\"\n\nOne card left near the scene reads: \"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\"", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nThe number of workers testing positive for coronavirus at an Anglesey chicken factory has risen to 158.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nA Welsh Government minister has not ruled out local lockdown measures to contain the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the number of cases was expected to rise.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson from PHW said 400 staff had been tested since the outbreak was confirmed on Thursday.\n\n\"As of 15:00 BST on Sunday 21 June we have recorded an increase of 83 confirmed positive cases identified over the past 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"Testing of employees continues, and it is likely that some additional cases will be identified in the coming days.\n\n\"The increase in cases is as we anticipated when a focused track and trace programme is implemented, and does not mean that the spread of infection is increasing.\"\n\nEconomy minister Ken Skates has said the fallout from the outbreak must be contained\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales are due to be lifted from 6 July, allowing people to \"travel as far as they like for all purposes\", as long as covid cases continue to fall.\n\nBut speaking on BBC Wales Politics Show, the Economy Minister Ken Skates said it was essential to make sure the Anglesey outbreak was \"kept as local as possible\".\n\nMr Skates did not rule out restrictions remaining in place in Anglesey, and said the council, PHW and Betsi Cadwaladr health board were \"right to contain the fallout from the 2 Sisters plant\" and \"making sure that spike is kept as local as possible\",\n\nHe said: \"That will help contain the virus, and that, in turn, help Anglesey open up its economy sooner, and that is something I think the island will welcome and I think the entire population of Wales will welcome.\"\n\nAnglesey council has already confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following incidents at the plant.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Isle of Anglesey CC #KeepWalesSafe\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, thanked the workforce and wider community for their \"swift co-operation\" with the test and trace process.\n\n\"This rapid response is providing vital information to help minimise the further spread of Covid-19 locally,\" said Dr Johnson.\n\n\"We must remember that Covid-19 has not gone away.\n\n\"Incidents like this show the potential for pockets of asymptomatic undiagnosed infection in the community, highlighting the importance of the adherence to social distancing and hygiene measures.\"\n\nDr Johnson said rapid test and trace facilities had \"helped identify this situation\" and said health teams would keep measures in place to \"bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion\".\n\nHe added: \"It therefore remains essential that all members of the public, including employees of 2 Sisters Food Group and their close contacts, continue to recognise the vital role they have in preventing the spread of coronavirus, to help keep Wales safe.\"\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nResponding to the increase in confirmed cases, Anglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the outbreak was \"causing concern on Anglesey\".\n\nShe said the authority's thoughts were \"with 2 Sisters' employees and their families at this uncertain time\" and urged all workers to get tested and to make sure they self-isolated.\n\n\"This is imperative to stop the spread and further positive cases in our communities,\" she said.\"The county council is working with partners across the Island to ensure those who are self-isolating, who have no support networks, are helped during this challenging period.\"\n\nThe council leader said the authority would be holding discussions with the Welsh Government on Monday to see \"what local lockdown looks like\".\n\n\"How do we enforce local lockdown, and also how do we support those businesses that would not be able to operate during a local lockdown, as well,\" she added.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nIt said the virus was \"not known to be transmitted by exposure to food or food packaging\".\n\nDo you work in a meat processing facility? 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.", "The government will introduce new measures on Monday to protect businesses critical to public health from foreign takeovers.\n\nChanges to legislation would give ministers extra powers to protect those needed to help in future pandemics, who might be struggling now.\n\nThe new powers will cover firms such as pharmaceutical companies.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"The UK is open for investment, but not for exploitation.\"\n\nThe government already has the power to scrutinise takeovers for several reasons, including national security or financial stability. It may block a takeover or seek assurances from a buyer about their plans for a company.\n\nBut changes to the 2002 Enterprise Act will mean that the government can intervene if a business that is involved in a pandemic response - a personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturer, for example - is the target of a takeover by a foreign firm.\n\nThey will also expand the government's ability to scrutinise takeovers involving companies who work in artificial intelligence or encryption technology.\n\n\"I think it is a significant development,\" Peter Harper, partner in the competition, EU and trade team at law firm Eversheds Sutherland, told the BBC. \"It gives them a greater power to intervene.\"\n\n\"The government's track record of intervention has basically increased over time,\" he said.\n\nSo far, the government hasn't stopped a deal based on national security grounds, he said, but they have imposed conditions on buyers.\n\nIt brings the government into line with countries like France, Germany, Italy and Spain, he said, where the EU has been keeping a stricter eye on potential purchases.\n\nThe economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic \"may mean that some businesses with critical capabilities are more susceptible to takeovers\", the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said in a statement.\n\n\"These powers will send an important signal to those seeking to take advantage of those struggling as a results of the pandemic that the UK government is prepared to act where necessary to protect our national security,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\nIt follows the April announcement of European Union (EU) plans to help block foreign takeovers of European firms struggling with the virus downturn. It wants to allow governments to invest in \"weak\" companies, which could include some form of ownership.\n\nWhile it called them \"measures of last resort\", the European Commission said it was consulting member states.\n\nIn March, the European Commission issued guidelines to ensure a strong EU-wide approach to foreign investment screening \"in a time of public health crisis and related economic vulnerability\".\n\nThe UK formally left the EU on 31 January, but is currently in a transition period until the end of the year. During this period, the UK will continue to follow all of the EU's rules and its trading relationship will remain the same.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're about to see another step in the plan\"\n\nThe government will \"bring forward proposals\" on how to safely reduce the 2m social distancing rule in England this week, says Matt Hancock.\n\nThe health secretary said the distance could be lowered with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nLabour said it would support a change to 1m \"under certain circumstances\".\n\nMr Hancock confirmed new easing of lockdown measures would be announced in the coming days, including whether pubs and restaurants can re-open on 4 July.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to the roadmap it announced in May - when it said the venues could re-open on 4 July \"at the earliest\".\n\nHe added: \"We are going step-by-step, making things easier for people, helping people to see more of each other, allowing more social contact, more social interaction, and we will be setting all that out.\n\n\"But it's very important that we don't lose our vice like grip on the disease. We have got to keep it on the floor where we have got it and so we have got to keep making those trade-offs.\"\n\nA further 43 people who had tested positive for coronavirus have died in the UK, it was announced on Sunday.\n\nThere was one death in Wales, but no deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland over the previous 24 hours.\n\nMr Johnson announced a review into the 2m rule last week, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming on Saturday its conclusion would be published this week.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Hancock appeared to go further, saying: \"The proposals we'll bring forward are how you can safely reduce the 2m with the sort of mitigations we've been talking about.\"\n\nHe said there were \"all sorts\" of measures that could be introduced, referring to the use of face masks on public transport, Perspex screens in shops, and studies on the reduction of transmission risk when people sit side-by-side or back-to-back.\n\nBut while the health secretary said he \"very much hopes\" to reduce the distance, the government would be \"guided by the science\", and would only make changes \"in a way that is safe and doesn't lead to resurgence of virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"On social distancing... watch this space, you won't have very much more to wait now\"\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nOfficially, the review is still under way. But it now seems inevitable the result will be a move from a 2m social distancing rule in England to 1m.\n\nThe government is set to announce this in the week ahead - probably alongside a confirmed date in early July for pubs and restaurants to reopen, under certain conditions.\n\nScientists seem relaxed about this change - the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance having indicated that, ultimately, this is a political decision, with no continuing body of evidence to stand in the way of the move.\n\nA member of Sage, Professor Calum Semple, says he has changed his mind and it is now reasonable to \"relax these rules\".\n\nIt's understood there will need to be \"mitigation\" - requirements to stop overcrowding in bars, taking contact details of people booking restaurant tables and a more widespread use of face coverings, for example.\n\nBut as the eminent microbiologist Prof Peter Piot reminded us today, the virus won't just fade away. He said it will be with us for some time and a second spike of some sort was highly likely.\n\nThe pubs and bars may reopen in England and Northern Ireland within weeks (Scotland and Wales are keeping the issue under review).\n\nBut no health or scientific official or adviser will be celebrating any time soon.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said his party were \"prepared to look at [the proposals] carefully\", adding that if a change was \"backed by the science, then that'll be an understandable move\".\n\nBut he said countries who have lower social distance rules also have a \"broader combination of measures\", such as face shields and tracing apps, and his support would depend on other mitigations being introduced.\n\nMr Hancock also said pubs and restaurants would find out this week whether they can re-open on 4 July.\n\nHe said the potential date was \"part of the plan that we've been working through\" since it was announced last month as a possible next step.\n\nThe health secretary added: \"The plan is clearly working because the number of new infections is coming down, the number of people on ventilated beds in hospital is coming down and, thankfully, the number of people who are dying is coming down.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he \"wouldn't rule out\" following in the footsteps of countries like New Zealand - where customers need to register their details before going to the venues - as it could be \"an additional way that you can do contact tracing so that you can find people who might be at risk\".\n\nBut he said there were \"lots of ideas out there\" and the government would confirm its plans this week.\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. Home Secretary Priti Patel: 'We are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad'\n\nPlans to force almost all arrivals to the UK to isolate for 14 days have been confirmed by the home secretary.\n\nPriti Patel told the Commons that Border Force will check that travellers fill out a form with their contact details and location for isolation.\n\nLeaving isolation prematurely in England could result in a fine of up to £1,000 or prosecution, she said.\n\n\"We will not allow a reckless minority to put our domestic recovery at risk,\" she said.\n\nMs Patel told MPs that scientific advisers had said quarantine would not have been effective earlier in the coronavirus pandemic when infection rates in the UK were higher.\n\nBut now, imported cases of the virus posed a more significant threat, she said, so it was now important to \"protect our hard-won progress as we move in the right direction\".\n\nIt comes as the latest Department of Health figures show another 359 people have died after contracting coronavirus, bringing the UK total to 39,728. An additional 1,871 people tested positive in the last 24-hour period.\n\nAsked at the Downing Street briefing whether he would recommend people in the UK book foreign holidays, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the public to follow Foreign Office guidance against non-essential travel. \"We've got to knock this virus on the head,\" he said.\n\nAnd while he urged EU workers who had left the UK because their jobs had disappeared during lockdown to return, he ruled out any alternatives to quarantine for them, such as a medical certificate.\n\n\"Come back to London, or the UK - but you've got to quarantine. Everybody has been in lockdown for a long time, I know it's an imposition, but we really have got to beat this virus,\" he said.\n\nMs Patel said in the Commons that the \"proportionate and time-limited measures\" would come into force on Monday, with \"limited exemptions\" intended to ensure supplies of essential items such as food and protective equipment were not disrupted.\n\nThe regulations apply to England, and Ms Patel said devolved administrations would set out their own rules for enforcing the quarantine.\n\nMs Patel said the measures would be reviewed after three weeks and the government would aim to ensure greater freedom in the long term, including establishing \"international travel corridors\" with countries deemed to be safe.\n\nMany MPs - including Conservatives - were in the Commons raising concerns about the government's approach to quarantine.\n\nFirstly, they argue this policy is being brought in too late. They believe it should have been introduced when the virus was spreading in Europe - and before it took hold here.\n\nMany now have concerns the government is overreacting as it tries to prevent a second spike.\n\nThey told the home secretary they are worried a blanket quarantine will have a devastating impact on airlines, airports and the wider tourism industry. Very few MPs showed support for the government's approach.\n\nThey want the government to take a more targeted approach - finding ways of allowing travel from certain countries where transmission levels are lower.\n\nRyanair said the proposals were \"utterly ineffective\", with arrivals travelling from the airport before they isolate, potentially spreading infection, while the government would phone \"less than 1%\" of them to check they were complying.\n\n\"This 14-day UK quarantine is ineffective, completely useless, and will have no effect on British passengers who will largely ignore it,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry said it needed more detail on how the policy would be reviewed, who would be exempt and how the international travel corridors with key trading partners could be created.\n\n\"Businesses and government urgently need to draw up an internationally coordinated plan to get people safely moving across borders as soon as possible,\" said CBI president John Allen.\n\nSources at the French and Italian foreign ministries told the BBC there had been no bilateral talks yet about lifting the quarantine plans and establishing travel corridors or \"air bridges\" with the UK.\n\n\"If the UK imposes a quarantine period, we will apply it too,\" a French official said.\n\nThe plan has sparked concern among several Tory MPs, with former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers calling for it to be suspended while travel corridors are set up, to \"save jobs in aviation and let families go on their summer breaks in the sun\".\n\nSpeaking at an earlier debate about the aviation industry, former prime minister Theresa May said quarantine would \"close Britain off from the rest of the world\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said people needed reassurance that this was not \"a three-week fudge to try to spare the government embarrassment for failing to grip this issue at the right time\".\n\nHe said only 273 people had been quarantined in the early stages of the pandemic as 18 million visitors arrived in the UK, with the government's own advisers saying many cases came not from China but from places in Europe.\n\nUnder the new rules, most arrivals to the UK will have to fill out a \"contact locator form\" with details of where they will isolate for two weeks and how they can be contacted.\n\nAnyone failing to remain in isolation will face a £1,000 fixed penalty in England, with prosecution and an unlimited fine potentially to follow, the Home Office said.\n\nFailure to fill in the form can also be punished with a £100 fine.\n\nBorder Force can refuse entry to non-residents who do not comply, and the Home Office also said that deportation would be considered \"as a last resort\" for foreign nationals who fail to isolate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This special report looks at the timeline of the crisis in care and asks what could have been different\n\nLarge numbers of staff could have been unknowingly spreading coronavirus through care homes, according to the UK's largest charitable care home provider.\n\nData from MHA shows 42% of its staff members who recently tested positive were not displaying symptoms.\n\nNearly 45% of residents who had a positive test were also asymptomatic.\n\nMHA operates in England, Scotland and Wales and has fully tested staff and residents in 86 of its 90 homes so far.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Our priority is to ensure care workers and those receiving care are protected, and the latest statistics show over 60% of care homes have had no outbreak at all.\n\n\"We've set out a comprehensive support package for residents and staff, including a £600m infection control fund, testing regardless of whether you have symptoms, and a named clinical lead to support every care home.\n\n\"We recognise more must continue to be done, and have made £3.2bn available to local authorities to address additional pressures from coronavirus.\"\n\nIn total, 7% of MHA staff and 13% of residents received a positive test result.\n\nRoutine testing is not yet under way.\n\nMHA CEO Sam Monaghan told BBC Newsnight: \"It is not difficult to imagine that a lot of people may not have ended up dying if we'd had earlier testing and we'd been therefore better able to manage infection control in our homes.\"\n\nIn May, Professor John Newton from Public Health England said it would be \"premature\" to introduce weekly testing of care home staff and residents.\n\nInstead, the government promised one universal test for everyone in care homes in England by early June.\n\nMany social care providers have complained that hasn't happened.\n\nMr Monaghan continued: \"I think it's very difficult not to see that the only real way that this can have come into our homes is through staff picking it up, just through the community contacts they would have had.\n\n\"I think that is what is so hard for all our staff, because they care. But if they don't know they've contracted the virus, how can you manage this?\n\n\"We lobbied right from the outset that routine testing was going to be absolutely vital in terms of us managing and doing effective infection control in our homes. The government still isn't offering that.\n\n\"What does it say to the valuable people who work and live in care settings that it's 'premature' to test them weekly when Premiership footballers are being offered a test, not once, but twice a week?\"\n\nThe government promised one universal test for everyone in care homes in England by early June\n\nONS figures show more than a quarter of all coronavirus deaths in England and Wales have happened in care homes.\n\nMHA has shared with Newsnight its log of suspected and confirmed cases.\n\nIt says 398 people have died in its care homes since the crisis began. Three MHA staff have also succumbed to the virus.\n\nSo far 930 people have recovered from suspected or confirmed Covid-19.\n\nThis data also shows less than half of the residents who died ever got a test.\n\nHeather Grange care home in Burnley lost 10 residents. Only four were tested for coronavirus.\n\nManager Mark Quarmby said: \"Once the virus took hold of some of our residents, it was relentless. We'd see cases where people literally showed some symptoms on a Friday and by Tuesday they'd passed away.\n\n\"There was no testing. I actually had a conversation with Public Health England and asked for tests. I was categorically told there was no testing for care homes in the North West. We were on our own.\n\n\"The early warning, that testing, could have changed outcomes. People could have lived the next two, three, four, five years. It makes me very sad.\"\n\nPublic Health England said it \"worked with Heather Grange care home and local partners to provide appropriate guidance and support to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Testing was arranged in line with policy at that time\".\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Beeb, the BBC's voice assistant, has been released to early adopters for testing on Windows computers.\n\nThe voice assistant, which uses Microsoft technology, is in the beta phase - a period when not all features are present or working properly.\n\nIts synthesised digital voice is based on that of a UK voice actor with a northern England accent.\n\nAnd the team behind Beeb have been \"working hard\" to ensure it can understand other regional accents.\n\nWhen a user downloads the beta version, they will be asked what accent they have - so their voice can be used to train the assistant 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 BBC Press Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut, the BBC says, no recordings will be kept - only anonymised transcripts of the few seconds after a user says the wake command, \"OK Beeb\".\n\nThe beta version can access BBC radio, music, podcasts, news and weather and respond to some queries with unique answers based on BBC programmes.\n\nNew features would be added in \"coming weeks and months\", the BBC said.\n\nIt had an \"ambitious vision\" for Beeb.\n\nBut there remained \"a long way to go\".\n\nAnd common features in other voice assistants, such as timers, for example, are not included in this first version.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is the voice assistant on your phone sexist?\n\nUK members of Microsoft's Windows Insider programme using the May 2020 Windows 10 operating system update can install it from the Windows Store if they already use a BBC account for iPlayer and Sounds, the BBC's streaming services.\n\nThe wake command can be followed by others such as:\n\n\"Ultimately we envision that Beeb will be available across a wide range of devices, including smart speakers, mobiles, televisions and many others,\" a representative said.\n\n\"This is still a very early version, which means that not everything will be working perfectly from day one, and the future Beeb assistant will be able to do a lot more.\"", "Amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there have been glimmers of hope, unifying gestures and stirring displays of solidarity.", "Digital Minister Cedric O said the app had got off to a \"very good start\"\n\nFrance's digital minister has said its coronavirus contact-tracing app has been downloaded 600,000 times since it became available on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nStopCovid France is designed to prevent a second wave of infections by using smartphone logs to warn users if they have been near someone who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBut a last-minute launch delay led some citizens to download the wrong product.\n\nEngland has yet to confirm when its own app will roll out nationwide.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had originally said it would be by 1 June, and then later suggested it would be around the middle of next week.\n\nBut the BBC has learned that it is now unlikely to be before 15 June and could be as late as the start of July.\n\nThat is in part because of delays in releasing a second version of the software to the Isle of Wight, where it is being trialled.\n\nThe update will add symptoms including the loss of taste and smell to a self-diagnosis questionnaire next week, or soon after.\n\nIt will also start giving at-risk users a code to enter into a separate website when they book a medical test. This will allow the result, saying whether they tested positive or negative, to be delivered back to them via the app.\n\nBoth the UK and France have created apps of their own based on a \"centralised\" design.\n\nBy contrast, Latvia, Italy and Switzerland have released apps based on a \"decentralised\" technology developed by Apple and Google.\n\nAdvocates of the centralised approach says it gives epidemiologists more data to analyse, helping them better target the contagion alerts. They are also not limited by rules imposed by the two tech companies, such as a ban on being able to gather location data.\n\nSupporters of the decentralised model say it better protects users' anonymity and privacy.\n\nHundreds of academics signed a letter in April raising concerns that gathered data could be repurposed for mass surveillance purposes.\n\nThere was then a row over the government's refusal to give MPs a vote on the matter, which was only resolved after ministers gave the Senate and National Assembly non-binding votes.\n\nThey both ultimately gave the app the green light. And the country's data privacy watchdog also approved the rollout after carrying out its own review, although it did ask for some changes to the app's wording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut questions remain about how many people will voluntarily install it - the more that do so, the better it should work.\n\nDigital Minister Cedric O indicated that he was pleased with the initial uptake.\n\n\"As of this morning, 600,000 people managed to download the app, so it's a very very good start,\" he told the TV channel France 2.\n\n\"We are very happy with his start, but obviously several million French people need to have it.\"\n\nHe declined to give an exact target. But he had previously said a publicity campaign would initially focus on city-dwellers - particularly those using public transport, restaurants and supermarkets at peak times - as they were among those most likely to spread Covid-19.\n\nThe French government had said the app would be released at midday on Tuesday.\n\nBut StopCovid France did not appear on Google Play until late on Tuesday afternoon, and then a few hours later on Apple's App Store.\n\nOne consequence of this was that a Catalan health information app with a similar name - Stop Covid19 CAT - was mistakenly downloaded by many in the interim, causing it to briefly top France's download charts.\n\nA Catalan Covid-19 app was mistakenly downloaded by many after a last-minute delay\n\nThe only explanation given for the delay was that last-minute \"technical adjustments\" had to be made.\n\nContact tracing apps are supposed to complement work done by humans quizzing those diagnosed with the disease. It remains unclear whether the limitations of relying on Bluetooth can be overcome to avoid capturing too many false flags.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, who heads up the government's Test and Trace programme, said little new about the app when she appeared before the House of Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, beyond saying it was a \"high priority\" to link it to medical test results.\n\nBut Prof Christophe Fraser, who advises the NHS on the project, told MPs there was a \"need for speed\". An app, he explained, could still be used to serve users amber warnings - perhaps advising them not to visit an elderly relative or a friend in a vulnerable group - while their contact awaited a result.\n\n\"The app provides the best early warning system by enabling us to record close physical contact with people we know, but also those we don't know or can't remember,\" the Oxford Big Data Institute academic told the BBC.\n\n\"Our latest analyses suggest that even at low levels of uptake, the app will have a protective effect across a localised network of contacts - if you, your friends, colleagues and family download the app, you're creating a local alert network within your community.\"\n\nBut it is still not clear whether other parts of the UK will adopt it.\n\nEarlier, Northern Ireland's chief scientific advisor told the Stormont Health Committee that he planned to focus on manual contact tracing, saying he thought the app's usefulness had been overstated.\n\n\"At best, it is an adjunct,\" Prof Ian Young said.\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann added that he had concerns that the app would be unattractive to users because of concerns about it draining battery life, and that people at the end of a phone were already proving effective.", "Water companies are urging people to use water more carefully during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are asking people to avoid hoses and sprinklers, and not to fill paddling pools.\n\nHowever, so far a full hosepipe ban has not been imposed.\n\nCompanies are responding to a double water whammy from the record dry spring and a surge in demand as people spend more time at home during the lockdown.\n\nFebruary this year was the wettest on record and you might have thought the UK had enough H2O - following a drenching winter, rivers and reservoirs were full.\n\nBut then it barely rained for three subsequent months – another record.\n\nThen came coronavirus and lockdown meant people stayed home in the sunshine.\n\nChristine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK, which represents water companies, told BBC News: “We’re seeing truly incredible surges of demand.\n\n“People's patterns of using water have changed with the weather - and more people at home because of Covid.\n\n“It's things like paddling pools and sprinklers that are the biggest challenge. So we’re just asking people to save a little bit of water and that’ll make a huge difference.”\n\nIn some places water demand is said to be 25% higher than normal. Reservoirs are still in a healthy state, but some firms can’t get enough water to the taps and pressure is dropping.\n\nMeanwhile the long-term weather forecast suggests more dry summer months to come.\n\nFarmers are fearing potential drought. In fact, experts say, consumers, industries, water firms and the farmers themselves need to find ways of living with less water as the climate changes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Becky\" - a contract tracer in England - speaks to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire\n\nA contact tracer working on the NHS Test and Trace coronavirus scheme says she has not been asked to speak to anyone since beginning work last week.\n\nThe clinician told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she had worked 38 hours but had yet to make a single phone call and spent the time watching Netflix.\n\n\"It's frustrating to know that I'm sat idle when there's people that need contacting,\" they said.\n\nThe government said this does not reflect the amount of work under way.\n\n\"Becky\" spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, and said she has watched nearly three series of comedy The Good Place, despite being available to help isolate people.\n\n\"I'm yet to make a single phone call or be assigned a case,\" the nurse said.\n\n\"I've had no contact from anyone. I've had no contact from supervisors. I've literally been on the system, refreshed the system, and entertained myself during that watching Netflix.\n\n\"I've just watched it alongside going back to the system, refreshing it, occasionally having to log back in because it's timed out. I have yet to have contact with anybody regarding contact tracing.\"\n\nIt came as Channel 4 News reported data showing 4,456 confirmed Covid-19 cases were reported to the Test and Trace scheme between 28 May, when it launched, and 31 May.\n\nThe data - described by the government as \"outdated\" - showed those confirmed cases passed on 4,634 contacts, but Channel 4 reported just 1,749 of these have been contacted by tracers.\n\nLatest daily figures showed 1,613 people tested positive for coronavirus up to 09:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"Becky\" told Victoria Derbyshire there seemed to be a lack of work for contact tracers\n\nAnthony Costello is a professor of global health at University College London who formerly worked at the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nHe told Victoria Derbyshire the Test and Trace system was unlikely to be picking up more than 30% of coronavirus cases and may be missing at least two-thirds of contacts.\n\n\"That's why your nurse has not had any calls. It is not fit for purpose yet. The worrying thing is can it ever be fit for purpose? Why was it set up like this? You need speed and you need trust,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the system should instead revolve around local GPs and that the current system risked giving people a false sense of security.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Boris Johnson pledged a new 24-hour target for test results, except for tests delivered by post.\n\nThe pledge followed comments by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt who said the quick turnaround of test results was crucial for the Test and Trace scheme to be effective.\n\nThe NHS Test and Trace scheme in England is intended to map a person's networks and close contacts once they have received a positive coronavirus diagnosis.\n\nIt is being run in part by the private outsourcing company Serco and is led by the chair of NHS Improvement and former TalkTalk chief executive Baroness Dido Harding.\n\nOne NHS job advert for a clinical contact tracer stated the role paid up to £27.15 per hour and described suitable applicants as nurses, dentists or vets, among others.\n\nOther non-clinical and administrative roles on the scheme are reportedly paid less than £10 per hour.\n\nBecky - who said nursing was a vocation - described her experience with Test and Trace as \"frustrating\".\n\n\"I think it's appalling, I think it's dishonest,\" she said.\n\n\"We're trying to build a very large system that's trying to keep people in England safe and try and prevent a second spike.\n\n\"I understand it's complex and I understand there's going to be challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\n\"It's not ready yet. Hold fire. The released aspects of lockdown - which without track and trace - are not safe to do so,\" Becky added.\n\n\"Not having a system up and running is obviously frustrating but it's about people's lives.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The new NHS Test and Trace service is up and running and will help save lives. These claims do not reflect the huge amount of work already under way.\n\n\"Anyone in this country can book a test and we have over 25,000 contact tracers in place to undertake this vital work.\n\n\"All staff have been trained and are fully supported in their work following procedures designed by public health experts.\"\n\nHave you been hired as a contact tracer? Are you among those who have been traced? 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:", "Nikoleta Zdun, 18, and Aneta Zdun, 40, died at a home in Wessex Road on Monday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife and daughter.\n\nAneta Zdun, 40, and Nikoleta Zdun, 18, died at a house in Wessex Road, Salisbury, on Monday afternoon.\n\nMarcin Zdun, 39, of Wessex Road, is due to appear before Winchester Crown Court on 5 June, following the hearing at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court.\n\nAneta worked for Wessex Care, which described her as a \"warm, kind individual\" and a \"well-loved and well-known\" member of its team.\n\nPolice were called to the house at 14:45 BST on Monday, by neighbours who described hearing loud screams and helped detain a man near the scene.\n\nOfficers went to the property and found the body of one of the women.\n\nThe other woman was found seriously injured and died a short time later at the scene.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nSalisbury-based Wessex Care, which provides community and residential care, said in a statement that it was with \"great sadness and shock that we have lost a member of the Wessex Care family and also her beloved eldest daughter\".\n\n\"Those of you who knew Aneta personally and professionally will know what a warm, kind and caring individual she was.\n\n\"She cared immensely for many vulnerable people throughout her career as a physiotherapist and healthcare assistant. She will be greatly missed and mourned by all who knew her.\n\n\"You'll be forever in our thoughts Aneta and thank you for the care and dedication you provided.\"\n\nNeighbours said the house was lived in by a supermarket worker and his family.\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren Hannant from Wiltshire Police said there was likely to be \"a significant police presence\" in the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people dying each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in the UK since March, figures show.\n\nThe review of death certificates by national statisticians showed 2,872 cases where the virus was mentioned in the week ending 22 May.\n\nOverall there were 13,800 deaths in that week - 2,500 more than normal at this time of the year.\n\nAt the peak of the pandemic double the number were dying than expected.\n\nOverall, there have been 190,000 deaths during the pandemic - nearly 62,000 above what would be expected.\n\nThis is known as the excess death rate and is said to be the best guide to the impact of the virus as it takes into account deaths linked to infections and indirect deaths that maybe related to the lockdown from factors such as lack of access to care for other conditions and mental health problems.\n\nSome 48,000 of the deaths have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nLatest government figures report that 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n\nNick Stripe, of the Office for National Statistics, which compiles the data for England and Wales, said despite the number of overall deaths falling, we were effectively seeing the same number of deaths we would expect to see in winter.\n\nHe also said there were considerable regional variations with the north east currently seeing the highest rates of excess deaths.\n\nDr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive at the Health Foundation think tank, said the reduction in deaths was positive, but the figures were still a \"sobering reminder\" of the impact the virus has had.\n\n\"The UK is now among the worst hit countries in terms of excess mortality and we will need to be forensic in searching for the reasons we have been so badly affected.\n\n\"This data underlines just how dangerous a threat the virus remains unless it is fully contained and further outbreaks can be stopped. Having a fully functioning test and trace system will be critical, as will the willingness and ability of the public to maintain recommended levels of social distancing.\n\n\"Without these, there are real risks of more avoidable deaths.\"", "Videos on social media show hundreds of people drinking and dancing on Gifford Road\n\nA street party involving 500 revellers breaking lockdown rules in north-west London was broken up police in the early hours.\n\nVideos on social media show hundreds of people gathering in Harlesden, despite Covid-19 social distancing rules.\n\nThe Met Police said five people had been arrested at the event involving 500 people on the Church Road Estate, which began on Tuesday night.\n\nResidents said the party continued into the early hours.\n\nClive McBride, who lives nearby, said the last police van left the area at about 04:00 BST.\n\nThe last police van left the area at 04:00 on Wednesday\n\n\"People are dying of Covid-19, millions are in lockdown, the NHS risking their lives everyday, and what do Harlesden youth do? Throw block party after block party,\" he added.\n\nMr McBride said many people were dancing and drinking in close proximity to one another and at one point, fireworks were set off at the party.\n\nThe Met said 11 of its officers were assaulted and received minor injuries when a small minority of party-goers refused to leave.\n\n\"Five arrests were made - three for assault on police, one for affray and one for attempted grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving. All remain in custody,\" police said.\n\nPeople took to Twitter to complain about the rule breaking.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Brent has the most coronavirus cases in London. Here's Harlesden having a huge block party.\"\n\nUser Taelaa Anne added: \"If you don't care about yourself good for you but at least think about your parents.\"\n\nFive people were arrested after the lockdown breach\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"To the very small minority who chose to break the law last night and who were not from the local area, I am clear; you do not reflect the communities of Brent and we will take appropriate action.\n\n\"Local residents should be reassured we will be increasing our patrols in the area following the incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clash on the government's steps to ease the lockdown\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of ignoring an offer to help build public support for getting children back to school.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said he wrote to the PM privately two weeks ago but had not received a reply.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"took the trouble to ring\" the Labour leader to brief him on lockdown easing measures.\n\nHe said Sir Keir's \"endless attacks\" on the government were undermining \"public trust and confidence\".\n\nDowning Street said the two men had spoken on 28 May in a conference call with other opposition leaders.\n\nLabour sources said the call was for the PM to brief opposition leaders on what the government intended to do - and Sir Keir had not had a one-to-one conversation with Mr Johnson since the end of April.\n\nSir Keir used PMQs to highlight what he said was a big fall in public confidence in the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, at a time when that support was needed most to ease the country out of lockdown.\n\nFrom Monday, more than two million primary pupils in England were invited back to school, but heads reported \"highly variable\" levels of attendance, ranging from 40% to 70%.\n\nThe Labour leader told the PM: \"I have supported the government openly and I've taken criticism for it, but, boy, he makes it difficult to support this government over the last two weeks.\"\n\nMr Johnson accused Sir Keir of going back on his promise to work constructively with the government.\n\nBut Sir Keir said he had offered to help build consensus for the reopening of schools, in a letter, dated Monday 18 May, which the Labour Party has now published.\n\nBoris Johnson said he was surprised at the Labour leader's 'tone'\n\nIn it, Sir Keir tells the PM he supported the government's \"gradual easing\" of lockdown but remained concerned about elements \"including transparency, pace and having an effective test, track and trace system\" and \"the wholly unjustified attacks that have been made on teachers\".\n\nThe Labour leader tells the PM he supports the opening of schools \"as soon as is feasibly possible\".\n\nBut he adds: \"I am sure as prime minister you will share my concern that without a stronger consensus of professionals and parents behind the wider opening of schools, some parents will choose not to comply and the issue will become even more socially divisive.\"\n\nSir Keir offered to meet Mr Johnson, along with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey to discuss how a \"consensus can be achieved in the shortest possible timeframe\" to get children back to school.\n\nAt PMQs, he said he had not received a reply to the letter.\n\nThe prime minister said he was surprised Sir Keir \"should take that tone\", because he had spoken to him by phone - and the Labour leader had \"endorsed\" the steps the government was taking.\n\n\"I think that he's on firmer ground when he stands with the overwhelming majority of the British people who understand the very, very difficult circumstances that we are in,\" he told Sir Keir.\n\nSir Keir called for an exit strategy from the government at a time when some of his own MPs - and certainly grassroots members - wanted to see him clash with No 10 more robustly on issues of the day.\n\nHe now feels vindicated as he believes the lack of a strategy - \"an exit without a strategy\", as he puts it - is becoming apparent.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nBut it is true that his tone towards Boris Johnson himself is hardening.\n\nThe Labour leader also asked at PMQs about the \"promise\" Mr Johnson made about having a \"world beating\" test, track and trace operation to be in place by 1 June, saying it was weeks away from being fully up and running.\n\nMr Johnson accused the Labour leader of \"casting aspersions on the efforts of tens of thousands of people who set it up from a standing start\".\n\nThe Labour leader also criticised what he said was the government's lack of transparency over the decision to ease the lockdown in England, asking the prime minister what the current Covid-19 alert level and R infection level was.\n\nMr Johnson slapped the despatch box as he replied: \"He knows perfectly well that the alert level does allow it and he didn't raise that issue with me when we had a conversation on the telephone.\"\n\nHe said the alert level remained at four - but the government's five tests for easing the lockdown had been fulfilled.\n\n\"The question for him is whether he actually supports the progress we're making, because at the weekend he was backing it and now he is doing a U-turn, now he seems to be against the steps this country is taking,\" added the PM.\n\nSir Keir also criticised Mr Johnson's use of statistics, after the UK Statistics Authority said it had fallen \"well short of expectations\"., saying it was undermining trust.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I really do not see the purpose in his endless attacks on public trust and confidence.\"", "Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career'\n\nThe use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says.\n\nECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nDr John Read, of the University of East London said there was \"no place\" for ECT in evidence-based medicine due to risks of brain damage.\n\nBut the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT offers \"life-saving treatment\" and should continue in severe cases.\n\nAt least 1,600 patients were given ECT in the UK and Ireland in 2017, according to psychiatrists.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends the use of ECT for some cases of moderate or severe depression as well as catatonia and mania.\n\nHowever, peer-reviewed research published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry concludes \"the high risk of permanent memory loss and the small mortality risk means that its use should be immediately suspended\".\n\nNICE says their guidance for ECT was last reviewed in 2014 but it would look at it again if new evidence was likely to affect their recommendations.\n\nThe study's lead author, Dr Read, a professor of clinical psychology, describes previous research justifying the use of ECT in the UK and around the world as \"the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career\".\n\nThe paper concedes that \"the severity and significance of the brain damage and memory loss (following ECT) is rarely studied\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A mum of two talks about having electric shock therapy while pregnant\n\nHowever, the researchers go on to say \"it is not hard to find hundreds of personal accounts of debilitating levels of disruption to people's lives\".\n\nIn 2018, a class action case was settled in the US after a federal court ruled that a reasonable jury could find against manufacturers of ECT equipment if they failed to warn of the dangers of brain damage.\n\nOne manufacturer, Somatics, immediately added \"permanent brain damage\" to the list of risks from the treatment.\n\nThe research criticises a British review of the evidence conducted in 2003 for ignoring the lack of data.\n\nCoronation Street actor Beverley Callard has spoken of how she underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat her clinical depression\n\nThe UK ECT Review Group \"fails to acknowledge any of these major problems and unquestioningly included the strong finding in favour of ECT\", it says.\n\nThe article argues the quality of previous studies into ECT is so poor, they \"were wrong to conclude anything about efficacy, either during or beyond the treatment period\".\n\n\"There is no evidence that ECT is effective for its target demographic—older women, or its target diagnostic group—severely depressed people, or for suicidal people, people who have unsuccessfully tried other treatments first, involuntary patients, or children and adolescent\", it says.\n\nThe paper suggests the placebo effect may explain why some patients say they find ECT helpful.\n\nThe study's joint author, Prof Irving Kirsch, an expert on placebo effects based at Harvard Medical School, says \"the failure to find any meaningful benefits in long-term benefits compared to placebo groups are particularly distressing.\n\n\"On the basis of the clinical trial data, ECT should not be used for depressed individuals.\"\n\nIn response to the study, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT should not be suspended for \"some forms of severe mental illness\".\n\nDr Rupert McShane, chair of the college's Committee on ECT and Related Treatments, said there was evidence showing \"most people who receive ECT see an improvement in their condition\".\n\n\"For many, it can be a life-saving treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"As with all treatments for serious medical conditions - from cancer to heart disease - there can be side-effects of differing severity, including memory loss.\"", "Boris Johnson's \"mismanagement\" of the easing of virus restrictions risks a second wave of infections, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned.\n\nIn a Guardian interview, he urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public confidence in ministers' handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut No 10 said it was proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery.\n\nIt comes as the government is to outline further details of its quarantine plans later.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel is to tell MPs that the proposals - which have been met with criticism from many Conservative MPs - are necessary to avoid the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, the majority of those arriving in the UK will be told to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nBut Portugal's foreign minister has told the BBC that his government is talking to Home Office officials about a so-called \"air bridge\" agreement so that tourists returning from his country can avoid the restrictions.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said he hopes people will be able to go on holiday this year but cautioned \"I'm not going to say a particular date on when that might happen\".\n\n\"We will have to be guided by how the disease behaves, controlling any risk of a second wave and controlling the disease,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIn the Guardian, the Labour leader also said there was a growing concern that Mr Johnson was now \"winging it\" over moves to reopen schools and relax shielding advice.\n\nEchoing Sir Keir's criticism of the government, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have seen an exit from the lockdown with no strategy to make it work.\"\n\nThe Labour MP said the easing of lockdown restrictions was \"the time of maximum danger\" and that the party was calling for an \"effective\" test, trace and isolate strategy, \"fast access to testing\" and \"clear\" public messaging.\n\nIn one of his first acts as Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer announced he would not indulge in opposition for opposition's sake.\n\nThis was seen as a decisive break from his own party's recent past.\n\nBut now he wants to create more distance between the government and the opposition.\n\nSome say they have noted a more hostile, less consensual tone towards Boris Johnson from Sir Keir.\n\nBut, in truth, Sir Keir's stated policy of \"constructive criticism\" has already tended to emphasise the latter of those two words at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAnd his approach today has much in common with his approach before - to put down a marker in case things go wrong.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt has stressed the importance of a \"functioning\" test and trace system, which he suggested could be used in place of quarantine measures.\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Mr Hunt highlighted comments by Professor John Newton, the national testing co-ordinator, who said contact tracing for travellers arriving in the UK could be used instead of quarantine rules.\n\n\"If you know that you are going to track down anyone that comes from abroad and isolate them really quickly, then you don't need to have a blanket quarantine measure that stops people going on holiday or doing business trips,\" Mr Hunt, the chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, said.\n\nUnder the quarantine rules, passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days\n\nHe added that turning around coronavirus test results within 24 hours was \"absolutely essential\" for an effective test and trace system.\n\nHe express concerned over the time it is taking for tests results to come back, following Sage - the group of scientists advising government - documents that said keeping the R number below one would require 80% of contacts to be found within 48 hours.\n\n\"If the test results themselves take 48 hours to come back, that is going to be impossible,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said while Labour wanted to see society re-open and businesses begin to get back on their feet, he had deep misgivings about the approach in England, compared with that in Wales and Scotland.\n\nHe said children had returned to schools before the system for identifying new cases and tracing their contacts was fully up and running.\n\nHe also complained that public health officials had been given no notice of the changes to shielding advice for the most vulnerable - which was announced a month before a review had been due to take place.\n\n\"After a week or more of mismanagement, I'm deeply concerned the government has made a difficult situation 10 times worse,\" he said. \"We've called for an exit strategy. What we appear to have got is an exit without a strategy.\"\n\nHe warned that trust in the government had been \"burnt\" at a crucial time by the controversy surrounding the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings and whether he broke the lockdown rules.\n\n\"Like many people across the country, there is a growing concern the government is now winging it,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"At precisely the time when there should have been maximum trust in the government, confidence has collapsed.\n\n\"I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government's handling of the epidemic.\n\n\"If we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate, or a swathe of local lockdowns, responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said its focus was on \"helping the country recover safely from coronavirus and restoring the livelihoods of millions of people across the country\".\n\n\"Now is the time to look to the future and not the past, as we continue to fight this virus while taking cautious steps to ease restrictions. The PM looks forward to hearing any concrete proposals Labour has to offer.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the PM has established two new cabinet committees to support the next phase of the Covid response - one overseeing the strategy for the recovery and the other the delivery of policy.", "The document plans for a massive expansion in offshore wind\n\nGreenpeace has joined a growing list of organisations demanding that the UK government puts protecting the environment at the heart of any post-Covid-19 economic stimulus package.\n\nThe campaign group has produced a detailed \"manifesto\" with measures to boost clean transport and smart power.\n\nThe document follows a comparable call from some of Britain's most powerful business leaders earlier this week.\n\nLast week, the prime minister also expressed a similar ambition.\n\nBoris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"fairer, greener and more resilient global economy\" after Covid-19 and that \"we owe it to future generations to build back better\".\n\nThe manifesto also contains measures to support the protection of nature, green buildings and the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused.\n\nGreenpeace says the crisis has given Britain a \"once in a lifetime\" opportunity to transform life, travel and work.\n\nIt added that the plan would create hundreds of thousands of secure jobs.\n\nOn Monday, more than 200 chief executives of some of the UK's top firms - including HSBC, National Grid, and Heathrow airport - signed a letter to the prime minister asking him to use the Covid-19 lockdown as a springboard to \"deliver a clean, just recovery\".\n\nMany people may be surprised how similar the recommendations of these two very different interest groups are.\n\nGreenpeace's manifesto is, however, considerably more detailed.\n\nIt is a 62-page document with specific policy, spending and tax measures covering most of the British economy.\n\nIt calls on the government to deliver its 2050 net zero emissions goal before 2045.\n\nThe manifesto contains measures to encourage clean transport\n\nMany voters say they support tackling climate change when polled.\n\nHowever, lots of the policies Greenpeace proposes would prove very controversial.\n\nFor example, motorists say they are ready to change their behaviour to improve air quality, according to a recent AA survey.\n\nBut many drivers may balk at Greenpeace's proposals to radically redesign the road network to favour walking and cycling, at the suggestion that petrol and diesel cars are banned by 2030 or that fuel duty is steadily increased.\n\nMany homeowners might be reluctant to spend money to upgrade their properties to meet tough energy efficiency standards.\n\nAt the same time, many local communities are likely to resist the plan for a big increase in onshore wind and solar power to complement a proposed massive expansion of offshore wind farms - few things unite local communities like a proposal to put in an array of wind turbines.\n\nThe manifesto proposes the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused\n\nBut, says Greenpeace, tough policies like these are essential if the government is going to take meaningful action to tackle climate change.\n\n\"The choices our government makes now will define… whether or not we succeed in the fight against the climate emergency\", says John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace.\n\n\"If we fail to get this right, we may never get another chance. Now is the time for a green recovery, and for that we need action not words.\"\n\nIt says there would be huge dividends in terms of job creation, should its programme be adopted.\n\nGreenpeace calculates that its plans would create hundreds of thousands of new high-skilled jobs as well as helping to level up inequalities between communities in the UK.\n\nThe UK government has already indicated that protecting the environment will feature heavily in any stimulus package.\n\nBack in April, Boris Johnson said a post-Covid-19 recovery plans should include efforts to \"turn the tide on climate change\".\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union has unveiled what it called the biggest \"green\" stimulus in history.\n\nLast week, it said it planned to commit a whopping €750bn (£667bn; $841bn) to its recovery package.\n\nAdd in spending from future budgets and the total financial firepower the European Commission says it will be wielding is almost €2tn (£1.8tn; $2.2tn).\n\nFighting climate change is at the heart of the bloc's recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThere will be tens of billions of euros to make homes more energy efficient, to de-carbonise electricity and phase out petrol and diesel vehicles.\n\nThe idea is to turbo-charge the European effort to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"If we do not do it, we will be taking much more risk,\" Teresa Ribera, deputy prime minister of Spain, told the BBC.\n\n\"The recovery should be green or it will not be a recovery, it will just be a shortcut into the kind of problems we are facing right now.\"", "The White House press secretary has likened President Donald Trump's \"resilience and determination\" during the #GeorgeFloyd protests to Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage during World War Two.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have joined a protest in London over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody nine days ago.\n\nIt comes as UK chief constables said they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by his death.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the right to lawful protest was a \"key part of any democracy\".\n\nBut they stressed coronavirus restrictions, including not gathering in groups of more than six, remained.\n\nProtests began in the US after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Boyega gives emotional protest speech: \"Black men, it starts with you\"\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that Mr Floyd's death had been \"appalling\" and \"inexcusable\", but was criticised for failing to comment on the killing before now.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the UK government had \"shuttered itself in the hope no-one would notice\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to convey to US President Donald Trump the UK's \"abhorrence about his response to the events\".\n\nSpeaking later when asked about it at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"My message to President Trump, to everybody in the United States from the UK is that… racism, racist violence has no place in our society.\"\n\nHe said people had the right to protest but \"I would urge people to protest peacefully, and in accordance with the rules on social distancing\".\n\nProtesters in Hyde Park chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"we will not be silent\"\n\nThousands of people marched through Westminster in central London\n\nDemonstrators gathered in London's Hyde Park for the protest organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter, before marching south through the city.\n\nIt followed days of protests in US cities including Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Seattle, after the Floyd case reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism.\n\nTens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets there - not only to express their outrage at the treatment of Mr Floyd - but to condemn police brutality against black Americans more widely.\n\nIn the UK protesters marched to Victoria Station, where they hung a sign reading \"Justice for Belly Mujinga\" - referring to a railway worker who died with Covid-19. Initially it was thought this may have been because she was spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus. However, police concluded that her death was not linked to the attack.\n\nThe protestors then continued towards Westminster, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament.\n\nA number of videos shared on social media showed protesters and police clashing outside Downing Street.\n\nFootage showed objects, including signs and a traffic cone, being thrown at police, while one protester was wrestled to the ground and restrained by officers.\n\nSome protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street\n\nThere was anger in the crowd, as they sat, as they listened to speeches, as they took the knee.\n\nThis is yet another generation who have painted placards and taken to the streets to march against racism.\n\nAs they started to fill Hyde Park, organisers shouted at them to spread out their arms to maintain the two-metre social distancing rule. But so many gathered, it became impossible.\n\nFriends and families together, different ages, different races.\n\nAt the start, organisers told me they were expecting about 1,000 people. But the protesters came out in their thousands.\n\nThey chanted \"Black Lives Matter\", they shouted \"say his name\". They said the \"UK is not different\" when it comes to racism. They want change.\n\nEarlier, Star Wars actor John Boyega made an emotional speech to fellow protesters in which he said the crowds were \"a physical representation of our support\" for Mr Floyd along with two other black Americans who controversially died in the US, and Stephen Lawrence who was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.\n\nHe said he was speaking from his heart and did not know whether he would still have a career after speaking out.\n\n\"Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process - we don't know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don't know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we're going to make sure that won't be an alien thought to our young ones,\" he said.\n\n\"I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing.\"\n\nThe crowds marched from Hyde Park towards Victoria station\n\nProtesters in Whitehall took the knee to show solidarity with George Floyd\n\nFirefighters in uniform knelt in Windrush Square, Brixton, in south London\n\nPolice clashes with protestors on Downing St carried on into the evening\n\nOne activist attending the protest, Brogan Baptiste, told the BBC: \"It's imperative that all of us, whether you're black, white, that you're involved in this because we need change and we need it now.\"\n\nFilippa, a 20-year-old student who also joined the protest, said: \"I know that I'm healthy. So this felt more important than to stay inside when I have the opportunity.\"\n\nProtests also took place in other UK cities, including Belfast and Northampton.\n\nIn their joint statement, the National Police Chiefs Council said: \"We stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life. Justice and accountability should follow.\"\n\nThey said officers in the UK were \"trained to use force proportionately, lawfully and only when absolutely necessary\".\n\nHowever, they added: \"We strive to continuously learn and improve. We will tackle bias, racism or discrimination wherever we find it.\"\n\nThousands of protesters gathered in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday\n\nThey said UK police \"uphold and facilitate\" the right to lawful protest and \"we know people want to make their voices heard\".\n\nBut amid the coronavirus pandemic they stressed restrictions on gatherings were still in place and urged people to \"continue to work with officers at this challenging time.\"\n\nThis latest protest follows another on Sunday, which saw thousands gather in Trafalgar Square, in central London.\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe Labour leader has accused Boris Johnson of \"winging it\" over steps to ease lockdown in England. Speaking to the Guardian, Sir Keir Starmer urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public trust. No 10 insists it is proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery. The two men will face each other at Prime Minister's Questions later. Although daily deaths in the UK have decreased, the downwards trend appears to have stalled in recent days. Here we look closely at the risks around lifting lockdown.\n\nWe'll get more details from the home secretary on plans to introduce 14-day quarantine for most arrivals into the UK. The policy is deeply unpopular in some quarters, but ministers are insisting it's necessary. Portugal's foreign minister, meanwhile, has told the BBC anyone from the UK thinking of going to his country this summer would be \"most welcome\". Read more on the quarantine rules.\n\nPortugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva is optimistic about the prospect of an \"air bridge\" with the UK\n\nUniversity leaders have been setting out ways their institutions could operate when the new academic year begins in the autumn. They suggest students might have to live and study in the same small group - the sort of \"bubbles\" being used in schools - and enjoy, if that's the right word, a virtual freshers' week.\n\nLectures might have to shift from lecture halls to online lessons\n\nA team of scientists from London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital and King's College have begun a study to see if the everyday anti-inflammatory and painkiller ibuprofen could provide a low-cost treatment for coronavirus. The hope is that it can keep patients off ventilators. Read more on work being done all over the world to find new drugs to fight the virus.\n\nRather than lamenting the loss of a packed calendar, some people have found that the quieter, slower life imposed by the coronavirus lockdown offered a much-needed break. Others, like four-year-old Zachary - who has Down's syndrome - appear to be thriving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one four-year-old has thrived in coronavirus lockdown\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, after Public Health England says people from ethnic minorities are more likely to die after contracting coronavirus, the BBC's Ashitha Nagesh takes a closer look at the issue.\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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Officers were called to Energen Close in Harlesden\n\nA two-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hurt in a shooting in Harlesden, north west London, police have said.\n\nThe lone gunman is thought to have fled on a motorbike after firing at two men, a mother and her child in Energen Close just before 21:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe three adults are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rick Sewart said the child had been the victim of \"wanton indiscriminate violence\".\n\nHe added: \"As result of this terrible crime an innocent two-year-old boy is now seriously ill in hospital.\n\n\"I know that people will be shocked and horrified that a little boy should be the victim of a gunman and I need the community to show their support for him and his family, by telling police what they know.\"\n\nPolice said specialist gang officers were helping with the investigation\n\nPolice believe the suspect was holding a hand gun and he approached the victims in the street.\n\nThe child suffered his gunshot injury while sitting in a car.\n\nThe three adults, aged in their late teens and late 20s, are said to have known one another.\n\nAn witness, who did not want to be named, said she was watching TV when she heard screaming from outside before \"everyone came out of their houses\".\n\nThe neighbour, who has lived in Energen Close for 10 years, said the mother was screaming after her son was shot.\n\nSpecialist detectives are continuing to investigate and the Met said no arrests have been made.\n\nForensic officers are continuing to examine the scene\n\nThe Met's North West Borough Cmdr Roy Smith said extra patrols of armed police officers will be carried out to reassure the public.\n\nHe said: \"I know that residents will be worried about their safety and the safety of their families.\n\n\"This is my primary concern and local officers will be conducting additional patrols to provide support and a visible reassurance.\"\n\nOvernight a Section 60 order was in place for the borough of Brent until 07:00, and a dispersal zone has been authorised for the Harlesden area, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of the Test and Trace programme has been challenged over the risks of false negative coronavirus results by a committee of MPs.\n\nDido Harding was asked at the health select committee why people are not repeatedly tested to ensure they do not have coronavirus.\n\nMPs heard 20% of positive cases may be missed by the test.\n\nEarlier Boris Johnson told the Commons tests would be processed within 24 hours by the end of June.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Hunt, the PM said the 24-hour target would need to take into account \"insuperable problems\" such as postal delays.\n\nHe said \"I can undertake to him now to get all tests turned around in 24 hours by the end of June, except for difficulties with postal tests or insuperable problems like that.\"\n\nThe tests involve a nose and throat swab which is then used to look for the virus's genetic material. It detects active coronavirus infection, so cannot say if someone has recovered from Covid-19.\n\nTesting positive should allow contacts to be traced, and determine whether NHS staff can go back to work.\n\nBut the swab tests carried out can deliver false negative results - suggesting someone does not have coronavirus when they are actually positive.\n\nThat could be because of the quality of the swab, the timing of the test or issues in the lab.\n\nDuring the select committee hearing Mr Hunt cited evidence from the University of Bristol as suggesting 20% of positive cases could falsely appear as negative, wrongly telling someone they are not infected.\n\nBaroness Harding said she understood estimates of the proportion of false negative results ranged between \"two and 20-odd per cent\".\n\nShe added that the issue of why those with a negative result were not re-tested was \"a medical\" question for the scientists, and it was her job \"to take Sage and chief medical officers' guidance\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The test is reliable and effective. Like any diagnostic test however, there is always the small possibility of a false negative or a false positive result.\"\n\nThe Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), which represents hospital doctors, had earlier called for NHS staff to be tested more than once.\n\nDr Claudia Paoloni, the union's president, said relying on a single negative result risked \"infecting patients and staff\".\n\nProf Nicola Stonehouse, a virologist at the University of Leeds, said people needed to be aware that one test wasn't \"good enough\".\n\nIt's necessary to have multiple tests, she said, and they needed to be separated by 72 hours.\n\nCurrently, a negative test clears people to return to work provided they don't have symptoms, and means contact tracing isn't triggered.\n\nGP, and diagnostic tests researcher, Dr Jessica Watson told BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme the \"best guess\" was about 70 in every 100 people who have coronavirus would be picked up by the testing programme.\n\nTesting and tracing is clearly going to be crucial in allowing the UK to get back to some level of normality.\n\nFor it to work successfully, two basic things are needed above all else.\n\nPeople need to trust it and it needs to work effectively. The two are, of course, interlinked.\n\nAnd, unfortunately, on both counts the jury is out.\n\nThe service - as Baroness Harding points out - is only six days old.\n\nIt deserves to be given a little time to bed in.\n\nBut pretty quickly the public will need to be given information about how it is working and whether people are complying with the requests to isolate.\n\nThis is something officials are reluctant to do at the moment until they have properly validated the numbers - understandable given the UK Statistics Authority has already criticised the way testing numbers have been presented.\n\nIt also needs people to come forward for testing. Surveys suggest there are around 8,000 new infections a day in the community, but the testing system is picking up less than 2,000 of them - and that includes those diagnosed in care homes and hospitals.\n\nIf enough people are not coming forward for a test in the first place, tracing contacts and containing future outbreaks is bound to fail.\n\nFactors affecting the outcome include at what point in their illness someone is tested, how good a sample is taken, along with any problems with processing tests, she said.\n\nPublic Health England is expected to publish an evaluation of its tests, used for hospital patients and some staff, this week.", "\"He might not make it tonight. Things are suddenly looking very bad,\" Dr Saswati Sinha told a patient's wife on the phone as she drove back to her hospital through the deserted streets of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).\n\nIt was the night of 11 April. India was in the throes of a harsh lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.\n\nThe patient, Nitaidas Mukherjee, had been battling Covid-19 for nearly two weeks at the city's AMRI Hospital, where Dr Sinha worked as a critical care consultant.\n\nRavaged by the virus, the 52-year-old social worker, who ran a non-profit rescuing the homeless and destitute, was hooked to a ventilator and battling for his life in critical care.\n\nOn the evening of 30 March, he had arrived at the hospital, running a high fever and gasping for breath.\n\nHis X-rays looked \"terrible\" - bone white lungs swamped by inflamed cells. The air sacs were filled with fluid, impeding the flow of oxygen to the organs. (Fluid looks white on x-rays.)\n\nThat night, doctors used a high-flow mask to boost his oxygen levels, gave him his diabetes medicine, and took a throat swab for a Covid-19 test.\n\nBy next evening, Mr Mukherjee had reported positive.\n\nNow, he was so short of breath that going off oxygen for even a sip of water had become difficult. Normal oxygen saturation for most people is between 94% and 100%, but his had dipped to 83%. Ten to 20 breaths per minute is normal, but Mr Mukherjee was breathing more than 50 times a minute.\n\nThat was when he was sedated and put on a ventilator. It would be more than three weeks before he woke next, and even longer before he would finally be unhooked from the machine saving his life.\n\nNot many critically ill Covid-19 patients have been as fortunate as Mr Mukherjee. About a quarter of patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe in New York died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study showed. A British study found two-thirds of Covid-19 patients put on ventilators ended up dying.\n\nThere have also been reports of ventilators not working very well on Covid-19 patients.\n\n\"In some cases they have found terrible results with mechanical ventilation. There may be lung damage if the ventilation is suboptimal - especially when people were thinking that respiratory failure is always linked to ARDS or acute respiratory distress syndrome,\" Jean-Louis Vincent, professor of intensive care medicine at Belgium's Erasme Univ Hospital, told me.\n\nWhile Mr Mukherjee was on the ventilator, he was also on muscle relaxants - drugs that paralyse the muscles so that the patient doesn't try to breathe on his own.\n\nOn a sticky April night, things had taken a turn for the worse.\n\nHis fever spiked, heart rate dipped and blood pressure plummeted. All this pointed to a nasty, new infection.\n\nThere was no time to lose: on the way back to the hospital, Dr Sinha barked out instructions on the phone to her team in critical care.\n\nWhen she arrived, the battle to save Mr Mukherjee again was already on.\n\nDr Saswati Sinha says the battle to save Mr Mukherjee was a gruelling experience\n\nDr Sinha and her team infused potent \"last resort\" antibiotics to kill the infection directly into his blood vessels, along with additional muscle relaxants and medicines to stabilise the blood pressure.\n\nIt took three hours for the storm to pass.\n\n\"This was the most draining experience of my life,\" Dr Sinha, who has spent 16 of her 21 years as a physician as an intensive care consultant, told me.\n\n\"We needed to work fast and put the lines in. That takes a lot of precision. We were sweating profusely in our protective gear [zipped gowns, double gloves, foot protection, goggles, face shield] and our vision was clouding over. Four of us worked nonstop for three hours that night,\" she said.\n\n\"We were looking at the monitors every minute and checking whether he was making progress. I was telling myself, we want this man to survive. He's not terminally ill. He was the only Covid-19 patient in intensive care then.\"\n\nWhen Mr Mukherjee stabilised, it was 02:00 local time. Dr Sinha checked her phone.\n\nThere were 15 missed calls from Mr Mukherjee's wife and sister-in-law, a respiratory diseases researcher who lived in New Jersey.\n\n\"It was the most terrifying night of my life. I thought I had lost my husband,\" Aparajita Mukherjee, a human resources manager, told me.\n\nShe was at home, locked down and quarantined, along with her bed-ridden mother-in-law, 80. and a partially disabled aunt, none of whom tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nA potentially cataclysmic crash had been averted, but Mr Mukherjee's condition remained unstable and serious.\n\nMs Sinha's phone is full of pictures of her exhausted staff who treated Mr Mukherjee\n\nMr Mukherjee is heavy, and heavier patients are more difficult and tricky to turn, or prone, in order to relieve their breathing. Doctors gave him hydroxychloroquine, a drug normally used to treat malaria, along with vitamins, antibiotics and sedatives. The fever remained high and stubborn.\n\nThere would be alarms going off in the ICU every other night at Mr Mukherjee's bed. Sometimes the oxygen saturation would dip. X-rays on a portable machine showed the \"whiteout\" in the lungs remained.\n\n\"There was very little progress and whenever there was some, it was slow,\" says Dr Sinha.\n\nFinally, a month after his admission, Dr Mukherjee showed signs of beating the infection.\n\nHe was woken up from his medically induced coma. It was a Sunday. When his wife and his sister-in-law made video calls to him, he just gazed at the glowing phone screen.\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on. It was a blur. I saw a woman in a blue apron standing in front of me, whom I later found out was my doctor,\" Mr Mukherjee told me.\n\n\"You know, I was fast asleep for more than three weeks. I had no idea why I lying in a hospital. It was a memory wipe out.\n\n\"But I remember something. I think I hallucinated when I was in the coma. I was confined to a place, tied by ropes, and people were telling me I was not well, and they were taking money from my family, and I was not being let free. And I was desperately trying to contact people to help me.\"\n\nIn late April, doctors took him off the ventilator for half-an-hour and Mr Mukherjee breathed on his own for the first time in nearly a month. Weaning him was tricky: doctors say Mr Mukherjee would often have \"panic attacks\" and press the emergency bedside bell, thinking he would not be able to breathe without the machine.\n\nBy 3 May, they switched off the ventilator, and five days later, sent him home.\n\n\"It was a really long haul. He had severe ARDS. He had four weeks of high fever. He couldn't breathe on his own. The virus was wreaking havoc,\" says Dr Sinha.\n\nNow at home, Mr Mukherjee is beginning a new life.\n\nHe is starting to walk again without help. Even some of his memories are returning.\n\nHe had been coughing for a few days before being taken to hospital, and had visited a doctor who had diagnosed it as a throat infection. He was still going to work, wearing a face mask, taking the poor and destitute off the streets. He had been visiting hospitals, police stations and shelter homes on work. He was skipping his diabetes medicines, which explained his steep blood glucose levels at the time of admission. He was taking antibiotics and inhaling nebulisers, as he would do when he had bouts of coughing every year when the seasons changed.\n\n\"But I felt something was amiss when he complained of dehydration and and began sleeping for hours at stretch. He was abnormally tired. And then he began to experience breathing difficulties and we put him in a wheel chair and took him to the hospital,\" says Mrs Mukherjee.\n\nLast week, Dr Sinha took a day off after 82 days in the intensive care, where the beds now are full of Covid-19 patients.\n\nMr Mukherjee went home on 8 May after more than a month in intensive care\n\nMore than 100 mobile phone pictures taken by her staff remind her and her team of their battle to save Mr Mukherjee: exhausted nurses in their claustrophobic protective gear slumped over the nursing station; the constant vigil near Mr Mukherjee's bed; the jubilation and relief on the day when the patient, smiling weakly, was taken off the ventilator and a picture of him leaving the hospital. \"We, as a team, were all doing our jobs, in the end,\" she says.\n\nMr Mukherjee is just grateful he's breathing on his own again.\n\n\"I know I fought the disease, but the doctors and nurses who fought the disease saved my life. Survivors need to tell their stories. The virulent virus can be defeated.\"", "Three front-line workers from London will star on the cover of British Vogue next month.\n\nA London Overground train driver, an east London midwife and a King's Cross supermarket worker will all feature on July's front page.\n\nPhotographer Jamie Hawkesworth captured the trio of women for a 20-page portfolio for the fashion magazine.\n\n\"They represent the millions of people in the UK who, at the height of the pandemic, put on their uniforms and went to help,\" Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said.\n\n\"This moment in history required something extra special, a moment of thanks to the new front line.\"\n\nRachel Millar, 24, has worked as a community midwife at Homerton Hospital, in east London, for almost three years.\n\nShe was on shift on one of the delivery suites at the hospital when a team from Vogue came in to take portraits of numerous staff for what she believed was to be a feature on NHS staff.\n\nTalking to the BBC, Rachel, who lives in Leyton, described being on the cover of British Vogue as \"surreal\".\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed - but in a good way. I had no idea it would be what I now know it is,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had so many lovely comments about it and I think people have enjoyed seeing someone from the NHS on the cover.\n\n\"I feel it has given the NHS a lot of recognition and a lot of love to jobs that were perhaps previously overlooked.\"\n\nNarguis Horsford, who has worked for Transport for London for 10 years and driven London Overground trains for the past five, said her manager called her to ask if she would like to do an interview for the magazine.\n\n\"At first I thought he was winding me up,\" she said. \"But it later turned out to be very real.\"\n\nNarguis, who lives Bounds Green, north London, said: \"I feel amazing to be representing the female front-line key workers.\n\n\"It's very important to highlight the hard work and contributions that we do to keep London moving and to provide services that everyone needs.\n\n\"NHS workers are obviously very important, but it's also good to highlight other workers in other sectors.\"\n\nNargius said she initially felt anxious going to work during the coronavirus outbreak but has since gone on to feel an immense sense of pride.\n\n\"I am proud to be a key worker and proud to be a train driver, taking those important workers to work.\"\n\nAlso featuring on the cover is Anisa Omar, who works as supermarket assistant at the London King's Cross branch of Waitrose.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who lives in Islington with her parents, said the pandemic has given her a new sense of pride in her work.\n\n\"My job was not something that was that big of a deal before,\" she said.\n\n\"But now it's like we're important. We have to be here, regardless of what's happening in the world. It's more than just a job now.\"\n\nThe full feature will be available in the July issue of British Vogue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal's foreign minister has said anyone in the UK thinking of going to Portugal this summer will be \"most welcome\" amid coronavirus.\n\nAugusto Santos Silva said he hoped an air bridge between the UK and Portugal could be secured by the end of June.\n\nThe UK is set to give more details of its plan to force arrivals into quarantine for 14 days later.\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel will say air bridges to countries with low virus infection rates are possible in future.\n\nThis would mean that people arriving from certain places will not have to self-isolate.\n\nHowever, that will only apply to countries with low Covid-19 infection rates, she is expected to tell MPs. She will also say that the planned quarantine for arrivals is necessary \"to prevent a second wave of the virus\".\n\nMeanwhile, Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye has told BBC Breakfast that travellers will have to fill out details of where they will be staying to quarantine, when they book their flight.\n\nHe said there will then be \"spot checks\" within the immigration area, where the Border Force officers will check if people have filled out their form.\n\n\"All of the form-filling will take place before you get on a plane, and will be done online. The government will be able to check information before people get onto a plane,\" he said.\n\nSome countries have already started to ease travel restrictions. The German foreign minister Heiko Maas said the country would lift a travel ban for EU countries, as well as the UK and a handful of others - as long as they do not have large-scale lockdowns in place.\n\nHowever, Germany will advise against travel to Britain for as long as the UK government demands a 14-day quarantine for new arrivals.\n\nPortugal's Mr Santos Silva told the BBC that an agreement between the UK and Portugal could be in place by the end of June, meaning that holidaymakers returning to the UK from Portugal would escape the quarantine rules.\n\nHe said any travel quarantine \"was an enemy of tourism\", but that he respected the UK government's decision to enforce one on almost all arrivals to the UK from next Monday.\n\nMr Santos Silva said \"rules\" would ensure that people would be able to holiday safely.\n\nThe minister suggested that nightlife in Portuguese resorts this summer would be very limited and people would not be allowed to congregate in groups at night.\n\nHe said hotels and apartments which comply with standards set by the tourism board would be labelled as \"clean and safe\".\n\nPortugal's foreign minister confirmed talks on the matter were continuing with the UK.\n\nBut he insisted that Portugal would not impose any type of quarantine for people arriving in his country.\n\nInstead, he said Portugal would rely on temperature checks at airports and that Portugal was, in coordination with other EU countries, considering carrying out \"random testing\" on passengers.\n\nMr Santos Silva said tourists would be warned how full beaches are, so that they could avoid crowded spots.\n\nUK aviation bosses hope that a large number of air bridge agreements will be in place by 29 June, when the travel quarantine is set to be reviewed.\n\nMore tourists from the UK head to the Algarve each summer than from any other country.\n\nBut Spain, another country whose tourism sector relies heavily on British holidaymakers, is taking a different approach.\n\nThe Spanish government has said it will only allow UK tourists in this summer if the infection rate in the UK falls more significantly.\n\nThe UK travel quarantine will apply to people arriving from any country, apart from the Republic of Ireland, and will also apply to UK nationals.\n\nPeople will be required to self-isolate in a private residence for two weeks.\n\nThe government says people \"could be contacted regularly during this period to ensure compliance\".\n\nPeople who break the rules could be fined £1,000.\n\nUK travel companies say the travel quarantine already means people are not booking holidays. They warn that more businesses in the sector now face financial ruin.\n\nThe measure will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nWhen deciding whether to keep the quarantine in place, the government will consider several factors. They include:\n\nA growing list of Conservative MPs have spoken out against the blanket travel quarantine.\n\nHowever, a YouGov poll of 1,565 adults in Great Britain suggests that there is public support.\n\n63% of those surveyed thought people should be quarantined as per the government's plan.\n\nAbout one quarter thought that the quarantine should only apply to people arriving from countries with a \"high number of coronavirus cases\". Only 4% thought that there should be no quarantine at all.\n\nLabour has questioned why a travel quarantine was not introduced some weeks ago.\n\nNew figures show that between the beginning of January and the end of April, 14,225 flights arrived into UK airports.", "Some schools have remained open for the families of key workers\n\nSchools would need about three weeks to prepare for a phased return, according to First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nIn an interview on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Drakeford mentioned June as an example of when some children could go back to school.\n\nBut this has caused confusion, according to a teaching union.\n\nNAHT Cymru said: \"At no point has June been mentioned in talks between Welsh Government and trade unions.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government also clarified that no decision had been made on when schools would partially reopen.\n\nSome schools have been closed for six weeks, although others have been open for the children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nOn Tuesday, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said there would be \"a phased approach in allowing more pupils to return to school\".\n\nSpeaking on the Marr programme, the first minister gave more detail, saying: \"We are thinking about ways in which we can bring young people with special educational needs back in to education.\n\n\"We're thinking about particular year groups, Year 6 children in primary schools, children going up to secondary school this September.\"\n\n\"We have a bilingual education system here in Wales.\n\n\"Children who are learning through the medium of Welsh and who may not have Welsh spoken at home, do we need to get those children back in to education sooner?\n\n\"Those are the sort of things we are working on at the moment,\" he added.\n\nOn the issue of when schools in Wales might partially reopen, Mr Drakeford said: \"Our advice from the trades unions and from the local education authorities is that we will need three weeks as a minimum from the point that we decide to do that to when schools can reopen, so we are talking about the beginning of June there.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales after the programme, Mr Drakeford said he was using June as an example: \"If we make the decision to return next week then the return to school will be in June.\"\n\nBut he stressed that no decision had been made.\n\nIn an interview on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Counsel General Jeremy Miles said: \"We're not saying it's the start of June.\n\n\"We're saying there needs to be a lead in time so that schools and local education authorities can adjust to that.\"\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\nTeaching union NAHT Cymru tweeted that \"at no point has June been mentioned in talks\" between Welsh Government and unions.\n\n\"Speculation on dates is unhelpful,\" it said.\n\nIt went on to say that the \"profession must be at the heart of reopening decisions - the health and wellbeing of staff and pupils is paramount\".\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru, said: \"We would caution against fixing a date in stone at this stage, and to make sure the conditions are right first of all.\n\n\"We are happy to plan towards a proposed date, but we would urge that it is clearly stated from the outset that it is moveable if more time is needed.\n\n\"We welcome the thought and care that the Welsh Government is putting into the reopening of schools.\n\n\"And we agree that the only realistic approach to doing this while sustaining social distancing is through a phased approach, in which certain groups of children are brought in first,\" she added.", "The Prince of Wales has said he \"got away with it quite lightly\" when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the UK's epidemic in March.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, self-isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said: \"I was lucky in my case... but I've had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through.\"\n\nHe expressed sympathy with those who had lost family or friends.\n\n\"I feel particularly for those who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That, to me, is the most ghastly thing,\" the prince said.\n\n\"But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, I'm so determined to find a way out of this.\"\n\nPrince Charles, who is the heir to the throne, recovered from coronavirus after spending his seven days of quarantine at his Birkhall home on the royal Balmoral estate. The Duchess of Cornwall, 72, was tested and did not have the virus.\n\nHe said: \"I can't tell you how much I sympathise with the way that everyone has had to endure with this unbelievably testing and challenging time.\"\n\nThe prince said the experience made him more determined to \"push and shout and prod\" as he called for nature to return to the \"centre of our economy\".\n\n\"Before this, nature has just been pushed to the peripheries, we've exploited and dug up and cut down everything as if there was no tomorrow, as if it doesn't matter.\"\n\nWithout learning from the pandemic, he said we may face a similar threat in future: \"The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy biodiversity, the more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger.\n\n\"We've had these other disasters with Sars and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity. So we have to find a way this time to put nature back at the centre.\"\n\nHe calls it - perhaps rather hopefully - \"the Great Reset\": a great opportunity to seize something good from this crisis.\n\nPrince Charles is not the only environmental voice out there; from those marvelling at the sound of birdsong these past few months, to those urging a shift to sustainable transport, there is a green wave that the prince is surfing.\n\nThe prince is no mere follower of fashion; he has (as he once put it in a broadcast chat with his son Prince Harry) been \"banging on\" about the environment for more than four decades now.\n\nIt means his words on the subject are often dismissed as same-old, same-old.\n\nBut there is new urgency in this interview, and a bluntness; catastrophes, he says, concentrate the mind. The current generation and those that have come before have, he says, acted as if there is no tomorrow.\n\nAnd there is controversy. Not everyone sees the planet as a sick patient in need of care.\n\nOthers, charged with the herculean task of restoring shattered economies, will have to grapple with trade-offs around environmental protection and quickly getting people back into jobs.\n\nPrince Charles has mellowed with age; no longer does he toss policy hand grenades into the public sphere.\n\nBut on the future of the earth his passion still burns bright. And it is clear that he believes a moment has arrived when change is possible; he is determined to try and drive that change.", "HR professional Angela Russell and her partner Steve have decided that despite coronavirus, they will be flying to Montenegro on 5 July.\n\nThey're only going for a week's holiday, but the prospect of having to spend two weeks in quarantine on their return doesn't bother them.\n\n\"I have become totally fed up with all the bad news and how the government is dealing with issues,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm prepared to put up with quarantine just to get away from here for a bit.\"\n\nThe couple will be holidaying with a friend of Angela's who has terminal cancer, accompanied by her husband. \"She had planned to do a lot of travelling this year and until now, all her plans have been kiboshed.\"\n\nThe four have booked to fly with Jet2, which plans to resume its flight programme on 1 July.\n\nA number of other airlines and tour operators have announced similar plans.\n\nRyanair and Tui are also due to restart services from the beginning of July, while EasyJet is taking to the skies again from 15 June.\n\nBritish Airways has said it will launch \"a meaningful return to service\" in July, while Virgin Atlantic has said flights will not resume until August.\n\nHowever, at the moment, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is still advising against all non-essential foreign travel, with no indication of when the policy might change.\n\nA spokesperson for Jet2 said the firm always followed FCO guidelines and was \"reviewing the situation on a daily basis\".\n\nJet2 declined to give any details of the level of bookings over the next few months, describing it as \"commercially sensitive information\". The BBC has approached other airlines and holiday firms for comment.\n\nOne airline that does seem to be confident about the future is budget carrier Wizz Air, which said on Wednesday that it was still planning to take delivery of new aircraft.\n\n\"Whatever we can fly, we're going to be flying, because we've seen that there is actually demand out there,\" said the airline's chief executive, Jozsef Varadi.\n\nAngela, who lives in Wales, is semi-retired and now works just one day a week, which she can easily do from home if forced to self-isolate. She points out that Montenegro is \"pretty much coronavirus-free\" .\n\n\"I've spent my life assessing risk, either in work or in my daily life,\" she says. \"The only risk is that we might pick it up at the airport.\"\n\nShe adds: \"My fear is that Montenegro will say, 'We don't want to let people in from the UK, because you don't seem to manage it very well.'\n\n\"But I feel it's imperative now that we support the travel industry. We have to take a pragmatic approach to how we do things.\"\n\nAnother hopeful holidaymaker is Robert Jenkins, of Bedwas in south Wales, who usually goes abroad four or five times a year with his wife Barbara. \"We're retired and travelling is very important to us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nRobert Jenkins hopes to fly to Greece later this year\n\nRobert and Barbara are hedging their bets, with not one, but two trips booked between now and the end of the year.\n\nThe couple are due to fly with EasyJet to Malaga in Spain on 1 July and to the Greek island of Kos on 12 September.\n\nBut Robert says he is poised to cancel the Spanish trip, because \"the FCO still hasn't given the go-ahead and I don't know if I'll be insured\".\n\nHe is also worried by the Spanish tourism minister's remarks this week that British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain can receive tourists from the UK.\n\n\"I'm really hoping Greece will go ahead. We've gone to the same resort for 20 years and we are on first-name terms with the people in the village we stay at,\" he says.\n\n\"But it's all up in the air. Things are changing day by day.\"\n\nAnyone considering booking an overseas holiday needs to find their balance on a financial tightrope.\n\nAs always, if you book on a flight which is subsequently cancelled, you should be refunded, although millions of people have already found that can be a slow, and still unresolved process.\n\nBooking a package holiday also offers financial protection if it is later cancelled owing to a second wave of the virus or current restrictions being extended.\n\nInsurance is more complex. Travelling against Foreign Office advice, which is still that anything but essential travel should be avoided, would invalidate existing insurance. That has implications for claiming the cost of accommodation, car hire and so on, but also medical care.\n\nWe still do not know when that advice will be lifted. It is under review.\n\nThose buying a new insurance policy - irrespective of the travel advice - will often find that it will not cover you for coronavirus-related issues, such as having to cancel a break because you have been told to self-isolate.", "Protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis have spread across the US and to other countries. They've been documented in videos, images and posts on social media.\n\nBut some of these aren't what they claim to be. The BBC's anti-disinformation team has been tracking misleading videos and conspiracy theories about the protests, which have been circulating online.\n\nSo, here's what to look out for - and avoid - on your social media feeds.\n\nRumours that the protests have been set up with potential projectiles handed out to agitators have gained traction, with thousands of posts referencing \"bricks\" on social media.\n\nSeveral videos that show piles of bricks along with claims that they were planted by police or the government have been watched by millions of people.\n\nOther posts pin the blame on Antifa - the left-wing group President Trump has accused of promoting the disturbances.\n\nHowever, there's no evidence so far to suggest foul play, nor that the protests have been somehow pre-planned.\n\nMost of the videos and images we've seen don't look particularly suspicious - it's not uncommon to see piles of bricks near building sites.\n\nResponding to a video suggesting bricks had been deliberately placed to escalate protests, San Francisco police said on Twitter \"pallets are affiliated with a construction site and (we) have contacted the contractor to have them removed.\"\n\nOne police department in Boston hit back at misleading claims about a viral video of its officers unloading bricks from a van.\n\nSuggestions had been made on social media that the officers were unloading bricks from a vehicle \"to use them as an excuse\" against protesters.\n\nHowever, Boston's Northeastern University Police Department has tweeted that the officers had collected them \"from a damaged brick sidewalk\" and taken them back to the station as they were posing a safety hazard to pedestrians.\n\nAnother viral video from Fayetteville, North Carolina that has racked up over a million views shows a pile of bricks in the vicinity of protests as a man says there is \"no construction\" site in the area.\n\nWe've been able to geolocate the video and found images from 24 May with the same pile of bricks in the same place, long before any protests took place.\n\nIn other cases, old images of piles of bricks have been re-shared of previous demonstrations elsewhere, such as from the protests in Hong Kong last year.\n\nWe've seen lots of examples of old video surfacing in recent days.\n\nAmong many genuine videos of brutal arrests, one that went viral yesterday was not what it seemed. The dramatic video shows a man being arrested then released by police once they'd checked his ID.\n\nA post claiming the man in the video is an \"FBI agent\" has been viewed over 4 million times on Twitter. This claim was repeated on Facebook and Instagram by others sharing the video, where it racked up millions more views.\n\nIn response, Rochester Minnesota Police Department put out a statement clarifying that the man is not a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent. The incident took place in June last year, when he was mistaken for a wanted man.\n\nThe original post of the video on Instagram includes a caption which stated the video was from the year before, and contains no mention of the FBI.\n\nA video of a teenager being violently arrested by a US police officer has generated almost 10 million views in the last few days.\n\nBut the incident happened back in April - in Rancho Cordova, a city in Northern California. This wasn't made clear in the latest post that has been retweeted more than 100,000 times. It also wrongly identifies the teenager as female.\n\nThe clip attracted widespread criticism at the time.\n\nMeanwhile, there is footage from the current protests which has led to allegations of police brutality.\n\nVideo from the US shows police using batons and tear gas on protesters and journalists seemingly unprovoked.\n\nThis video claims to show a US police building on fire and was posted on 28 May.\n\nIt's not only old - it's from 2015 - it was filmed in another country. It shows an explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin.\n\nSo, why are people sharing old videos?\n\n\"The videos may be compounding the anger they are feeling and could be driven by attempts to sow division or get clicks,\" says Marianna Spring, BBC Specialist Disinformation and Social Media reporter.\n\nSpeculation about who's behind the protests have been circulating online.\n\nSome claims are unsubstantiated, others totally false.\n\nFirst up, posts that have gone viral about George Soros.\n\nSome influential right-wing figures have made unfounded claims that the Hungarian-American billionaire is \"funding\" the demonstrations.\n\nSupporters of QAnon - a conspiracy theory about a \"deep state\" secret coup against Donald Trump - have shared similar claims.\n\nMore than a million posts and memes online have repeated allegations about Mr Soros paying agitators.\n\nMr Soros, whose Open Society Foundations provide financial support to a number of civil society groups and progressive projects around the world, has been a bogeyman of some on the right for a long time.\n\nHis organisation has responded to the latest posts, tweeting that \"Mr. Soros and the Open Society Foundations oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest\".\n\nClaims have circulated online about Russia's involvement in the protests.\n\nViral tweets with thousands of shares suggest that Russia was involved in George Floyd's death - as part of a military operation or an elaborate plot. There is no evidence to support these claims.\n\nThis isn't to rule out the idea that Russia or other countries - either through state media outlets or networks of fake accounts - could be involved in stoking tensions online.\n\nInvestigations into Russian interference during the 2016 US Presidential election revealed that Russia was involved in a misinformation campaign, infiltrating groups and pages run by US activists - and that included Black Lives Matter groups.", "A classroom ready in England for when pupils start returning on Monday\n\nAn idea to bring forward school summer holidays was a \"non-starter\", a teaching union said.\n\nThe Welsh Government mooted the option as it considers how to reopen schools.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU), said it would have meant a 20-week autumn term but opposition parties believe it should still be looked at.\n\nA government source said it was \"a sensible and workable option\" but \"recognised and respected\" unions were not in favour.\n\nThe proposal would have seen the six-week summer holiday begin near the end of June, with the new school year beginning early August.\n\nBBC Wales has been told the rationale included:\n\nPlaid Cymru said the idea should be \"explored further.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party said \"union diktat\" was stopping pupils returning to school.\n\nOn BBC Radio Wales, NEU Cymru secretary, David Evans, said: \"It would mean there would be a 20-week term in the autumn with just a one-week break in the middle for the teachers.\"\n\nHe said it would mean breaking summer arrangements and there would be \"contractual issues\".\n\n\"By the time you put all that together the complicating factors just mean it's a non-starter,\"Mr Evans said.\n\nIn England, some pupils will return on Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, where the summer holiday is earlier, pupils will return on 11 August.\n\nPlaid Cymru education spokeswoman, Sian Gwenllian, said the idea should be explored\n\nSuzy Davies MS, Conservative education spokeswoman, said the two main considerations were teachers not losing their summer break and that pupils' time away from school was not \"a second longer than necessary\".\n\n\"I'm disappointed that the door appears to have closed so firmly on bringing a full summer holiday period forward by even a week,\" she said. \"I am speaking to the unions this week anyway and look forward to hearing their reasoning.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian MS, said bringing the holidays forward should continue to be examined.\n\n\"A phased and gradual re-opening of schools could then start in August, if it is safe to do so,\" she said.\n\nBrexit Party Senedd leader, Mark Reckless, said: \"The desire of parents and pupils to get back to school is ignored due to union diktat.\n\n\"Starting the autumn term in early August would minimise disruption to kids' learning.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with unions, councils, scientists and head teachers.\n\n\"The minister intends to update further next week,\" a spokesman said.", "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the UK and Sweden remain on the country's \"banned list\" of destinations for visitors from the Netherlands, because of the risk of contracting coronavirus.\n\nRutte told reporters: \"The message is, we do not want British people and Swedes here at the moment. If they do come, they will have to go into quarantine for two weeks.\"\n\nFrom June 15, people from the Netherlands can visit 12 countries, including Germany, Belgium, Italy, Croatia and the Dutch ABC islands in the Caribbean.\n\nThe decision was determined by the level of containment and infection that exists in each country.\n\n\"The health risks have to be the same as they are here,\" he said.\n\nOther European nations, such as Spain and France, will be added to the list of countries if they formally lift restrictions on tourists from the Netherlands.\n\nA colour code has been put in place to identify which nations are allowed. Countries that have imposed quarantine on people from the Netherlands – such as Denmark – will also remain on the orange list where travel should be avoided, but their residents will be allowed to enter the Netherlands.\n\nBeyond the EU, the travel guidance advises only essential journeys and everyone who takes such trips will have to go into quarantine for two weeks on their return. The public health institute will monitor and possibly modify the recommendations every week.\n\nThe Dutch have been asked to avoid travel during peak season where possible.", "Up to 3,000 jobs are at risk after one of the country's biggest restaurant operators decided as many as 120 outlets will not reopen after lockdown, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkels, has about 600 outlets across the UK, with about 22,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIt is understood that Frankie & Benny's will bear the brunt of the closures.\n\nThe company, which declined to comment, was due to inform staff on Wednesday,\n\nIn an email to managers seen by the BBC on Tuesday, the company said: \"Many sites are no longer viable to trade and will remain closed permanently.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has significantly impacted our ability to trade profitably, so we've taken the tough decision to close these restaurants now.\"\n\nThe group appears to be speeding up previous plans to shut restaurants as trade suffers due to the pandemic.\n\nThe email was sent to managers in the group's Leisure Division, which includes more than 200 Frankie & Benny's outlets.\n\nIt is not clear which outlets will be shut, or exactly how many, but BBC was told on Wednesday that up to 120 are at risk.\n\nThe group also owns the Wagamama chain and some pub units. Wagamama is not part of the division which received the email and the vast majority of its restaurants are expected to reopen.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said in March that 61 out of 80 branches of its Tex-Mex dining chain Chiquito's would remain closed permanently as it fell into administration.\n\nIt cited the Covid-19 outbreak as having had \"an immediate and significant impact on trading\".\n\nHowever, the group had already announced in February, prior to the introduction of lockdown measures, that it would speed up existing plans to close restaurants.\n\nInitially it had planned to make 150 closures - which were first signalled in 2019 - over a six-year period. It then said it would close 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\n\"I feel completely overwhelmed and upset,\" says Georgia. She has been working as a part-time waitress at one Frankie & Benny's outlet since last April.\n\n\"I'm angry, as they feel as though staff are disposable,\" she says, adding that the lack of certainty around work amid lockdown has created mental stress.\n\n\"I just can't believe that they would send that kind of message to managers without any warning,\" she adds.\n\nThe group had already seen sales falling across many outlets. That came despite stronger revenues across the wider group in its Wagamamas and pub units.\n\nIt said in February that like-for-like sales - which strip out new restaurant openings - in the division that includes Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, fell by 2.8% in 2019.\n\nMany casual dining chains had already been struggling in the face of rising overheads and falling consumer spending.\n\nBut those in the hospitality sector have seen their problems worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic, as customers have been forced to stay at home amid lockdown.\n\nCarluccio's, for example, was bought out of administration by the owner of Giraffe restaurants.\n\nDespite its rescue, more than 1,000 jobs will be lost at the Italian restaurant chain, more than half of its total workforce. The administrators said the lockdown meant difficult decisions had to be taken.\n\nRestrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 forced most cafes and restaurants to close in March, but some have since reopened as takeaways only.\n\nWhen lockdown was initially announced in March, trade association UK Hospitality said it was \"catastrophic for businesses and jobs\".\n\nIts chief executive Kate Nicholls warned at the time that the measures could \"lead to thousands of businesses closing their doors for good, and hundreds of thousands of job losses\".\n\nPubs, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels, cinemas and places of worship will be allowed to open from 4 July at the earliest in England, if they can meet social distancing measures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said the advice was \"the same as to everybody but with more emphasis\"\n\nPeople from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus, a report by Public Health England says.\n\nIt shows age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe impact of Covid-19 is also \"disproportionate\" for other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities. But it remains unclear why.\n\nA trade union for doctors said the report was a \"missed opportunity\" for \"action\" to be taken to protect health workers who are from ethnic minorities.\n\nThe health secretary said the \"troubling\" report was \"timely\" because \"right across the world people are angry about racial injustice\".\n\nOn Monday night, the Department of Health and Social Care denied reports the delay was down to official concerns of potential civil unrest linked to global anger over the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the public was \"understandably angry about injustices\" and that he felt a \"deep responsibility because this pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation\".\n\n\"Black lives matter, as do those of the poorest areas of our country which have worse health outcomes and we need to make sure all of these considerations are taken into account, and action is taken to level-up the health outcomes of people across this country,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Hancock said \"much more work\" needed to be done to understand \"what's driving these disparities\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and find ways of closing this gap,\" he said, adding that he has asked equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to continue working on the issue alongside Public Health England (PHE).\n\nThe BBC's Rianna Croxford pressed Mr Hancock on whether there were any specific recommendations for people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nHe said everyone in \"the different high risk categories\" highlighted in the report should follow social distancing guidelines \"very stringently\".\n\nProf John Newton said although the virus was having a worse impact on black and minority ethnic people, \"that is not necessarily because of their ethnicity\" and could instead be related to their job, for example.\n\nHe said the report's findings needed to be \"widely discussed before deciding exactly what needs to be done\".\n\n\"The report if nothing else emphasises the complexity of what we're seeing, so really we're urging people not to jump to conclusions and institute measures which are not really justified by the data,\" he added.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"lives depend on\" finding out why the virus disproportionately impacts black and minority ethnic people, and what actions the government was taking to stop it.\n\nDavida Wilkins, a 38-year-old district nurse in the West Midlands, told the BBC she felt \"even more anxious\" about doing her job following the report's publication.\n\nShe said she felt \"obligated\" to continue her front-line role but added she cannot minimise the risks posed to her by the virus because \"it's the colour that I am and I can't change it\".\n\nA large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe rapid review was launched when it became clear that some people were getting more sick with coronavirus than others.\n\nPHE reviewed thousands of existing health records and other virus data to look at disparities by:\n\nIt is not possible to combine all of these factors together to judge an individual's risk because of the way the source data is recorded, but the data does reveal clear inequalities.\n\nThe analysis on ethnicity and risk did not consider a person's occupation or obesity, even though both are known risk factors for getting seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe government had been under pressure to publish the findings of this inquiry. It was due to be released by the end of May.\n\nNow it's here, it's not clear why there was a delay. The main findings reinforce what we already know - that belonging to an ethnic minority group is a major risk factor.\n\nIt doesn't move us forward in answering why, though.\n\nThe report acknowledges an important flaw in the analysis - it couldn't factor in important risks, such as a person's job and underlying health conditions, that increase the chance of dying with coronavirus. Where you live and how much you earn are important considerations too.\n\nDeath rates for people living in the most deprived areas of England were more than double the least deprived areas.\n\nThe report says coronavirus has replicated and in some cases increased existing health inequalities. It doesn't mention how to address those to save more lives.\n\nIt acknowledges that more work is needed to understand and advise people about the risks.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the report for not providing recommendations for at-risk groups, adding that the virus \"thrives on inequality\" and \"inequality thrives on inaction\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova said the report was \"notably silent\" on how risks amplified by \"racial and health inequalities\" could be reduced.\n\nShe said the government \"must act immediately\" to mitigate the risks \"so that no more lives are lost\".\n\nWhile Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy said families \"are living in fear\" and the government \"must take urgent action to protect at-risk groups\".\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said while the report's conclusions were \"helpful... it does nothing to protect people\". She said \"clear guidance and support\" from the government should be given to help the NHS tackle the risk to workers.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing pointed out that health care staff from black and ethnic minority groups faced an increased risk from the virus and that \"swift and comprehensive action\" was needed to protect workers.\n\nWhile the council chair of the BMA, the doctors' trade union, said the report was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"The BMA and the wider community were hoping for a clear action plan to tackle the issues, not a re-iteration of what we already know. We need practical guidance,\" Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nThe equality watchdog says the government should produce a \"comprehensive race equality strategy\" in response to the report.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"People are more than statistics, and we cannot afford to ignore the broader context of entrenched race inequality across all areas of life. Only a comprehensive race equality strategy will address these issues.\"\n\nLatest government figures show 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n• None Why are more BAME people dying from coronavirus?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma is self-isolating at home after becoming unwell in Parliament.\n\nMr Sharma looked uncomfortable while taking part in a debate on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times with his handkerchief while speaking.\n\nA spokesman said the MP for Reading West had been tested for coronavirus and had returned home.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament - with additional motions due later to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy.\n\nBut critics have said the motions do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said Parliament had been brought into \"disrepute\" and stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - calling for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe added: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael is expected to apply for an emergency debate later on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, and took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was in the Commons chamber for nearly an hour while leading for the government on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\nA spokesman for the business secretary said on Wednesday: \"Alok Sharma began feeling unwell when in the Chamber delivering the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\n\"In line with guidance he has been tested for coronavirus and is returning home to self isolate.\"\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAnd the BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said the MP who had sat nearest to Mr Sharma during his statement insisted that social distancing protocols had been observed throughout.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nMr Sharma was one of hundreds of MPs who queued around the building on Tuesday at two metre intervals as the Commons introduced new temporary voting procedures.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nick Watt said talks were at an \"advanced stage\" to change the temporary system, instead allowing MPs to vote by swiping their parliamentary passes in the normal voting lobbies.\n\nBut while it would be quicker than the system used this week - which saw votes take up to 46 minutes - it would not be as fast as the usual system, which sees votes completed in around 15 minutes.\n\nMPs are supposed to be queuing two metres apart - but some are wondering whether the rules were properly observed\n\nWhile the number of MPs permitted to sit in the chamber is still limited, many MPs are unhappy about being forced to return to Westminster, saying it poses a risk to them and their constituents.\n\nOthers are concerned MPs will be forced to expose the personal situations of them and their families in order to fit the criteria to be allowed to participate virtually.\n\nThe SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsty Blackman, said she sent her best wishes to Mr Sharma, but added: \"It demonstrates just how ridiculous and irresponsible the Tory government's decision to end virtual participation in Parliament was.\n\n\"They must now rectify this serious mistake and reintroduce hybrid proceedings without delay.\"\n\nBut Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"premature\" to use Mr Sharma as the case to support keeping virtual proceedings, as his results have not even come back yet.\n\nLabour MP Karl Turner said he had asked the Health and Safety Executive to conduct an urgent risk assessment of working conditions in Parliament.\n\nHe said MPs having to \"huddle together\" on escalators on the parliamentary estate while lining up to vote were among a number of \"unsafe practices\".\n\nThe HSE said it was aware of the letter and would \"respond in due course\", adding: \"While we have no jurisdiction at the Palace of Westminster, all places of work are expected to adhere to the government's working safely guidelines.\"\n\nThere have also been issues in committee rooms, with members not being able to sit around the tables and still keep to social distancing rule.\n\nAt the start of the Domestic Abuse Bill Committee, it's chair, Tory MP Peter Bone, said some members were having to sit in the public gallery away from the microphones, meaning they could not be recorded so could not contribute.\n\nThe Westminster leader of Plaid Cymru, Liz Saville Roberts - who sits on the committee - called it a \"shambles\", adding: \"Westminster isn't working.\"", "Google has been sued in the US over claims it illegally invades the privacy of users by tracking people even when they are browsing in \"private mode\".\n\nThe class action wants at least $5bn (£4bn) from Google and owner Alphabet.\n\nMany internet users assume their search history isn't being tracked when they view in private mode, but Google says this isn't the case.\n\nThe search engine denies this is illegal and says it is upfront about the data it collects in this mode.\n\nThe proposed class action likely includes \"millions\" of Google users who since 1 June 2016 browsed the internet in private mode according to law firm Boies Schiller Flexner who filed the claim on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, California.\n\nIncognito mode within Google's Chrome browser gives users the choice to search the internet without their activity being saved to the browser or device. But the websites visited can use tools such as Google Analytics to track usage.\n\nThe complaint says that Google \"cannot continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone\".\n\nVigorously denying the claims Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said: \"As we clearly state each time you open a new incognito tab, websites might be able to collect information about your browsing activity\".\n\nThe search engine says the collection of search history, even in private viewing mode, helps site owners \"better evaluate the performance of their content, products, marketing and more.\"\n\nWhile private browsing has been available from Google for some time, Boies Schiller Flexner said it recently decided to represent three plaintiffs based in the US.\n\n\"People everywhere are becoming more aware (and concerned) that their personal communications are being intercepted, collected, recorded, or exploited for gain by technology companies they have come to depend on,\" it said in the filing.\n\nOne option is for visitors to install Google Analytics browser opt-out extension to disable measurement by Google Analytics, it says.", "There have been more than 279,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and almost 40,000 people have lost their lives, government figures show.\n\nHowever, these numbers only include people who have been tested, and the total number of deaths relating to coronavirus is likely to be higher.\n\nThe UK has the highest official death toll in Europe and the second highest in the world. However, the government and many experts say it is too soon to make international comparisons.\n\nAlthough daily deaths have decreased, the downwards trend appears to have stalled in recent days.\n\nThe majority of the UK's deaths have been in England, with more than 35,000 so far - about 90% of the total for the UK.\n\nYou can get more details and statistics by clicking here.", "AG Ellison: US has under-prosecuted police killings in the past\n\nAttorney General Ellison ends the press conference by promising to \"hold everyone accountable for behaviour we can prove in court\". \"As the people who are legal professionals, professional prosecutors – we are taking our duty seriously, and we are working with the people who gather the facts, and we have done the work that we begin is possible, ethical and right.\" When asked about the lack of trust between the public and the authorities, he says: \"Our country has under-prosecuted these matters, in Minnesota and throughout the country.\" This, he says, is \"the origin of the trust problem\" - as \"people who have public guardians\" have not been held accountable in similar situations in the past. \"We can’t control the past – all we can do is take the case we have in front of us right now, and do our best to bring justice to the situation.\"", "Swedes have been told to maintain social distancing but there has been no lockdown\n\nSweden's controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths, the man behind the policy, Anders Tegnell, has acknowledged.\n\nSweden has seen a far higher mortality rate than its nearest neighbours and its nationals are being barred from crossing their borders.\n\nDr Tegnell told Swedish radio more should have been done early on.\n\n\"There is quite obviously a potential for improvement in what we have done.\"\n\nSweden has counted 4,542 deaths and 40,803 infections in a population of 10 million, while Denmark, Norway and Finland have imposed lockdowns and seen far lower rates.\n\nDenmark has seen 580 deaths, Norway has had 237 deaths and Finland 321. Sweden reported a further 74 deaths on Wednesday.\n\nDr Tegnell, who is Sweden's state epidemiologist and in charge of the country's response to Covid-19, told BBC News in April that the high death toll was mainly because homes for the elderly had been unable to keep the disease out, although he emphasised that \"does not disqualify our strategy as a whole\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell argued in April that Sweden’s strategy is largely working\n\nNow he has told Swedish public radio: \"If we were to encounter the same disease again, knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How Sweden is keeping its pubs and bars open\n\nWhen asked if too many people had died too soon, Dr Tegnell said, \"Yes, absolutely.\"\n\nHowever, he was unclear what Sweden should have done differently and at a press conference later on Wednesday later he underlined that \"we basically still think that is the right strategy for Sweden\".\n\nTrying to guide the response was rather like steering an ocean liner, as every measure took three or four weeks to work its way through.\n\nWhile Sweden's approach had been to increase its response step by step, other countries had imposed immediate lockdowns and gradually reopened, he said.\n\nHe warned it was too early to say whether the lockdowns had worked or not. \"We know from history during the last three or four months that this disease has a very high capacity to start spreading again.\"\n\nAlthough there was no lockdown, Sweden relied on voluntary social distancing, banning gatherings of more than 50 people and halting visits to elderly care homes.\n\nNon-essential travel is still not recommended under national guidelines, but journeys of up to two hours are allowed to see relatives or close friends as long as they do not involve visits to local shops and mixing with other residents.\n\nDenmark's lockdown restrictions were among the first in Europe to be lifted\n\nAs Denmark and Norway have begun opening up again, there has been growing criticism of Sweden's response, both inside the country and among its neighbours.\n\nNorway's public health chief Frode Forland said Sweden had focused too much on historical models of viruses, while its neighbours preferred lockdown measures.\n\nSweden's former state epidemiologist Annika Linde believes Sweden got its response wrong and should have focused on three things:\n\nAccording to Swedish media, Dr Tegnell and his family were subjected to threats by email last month.", "The US president announces he is deploying the military to quell unrest in Washington, DC.", "Iwan Steffan, Sara James, and Mared Parry all use cosmetic beauty treatments - but Mared has welcomed the break lockdown has brought\n\n\"Not being able to have treatments has really affected my mental health negatively.\"\n\nIwan Steffan relies on cosmetic treatments such as Botox injections and facial fillers to look and feel good.\n\nThe 30-year-old is also one of those who has been unable to get cosmetic treatments during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBut those missing out are being warned they risk fines - and their health - if they access treatments illegally.\n\n\"For me, looking good and feeling good is essential,\" said Iwan, who hails from Bangor, Gwynedd, but lives in Liverpool.\n\n\"I haven't cut my hair for weeks, I haven't had fillers since March, I haven't had anything and I feel horrible.\n\n\"I can't go to the shop with my friends, if I go to the shop I wear sunglasses and a hat over my head.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Life is \"horrible\" without his fillers and Botox, Iwan Steffan says\n\nSara James from Cardiff also gets beauty treatments regularly.\n\n\"At 27 years old I had my first child, so the body starts to go then with the lack of sleep. So then I started getting Botox.\n\n\"When you're used to looking one way, it's really hard to look in the mirror and see that you don't look like that.\n\n\"I'm quite lucky I got my Botox around mid-March, but when that definitely runs out. Oh my gosh, I'm sure I'll really start to hate myself then.\"\n\nThe anxiety experienced by individuals, and its impact on their sense of self, is understandable under the circumstances, sociologist Dr Sara Louise Wheeler, from Glyndwr University in Wrexham said.\n\n\"I can't imagine how I would feel, if you have these treatments regularly, but then suddenly you can't have them. I have a lot of sympathy for that,\" said Dr Wheeler.\n\n\"As the sociologist Michael Bury says in his work on the concept of Biographical Disruption, we see our lives as a novel, with a narrative, and the future that we envision. And then if something happens that changes that, and we can't do what we think we need to do to continue as normal, it stops us, and that's hard.\n\nSociologist Dr Sara Louise Wheeler says anxiety over missing cosmetic treatments is natural\n\nSwansea East MP Carolyn Harris co-chairs the all-party group on beauty, aesthetics and wellbeing at Westminster, and had been vocal on the matter.\n\n\"The beauty industry plays a vital role in many people's lives - it's not just about looking good - being able to get our beauty or hair treatments done plays a big part in supporting our mental and social wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour politician also warned: \"While we all look forward to a day that the industry can reopen, it is vital that members of the public do not take unnecessary risks by having procedures carried out unsafely or by buying kits online to try at home.\"\n\nWelsh Government officials said beauty salons, hairdressers and tattoo parlours all remained closed to help \"reduce the spread of coronavirus and save lives\".\n\n\"If the regulations are being breached, those offering such services illegally, and those receiving them, could be fined,\" a spokesman added.\n\nMared Parry is happy to be taking a break\n\nFor some, the lockdown has become a welcome break.\n\nMared Parry, 23, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, has had treatments for her lips, jaw-line, chin and eyes, as well as Botox for her forehead in the past three years.\n\n\"To be honest it's nice to have a break,\" she said.\n\n\"It doesn't really make a difference to me, it's still my skin. It's not as if it reaches a year and it all disappears. It's just slowly, the effect starts to wear off.\n\nThere is another bonus, she added: \"It's nice for my bank account to have a break.\"", "More than 160 migrants travelled across the Channel in small boats in 24 hours - a record for a single day.\n\nThe Border Force intercepted seven boats on Wednesday, while 11 men were detained on a beach at Samphire Hoe in Kent.\n\nThere were 166 migrants in total, including one boat which had 48 males and 16 females who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Afghani.\n\nThe Home Office said they have all been taken to Dover to be assessed.\n\nPreviously the most migrants attempting to cross the Channel in a day was 145, on 8 May.\n\nAs well as the boat with 64 people on board, a second vessel earlier was carrying a group of 14 males, and a third had a group of 17 males and females.\n\nTwo more boats were carrying 16 males each, with one group presenting themselves as Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Iranian and Syrian.\n\nA sixth boat was carrying a group of 13 males who presented themselves as Iranian and Iraqi nationals, and a seventh was carrying a group of 15 males who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, and Chinese.\n\nIn the eighth incident, a group of 11 males, who presented themselves as Yemeni and Sudanese nationals, were arrested on the beach by Kent Police.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants would be interviewed, with transferrals to detention \"where appropriate\".\n\nImmigration minister Chris Philp said: \"We are determined to stop migrants putting their lives at risk, and we are working tirelessly alongside the French government to do so\".\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to pursue the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity.\n\n\"Last year, immigration enforcement made 418 arrests, leading to 203 convictions for a total of 437 years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The partial closure of schools in England could continue into the autumn and into November, the Commons education committee has been told.\n\nPrimary schools opened more widely to several year groups in some areas this week, 10 weeks after they were closed as part of Covid-19 lockdown measures.\n\nSecondaries remain shut and around eight million pupils are out of school.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of education charity EPI, said assumptions all pupils will return in September may be wrong.\n\nThe committee was hearing evidence on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education and children's services.\n\nMr Laws, also a former education minister, said: \"There's a temptation to think we are in a kind of home learning now and hopefully all back in September. Sadly we may end up with considerable disruption to school in September, October and November.\"\n\nHe urged ministers to make plans and give guidance to schools for \"a situation where there may be some home learning for a lot of pupils for a very long time\".\n\nAnne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, highlighted that eight million pupils were currently out of school, despite limited opening of primary schools this week.\n\nShe said the sheer scale of children not reaching their potential because of this lockdown would be immense.\n\n\"That could be eight million children all of whom could well be out of school for six months.\"\n\nAnd she warned as more of society and many parents go back to work, there would be a fall-off in the numbers of those engaging in learning from home.\n\n\"As things become more interesting, the shops will be open soon and many kids could spend two and half months browsing in Primark and not going to school.\"\n\nShe added that head teachers had told her they were kept awake at night by fears about some children never returning to school.\n\nThe leap that children who had had a negative experience of school would have to make, in order to return to school, would be \"vast\", she said.\n\nThe committee was told the Department for Education needed to publish its guidance on how schools would look in September very soon.\n\nAnd plans for catch-up summer schools, which were backed by witnesses, needed to be set out by ministers soon, if they were to happen.\n\nThe hearing comes as a report suggested school closures could wipe out 10 years of progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and rich pupils.\n\nModest estimates in the government-commissioned report suggest the shutdowns could cause the gap to widen by around a third of what it is now.\n\nThis could mean poorest primary pupils, who are already nine months behind, slipping back a further three months.\n\nThe Education Endowment Foundation study said catch-up tuition would help.\n\nThe charity's research also warned of a risk of high levels of absence after schools formally reopen and that this posed a particular risk for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nThe rapid evidence assessment drew together evidence on 11 studies from a number of countries on the impact of school closures, focussing on those which looked at learning loss over the summer holiday period.\n\nIt found the estimated impact on the gap between the poorest group of pupils, and their wealthier peers ranged widely from 75% to 11%.\n\nChemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nThe median estimate was 36%, although the researchers said there was high level uncertainty about this average.\n\nThe report is published days after a small proportion of the school population returned to lessons.\n\nAlthough effective remote learning would limit the extent to which the gap widens, the report said there would still need to be sustained support for disadvantaged pupils to catch up.\n\nOver the past decade, the Department for Education has focused attention and resources on closing the disadvantage gap.\n\nIt has narrowed from 11.5 months in 2009, at the end of primary school to 9.2 months in 2019.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, chairman of the EEF, said: \"School closures are likely to have a devastating impact on the poorest children and young people. The attainment gap widens when children are not in school.\n\n\"There is strong evidence that high quality tuition is a cost-effective way to enable pupils to catch up.\"\n\nHis organisation has teamed up with a number of other organisations to run a trial in which 1,600 disadvantaged pupils around England are offered one-to-one and small group tuition.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said being in school was vital for children's wellbeing.\n\nHe added: \"This innovative online tuition pilot is an important part of our plans to put support in place to ensure young people don't fall behind as a result of coronavirus, particularly those facing disadvantages.\"\n\nRussell Hobby, head of teacher training charity Teach First, described the potential loss as \"tragic\".\n\nThis should start with intensive catch-up provision when possible, he said, adding more resources need to be targeted towards those pupils who have suffered the most.", "Snapchat says it has stopped promoting President Donald Trump's account.\n\nAs a result, it will no longer feature in the app's Discover section. The firm said it would \"not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice\".\n\nThe decision follows Mr Trump saying that \"vicious dogs\" and \"ominous weapons\" would have been used on protesters if they had breached the White House fence.\n\nIt follows Twitter's decision to hide some of the president's posts.\n\nSnapchat's parent company Snap said: \"Racial violence and injustice have no place in our society and we stand together with all who seek peace, love, equality, and justice in America.\"\n\nThe move is likely to feed into tensions between the White House and social media, which escalated when Twitter added fact-checking tags to some of the President's tweets last week.\n\nThe president subsequently signed an executive order seeking to curb legal protections offered to the industry.\n\nTwitter later hid one of the president's tweets for breaking its rules on \"glorifying violence\".\n\nSnapchat's action will also put further pressure on Facebook.\n\nIts chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has resisted internal and external calls to intervene in regard to posts on its platform. Mr Zuckerberg has said the firm's free speech principles mean the president's posts should be left up unaltered.\n\nPresident Trump has more than one million followers on Snapchat, according to the Bloomberg news agency. It said the app is seen as being a \"key battleground\" by Mr Trump's re-election campaign because it offers a way to reach first-time voters.\n\nThe president's account will not be suspended or deleted.\n\nHowever, the fact it will not feature in Discover means that his posts will only be seen by people who subscribe to or search for his account directly.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nSnapchat based its decision on remarks Mr Trump had posted to Twitter rather than its own platform.\n\nOn Monday, Snap's chief executive Evan Speigel had sent a memo to staff in which he detailed his views on the civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd.\n\n\"Every minute we are silent in the face of evil and wrongdoing we are acting in support of evildoers,\" Mr Speigel wrote.\n\n\"As for Snapchat, we simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.\"\n\n\"Our Discover content platform is a curated platform, where we decide what we promote,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spike Lee on George Floyd's death and his new film Da 5 Bloods\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee has said people in the US are angry because they \"live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win\".\n\nThe Oscar-winner said the reasons for the current unrest included the deaths of black people like George Floyd but also wider injustices and inequalities.\n\n\"It's not like you're just born angry,\" he told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.\n\nLee also said President Trump's response showed that \"he's a gangster, he's trying to be a dictator\".\n\nMr Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest across the US.\n\nOn Monday, the president walked from the White House to a nearby fire-damaged church to pose with a Bible, after demonstrators were cleared from his path.\n\nPresident Trump held up a Bible outside the boarded up St John's Church\n\nLee, whose new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods follows a group of African-American war veterans, said: \"I was watching this last night with my family and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged.\n\n\"This show of force - gassing, beating innocent, peaceful bystanders so you could clear the street so you could take a walk to the church. It was ridiculous.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Bible did not look comfortable in his hand, and he didn't look comfortable holding the Bible either. I have never seen something like that before in my life, particularly with a world leader.\"\n\nIn his speech before walking to the church, Mr Trump said: \"I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.\"\n\nMany US cities have seen demonstrations and unrest since the death of 46-year-old Mr Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nOn Sunday, Lee released a short film combining footage of Mr Floyd and Eric Garner, who was killed while being arrested in 2014, with a scene from his 1989 film Do the Right Thing in which the character Radio Raheem is murdered.\n\nA state grand jury declined to press criminal charges against the officer involved in Mr Garner's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm tired of being afraid': Why Americans are protesting\n\n\"Why are people angry?\" Lee said on Tuesday. \"People are angry because black people are being killed left and right, cops walked away free.\n\n\"Black and brown people are angry at the disparity between the haves and have-nots - education, drinking dirty water, racism.\n\n\"People are angry for a reason. It's not like you're just born angry. You're angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win.\n\n\"The life expectancy… There are just so many things that one could make a list of [them] forever - that's where the anger's from.\n\n\"It's a stupid analogy, but if you leave the pot on the stove, the water boils.\"\n\nSocial inequalities have been particularly evident during the coronavirus pandemic, he said, with people from minorities more likely to die after contracting the disease.\n\n\"It's the black and brown people who had to go to work, front-liners of all aspects, they kept this [country] going,\" he said.\n\nAnd racism is far from being unique to the US, he added.\n\n\"Racism is all over the world. This was a global pandemic before corona.\n\n\"I'm a very spiritual person and I don't think that's a coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time.\"\n\nHe traced the inequalities in the US back to the country's foundation.\n\n\"The land was stolen from native people, genocide was committed against the native people, and ancestors were stolen from Africa and brought here to work,\" he said.\n\n\"So the foundation of the United States of America is genocide, stealing land and slavery.\n\n\"Any architect will tell you that if you don't have a strong foundation, the building's going to be shaky, and shaky from day one... This original sin has not been dealt with since the birth of this country.\"\n\nDa 5 Bloods is on Netflix from 12 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said at PMQs: “the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 every day is only a fraction of those actually infected every day”.\n\nSo, what do the figures show?\n\n1,613 people tested positive for coronavirus in the UK in the 24 hours up to 9am on 2 June, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nHowever, the government’s testing programme is not the only way of assessing the infection rate.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey carried out between 11 May to 24 May estimated that there are around 54,000 new coronavirus infections per week in England, or around 8,000 a day.\n\nThis survey, which reports weekly, is based on antibody tests (which establish whether people have had the virus) of nearly 19,000 people living in 9,000 households in England.\n\nRead more about the ONS findings here.", "Zoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues\n\nWhen it comes to its growth rate, video conference company Zoom has lived up to its name.\n\nUse of the firm's software jumped 30-fold in April, as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions to work, learn and socialise remotely.\n\nAt its peak, the firm counted more than 300 million daily participants in virtual meetings, while paying customers have more than tripled.\n\nThe dramatic uptake has the potential to change the firm's path.\n\nZoom said it expects sales as high as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) this year - roughly double what it forecast in March.\n\nMr Yuan didn't intend to create Zoom for the masses.\n\nZoom has made Eric Yuan, whose visa application to the US was denied eight times, a billionaire\n\nA Chinese-born software engineer, Mr Yuan started the company in 2011, after years rising through the ranks at WebEx, one of the first US video conference companies, which was purchased by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2bn.\n\nAt the time, he faced doubts from many investors, who did not see the need for another option in a market already dominated by big players such as Microsoft and Cisco.\n\nBut Mr Yuan - who has credited his interest in video conferencing to the long distances he had to travel to meet up with his now-wife in their youth - was frustrated at Cisco and believed there was demand in the business world for software that would work on mobile phones and be easier to use.\n\nWhen the firm sold its first shares to the public last year, it was valued at $15.9bn. That shot to more than $58bn on Tuesday.\n\n\"What Zoom has done is kind of democratised video conferencing for all kinds of businesses and made it very simple for everyone from yoga instructors through to board room executives to deploy video,\" says Alex Smith, senior director at Canalys.\n\nWhen the lockdowns started, Zoom lifted the limits for the free version of its software in China and for educators in many countries, including the UK, helping to drive its popularity.\n\nBut the firm's bread and butter customers are corporate clients, who pay for subscriptions and enhanced features.\n\nZoom said on Tuesday that sales jumped 169% year-on-year in the three months to 30 April to $328.2m, as it added more than 180,000 customers with more than 10 employees since January - far more than it had expected.\n\nIt also turned a profit of $27m in the quarter - more than it made in all of the prior financial year.\n\nThe massive uptake has also strained the firm, forcing it to invest to expand capacity to meet the needs of new users, many of whom are not paying customers.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nIt has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.\n\nIn April, Mr Yuan, who is a US citizen, apologised for the security lapses and the firm started rolling out a number of changes intended to fix the problems. Zoom has also announced a number of new appointments familiar with Washington politics, including H R McMaster, a retired Army general and former national security adviser to Donald Trump.\n\n\"Navigating this process has been a humbling learning experience,\" Mr Yuan said on an investor call on Tuesday.\n\nAnalysts said they expected the company would overcome these reputational blows.\n\n\"It's had that mishap and the fact that its name is still very much used as verbatim with video technology still gives it a lot of momentum and opportunity to continue,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAnalysts say they expect Zoom to maintain its focus on business customers, since that's how it makes money.\n\nBut the pandemic is likely to create more challenges for Zoom in that market, as increased demand for remote work prompts competitors such as Microsoft and Cisco to pour resources into the field.\n\n\"The stakes are higher and the competition's getting tougher, so we'll see,\" says Ryan Koontz, managing director at Rosenblatt Securities.\n\n\"They were on a very strong trajectory before... and happened to be in the right place at the right time as the whole world decided we needed to communicate well on video,\" he says. \"They have this amazing brand... now they have to leverage that brand and figure out which markets they're going to go after.\"", "Young people have already lost months of education and a global recession is being widely predicted in the wake of the current crisis.\n\n\"The reality is that 76% of Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been aged over 75 with most of those entirely avoidable - and that's a tragedy,\" says Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"But the risk for young people is minimal and I think we need to recognise that.\n\n\"Social distancing is something we all need to try and maintain because we don't want more preventable cases rising in the future.\n\n\"But we have to balance the need to restart society - to not seriously disadvantage the young in the longer term. I'd like to see a gradual, phased approach, but try to get education and the economy up and running as quickly and as competently as we can.\"", "President Donald Trump has sparked controversy with his photo shoot\n\nLast night he held a Bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House. Today, he'll visit the Shrine to St John Paul II, also in Washington DC.\n\nBut US President Donald Trump's signalling of religious affiliation has not been welcomed by a range of clerics as the nation struggles to manage the twin challenges of a pandemic and widespread political protest.\n\nThe Episcopal Bishop of Washington, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, said: \"The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.\"\n\nJames Martin, a Jesuit priest and consultant to the Vatican's communications department, tweeted: \"Let me be clear. This is revolting. The Bible is not a prop. A church is not a photo op. Religion is not a political tool. God is not your plaything.\"\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\nRabbi Jack Moline, President of the Interfaith Alliance, said: \"Seeing President Trump standing in front of St John's Episcopal Church while holding a Bible in response to calls for racial justice - right after using military force to clear peaceful protesters - is one of the most flagrant misuses of religion that I have ever seen.\"\n\nPresident Trump does not belong to a particular congregation, only occasionally attends a service and has said many times that he does not like to ask God for forgiveness.\n\nBut while he may not consider church essential to his personal life, it may yet hold the keys to his political future.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trump won 81% of white evangelical votes and exit polls found that white Catholics supported him over Hillary Clinton by 60% to 37%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump declares himself the \"law and order president\"\n\nMr Trump's status, as the champion of evangelical and conservative voters, can seem peculiar given his use of divisive rhetoric, his three marriages, accusations of sexual assault by dozens of women, the hush-money paid to a pornographic film actress, and the record of false statements made during his presidency - more than 18,000 according to the Poynter Institute's Politifact website.\n\nBut he has sealed a powerful bond with religious voters by embracing their political priorities and appointing two Supreme Court justices - Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - and federal judges with their support.\n\nThis may explain why - though an irregular congregant himself - the president has repeatedly demanded the reopening of churches, saying, on 22 May, \"If they don't do it, I will override the governors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nReligious conservatives appear to be the most solid core of Mr Trump's voter base, despite political unrest and the vast number of deaths from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the latest Pew Research Poll, 75% of white evangelical Protestants say he's doing a good job in handling the pandemic - down 6 percentage points from six weeks before.\n\nBut while one voting bloc remains faithful, the country at large is deeply divided. According to analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight, which collates all polling data, 43% of Americans agree with the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, while 53.4% disapprove.\n\nSeveral religious leaders are hoping that Trump's visit to the shrine may encourage him to reflect on the words of then Pope John Paul II, delivered to the United Nations in 1995.\n\n\"The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the 20th Century,\" he said, \"is the common effort to build the civilization of love.\"", "Dominic Cummings drove 260 miles to Durham with his wife and child\n\nA council is investigating complaints that the property Dominic Cummings used during his lockdown trip did not have the correct planning permission.\n\nThe PM's adviser stayed with his family in what he said was a \"cottage\" on his parents' farm in Durham, in April.\n\nThe only planning applications listed on the council's website for the farm are for a roof over a swimming pool in 2001, and the removal of various trees.\n\nDurham County Council and a local MP have received a number of complaints.\n\nIt is believed Mr Cummings stayed in the building with the long green roof\n\nThe Cummings' family property, North Lodge, is on the outskirts of Durham.\n\nThe City of Durham Labour MP Mary Foy, whose constituency includes the home, said she had also raised questions with Durham County Council.\n\nShe said she had received a number of complaints from constituents, and had asked the council whether the property Mr Cummings stayed in had proper planning permission, and whether it was registered for council tax.\n\nShe has yet to receive a reply.\n\nThe council investigation was first reported by The Northern Echo.\n\nMr Cummings' trip to Durham with his wife and child caused a political fallout with The Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford saying Mr Cummings should resign or be dismissed by Boris Johnson for making the journey. Mr Cummings said he acted reasonably and legally.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's positive test for coronavirus was announced on 27 March, and Downing Street said at the time Mr Cummings did not have symptoms.\n\nLater that day the adviser drove to the north-east of England.\n\nOn 30 March, it was confirmed Mr Cummings had developed symptoms of the virus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nDurham Police later said he might have broken lockdown rules with a subsequent trip to nearby Barnard Castle, but added that if he had broken the rules it would have been a \"minor breach\".", "It is hoped the treatment will help the severe respiratory symptoms linked to coronavirus\n\nScientists are running a trial to see if ibuprofen can help hospital patients who are sick with coronavirus.\n\nThe team from London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital and King's College believe the drug, which is an anti-inflammatory as well as a painkiller, could treat breathing difficulties.\n\nThey hope the low-cost treatment can keep patients off ventilators.\n\nIn the trial, called Liberate, half of the patients will receive ibuprofen in addition to usual care.\n\nThe trial will use a special formulation of ibuprofen rather than the regular tablets that people might usually buy. Some people already take this lipid capsule form of the drug for conditions like arthritis.\n\nStudies in animals suggest it might treat acute respiratory distress syndrome - one of the complications of severe coronavirus.\n\nProf Mitul Mehta, one of the team at King's College London, said: \"We need to do a trial to show that the evidence actually matches what we expect to happen.\"\n\nEarly in the pandemic there were some concerns that ibuprofen might be bad for people to take, should they have the virus with mild symptoms.\n\nThese were heightened when France's health minister Oliver Veran said that taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, could aggravate the infection and advised patients to take paracetamol instead.\n\nA review by the Commission on Human Medicines quickly concluded that, like paracetamol, it was safe to take for coronavirus symptoms. Both can bring a temperature down and help with flu-like symptoms.\n\nFor mild coronavirus symptoms, the NHS advises people try paracetamol first, as it has fewer side-effects than ibuprofen and is the safer choice for most people. You should not take ibuprofen if you have a stomach ulcer, for example.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Police have been searching for Madeleine McCann for over 13 years\n\nA 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago.\n\nPolice believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen.\n\nMadeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing from an apartment on a Portuguese holiday resort on the evening of 3 May 2007, while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\n\"Someone out there knows a lot more than they're letting on,\" said Det Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met inquiry.\n\nThe force said it remained a \"missing persons\" investigation because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nHowever, German investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry.\n\nThe London police force said the German authorities had taken the lead at this stage of the case because the German suspect was in custody in their country.\n\nGerman police told the country's ZDF TV channel the suspect, who is not being named, is a sex offender currently in prison for a sex crime.\n\nThe man has two previous convictions for \"sexual contact with girls\", according to Christian Hoppe from Germany's federal criminal police office.\n\nAn appeal on German television was broadcast this evening at 19:15 BST.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the prisoner, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia de Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 7.32pm, which ended at 8.02pm.\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number and the number which dialled him, saying any information about them could be \"critical\" to the inquiry.\n\nThe suspect is believed to have been using a Portuguese mobile phone, with the number +351 912 730 680 on the day Madeleine went missing.\n\nThe phone received a call in the area of Praia da Luz from a second mobile number, +351 916 510 683, from someone not in the area. They want the person who made this call to come forward.\n\n\"They're a key witness and we urge them to get in touch,\" said Det Ch Insp Cranwell.\n\n\"Some people will know the man we're describing today... you may be aware of some of the things he's done,\" he said.\n\n\"He may have confided in you about the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\n\"More than 13 years have passed and your loyalties may have changed,\" he added.\n\n\"Now is the time to come forward.\"\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann, pictured in 2017, said they would never give up hope\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the inquiry, known as Operation Grange, originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter an appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.\n\nSince then, Met detectives have carried out \"extensive inquiries\" in Portugal and Germany in order to gather more details about him.\n\nThe force said it was trying to \"prove or disprove\" his involvement in the case and retained an \"open mind\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell: \"He could have looked somewhere between 25 and 32\"\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of committing driving offences\n\nTwo men have been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in London's Sloane Square, police say.\n\nGovernment minister Greg Hands tweeted a vehicle had \"mounted the pavement and struck pedestrians\" before being abandoned nearby.\n\nCordons have been put around the area while the vehicle is searched by officers. The Met said the incident was not terror-related.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of committing driving offences.\n\nTwo men were hit by the car in Sloane Square\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it was called out at just after 12:00 BST to reports of a collision \"involving pedestrians\".\n\n\"We dispatched two ambulance crews and a medic in a car, with the first of our crews arriving in under four minutes,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We treated two men at the scene and took them both to hospital.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg Hands This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan's Sunderland plant is \"unsustainable\" without a Brexit trade deal, said Ashwani Gupta.\n\nThe UK's largest car manufacturing plant is \"unsustainable\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a trade deal, owner Nissan says.\n\nThe Japanese company's global chief operating head told the BBC people had to understand the EU was the Sunderland factory's biggest customer.\n\nAshwani Gupta said that Nissan's commitment could not be maintained if there was not tariff-free EU access.\n\nNissan has invested billions of pounds in the plant, which has 7,000 workers.\n\nHis comments come despite the Sunderland site surviving this week's announcement on the Japanese giant's global restructuring programme.\n\nMr Gupta said: \"You know we are the number one carmaker in the UK and we want to continue. We are committed. Having said that, if we are not getting the current tariffs, it's not our intention but the business will not be sustainable. That's what everybody has to understand.\"\n\nHe also said that any plans for its strategic partner and 43%-shareholder Renault to take up spare capacity at Sunderland would be a matter for the French carmaker. The French government has a 15% stake in Renault.\n\nThis is not the first time that Nissan has pleaded with UK and EU negotiators to ensure that the 70% of cars manufactured at Sunderland which are sold in the EU can avoid tariffs of 10% under World Trade Organisation rules - the legal default position if a deal is not struck.\n\nThose talks resumed this week, with the differences between the UK and EU being described on all sides as deep and wide.\n\nLast week, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU would consider a two-year Brexit delay, which was rebuffed by his UK counterpart David Frost, who told MPs the government's policy remains not to extend the transition period beyond the end of the year.\n\nUnder an agreement signed last year, the UK has until the end of this month to decide whether it wants to request such an extension so the coming weeks are crucial.\n\nThe comments by Nissan may dampen hopes raised just last week when the company said that while it was closing plants in Spain and Indonesia, it remained committed to Sunderland.\n\nAn announcement by Nissan that Renault might take the European lead in the companies' global manufacturing alliance (which also includes Mitsubishi) by taking up an estimated 20% spare capacity at Sunderland were quashed for the foreseeable future by Renault last week, when it said it had no current plans to move in to the UK.\n\nMr Gupta confirmed that any decision by its partners would be a matter for them, and that no such deal had been agreed. \"When it comes to the allocation of manufacturing, each company will take the decision based on the competitiveness of the plants.\"\n\nNissan is a huge fan of the Sunderland plant and paid tribute to the efficiency and hard work of the operation. But it reiterated that was not enough to secure its long-term future if tariffs were imposed in a market which it described last week as \"non-core\". It only has a 3% market share of the vehicle market in Europe.\n\nOn a more encouraging note, Mr Gupta said recent sales figures from China showed the world's biggest car market was recovering fast and the company was winning market share. But vehicles for that market are not produced in the UK.\n\nIt is still possible that Renault could decide to move production of certain vehicles to Sunderland. But it is hard to see how a company which is 15%-owned by the French taxpayer could find a way to make that work where Nissan, which has been in Sunderland for 40 years, says it cannot.\n\nNissan's comments are a timely reminder that for many key industries, the Brexit issue - which has not been silenced by coronavirus news - has in many ways been amplified by it.", "Authorities in India's financial capital Mumbai are bracing for a severe storm which could hit its coast early on Wednesday.\n\nCyclone Nisarga is set to make landfall on India's west coast, near the city in Maharashtra state. Neighbouring Gujarat state is also likely to be impacted.\n\nThe National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) has deployed to both states.\n\nThe storm comes barely two weeks after Cyclone Amphan hit India's east coast.\n\nMore than 85 people were killed by Amphan in both eastern India and Bangladesh.\n\nMumbai is already experiencing heavy rains, strong winds and heavy tides. Although the exact path of the storm will take some hours to become clear, weather officials say that there is a chance it could hit the city directly.\n\nIf that were to happen, it would make it the first cyclone to impact Mumbai in centuries.\n\nAuthorities have begun evacuating people from low-lying areas in and around the city, the state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said.\n\nFishermen have also been called back in from the sea and told not to venture out. The area has been put on \"red alert\" until Thursday, with storm surges expected.\n\nNDRF officials told local media that they were working on a \"zero casualties\" approach, which means they are hoping that there will be no deaths.\n\n\"Since the cyclone is in the severe category, the damage it can cause is considerable. We are working for the best but preparing for the worst,\" Director General SM Pradhan said.\n\nBoats are being moved ahead of the storm hitting\n\nHowever, the onset of the storm is likely to worry officials in Mumbai. With more than 50,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the city is already India's worst-impacted in terms of infections.\n\nIts healthcare system is at breaking point, with videos from state emergency wards showing patients being forced to share beds and even oxygen cylinders. With more than 20 million people, it is also the country's most populous city.\n\nThe onset of rains in coming months is expected to bring about other illness like malaria, typhoid, gastric infection and leptospirosis.", "More than half the UK population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, a survey suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers said sleep problems were more common in people facing financial hardship, while two in five reported having more vivid dreams than usual.\n\nSome people slept for longer than usual, but without feeling rested.\n\nThe findings are based on online interviews in late May with 2,254 UK residents in the 16-75 age bracket.\n\nThe study was carried out by market research company Ipsos MORI and King's College London.\n\nThe researchers said lack of sleep may itself have had knock-on effects on people's capacity to be resilient during the pandemic, and there are signs of a disproportionate impact on particular groups: women, younger people and those facing financial difficulties.\n\n\"As with so much about Covid-19, the crisis is affecting people very differently depending on their circumstances, and that includes the most fundamental aspects of life, such as sleep,\" said Prof Bobby Duffy of King's College London.\n\nHe said nearly two-thirds of the public reported some negative impact on their sleep, showing just how unsettling the pandemic and lockdown measures have been.\n\nDisturbed sleep is often caused by stress, and can itself increase stress levels, creating a cycle that is difficult to break, added Dr Ivana Rosenzweig, of Kings College.\n\nHowever, a quarter of participants reported they were sleeping more and feeling better for it, she said, highlighting that, \"as a society, we simply do not get the chance to sleep as much as we need, and that this pandemic is allowing some of us to rediscover the importance of sleep\".\n\nPrevious research has shown that for many people lockdown has led to disturbed sleep, insomnia and vivid dreams.\n\nExperts have suggested keeping to a routine, not taking naps and trying to get some exercise outside.\n• None Five tips to help you sleep better", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "Mark Sutherland was previously jailed for sending explicit pictures and messages to a 12-year-old\n\nPolice and prosecutors give \"tacit encouragement\" to so-called \"paedophile hunter\" groups, the UK's highest court has heard.\n\nThe Supreme Court was told \"huge numbers\" of cases were prosecuted based on information from such organisations.\n\nThe judges are being asked to consider whether prosecutions based on these operations breach human rights.\n\nThe case has been brought by Mark Sutherland who was caught by a group called Groom Resisters Scotland.\n\nIn 2018, Sutherland, 37, matched up on Grindr with someone who, when he communicated with them, claimed to be a 13-year-old boy.\n\nHe sent sexual messages and images to the person and they later arranged to meet at Partick Bus Station in Glasgow.\n\nIn reality, the person Sutherland was communicating with was not a child, but a \"decoy\" - a member of Groom Resisters Scotland.\n\nThe group confronted Sutherland at the arranged meeting, broadcasted the encounter on social media and handed the evidence to the police.\n\nHe was convicted in August 2018 of attempting to communicate indecently with an older child, and related offences, and jailed for two years.\n\nHe had previously been jailed for sending explicit pictures to a 12-year-old boy.\n\nSutherland went to meet someone he thought was a young boy at Partick Station\n\nSutherland argues that his right to a private life, enshrined in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.\n\nAt Wednesday's hearing, his lawyer Gordon Jackson QC, said: \"The police are aware that there a number of hunter organisations operating in Scotland and the UK and evidence submitted from these organisations has led to a number of criminal investigations and convictions.\"\n\nThere is \"disquiet\" about the work of such groups, he said.\n\nMr Jackson argued that \"a huge number\" of cases were prosecuted on the basis of information from these organisations.\n\n\"What we have is tacit encouragement of these groups,\" he said.\n\nAlison di Rollo QC, Solicitor General for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland's prosecution service, which is opposing the appeal, argued that the criminal prosecution of sexual conduct between an adult and a child \"does not engage\" someone's rights to privacy.\n\n\"There is no right to respect for such behaviour in a democratic society,\" she said.\n\nMs di Rollo said it was clear the \"overriding duty\" of the police was \"to respond to any report of any identified person who may pose a sexual risk to children\".\n\nShe said there was guidance which set out \"the risks, the activities, the undesirability of the activities of these groups\" but regardless of the source of evidence, the usual high standards of investigation were required.\n\nShe also said members of paedophile hunter groups were themselves liable to criminal prosecution if they broke the law.\n\nThe Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver their ruling at a later date.\n\nThe case before the Supreme Court justices is very important as the law surrounding the activities of \"paedophile hunters\" is currently unclear.\n\nYet according to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) almost half of online grooming cases result from the activities of vigilante groups.\n\nThe inspectorate said these groups are unregulated and untrained, and in its report in February 2020 said: \"A more robust proactive capability on the part of Police Scotland would reduce the opportunities for these groups to operate.\"\n\nAlthough Mark Sutherland was convicted by a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court, a later case in Dundee was thrown out because evidence gained by a vigilante group was ruled \"inadmissible.\"\n\nIn that case the sheriff said the means used to induce the accused, known only as PHP, into engaging in an exchange of messages amounted to \"fraud\".\n\nPHP's lawyers said the vigilantes' activities interfered with his rights under ECHR Article 8 and using their evidence in any trial would mean the court was acting \"incompatibly\" with those rights.\n\nThey also argued the use of information gathered covertly was unlawful under legislation designed to ensure the surveillance of a person was properly regulated.\n\nThose arguments were rejected by the sheriff, but he said by pretending falsely to be young children, the vigilantes had acted unlawfully.\n\nThe case at the Supreme Court is being watched carefully by England's Director of Public Prosecutions who has been granted \"intervener\" status.\n\nThe judgement, which will be issued later, will provide a definitive answer to the question of whether undercover vigilante activity is legal, and compatible with human rights, even of those who seek to abuse children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Radio 1 host Clara Amfo has been praised for making a candid, emotional speech on air about George Floyd's death and her own mental health.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Amfo said she had been so affected by Mr Floyd's death that she had missed her show on Monday.\n\n\"I didn't have the mental strength to face you guys yesterday,\" said the DJ, her voice breaking with emotion.\n\n\"I was sat on my sofa crying, angry, confused... stuck at the news of yet another brutalised black body.\"\n\nMr Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died last week after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMinneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been sacked and charged with third-degree murder.\n\nAmfo was speaking on \"Blackout Tuesday\", an initiative demanding racial justice and structural change in the wake of the killing.\n\nOriginally organised by the music industry, it has involved stars like Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Drake observing a day of silence, and record labels suspending normal business for 24 hours.\n\nThe movement has now spread across social media, with many users posting a simple black square, alongside messages of solidarity and links to anti-racism resources.\n\nRadio 1 and its sister station 1Xtra have been reflecting the movement by hosting discussions about the issues surrounding Mr Floyd's death, and playing songs that address black empowerment and identity.\n\nSpeaking on her mid-morning show, Amfo said the events in Minneapolis had reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nShe added: \"In other words, you want my talent, but you don't want me.\n\n\"There is a false idea that racism - and in this case anti-blackness - is just name-calling and physical violence, when it is so much more insidious than that.\n\n\"One of my favourite thinkers is a woman called Amanda Seales, and she says this and I feel it deeply when she says, 'You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues'. And I say that with my chest.\"\n\nFellow broadcasters praised Amfo for her candour and bravery.\n\nThe presenter ended her speech by playing Kendrick Lamar's Alright, which became associated with the Black Lives Matter movement after its release.\n\nThe song opens with the line: \"All my life I had to fight,\" and references police officers who \"wanna kill us dead in the street, for sure\".\n\n\"I want to say to our black listeners, I hope you feel seen and heard today,\" Amfo concluded.\n\n\"And to those of you that already let me know that you are doing the work, to be committed to doing better, I see you, so let's do this. Let's all be anti-racist.\"\n\nMusicians including Rihanna and Beyoncé have called for justice for George Floyd, while Ariana Grande joined protests in LA\n\nAmfo's speech was widely praised by listeners and fellow broadcasters, with many saying they had been moved to tears.\n\nFellow Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free said: \"Clara Amfo is an incredible human being who showed the world today a superhuman strength and bravery whilst broadcasting on the radio.\n\n\"The most powerful broadcast I have ever heard and I am in complete awe and adoration of her in every way shape and form. So much love.\"\n\n\"Thank you, Clara Amfo, thank you,\" said ITV news presenter Charlene White.\n\n\"So many people still confused as to why George Floyd's death has hit so many of us hard. Clara sums it up so well. Hear her anger, hear her pain. I feel it too.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Skip twitter post 4 by Abbie Bourne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Clara Amfo is just one of our finest and smartest broadcasters,\" wrote Pointless host Richard Osman. \"She speaks to the Radio 1 audience, with great honesty, power and truth, about the murder of George Floyd.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous 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. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, 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 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "The plane used by Boris Johnson and members of the royal family for international travel is being repainted in the colours of the Union flag to \"better represent\" the UK abroad.\n\nThe red, white and blue \"rebranding\" will cost about £900,000, No 10 said.\n\nDowning Street said it represented \"value for money\" and that all of the work was being done in the UK.\n\nBut opposition parties were critical, saying the money would be better spent on helping the victims of coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the aircraft was currently in Cambridgeshire for pre-planned repainting in \"national branding\".\n\nAsked about the plane at the daily coronavirus press briefing, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said \"we have always spent money on promoting the UK round the world\" and added that the work on RAF Voyager was part of that effort.\n\nThe RAF Voyager is used by the prime minister, other ministers and senior members of the Royal Family for official engagements.\n\nIt said the makeover would mean the plane \"can better represent the UK around the world, while also maintaining its military air to air refuelling capacity\".\n\nDowning Street said all of the work was benefiting UK suppliers.\n\nMarshall Aerospace and Defence Group told the BBC they are carrying out work on the aircraft, which is much bigger than ones they would usually work on.\n\nBoris Johnson speaking to journalists onboard the Voyager in 2019\n\nBut acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the money would have been better spent on supporting treatments for coronavirus patients.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ed Davey MP 🔶🇪🇺 #StayHomeSaveLives #ProtectNHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the SNP hit out at the timing of the move, which follows Tuesday's u-turn by the government over providing school meal vouchers for low-income families over the summer holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 2 by The SNP\n\nLabour questioned why the government was spending nearly a million pounds \"redecorating a plane which in all likelihood has been grounded for months because of the coronavirus\".\n\n\"When families across the country are worried about their jobs, health and the education of their children, they will rightly question the government's priorities,\" said shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh.\n\nAnd Labour MP Chris Bryant told the BBC it was \"just a vanity project for the prime minister\".\n\n\"People who are on furlough in my constituency and are terrified they are going to lose their jobs will be wondering why on earth this is a priority,\" he said.\n\nThe RAF Voyager, an Airbus A330 jet, was re-purposed for use by the UK government in 2015, at a cost of £10m.\n\nIt was first used to take David Cameron and other ministers to the Nato summit in Poland in July 2016.\n\nAt the time, the government defended the expenditure, saying it was cheaper than chartering flights and would save about £775,000 a year.", "Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September.\n\nThe firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University.\n\nAstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine this year and next.\n\nInitial trials are under way and AstraZeneca said it recognised that the vaccine might not work.\n\nBut the company said it was committed to advancing the clinical programme.\n\nScientists have warned that a coronavirus vaccine, if developed, might not confer full immunity, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a vaccine might never be found.\n\nDespite these reservations, intensive research continues, with about 80 groups around the world working on possible vaccines.\n\nAstraZeneca indicated that production would take place in more than one country. It thanked the UK and US governments for \"substantial support to accelerate the development and production of the vaccine\".\n\nIt also said it was in discussions with the Serum Institute of India and other potential partners to increase production and distribution.\n\nSpecifically, it said it had received support of more than $1bn from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production and delivery of the vaccine,\n\nAstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\n\"We need to defeat the virus together or it will continue to inflict huge personal suffering and leave long-lasting economic and social scars in every country around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so proud to be collaborating with Oxford University to turn their ground-breaking work into a medicine that can be produced on a global scale.\"", "Della Morgan spotted this twister just north of Brecon in Powys\n\nTornadoes have been spotted across two counties - as parts of Wales were hit by thunderstorms.\n\nEyewitnesses glimpsed the first just five miles north of Brecon in Powys on late Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThen 40 miles away at Bont Goch, east of Talybont in Ceredigion, another twister was caught on camera.\n\nRebecca Charnock said she stopped her car to grab a quick shot, before the swirling clouds \"fizzled away\".\n\nRebecca Charnock was stopped in her tracks by this twister in Ceredigion\n\n\"I did start to wonder what it was - and then thought 'crikey - I need a picture',\" said Ms Charnock.\n\n\"It was coming towards me, and I thought 'I wonder where it is going to go?\n\n\"But then it just fizzled out and it was gone.\"\n\nMoving away - the Brecon tornado on the horizon\n\nThe Brecon sightings were captured by Della Morgan and her husband.\n\n\"I said quick, quick, come outside,\" said Mrs Morgan\n\n\"We watched it descend, it moved around and then dissipated.\"\n\nThe tornado can be clearly seen making its way across the ridge above farmland.\n\nThe weather events were captured following a day of warnings for thunderstorms across much of Wales.\n\nFurther alerts have also been issued for Wednesday between 12:00 and 21:00 BST for more storms.\n\nThe yellow warning from the Met Office covers all but far western tips of Wales, with a small risk of flooding and lighting strikes.", "A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.\n\nThe app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.\n\nThe BBC can also reveal that the project's two lead managers - NHSX's Matthew Gould and Geraint Lewis - are stepping back.\n\nAnd Simon Thompson - a former Apple executive - is joining to manage it.\n\nMr Thompson is currently chief product officer at the online grocer Ocado. He has been appointed to Baroness Dido Harding's Test and Trace team, where he will have other duties in addition to the app.\n\nMr Gould and Mr Lewis had always expected to move back to their other duties this month, however they had intended for the app to have had its national rollout by now.\n\nLord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.\n\nBut he insisted that the trial \"has gone very well indeed\".\n\nHe was responding to questions at the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment,\" Lord Bethell said in answer to a question about the app.\n\nHe admitted that was \"an expectation of management answer, saying I can't give you a date\".\n\nLord Bethell said it was still the government's intention to launch it at some point.\n\nLord Bethell has just poured a bucket of icy water over the project that was supposed to be at the heart of the government's test-and-trace strategy.\n\nAt the beginning of May, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people had a duty to download the app, which was expected to be rolled out nationally by the end of the month.\n\nPlenty of people warned at an early stage that telling people via an app notification to go into quarantine might not work.\n\nNow it seems the Isle of Wight trial has confirmed that most prefer the more human touch of a phone call.\n\nThe team behind the app have an updated version ready to go which they feel addresses many of the concerns. But it looks as though ministers and the Test-and-Trace supremo Baroness Harding have decided to put the whole idea in the deep freeze. Don't bet on it coming back in the winter.\n\nHe also added that the trial on the Isle of Wight had shown that some people preferred humans to do the contact tracing.\n\n\"There is a danger of it being too technological and relying too much on text and emails, and alienating or freaking out people - because you're peddling quite alarming news through quite casual communication,\" he said.\n\nSince the launch of the trial phase six weeks ago, there have been few official updates about any expected timeline, and reports that ministers are considering switching systems.\n\nLord Bethell said that because the disease's prevalence was currently relatively low, \"we're not feeling under great time pressure, and therefore we're focusing on getting the right app\".\n\nHe added: \"I won't hide from you that there are technical challenges with getting the app right, and we are really keen to make sure that we get all aspects of it correct.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that the public were highly concerned about the app, which he said was one reason an app had not been \"rushed\" out.\n\n\"If we didn't quite get it right the first time round, we might poison the pool and close down a really important option for the future.\"", "Mary was a nurse at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire. She was diagnosed with coronavirus in early April and died a week later.\n\nDoctors were able to save her baby by an emergency C- section but her husband, Ernest, argues she shouldn't have been working at the hospital at the start of the pandemic as she was heavily pregnant.\n\nHe has spoken exclusively to the BBC's Sima Kotecha.\n\nThe Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"We were extremely saddened to lose Mary. She worked here for five years and was a highly valued and loved member of our team, a fantastic nurse and a great example of what we stand for in this Trust.\n\n\"We have carried out a full internal review into the circumstances surrounding her death and we are confident that she received the best possible care and support from the Trust.\n\n\"We have sent our deepest condolences to Mr Boateng, and are currently working through a number of issues he has raised.\"", "A life-saving treatment for seriously-ill hospital patients with Covid-19 is being used across the UK from today, following breakthrough results in a UK trial.\n\nDexamethasone - a cheap, widely-available steroid - was shown to reduce deaths among patients on ventilators and on oxygen.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers say it should be used \"with immediate effect\".\n\nAnd there are no issues with supplies of the medicine in the UK.\n\nIn an urgent letter from the UK's four chief medical officers to clinicians in the NHS, they said dexamethasone had \"a clear place in the management of hospitalised patients with Covid-19\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons that 240,000 doses of the drug are \"in stock and on order\".\n\n\"It is not by any means a cure but it is the best news we have had,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced a further 184 people have died with coronavirus across all settings in the UK, taking the total to 42,153.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory drug was tested as part of the world's biggest trial of existing treatments to see if they could also work against coronavirus.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nThe researchers said this was equivalent to one life being saved for every eight patients on a ventilator and one life being saved for every 20-25 being treated with oxygen.\n\nMarium Zumeer was given the drug as part of the trial\n\nMarium Zumeer, an 18-year-old from Bradford who was given the drug as part of the trial, said it had been \"life-saving\".\n\nShe was admitted to hospital after 10 days of being extremely unwell, and after beginning a course of the drug she was told she would hopefully be home in a week.\n\n\"And a week later I did come home,\" Ms Zumeer said.\n\nOn Monday 15 June, 385 people with Covid-19 were on mechanical ventilation in hospitals in the UK with hundreds more likely to be on oxygen support.\n\nThey could all be candidates for receiving dexamethasone.\n\nThe drug works by dampening down the reaction of the body's immune system to on Covid-19, which can often be more harmful than the virus itself.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said it was \"the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly\".\n\nHowever, it should not be used to treat anyone with coronavirus who is not in hospital. Its use is still being studied in children.\n\nAlready used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions, the cost of the drug would be as little as £5 per patient.\n\nThe drug is also widely available around the world.\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 clashes involving demonstrators and police took place on Wednesday teatime\n\nNicola Sturgeon has condemned \"racist thugs\" as she described disorder in Glasgow city centre as \"disgraceful\".\n\nSix men have been arrested by police after two separate protest groups gathered in George Square.\n\nNational Defence League supporters went to the square saying they wanted to \"make and stand\" and \"protect the Cenotaph\".\n\nShortly afterwards activists from No Evictions Glasgow arrived for their planned demonstration.\n\nThey chanted \"refugees are welcome here\" before leaving the square.\n\nImages on social media showed some protestors clashing with police.\n\nBoth the first minister and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish justice secretary, used social media to condemn the scenes.\n\nThe first minister tweeted: \"Disgraceful scenes in Glasgow tonight. Racist thugs shame Scotland.\n\n\"If they break the law, they should face the full force of it. And all of us should unite to say that welcoming refugees and asylum seekers is part of who we are.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the incident by Police Scotland.\n\n\"Let's not mince our words, this has nothing to do with statues and everything to do with racist thuggery,\" he said.\n\n\"Police have made a number of arrests already and will continue to take all necessary action against those responsible.\"\n\nAhead of the protests, Ch Supt Mark Hargreaves urged people not to attend the events but follow government coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nAfterwards, he said Police Scotland had an \"appropriate\" presence to ensure public safety.\n\n\"So far, six men have been arrested for minor public order offences and reports will be submitted to the procurator fiscal,\" he added.\n\n\"The majority of protesters have now left George Square and officers remain in the area for public reassurance.\n\n\"A review will be undertaken and should any further criminality be identified appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nFour of the protestors who were arrested said they were in the square to protect the statues, while the other two men said they were attending the protest calling for better housing for asylum seekers.\n\nMeanwhile, No Evictions Glasgow accused \"far-right groups\" of trying to \"hi-jack\" their peaceful protest.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their protest was about conditions facing people in the asylum system in Glasgow - not the cenotaph.\n\nThe group from Glasgow No Evictions were guided away from George Square by police", "The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent former National Security Adviser John Bolton from publishing a new book about his time at the White House.\n\nAccording to the complaint, the book contains \"classified information\".\n\nThe move comes a day after President Donald Trump said Mr Bolton could face \"criminal problems\" over the release.\n\nThe book, entitled The Room Where It Happened, is due to be released on 23 June.\n\n\"I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified,\" Mr Trump told reporters on Monday. \"So that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems.\"\n\nHowever, the non-profit American Civil Liberties Union said that \"any Trump administration efforts to stop John Bolton's book from being published are doomed to fail\".\n\nMr Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, said they were looking through the lawsuit and \"will respond in due course\".\n\nIn January, the White House said the book contained that must be removed, although Mr Bolton rejected this.\n\nHowever, claims reportedly contained in the manuscript - including that Mr Trump withheld military aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to start a corruption investigation into Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter - formed a central part of the president's impeachment trial earlier this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThe president denied the reports and Mr Trump was acquitted after a two-week trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which did not include any witnesses.\n\nMr Bolton joined the White House in April 2018 and left in September the following year, saying he had decided to quit as national security adviser. President Trump, however, said he had fired Mr Bolton because he disagreed \"strongly\" with him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A car driving the PM away from Prime Minister's Questions has been involved in a bump on leaving Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson's convoy was involved in a minor collision outside Parliament when a protester ran towards the cars.\n\nThis forced the lead car in the convoy to brake suddenly causing the escorting vehicle to collide with the saloon car carrying Mr Johnson.\n\nA large dent was seen in the prime minister's Jaguar as the convoy drove off towards Downing Street.\n\nNo 10 confirmed Mr Johnson was in the car and said there are no reports of any injuries.\n\nAsked later about the incident, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Mr Johnson was \"wholly unscathed\".\n\nThe car carrying the prime minister left Parliament Square with a large dent\n\nThe demonstrator had been protesting about Turkey's action against Kurdish rebels.\n\nThe police said a man was later arrested at the scene for offences under the Public Order Act and for obstructing the highway.\n\nThe prime minister was in Parliament on Wednesday, for the weekly Prime Minister's Question session.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man Utd's Rashford speaks about his mother's sacrifices in bid to end food poverty\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has been hailed a \"real hero\" by people in the area of Manchester where he grew up.\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward, 22, persuaded the government to extend the free school meal vouchers scheme in England throughout the summer after he penned an open letter to MPs.\n\nThe government had previously insisted it would not award vouchers outside term time.\n\nIn his #maketheUturn campaign, Rashford recalled relying on free school meals and food banks as a boy in Wythenshawe.\n\nSo what do people there make of his success?\n\nChristian Latimer and daughter Mia says the Manchester United star \"stood up for those who need it\"\n\nChristian Latimer's six-year-old daughter Mia has benefited from free schools meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe 27-year-old shop worker praised Rashford for his \"amazing\" campaign.\n\nHe said: \"He showed great fight and he has achieved so much in helping families who struggle to feed their children.\n\n\"Mia had them [free meals] at school and it is a great support and boost for families.\n\n\"Marcus has stood up for those who need it,.\n\n\"As a United fan I thought he was great before but now he has shown the whole country what sort of a person he is off the pitch.\n\n\"I know he visits his old school and gives presents out to the kids.\n\nFormer neighbour Anson James says Marcus Rashford \"always had a ball\"\n\nRashford's former neighbours recall him playing football as a boy in front of his house in the Northern Moor area.\n\n\"He played out the front all the time with his brother,\" Anson James, 45, said.\n\n\"He always had a ball with him.\n\n\"People living round here don't have a lot of money so his family would have struggled.\n\n\"He is a great credit to the area with everything he has done.\"\n\nMike Graham, 51, said Rashford was also given free chicken patties from his favourite Caribbean takeaway J S Rhythm.\n\n\"He was so polite that the people who ran it would give him free food now and again as he did not have the money to buy it,\" Mr Graham said.\n\nHR worker Kate Jenner, 31, lives in Rashford's old house which she rents from his family.\n\nThe footballer lived in the semi-detached home from 2006.\n\nShe said: \"Marcus has been back to the area and the house a few times. What he has done is amazing to stand up for those in poverty and taking on the government.\n\n\"He is a credit to the country.\"\n\nNeighbours recall the England international playing football outside his house\n\nThe Bideford Community Centre in Wythenshawe has turned into a food hub during lockdown and said volunteers \"leapt up and down\" when they heard the free meals scheme was being extended through the holidays.\n\n\"We're over the moon and so proud of Marcus,\" said Kirsty Taylor from the centre.\n\n\"This will make such a difference because we really are at crisis point.\n\n\"There is a lot of poverty in this area and we have been so worried - it is heartbreaking to see children hungry.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have been making 1,000-1,200 meals a week since the lockdown.\"\n\nKerry James, 31, who has used local foodbanks to help feed her two daughters, aged six and nine, said: \"It can be such a struggle to give them food and clothes.\n\n\"I've gone hungry so they can eat and it's heartbreaking sometimes when I can't get them all they need.\"\n\nShe added: \"Marcus is a hero that he is fighting for poor families and made the government change [its] mind.\"\n\nRashford's former head teacher Emma Roberts at Button Lane Primary School said the footballer was \"a real hero to our children\" and staff were \"really proud\".\n\nThe school has twice the national average number of pupils eligible for the free school meals.\n\nShe said some families faced further financial strains with unemployment or reduction in working hours as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nRashford's old football club Fletcher Moss FC also praised their former player.\n\nIt tweeted his actions show \"how footballers can help their own and other communities\" adding it was \"very proud of him\".\n\nMike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale, tweeted the footballer had \"made a real difference to children's lives\".\n\nHe said Wythenshawe was \"so very proud of you\", adding he was an \"outstanding role model\".\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.", "Wales had the lowest number of pupils accessing four or more online lessons per day in lockdown\n\nChildren in Wales are being \"left behind\" by a lack of online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown, Plaid Cymru has said.\n\nA survey by University College London (UCL) found only 1.9% of Welsh pupils had four or more daily online lessons.\n\nFrancis Green, the report's author, said the lack of teaching would \"exacerbate existing inequalities\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said its online platform was playing a \"crucial role\" in helping education.\n\nOnline lessons were categorised as live meetings between teachers and pupils over the internet, which were less common than offline lessons, which consist of worksheets and assignments.\n\nThe report found 1.9% of students in Wales received four or more online lessons per day, compared with the UK average of 7%.\n\nJust over a quarter of students received two to three hours of online learning, while 72.5% accessed an hour or less.\n\nThe survey of 4,559 children in the UK, including 234 from Wales, also found Wales was only ahead of the north east of England for the percentage of pupils accessing four or more pieces of offline learning.\n\nSchools in Wales are set to reopen on 29 June\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's shadow education minister, said the results of the survey were \"incredibly disappointing\".\n\nShe said: \"Thousands of children are being left behind and the attainment gap between those from the most advantaged backgrounds and those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds has only widened.\n\n\"The priorities of the Welsh Government's connectivity program should be looked at urgently to ensure digital connectivity is not a barrier for disadvantaged children and their education.\n\n\"We urgently need more data, more research and more transparency.\n\n\"It beggars belief that the Welsh Government isn't already collecting data and setting targets. We need to know how many pupils don't have a personal laptop or proper internet access. We need to know how many pupils are logging on to their education - and how many have no contact at all.\"\n\nMeanwhile Prof Green, professor of work and education economics at UCL, said Wales was behind the rest of the UK in some areas of online education.\n\n\"The greatest fear is the education of a whole generation will be significantly held back,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Even if children are deprived for weeks, let alone months, then there are significant effects on their educational development.\n\n\"The effects are going to be exacerbating existing inequalities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Schools in Wales are deploying a wide range of approaches to ensure continuity of learning for pupils with the support of our 'stay safe, stay learning' plan during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our leading online learning platform Hwb continues to play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of education during this incredibly challenging period, with an average of 2.5 million logins per month over the last three months - a 134% increase on the previous year.\n\n\"There have also been over 9.5 million page views per month over the same period - a 157% increase on the previous year. More than 99% of schools are actively engaged in using the platform.\n\n\"It is our intention to use the last weeks of the summer term to make sure pupils, staff and parents are prepared - mentally, emotionally and practically - for the new normal in September.\"\n\nThere's growing concern about big variations in pupils' experience of home learning, especially when the Welsh Government says it will be a big part of education for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nEven with schools reopening at the end of this month, pupils will only get a very limited amount of face-to-face teaching and the message is that \"blended\" learning will continue.\n\nAt the same time many private schools are providing a full timetable of live lessons, and there are fears about widening gaps in children's education.\n\nLast week, the Children's Commissioner called for a \"step-up\" in what's being provided and minimum expectations of what schools should deliver.\n\nSome teaching unions will be wary of placing extra demands on teachers.\n\nBut there's pressure too on the government to give the issue more attention, alongside the limited return to school buildings.", "Children should speak to their friends in Welsh while playing on games consoles to keep up their use of the language, according to the Welsh language minister.\n\nEluned Morgan acknowledged that non-Welsh speaking parents of children who go to Welsh-medium schools were “anxious” to ensure they have opportunities to use the language while schools are closed.\n\nShe said the government had provided online resources to help.\n\n“There's also opportunities for people to use their language, we've seen the Urdd for example undertake a significant digital event, the Eisteddfod T, with thousands of children from Welsh speaking homes and non-Welsh speaking homes were able to use the language.\n\n“And also I think it's worth just making the point that they have friends, they can speak to their friends in Welsh.\n\n“So I'd encourage them if they are going to be playing on their Xboxes or their PS4s, then there's no reason why they couldn't be chatting to their friends through the medium of Welsh.\"", "Online fashion retailer Boohoo has agreed to buy the online businesses of Oasis and Warehouse for £5.25m.\n\nBoohoo made the announcement as it said online sales rose by 45% in the three months to May, partly boosted by demand for athleisure items during lockdown.\n\nManchester-based Boohoo also owns PLT and Nasty Gal. Earlier this year, it bought struggling brands MissPap, Karen Millen and Coast.\n\nIn April, Oasis and Warehouse went into administration losing 1,800 jobs.\n\nThe brands were forced to shut their 90 UK stores in March because of the coronavirus lockdown, which also closed its 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nOnline shoppers had also been unable to place orders with the fashion chains for a number of weeks.\n\nOasis and Warehouse customers have not been able to place orders online for a number of weeks\n\nThe previous owner had been in talks to sell the businesses before the crisis, but no buyer could be found for the High Street stores as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the shift of shoppers to online.\n\nThe brand and stock were bought by Hilco Capital, which has now sold them on to Boohoo.\n\nBoohoo said on Wednesday that the sales of loungewear and \"athleisure\" had done well during lockdown as customers adapted to a \"stay-at-home lifestyle\".\n\nWorldwide sales were £368m in the quarter to May. In the UK, which accounts for half of its total revenue, sales were up 30% to £183m.\n\nThat came despite an initial slowdown in towards the end of March and early April as the initial impact of the pandemic hit.\n\nBoohoo says that its social media strategy and \"flexible supply chain\", largely based in the UK, are what drives its growth, allowing the quick turnaround and promotion of what some have criticised as \"fast fashion\" items.\n\nBoohoo competitor Asos has said it had seen a downturn in demand since the Covid-19 outbreak\n\nOnline retailer, and Boohoo competitor, Asos previously said it had seen a downturn in demand since the Covid-19 outbreak. It has revamped its social media strategy and announced a share sale in April in a bid to turn around its fortunes.\n\nOn the High Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, due to rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops, which have since reopened in England and Northern Ireland, heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Boohoo's own latest purchases would need refreshing: \"It's up to Boohoo to rejuvenate [Oasis and Warehouse] and hope they resonate well with its traditionally younger, more fashion forward customer base.\n\n\"It's a similar move to the Karen Millen and Coast acquisitions, but while we've heard trading's going well with these additions, we haven't had any numbers to crunch, so it's hard to say what the big picture looks like.\"\n\nBoohoo, founded in 2006, sells fashion, beauty and products and shoes aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds.\n\nThe brand is popular with young women in particular, who it targets with marketing campaigns using Instagram influencers and Love Island contestants.\n\nBoohoo bought its Nasty Gal's brand's assets in 2017 for $20m (£15m). It was founded by US businesswoman Sophia Amoruso who is widely credited with popularising the term \"girl boss\".\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 maurahiggins 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\nAccording to research by polling firm YouGov in May, 11% of 18 to 24-year-olds had purchased something from Boohoo for themselves in the previous three months.\n\nSeparately, Boohoo predicted \"another year of strong profitable growth\" which would outdo analysts' expectations.\n\nJohn Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said there could also be more acquisitions to come: \"Boohoo continues to deliver strong results, regardless of the challenges placed in front of it, which highlights the company's flexibility and entrepreneurial drive.\n\n\"With excess cash on its balance sheet, you wouldn't rule out further additions in the months ahead as less resilient names struggle in the current retail climate.\"\n\nInvestors were delighted with the company's announcement and sent the shares up 9% at the start of trading.", "Hay-on-Wye, home of a major book festival, is one area that will hold a trial\n\nEight locations across the UK, including an army barracks, have been chosen for trials to help solve problems with access to cash.\n\nOrganisers hope they will inform debate over the future of cash in the UK, particularly for those who rely on it.\n\nThe Community Access to Cash Pilot will test new subsidised ATMs and local cash deposit centres for retailers.\n\nIt comes as a new forecast suggests cash use will fall faster in the UK than in much of Europe.\n\nThe plan for trials was drawn up in light of a major report warning that the country is \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society.\n\nIt concluded that eight million people in the UK rely on notes and coins, ranging from those without a bank account to people who are not comfortable with digital payments.\n\nThat work was led by Natalie Ceeney, who is also in charge of the pilot projects.\n\n\"Over the past decade we've seen a massive shift from cash to digital payments, and Covid-19 has accelerated that trend further. But we know that digital payments don't yet work for everyone, and for many individuals and communities, cash remains essential,\" she said.\n\n\"But the world is changing - we can't just magic back our old bank branch and ATM infrastructure. Instead, we need to use innovation to develop new solutions as well as harness tried and tested approaches to meet people's needs.\"\n\nCash is vital to avoid overspending, says 20-year-old civil engineering apprentice Brandon Wilson\n\nNot long ago there were two banks with branches in Ampthill. Then there was one. Now there is none. Currently just one cash machine is left to serve a population of more than 8,000.\n\nBrandon Wilson, 20, is currently on furlough from a civil engineering apprenticeship at Luton Airport.\n\nHe said using cash helps him stick more rigidly to his spending plans to ensure he does not spend beyond his means.\n\n\"In general I try and budget my daily routine and having the physical money there means it is harder to spend than just placing a piece of card on to a machine,\" he says.\n\nSome of the places selected for the project are remote communities, such as the village of Botton, North Yorkshire, and Lulworth Camp, a military barracks in Dorset miles away from the nearest cash machine.\n\nSmall towns with thousands of residents which have seen bank branches or cash dispensers disappear are also included, such as Ampthill, along with Rochford, in Essex, Denny near Falkirk, and Cambuslang, in Lanarkshire.\n\nBurslem, in Staffordshire, is also on the list, as is Hay-on-Wye, which has a large number of bookshops and other small businesses with no bank branch to deposit notes and coins.\n\nBanks have been persuaded to pay for the pilots, trying out ideas like shared branches, more cashback in shops, as well as better bus services to allow people to visit surviving branches.\n\nStephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, which represents the banks, said the sector was \"committed to ensuring that access to cash remains free and widely accessible to those who need it\".\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the decline of cash use for many people. A recent survey by Link, which oversees the UK's cash machine network, suggested that 75% of people had used less cash during lockdown.\n\nOne new forecast by consultants Accenture claimed that cash usage in the UK would drop by 40% this year, compared with 2019 - a faster drop than a 30% predicted fall in the major economies of Europe.\n\nSulabh Agarwal, from Accenture, said: \"One of the key issues facing [retailers] will be how to take payment. While the decline of cash in the UK isn't new, there's little doubt that lockdown and social distancing measures have pushed consumers who typically rely on cash into digital payments.\"\n\nGareth Shaw, from consumer organisation Which?, said: \"With the existing cash system being pushed closer to the edge of collapse by the coronavirus outbreak, it is clear that new solutions are desperately needed to secure people's access and ability to pay with cash, which millions of people still rely on as their main form of payment.\"\n\nThe results of the pilots will be published in early 2021.", "Dr Meirion Evans has worked as a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales\n\nThe five-mile travel guidance in Wales should be \"reviewed\" according to a Welsh Government coronavirus adviser.\n\nDr Meirion Evans, who advises Wales' chief medical officer, said that \"the purpose of the journey rather than the distance\" should be considered.\n\nHe told the BBC that journeys such as visiting family members are \"important for society\".\n\nA minister suggested a further decision on the issue may be made on Friday.\n\nBut a Welsh Government spokesperson said changes would only be made \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nOpposition politicians say that people need to travel greater distances than five miles in rural areas.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have signed a petition calling on ministers to relax the guidance, introduced at the end of May.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said that the limit is a \"general rule\" rather than law - with Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford suggesting last week that there were \"no immediate plans to lift the stay-local message in Wales.\"\n\nIn England, unlimited travel is allowed, although scientific advisors to the Conservative UK government have expressed concern at the speed lockdown is being eased in England.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Newyddion programme, on S4C, Dr Evans said: \"I'd like to see the rule on how far you can travel being reviewed.\n\n\"I think it's more important that we consider the purpose of the journey rather than the distance… That it is essential.\n\n\"For example going to see family is important for society.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic governments across the UK have recommended businesses and individuals maintain a 'social distance' of two metres.\n\nThe two-metre rule is currently being reviewed for England. In Wales, it has been part of lockdown legislation since the beginning.\n\nDr Evans also said that the risk in reducing the two-metre distancing rule to one metre \"isn't very big\".\n\n\"The difference in risk between being within a metre, or more than two metres away, isn't very big,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a matter of deciding whether there's more risk in being closer to someone else, that it's worth taking that risk in order to be able to do far more in terms of opening shops, schools and so on.\"\n\nLockdown has been in force since March\n\nThe International Relations Minister, Eluned Morgan told a press conference there is a \"degree of flexibility\" around the five-mile guidance for people living in rural areas.\n\nShe said: \"We absolutely understand that local in a rural area means something very different from local in an urban area, and that's why we have provided that degree of flexibility.\"\n\nMs Morgan said that the Welsh Government would be making some further decisions on the matter on Friday, when the outcome of the next lockdown review is expected to be announced.\n\nThe minister said the Welsh Government is closely monitoring the impact of lifting coronavirus lockdown measures on mainland Europe.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth called for the Welsh Government to \"move forward as quickly as possible as long as they can show that it is safe\".\n\n\"We need real clarity about what the government's vision is, what it plans as the roadmap ahead, because that lack of certainty is causing real problems for businesses and huge frustration for the population at large.\"\n\nHe said people are finding the five-mile restriction difficult, \"though staying local makes sense still\".\n\nAdvisors of the Welsh Government have said that releasing lockdown measures in many European countries has not resulted in a rapid rise in the Covid reproduction rate - the R rate.\n\nMs Morgan said in most countries the R rate had stayed below one, \"but there are some strong hints from France, which suggest as more measures are eased, R may be rising\".\n\n\"The experience from Europe would tell us a cautious approach to further unlocking measures - that's what would be prudent\".\n\nThe R rate is the average number of people a sick person could pass the virus on to.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to Dr Evans: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Changes will only be made when it is safe to do so. Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nThe first minister is due to announce the outcome of the latest lockdown review in Wales on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock could be seen slapping a colleague on the back\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has been spotted slapping a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite social distancing measures in place to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMr Hancock's moment of apparent forgetfulness happened as he arrived to Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe and other ministers have repeatedly urged the importance of people keeping two metres away from one another.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"so sorry for a human mistake on my part\".\n\n\"Like all of us, I instinctively wanted to reach out to a friend I'd just seen - in this case, for the first time in many weeks. I realised my mistake and corrected myself,\" the health secretary said.\n\nHe said it shows how hard social distancing can be, but added it is \"so important that we all keep trying to do our bit\".\n\nIn a clip which quickly garnered thousands of views after it was posted on Twitter, the health secretary can be seen putting his arm across a colleague's shoulder as he enters the Commons.\n\nA third MP then comes and stands beside both of them, before the man in the middle steps back.\n\nMr Hancock then steps across to fill the gap to speak to the third MP, before moving back again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Hortop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Hancock announced he had tested positive for coronavirus in March - shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed his own positive test.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson had to spend several days in intensive care, Mr Hancock had mild symptoms.\n\nScientists have said it is likely that people who have already had the virus will have some immunity to it, but that everyone must still stick to social distancing rules.\n\nThe World Health Organization said in May that there was \"currently no evidence\" that people who have recovered from the virus are protected from a second infection.\n\nMr Hancock's back-slapped colleague stepped away when a third MP joined them\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after the slip-up, Mr Hancock defended why the government has not yet reduced social distancing from two metres to one metre - something many businesses have said will be crucial to their recovery as they reopen.\n\n\"It's the sort of thing of course we want to lift and we need to do that in a way that is careful and safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"The scientists are reviewing it, along with the economists, and we will take forward the further measures on this when it's possible and safe to do so.\"\n\nThe health secretary stepped over yellow-and-black tape - in place to help people to maintain social distancing - to greet another colleague\n\nA review into the two-metre rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 said on Monday.\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest a one-metre distance sufficiently reduces the spread of the virus.\n\nBut the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre away from others carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says users will be able to turn off political adverts on the social network in the run-up to the 2020 US election.\n\nIn a piece written for USA Today newspaper, he also says he hopes to help four million Americans sign up as new voters.\n\nFacebook has faced heavy criticism for allowing adverts from politicians that contain false information.\n\n“For those of you who’ve already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you -- so we’re also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads,” Mr Zuckerberg wrote.\n\nFacebook and its subsidiary Instagram will give users the option to turn off political adverts when they appear or they can block them using the settings features.\n\nUsers that have blocked political adverts will also be able to report them if they continue to appear.\n\nThe feature, which will start rolling out on Wednesday, allows users to turn off political, electoral and social issue adverts from candidates and other organisations that have the \"Paid for\" political disclaimer.\n\nThe company said it plans to make the feature available to all US users over the next few weeks and will offer it in other countries this autumn.\n\nMr Zuckerberg went on to encourage people who aren't signed up as voters to register in time for the US election in November.\n\n“Voting is voice. It’s the single most powerful expression of democracy, the best way to hold our leaders accountable, and how we address many of the issues our country is grappling with.\"\n\n“I believe Facebook has a responsibility not just to prevent voter suppression -- which disproportionately targets people of colour -- but to actively support well-informed voter engagement, registration, and turnout.”\n\nAs part of the initiative a new information hub, called The Voting Information Center, will be put at the top of American users’ Facebook and Instagram feeds from the beginning of July.\n\nInformation on offer will include how to register to vote and details about mail-in ballots.\n\nThe firm also said it will share reliable information from state and local election authorities.\n\nFacebook estimates that the hub will reach 160 million Americans by the 3 November election.\n\nFacing criticism from inside and outside the company over the way it regulates political speech, Facebook has unveiled what look like fairly minor tweaks to policies in the run-up to the US elections.\n\nYes, it will become more evident to users what is and is not a political advert, and they will be able to opt out of seeing them.\n\nBut that was never the main concern of critics, such as the web's creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee.\n\nLast November Sir Tim told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg needed to \"turn off \" targeted political advertising altogether.\n\n\"It's not fair to risk democracy by allowing all these very subtle manipulations with targeted ads which promote completely false ideas,\" he explained.\n\nI'm told his views have not changed.\n\nFacebook's communications supremo Sir Nick Clegg made it clear on BBC Radio 4's Today that the social media giant will also not bow to pressure to fact check political content.\n\nThe UK's former deputy prime minister was hired by Facebook to be its global affairs chief in 2018\n\nChallenged over Facebook's failure to follow Twitter in at least putting a warning on a post from President Trump saying \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", Sir Nick trod a delicate path. He described the comment as \"abhorrent\" but backed a collective decision not to take action.\n\nPresident Trump is unlikely to be impressed by that \"abhorrent\" comment. Nor will he be enthused by Facebook's promise to help to register four million voters, which may well do more to boost votes for Democratic candidates than Republican ones.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden is still calling on Facebook to tackle misinformation by fact-checking all political ads over the fortnight before the US Presidential election.\n\nBoth contenders feel that Facebook could be crucial to the outcome of that vote, so the next months will see unrelenting pressure on Mark Zuckerberg and his team to prove they can play a positive rather than a destructive role in the democratic process.\n\nSocial media companies are at the centre of a political storm in the run-up to the US election.\n\nLast month Mr Zuckerberg faced criticism for leaving up a series of posts by President Donald Trump, including one that Twitter labelled as containing misleading information about mail-in ballots.\n\nIt was the first time that Twitter had flagged the US president's tweets.\n\nAlso in May, Mr Trump signed an executive order aimed at removing some of the legal protections given to social media platforms.\n\nIt came as Mr Trump continued to accuse companies such as Twitter and Facebook of stifling conservative voices.", "About 1.3 million children will be eligible for free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nThe Manchester United player spoke to Boris Johnson over the phone on Tuesday morning.\n\nMarcus told BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about his call with the prime minister.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on BBC Breakfast on BBC One on 17 June.", "Most of us change our minds all the time.\n\nMaybe this morning you had planned to go for a run, then actually when push came to shove another ten minutes in bed seemed a better idea.\n\nMaybe when you grew up you wanted to be an astronaut but then discovered that you weren't that good at physics and, developed vertigo as an adult in any case. Maybe you spent years doing one job but decided over time that it wasn't for you.\n\nThis is normal life, and perfectly rational behaviour. One of the most well-known 20th Century economists, John Maynard Keynes, summed up \"when the facts change, I change my mind\".\n\nAlthough for the pedants among you (welcome along!), as with so many of the most quoted statements, it may actually have originally been said by someone else - a different august economist, Paul Samuelson - and might have been the slightly different phrase, \"when my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do sir?\"\n\nWhy then do politicians try to avoid a change of heart?\n\nIt's not just to try to escape occasional headlines about a \"screaming U-turn\", although that is part of the equation.\n\nIt's about judgement and authority too.\n\nOn an individual issue, doing the right thing because of a change of heart is better than pursuing a policy that will cause harm.\n\nBeyond the subjective nature of the \"right thing\" there are also moments when the political momentum is pulling so strongly in one direction, it becomes inevitable.\n\nAlthough ministers have for many days defended the decision not to pay for free school meals in England over the summer, highlighting other chunks of money given to councils to help; the involvement of a young, well-liked, articulate and high-profile figure Marcus Rashford made that defence less sustainable by the hour.\n\nTory MPs started telling their party handlers, the whips, in the last 24 hours they wouldn't vote for it.\n\nAnd some senior figures in the party had started to question what the merits were of continuing a fight that would take a relatively small government cheque to fix, where the downside of sticking to the plan had terrible optics. Not giving in made it look, one MP feared, like the Tories have a \"blind spot on poverty\".\n\nAnother former minister said it was causing \"widespread concern that Number 10 has bad political antennae\".\n\nSo not that long after he sat down to chat to my excellent colleague Sally Nugent for BBC Breakfast, it was Marcus Rashford 1, Boris Johnson 0, and the government had rolled over.\n\nEvery now and then it can be important for governments to show they are listening.\n\nAnd it's pretty clear that the political froth over \"U-turns\" causes much less fuss among the public. But the reality too is that frequent changes of heart can be damaging over time.\n\nEach time there is a reversal, you can hear a little piece of a government's credibility being chipped away.\n\nEvery time something else is unpicked, that loyal backbencher, or loyal minister, loses a little of their own willingness to provide defence for the boss. And frequent concessions can give an impression to the wider public of a government that simply keeps getting things wrong.\n\nWhen you put a cross in the box in the voting booth you are putting your faith in your favourite, or least worst option.\n\nPoliticians have to demonstrate to the public and their parties on a perpetual basis that they are heading in the right direction and broadly taking the correct path.\n\nToo many U-turns and governments can end up going round and round in circles instead.", "A school cover of I'm Still Standing by Elton John found its way to the singer, who sent pupils a personal message to say it had \"really cheered me up\".\n\nThe video of the students' performance has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.\n\nIn the video message, Sir Elton said: \"I watched it three times in a row because I couldn't believe how good you sang and played it.\n\n\"You did something brilliant and made a brilliant version of I'm Still Standing.\"\n\nHe also promises the students from Telford Priory School, in Shropshire, will be guests at a future show in the UK.", "That's all for our live coverage today.\n\nMany thanks for joining us throughout the day and keeping up to date.\n\nYou can read the latest stories from your part of the country right here plus we'll be back with more live updates from Thursday morning.\n\nUntil then - stay safe and take care.", "Campaigners have called on the government to make pet theft a specific offence after instances of the crime \"went through the roof\" in lockdown.\n\nBeverley Cuddy, editor of Dogs Today magazine, told MPs that during lockdown dog prices \"went up and up\" and cases of theft increased with it.\n\nShe joined others to tell MPs tougher penalties were needed to deter thieves.\n\nThe government has said it is already an offence under the Theft Act 1968, with a maximum penalty of seven years.\n\nBut campaigners say those who steal animals can currently be punished in the same way as someone who steals a mobile phone or a laptop, as pets are classed as \"property\" under the act.\n\nThey also say the government relying on guidance from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales on the level of harm a theft causes is not enough to take into account the emotional distress.\n\nIt comes after more than 250,000 signatures were collected on three petitions calling for pet law reform.\n\nIn a meeting led by Petition Committee member Tom Hunt, magazine editor Ms Cuddy told MPs: \"Lots of other crimes totally disappeared during lockdown - unfortunately dog theft went through the roof.\n\n\"We had some enormous, horrific organised crime. Twenty-two dogs were stolen in a heist like you get in a jewellers.\"\n\nShe said in that example one of the thieves dropped one of the puppies and ran over it.\n\n\"Each one of those puppies was going to be someone's lockdown puppy because unfortunately in lockdown everyone wanted a dog,\" she said.\n\n\"And the prices went up and up and the criminals looked at those figures and looked at all those people who wanted dogs and put two and two together.\"\n\nShe said a tougher deterrent was needed, saying: \"They have taken a member of the family hostage and by not having anything in place which makes this a serious crime we are enabling the most emotionally draining thing to happen to people.\"\n\nFreya Woodhall's family dog, Willow, was stolen from her garden nearly two years ago and since then she has been \"living in limbo\".\n\n\"Having her taken from us has left us heartbroken, it's affected us all mentally,\" the mum-of-four told the meeting.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be a big enough deterrent to stop people from stealing animals.\"\n\nDr Daniel Allen, an animal geographer at Keele University who has created three petitions calling for pet theft reform, said reasons thieves stole pets include selling them on or breeding them.\n\nAccording to data compiled by the insurance company Direct Line, 1,931 dog thefts were reported in 2018 - a \"record high\" - and only 17% of these dogs were returned to their owners.\n\nJohn Cooper QC told the meeting that the law as it stands means pets \"are effectively treated like a typewriter, a mobile phone, a laptop for instance\".\n\nHe suggested that the Theft Act 1968 should be amended to classify the theft of a pet as a specific example and include it as a category within the act.\n\nHe said another option for reform would be for Parliament to approach the Sentencing Council, \"which lays down directives as to how a court should sentence individuals\".\n\nThe Commons' Petitions Committee has written to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland calling on the government to \"ensure the value of pets is fully recognised in the law, as a real deterrent for those who may commit a crime that can have a devastating impact on pet owners and families\".\n\n\"By creating a specific offence of pet theft these cases could be both punished and deterred more effectively,\" the letter said.\n\n\"At the very least, the government should require the police and courts to specifically record the number of reported crimes, arrests and convictions for the theft of pets so the true scale of this problem is made clear.\"\n\nThe government rejected calls to change the law in 2018, saying the Theft Act provided \"sufficient sanctions\".\n\nAnd in response to one of the petitions earlier this year, the government reiterated that the theft of a pet was already a criminal offence under the act, under which the maximum penalty is seven years.\n\n\"The sentencing guidelines now take account of the emotional distress and harm that theft of personal items such as a pet can have on the victim and recommends higher penalties for such offences,\" it added.", "The government has not had an up-to-date estimate of the number of immigrants in the UK illegally in 15 years, according to a report.\n\nThe last official estimate in 2005 found about 430,000 people were in the country with no legal right to remain.\n\nBut independent research since then has put the figure at over a million, the National Audit Office said.\n\nThe Home Office said it worked \"tirelessly\" with other departments and partners to tackle illegal migration.\n\nMeg Hillier, from Parliament's financial watchdog, said it appeared the Home Office had \"no idea\" how many people were in the UK illegally.\n\nThe Labour MP, who chairs the public accounts committee, added the department \"doesn't seem interested in finding out\".\n\nThe report found that the Home Office put demand for its immigration enforcement services at between 240,000 and 320,000 cases per year.\n\nBut the NAO said this figure excluded those who had no contact with government in the previous two years, and \"does not yet provide a baseline\" to measure the effectiveness of the department's enforcement action.\n\n\"Due to data quality issues, Immigration Enforcement cannot say whether the number of people 'genuinely putting a demand' on its activities is increasing or decreasing,\" it found.\n\nIt suggested the Home Office should look at how other parts of government come up with estimates of \"hidden activity\" such as serious and organised crime, which it said could help to \"improve its understanding of the full scale of the illegal population in the UK\".\n\nThe highest estimate of the illegal population in the UK is 1.2m, given by the Pew Research Centre last year - although the NAO said it had not attempted to verify the number.\n\nThe NAO suggested the Home Office could learn from other parts of government.\n\nThe NAO also found that voluntary and enforced returns of people living the UK illegally had \"fallen dramatically\" since 2015.\n\nVoluntary returns had reduced from an average of 1,200 a month in 2015 to approximately 460 a month in 2019, the watchdog said - although the number of foreign criminals departed had \"remained more stable\".\n\nIn their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservative Party pledged to \"keep track of who is coming in and out of our country\".\n\nGarth Davies, the head of the NAO, said: \"While the Home Office has introduced significant changes to its enforcement activity, it cannot demonstrate that overall performance is improving.\n\n\"The department needs a better understanding of the impact of its immigration enforcement activity on its overarching vision to reduce the size of the illegal population and the harm it causes.\"\n\nA spokesman from the Home Office said it was working \"tirelessly... to tackle illegal migration, close down routes for people smuggling and return those with no right to remain the UK wherever possible\".\n\nHe added: \"We have taken back control of our immigration system and for the first time in a generation, we will have full control over who comes and stays here.\"\n• None Migrants try to cross Channel in fog", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nOriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.\n\nThe governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the statue of the colonialist.\n\nCampaigners have called for the statue to be taken down - saying it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nThe removal is not expected to be immediate - as the college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaigners said the announcement was \"hopeful\", but warned they would remain cautious until the college had actually carried out the removal.\n\nIn a statement, campaigners said that until the \"Rhodes statue ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\" - and will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision, tweeting: \"I hope they can find a good home for him where we can discuss him rather than (appear to) venerate him.\"\n\nHowever, former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted that \"Rhodes's generosity allowed thousands of young people to enjoy an education they could not otherwise have had\".\n\n\"Why would anyone give to an institution that treats its benefactors this way?\" he asked.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\n\"I want to be really clear that racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities,\" she told a Higher Education Policy Institute event.\n\nMs Donelan said she was opposed to the renaming of buildings named after the 19th Century statesman, William Gladstone, or the removal of the Rhodes statue.\n\nProtesters on the streets of Oxford have called for the statue to be taken down, saying that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nBut last week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Les Miserables had been running at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in London\n\nHamilton, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera will not return to London's West End until 2021, their producer has announced.\n\nSir Cameron Mackintosh said \"drastic steps\", including redundancies, were required if the shows are to reopen \"as early as practical\" next year.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would ask leading performers to help draw up a plan for theatres to reopen.\n\nBut he acknowledged venues face \"very specific and practical obstacles\".\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily press briefing, Mr Dowden said he would bring together \"our leading performers in theatres, choirs and orchestras with medical experts and advisers\".\n\nHe continued: \"The idea is that they will work together in detail to develop that roadmap which is so badly needed to performing safely - with a particular focus on piloting innovative ideas that may permit live performances.\"\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden said on Wednesday: \"Culture is our calling card\"\n\nMr Dowden said Sir Cameron was one of \"dozens of people\" he had consulted about the challenges facing the creative industries.\n\nBut he admitted it would be \"exceptionally difficult\" for venues to reopen from 4 July, which is the current scheduled date for stage three of the government's reopening plan.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Sir Cameron earlier said the government had yet to offer \"tangible practical support\" to the theatre industry or say when social distancing would be lifted.\n\nThis, he said, made it \"impossible for us to properly plan for whatever the new future is\".\n\nIt is not known how many jobs are at risk from the closure of his four productions. \"This decision is heartbreaking for me, as I am sure it is for my employees,\" he said.\n\n\"The commercial theatre provides billions of pounds of revenue to the economy,\" Sir Cameron continued.\n\n\"It is time this is recognised and the government takes action to ensure this priceless resource... is helped to survive.\"\n\nHis four musicals were among many West End shows forced to close at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThree months on, it remains unclear when and how London's Theatreland can resume operations safely and profitably.\n\nSir Cameron's statement follows news that Nimax Theatres is to begin making some of its staff redundant. Around 130 jobs are believed to be at risk, according to the Broadway World website.\n\nAround 60 members of staff at the Birmingham Hippodrome may lose their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJobs are also at risk at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, which could remain closed until April next year.\n\nResearch commissioned by the Creative Industries Federation suggests more than 400,000 jobs in the sector could be lost.\n\n\"Without additional government support we are heading for a cultural catastrophe,\" its chief executive Caroline Norbury said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thrill seekers will no longer be allowed on rollercoasters without a facemask\n\nTheme parks, museums and leisure centres are working out how they could reopen safely, as lockdown restrictions ease in the UK.\n\nEven riding on a rollercoaster is going to require a face mask and social distancing when attractions open up again. Blackpool's Pleasure Beach has decided that, on a ride on which people scream, visitors will be more comfortable if they are made to mask up.\n\nIt is also going to be a less sociable experience - the seats on its Icon ride are only a metre apart so there will be empty rows to allow social distancing.\n\nAfter the opening of shops, England's leisure and cultural attractions are preparing for a government announcement that they too will be allowed to reopen.\n\nHowever, it will be months before many venues will be in a position to allow the public in again. A report from the Creative Industries Federation says 400,000 jobs are at risk and the cultural and creative economy is losing more than £1bn a week in revenue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito experienced a socially-distanced ride on a rollercoaster in Blackpool\n\nIt's this dire situation that is driving planning to ensure institutions will be able to reopen quickly once the government gives the green light.\n\nMuseums will be some of the first spaces to reopen their doors but it will be a different experience.\n\nThe Design Museum in London is removing its ticket desks and is moving to an online ticketing system to avoid the need for physical tickets and queues. There will also be a strict 90-minute time limit to reduce crowding and everyone will be directed along a one-way route.\n\nToilets will be one in, one out.\n\nIt will be a similar experience at hundreds of other venues. James Adebayo from property consultants Tunji Adebayo & Co has been advising on how to make socially distanced spaces. There are, he says, a series of measures that will become commonplace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito and consultant James Adebayo take us on a virtual tour inside a 'Covid-safe' gallery\n\nVenues will increasingly have designated viewing points with limits on how long you can linger. And there will in many places be strict one-way systems to stop dawdling and bumping in to fellow visitors.\n\nEvery one of them will do things slightly differently but here is a list of things you could well experience on a day out.\n\nOf course, this will only affect venues and attractions which can control the public. Some, such as live music venues, which rely on crowds standing together face a much longer wait and a huge hole in their revenue.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk\n• None How Europe's art world is unlocking its doors", "PM emerges from No 10 earlier as he left for PMQs Image caption: PM emerges from No 10 earlier as he left for PMQs\n\nThanks for following along with us today.\n\nYou can scroll back on this feed to catch up on all the questions put to the prime minister at this week's PMQs.\n\nWe'll be back on the BBC's Coronavirus Live Page from 17:00 BST for our rolling coverage of the government's daily briefing at Downing Street.\n\nDo join us there... and we hope you'll be back here with us again next week.", "The UK's biggest building society has tripled the minimum deposit it will ask for from first-time buyers.\n\nThe Nationwide will lower its ceiling for mortgage lending to new customers in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the change, from Thursday, was due to \"these unprecedented times and an uncertain mortgage market\".\n\nFirst-time buyers are likely to be the most significantly affected because they often have smaller amounts saved to get on the property ladder.\n\nNationwide has reduced the proportion of a home's value that is willing to lend from 95% to 85%.\n\nSo for example, if a property costs £100,000, a new buyer would now need a £15,000 deposit rather than a £5,000 deposit.\n\nNationwide made the move in case house prices fall and buyers go into negative equity - that is when the debt is greater than the value of the property.\n\nBut it was also to cut the risk of customers not being able to make repayments if they lose their jobs.\n\n\"Our priority at this time must be to help members keep their homes. As such, we need to ensure our members can afford their repayments, while doing what we can to protect them from falling into negative equity,\" said Henry Jordan, Nationwide director of mortgages.\n\nAfter the elation over the re-opening of the housing market, Nationwide's move to limit how much we can borrow will bring everyone down to earth.\n\nIf there is a downward lurch in house prices, recent buyers with big loans will be in serious danger of slipping into negative equity.\n\nAnyone who has been there in previous recessions will tell you it is stressful experience, and not just because of the usual worry about meeting the monthly payments.\n\nYou can feel trapped, because if you sell you make a loss. Plus, there is virtually no prospect of getting another loan to move up the ladder.\n\nOf course, people who are priced out the market will welcome cheaper property, if that is what happens.\n\nBut Nationwide is saying that it is time to \"protect\" us from risking too much to get a dream home.\n\nDavid Hollingworth, associate director of communications at L&C Mortgages, said that Nationwide was following many other major UK mortgage lenders.\n\n\"The market has been changing quickly,\" he said. When the lockdown started, many institutions dramatically dropped the percentage of a property's price they were willing to lend: this is known as the loan-to-value ratio.\n\nAs the housing market has reopened, those maximum loan-to-value ceilings have been rising again, but not up to Nationwide's previous level of 95%.\n\nIn a sense, Nationwide is now \"running with the rest of the pack\", Mr Hollingworth said.\n\nSome lenders, such as HSBC, still have mortgages with a 90% loan-to-value ratio.\n\nHowever, there is more demand for that type of mortgage than many banks have the capacity to deal with at the moment, he said.\n\nEmma Harvey, mortgages director at MoneySuperMarket, said: \"It's getting harder to borrow money to buy a house, as providers look to limit risk in these uncertain times, and Nationwide is the latest example of this.\n\n\"In addition, there are also fewer mortgage products out there to choose from. For example, whilst 90% [loan-to-value] mortgages were commonplace at the start of 2020, only a handful of lenders are still offering these, and even then only with restrictions.\"\n\nMs Harvey said that it has always been a good idea to have as large a deposit as you can save.\n\n\"If you're looking to get on the housing market, you should review your finances, look for areas of savings and be realistic about when you will be in a position to purchase a property.\n\n\"But with the Bank of England base rate so low, there are some great deals out there at the moment for people with a healthy deposit,\" she added.", "A statue of Sir Winston Churchill targeted during anti-racism protests has been uncovered for a visit by the French president this week.\n\nThe statue in Parliament Square, Westminster, was covered for protection following the protests earlier in June.\n\nNearby statues to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi will stay hidden behind protective screens.\n\nEmmanuel Macron will visit London on 18 June to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Mayor of London said the uncovering will \"remain under review\" by the Greater London Authority in consultation with the Met police.\n\nChurchill's statue was defaced during a protest on 8 June, while in Bristol an effigy of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down.\n\nThe statue of Churchill had been fully encased to protect it form protesters\n\nWhile Churchill is credited with helping lead the Allies to victory in World War Two, some critics accuse him of racism because of comments he made about Indians.\n\nThe Grade-II listed bronze tribute to the former home secretary and prime minister was installed in 1973 at the north-east corner of Parliament Square, opposite the Carriage Gates entrance to the Palace of Westminster.\n\nVideo shared online also appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead on Whitehall, and attempt to set a union jack flag alight.\n\nBoards were taken down around the cenotaph on Monday\n\nThe French premier's visit marks the 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\nHis rallying call was broadcast on the BBC in June 1940, when he said: \"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me.\"\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will welcome President Macron at Clarence House as part of his visit.\n\nThe RAF's Red Arrows have organised a flypast alongside their French counterparts, La Patrouille de France.", "Teenage siblings in Australia have filmed the moment they encountered a shark while snorkelling at Bulli Beach, south of Sydney.\n\nThe footage shows the shark circling the pair about 150m offshore as they scream and rush to swim away.", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "Five years before air travel is back to normal says minister\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has predicted air travel to and from Scotland will take at least five years to return to pre-coronavirus levels. A limited number of flights have continued during lockdown and he said the Scottish Government expects \"a slow recovery of some air services\" over the summer. This will start with domestic services and be followed by international routes, he said. In a written answer to Scottish Conservative MSP Dean Lockhart about the speed routes can be re-established, Mr Matheson said: \"Realistically, it will take at least five years for services to recover to pre-Covid-19 levels.\"", "Former snooker star and BBC commentator Willie Thorne has died at the age of 66, says World Snooker.\n\nThorne was diagnosed with leukaemia in March and was taken to hospital in Spain last week with dangerously low blood pressure.\n\nHe retired from professional snooker in 2001 and for many years was a respected BBC commentator.\n\nThorne reached two World Championship quarter-finals during his career and won the 1985 Mercantile Credit Classic.\n\nWithout him and the work he and his family put in, we just wouldn't be here\n\nHe twice reached a world ranking of seven and spent 20 years among the top 32, before moving into a commentary career spanning more than 30 years with BBC, ITV and Sky.\n\nWith snooker's popularity soaring during the mid 1980s, Thorne featured in a group of leading players who joined Chas and Dave to perform their song Snooker Loopy, which reached number six in the UK charts in 1986.\n• None From Mr Maximum to Snooker Loopy - remembering one of the game's great characters\n\nA GoFundMe page set up to help pay for his treatment had passed £17,000 by Tuesday afternoon, when it was disclosed he had been placed into an induced coma.\n\nHis carer, Julie O'Neill, wrote on the page on Wednesday: \"It is with a very heavy and broken heart that I have to officially announce that at 1.55am this morning Willie Thorne lost his battle and passed away.\n\n\"Willie went into septic shock and was not responding to any treatment so the decision was made by the hospital to turn off the machines.\n\n\"I was with him all the way to his end and reading out messages to him from people. He passed away very peacefully and without pain, listening to his children saying they love him. That gives me some comfort in this difficult time.\"\n\nKnown as Mr Maximum, Thorne was the third player to reach the landmark of 100 centuries and made a 147 in the 1987 UK Championship.\n\nBorn in Leicester, Thorne was a long-term friend of ex-footballer Gary Lineker and the former England and Leicester City striker said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nWriting on social media, the Match of the Day presenter added: \"One of life's great characters. A marvellous snooker player and a lovely man, who's potted his final black much too soon. RIP Willie.\"\n\nFive-time Crucible winner Ronnie O'Sullivan wrote: \"Just want to say what a beautiful man, big heart, great company. Had a week in Ireland with him I'll never forget. Will be missed by a lot of people in the Snooker world. RIP WT.\"\n\nFormer world champion Dennis Taylor, a long-standing colleague of Thorne in the commentary box, said they had \"laughed our way around the world for 45 years\", adding: \"RIP Great One. That was my name for him. The Great WT. Lots of love to his family.\"\n\nShaun Murphy, who won the world title in 2005, was a junior player when he first got to know Thorne. He described him as \"a beautiful, beautiful man\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Someone said to me your reputation is built on what people say about you when you're not in the room.\n\n\"While Willie Thorne did have these issues which have been talked about for a long time, the tributes that are pouring in are not talking about those things. They're talking about what a great guy he was, what great charity work he did, how many great players he and his family helped through the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Leicester.\n\n\"There's me, [three-time world champion] Mark Selby, a lot of the players who people know today - we all came through that club. Without him and the work he and his family put in, we just wouldn't be here.\"\n\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said: \"I had the pleasure of managing the Great WT as part of the Matchroom team in the 1980s. He was a larger than life personality and he was a major part of the rebirth of snooker at that time. It's so sad to hear he has passed away and our thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis, part of Hearn's Matchroom stable, said: \"I hope you had a lovely time on the planet, Willie, and any regrets were overshadowed by the fun and games you had and the smiles you put on other people's faces.\"\n\nStephen Hendry, a seven-time world title winner, wrote: \"Very sad news today, Willie was one of my favourite people in snooker. I know he had faults and weaknesses (we all do) but he was one of the game's greatest ever characters, I'll miss him.\"\n\nIn 2016, Thorne was declared bankrupt after admitting borrowing £1m to fund his gambling addiction.", "A record fall in fuel prices, including petrol, pushed the UK's inflation rate down to 0.5% in May, the second full month of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFuel prices declined by 16.7% during the month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, dragging the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to the lowest level since June 2016.\n\nSupermarkets were among the few shops allowed to open in May and food prices rose, the ONS said.\n\nMay's inflation rate was down from 0.8% in April, the first full month of the pandemic lockdown.\n\nInflation is the rate at which the prices for goods and services increase.\n\nIt's one of the key measures of financial wellbeing because it affects what consumers can buy for their money. If there is inflation, money doesn't go as far.\n\nIt's expressed as a percentage increase or decrease in prices over time. For example, if the inflation rate for the cost of a litre of petrol is 2% a year, motorists need to spend 2% more at the pump than 12 months earlier.\n\nAnd if wages don't keep up with inflation, purchasing power and the standard of living falls.\n\n\"The growth in consumer prices again slowed to the lowest annual rate in four years,\" said ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow.\n\n\"The cost of games and toys fell back from last month's rises, while there was a continued drop in prices at the pump in May, following the huge crude price falls seen in recent months.\n\n\"Outside these areas, we are seeing few significant changes to the prices in the shops.\"\n\nThe ONS admitted that it had difficulty compiling inflation statistics for May, since many areas of the economy were completely shut down.\n\nFor instance, inflation figures for holidays had had to be \"imputed\", it said.\n\nSeparate figures issued by the ONS on Tuesday showed that in the three months to April, workers' regular pay, excluding bonuses, grew at an annual rate of 1.7%, the weakest since January 2015.\n\nHowever, when measured against the comparable three-monthly inflation rate, that means pay growth is continuing to outstrip inflation.\n\nCPI remains below the Bank of England's 2% target for inflation.\n\nInflation is one of the main factors that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) considers when setting the \"base rate\". That influences what interest rates banks can charge people to borrow money, or what they pay on their savings.\n\nInterest rates are currently at 0.1%, the lowest level in the Bank's 325-year history.\n\n\"May's further fall in inflation is probably only the beginnings of a prolonged period of very soft price pressure,\" said Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHe added that MPC members were expected to opt for more stimulus measures to boost the economy at their policy meeting on Thursday.\n\nRising prices are certainly not something Cristina Bruzzolo needs to worry about the moment.\n\nShe owns Colibri Boutique, a high-end women's clothes shop in north London. Monthly sales would normally be about £40,000, but have fallen to about £10,000, she says. \"We were hurt, but we are managing to cover our costs.\"\n\nMs Bruzzolo has been discounting by a hefty 20%-30%. She's had to be inventive in order to make sales, including using Zoom video calls to show customers clothes and then take items to their homes so they can try before they buy.\n\n\"The stock for this season has already been paid for,\" she said. \"I need to generate cash flow to pay for next summer's stock.\"\n\nBut Ms Bruzzolo is expecting another big sales hit in the autumn when the furlough scheme ends and, she fears, many people are made redundant.\n\nNevertheless, while Ms Bruzzolo is pessimistic about the near term, she's optimistic about the long-term future.\n\n\"It's going to be a very tough year, probably even two years,\" she says. But she's survived previous downturns and believes that, with good cost-control and some good luck, she'll survive this one. \"I'm keeping my fingers crossed,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "Augustine Tanner-Ihm is from Chicago and wants to work for the Church of England\n\nA black trainee vicar was rejected for a job by church bosses who said his potential parishioners were \"monochrome white working class\".\n\nIn an email sent in response to his application, Augustine Tanner-Ihm was told he \"might feel uncomfortable\" in the curacy role at the parish.\n\nThe email said despite his \"obvious gifts\", it was \"not worth pursuing a conversation\" about the vacancy in southern England.\n\nThe Church of England has apologised.\n\nMr Tanner-Ihm, who is from Chicago and is a Reverend Seminarian in the United States, applied for a role as a curate at a church in the south of England.\n\nIn response, he got an email saying: \"We are not confident there is a sufficient 'match' between you and the particular requirements of that post.\n\n\"The demographic of the parish is monochrome white working class, where you might feel uncomfortable.\"\n\nHe was sent this email in response to his application\n\nMr Tanner-Ihm, 30, who is studying at Durham University, said his reaction to the letter in February \"was pain, deep pain\".\n\n\"As an African-American man from Chicago, with parents and grandparents who lived during the civil rights movement, I was under the understanding that my race has nothing to do with my ability to minister,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the church has institutional issues with [racism].\"\n\nAugustine Tanner-Ihm has two theology degrees from St John's College in Durham\n\nThe Rt Revd Chris Goldsmith, the Church of England's director of ministry, said: \"We take very seriously any allegation that a curacy post, or any other position, may have been denied to someone on the grounds of their ethnic heritage.\"\n\nHe said a member of his team had \"reached out\" to Mr Tanner-Ihm to learn about his experiences, adding: \"We have also established that the diocese concerned has recognised its failure in this and sent a written apology to [him].\n\n\"We fully recognise that the Church of England has a lot more work to do to become a place where our leadership is representative of the rich heritages of all the people of England.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teachers' unions have denied suggestions by Conservative MPs they have been \"actively obstructive\" over the reopening of schools in England.\n\nUnion leaders said it was important for children to return to school \"as quickly as possible\" and when \"safe to do so\".\n\nBut MPs accused them of running a political campaign to keep schools closed.\n\nUnions appeared before the Education Select Committee on Wednesday morning.\n\nTory MP and committee member Jonathan Gullis, who is a former teacher and a former NASUWT union representative, said he was \"absolutely outraged at the sheer damage the unions have done to the teaching profession\".\n\nHe accused the National Education Union (NEU) of running a \"political campaign... to basically make sure schools did not open\".\n\nMr Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, said five conditions set out by unions for schools to reopen safely had been \"effectively five tests\".\n\nBut Patrick Roach, the general secretary of the NASUWT, rejected this, saying they were conditions the government needed to demonstrate for the safe reopening of schools.\n\nDr Roach said schools \"should be open as soon as possible\" and that \"some already are to a large degree\".\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU said: \"We'll support a full school reopening when it is safe.\"\n\nMr Gullis asked: \"Why is it that every time I see a union rep on TV they're saying schools aren't safe to open?\n\n\"A campaign has been run, whether you like it or not, to breathe fear into parents about the idea of sending their kids back to school... it has come across to parents that schools are death traps.\"\n\nTom Hunt, Tory MP for Ipswich, added: \"The perception that many people have in this country, whether rightly or wrongly, and it is a reality, sadly, that many people feel as though some of the teaching unions have actively obstructed the reopening of schools ahead of September.\"\n\nRobert Halfon, Tory MP for Harlow and chairman of the committee, asked the unions: \"Why is it that children and parents can have access to Primark over the next few months, but many of them won't have access to schools according to your risk assessments?\"\n\nUnion leaders told MPs they wanted children back in school as soon as possible, but they raised concerns about schools leaders' ability to do so in the autumn term under the current social distancing rules.\n\nDr Bousted said: \"The problem we have in England in particular is that we have some of the highest pupil-teacher ratios.\n\n\"We've got more pupils in classes and the footprint on the classes is smaller so if you're going to continue with social distancing, it puts the pressure on the school site to be very great.\"\n\nWhen asked whether schools will be able to open fully in September under current restrictions, Dr Bousted told MPs: \"If the government retains its social distancing rules then they can't.\n\n\"So that's why we then need to look at an education recovery plan, which is focused on more than school buildings.\"\n\nDr Roach told the cross-party committee of MPs that the issue of reopening schools had to be looked at \"in the context of a public health crisis\".\n\n\"We have a public health crisis which led the government to close schools in the first place and any decisions around the reopening of schools have got to be set in that context.\"\n\nDr Bousted said the science surrounding Covid 19 was not negotiable and that it must \"lead the process in relation to reopening\" of schools.\n\nShe said the advice from government had been \"woeful\", but said the risk assessments the union had produced were based on guidance from the Department for Education.\n\nIf committee members had a problem with it, she added, they should \"take it up\" with the department.", "People most at risk from coronavirus will \"very soon\" be told when they can stop isolating, the government says.\n\nSome 2.2 million people in England - who have been told to stay home since the beginning of lockdown in March - will get a letter detailing the change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nCharities say the government must explain why it will be safe to change the shielding programme.\n\nScotland has extended its advice to shield until at least the end of July.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, about 80,000 people who were told in March to shield for at least 12 weeks are now receiving letters asking them to continue to do so until the end of June - although they can now spend some time outdoors.\n\nIn Wales, since 1 June some 130,000 people shielding have been allowed to do unlimited outdoor exercise - but still should not go to work or do their own shopping.\n\nAt the start of June, people shielding in England were told they could go out once a day - to meet one person from another household - while maintaining social distancing. This advice is in place until the end of the month.\n\nAsked about how the advice might change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast: \"If you are in the shielded category we will announce very soon what the plans are and we will write to you personally through the NHS so that you can get the direct clinical advice.\"\n\nIt comes after the Health Service Journal (HSJ) reported that England's shielding programme will end at the end of July.\n\nThe HSJ, which publishes news, analysis and advice for healthcare workers, reported that the announcement would mean food packages and medicine deliveries for people on the shielding list would also stop.\n\nBut the government said \"no final decision has yet been made\" about when to end the shielding programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Primary school teacher Lynne Loomes says shielding has become more challenging as lockdown measures ease\n\n\"We've always said we will be looking at making life easier for those having to shield, when it is safe to do so,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are considering the next steps for the shielding programme beyond the end of June, based on the latest medical and scientific advice.\"\n\nAs the UK went into lockdown, people in England considered to be most at risk from Covid-19 were contacted telling them not to leave home and to avoid contact with others.\n\nAmong the list of people who should be shielding are solid organ transplant recipients, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, pregnant women with heart disease and people with severe respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis and severe asthma.\n\nSeveral charities have urged the government to explain the rationale behind ending the programme, if and when the decision is made.\n\nSteven McIntosh, policy director at Macmillan Cancer Support, said the communication that the shielded have received \"hasn't been good enough up 'til now\" - and any announcement must make clear why it is safe for people to stop isolating.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that cancer patients Macmillan nurses have spoken to are \"mentally and physically struggling with isolation\" and are facing \"increasing pressure from their employers to return to work, even though it isn't yet safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that people need to know what will happen if the infection rate begins to go back up.\n\nAge UK director Caroline Abrahams said the government must \"do all it can\" to support older people who are worried their employers may be unwilling or unable to let them return to work, \"for fear of being unable to keep them safe\".\n\nGemma Peters, chief executive of Blood Cancer UK, added: \"There is a real danger that people will face a choice between financial security and their health, and this would be unacceptable... we're concerned the government is taking a one-size-fits-all approach to lifting shielding.\"\n\nNick Moberly, chief executive of the MS Society, said \"a blanket lifting of the guidance now\" would leave people who have been shielding \"feeling even more frightened and anxious\".\n\nHe added that vulnerable people need reassurance that they will continue to receive food deliveries, and other support such as mental health care, when shielding ends.", "Stephen Fry, Fern Britton and Sir Lenny Henry are among those to have signed the letter\n\nDozens of broadcasters from Stephen Fry to Sir Lenny Henry have signed a letter asking the BBC not to cut its English regional current affairs programmes.\n\nThe BBC has cancelled the autumn series of Inside Out and merged its weekly regional political programmes.\n\nThe BBC is now \"seriously under-serving regional audiences\", the letter sent by the National Union of Journalists said.\n\nIn response, the corporation said the coronavirus pandemic had \"forced us to prioritise our resources\".\n\nThe letter is addressed to outgoing director general Lord Hall, who has said the BBC must find £125m savings this year, and his successor Tim Davie.\n\nThe signatories also include presenter Fern Britton, actor Dominic West, naturalist Chris Packham, writer and actress Daisy May Cooper, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, director Ken Loach and broadcaster Gloria Hunniford.\n\nIt says: \"Never has in-depth investigative journalism, holding people to account and reflecting the regional diversity of England been more important.\"\n\nInside Out is broadcast in 11 regions, covering a wide array of stories and issues affecting life in those areas. Meanwhile, the regional Sunday morning political programmes have been replaced during the pandemic by a single show.\n\nThe BBC's outgoing director-general Lord Hall has said the BBC must find £125m in savings this year\n\nThe letter continues: \"If these cuts were to become permanent they risk damaging English democracy by the failure to provide an important platform for those voices in our communities who need and want to be heard.\n\n\"Even when faced with financial pressures we urge the BBC to not reduce regional programming and to defend a vital element of public service broadcasting not available anywhere else.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Local and regional broadcasting is in the BBC's DNA and we're especially proud of how our services have performed during recent months.\n\n\"The pandemic has forced us to prioritise our resources so we've cancelled the autumn series of Inside Out and are continuing with the single political programme for England through to the summer.\n\n\"The BBC does face very real financial challenges so naturally we are looking at what savings might be possible across the BBC.\"\n\nIn January, Lord Hall unveiled a plan to have at least two thirds of the corporation's staff based outside London by 2027.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "People with possible cancer symptoms are being urged not to put off getting them checked out as part of a new campaign by the Welsh Government.\n\nOne health board said cancer referrals were down by two-thirds, which it attributed to people's fears of visiting hospitals or GPs.\n\nCharities have also warned of a future cancer \"timebomb\" due to a disruption to services caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had a strategy to \"meet pressures\".\n\nVelindre Cancer Centre has remained \"open for business\" over the last three months\n\nClinical oncologist Dr Sarah Gwynne from Swansea Bay health board said: \"It's a difficult time at the moment. People are very scared about possibly coming into hospital or going to see their GP.\n\n\"We can see that the number of people who would normally be referred with symptoms that are suggestive of cancer have reduced dramatically - we are only seeing a third of what we would expect.\n\n\"That makes us think there are patients out there who may possibly have cancer but are not contacting their GP.\"\n\nNew research by Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) suggests a shortage of cancer doctors could hamper efforts to deal with an expected surge in new cases.\n\nThe government's campaign highlights the fact that tests and treatment for cancer are still available even though services have been adapted as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, with some appointments being done remotely.\n\nThere are also worries that patients with potential symptoms are hesitant to get help due to fears of catching Covid-19.\n\nCancer charity Macmillan has warned Wales, like the rest of the UK, is facing a potential cancer timebomb due to the disruption to diagnosis, treatment and care caused by coronavirus.\n\nThe charity pointed to a reduction in GP referrals, the suspension of national screening programmes and delays in cancer surgery as examples of this.\n\nThe Welsh Government acknowledged services had been hit due to pandemic but it said that the number of referrals was improving.\n\nSiobhan O'Flynn and her nine-year-old son Dylan, who was coming to the end of cancer treatment when lockdown was called\n\nSiobhan O'Flynn's nine-year-old son Dylan Williams was coming to the end of cancer treatment when lockdown was called, although follow-up appointments had to be cancelled.\n\n\"People have stopped going in for treatment because they have been so fearful of catching coronavirus,\" said Siobhan, from Cardiff.\n\n\"The message has to be positive in that if professional people are saying it's OK to come back or to keep going, or that you must go to see your GP.\"\n\nDylan was diagnosed with a very rare cancer, which first showed signs when he developed a swollen cheek, not long after he first started school.\n\n\"I know if we'd been in the situation as Dylan was diagnosed, in this current climate, it could have been a different story.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Public Health Wales announced plans to resume cancer screening programmes, beginning with cervical screening in July.\n\nIt will also be sending invitations and reminders to people eligible for breast and bowel cancer screening away from the main hospitals.\n\nMeanwhile, private hospitals have been working with health boards to help continue cancer surgery.\n\nMore than 1,000 patients - the majority cancer patients - have had treatment at the Spire hospital in Cardiff since the start of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, some patients continue to face delays in surgery even though cancer staff across the NHS have been praised by health bosses for going \"over and above\" keeping as many services as possible going.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Tests and treatment for cancer are available and I want those who need to seek care and treatment to continue to do so.\n\n\"We have worked hard with the NHS to ensure cancer services can continue but the pandemic has had an impact on services.\n\n\"That doesn't mean the NHS isn't there for you but it does mean care and treatment has had to adapt to being delivered in a world with covid.\"\n\nVaughan Gething admitted the pandemic has had an impact on cancer services\n\nSteve Ham, boss of Velindre University NHS Trust that includes Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, said it had been \"open for business\" over the past three months.\n\n\"We have embraced new technology as a means of maintaining patient-doctor relationships and upped our online engagement to signpost services and reassure an understandably anxious public,\" he said.\n\nRichard Pugh, head of partnerships for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales and chair of the Wales Cancer Alliance, said it was a \"very anxious time for people living with cancer and those awaiting diagnosis or treatment\".\n\n\"We welcome the clear message by Welsh Government that no-one should hesitate to come forward with symptoms of cancer and at Macmillan we urge people to respond to this by getting any cancer signs or symptoms checked straight away,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is warning that a shortage of specialist cancer consultants could hamper efforts to deal with the growing backlog of cases.\n\nIt fears the shortage of oncologists compounded by a predicted surge in new patients, and restricted capacity as a result of infection control measures, means patients may have less chance of successful treatment.\n\nAnd it warns Wales could be particularly hard hit by shortages in the future years.\n\nIts latest oncology census shows the UK's provision of clinical oncology consultants - the doctors who treat cancer with non-surgical means such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.\n\nThe findings show that although in Wales the consultant workforce went up by three full-time cancer consultants between 2018-19, Wales' three cancer centres were still understaffed by 21%.\n\nThe report also makes a projection about the state of the workforce within five years' time, considering factors such as the age of the current workforce.\n\nIt predicts if nothing is done to increase the number of clinical oncology experts, by 2024 Wales will have one less full-time consultant than it does now and its consultant shortfall will hit 33%, the highest predicted shortage in the UK.\n\nThe survey's staffing figures were compiled in December, before coronavirus hit.\n\nHowever, the RCR argues cancer services are under even more pressure due to the knock-on impact and capacity constraints caused by the virus.\n\nIt argues although non-surgical cancer treatment has continued throughout the pandemic, patient turnaround has slowed as cancer centres have had to manage staff sickness and reduced capacity due to social distancing and cleaning requirements.\n\nThe wider cancer community is also anticipating seeing a surge of new patients whose diagnosis and treatment has been delayed because of the virus, likely to hit in the autumn.\n\nDeaths with coronavirus in Wales have reached their lowest for 10 weeks, new figures show\n\nDr Tom Roques, the RCR's clinical oncology workforce lead, said: \"NHS cancer teams were working flat out before coronavirus hit and have continued to provide services during the pandemic.\n\n\"We just do not have the capacity to provide the same level of care as before, when we are faced with a new peak of cancer referrals and given the added pressures of coronavirus.\n\n\"Delayed access to diagnosis, compounded with clinical oncologist shortages, will inevitably mean patients waiting longer to see a cancer expert, with worse outcomes and less chance of curing their cancer.\n\n\"The UK workforce needs at least another 200 more clinical oncologists to keep up with demand, but the stark reality is last year it only had an overall gain of five consultants.\"\n\nCardiff-based clinical oncologist Dr Seema Arif, chair of the RCR's Standing Welsh Committee, said: \"With Welsh shortages set to become the worst in the UK because of increasing retirements and not enough trainee consultant posts, the Welsh Government desperately needs to fund more training places and we must do more to incentivise consultants to come and work here.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the growing demand on cancer services in Wales and have been working with the NHS to improve capacity.\n\n\"Our workforce strategy will support NHS services to meet pressures as a result of Covid 19, including the expected rise in cancer demand during and beyond the pandemic.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the Welsh Government was \"aware from health board feedback that cancer referrals immediately fell by about 70% at the end of March\".\n\n\"Since then it is reassuring to note that health boards are reporting that referrals are now improving but they remain considerably below the level they normally are.\"", "An investigation has been launched after a collision between two planes on the tarmac at Aberdeen International Airport.\n\nThe nose of one of the aircraft ended up wedged under the engine of the other on Tuesday evening, lifting it off the ground.\n\nNo passengers were on board the Loganair jet, which was struck by the former Flybe plane.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has been informed.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident.\n\nLoganair said in a statement: \"A Loganair Embraer 145 regional jet, parked with no passengers or crew members aboard, was hit by a former Flybe Bombardier Q400 aircraft, which we understand was being prepared for departure after being stored at Aberdeen Airport.\n\n\"The nose of the Q400 impacted the rear starboard side of the Embraer, becoming lodged underneath and lifting the right main gear off the ground.\n\n\"The most important thing is that no-one was injured in the incident, with the crew working on the ex-Flybe aircraft being safe and well, yet understandably shaken.\"\n\nAberdeen International Airport confirmed that the incident happened at about 18:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe airport said in a statement: \"The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is now carrying out an investigation.\"\n\nThe AAIB added: \"Following an incident at Aberdeen Airport the AAIB is making initial enquiries, and at this stage there is no further comment.\"", "A man was shot in the leg by police after a lorry was stolen at gunpoint\n\nA man has been shot by police after a lorry was stolen in an armed robbery.\n\nOfficers were called to the Rivermead Industrial Estate in Westlea, Swindon, at 17:00 BST after the vehicle was stolen by a man with a gun.\n\nPolice intercepted the lorry in Ridge Green and a man in his 50s was shot in the leg. He has been airlifted to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nWiltshire Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nSupt Phil Staynings said: \"I want to reassure the community that this incident was dealt with swiftly. Nobody else was injured and the incident is now contained.\n\n\"However, people living in the area will have seen a heavy police presence, which will continue throughout the evening.\n\n\"Due to the fact that a police firearm was discharged, we have automatically referred the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nIn video circulating on social media officers can be repeatedly heard shouting \"put the gun down\".\n\nResidents living nearby told the BBC they heard \"at least one gunshot\".\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC, which has launched an independent investigation into the shooting, said: \"We understand, at this time, that officers from Wiltshire Police were called to a disturbance shortly after 5pm today following reports of an armed robbery in Rivermead Industrial Estate, Westlea.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene and to the post-incident procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 after taking part in a drug trial feels \"eternally grateful\" and believes she would have died without it.\n\nKatherine Millbank was given dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid treatment which UK experts believe is a major breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nMrs Millbank, from Buckinghamshire, left hospital on her 55th birthday and is now able to go for short walks and cycle rides with her husband Paul Millbank.", "The final closing time: General manager Jackie Cunliffe stacks chairs in the Beresford Hotel dining room\n\nThree months after lockdown shut down large parts of the UK economy, job losses are beginning to bite - nowhere more so than in the Cornish town of Newquay where more than half of those employed work in the badly affected sectors such as tourism and hospitality.\n\nStanding in the dining room, amid a sea of upturned chair legs, piled on once bustling tables, Jackie Cunliffe reflects on the 30 years she spent working in Newquay's Beresford Hotel.\n\n\"It belonged to Shearings holidays, but actually it didn't. It belonged to us.\n\n\"We managed it, we owned it, we cared for it.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old general manager is widely respected and held in great affection by the 50 staff who lost their jobs when the hotel closed in May, after Shearings' parent company went into administration.\n\n\"We should have 200 people in here, having their breakfast, going out on tours all around Cornwall.\n\n\"We have diaries full of people asking for tables-for-two, specific rooms. All of it has just gone.\"\n\nSome of the staff had gathered in the hotel ballroom to join a conference call on 22 May, when the chief executive of Shearings' parent company, Specialist Leisure Group (SLG), told nearly 2,500 employees across the UK that efforts to save the group had failed.\n\nJust three years after reporting record sales and profits, the group - owned by American private equity firm Lone Star Funds - called in administrators, bringing to an end a company whose origins can be traced back 117 years.\n\nRemembering happier times - Caroline Tansley was a key member of the Beresford team\n\nAmong those in tears at the news was Caroline Tansley, who worked at The Beresford for 20 years - primarily as a receptionist, though she often pitched in with the entertainment: singing, dancing, bingo, comedy, and as 'Mother Christmas', handing out presents to guests.\n\nAs well as losing her job, Caroline is losing her accommodation and is obliged to move out by 3 July.\n\n\"Normally at this time of year, with the lovely weather we've been having, it would be heaving.\n\n\"To the see the hotel standing empty is just heart-breaking,\" she says.\n\nHer partner, Darren Philips, is in the same boat.\n\nA part-time assistant manager at the hotel, he says the company were brilliant when he lost the sight in his left eye 10 years ago, and even developed a role specially for him.\n\nThe hotel's part-time assistant manger, Darren Philips, fears he will not work again\n\nThe sight in his right eye isn't great either, and he fears he may not work again.\n\n\"I can't use computers. Anything that needs me to see really, I struggle with.\n\n\"I've worked here for so long, I know the building like the back of my hand. I'd struggle if I went to a different building, with steps. I'd end up falling down.\"\n\nThe 107-room Beresford Hotel is one of two hotels in Newquay that have been forced to close due to SLG's demise.\n\nA few yards along the same road, the 52 rooms of the Marina Hotel are empty too, the front doors directing any questions to the administrators in Wigan.\n\nTwo other hotels owned by the group in Cornwall have also shut - some 150 jobs are estimated to have been lost.\n\nNewquay has seen at least two hotels close this year\n\nWhile Covid-19 has been less of a health crisis in the south west of England than many had feared, the pandemic is predicted to hammer the local economy.\n\nCornwall Council will consider a report on Wednesday that indicates as many as 72,800 jobs - 27% of all jobs in the county - are at risk due to the ongoing lockdown.\n\nIt calculates that the all-important tourism sector will lose £630m by the end of June.\n\nData released last month showed a 61% increase in applications for Universal Credit across Cornwall; the rise in applications between March and April in Bodmin, Bude, Penzance and Newquay was over 1000%.\n\nAnd a report in April from think tank, the Centre for Towns predicts Newquay will suffer the greatest economic hit of any town in England and Wales.\n\nNo surprise then, that hopes of finding a new job quickly are not high among the Beresford's former employees.\n\nSome are being told they are competing with up to 500 people for jobs in local supermarkets - an intimidating prospect for the many staff who have not faced a job interview in decades.\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne says he is losing his pride\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne, who spent 18 years at the hotel and took great pride in teaching culinary skills to the many international staff who passed through, says the past few weeks have been demoralising.\n\n\"To have no security, and no jobs in the area, is very hard to swallow.\n\n\"You feel as though your pride's been taken away a bit.\n\n\"You're up at 6 o'clock in the morning because your pattern is still the same, and you're on the internet going through every single website looking for work.\"\n\nPhillip led a kitchen team that could serve 190 covers in around 90 minutes on a busy day.\n\nThe hotel mainly catered for older visitors, who often returned year after year for the comfort and familiarity which The Beresford offered.\n\nAt the height of the summer, Shearings could bring 1,000 people to Cornwall every week.\n\nFormer head housekeeper Katie Korvisia has been offered work cleaning holiday homes\n\nThere is hope, if the lockdown is further eased next month and tourists begin to return, that some jobs will open up.\n\nKatie Kovisia, the hotel's former head housekeeper, has been offered a cleaning job at a holiday park for the summer, or she could clean holiday cottages on a self-employed basis.\n\nNeither prospect is particularly appealing for the 15-year veteran of the Beresford, but she realises she may not have many options: \"Here I was part of a family. It's been my life. It's very sad.\"", "Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has had his permission to officiate revoked\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has had his permission to officiate as a priest revoked.\n\nThe Church of England said new evidence linking Lord Carey, 84, to a review into allegations of abuse against the late John Smyth, had emerged.\n\nThere are no claims of abuse against him, and in a statement he said he was \"dismayed\" by the revocation.\n\nMr Smyth was accused of attacking boys whom he had met at a Dorset Christian camp in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe independent inquiry was launched into the Church's handling of allegations against Mr Smyth, a barrister who died aged 77 last year.\n\nPermission to Officiate (PTO) is required for any Church of England priest to preach or minister.\n\nIn a statement Lord Carey said: \"I am bewildered and dismayed to receive the news a short time ago that due to 'concerns' being raised during the review of John Smyth QC I have had my PTO revoked.\n\n\"I have been given no information on the nature of these 'concerns' and have no memory of meeting Mr Smyth.\"\n\nIn 2017 a damning independent report found he had \"colluded [with the convicted abuser Peter Ball] rather than seeking to help those harmed\".\n\nHe resigned from his post as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford and as a result his PTO was automatically revoked.\n\nBall was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s\n\nHe was later granted a PTO by the diocese in 2018, allowing him to preach at the church where he worships, conditional on no further concerns coming to light.\n\nA spokesman for the diocese said: \"A planned independent review into the Church of England's handling of allegations against the late John Smyth QC is currently under way.\n\n\"In the course of that review, new information has come to light regarding Lord Carey, which has been passed to the National Safeguarding Team for immediate attention as per the agreed terms of reference set for the review.\"\n\nLord Carey's PTO has been withdrawn while the matter is being investigated and he is unauthorised to \"undertake any form of ministry in the Diocese until further notice.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"However, for the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make clear that the new information received relates only to the review currently underway, and that there has not been an allegation of abuse made against Lord Carey.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League returns on Wednesday... but not exactly as we know it.\n\nAfter a 100-day absence because of the coronavirus pandemic, Aston Villa v Sheffield United will kick off the English top-flight's resumption.\n\nIt is the first of 92 league games that will be packed into a frantic 40 days before the season concludes on 26 July.\n\nFixtures will be played behind closed doors as one of a host of measures to prevent any further cases of the virus.\n\nA minute's silence to remember those who have died with coronavirus will be held before the first matches, while heart-shaped badges in tribute to frontline NHS staff will also be worn on kits.\n\nFor the first 12 matches of the restarted campaign, all player names on the back of shirts will be replaced by \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nThis follows the death of George Floyd in the United States, which has sparked protests worldwide.\n\nOver eight rounds of twice-weekly coronavirus screenings of Premier League players and staff, there have been 16 positive results from 8,687 tests.\n\nAll remaining 92 games will be broadcast live, with four matches to be shown on the BBC - the first to be made free-to-air on terrestrial television since the Premier League's inception in 1992.\n\nLiverpool sit 25 points clear at the top of the table while Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich City are in the relegation places.\n\nThe Reds, chasing a first league title in 30 years, could clinch it with victory in their first game back should second-placed Manchester City lose to Arsenal on Wednesday.\n• None Things we expect when the Premier League comes back\n• None 'Life hasn't been the same without football' - Phil McNulty on Premier League's return\n• None Quiz: what can you remember of the 2019-20 season so far?\n\nWhy is the Premier League returning now?\n\nWith the number of new infections falling and lockdown restrictions in England being gradually eased, the Premier League agreed it was safe to resume with the correct safety measures in place.\n\nThis was followed by the UK government giving the go-ahead for elite competitive sport to resume behind closed doors from 1 June.\n\nClubs unanimously voted to resume contact training in the final week of May, having started non-contact training the previous week as part of Project Restart.\n\nPremier League players and staff will continue to be tested twice a week, with any players or staff who test positive self-isolating for a period of seven days.\n\nThe delaying of Euro 2020 by a year provided the Premier League with greater flexibility in which to fit in fixtures.\n\nBut there remains a time pressure imposed by issues with players' contracts, many of which run out on 30 June, and the scheduled start of the 2020-21 season in August.\n\nThere is also a financial incentive to resume playing, with the threat of an increased or restructured rebate to TV companies if fixtures are not completed.\n\nWhen are the games?\n\nThe fixture list, including kick-off times, for the first 32 matches after the restart was announced on 5 June.\n\nAston Villa will face Sheffield United in the opening match at 18:00 BST on Wednesday, before Manchester City host Arsenal later the same evening.\n\nThe first full round of fixtures will then be played over the weekend.\n\nFor the full list of Premier League fixtures, click here.\n\nWhere can you follow the games?\n\nAll remaining 92 Premier League games will be broadcast live on Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC Sport or Amazon Prime.\n\nThe BBC will show Bournemouth v Crystal Palace on 20 June at 19:45 BST, followed by Norwich v Everton on 24 June at 18:00, and then two matches yet to be confirmed.\n\nAs well as the four live games, there will be additional Match of the Day highlights programmes.\n\nSky Sports will make 25 of the remaining top-flight matches free to air, including the Merseyside derby at 19:00 on 21 June. Amazon Prime's four matches will also be broadcast for free.\n\nFor the full list of free to air games, click here.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live and Talksport will also provide live radio commentaries for all the remaining matches, while BT Sport will show the first Saturday 15:00 Premier League match to be broadcast live in the UK when Brighton take on Arsenal on 20 June.\n\nWhat new measures have been put in place?\n• None All matches behind closed doors, with number of key people allowed inside the stadium limited to 300.\n• None Stadiums divided into three zones - red (includes pitch and technical areas), amber (stands) and green (stand concourses) - with restrictions on who is allowed to enter each.\n• None able to make five substitutions, rather than three, in each match and able to name nine substitutes instead of the usual seven.\n• None Staggered entry on to pitch for players and staff and no handshakes before kick-off. Deep cleaning of corner flags, goalposts, substitution boards and match balls before and after each fixture.\n• None Extra disinfection, such as of the substitution board after it is used, likely during matches and at half-time.\n• None Medical protocols stipulate how squads and coaching staff must travel to and from games, observing social distancing.\n• None Post-match broadcast interviews will take place pitchside with press conferences conducted virtually.\n• None VAR will continue to be in operation.\n\nHow did we leave things?\n\nBefore the suspension of play in the Premier League, Liverpool were hurtling towards their first top-flight title in 30 years.\n\nThe league will restart with the Reds 25 points clear at the top and potentially one win away from confirming their triumph.\n\nIf Manchester City lose their game in hand - against Arsenal on Wednesday - Jurgen Klopp's side will seal the title with victory in the Merseyside derby at Everton on Sunday.\n\nThe race for a top-four spot is less of a formality.\n\nCity's two-year ban from European competition (appeal pending) means fifth place will be enough for a Champions League spot.\n\nLiverpool, Leicester, Chelsea and Manchester United are currently occupying the qualification places, but the likes of Wolves, Sheffield United, Tottenham and Arsenal will all begin again with a place in Europe's top competition as their aim.\n\nDown at the bottom, six clubs are seemingly battling it out to avoid the drop.\n\nBottom club Norwich are six points adrift on 21 points. Aston Villa and Bournemouth are the two clubs above them but are part of a group of five clubs, along with Watford, West Ham and Brighton, separated by just four points.", "The Xenon1T detector was installed at Italy's Gran Sasso lab from 2016 to 2018\n\nAn experiment searching for signs of elusive dark matter has detected an unexplained signal.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon1T experiment have detected more activity within their detector than they would otherwise expect.\n\nThis \"excess of events\" could point to the existence of hypothesised particles called axions, some of which are candidates for dark matter.\n\nDark matter comprises 85% of matter in the cosmos, but its nature is unknown.\n\nWhatever it is, it does not reflect or emit detectable light, hence the name.\n\nThere are three potential explanations for the new signal from the Xenon1T experiment. Two require new physics to explain, while one of them is consistent with the existence of solar axion particles.\n\nThe findings, which have not been peer reviewed, were published on the Arxiv pre-print server.\n\nSo far, scientists have only observed indirect evidence of dark matter. A definitive, direct detection of dark matter particles has yet to be made.\n\nThere are several theories to account for what that particle might be like. The most favoured one has been the WIMP, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.\n\nPhysicists working on the Xenon series of experiments have spent more than a decade hunting for signs of these WIMPs. But the search has been fruitless.\n\nBut Xenon1T, the most recent iteration was also sensitive to other candidate particles.\n\nThe experiment was operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy, from 2016 to 2018.\n\nIts detector was filled with 3.2 tonnes of ultra-pure liquefied xenon, two tonnes of which served as a \"target\" for interactions between the xenon atoms and other particles that were passing through.\n\nWhen a particle crosses the target, it can generate tiny flashes of light and free electrons from a xenon atom.\n\nMost of these interactions - also known as events - are with particles we already know about, such as muons, cosmic rays and neutrinos. This constitutes what scientists refer to as the background signal.\n\nIndirect evidence for dark matter: the titanic collision of two galaxy clusters separates dark matter (blue) from ordinary matter (pink)\n\nA potential signal from an undiscovered particle needs to be strong enough to rise above this background noise.\n\nScientists carefully estimated the number of background events in Xenon1T. They expected to see roughly 232, but the experiment instead saw 285 - an excess of 53 events.\n\nOne explanation could be a new, previously unconsidered source of background contamination, caused by the presence of tiny amounts of tritium in the Xenon1T detector.\n\nIt could also be due to neutrinos, trillions of which pass through your body, unhindered, every second. One explanation could be that the magnetic moment (a property of all particles) of neutrinos is larger than its value in the Standard Model, which categorises the elementary particles in physics.\n\nThis would be a strong hint that some other new physics is needed to explain it.\n\nHowever, the excess is most consistent with a signal from axions, a very light as-yet undetected class of particle. In fact, the excess of events has an energy spectrum similar to that expected from axions produced in the Sun.\n\nWhile these solar axions are not dark matter candidates, axions produced in the early Universe could be a source of dark matter.\n\nIn statistical terms, the solar axion hypothesis has a significance of 3.5 sigma.\n\nWhile this significance is fairly high, it is not large enough to conclude that axions exist. Five sigma is generally the accepted threshold for a discovery.\n\nThe significance of both the tritium and neutrino magnetic moment hypotheses corresponds to 3.2 sigma, meaning that they are also consistent with the data.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon collaboration are currently upgrading to a different iteration called Xenon-nT. With better data from this future version, they are confident they will soon find out whether the excess is a statistical fluke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting.", "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.\n\nThe drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.\n\nIt cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.\n\nHad the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\nAnd it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe UK government has 200,000 courses of the drug in its stockpile and says the NHS will make dexamethasone available to patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a genuine case to celebrate \"a remarkable British scientific achievement\", adding: \"We have taken steps to ensure we have enough supplies, even in the event of a second peak.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Prof Chris Whitty said it would save lives around the world.\n\nAbout 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital.\n\nOf those who are admitted, most also recover but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation.\n\nAnd these are the high-risk patients dexamethasone appears to help.\n\nThe drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions.\n\nAnd it appears to help stop some of the damage that can happen when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight off coronavirus.\n\nThis over-reaction, a cytokine storm, can be deadly.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%.\n\nFor patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: \"This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough.\"\n\nLead researcher Prof Martin Landray said the findings suggested one life could be saved for:\n\n\"There is a clear, clear benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient.\n\n\"So essentially it costs £35 to save a life.\n\n\"This is a drug that is globally available.\"\n\nWhen appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, Prof Landray said.\n\nBut people should not go out and buy it to take at home.\n\nDexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus who do not need help with their breathing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Professor Chris Whitty This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Recovery Trial, running since March, also looked at the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has subsequently been ditched amid concerns it increases fatalities and heart problems.\n\nThe antiviral drug remdesivir, meanwhile, which appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus, is already being made available on the NHS.\n\nThe first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.\n\nThat is something to celebrate because it means patients across the world could benefit immediately.\n\nAnd that is why the top-line results of this trial have been rushed out - because the implications are so huge globally.\n\nDexamethasone has been used since the early 1960s to treat a wide range of conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma.\n\nHalf of all Covid patients who require a ventilator do not survive, so cutting that risk by a third would have a huge impact.\n\nThe drug is given intravenously in intensive care and in tablet form for less seriously ill patients.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to benefit Covid patients is remdesivir, which has been used for Ebola.\n\nThat has been shown to reduce the duration of coronavirus symptoms from 15 days to 11.\n\nBut the evidence was not strong enough to show whether it reduced mortality.\n\nUnlike dexamethasone, remdesivir is a new drug with limited supplies and a price has yet to be announced.\n• None Effect of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19- Preliminary Report - medRxiv The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple's chief executive will address app-makers at its online WWDC conference next week\n\nApple is facing mounting calls to reconsider its App Store rules, from the creators of the apps themselves.\n\nDozens have used the term \"hostile\" to describe how they perceive it treats its third-party developer community.\n\nThe backlash has been sparked by a row between the tech giant and the makers of a new email app over a demand that Apple be given the means to take a cut of the services's subscription fee.\n\nThe clash threatens to overshadow one of Apple's biggest annual events.\n\nThe iPhone-maker hosts its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The five-day event is used to showcase new technologies and encourage software-makers to adopt them.\n\nRegulators and politicians have also questioned whether Apple is behaving illegally.\n\nOn Tuesday, the European Union launched a formal probe into the firm's App store rules saying it believed they might be \"distorting competition\" in the digital goods market.\n\nAnd in the US, Congress is waiting to hear whether chief executive Tim Cook will testify to a House committee investigating whether Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon are exploiting their size to obtain unfair advantages over smaller companies.\n\nMr Cook has previously said that he thought it was fair for Apple to come under scrutiny, but the firm was not a monopoly in any of the markets it operated in.\n\nThe dispute - with the Chicago-based software firm Basecamp - began on Monday when Apple rejected an update to its Hey app.\n\nHey puts messages from familiar contacts into an Imbox - for important emails - while placing newsletters and promotional messages elsewhere\n\nHey screens emails and separates them into different places, so that users can focus on the most important ones.\n\nIt offers an alternative to Apple's own Mail app as well as other services such as Gmail and Outlook.\n\nIt costs $99 (£87) a year. This fee must be paid for via Hey's own site, but the app does not contain links or other prompts to do so.\n\nEven so, Apple told Basecamp it must also offer an in-app payment option, from which the App Store owner would deduct a 30% cut.\n\nApple added that the original version of the app should not have been approved in the first place.\n\nBasecamp's chief technology officer has tweeted his dismay, accusing Apple of a \"shakedown\" and being \"perversely abusive and unfair\".\n\n\"I will burn this house down myself, before I let gangsters like that spin it for spoils,\" David Heinemeier Hansson 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 DHH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 executive testified to Congress earlier this year when he complained about Apple's commission charges, at which time he was also critical of Google's business practices.\n\nHowever, he has noted in this latest dispute that Google's Play Store is not trying to impose a similar revenue share.\n\nHis tweets have struck a nerve with other developers, some of whom have used the opportunity to express their own concerns.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ben Thompson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral major players have also been critical.\n\nVideo game Fortnite's chief Tim Sweeney, Tinder's owner Match Group, and Spotify's chief legal officer all issued statements to the Washington Post, pressing Apple for a rethink.\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 its part, Apple notes that policies in place since 2010 made clear that paid services must offer users the option to make the purchase within the app.\n\nThe firm does make an exception for what it terms Reader apps - including magazines, books, newspapers, video-streamers and cloud storage - so long as they do not directly tell users to pay elsewhere.\n\nThis is why Amazon's Kindle app, for example, lets iPhone-owners read books bought off the retailer's site, but does not direct them to buy other titles from there.\n\nApple has given some organisations further special dispensation - for example BBC's iPlayer app tells users they must pay the licence fee, but does not provide the US firm with a way of taking a cut.\n\nBut otherwise, Apple says developers must follow its \"strict guidelines\".\n\nMr Hansson, however, claims that Apple recently tightened the application of its rules, which would explain why some other apps appear to have escaped the in-app fee requirement. But Apple has said there has been no change of practice.\n\nApple's model offers users convenience, but one company-watcher said it could also place them at a disadvantage, as they cannot be told it might be cheaper to sign up outside the app.\n\niOS apps cannot inform users that it may be cheaper to buy digital content from an external website\n\n\"It's increasingly difficult for customers to understand all the different options open to them when subscribing to content, particularly through Apple's App Store, because developers aren't able to display all the deals available to them,\" explained Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"And there is little question that this debate has now exploded into the public domain.\n\n\"Therefore it's going to be interesting to see whether it's something that Apple addresses at WWDC.\"", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that can be breathed in and may spread infection, such as coronavirus, say researchers.\n\nChinese scientists calculate that flushing can propel a plume of spray up and out of the toilet bowl, reaching head height and beyond.\n\nDroplets can travel up to 3ft - or 91cm - from ground level, according to the computer model used by the scientists from Yangzhou University.\n\nShutting the lid would avoid this.\n\nThe work is published in the journal Physics of Fluids.\n\nCoronavirus is spread through airborne droplets from coughs and sneezes, or objects that are contaminated with them.\n\nPeople who are infected can also have traces of the virus in their faeces, although it is not yet clear whether this might be another way to pass the disease on to others.\n\nScientists around the world are testing sewage and wastewater to determine how some people might have become infected with coronavirus.\n\nOther viruses can be spread by poor toilet hygiene, known as faecal-oral transmission.\n\nAs water pours into the toilet bowl during a flush, it strikes the side, creating turbulence and droplets. The droplets are so small they typically float in the air for more than a minute, according to study author Ji-Xiang Wang and colleagues from Yangzhou University, China.\n\nDr Bryan Bzdek, from the Bristol Aerosol Research Centre at the University of Bristol, said although there was no clear evidence that coronavirus might spread in this way, it made sense to take precautions.\n\n\"The study authors suggest that, whenever possible, we should keep the toilet seat down when we flush, clean the toilet seat and any other contact areas frequently, and wash our hands after using the toilet.\n\n\"While this study is unable to demonstrate that these measures will reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many other viruses are transmitted though the faecal-oral route, so these are good hygiene practices to have anyway.\"\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's David Luiz was sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secured a comfortable victory behind closed doors on the first night of the Premier League's return.\n\nLuiz, who came on as a first-half substitute, failed to clear the ball just before half-time and Raheem Sterling fired in City's opener.\n\nThe defender was then sent off after pulling back Riyad Mahrez in the second half to give away a penalty, which Kevin de Bruyne coolly slotted in for City's second.\n\nSubstitute Phil Foden netted a third for the defending champions, capitalising on a rebound from Sergio Aguero's strike.\n\nThere was concern for City late on as Eric Garcia needed several minutes of treatment on the pitch after a nasty collision with goalkeeper Ederson, and was carried off on a stretcher.\n\nArsenal were second best throughout as manager Mikel Arteta left Alexandre Lacazette on the bench and Mesut Ozil was kept out of the extended 20-man squad.\n\nThere were bursts of energy from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiah going forward in the first half but it was City who were more dangerous.\n\nDe Bruyne, Sterling and David Silva were all denied by Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno, who produced an impressive display, but it seemed inevitable City would move ahead when Luiz's mistake gifted Sterling a chance from close range.\n\nVictory for Pep Guardiola's side means league leaders Liverpool remain six points away from winning the title - writing off any potential celebrations in Sunday's Merseyside derby.\n\nOn an evening in which thousands tuned in to watch a new-look Premier League on their TV screens, players from both clubs used their platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.\n\nAll players and staff took a knee immediately before kick-off, mirroring the actions of those at Villa Park in the earlier match, and the words 'Black Lives Matter' replaced players' names on the back of their shirts.\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n• None 'It's my fault' - Luiz on Arsenal defeat\n\nAfter being left out of the starting line-up by Arteta, Luiz was handed his chance when he was brought on in the 23rd minute as Arsenal suffered their second injury of the match.\n\nPablo Mari, making just his second Premier League start for the club, followed Granit Xhaka, who was taken off on a stretcher early on.\n\nBut Luiz, prone to questionable decision-making, only confirmed his manager's decision to leave him out initially had been for the best.\n\nFailure to clear the ball properly led to Sterling's opener - the ball bouncing off Luiz's knee from De Bruyne's pass, landing straight into the path of the City forward.\n\nAnd Luiz completed a dreadful night four minutes into the second half when he tugged Mahrez's shirt with no intention to play the ball, giving away a penalty and receiving a red card.\n\nDe Bruyne reminds us of his quality\n\nSome things were different on the league's return.\n\nFans were absent, players wore face masks in the dugout, there was enhanced crowd noise for television viewers and managers did post-match press conferences via Zoom.\n\nBut some things remained the same. De Bruyne was the best player on the pitch.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder, widely regarded as one of the best in the business, reminded those watching at home of his quality with several intricate passes in the first half.\n\nHe forced the first save of the match from Leno with a curling free-kick in the first three minutes and two of his defence-splitting passes again tested the keeper's reactions half an hour later.\n\nIt was ironic one of his poorer passes would lead to Sterling's opener - helped by Luiz's poor control - but De Bruyne stamped his mark on the game even further by scoring City's second from the spot.\n\nHe needed only 69 minutes to whet the appetite of those who feared football would not be the same on its return.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We are really concerned [about Eric Garcia]. He responded quite well but we have to wait. He is conscious which is a good sign. We will make another test.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a lot of energy. Everybody wanted the ball. It was not quiet. We had chances. It was important to score before half time. I am happy with the performance of the team.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Everything went wrong from the first minute. Every possible accident that could have happened hopefully happened today.\n\n\"[David Luiz] is someone that is very honest and straight forward. My opinion on David Luiz hasn't changed. It won't change because he had a difficult performance tonight.\n\nOn leaving Mesut Ozil out of the squad: \"It was a tactical reason.\"\n\nSterling hits 50 - the best of the stats\n• None Manchester City have won their past seven matches against Arsenal in all competitions, extending their best ever winning run against the Gunners.\n• None Arsenal have lost by three or more goals both home and away in a league season versus an opponent (Man City in 2019-20) for the first time since 1969-70, against Chelsea.\n• None Arsenal are winless in their past 26 Premier League away games against fellow 'big six' opposition (D10 L16), with their last such victory coming at Etihad Stadium in January 2015 (2-0).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other player this season (25 - nine goals and 16 assists) - it's also his best goal involvement tally in a single top-flight campaign in England.\n• None Raheem Sterling became the first player to score a goal in the month of June in the English top-flight since Walter Rickett, for Sheffield United against Stoke on 14 June, 1947.\n• None Sterling also scored in his 50th home club game in all competitions - he's never been on the losing side in those fixtures for Liverpool and Manchester City (W47 D3).\n• None David Luiz became the first player to be sent off, concede a penalty and commit an error leading to an opposition goal in a Premier League match since Carl Jenkinson for West Ham against Bournemouth in August 2015.\n• None He has conceded four penalties in the Premier League this season - the joint-most in a single campaign in the competition's history (also Jose Fonte 2016-17, Gary Caldwell 2011-12, Ibrahima Sonko 2007-08, Claus Lundekvam 1999-00, Ken Monkou 1993-94 and Luc Nijholt 1993-94).\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Arsenal 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Eric García went off injured after Manchester City had used all subs.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "There have been six books about James Bowen and his companion Bob to date\n\nA pet that inspired the book A Street Cat Named Bob has died aged 14.\n\nJames Bowen met Bob in 2007 during his battle with drug addiction when he found the cat abandoned and injured and decided to look after him.\n\nHe began taking the ginger cat with him when busking or selling The Big Issue in London.\n\nBowen eventually wrote a book about their relationship which became a smash hit and was made into a film, featuring Bob, in 2016.\n\nA Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life was published in 2012, and there have since been five further books released in more than forty different languages.\n\nA second film, A Gift from Bob, which also features the eponymous feline, is due to be released later this year.\n\nBob accompanied his owner on the red carpet for the premiere of his film\n\nBowen credits his scarf-wearing companion with aiding his own recovery.\n\nIn a statement on the official Facebook page for his books, the author said Bob had saved his life.\n\n\"It's as simple as that. He gave me so much more than companionship. With him at my side, I found a direction and purpose that I'd been missing.\"\n\n\"He's met thousands of people, touched millions of lives. \"There's never been a cat like him. And never will again.\n\n\"I feel like the light has gone out in my life. I will never forget him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christie has stayed at home through the lockdown to keep her mother safe\n\nChristie Michael is so worried about protecting her elderly mother that she has not gone outside her front door since the lockdown began in March.\n\nShe says it is \"lonely and isolating\" - but the mother and daughter in Essex have also found themselves hungry.\n\nResearch from Sheffield and Birmingham universities suggests more than 100,000 unpaid carers in the UK have had to rely on food banks during the pandemic.\n\nHelen Walker of Carers UK says unpaid carers are at \"breaking point\".\n\nThe study looked at the experiences of people caring for parents and disabled relatives during the lockdown - and found 229,000 unpaid carers were in households where people had \"gone hungry\".\n\nChristie, now in her thirties, lives with her mother in Waltham Abbey and has been caring for her since childhood - watching over her mother as she suffered from seizures and other health problems.\n\nBut during the lockdown they faced a different kind of problem: \"We were actually hungry.\"\n\nChristie did not want to risk going to the shops while she was shielding her 76-year-old mother.\n\nSince she was a child, Christie has been a carer for her mother\n\nAnd even if they could have got an online delivery, they didn't have enough money - so much so that they depended on deliveries brought by food banks.\n\n\"People don't understand the importance of food banks,\" she says, or how widely they are now being used.\n\nWhen they had emptied their cupboards, using up the baked beans and cereals, she said they were \"not eating\".\n\n\"I don't know what we would have done without the food bank.\"\n\nWhen government food parcels did arrive, she didn't like to complain that much of it contained dairy products, when her mother was lactose intolerant.\n\nAs a full-time carer she is entitled to a carer's allowance of about £67 per week - and the Carers UK charity is pushing for an increase.\n\nBut even with other benefits on top, Christie says her current reality is \"spending every penny on food, rent and bills\".\n\nEvery other cost that comes along, \"like something breaking down\", means borrowing and that creates another second wave of financial problems.\n\nWhat makes it tougher, says Christie, is the lack of recognition for such carers, protecting the people they love, but spending their waking hours looking after someone and being trapped without any money.\n\nDuring the lockdown, she says the sense of being invisible and forgotten has been even more intense.\n\nShe has remained behind her door - and doesn't expect to be outside until the end of July, so as not to \"put mum in jeopardy\".\n\nIn the past, she says there were some respite hours available to people caring for relatives - but that has gone. And she calls for a more consistent approach for support available for carers.\n\nThe study from academics at Birmingham and Sheffield universities suggests that unpaid carers are twice as likely to have used food banks during the pandemic, compared to the general population.\n\nProfessor Sue Yeandle of Sheffield University says this should \"shock the nation\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that carers are hidden from view, with declining mental wellbeing or face hunger or food poverty,\" she says.\n\nThe chief executive of Carers UK, Helen Walker, says: \"Surely when the majority of carers are providing even more care for relatives during this pandemic, and spending more to do so, they deserve some help?\"\n\nA spokeswoman from the Department for Health and Social Care said: \"The government is hugely grateful for the crucial role that carers play, especially during this unprecedented period and we recently announced an extra £63m to support people struggling to afford food and other essentials due to coronavirus.\n\n\"The rate of carer's allowance was recently increased and we are working closely with carers organisations to further support carers during this outbreak, including funding to extend Carers UK's helpline opening times so unpaid carers are able to access trusted information and advice.\"", "The Eiffel Tower is visited by around seven million people each year Image caption: The Eiffel Tower is visited by around seven million people each year\n\nThe Eiffel Tower in Paris, one of France’s most visited landmarks, will reopen to visitors next week.\n\nTourism officials plan to start by limiting the number of visitors to the tower, following its longest closure since World War Two.\n\nOnly the first and second floors will be accessible to visitors, and lifts will remain closed in the first stage of reopening.\n\nAll surfaces in well-travelled areas will be cleaned every two hours, and all visitors over the age of 11 will be required to wear masks. A full reopening is expected by 25 June.\n\nThe tower normally receives around seven million visitors per year, but France's tourism industry has been hit hard after a lockdown was imposed in March.\n\nLifts will be closed at first, forcing visitors to hike up the stairs Image caption: Lifts will be closed at first, forcing visitors to hike up the stairs", "The boy is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been charged with plotting an \"Islamist\" terror attack, police have said.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, who cannot be named, faces one count of preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nHampshire Police, which arrested the boy on 12 June, said it believed the investigation was \"isolated\". The boy was later re-arrested by counter-terror police.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Charles has still not fully regained his sense of smell and taste after having coronavirus in March, he revealed on a visit to NHS staff.\n\nThe prince discussed his personal experience with the virus as he met workers at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital - at a 2m distance.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who said the staff had showed \"Britain at its best\".\n\nIt was the couple's first face-to-face public engagement since lockdown began.\n\nThey met front-line staff and key workers from several NHS trusts, including consultants, nurses and cleaners, at the hospital near Prince Charles's Highgrove estate.\n\nSocial distancing rules were observed, with those waiting to meet them standing on yellow dots to ensure they were 2m apart.\n\nPrince Charles greeted some of those he met with a \"namaste\" - clasping his hands together - instead of a handshake.\n\nJeff Mills, 47, a healthcare assistant from Cheltenham General Hospital, said: \"He did speak of his personal experience, so first-hand experience for him.\n\n\"He also spoke about his loss of smell and taste and, sort of, still felt he's still got it now.\"\n\nThey're never the most natural of meetings. Even at the best of times, royal visits can be a touch artificial. It's all that protocol: what do you call them; must one bow/curtsey; what does one talk about?\n\nAnd now it's become ever so slightly more complicated thanks to the requirements of social distancing.\n\nWhen Charles and Camilla turned up at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital they were greeted by staff who looked as though they were taking part in a military parade… they were formed up in impeccably well-presented ranks, each person 2m from each other.\n\nEveryone understood and the royal guests joked about taking a salute or telling everyone to \"fall out\".\n\nBut the important thing was that it didn't interfere with the essential message of the occasion.\n\nPrince William too had resumed face to face royal visits, meeting first responders at an ambulance station in Norfolk.\n\nConversations may not be at their most relaxed when the speakers are standing apart but no amount of protocol or \"distancing\" can dilute the underlying message of gratitude to all those who've been in the coronavirus front line.\n\nThe 71-year-old prince was diagnosed with Covid-19 near the start of the outbreak, after suffering mild symptoms. A loss of smell is thought to be one of the key symptoms.\n\nHe later said he had \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nAsked if the country's appreciation of the NHS had changed for good, the duchess said: \"I think it has, you can tell by all the people coming out every week to clap - they've done the most remarkable things.\n\n\"The way they've looked after people, the way they've sort of kept control of the whole thing... it's a question of not panicking and getting on with it and I think they are Britain at its best.\"\n\nShe also revealed the couple had their first socially-distanced reunion with their grandchildren last weekend, saying it had been a \"great treat\", even though they were not able to hug them.\n\nWith lockdown restrictions being eased, the Royal Family have chosen to take a step towards a return to normality - with a series of face-to-face public engagements.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge visited King's Lynn Ambulance Station in Norfolk - the first time he had met members of the public in person since coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nPrince William's visit to the King's Lynn Ambulance Station was also socially distanced\n\nPrince William joked about how he was looking forward to having a pint in the pub, as he praised staff for \"all your hard work\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone appreciates the NHS, we have an amazing system, it's a great health service and many countries around the world envy what we have.\n\n\"It's not until you have a big crisis, a pandemic, and everyone realises we have to really make sure we value and we show our appreciation.\"\n\nHe also joked: \"I'm worried about the waistline of the nation as well, with all the chocolate and cakes. I've done a lot of baking at home.\"\n\nThe prince recently revealed he had been volunteering for crisis helpline Shout 85258 during the lockdown.", "Scotland's national clinical director is \"more hopeful\" but \"still cautious\" about the prospect of a 1 August return for the Scottish Premiership.\n\nClubs are allowed to train with restrictions in place as they work towards starting the new season.\n\nProf Jason Leitch believes a drop in the number of cases and the rate of infection make the scheduled start more likely.\n\n\"I am more hopeful this Saturday than I was last Saturday, but I'm still cautious,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland. \"Gradually, things seem to be going in the right direction.\n\n\"Things are beginning to fall into place that would allow us to put another layer of pencil over that date, but it's still early days.\"", "For the first time in its history, The Bachelor, ABC's hugely popular reality series, will feature a black lead.\n\nMatt James, a 28-year-old real estate broker, will star in the next season, ABC announced on Friday, after mounting criticism over a lack of diversity.\n\nThe show's nearly two decade history has seen overwhelmingly white casts, with just one black star in its sister spinoff, The Bachelorette, in 2017.\n\nMr James called his casting \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"I don't think it's ever the wrong time to do the right thing,\" Mr James said in an interview with Good Morning America 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 The Bachelor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Bachelor\n\nPressure for the hit dating show to cast a black lead intensified in recent days amid the ongoing racial reckoning in the US, incited by the killing of George Floyd last month.\n\nAn online petition signed by more than 86,000 people called for the television network to \"reflect and honour the racial diversity of our country\" and cast a Black bachelor for its upcoming season, in addition to casting black, indigenous and people of colour in at least 35% of the contestant roles.\n\nThe first and only black star of the Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, who is now married to the winning contestant of her season, told Good Morning America that she had hoped to be a \"trailblazer\" for the franchise, and has been disappointed by the lack of progress since.\n\n\"In the last three years there haven't really been changes made,\" she said.\n\nSince it began in 2002, the franchise has aired 40 seasons - 24 of the Bachelor, 15 of The Bachelorette - cultivating a devoted fan following and equally dedicated viewership.\n\nIts most recent season finale, season 24 of the Bachelor, which aired in March, had around 8.5 million viewers.\n\nMr James was originally cast as a contestant on the forthcoming season of The Bachelorette starring Clare Crawley, which was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"When filming couldn't move forward as planned, we were given the benefit of time to get to know Matt and all agreed he would make a perfect Bachelor,\" Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement.\n\n\"We know we have a responsibility to make sure the love stories we're seeing onscreen are representative of the world we live in,\" Ms Burke said.\n\nIn 2012, two would-be contestants brought a class action lawsuit against the show for racial discrimination, arguing its lack of diversity was a conscious effort \"to minimise the risk of alienating their majority-white viewership\". The suit was ultimately dismissed by a judge, who said the show had a right to cast who it wished under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which covers freedom of speech.", "Vivien Wong, who runs Little Moons, said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise\n\nThe scale of the UK's economic troubles have been laid bare by the latest GDP figures.\n\nWill the recovery be V-shaped, L-shaped, U-shaped, or is it far too early to tell?\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, some British companies are nothing if not positive.\n\nHere, the owners of three firms that went into lockdown in March tell the BBC why they can see light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe lockdown hit just as Little Moons was enjoying its best month of trading.\n\nThe business, which makes the Japanese ice cream confection mochi for restaurants and supermarkets, shut down overnight.\n\nCo-founder Vivien Wong said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise. \"We'd followed what was happening in China and Hong Kong,\" she said.\n\nMore than 50% of revenues came from restaurants, money that dried up immediately. \"We were weren't sure what was going to happen with supermarkets, but we knew immediately we had to go into cash preservation mode.\"\n\nLuckily, Little Moons struck a deal with its landlord, which eased cash flow. \"We cancelled marketing and all unnecessary spending. Basically, we just hunkered down,\" Ms Wong said.\n\nThe London-based company trades throughout Europe, which has helped Little Moons to get back to business.\n\nMs Wong said: \"Europe opened up a little earlier, so from about mid-May we started getting orders from supermarkets.\n\n\"We started un-furloughing a few members of our team, and have just started cranking up production again.\"\n\nBut a return to the record trading Little Moons saw in March could be a long way off. Ms Wong said: \"We have halved the number of people on the production floor and changed shift patterns.\n\n\"It means we are not as efficient as before. That's really affected us financially.\" Little Moons is employing more cleaners, and the cost of face masks and other food hygiene equipment has soared.\n\nThe firm's future is tied up with the restaurant sector, which she worries may never fully recover. That said, supermarket orders are rising, which Ms Wong puts down to people wanting comfort food.\n\n\"It was pretty catastrophic\" is how Adam Redhouse describes the first few days of lockdown. Sales and lettings at his London estate agents firm disappeared virtually overnight.\n\n\"We furloughed sales staff immediately, and closed all the offices,\" he said. \"We lost over 50% of the sales pipeline over the first few days as people cancelled.\"\n\nAnd yet, over the following weeks the business continued to get what Mr Redhouse said were \"a fair few inquiries. That was a massive surprise. But if you can't do viewings, you can't sell properties.\"\n\nStill, even though Squire Estates did very few transactions, the continuing customer interest at least gave him hope that business would pick up once the lockdown eased.\n\nIt was only in mid-May that estate agents began re-opening for business, but Mr Redhouse has been amazed at the pace of recovery. \"It sounds crazy, given how much business we lost,\" he said.\n\n\"It was on a Tuesday night that the government said we could re-open, and on the Wednesday morning we un-furloughed all the sales staff. There was a lot of pent up demand for transactions and viewings,\" he said.\n\nIt helped, Mr Redhouse believes, that he and his partner made a special effort to keep in touch with clients and potential clients during the lockdown.\n\nBusiness continues to pick up, but will it get back to normal? \"I like to think so. The amount of demand that we are seeing shows that people want to move. I feel positive,\" he said.\n\nSophie Lawler's 17 health clubs remain closed to their 100,000 members in the north of England and Wales. And like the rest of the fitness sector, she has no idea when she might get the green light to re-open.\n\n\"The whole sector has struggled financially, and may do so for years to come,\" she said. \"The industry is shouldering quite some rental burden, costs we still incur even while we're closed.\"\n\nFurloughing has been vital. \"It's given us a great deal of oxygen to keep the business going,\" she said.\n\nStaff wages are the biggest fixed costs after property rents and rates.\n\nAs soon as Total Fitness is given the go-ahead to re-open Ms Lawler plans to bring all the staff back from furlough. \"We will need all our people, maybe even more.\"\n\nShe'd like to see the government do more to help, perhaps with some VAT exemptions and support for landlords to let them ease the burden on leaseholders.\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, she says the fitness industry \"has an exceptionally bright future if we can weather this storm\".\n\nMs Lawler said the sector has proved particularly resilient to recessions in the past, and will do so again. She expects to see a uptick in customers who recognise the importance of fitness and exercise in the fight to stay healthy against viruses.\n\n\"It terms of demand, we will do pretty well when we get through to the other side of this,\" she said.\n\nThe trouble is, she has no idea when that might be. \"Our single biggest challenge is that there is just no guidance on re-opening.\"", "Most BA aircraft have been grounded since the lockdown\n\nBritish Airways' treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis \"is a national disgrace\", MPs have claimed.\n\nA Transport Select Committee report accuses the airline of a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the pandemic by cutting thousands of jobs and downgrading terms and conditions.\n\nBA said it was doing all it could to keep \"the maximum number of jobs\".\n\nBut the MPs said the airline's actions fell \"well below the standards we would expect from any employer\".\n\nThe aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit since the pandemic forced a lockdown. Airlines including EasyJet, Ryanair, and Virgin Atlantic, and suppliers Rolls-Royce and Airbus, have announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nBA plans a major restructuring, which could mean up to 12,000 redundancies and changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff.\n\nThe airline warned unions that if it could not reach an agreement over the proposals it would push through the issue by giving staff notice and offering them new contracts.\n\nUnite and the GMB are not engaging in talks with BA. Pilots' union Balpa has had discussions with the airline over the possibility of voluntary redundancies but said consultations were \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nThe MPs acknowledged that job losses in the sector \"may sadly be inevitable\" due to the collapse in air travel. But it urged UK-based employers not to \"proceed hastily\" by making large numbers of people redundant while the government's furlough scheme was in place.\n\nUnions told the committee that BA had threatened a \"fire and rehire\" approach by giving redundancy notices to most of its 42,000 workers with the intention of offering jobs to a proportion of them under diminished terms and conditions.\n\nThe Transport Committee found that BA had received nearly £35m from the government as of 14 May by furloughing 22,000 staff. The MPs also noted that at the end of 2019, the airline recorded profits after tax of £1.1bn and had cash reserves of £2.6bn.\n\nThe committee's report said: \"The behaviour of British Airways and its parent company towards its employees is a national disgrace. It falls well below the standards we would expect from any employer, especially in [the] light of the scale of taxpayer subsidy, at this time of national crisis.\"\n\nBA insists it will do all it can to protect jobs but says the airline industry is in a \"new reality\".\n\nThere have been calls from MPs and unions for BA to be stripped of some of its lucrative take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport as punishment for the treatment of its staff.\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the committee, said: \"We will continue to bring pressure where we can, including the airport slot allocation process. This wanton destruction of a loyal workforce cannot appear to go without sanction by government, parliamentarians or paying passengers, who may choose differently in future. We view it as a national disgrace.\"\n\nBalpa said the committee was \"absolutely right\" about BA. Brian Strutton, the union's general secretary, said: \"Any company using the cover of Covid to slash jobs and terms and conditions like they have needs to be called out.\n\n\"I have described consultation talks between Balpa and BA as hanging by a thread due to BA's decision to issue a 'fire and rehire' threat. That remains the case.\"\n\nThe airline said in a statement: \"We find ourselves in the deepest crisis ever faced by the airline industry - a crisis not of our making but one which we must address.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to ensure that British Airways can survive and sustain the maximum number of jobs consistent with the new reality of a changed airline industry in a severely weakened global economy.\"\n\nBA is already embroiled in a bitter fight with its unions and a row with the government. Now MPs have weighed in against the company as well.\n\nIt's a remarkable situation for BA. It was once seen as a flag carrier for British values, a national champion, with the closest of links to the government - and a place where staff were delighted to work.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? The Covid-19 crisis has scythed through the airline industry, leaving previously strong companies teetering. Carriers around the world are shedding jobs, as they prepare for a bleak few years.\n\nBA is far from unique in wanting to make deep cuts. But there's more to it than that. BA has spent the past decade trying to streamline its business, in order to compete with low-cost upstarts like Ryanair and EasyJet.\n\nThat has sometimes caused conflict with its employees - and seemingly created a legacy of mistrust and resentment, in particular among cabin crew.\n\nNow, during a crisis, those feelings are bubbling up. At times, the company looks as though it is under siege.\n\nThe MPs' report also urged the government to abandon its 14-day quarantine rule at the end of June.\n\nIt called for a \"more targeted and nuanced border control policy\", allowing people travelling from countries where the infection rate of Covid-19 is relatively low to enter the UK on a less restrictive basis.\n\nOn Friday, BA, EasyJet and Ryanair launched legal action against the \"flawed\" quarantine policy. The airlines are asking for a judicial review to be heard \"as soon as possible\", claiming the measures introduced this week will have a \"devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\".\n\nThey said they have seen no evidence of when proposed \"air bridges\" between the UK and other countries will be implemented. Instead, they want the government to re-adopt the policy it introduced on 10 March, which required passengers from countries deemed at high risk of coronavirus infection to self-isolate on arrival in the UK.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel has insisted that the policy can \"help stop a devastating second wave\" of the disease.\n\nAre you a BA staff member who has been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Trump has come under fire for his handling of the protests in the US\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the controversial chokehold method for restraining some suspects should \"generally speaking\" be ended.\n\nSome US police forces have moved to ban chokeholds since the outbreak of anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African American.\n\nMr Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nMr Trump said it would be a \"very good thing\" to ban chokeholds but they may still be needed in some situations.\n\nThe president's comments come with Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress trying to hammer out the details of a police reform bill - the proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020.\n\nMr Trump told Fox News that chokeholds sounded \"so innocent, so perfect\" but that if you get two-on-one, \"it's a different story\".\n\nBut he continued: \"If a police officer is in a bad scuffle and he's got somebody... you have to be careful.\n\n\"With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that generally speaking it should be ended,\" he said, adding that he might make \"very strong recommendations\" to local authorities.\n\nThe police officer who knelt on Mr Floyd's neck has been sacked and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of police violence in the US\n\nMr Trump - who has faced criticism for his responses to the outbreak of the protests against racism and police brutality - said he wanted to \"see really compassionate but strong law enforcement\", adding \"toughness is sometimes the most compassionate\".\n\nChallenged by interviewer Harris Faulkner to explain his tweet last month that \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", which was censored by Twitter for glorifying violence, the president said: \"When the looting starts, it oftentimes means there's going to be... sure, there's going to be death, there's going to be killing. And, it's a bad thing.\"\n\nThe Justice in Policing Act was proposed by the opposition Democrats who control the House of Representatives but in order to pass it must win the support of Mr Trump's Republicans who control the Senate.\n\nThere is potential for the two parties to reach agreement on banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, like the one in the Breonna Taylor shooting.\n\nMeanwhile, the city council in Minneapolis, where Mr Floyd died, passed a resolution on Friday to replace its police department with a community-led public safety system.\n\nIt comes days after the council voted to disband the police department.\n\nAccording to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging \"with every willing community member in Minneapolis\" to come up with a new public safety model.\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered police departments to undertake major reforms, in response to the demonstrations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cuomo said he would stop financing local authorities that failed to adopt reforms addressing excess use of force and bias in their police departments by next April.\n\nHe said he would sign an executive order for municipalities to \"reinvent and modernize\" their police departments to battle racism. Police disciplinary records would be publicly released and chokeholds would become a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.\n\n\"That should be done in every police agency in this country,\" Mr Cuomo was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nSitting alongside the governor at the news conference were Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, the mothers of Eric Garner and Sean Bell, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with police.\n\nMr Garner died when a white police officer used a chokehold on him while making an arrest in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during the coronavirus lockdown when they welcome the French president to the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla will meet Emmanuel Macron at their London home on 18 June.\n\nThey will mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nMr Macron will be exempt from a 14-day quarantine imposed on most people who travel to the UK, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nA Clarence House spokeswoman said government guidelines on social distancing would be followed.\n\nThe royal couple will travel from Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, where they have been staying for almost three months, to Clarence House in London to attend the meeting.\n\nBoth had to self-isolate in March after Charles, 71, contracted coronavirus.\n\nThey have been carrying out royal engagements remotely - via video calls or recorded messages - and are said to be \"pleased\" to be welcoming Mr Macron to the country.\n\nDuring the height of lockdown, to curb the spread of coronavirus in France, residents there had to to provide a travel permit to justify any outdoor trips.\n\nRestrictions began to ease on 11 May, and phase two of the easing began on 2 June. Nearly all of France is now in a so-called \"green zone\" where, for example, bars and restaurants can reopen.\n\nAsked if the French president would be subject to quarantine rules for UK arrivals, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"No, he won't.\"\n\n\"As we set out in the guidelines when they were published, the French delegation will fall within the exempted category of representatives of a foreign country or territory travelling to undertake business in the UK.\"\n\nFrance's coronavirus death toll rose to 29,374 on Friday, while the UK's rose to 41,481.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClarence House said the royal couple would formally receive Mr Macron, with a guard of honour, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of World War Two resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle's \"Appel\" to the French population.\n\nOn 18 June 1940, de Gaulle used a BBC broadcast to urge people to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\n\"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "It is feared the 30ft (10m) fin whale might not survive\n\nA beached whale which became stranded in the same estuary twice in as many days has a \"high chance\" of dying, rescuers have warned.\n\nIt was hoped the 30ft (10m) sea mammal had returned to open waters when it was seen swimming out to sea on Friday.\n\nBut it was again found stranded on Saturday morning on the same stretch of Flintshire coastline.\n\nThe fin whale - the second largest whale breed in the world - is thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nAn expert from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is assessing the 14-tonne creature.\n\nWriting on its Facebook page on Saturday evening, the group said its team had withdrawn to safety after the tide came in.\n\n\"The whale is still alive and it will be monitored from the boat and the shore,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\n\nA spokesman said whales cannot support their own weight on land, so are in danger of causing \"significant internal damage to themselves\" when stranded.\n\nAfter so many hours out of the water, there are fears the whale may not survive.\n\n\"Although we want to be optimistic, we have to be absolutely realistic about the animal's chances of survival at this point,\" BDMLR added.\n\n\"It has spent several hours out of the water gradually being crushed under its own weight over the last couple of days and the degree of internal damage this may have caused could be very significant by now.\n\n\"Even if it does swim off again this evening there is a high chance that it will re-strand and, or pass away as a result.\"", "Immigrants 'could become homeless' without support\n\nCouncils are calling for the government to allow people with a temporary immigration status to receive public funds amid fears they will be forced into homelessness during the pandemic. Increasing numbers of people who are not eligible to support from UK taxpayers are approaching local authorities for support during the coronavirus pandemic, the Local Government Association (LGA) said. People with a temporary immigration status are given the condition called \"no recourse to public funds\" by the Home Office, meaning they cannot access welfare benefits. But the LGA fears that, without this support and as people lose their jobs, they could become homeless. Councillor David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said: \"As the economy recovers, local outbreaks may mean there still may be a need to be able to access safe and suitable accommodation and financial support to allow for self-isolation, particularly for single adults without care needs who are not usually eligible for social services' support.\" A government spokeswoman said: \"Families with leave under family and human rights routes can apply, free of charge, to have no recourse to public funds conditions lifted and we encourage anyone eligible to submit an application.\"", "Joseph John was about to get into bed in the early hours of 14 June 2017. He heard noise coming from outside the second-floor apartment he shared with his partner and 14-month-old son in the Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe looked through his curtains and saw a fire engine. He then caught a bright red reflection in the window of a parked car.\n\n\"I saw the building was on fire,\" Joseph, 29, recalls.\n\nHe woke his partner and rushed out of the flat to seek help. Joseph's partner is disabled and he needed help in evacuating his family from the 24-storey tower. A firefighter told him to go back inside the flat and someone would assist them in getting out.\n\nBut after an hour, as flames engulfed the tower's upper floors, he and his partner realised they couldn't risk waiting any longer. Joseph passed their baby over a large gate to a stranger downstairs before carrying his partner through the window and over the gate himself.\n\nThey managed to get out just in time. Seventy-two people did not. Joseph is still struggling to process the trauma he experienced. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.\n\nA few months after the fire, Joseph heard about a new local football team that had started up. A keen player, he eventually decided to check out a training session.\n\nFinally, he could take his mind off what had happened that night.\n\n\"I tried cooking, I tried working, I tried everything,\" he says. \"Nothing seemed to work for me, other than football.\"\n\nJoseph wasn't the only one. This is the story of a very special Sunday league team, Grenfell Athletic.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, west London, was one of the worst disasters in British modern history. It began on the fourth floor of the tower just before 01:00 BST on 14 June. By 04:30 more than 100 flats were on fire. The blaze did not burn itself out for 24 hours.\n\nRupert Taylor was born and raised on the streets surrounding Grenfell and used to play on football pitches beneath the tower. He started volunteering as a youth worker in 2005 and at the time of the fire was manager of the local youth centre. Nine children from the youth centre died in the tower.\n\nRupert was on holiday in Gibraltar when he received a phone call in the early hours of 14 June.\n\n\"I turned on the news. My heart sunk, it was horrific,\" he recalls. \"We didn't know who was alive.\"\n\nHe got the first plane back to London and got straight to work in helping people affected by the fire. \"When I got back I drove in… the smell of burning was real,\" he says. \"I was trying to get support for the residents who were wandering the streets trying to find out about their loved ones.\"\n\nA few days later, Rupert noticed a young man wandering outside the youth centre looking lost. He asked the man if he was OK and if he wanted to come in and get some supplies. He politely declined but they exchanged phone numbers. The man later came into the centre and they started to talk. He told Rupert he was a resident of the tower.\n\n\"He seemed like a very lonely chap,\" Rupert says. \"He told me that he'd lost both his parents a few years ago. A couple of weeks in, we were building a relationship and I noticed he was really struggling. I asked what helped him get through the time when he lost his parents and the first thing that came out of his mouth was 'football'.\n\n\"I said: 'Right, we're going to create a team.'\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic was born barely a month after the fire. Rupert started to put word around the local community and training sessions were set up.\n\nBecause it was so soon after the fire, he wanted it to be as open as possible. Many were still recovering mentally and physically, and he wanted residents to feel able to pop in for training sessions without fully committing to the team.\n\nGrenfell Athletic joined the Middlesex County Football League for the 2017-18 season. The early days were turbulent.\n\n\"It was the strain of the shadow of what we were all walking out for,\" Rupert says. \"The 72 lives that were lost. Every time we went out to the pitch, we did a minute's silence. It starts to wear you down and it's quite heavy on the soul.\n\n\"Children lost their lives. You're seeing their faces when you get out on the pitch and you say you're doing this for them. You're trying to build something greater than your bog-standard Sunday league team.\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic soon started to gel and finished fifth out of 12 teams in their first season - a solid start for a new team founded under such tough circumstances.\n\nAt the end of the season, the team went on a tour of Italy where they played semi-professional Lanciano from the Italian fifth tier. The trip was an important part of the healing process for a lot of the players, many of whom hadn't properly left the area since the fire. It was, Rupert says, \"a time for them to be away from the shadow of this area and the tower\".\n\nBonded after their Italian tour, the team fully found their stride in the second season. They lost just one game and won both the league - gaining promotion - and League Cup.\n\nAfter the fire, Joseph and his family had to spend the first few days living in a local church, before eventually being given a room in a hotel - where they stayed for a year. They have been in temporary housing since.\n\nAs time went on, Joseph struggled to come to terms with the night of the fire. He knew people who lost their lives. He recalls a family he would chat to and help out in the tower's lift. They didn't make it out.\n\n\"For me, it was super difficult, even now. Every day I feel like I am living back in 2017,\" he says.\n\nJoseph, who moved to the UK four years ago, is from a family of footballers and grew up playing in his native Trinidad and Tobago - even representing his country at under-17 level.\n\nThe team soon helped him escape the trauma in ways he hadn't been able to before. He also started opening up to some of his team-mates about the fire.\n\n\"It helped me grow bonds with them, it helped me be open. I can discuss anything with some of my team-mates,\" he says. \"We can chat one to one - man to man - it makes me feel comfortable.\n\n\"I don't like being around people, I don't like meeting people, I don't like being in people's space - I like to be around myself. But in football you can't have that.\n\n\"You have to be respectful, you have to be considerate to your team-mates, you have to be uplifting. It's different rules - being part of the team.\"\n\nBy mid-March of this year, Grenfell Athletic were joint second in the table, and then coronavirus hit.\n\n\"Right now my mental health is going down badly with no football and just staying at home,\" he said in April. \"I can't go to my physio, I can't go to my therapist. It's hard.\"\n\nMany of the team did not live in Grenfell, but the tower had been a constant in their lives.\n\nBoxer Dan-Dan Keenan, 23, grew up in the area and started training at the Dale Youth Boxing Club inside Grenfell Tower aged 10.\n\nDan-Dan was outside the tower on the night of the fire, speaking to his best friend's father, Tony, on the phone. Tony was trapped on the 23rd floor and never made it out.\n\n\"I rang him when I first got there to tell him there was a fire and he said 'thanks for making me aware but I already know,'\" Dan-Dan recalls. \"We were watching it, so it's pretty bad.\"\n\nDan-Dan soon heard about Grenfell Athletic from local friends he grew up with playing football.\n\n\"I wanted to get involved in remembrance of Grenfell and especially in remembrance of Tony. But also, besides that, I just wanted to play football,\" he says.\n\n\"It means that everyone is still talking about Grenfell, which is always a good thing. Obviously we want to remember them and not just let it get swept under the carpet.\"\n\nWhile the club is still in its infancy, everyone you speak to from Grenfell Athletic is dreaming big.\n\nRupert is eyeing up a plot of land in Greenford, west London, that could one day be the team's official home (they currently play around six miles away in Chiswick).\n\nDan-Dan says that a home ground of their own would help build the team's profile.\n\n\"I see a lot of Sunday league clubs - YouTube teams, for example - and they've got hundreds and hundreds of people watching and supporting them,\" he says.\n\n\"If we can get a home pitch which is local to Grenfell I'm sure people - whether they like football or not - will come and support us just because we are representing Grenfell.\"\n\nJoseph agrees that a real home and top-quality coaching is needed for the team to take the next step up and bag more silverware.\n\nBut the importance of Grenfell Athletic goes far beyond titles and trophies for Joseph.\n\n\"I have no family here, I'm here on my own with my kids and my partner. Football is my family, football is my community,\" he says.\n\n\"They're like my brothers. Well, they are my brothers.\"", "Ricky Valance's single Tell Laura I Love Her sold more than a million copies in 1960\n\nWelsh singer Ricky Valance has died at the age of 84, his agent has confirmed.\n\nValance, who was born David Spencer, became the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One hit with the song Tell Laura I Love Her in 1960.\n\nThe singer was born in Ynysddu, now in Caerphilly county, and joined the RAF aged 17 before going into the music business.\n\nHis agent said he had been diagnosed with dementia and had been in hospital since before the start of lockdown.\n\nValance was lead soprano in his local church choir as a child, before joining the air force, where he saw active service in north Africa before returning three years later.\n\nIt was then he started performing in clubs in the north of England, before being signed and recording Tell Laura I Love Her.\n\nThe song tells the tragic story of a boy called Tommy and his love for a girl called Laura.\n\nIt was controversial at the time and reportedly banned from airplay by the BBC, but went on to be a number one single, selling more than a million copies.\n\nIt spent 16 weeks in the chart, three of those at number one, but was to prove his only big hit in the UK.\n\nNevertheless, fans have taken to social media to express their sadness at his death.\n\nHyder Ali Pirwany tweeted: \"Ricky Valance, RIP. Great singer from Wales. His \"Tell Laura I love her\" song was tear jerking.\"\n\nWhile another fan wrote: \"Another one gone. RIP. Hope Laura is waiting for 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 Hyder Ali Pirwany This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Valance was given an award at a St David's Day concert at the Wales Millennium Centre for being the first Welshman to have a UK Number One hit.\n\nIn 2017, he released a final single, called Welcome Home, to raise money for the Royal Air Force Museum and RAF Association.\n\nValance and his wife Evelyn were living in Skegness, Lincolnshire, at the time of his death.\n• None Final song for first Welsh number one", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft amid the pandemic\n\nBritish Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's quarantine policy.\n\nThe airlines say the policy will have \"a devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\" and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nThey have applied for a judicial review at the High Court.\n\nThe challenge claims that the quarantine rules for travellers are more stringent than those applied to people who actually have Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules came into force this week. They require most inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days, although there are more than 40 categories of incomers, largely pertaining to certain workers, who are exempt. Rules for those actually infected with the virus require self isolation for seven days.\n\nThe airlines state that there was no consultation and no scientific evidence provided to support the policy; that weekly commuters from France or Germany can be exempted; and that the government is preventing people from travelling to and from countries with lower infection rates than the UK.\n\nHowever, the government has said the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach\" to protect public health.\n\nIn a statement, the three airlines said they had not seen any evidence on how and when so-called \"air bridges\", allowing quarantine-free travel between the UK and other countries with low infection rates, could be implemented.\n\nThey have called on the government instead to re-adopt a previous policy, where quarantine was limited to travellers from high risk countries.\n\nThe air industry has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak, which has all but stopped their activities. Mass job cuts are under way:\n\nFriday's legal move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between airlines and the UK government.\n\nWillie Walsh, the boss of IAG, which owns BA, Iberia and Aer Lingus, has called the quarantine policy \"irrational\", while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said the policy was a \"stunt\" and would not be enforceable.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office for a comment.", "On the face of it The King of Staten Island tells a tale so familiar it's a cliché. A young man is struggling to come to terms with adult life. He smokes a lot of weed, hangs out with a crew of equally lost souls, and starts making some ill-advised life decisions. He's not an inherently bad lad: he loves his mum, he's nice to kids (mostly), and routinely disarms with his self-deprecating charms.\n\nYou know this story, you know this person.\n\nIf you're like me, it was you. Or, is you. Or, your brother. Or, one of your friends, or one of your children, or one of your friend's children, or one of your children's friends.\n\nHe is the Everyman in the male coming-of-age saga: a troubled, confused, angry, depressed, fragile dude looking for some direction and purpose - not that he'd ever admit it. There's a journey to be taken and that's the basis of the movie/book/play/song etc.\n\nAnd so it is with The King of Staten Island, a 135-minute easy-paced film directed by Judd Apatow, now available on-demand. It is not genre-busting, or genre-defining, or genre-bending - it is a middle-of-the-road genre staple. Except for one thing…\n\nPete Davidson goes on a deeply personal journey in the film\n\nHe isn't middle-of-the-road. He's speeding along the charisma super-highway, turning heads with what looks like an old banger act but is in fact a finely-tuned, custom-made performance that not only brings the film alive, but gives it a heart and a soul. Whatever way you look at it, The King of Staten Island is his film.\n\nOr put another way, Pete Davidson is The King of Staten Island.\n\nThe comedian and Saturday Night Live regular plays the lead role, he gives the stand-out performance, he co-wrote the script, and he has an executive producer credit. He was even born in Staten Island and still lives there, for goodness sake.\n\nDavidson plays Scott Carlin, a drifting 24-year old wannabe tattoo artist who has yet to come to terms with the death of his firefighter father, killed in the line of duty when our pot-head protagonist was a boy. Scott's mental health is poor. He smokes too many joints, he lives with his mum, and he has chronic gut issues.\n\nIt is a biography that reads very close to Davidson's own life story (his firefighter father, also called Scott, died trying to save others as a 9/11 first responder).\n\nScott Davidson (Pete's father), was a firefighter who died while responding to the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, and is described by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation as \"a brave and fearless man who was very proud of his children\"\n\nNot exactly a stretch for Davidson the actor, then. I imagine there weren't a lot of \"Hey, Judd, what's my motivation?\" type conversations between lead actor and director. But, maybe, playing a fictional role largely based on your own back story is far harder than taking on the role of a totally different character altogether.\n\nPete Davidson is not Scott Carlin in the way that Larry David is a heightened version of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.\n\nAnd yet, anybody who knows Davidson's stand-up work will see similar traits: the low-status schtick, the poking fun but not being mean - or being mean and then apologising afterwards. The dry delivery, the ill-fitting clothes, the off-beat persona. These characteristics are all evident in Scott Carlin, too, but somehow Davidson manages to shape him in such a way that the fictional character becomes so vivid it obscures the identity of the man playing him. That's not an easy trick to pull off.\n\nDavidson does it with plenty of help from his friends. Fellow stand-up comic Bill Burr plays Ray Bishop, a straight-talking, shirt-tucked-in kinda guy, who provides a nicely weighted counter-point to Scott and his haphazard lifestyle. Ray has eyes for Margie (the excellent Marisa Tomei), the long-suffering mother of Scott and his preppy younger sister Claire (Maude Apatow). That's one love story.\n\nScott Carlin (Davidson) and his mum Margie (Marisa Tomei) have an emotional rollercoaster of a relationship\n\nScott doesn't have the easiest of times adjusting to his mother's boyfriend Ray Bishop (Bill Burr)\n\nThe other is between Scott and his girlfriend Kelsey, a young woman hell-bent on putting Staten Island on the hipster map. She is played by the British actress Bel Powley, who was one of the few good things about Apple TV's The Morning Show (buckle up, there's a second season on the way). She doesn't have many scenes, but those she is in are some of the best in the movie - there'll be an Oscar on her shelf one of these days.\n\nThere is also a very welcome cameo-plus from Steve Buscemi as Papa the fire chief, and a short but memorable appearance by Machine Gun Kelly in the guise of a tattoo shop owner.\n\nSteve Buscemi plays Papa, the firefighter, who knew Scott's father, and in real life was a firefighter before becoming an actor, and then returned to volunteer after 9/11\n\nBel Powley gives an impressive performance as Scott's childhood friend and secret lover, Kelsey\n\nJudd Apatow does a good job keeping all the moving parts in order, although the pace could be a bit slow for some. It wasn't a problem for me, it's not as if there's a whole load to do right now. What's more, you sense a looseness that allowed the actors room to explore and improvise, which gives the film an edge it might otherwise lack.\n\nIt also affords the viewer a chance to reflect while watching. And when you do, it becomes apparent The King of Staten Island is more than a run-of-the-mill genre movie. It is a brutally honest, first-person account of what can happen to a family when tragedy strikes. It's not hyperbolic or overly-dramatic. It's just sad and downbeat at times. It is not a new story, but it is well told.\n\nAnd Pete Davidson is always worth watching.\n• None 'There's comedy in the most difficult situations'", "Red pandas spend much of their time in the trees\n\nConservationists are satellite tracking red pandas in the mountains of Nepal to find out more about the factors that are driving them towards extinction.\n\nThe mammals are endangered, with numbers down to a few thousand in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.\n\nTen red pandas have been fitted with GPS collars to monitor their range in the forests near Mount Kangchenjunga.\n\nThe GPS collars are said to be working well and yielding \"exciting data\".\n\nThe six females and four males are being tracked and photographed using camera traps in a conservation effort involving scientists, vets, government officials in Nepal and conservation group Red Panda Network.\n\nPaaru, being fitted with the collar\n\n\"This is a great milestone in red panda conservation\", said Man Bahadur Khadka, director general of Nepal's department of forests and soil conservation.\n\nThe 10 pandas have been named by local people as Paaru, Dolma, Chintapu, Mechhachha, Bhumo, Senehang, Ngima, Brian, Ninamma and Praladdevi.\n\nThe red panda (Ailurus fulgens) was initially considered a relative of the raccoon because of its ringed tail, and was later thought to be related to bears.\n\nThe species is now known to be in a family of its own and one of the most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered mammals in the world.\n\nThe loss of the forests that provide shelter and a supply of bamboo for food is a big problem for the red panda.\n\nConservationists in Nepal hope the study over the course of a year will give valuable data about how to better protect one of the last remaining populations.\n• None Red pandas are two species, not one", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, has said the move is \"stupid\"\n\nJohn Cleese has laid into the \"cowardly and gutless\" BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off UKTV's streaming service because it contains \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major uses highly offensive language, and Cleese's Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV said it expected to reinstate the show with \"extra guidance\" in \"the coming days\".\n\nCleese wrote on Twitter: \"The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 went on to compare the situation with that of Alf Garnett, the racist character in sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health.\n\n\"We laughed at Alf's reactionary views. Thus we discredited them, by laughing at him,\" Cleese wrote.\n\n\"Of course, there were people - very stupid people - who said 'Thank God someone is saying these things at last'. We laughed at these people too. Now they're taking decisions about BBC comedy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But it's not just stupidity. The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes. Not any more.\n\n\"So BBC decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible. I rest my case.\"\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year. A BBC spokesman declined to comment.\n\nA UKTV statement said it would update the episode with guidance and contextual information in line with similar warnings on other classic comedy titles.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days,\" it added.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Carl Anka described the removal as \"a waste of time\", noting many people would prefer it if UKTV and other companies simply \"committed to hiring black creatives\" instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\n\"We are very proud of Fawlty Towers and its contribution to British television comedy,\" a BBC spokesman told the Daily Mail at the time.\n\n\"But public attitudes have changed significantly since it was made and it was decided to make some minor changes, with the consent of John Cleese's management, to allow the episode to transmit to a family audience at 7.30pm on BBC Two.\"\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\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. Delight as family reunites after weeks apart\n\nThere were squeals of delight as a family had their first hugs after weeks of social distancing.\n\nLike many, Hayley Matthews, 36, from Telford, Shropshire, was separated from her mother Rita Kenyon during lockdown.\n\nBut on Saturday they were reunited, after the government allowed single adults living alone to link with another household.\n\nThe family said news they were able to reunite was like \"being let out of jail\".\n\nMrs Matthews and her husband Rob both work, so she said her mum was her \"main source of childcare\" for nine-year-old Maddison, seven-year-old Jude and Rowan, five.\n\nThe Matthews family and Rita Kenyon always go on holiday together, as seen in this pre-lockdown snap\n\n\"We have really missed her, especially my youngest,\" she said.\n\n\"Rowan spends lot of time with Nanny, so it has been really difficult, the other two understand a bit more.\n\n\"At the first part of lockdown, I wouldn't go to see her because I couldn't deal with it.\n\n\"My husband went and dropped the shopping off, because we have done all her shopping throughout lockdown.\"\n\nHayley Matthews said her mother was her \"rock\" (pic taken before lockdown)\n\nIt was very emotional when they realised they would be able to get back together, she said.\n\n\"I rang her because she didn't watch the news, and she was crying down the phone, it is like being let out of jail were mum's words,\" Mrs Matthews said.\n\n\"Rowan couldn't get his head around it, when we are out for walks he knows you have to socially distance and he gives Nanny a virtual hug.\n\n\"He has been counting down the days.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The Sun said it had not intended to \"glorify\" domestic violence in its interview with JK Rowling's former husband Jorge Arantes\n\nThe Sun newspaper has faced a backlash from domestic abuse charities for an article in which JK Rowling's ex said \"I'm not sorry\" for slapping her.\n\nAs part of a blog addressing criticism of her comments on transgender people, the Harry Potter author said her first marriage had been \"violent\".\n\nJorge Arantes told the Sun he slapped Rowling when she left him - but added \"there was not sustained abuse\".\n\nThe newspaper said it had not intended to \"enable or glorify\" domestic abuse.\n\nCritics have accused the author of being transphobic for her response to an article about \"people who menstruate\".\n\nRowling said her personal experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and her concerns about protecting safe spaces for women, were some reasons why she spoke out about transgender issues.\n\nThe Sun's front page headline on Friday was: \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\".\n\nMr Arantes, who shares a daughter with Rowling from their marriage, told the paper: \"Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn't abuse her.\" When asked about his response to her claims - which included that the relationship was violent - he said: \"If she says that, that's up to her. It's not true I hit her.\"\n\nNicole Jacobs, England's domestic abuse commissioner, wrote to the newspaper to say she was \"deeply concerned\" about the story.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that the Sun has chosen to repeat and magnify the voice of someone who openly admits to violence against a partner,\" she said.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid said the newspaper's front page had a \"negative impact\", and added it was in conversation with the Sun about reflecting the voices of survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nSome 20 anti-domestic abuse campaigners - including the chief executive of Women's Aid - wrote an open letter calling on the paper to apologise.\n\n\"Responding to a woman disclosing her experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault by giving a platform to her perpetrator to trivialise the abuse he subjected her to is irresponsible and dangerous,\" the letter said.\n\nPress regulator Ipso said it had received more than 500 complaints about the Sun article.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sun said: \"It was certainly not our intention to 'enable' or 'glorify' domestic abuse, our intention was to expose a perpetrator's total lack of remorse. Our sympathies are always with the victims.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that the tabloid had a \"long history of standing up for abused women\", and \"over the we have empowered countless victims to come forward and seek help\".\n\nPoliticians have also criticised the Sun's coverage. The Liberal Democrats called on the Sun to donate the revenue made from Friday's newspaper to Refuge - while Labour's shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, said \"doubt and disbelief\" benefited perpetrators of abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Phillips 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. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Gillian Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 row about Rowling's comments on transgender issues began last weekend, after she responded to a headline on an online article discussing \"people who menstruate\" by writing in a tweet: \"I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\"\n\nHarry Potter actor Rupert Grint is the latest star to voice his support for the trans community, following Rowling's comments.\n\nHis co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, are among others who have already spoken out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn her blog defending her comments, Rowling said: \"I've been in the public eye now for over 20 years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help. If you have been affected by gender identity issues, a list of organisations offering support and information can be found here.", "Shintaro Tsuji has been at the helm of Sanrio for more than six decades\n\nThe founder of the Japanese company that created Hello Kitty has announced he is stepping down as CEO aged 92.\n\nShintaro Tsuji said he would hand over control of Sanrio to his 31-year-old grandson, Tomokuni Tsuji.\n\nIt marks the first change in leadership in the company's six-decade history.\n\nHello Kitty, a mouthless cartoon adorned with a trademark hair bow, has generated billions of dollars since its inception almost 50 years ago.\n\nThe simple line-drawn image has appeared on merchandise including clothing, toys and stationery. It is targeted mostly at young children, but in recent years it has also proved popular with adults.\n\nMr Tsuji will formally leave his role on 1 July.\n\nShintaro Tsuji started a gift company in the 1960s and quickly realised that the products featuring \"cute\" designs were his bestsellers.\n\nThat led to the creation of Hello Kitty, who has since become an iconic Japanese character.\n\nBut Kitty has competition: sales have been dropping inside Japan for years and Sanrio now depends on its increasingly fragile global business.\n\nSo, Mr Tsuji's decision to step aside comes at a turning point for the company.\n\nIn Japanese tradition, CEO founders strive to pass on their positions to family members. Mr Tsuji's son died of a heart attack in 2013, and so this is why his grandson is taking over.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji has already pledged to transform the company and to drop outdated ideas. Let's hope he's not referring to Hello Kitty, who is older than the company's new leader.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji, who is currently a senior managing director at Sanrio, will become the youngest CEO of a company listed on the Topix share index.\n\nHe coincidentally shares a birthday with Hello Kitty on 1 November, according to the AFP news agency. But he is 14 years younger than the character itself.\n\n\"I want to transform the company to better respond to today's rapidly changing business environment,\" he told a press conference on Friday.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold around the world and its image has even featured on a bullet train\n\nThere is even a Hello Kitty theme park in China\n\nSanrio, whose business has been declining for several years, has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnnual net profits fell by 95% in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, according to figures published on Friday. Sales were also down 6.5 % on the previous year.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold in 130 countries worldwide, with the range extending from prosecco to plimsolls.\n\nIt is also licensed for amusement parks and cafés, while last year a Japanese railway firm splashed the image on its bullet train, painted in pink and white.\n\nAlthough the brand typifies the Japanese trend for \"kawaii\" or cuteness, the character itself is identified as British because when she was created in the 1970s British culture was fashionable in Japan.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "It is the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with a unique ceremony performed by the Welsh Guard at Windsor Castle.\n\nIt comes after the traditional Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is only the second time in her 68-year reign that the parade in London has not gone ahead.\n\nThe Queen, flanked by officials, sat alone on a dais for the ceremony. It was her first official public appearance since lockdown began.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 94th birthday in April, but it is officially - and publicly - celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year.\n\nIt is typically accompanied by the annual announcement of the Queen's Birthday Honours' List. However, this year she has \"graciously agreed\" to postpone publication of the list to the autumn.\n\nIn a statement last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the delay \"will allow us to ensure that the list, agreed before this public health emergency developed, reflects the Covid-19 effort, and comes at a time when we can properly celebrate the achievements of all those included\".\n\nGuardsmen kept their distance as they stood in formation in the central quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nAll the troops had learnt new marching techniques for the occasion, to conform with social distancing measures\n\nThe ceremonial tribute, dubbed a mini-Trooping, was performed by a small number of Welsh Guardsmen and the band of the Household Division.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell described it as \"a birthday parade for changed times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen received a royal salute. It was followed by a display of precision marching - with the military maintaining strict social distancing measures, in keeping with government guidelines.\n\nWith fewer people on parade because of social distancing rules, \"there is no hiding place\" said Garrison Sgt Maj Warrant Officer Class 1 Andrew Stokes, who created the display.\n\n\"But more spacing between individuals means that there is also no room for errors and so the soldier has to really concentrate on their own personal drill, reaction to orders, dressing and social distancing,\" he said.\n\nNormally, Guardsmen stand shoulder-to-shoulder during their drills or when formed up on the parade ground, but on Saturday they stood 2.2m apart.\n\nGuardsman Lance Corporal Chusa Siwale, 29, originally from Zambia, had a central role in the ceremony, performing the Drummer's Call.\n\n\"Only four weeks ago I was involved with testing key workers for Covid-19, as part of the Welsh Guards' contribution to the battle against the virus. Now I am on parade performing in front of Her Majesty.\n\n\"This is a very proud day for me.\"\n\nThe Queen appeared to enjoy the more intimate occasion\n\nNo other members of the Royal family attended the ceremony on Saturday\n\nIt was the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle. An event for a sovereign's birthday has not been staged there since 1895, during the reign of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the lockdown in isolation at Windsor Castle, and were photographed there earlier this month to mark Prince Philip's 99th birthday.\n\nA new photo of the Queen and Prince Philip was released to mark his 99th birthday\n\nLast year's parade: The Queen and other royals gather to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in Whitehall is usually watched by thousands of spectators and senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe last time the event was cancelled was in 1955, two years after the Queen's coronation, due to a national rail strike.\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, who commands the Household Division, said the circumstances surrounding the decision to host the tribute in Windsor were \"clouded in tragedy\".\n\n\"The effects of Covid-19 have been devastating in terms of loss of life and the threatening of livelihoods of so many across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had to endure separation from loved ones, great uncertainty and the suspension of so much of what is special about our national life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Royal Opera Chorus reunites online for the Queen's official birthday\n\nGen Ghika added: \"The Welsh Guards and many of those on parade have recently been deployed within the United Kingdom as part of the nation's response to the virus and so the context of the ceremony is particularly poignant.\"\n\nThe Welsh Guards, along with the rest of the Household Division, have been among the soldiers helping with the coronavirus response, for example at test centres.", "Following the death of George Floyd while under arrest, protests have consumed America and onlookers have wondered how one of the most powerful countries in the world could descend into such chaos.\n\nDespite being defined by race, American society does not spend much time analysing the history of our racial divisions, and America prefers to believe in the inevitable progression towards racial equality.\n\nThe election of Barack Obama in 2008 fed into this narrative of progress, but Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was seen as a step backwards, coming after a campaign with a slogan that championed America's divisive past as a form of progress.\n\nFloyd's death now appears to be the tipping point for an exhausted, racially divided nation still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic cost that followed.\n\nFloyd's cries of \"I can't breathe\" echoed the cries of Eric Garner, who was choked by police on a New York City sidewalk in 2014.\n\nFloyd's words reminded Americans of the oppressive past we work to forget regardless of whether it is six years ago, 60 years ago, the 1860s, or 1619 when some of the first slaves arrived in America.\n\nTo a large extent, America's neglect of the past and belief in progress have left many Americans unaware of the severity and scope of our racial tensions, and as a result many Americans lack the words to articulate our current turmoil. Recently, I have used the word ethnocide meaning \"the destruction of culture while keeping the people\" to describe America's past and present racial tensions, and this language also helps articulate the uniqueness of America's race problem.\n\nIn 1941, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and distinguished lawyer, immigrated to the United States as he fled the Nazis. While in America he implored the American government to stop the Nazis from killing his people, and as his words fell on deaf ears, he realized he needed to create a new word to describe the unique horror befalling his people. In 1944, Lemkin coined the words genocide and ethnocide.\n\nLemkin intended for the words to be interchangeable but over time they diverged. Genocide became the destruction of a people and their culture, and this word radically changed the world for the better. Ethnocide became the destruction of culture while keeping the people, and has been ignored for decades. Recently, ethnocide has been used to describe the plight of indigenous people against colonisation, but regarding America, ethnocide also pertains to the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of the nation.\n\nFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, European colonisers destroyed the culture of African people, but kept their bodies in order to create the chattel slavery system that became the economic and social foundation of the United States. Colonisers prevented Africans from speaking their languages and practising their religions. Tribal and familial bonds were broken, and African people could no longer identify as Igbo, Yoruba, and Malian. Instead de-cultured names such as nigger, negro, coloured, and black were stamped upon African people.\n\nAdditionally, Europeans identified themselves as white, and in the United States the one-drop rule was created to sustain that division. One drop of black or African blood meant that a person could not be white. In America, whiteness became a zero-sum identity that was maintained by systemic racial division. Interracial marriage was still illegal in much of America until the Loving vs Virginia decision in 1967.\n\nFrom colonisation to the formation of the United States, America has created countless laws and policies to sustain the racial division between blacks and whites forged by ethnocide. These American norms, extending to housing, education, employment, healthcare, law enforcement and environmental protections including clean drinking water, have disproportionately harmed African Americans and other communities of colour in order to sustain racial division and white dominance.\n\nGeorge Floyd's murder represents a continuation of the systemic criminalisation and oppression of black life in America that has always been the American norm dating back to Jim Crow, segregation (which means apartheid), and slavery.\n\nWhen the Confederacy, the collection of American slave-holding states in the South, seceded from the United States, they launched the Civil War to defend the immoral institution of slavery. After losing the Civil War, these states were readmitted back into the United States. To this day, many Americans, and especially America hate groups, still celebrate Confederate soldiers and politicians as heroes, and there are monuments and memorials dedicated to them across America.\n\nDespite the American South losing the Civil War in 1865, American President Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate soldiers, and soon thereafter Confederate politicians won elected office in the newly-reunited America. The influence of former slave owners and Confederates contributed to erasing the rights that African Americans won in the 1860s including citizenship and the right to vote.\n\nThe political campaign to remove African American rights was called the Redeemers movement, and it was led by former slave-owners and Confederates, who wanted to redeem the South by returning it to the norms of chattel slavery. The Redeemers and \"Make America Great Again\" derive from America's oppressive, ethnocidal school of thought.\n\nThe Redeemers were also assisted by American terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) that were made up of former Confederate soldiers. The KKK, and many other white supremacist groups, terrorised and lynched black Americans, and they also prevented them from voting to help ensure that Redeemer candidates won elected office. The terrorists became the government.\n\nProtesters attacked by police dogs during demonstrations against segregation in Alabama in 1963\n\nBy the start of the 20th Century, the Redeemers had succeeded in undoing the racial equality progress of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, and now Jim Crow segregation became the norm of the American South. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy vs Ferguson made \"separate but equal\" the new law of the land, and America again became a legal apartheid state.\n\nAccording to the Equal Justice Initiative's 2017 report Lynching in America, over 4,400 lynchings of African Americans occurred from 1877-1950. That is more than a lynching a week for 74 years.\n\nDuring Jim Crow, America could not legally deny black people their humanity, but they could deny them the services that are afforded to human beings. Black people were denied education, housing, employment, and were expected to \"know their place\" as a perpetually subjugated people. Large prisons were erected on former plantations; black people were arrested for minor crimes and given long prison sentences doing manual labour on the same land their ancestors were forced to work as enslaved people.\n\nAs a result of Jim Crow, millions of African Americans fled the neo-slavery and terror of the South during the Great Migration, and racial tensions spread as other American cities did not welcome these domestic refugees. This is the same journey as the Underground Railroad, where prior to the Civil War enslaved African Americans escaped the South and sought refuge in Canada and the Northern parts of America.\n\nThe civil rights movement of the 1960s effectively ended Jim Crow, and African Americans began reclaiming the rights, specifically voting rights and freedom of movement, they had previously won in the 1860s, but it is a long road to dismantle systemic and legalised racism and segregation.\n\nObama's election in 2008 was a monumental event in American society, but it did not magically erase the systemic racism woven into America's social fabric and the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement to national attention.\n\nTrayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman as he walked home in his own neighbourhood because Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman pled self-defence and a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Trayvon was one of countless African Americans killed by America's ethnocidal society that sanctions terror from both the government and civilians.\n\nThe unjust killing of black people by the police and racist vigilantes remained the norm during Obama's presidency, but now the black community could record and document these crimes on video, and had a president who would defend them. Obama famously said: \"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.\"\n\nThe emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other protests under Obama occurred because black Americans were confident that the White House would listen to their cries of \"I can't breathe\" and make American society finally equitable and just. Under Trump those cries have fallen on deaf ears and tensions have escalated.\n\nAmerica has much work to do to fix our racial tensions because our divisions and inequality are forged in our ethnocidal roots. We need to reform the policing of a nation nearly the size of a continent with over 300 million people, but we also need to make our education, healthcare, and housing systems, and every facet of our democracy more equitable.\n\nAdditionally, truth and reconciliation commissions, a national apology, reparations, holding evildoers accountable, and other processes nations have used to heal after a genocide, the linguistic sibling of ethnocide, will help America change course and forge equality and justice.\n\nAlso, America has rarely criminalised white supremacist hate and terror and instead has spent centuries normalising white terrorist groups, celebrating them as heroes, and letting them decide if their actions are evil or not. This is why the Confederacy is still celebrated today. Europe did not allow fascists and Nazis to determine if their actions were good or not, but America has always given this luxury to racist slave-owners and their generational apologists and offspring. This must change.\n\nRwanda, Germany, and South Africa have reckoned with their troubled past to make a better future, but America has long preferred to ignore the past, and proclaim the inevitability of progress.\n\nAmerica today must define and confront the Original Sin of slavery, ethnocide, and the cultural destruction it has inflicted upon all Americans, past and present. Otherwise we will fail to make a better future, and will continue our regression.\n\nBarrett is a writer, journalist and filmmaker focusing on race, culture and politics", "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:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA synthetic pepper spray is being deployed in 81 men's prisons despite warnings it will be used more against ethnic minority inmates.\n\nDocuments seen by BBC News show prison officials authorised its rollout a month after saying it would be stopped.\n\nCampaigners want the government to halt the programme, claiming the spray may aid the spread of the coronavirus because it causes people to cough.\n\nThe Prison Service said it would be used only as a \"last resort\".\n\nThe Prison Officers' Association has been calling for the PAVA spray to be made available to help defuse outbreaks of violence and protect staff, amid record numbers of assaults in jails.\n\nIn 2017 and 2018, the chemical incapacitant was trialled in four prisons - Hull, Preston, Risley in Warrington and Wealstun, North Yorkshire.\n\nBut its wider introduction was delayed by concerns - which led to a legal challenge - that the spray would be used inappropriately.\n\nAn \"equality analysis\", conducted by the Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), which is part of the Ministry of Justice, examined 182 cases in the pilot where the canisters had been drawn from an officer's belt or the spray squirted.\n\nThe study found that although PAVA was used more against white prisoners, who make up about three quarters of the jail population, black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) inmates were disproportionately affected.\n\n\"PAVA has been drawn or used more against BAME prisoners,\" the report said.\n\n\"The evidence from wider use of force would suggest that this trend will continue as rollout progresses,\" it added.\n\nIn April, Andy Rogers, deputy director of the safety and rehabilitation directorate at HMPPS, said work on rolling out PAVA would be paused \"initially for three months\" due to the impact of the coronavirus, which meant prisons had to implement emergency lockdown measures.\n\nBut in May, Mr Rogers reversed the decision, setting out his reasons in a letter to stakeholders - which the MoJ didn't make public.\n\n\"Due to the unprecedented challenges we are facing at this time I have taken the operational decision to extend the provision of PAVA to all adult male closed prisons,\" Mr Rogers wrote.\n\nThe Prison Service confirmed trained staff were carrying the spray in 81 of the 90 adult male \"closed\" prisons in England and Wales.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust said the move broke commitments the MoJ had made to put safeguards in place before the rollout.\n\nPeter Dawson, PRT director, said the spray caused people to cough and could be dangerous for people with breathing problems.\n\n\"It is not clear that the particular risks associated with PAVA use in prison during the pandemic have been considered or subject to expert medical advice,\" he said in a letter to Lucy Frazer, prisons and probation minister.\n\nMr Dawson wrote he was \"alarmed\" by reports from New York that a prisoner with asthma had died after being sprayed.\n\nDame Anne Owers, National Chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards, which carry out checks in prisons, said the roll out of PAVA was \"highly regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand that this was based on a fear that there would be widespread indiscipline,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly this has not happened and violence has in fact decreased.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said the roll out of PAVA was an \"exceptional operational decision\".\n\nIt said officials would monitor whether it was being used disproportionately on BAME prisoners, adding that it should not be used on inmates in \"respiratory distress\", including those suspected of having Covid-19.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said: \"PAVA is only used as a last resort by specially trained prison officers. We monitor its use carefully, including for any disparities in the way it's deployed.\"", "A statue of Churchill in Parliament Square was boarded up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.\n\nEmma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a \"complex man\" but he was considered a hero by millions.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.\n\nIt came after protesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the statue last weekend.\n\nMs Soames said it was \"extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial.\"\n\n\"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMs Soames acknowledged her grandfather had often held views which \"particularly now are regarded as unacceptable but weren't necessarily then\".\n\nHowever she added: \"He was a powerful, complex man, with infinitely more good than bad in the ledger of his life.\"\n\nShe said if people were \"so infuriated\" by seeing the statue it may be \"safer\" in a museum.\n\n\"But I think Parliament Square would be a poorer place without him,\" she added.\n\nChurchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames said he was \"deeply upset\" after the statue was vandalised and then boarded up.\n\n\"I find it extraordinary that millions and millions of people all over the world who look up to Britain will be astonished that a statue of Churchill and the Cenotaph, our national war memorial, could have been defaced in this disgusting way,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nLast weekend the statue of Winston Churchill was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nHowever, author Shrabani Basu, who has written books about the British Empire, said there were \"two sides of Churchill\" and \"we need to know his darkest hour as well as his finest hour\".\n\nShe argued that in India, Churchill is not seen as a hero, citing his role in the 1943 Bengal famine, during which at least three million people are believed to have died.\n\nWhile Ms Basu said she did not want to see the statue removed from Parliament Square, she said people should be taught \"the whole story\" about the war-time figure.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activist Imarn Ayton said statues of slave traders and people who had spoken negatively towards black people were \"extremely offensive\" and should be moved to museums.\n\n\"I think it's a win-win to everyone so we no longer offend the black nation and we also get to keep our history,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the boarding up of the statue to protect it from potential vandalism as \"absurd and shameful\".\n\nMr Johnson said the former prime minister had expressed opinions which were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster on Friday evening.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Met Police have placed restrictions on several groups intending to protest on Saturday, including requiring demonstrations to end at 17:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people gathered in Central London on Saturday, including around the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall and the nearby Churchill statue.\n\nThe protesters, largely groups of white men who were right-wing activists, sang the national anthem and chanted \"England\", amid a tense atmosphere and heavy police presence.\n\nAmong the demonstrators was Paul Golding, leader of far-right group Britain First, who said they had turned out to \"guard our monuments\".\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph has also been covered.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected, saying there was a risk statues could become a \"flashpoint for violence\".\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the harbour in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.", "We have more information from a leaked report into the impact of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority communities. It finds racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased coronavirus risks for people in these communities.\n\nThe Public Health England draft report found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to discrimination and occupation, and inequalities in conditions such as diabetes.\n\nImages of just some of the NHS workers who lost their life during the coronavirus pandemic Image caption: Images of just some of the NHS workers who lost their life during the coronavirus pandemic\n\n“The unequal impact of COVID-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma,\" it said.\n\nIt also said there was a \"lack of trust\" of NHS services for many BAME communities.\n\nThe report said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nIt also said there was \"deep concern and anxiety\" that \"if lessons are not learnt from this initial phase of the epidemic, future waves of the disease could again have severe and disproportionate impacts\".", "Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is to stand down from his role as editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper.\n\nOsborne took on the job in March 2017, after having held the nation's purse-strings from 2010-2016.\n\nHis replacement is Emily Sheffield, a columnist on the newspaper, BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan confirmed.\n\nOsborne is moving to the more managerial role of the newspaper's editor-in-chief.\n\nEmily Sheffield [L] is the sister of Samantha Cameron, the wife of ex-prime minister David\n\nRajan said the print title will continue for now but is in \"desperate financial trouble\".\n\nIn response, the incoming editor tweeted that the newspaper \"remains a core element to this outstanding legacy news organisation.\n\n\"It has survived this crisis and it will survive many more,\" added Sheffield.\n\nThe newspaper's owner, Evgeny Lebedev, said he was \"delighted\" Sheffield was taking the helm at the newspaper and was \"very pleased\" Osborne would be editor-in-chief.\n\nOsborne thanked his colleagues at the newspaper and said of his replacement: \"She will bring creativity, commitment and experience to the job - and take the Standard, online and in print, through the next exciting chapter in its long history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amol Rajan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne is also chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and holds a £650,000-a-year post advising the investment fund BlackRock.\n\nLast year he was made chairman of a panel of advisers to Exor, which owns the Italian football club Juventus and has major stakes in Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Emily Sheffield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum and he stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.\n\nAccording to The Guardian, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Evening Standard's circulation was about 800,000 daily copies in the capital, but it was struggling due to an industry-wide decline in advertising revenues.\n\nDue to its reliance on readers using public transport, the Evening Standard was reported to have distributed just over 423,000 copies a day in April, after the nation went into lockdown.\n\nOsborne's replacement, Sheffield, will remain director of a female news brand she launched called This Much I Know, and will be \"tasked with making it a digital first operation\" added Rajan.\n\n\"That's a extremely difficult challenge for a title so heavily dependent on print for its income,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As an ad-funded title reliant on footfall, the Standard has been devastated by the pandemic.\"\n\nLast month the industry's auditor said newspapers will no longer have their sales figures automatically published.\n\nThe Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which records and audits sales, usually publishes figures every month.\n\nBut ABC said publishers were growing concerned about a \"negative narrative of decline\" in newspaper sales.\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. Protests were sparked following the death of George Floyd in the United States\n\nHundreds of people have marched through two towns in a peaceful protest in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nMore than 350 people gathered outside the town hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nAnother protest in Chepstow saw about 200 people march from Dell Park, past Chepstow Castle to the riverfront, where they listened to speakers.\n\nProtesters were asked by organisers to wear a face mask and respect social distancing.\n\nProtests were sparked following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nOrganisers of the Barry protest, Stand Up to Racism Cardiff, said they were protesting in support of the Justice for George Floyd campaign.\n\nSpeakers included lawyer and activist Hilary Brown and Suresh Grover from the Stephen Lawrence Campaign.\n\nAt regular intervals Ms Brown led the crowd in chants of \"no justice, no peace\" and \"whose lives matter? Black lives matter\".\n\nEarlier, Luis Williamson, 29, told the crowd how he had been subjected to racial abuse last week while he was jogging with his top off near Barry Island.\n\nSomeone in a passing car wound down their window and shouted racist insults at him, he said.\n\nHe told the crowd that not being racist is \"not enough\" and said people must be \"vocally and visibly\" anti-racist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Not My Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Not My Britain\n\nAnother speaker, Jamie Baker, told BBC Wales: \"This is Barry and it never has events, it never has demonstrations, it never does this kind of thing.\n\n\"So to see young people - and the majority of our audience or young people - actually angry and annoyed and seeking change, that puts all of their parents, their grandparents, and everybody on notice.\"\n\nCalling for schools and the local authority to better reflect the area's black history, he added: \"And hopefully it'll put some schools on notice that what they're teaching is inaccurate.\"\n\nProtesters gathered on King Square, Barry, to listen to speakers in support of Black Lives Matter\n\nThe two peaceful demonstrations have followed a number of similar events in towns and villages around Wales including Bridgend, Cardiff and Machynlleth.\n\nOn Thursday, about 1,000 people gathered in Newport in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany carried placards bearing political slogans while others knelt on one knee - a protest against racism that stems from the US.\n\nThe demonstrators marched from the civic centre toward the University of South Wales building on the banks of the River Usk.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, said removing the episode was \"stupid\"\n\nA classic episode of the comedy Fawlty Towers will be reinstated to streaming service UKTV with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the BBC Studios-owned platform because of \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major character uses highly offensive language, and John Cleese's hotel owner Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV had temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review.\n\nThe move had been criticised by Cleese who wrote on Twitter: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the episode is best remembered for Fawlty's goose-stepping it also contains scenes showing the Major Gowen character using offensive language about the West Indies cricket team.\n\nAccording to reports, the Major's scenes had already started to be edited out by some broadcasters.\n\nAs the Black Lives Matter movement has returned to prominence following the death of George Floyd, broadcasters and streaming services have reevaluated their content.\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year.\n\nA UKTV statement said: \"We already offer guidance to viewers across some of our classic comedy titles, but we recognise that more contextual information can be required on our archive comedy, so we will be adding extra guidance and warnings to the front of programmes to highlight potentially offensive content and language.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "British Airways was once seen as a national champion, a potent symbol of the country's commercial prowess and - as the airline itself puts it - of \"timeless British values and modern Britain's strengths\".\n\nNow, however, it is a company in crisis - struggling to cope with the huge financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, its relationship with the government apparently fractured, and in conflict with its own employees.\n\nThere's no question that BA, like other airlines, has been dramatically affected by the lockdowns and closure of borders associated with the pandemic. For weeks, it has been operating just a handful of flights a day, while the bulk of its fleet has been parked up.\n\nBut it is BA's response to the crisis which has created an atmosphere within the company that staff have described as toxic, and prompted a political backlash.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh: IAG wants to start a major restructuring programme at BA\n\nIn late April, its parent company International Airlines Group announced plans to implement a major restructuring programme at BA, which could lead to up to 12,000 redundancies. It said it would begin formal consultations with its unions, Unite, GMB and Balpa.\n\nLaunching that process, BA said it wanted to reach agreement over the proposals - which would also include significant changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff. But it warned that if an agreement could not be reached, it would force the issue - by giving them notice, and offering them new contracts.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister on 27 May, the chief executive of parent company IAG, Willie Walsh, wrote: \"We are open to any ideas on how to limit and mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on our business and our employees.\n\n\"Regrettably, Unite and GMB have decided not to represent their members, preferring to engage in what Unite calls 'crisis leverage' in an effort to intimidate BA and delay any consultation taking place at this critical time. This has not and most definitely, will not work. Time is not on our side so we will not pause or defer our consultations.\"\n\nBut the apparent ultimatum from BA has triggered a deep rift with the unions. Unite and GMB are currently refusing to take part in formal consultations. Balpa has been engaging with the company, but now says the negotiations are \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nFor cabin crew, there is not only the threat of redundancy, but also the possibility of big pay cuts for long-serving staff - in some cases of more than 50%. Many of those affected believe the company is using the current crisis to force through changes it has wanted to make for years.\n\nOne BA union, Unite, says BA is using the Covid-19 crisis to make \"permanent, drastic cuts to jobs\"\n\nLonger-serving crew at BA have contracts which are, by modern standards, relatively generous. They date back to an era when the airline industry was less ferociously competitive, before the emergence of budget carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet forced older airlines to cut costs and change their business models.\n\nIn 2010, BA engaged in a bitter dispute with Unite over plans to overhaul cabin crew contracts. The row lasted two years and involved 22 days of strikes. Ultimately a settlement was reached, under which existing staff retained most of their privileges - but new joiners were put on inferior contracts, with lower pay.\n\nNow, Unite says BA is using the Covid-19 crisis as cover to make \"permanent, drastic cuts to jobs, wages and conditions\", at a time when industrial action is not an option. The union is waging a high-profile campaign against what it calls the company's \"betrayal\" of its staff.\n\nBritish Airways says it is \"facing the deepest structural change in its history\"\n\nThe campaign has garnered some high-profile political support. One of BA's fiercest critics is the Conservative MP and chair of the transport select committee, Huw Merriman.\n\nHe says the way in which staff at the company have been treated is \"appalling\". \"It's the equivalent of holding a gun to someone's head,\" he says. \"It's really sad to see an iconic brand being dragged into the gutter by its management\".\n\nWhen the redundancy plans were first announced, Balpa came to the negotiating table. Initially, the company did not threaten to \"fire and rehire\" pilots if they failed to accept new terms. But at the end of last week, that changed - and pilots were given the same ultimatum other employees were already facing.\n\nAccording to Brian Strutton, general secretary of Balpa, that move \"felt like a kick in the teeth to those people who had been carrying out negotiations in good faith\". The union is still talking to BA - but he says the negotiations are \"hanging by a thread\" and could break down at any time.\n\nFew within the air travel industry expect a quick recovery\n\nMeanwhile many pilots have responded furiously. One BA captain told the BBC, \"I wouldn't say there was a lot of trust beforehand. There's even less now\". Another described the mood within the company as \"terrible\".\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at the huge outpouring of anger among our members\", says Mr Strutton. \"There's outrage and despair at the way management are running the company they once loved working for\".\n\nA number of pilots have also voiced concerns that the row could have an impact on safety - with worries about their jobs and mortgages providing an unwelcome distraction for pilots on the flight deck, and potentially affecting their mental health.\n\nAll of this has left BA looking like a company under siege. A great deal of anger also seems to be aimed at Willie Walsh, widely seen as the architect of the planned cuts.\n\nQuarantine rules will \"torpedo\" the chances of flights resuming in July, says Mr Walsh\n\nThe airline itself insists that the industry is \"facing the deepest structural change in its history\". It says it is acting now to protect as many jobs as possible - and that it wants to work with the trade unions to mitigate the impact of any changes. Although BA does have substantial cash reserves, it is currently burning through £20m every day - and with the majority of its fleet grounded, there is very little money coming in.\n\nIt is also feuding with the government over the introduction of a 14-day quarantine period for travellers coming into the UK - which Mr Walsh says has \"torpedoed\" the possibility of resuming flights in July.\n\nFew within the industry expect a quick recovery. According to the International Air Transport Association, air traffic is unlikely to return to the levels seen last year until 2023. Around the world, carriers are cutting back - and BA's direct rivals such as Easyjet, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic are all planning thousands of redundancies.\n\nBut what marks BA out is the response to its actions - and the palpable resentment now directed at a brand that once invoked national pride.", "From Saturday, some children in England may be able to see grandparents again\n\nPeople who live alone in England and Northern Ireland will be able to form a support bubble with another household from Saturday, in a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nAdults who live alone will be allowed to visit someone else's home and are even allowed to stay overnight.\n\nIn England, the rule also applies to single parents with children under 18.\n\nIt comes as charities warned about isolation, with the latest changes aimed at helping those who are lonely.\n\nThe new measures open up the possibility for grandparents who live alone to visit and hug their grandchildren for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nCouples who live apart will also be able to be close to each other again.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll rose by a further 181.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, released on Saturday, 41,662 people who tested positive for coronavirus - across all settings - have now died.\n\nThe latest relaxation of the lockdown rules in England was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this week.\n\nA person's bubble can be with one other household of any size and close physical contact is allowed, meaning people in the bubble do not have to stay 2m apart.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning someone can only form a bubble with one other household and they cannot swap.\n\nIf anyone in the bubble develops symptoms of coronavirus, then everyone in the bubble must self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has introduced a similar scheme, allowing people who live alone indoor visits with one other household.\n\nNeither the bubble measures in England or NI apply to people who are shielding.\n\nIn Scotland, the government is considering the idea, while the Welsh government is reviewing the next steps out of lockdown.\n\nSarah Griffiths Hughes will hold her daughter and grandchildren after months of no physical contact\n\nAmong those who are looking forward to Saturday's changes are 70-year-old Sarah Griffiths Hughes, from Dorset, who said she is looking forward to hugging her daughter for the first time in months.\n\n\"It's the loneliness,\" she said. \"I don't think people realise how lonely and frightened we all are.\"\n\nKeith Grinsted, from Sudbury in Suffolk, said he was \"welling up just thinking about\" hugging his daughters, who live with his ex-partner.\n\nBut as he has type-2 diabetes, making him vulnerable to coronavirus, and he still has concerns about his safety.\n\nHe said: \"Even now it is still quite worrying, for example, because one of my daughters works for a fashion retailer and they are opening on Monday and she has her first shift on Thursday next week, now we are discussing, okay we can have a hug on Saturday but once she starts working does that still mean it is safe to hug?\"\n\nAlso from Saturday in NI, the maximum number of people who can gather outside together has also been increased to 10. In England, that number is six, while it is eight in Scotland and unlimited in Wales.\n\nThe latest papers published by the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), revealed that last month some experts urged \"strong caution\" that allowing bubbles could cause \"significant unwanted effects\" - especially if it was accompanied by lifting other restrictions.\n\nIt also warned there was \"significant potential risk\" if larger households are allowed to bubble together - although the government's new rules only apply to single-person or single-parent households.\n\nIt comes ahead of the next stage of easing lockdown in England, as non-essential shops prepare to reopen on Monday.\n\nShoppers queued to get into some clothing shops in Belfast on Friday\n\nShops in NI began opening on Friday, with customers encountering queuing systems, screens at tills and shop workers wearing masks.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt comes after figures showed the UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April - the largest monthly contraction on record.\n\nMeanwhile, there are growing calls for the government to drop the 2m social distancing rule in England, with Tory MPs saying it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nHave you planned to visit the home of a loved one today for the first time since lockdown? After your reunion, tell us what it was like by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of protesters have turned out to anti-racism demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nDespite pleas from the first minister, police and MSPs to find safer ways to express their support, large numbers gathered on Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park.\n\nHowever, most were wearing face coverings and all attendees were asked to observe social distancing.\n\nMarches and rallies were planned following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old black man died in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nHis death has sparked days of demonstrations and unrest in the US and around the world.\n\nThousands gathered on Glasgow Green to hear speakers and show their support\n\nEvents were planned in Scotland despite ongoing lockdown restrictions and a ban on mass gatherings.\n\nThe first minister said that in different circumstances she might have joined the demonstrations but that the coronavirus outbreak meant it was \"simply not safe\" and would \"pose a risk to life\".\n\nThere were no new reported deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland on Sunday, although the figures at a weekend are often low because of delayed reporting.\n\nDespite the progress made in containing the virus, mass gatherings remain banned under the lockdown.\n\nPeople appeared to try to stay in household groups and observe social distancing in Edinburgh\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said during the Scottish government's daily briefing that the large numbers taking part were worrying and that he had spoken to Chief Constable Iain Livingston a short time before.\n\nHe said: \"He tells me that good social distancing has been put in place. But even with that in place, even with people wearing face coverings, mass outdoor gatherings like this could present risk to public health.\n\n\"And we do know there is a lot of evidence of the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 can have on the minority ethnic community.\n\n\"So the very people whose lives we say matter are the very lives that those people could be putting at risk. So yes, it does give me a great deal of concern.\"\n\nThe Black Lives Matter protest started at Glasgow Green at midday after it was moved from George Square to allow easier physical distancing.\n\nAn hour later, supporters started arriving at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park where organisers asked those attending to wear PPE and to observe social distancing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Philip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA socially-distanced poster protest has been taking place across Aberdeen throughout the day. Protesters booked limited \"slots\" to display signs, posters, artwork, notes and poems demanding justice for the victims of police brutality.\n\nPeople in Inverness tied messages and artwork to Ness Bridge in the city centre in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nA protest had been planned, but organisers cancelled it because of concerns social distancing could not be safely maintained due to the numbers of people intending to take part.\n\nPeople in the Highlands have been leaving messages of support on Ness Bridge in Inverness\n\nFourteen police officers were injured during protests in London on Saturday\n\nProtests went ahead south of the border on Saturday despite officials advising against mass gatherings due to the pandemic.\n\nOn Saturday, 14 Met Police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London.\n\nThousands of people gathered in cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester, and Sheffield which were largely peaceful. However, there were disturbances near Downing Street later in the day.\n\nThe first minister urged people to join digital protests, including one organised by the STUC on Sunday evening.\n\nThe event will host speakers including Kadijartu Johnson - a nurse and the sister of Sheku Bayoh, who died after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy in 2015. A public inquiry is due to be held into the circumstances of his death\n\nMs Johnson agreed to speak at the virtual anti-racism protest which falls on the fifth anniversary of Mr Bayoh's burial, after making a joint statement discouraging the physical demonstrations.\n\nAlongside Mr Yousaf and other politicians and anti-racism campaigners, she urged people not to attend the rallies, and to find alternative and safe ways of protesting.\n\nMost people at the Glasgow Green event were wearing face coverings\n\nThe joint statement warned that progress on easing lockdown in Scotland is \"fragile\" and said: \"Like so many we want to stand in unity with millions across our planet to show solidarity with those protesting against racial injustice in the USA but also to support those challenging racial injustice and discrimination in Scotland.\n\n\"The rules in place are there to protect people's health and ultimately people's lives.\n\n\"Therefore, as long-term anti-racist campaigners we are still urging people to protest but to use the many other methods available at this time, including digital protests.\"", "On the show this week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy, Republican US Senator Rick Scott, historian David Olusoga and film director Sam Mendes.\n\nThis livestream has now ended.", "NHS trusts were not consulted before the government announced changes to the use of face coverings and visitor policy in English hospitals, the chief executive of NHS Providers has said.\n\nChris Hopson said trust leaders felt \"completely in the dark\" about the \"significant and complex\" changes.\n\nFrom 15 June, hospital visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings and staff must use surgical masks.\n\nThe Department of Health says masks can be provided by the hospital if needed.\n\nA spokeswoman said that, while the public were \"strongly urged\" to wear a face covering while inside hospitals, no-one would be denied care.\n\nSeparately, NHS England has lifted the national suspension on hospital visiting with new guidance for NHS trusts.\n\nThe guidance, which states visiting will be subject to the discretion of individual trusts and other NHS bodies, advises measures to support visiting, such as:\n\nThe Department of Health said trusts had all of next week to implement the changes and that it had made NHS England aware of the announcement before it was made public.\n\nBut Mr Hopson said the announcement by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Friday was \"rushed out\" with \"absolutely no notice or consultation\" of NHS trust leaders.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's the latest in a long line of announcements that have had a major impact on the way the NHS operates, in which frontline organisations feel they've been left completely in the dark, and they're then expected to make significant and complex operational changes either immediately or with very little notice.\"\n\nHe said trust leaders were worried there was not enough strategy or planning and that it felt like \"last minute decisions are being made on the hoof that seem overly influenced by politics and that need to fill the space of the Downing Street press conferences\".\n\nThe announcement had left many unanswered questions, such as when it was appropriate for staff to wear face masks, the numbers of masks needed and how they would be distributed, he added.\n\nMr Hopson called for a \"proper, sensible forward plan and forward strategy of what we are trying to do, where trusts are given the time and space they need to do complex and difficult things\".\n\nMeanwhile, 40,465 people have now died with the virus, an increase of 204, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA further 10 people have died of coronavirus in Wales, while there were six deaths registered in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier, NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said trusts were also nervous about the imminent lifting of some patient visiting restrictions.\n\nShe said they needed time to \"put in place processes and guidance to ensure that patients can receive visitors safely and while adhering to social distancing and infection control measures\".\n\nMr Hopson's criticism was echoed by the British Medical Association (BMA), which warned there was \"little detail\" on how the policy would be implemented, where the masks would come from or how outpatients and visitors would be given them.\n\nConsultants committee chairman Dr Rob Harwood said: \"Given the lack of PPE supplies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it is absolutely crucial that the government ensures there are enough supplies of face masks for staff, and adequate provision of face coverings for outpatients and the public by the 15 June.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK's death toll passed 40,000 on Friday according to government figures.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US with 108,000 deaths - to pass the milestone.\n\nAlso at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock appealed to people not to attend large demonstrations with more than six people, saying he was \"appalled\" by the killing of George Floyd in the US but \"coronavirus remains a real threat\".\n\nThousands ignored his plea to take part in the protests across the UK, with the majority of those at the London gathering wearing face coverings.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn by the general public in situations where social distancing is difficult, eg on public transport, in shops - particularly for over 60s and those with underlying health conditions", "These are just a few of the words and phrases you may have seen or heard in discussions about racial inequality after the death of George Floyd.\n\nMany of these terms about race and activism are controversial - and people often have different ideas about what certain phrases mean. Their life experiences will also affect how they define them. So Radio 1 Newsbeat's been chatting with a couple of people for their interpretations and perspectives.\n\nKehinde Andrews is professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Organisation of Black Unity, and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.\n\nJT Flowers is a 26-year-old American rapper, student and activist living in the UK, and Natasha March is an academic and activist from Manchester.\n\nThat's how Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel have referred to people involved in violence that occurred at recent Black Lives Matter protests in the UK.\n\nDonald Trump used the word in a tweet, flagged for inciting violence, that included the phrase, \"When the looting starts, the shooting starts\".\n\nIts dictionary definition is \"a violent person, especially a criminal,\" but it has become a loaded term when referring to black people.\n\nA journalist who had traced the history of the word, told the BBC in 2015 that \"thug\" was brought to Western society from India in 1897, later used by politicians and in the media, even reclaimed by hip-hop artists such as Tupac and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.\n\nIt was used widely to describe black people involved the Baltimore riots in 2015, and the use of the word still hurts today.\n\n\"They may as well just have the balls, have the bottle to say the N-word,\" says Natasha March.\n\n\"Racism hasn't changed, it's just become more discreet, clever, manipulated, gaslighted, and thrown back at us.\"\n\nProtests in the UK have continued for several weeks\n\nShe believes people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, both from a wealthy, educated background, should have known what the implications of the word thug are.\n\n\"When you call an oppressed group thugs, what it does is it incites fear,\" she adds. \"Fear of the other, fear of the immigrants, fear of the unknown.\"\n\n\"When you have fear you shut down your senses, you don't listen, you don't see, you don't intellectualise. You're on survival mode.\n\n\"And that is wonderful way to anesthetise a society, so they don't listen to the oppressed group. It's very clever.\"\n\nNatasha says the use of the word thug is an attempt to steal the voices of Black Lives Matter protesters.\n\nWhite privilege - a term some find upsetting and offensive - refers to the concept that people have basic rights and benefits simply because they are white. It doesn't mean they haven't suffered hardship or that they don't have a tough life - just that their colour hasn't made it harder.\n\nJT feels some people get defensive about this term because it's misunderstood.\n\n\"You might be a white person and still be poor with a lack of access to education or face a language barrier in the workplace. It doesn't mean you can't be disadvantaged in other ways,\" he tells Newsbeat. \"It just means with respect to that one particular thing - your race and skin colour - you do have the luxury of not being able to think about it.\n\n\"It means having the luxury of being able to step outside without fearing that you're going to be discriminated against or oppressed in any way because of the colour of your skin,\" he says.\n\nThe most recent statistics from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice show:\n\nKehinde believes the benefits of whiteness can be \"psychological\" and that \"there is a benefit to being white because you're not treated in the same way.\"\n\n\"There are different dimensions to it, some people have more privilege.\"\n\nKehinde tells us the phrase \"white privilege\" was first written by the famous black civil rights activist William Du Bois in the 1930s to explain the way white workers in America benefited from segregation and the colour of their skin.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany argue black people have to deal with an extra burden of worrying about how they will be treated because of how people perceive them. Speaking in a special show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, DJ Ace said as a \"huge black man with a beard\" people find him \"frightening\".\n\n\"I have to live with this all day, every day and in every scenario.\n\n\"I'm aware my aesthetic is scary to some white people. Sometimes I might 'tone it down' and that embarrasses me\".\n\n\"If I see a white woman coming down the street I might cross so she feels more comfortable.\"\n\nSlogans like these were seen at protests, but more have been seen online\n\nWhite saviour is usually used to describe somebody who appears to think certain communities '\"need saving\".\n\n\"It is a concept that's rooted in this idea that marginalised communities, particularly the black community, isn't empowered enough to liberate themselves,\" says JT.\n\nHe says in online spaces and activism it's usually used to point out when someone \"takes it upon themselves to speak on behalf of black people or marginalised people,\" sometimes without understanding the circumstances.\n\nJT says ideally people should \"create space for black people to speak for themselves\".\n\nLast year, Stacey Dooley was criticised for making a film in Uganda for Comic Relief, and posting a picture on Instagram of her with a black child.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by sjdooley 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\nAt the time, MP David Lammy said: \"The world does not need any more white saviours\". Stacey Dooley insisted there was \"nothing sinister\" about what she did - and has since said she wouldn't change what she did.\n\nFollowing the row, Comic Relief's co-founder, the writer and director Richard Curtis, said the charity would use fewer celebrities in their films and be \"very careful to give voices to people\" who live in the areas being highlighted.\n\nAt first glance, this seems a contradiction to \"white saviour\".\n\nJT describes an ally as \"a person who's willing to stick their neck out and stand up for what's right when they see something going wrong\".\n\nOften, this is someone who is outside of the community they are trying to help - so in this case, it might be white people who want to support the black community.\n\n\"It's what can white people do?\" says Kehinde.\n\nJT believes an ally needs to do more than act like a \"white saviour\" and \"take on some risk and bear the cost of actually standing up for justice\".\n\n\"What we're trying to do in the States is push the dialogue to a place where people begin to consider what it would look like to be an accomplice.\n\nHe believes the best way to be an accomplice is to \"create space for black people to speak for themselves.\"\n\nJT says it's not enough to be an ally, people need to be an \"accomplice\"\n\nThis is often used as a response to the phrase \"black lives matter' - the feeling from some people that all lives should be included in the conversation around race.\n\nJT believes people who say it may not understand what the \"black lives matter\" phrase means.\n\n\"Imagine your house is on fire and somebody comes up to you and says, 'Hey all houses matter.'\n\n\"Your response would be along the lines of, 'Yes but your house isn't on fire so if all houses matter and your house is fine, then why is it so much to ask you to care when my house is burning down?'\"\n\nJT believes we live in a society where - at present, \"black lives aren't valued in the same way that white lives are.\"\n\nThousands of people turned out to protest against racism in London, Manchester and Cardiff\n\nAgain a controversial phrase which basically means the best way to address an issue is to speak about it - and staying quiet means you agree with what's going on.\n\n\"It's effectively just the idea that the status quo, our everyday reality at present, is a violent one for black people,\" claims JT.\n\n\"Refusing or failing to speak out on that is to be ok with things as they are.\n\n\"You don't have to post something on social media in order to act and live your life in an anti-racist way. If you see something going wrong on a street, you can speak up and do something.\"\n\nJT realises many people can feel uncomfortable on speaking out or may feel it's not their place.\n\n\"If you notice that you feel unequipped to have conversations with people about race, you can take the time to educate yourself.\n\nAnd speaking out doesn't have to mean posting on social media it can simply be about starting to talk honestly about race with those closest to you.\n\n\"You can have conversations with your friends and family members.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Sir Tom said \"the memories are tremendous and I don't want to stop\"\n\nAs he celebrates his 80th birthday, Sir Tom Jones has said he will keep singing \"as long as there's breath in my body\".\n\nThe Welsh legend, who was born on 7 June 1940, said he did not mind growing old because \"the memories are tremendous\".\n\nAnd he said lockdown reminded him of his own two-year isolation with tuberculosis from the age of 12.\n\n\"I sympathise with young people that can't go and play,\" he said.\n\nSir Tom, who grew up in Pontypridd, enjoyed huge commercial success with hits including It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat? and Kiss.\n\nHe became one of the world's biggest stars, with his live Las Vegas performances earning the admiration of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.\n\nSir Tom has enjoyed success with hits like It's Not Unusual\n\nThroughout his career he has constantly reinvented himself, moving from pop, rock and country to gospel, soul and blues and then on to electronic and dance music.\n\nSpeaking to friend and fellow-singer Cerys Matthews for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Wales, he said: \"The memories are tremendous and I don't want to stop.\n\n\"To reach 80 and to have such wonderful memories and to be still doing it and still making a point, or trying to - thank you to everybody that has been with me, the audience.\n\n\"You can't express yourself properly unless there's people there to listen to you.\n\n\"God has been good to me and my voice is still there. So as long as it's there I wanna get up... singing live to people is the thing.\"\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 BBC Cymru Wales This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe current lockdown means his birthday celebrations might be limited, but Sir Tom has experienced self-isolation before, having been kept at home in a single room for two years after his TB diagnosis as a child.\n\n\"With this lockdown now, I'm thinking 'my God, how are those kids coping?' because I remember it,\" he said.\n\n\"It taught me not to take health for granted.\"\n\nYou can listen to Sir Tom's Musical Years with Cerys Matthews on BBC Sounds and watch Tom Jones at 80 on the BBC iPlayer.", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "Three airlines have written to the UK government to protest against its \"wholly unjustified and disproportionate\" quarantine rules due to come into force from Monday.\n\nAlmost all arrivals in the UK will be required to self-isolate for 14 days and give details of their accommodation, measures that airlines fear will stop people wanting to come to the UK.\n\nScotland's justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, today announced penalties for non compliance north of the border.\n\nThe message from British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet is described as a \"pre-action protocol letter,\" meaning it could be followed by legal action.\n\nThe airlines say the measures are harsher than those imposed on people confirmed to have coronavirus who are asked to isolate and do not face criminal sanctions for failing to do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Australia are also highlighting the mistreatment of Aboriginal people\n\nTens of thousands of people have protested across Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRallies were held despite warnings from officials over the coronavirus.\n\nA ban in Sydney was lifted only at the last minute and some organisers have been fined for breaking health rules.\n\nThe marches were inspired by the death of African American George Floyd in police custody but also highlighted the mistreatment and marginalisation of Australia's Aboriginal people.\n\nRallies were organised in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and elsewhere.\n\nThey were held in high spirits with no reports of major unrest.\n\nThere were a few tense scenes later in the evening at Sydney's Central Station, with police using pepper spray, but there were only three arrests in the city overall, among a total of 20,000 protesters, police said.\n\nAlthough the rallies were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many in Australia were also protesting against the treatment of its indigenous population by police.\n\nBanners reading \"I can't breathe\" remembered the words of Floyd before his death, while another said: \"Same story, different soil.\"\n\nThousands protest in Sydney. Organisers urged attendees to try to observe social distancing\n\nThere were massive crowds too in Brisbane\n\nThe Sydney protest had been ruled unlawful on Friday by the New South Wales Supreme Court under coronavirus social distancing rules.\n\nNSW Police Minister David Elliott had said: \"Freedom of speech isn't as free as we would like it to be at the moment. Rules at the moment are clear.\"\n\nBut organisers took the case to the state court of appeal and it overturned the ban on Saturday afternoon, just 15 minutes before the scheduled start.\n\nThe protest was authorised for 5,000 people. Health ministry directions would normally prohibit public gatherings of more than 10 people.\n\nI've covered so many protests in my home city in the past decade. Outside of climate change rallies at the start of the year, I can't recall a larger turnout, particularly for a rally about race.\n\nThey turned up even when it was initially illegal and despite the health fears. They were angry, they were passionate, they knew there were risks but they donned masks and carried signs anyway.\n\nThis is a resounding success for indigenous Australia.\n\nBack in January people were struggling to breathe due to smoke from the bushfires. Today they were chanting \"I can't breathe\" - the choked words of George Floyd, but also David Dungay- an Aboriginal man who was fatally pinned down by five police officers in 2015.\n\nFor many Australians, the US protests have ignited fierce introspection of their country's own record of black deaths in custody. Aboriginal people remain the most incarcerated in the world by percentage of population - they make up just 3% of the nation's people but almost 30% of those in jail.\n\nThis has been the rate for decades - in fact it's become worse - but only now does there appear to be a large demand in the mainstream for change.\n\nOrganisers across Australia encouraged those attending rallies to use hand sanitisers and observe social distancing.\n\nImages showed that although the majority of demonstrators have been wearing face coverings, many of the protesters have been close together.\n\nThe chief health official in the state of Victoria said it was \"not the time to be having large gatherings\".\n\nVictoria police said on Saturday they would be fining organisers A$1,652 ($1,150; £900) each for breaking health rules. It was unclear if Melbourne's attending protesters would be fined.\n\nProtesters chanted: \"Always was, always will be Aboriginal land\" and \"Too many coppers not enough justice\".\n\nLeon Saunders, 77, demonstrating in Sydney, said: \"The raw deal Aborigines have been getting in this country for my lifetime and many lifetimes before that is just not right.\n\n\"We can look at America and say what terrible things are happening over there but, right here on our home soil, there are just as bad things happening and they need to be improved.\"\n\nA 1991 inquiry reported on 99 deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody, but a Guardian study found that at least 432 had died in custody since then.\n\nAnother protester in Sydney, Sarah Keating, said: \"I thought Australians were resting on their laurels - just because we're not as bad as America doesn't mean we're good enough... 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody is atrocious. That number should never have gotten that high. It should just be zero.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo police officer has ever been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal death in custody.\n\nMany of the demonstrators in Brisbane were wrapped in indigenous flags.", "That's all for our live page coverage on this Sunday.\n\nMany thanks for being with us to keep up to date with all the latest coronavirus developments.\n\nYou can read more here about the stories making the news in your region.\n\nThe BBC England team will be back with more live coverage from Monday morning. Until then - stay safe and enjoy the rest of your weekend.", "Muslim leaders have called for mosques to remain closed until congregational prayers can be held\n\nA senior Imam has advised mosques not to open until they can hold congregational prayers, despite government plans for places of worship.\n\nThe government is expected to announce that churches, mosques and synagogues in England can open their doors for private prayer from 15 June.\n\nBut as mosques are primarily for congregational prayers Muslim leaders have warned the plans lack clarity.\n\nImam Qari Asim said opening them would \"cause more challenges\".\n\nFull services and weddings will still be banned under the measures, which the prime minister is expected to outline to his cabinet on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland already allows private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nImam Asim, chairman of the Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), has called on mosques not to reopen until it is safe to do so and they are able to hold congregational prayers.\n\nHe said: \"The fundamental difference between mosques and some other places of worship is that mosques are first and foremost used for congregational prayers.\n\n\"Individual prayers can be performed anywhere, primarily at homes. Accordingly, opening the mosques on 15 June will cause more challenges for mosques and imams as the expectation from the community will be to resume collective worship.\"\n\nHarun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said communities needed \"unambiguous guidance\" so they could ensure the safety of everyone.\n\nHe said: \"Mosques are provisioned primarily for congregational worship, so there is currently significant uncertainty and concern from mosque leaders on how the new regulations can actually be implemented.\"\n\nMr Khan added that the MCB, an umbrella group of Muslim associations, had been consulting with communities across the country and it was clear proactive planning about reopening mosques had been taking place.\n\nMINAB has also called on the government to allow small groups to meet for the five daily prayers in mosques, so long as social-distancing and other measures are respected.\n\nThe group has prepared guidelines for mosques to start putting in place ahead of their eventual reopening, with particular concern about the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities.\n\nGroup worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the first, measured step in restoring church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that not every Catholic church would be open on 15 June.\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\" and said faith communities had shown \"enormous patience and forbearance\" since the lockdown came into effect.\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions meaning many could be vulnerable to the virus and because practices such as singing could enable the virus to spread more freely\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Sedars and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public was ready to re-engage in retail therapy, then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.", "The coronavirus pandemic is a \"devastating blow\" for the world economy, according to World Bank President David Malpass.\n\nMr Malpass warned that billions of people would have their livelihoods affected by the pandemic.\n\nHe said that the economic fallout could last for a decade.\n\nIn May, Mr Malpass warned that 60 million people could be pushed into \"extreme poverty\" by the effects of coronavirus.\n\nThe World Bank defines \"extreme poverty\" as living on less than $1.90 (£1.55) per person per day.\n\nHowever, in an exclusive interview on Friday Mr Malpass said that more than 60 million people could find themselves with less than £1 per day to live on.\n\nMr Malpass told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: \"It [coronavirus] has been a devastating blow for the economy.\n\n\"The combination of the pandemic itself, and the shutdowns, has meant billions of people whose livelihoods have been disrupted. That's concerning.\n\n\"Both the direct consequences, meaning lost income, but also then the health consequences, the social consequences, are really harsh.\"\n\nDavid Malpass has described coronavirus as a \"devastating blow for the world economy\"\n\nMr Malpass warned it's been those who can least afford it who've suffered the most.\n\n\"We can see that with the stock market in the US being relatively high, and yet people in the poor countries being not only unemployed, but unable to get any work even in the informal sector. And that's going to have consequences for a decade.\"\n\nThe World Bank, along with its counterparts, has been providing support to the worst affected countries, but says much more is needed.\n\nIt is calling on commercial lenders such as banks and pension funds to offer debt relief to poor countries.\n\nHe would also like them to make the terms of their loans clearer, so other investors are more confident about putting money into those economies.\n\nTargeted government support and measures to shore up the private sector are also vital to rebuild economies, the World Bank argues.\n\nInvestment and support would create jobs in areas like manufacturing, to replace those in the worst affected sectors, such as tourism, which may have been permanently lost.\n\nMr Malpass admits the damage to global trade, and inclinations to bring supply chains closer to home or erect trade barriers, are a challenge.\n\n\"When trade is reduced, that creates its own set of tensions and inequality... I'm sure [the global economy] will be interconnected in the future, maybe less than it was pre-COVID.\"\n\nBut ultimately, Mr Malpass said the \"catastrophe\" could be overcome, and that people were \"flexible, they're resilient\" .\n\n\"I think it's possible to find paths, it's hard work for countries and governments to do that.\n\n\"But we can encourage that effort... I'm an optimist, over the long run, that human nature is strong, and innovation is real. The world is moving fast and connectivity... has never been higher. And so that gives hope for the future.\"\n\nHowever, he admits the challenge is getting the right plans in place at the right time - and in the meantime, the pain could be considerable.\n\nListen to the interview on a special edition of Radio 4's The World this Weekend.", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters have been found dead in a London park where they had earlier celebrated a birthday, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered at 13:00 BST on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThe women had been celebrating Bibaa's birthday with a group of about 10 people on Friday evening, police said.\n\nTheir deaths are being treated as suspicious, the Met Police said.\n\nPolice said the group of partygoers had gradually dispersed until only the pair remained.\n\nThe sisters were both reported as missing to police late on Saturday when they did not return home, before they were discovered on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"We are in the very early stages of the investigation and are working hard to find out what led to these two women losing their lives.\n\n\"I need to hear from anyone who was in Fryent Country Park on the evening of Friday, 5 June, or early into Saturday, 6 June.\n\n\"The area the group were in would be a well-known spot to sit and look over London. If you were in that area of the park and noticed the group, or saw anything else suspicious, please contact us immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Billinge had planned to be in Normandy for the 76th anniversary of D-Day, visiting a new British memorial with other veterans.\n\nThe 94-year-old raised tens of thousands of pounds for the memorial - and he was even made an MBE for his efforts.\n\nBut the trip was cancelled due to coronavirus. So BBC Breakfast surprised with a face from the past.\n\nRead more: Memorial 'brought to veterans' for D-Day", "The death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police custody in the US has sparked some of the largest protests against racism, inequality and police brutality since the 1960s.\n\nRallies were organised globally to express solidarity with US protesters.\n\nThousands marched in the UK, France and Australia chanting \"no justice, no peace\" and \"black lives matter\".\n\nMany protests have evolved as people express anger at killings and systemic injustice in their own countries.\n\nConcerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted many to wear face masks, and government officials in some cities asked residents not to attend large gatherings.\n\nThe police chief in Washington DC said he expected Saturday's demonstrations to be the largest ever in the capital.\n\nPeople took to the streets for the 12th day running in Washington DC\n\nAround 20,000 members of the US National Guard have been posted to police protests in Washington DC, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested their removal, saying their presence is \"unnecessary\"\n\nPeople marched on the newly-named Black Lives Matter plaza in the US capital\n\nIn New York City, healthcare workers joined protests, holding placards reading \"do no harm\" and \"racism is a public health crisis\"\n\nIn Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians\n\nIn France, protests have re-ignited a campaign for justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in police custody in 2016\n\nIn London, protesters walked in the cold and rain and, outside the US embassy, they dropped to one knee and raised their fists in the air chanting \"colour is not a crime\". Police in riot gear clashed briefly with crowds\n\nSome drew attention to the death of black train station worker Belly Mujinga with Covid-19 in April. A man who claimed he had coronavirus reportedly spat at her before she fell ill\n\nA silent vigil was held for George Floyd in Berlin's Alexanderplatz square. Also in Germany, Bundesliga footballers warmed up wearing shirts reading \"Red card to racism #BlackLivesMatter\" and took a knee prior to kick-off\n\nIn the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, hundreds of people gathered, and some held banners calling for justice for Claudia Simões, a woman who was assaulted by police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has told the BBC he is \"sorry\" that he has not been granted a peerage.\n\nPrevious outgoing Speakers have been given a seat in the House of Lords, but the government has not put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by his former colleagues but denies the claims.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions he had \"made a lot of enemies\" during his 10-year stint in the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow accepted he was \"periodically irascible\" and \"wouldn't take no for an answer\", but insisted: \"I don't think I bullied anyone, anywhere, in any way, at any time.\"\n\nHe stepped down as Speaker in October after a decade in the post, during which time he faced accusations of bias over Brexit, as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nThe Speaker is in charge of what goes on within the House of Commons.\n\nBy tradition, the Speaker is above politics and is supposed to represent only the rules and conventions of Parliament. Once elected to the post, the Speaker no longer represents any political party.\n\nMr Bercow told BBC political correspondent Chris Mason that serving as Speaker had been \"my enormous privilege\".\n\n\"I did my best - I had some successes, I had some failures. I endured controversies. I made friends, I incurred enemies as well,\" he added.\n\nHe said, despite \"a long-standing convention\" of giving peerages to former Speakers, the matter was \"best decided by other people\".\n\n\"I am not going to sit awake at night worrying about it.\n\n\"There are people who have got grievances and agendas of their own who think I just don't fit.\"\n\nHe would not comment on reports that he was under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over allegations of bullying, saying only \"in due course people will know what the truth is\".\n\nMr Bercow has been proposed for a peerage by the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, amid suggestions by the opposition that the ex-Speaker is being denied a seat for his hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nDuring his time in the role, Mr Bercow gave unprecedented powers to backbenchers to hold ministers to account and made controversial and far-reaching procedural decisions at key stages of the Brexit process.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC there was a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said there was \"no obligation\" on the prime minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage and the allegations against him need to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow is asked in the Commons about bullying allegations against him\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour in the Speaker's chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, and maintains that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4 he was upset not to have been given the opportunity to take a seat in the House of Lords.\n\n\"I am not going to pretend it doesn't matter,\" he said, adding that he would like \"to make a contribution\".\n\nMr Bercow added: \"I am just going to go on doing what I think is right, standing up for good causes [and] celebrating important principles.\"", "Scientists are warning that we have created \"a perfect storm\" for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world.\n\nAs part of a global effort to study how and where new diseases emerge, scientists at the University of Liverpool have led the development of a pattern-recognition system to predict which wildlife diseases pose the most risk to humans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you run Welsh Government when social distancing?\n\nResponding to the coronavirus crisis has been a \"colossal challenge\", according to Wales' top civil servant.\n\nPermanent secretary Shan Morgan said around 80% of the Welsh Government's staff were currently working on an aspect of Covid-19.\n\nShe added that the organisation had adapted \"fantastically quickly\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the pandemic was \"not like anything we've had to face\".\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to the government's Cathays Park headquarters to see how the crisis has affected day-to day operations, and how the response to the pandemic is being managed.\n\nThe building, which would normally have about 2,500 staff, is largely empty and social-distancing measures have been introduced throughout.\n\nThe normally busy headquarters at Cathays Park is close to empty\n\n\"We reckon that now about 95% of our staff are working really well from home. We're getting stuff done,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nShe added that \"for the foreseeable future remote working is going to be the default\".\n\nAsked how much of a challenge the pandemic had been for the civil service, Ms Morgan said: \"This is a huge challenge.\n\n\"Getting things right to make sure that we are looking after the people of Wales, that we are not overwhelming NHS capacity… that's a colossal challenge because it's a life and death challenge.\n\n\"I'm very proud of the way that everybody in the Welsh Government, working with all of our stakeholders, has responded to that formidable challenge.\"\n\nThe first minister said the crisis had changed the way the government operated with very few ministers going into the office regularly, and daily meetings taking place over Zoom.\n\nThe first minister says virtual meetings cannot fully replace face-to-face conversations\n\n\"In some ways, we are more agile in working this way,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\nBut he added that, for those ministers who are not going into the office, \"there's quite a big loss that comes with no face-to-face contact\".\n\n\"Zoom calls are very good in many ways and they focus on the business, but those soft things that go on around a meeting.\n\n\"That couple of minutes you have just to speak to somebody, test something - none of that happens in the way we're working now, and that's a loss and can make the business of government a bit more challenging.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he could not think of anything else like it in 20 years of devolution.\n\n\"We've had a number of big challenges over the years: foot and mouth was an enormous challenge in parts of Wales, ebola didn't become an issue here in Wales, but the threat of it was real and that was a public health emergency in its time.\n\n\"But this is a public health emergency that has actually arrived and has made our lives, every one of us, completely different and it's not like anything else we've had to face.\"\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 BST on Sunday and on the BBC iPlayer.", "No new deaths to coronavirus have been registered in Scotland in the past 24 hours for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman cautioned that fewer deaths were recorded at weekends, and warned further deaths were \"still likely\".\n\nThis was an increase of 18 from Saturday.\n\nBecause no additional people who tested positive have died, the total number of deaths in Scotland by this measure has remained at 2,415.\n\nThere has been no change in the numbers of people in hospital with a confirmed case - 646, with 16 being treated in intensive care. A further nine people were in intensive care with suspected Covid-19.\n\nSince 5 March, 3,801 people have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the virus.\n\nSpeaking at the government's coronavirus briefing, Ms Freeman said zero deaths in 24 hours was \"one piece of positive news\", but urged people not to read too much into the figure and to continue to abide by lockdown restrictions.\n\nShe said Scotland had made progress, but that the progress was \"fragile\".\n\nMs Freeman said: \"We are not in the business of rushing out announcements on the back of albeit a piece of positive news, but a one-off piece of positive news in the context of the weekend when we know the number of registered deaths are lower than in a week day.\n\n\"I want to be here on many more days where either I or the first minister are giving those kinds of numbers, but for us to get there we need to stick with the measures that are in place.\"\n\nMs Freeman said the numbers she read out were not \"simply statistics\".\n\nShe said: \"Every one of those 2,415 people who have died was an individual whose loss is a source of grief and sorrow to very many.\n\n\"So I want to send my deepest condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one.\"", "The publication of a controversial opinion piece sparked anger inside the newsroom\n\nThe New York Times' opinion editor has resigned amid outrage over a piece by a Republican senator calling for military forces to be sent to cities where anti-racism protests had turned violent.\n\nJames Bennet stepped down after Senator Tom Cotton's article \"Send in the Troops\" caused revolt in the newsroom.\n\nIt backed Donald Trump's threat to use troops to quell unrest.\n\nThe newspaper had initially stood by the publication but then said the article \"did not meet\" its standards.\n\nThe change in position came after an outcry from both the public and staff over the piece, published on the newspaper's website last Wednesday. Some journalists did not come into work on Thursday in protest.\n\nMr Bennet, who has been the opinion editor since 2016, later admitted that he had not read the piece before its publication. The Arkansas senator's article called for \"an overwhelming show of force\" against groups he described as \"rioters\".\n\nIts publication happened as hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the US in recent weeks against racism and police brutality. There have been violent incidents in some cities.\n\nThe demonstrations were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody last month. Video showed him pinned to the floor, with a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMore than 800 employees signed a letter denouncing the article's publication, saying it contained misinformation.\n\n\"As a black woman, as a journalist, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,\" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter.\n\nIn a note to staff on Sunday, New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger said: \"Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years.\"\n\nThe note said Mr Bennet had resigned after he agreed that \"it would take a new team to lead the department through a time of considerable change\". There was no mention of Mr Cotton's piece.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nThe New York Times initially defended the article, saying the editorial page needed to reflect diverse viewpoints. But in a lengthy editor's note added to the text on Friday, it said the piece \"fell short of our standards and should not have been published\".\n\nIt said \"the editing process was rushed and flawed\", adding: \"The published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of 'cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa'; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned.\"\n\nThe newspaper also said the senator's statement that police officers \"bore the brunt\" of the violence seen in some cities was an \"overstatement that should have been challenged\". The headline, which had not been written by Mr Cotton, \"was incendiary and should not have been used,\" the note added.\n\nMr Sulzberger's email announced that Jim Dao, who oversees op-eds as a deputy in the opinion section, will be moved to another role, while Katie Kingsbury will become acting opinion editorial page editor.\n\nOn Saturday, Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned after publishing a headline that equated property damage to the deaths of black people, which prompted public condemnation from many of the newspaper's staff.\n\nMr Wischnowski apologised for what he described as a \"horribly wrong\" decision to use the headline \"Buildings Matter Too\" on an article about civil unrest in the US.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAndrew Balding's Kameko stunned unbeaten favourite Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the first British Classic of the year.\n\nOisin Murphy guided the 10-1 shot through the centre on good to firm ground for a famous victory by a neck.\n\nKameko's win set a new track record at 1min 34.72 secs, beating Mister Baileys's time in 1994.\n\nThe Aidan O'Brien-trained Wichita (15-2), ridden by Frankie Dettori, took second.\n\nPinatubo (5-6) was on the inside rail but finished third in a field of 15, one and a quarter lengths back.\n\nKameko, beaten by a neck over the same course and distance last September, won by three and a quarter lengths last time out in November.\n\nPinatubo beat Arizona by two lengths on soft ground over seven furlongs in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket last time out in October, when Wichita was third.\n\nBut on a blustery, showery day behind closed doors at the Suffolk track, the favourite was unable to find an extra gear in his seventh race.\n\nCelebrating his first British Classic, Murphy said: \"It means the absolute world to me. It's the stuff of dreams.\n\n\"Around four furlongs he got a little bit lost but he came home really well.\n\n\"It was a gutsy performance. He hardly blew a candle out afterwards - he must have a tremendous amount of ability.\"\n\nHaving given Balding a first Guineas triumph, Kameko is now favourite for the Derby at Epsom on 4 July.\n\nBalding, who won the Oaks with Casual Look in 2003, said: \"To me it looks the obvious choice. There would be a stamina doubt but there's only one way to find out.\"\n\nPinatubo's trainer Charlie Appleby, who won the Group One Coronation Cup with Ghaiyyath on Friday, said: \"Pinatubo travelled well into the race when he had Frankie's horse as his target, but when he made his move he got up to their girths and just didn't go any further forward.\"", "Crieff Hydro is the flagship hotel in the group\n\nA chain of Scottish hotels has given notice that 241 staff face redundancy at the start of August.\n\nCrieff Hydro group is family owned and includes seven mainly rural hotels, including Crieff Hydro, Peebles Hydro and Ballachulish Hotel.\n\nIt is planning to shed more than quarter of its workers across the portfolio.\n\nStephen Leckie, the proprietor, says he expects bookings to be down by 30-50% this year.\n\nThe number of job losses could be reduced or increased, depending on the pace at which lockdown regulations on the hospitality industry are eased.\n\nThe group announced that as of Sunday, it had entered a consultation period with its staff due to a significant downturn in business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said it hoped that through consultation the number of compulsory redundancies, if needed, could be halved.\n\nStaff will be lost across the Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels portfolio\n\nMr Leckie said: 'When we closed our doors at the end of March, it was one of the darkest days in our 150-year history and this is another.\n\nThe impact coronavirus has had on our industry and business has been immediate and drastic. As a family-run business built on the strength of our people, discussing potential redundancies is the toughest step we've ever had to consider.\n\n\"I am personally devastated for every one of our team who could lose their job.\"\n\nHe said that despite all the measures taken so far to reduce costs, lost revenue while the hotels were closed would amount to at least £17m in the current financial year.\n\nHe added: \"For every month we've been closed with zero income, we've had to pay £500,000 just to keep our buildings safe and insured. This would have a profound effect on any business. \"\n\nThe company has used the UK government's Job Retention Scheme as well as securing an additional £5m in bank loans.\n\nPeebles Hydro is one of the group's largest resorts\n\nTourism has been one of the hardest-hit industries during the nationwide lockdown. Industry bodies fear there will be many casualties as the sector struggles to be in a position to return.\n\nMarc Crothall of the Scottish Tourism Alliance said: \"This is a harsh reality of the impact of Covid19.\n\n\"Crieff Hydro is a really good, well-run and managed group of hotels who have always invested in their employees and I know it will be hurting the family in having to take this action.\n\n\"But without any income coming in for many months and coupled with high levels of monthly fixed costs and with no sign of any long-term grant support being made available to help bridge the gap in the months ahead, businesses like this are now faced with little or no choice but to cut employee costs.\n\n\"I suspect we will be hearing similar stories from many more tourism and hospitality businesses in coming days.\"\n\nTourism Secretary Fergus Ewing said it was a \"very sad day\" for both the business owners and their employees.\n\nHe said: \"I am aware the owners have worked very hard and continue working hard to find a means of enabling the hotel group to survive the Covid crisis where, like all other tourism businesses they have no revenue, but substantial overheads to meet.\n\n\"Scottish Enterprise has contacted Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels to offer support and assistance and we will do everything in our power to help those affected through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (Pace).\n\n\"We have put in place a huge package of support of over £2.3 billion to try and ensure as many businesses survive as possible.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the industry on recovery and with partners across the public and private sector, to ensure a strong return of Scotland's tourism and hospitality sector.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier.\"\n\nA scientist who advises the government on coronavirus says he wishes the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nBut Prof John Edmunds said data available in March was \"really quite poor\", making it \"very hard\" to do so.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says the government \"took the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded the deaths of another 77 people who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nIt marks the lowest daily increase in the number of deaths since 24 March.\n\nScotland recorded no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since lockdown began, while Northern Ireland reported no new deaths for a second time.\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths recorded over weekends has tended to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the government had reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nThe government said it had offered coronavirus test kits to every care home in England and had delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.\n\nAsked on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show whether he had any regrets about his advice during the epidemic, Prof Edmunds said: \"Yes, we should have gone into lockdown earlier.\n\n\"I think it would have been hard to do it, I think the data that we were dealing with in the early part of March and our situational awareness was really quite poor.\n\n\"So I think it would've been very hard to pull the trigger at that point, but I wish we had.\n\n\"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives unfortunately.\"\n\nAsked about the epidemiologist's comments, the health secretary defended the government's announcement of the lockdown on 23 March, saying: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock said there was a \"broad range… of scientific opinion\" on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and Prof Edmunds was one among more than 100 members.\n\n\"We were guided by the science - which means guided by the balance of that opinion - as expressed to ministers through the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser,\" he added.\n\n\"That's the right way for it to have been done.\"\n\nLooking back now, it is clear the virus was much more widespread than was realised in February and March.\n\nIt is estimated that by the time lockdown was announced on 23 March, there were 100,000 new cases a day.\n\nAt the time, testing and surveillance was picking up only a small fraction of them. When the scale of the outbreak was realised, scientists advising the government pushed for lockdown - and ministers subsequently agreed.\n\nIt is easy to criticise both the failures of science and the decisions of ministers in hindsight.\n\nOther countries had already moved to lockdown ahead of the UK, but still we held out for a few weeks.\n\nThe key question is, should we have known more at the time and should we have been better prepared?\n\nThis is all likely to be pored over in a public inquiry at some point and that will no doubt show mistakes were made - the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has admitted as much himself.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr the government would take a \"very cautious and safety first\" approach to further relaxation of the rules.\n\nThe lockdown has already been eased slightly, with changes made across the UK to meeting others outdoors and English schools reopening for some pupils.\n\nFurther easing is due from 15 June in England, with non-essential retailers allowed to re-open and places of worship allowed to open for private prayer.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said her party supported easing the lockdown but called for improvements in the government's test and trace system.\n\nDowning Street said any alterations to lockdown measures in the coming weeks would depend on the government's five tests continuing to be met, in order to prevent a second spike in the virus and stop the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThese include ensuring the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus onto on average - stays below one.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Prof Edmunds warned R was \"creeping up\" in some places - with some reports suggesting it had gone above one in north-west England.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the estimated R was \"below one in each region\", and the government would \"take local action in the first instance to crack down on any local outbreak\" - including reintroducing lockdown measures.\n\nThe Labour mayors for Greater Manchester and Liverpool, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham, said talk of local lockdowns were \"not helpful\" and said it was \"unacceptable\" to not include them in the planning process.\n\nThey said if the government was \"determined to proceed\" with the measure, \"significant support needs to be put in place\" for English regions, including a local furlough scheme and funding for councils.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is set to announce more easing of lockdown measures for 15 June, with Boris Johnson expected to tell cabinet about the additional changes on Tuesday.\n\nIt has also been revealed the PM plans to give a speech in the summer, setting out his vision for how the UK can recover from the coronavirus crisis.", "The pilots' union Balpa has accused British Airways of undermining talks over proposed job losses by threatening to dismiss and re-hire its members under new contracts.\n\nThe airline proposes to make 12,000 staff redundant, as it struggles with the impact of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 pilot roles at risk.\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible.\n\nIt insisted no final decision had been made.\n\nBalpa has been meeting with the company, unlike some unions, including Unite and GMB, which BA says have refused to enter talks.\n\nBut Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said on Saturday night that those talks now hung \"by a thread\".\n\n\"Balpa reps have been in consultation with BA over its proposed 1,130 pilot job losses and we've been doing that constructively and in good faith,\" Mr Strutton said in a statement.\n\n\"Then, on Wednesday evening, a letter from BA added another 125 job losses and also for the first time threatened all 4,300 BA pilots with dismissal and reengagement if we did not reach agreement on changes to terms and conditions.\n\n\"I'm appalled at the cavalier attitude shown by BA towards the Balpa reps and to its pilots.\n\n\"This has seriously undermined our talks which now hang by a thread.\"\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of BA's parent company IAG, emphasized this week in a letter to Parliament that no decision had been made in relation to actual redundancies.\n\n\"There are some who believe the company is exaggerating the scale of the challenge,\" Mr Walsh said in the letter. \"Nothing could be further from the truth. The situation is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible, as the airline industry faced the deepest structural change in its history. It called on Unite and the GMB to consult with it on its proposals as Balpa was doing.\n\nSeparately, BA, Easyjet and Ryanair have made inroads towards a legal challenge to the government's plan to impose two weeks' quarantine on travellers entering, or returning to, the UK.\n\nThe three have written a letter to Procurator General Sir Jonathan Jones, the government's most senior legal official.\n\nIn it, they argue the rules for incoming travellers will be more stringent than those for people who are actually diagnosed as having coronavirus - and point out that the rules are governed by different legislation for residents of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe proposals have been roundly criticised across the travel industry. The Home Office has said it believes the measures will help stop the spread of the virus.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad.\n\n\"These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.\n\n\"We recognise it is a difficult time for the travel industry, and the government continues to work with industry partners to ensure these measures remain effective and necessary.\"\n\nThe boss of Getlink - formerly Groupe Eurotunnel - has also written to the government, criticising the plan for its burden of paperwork, for instance the efforts that would be needed to keep track of workers who cross the channel frequently.\n\n\"The exemption to quarantine for staff who cross the Channel many times a day, within the concession, turns out to be an administrative burden for each crossing that will require much time to set up and deliver,\" wrote Getlink's chief executive Jacques Gounon.\n\nHe also complained to Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the speed of the new rules.\n\n\"Limited consultation by the Home Office and departmental intransigence have led to a situation that puts a serious risk on the efficiency of operations at the Channel Tunnel, a vital link in the Great British supply chain,\" he wrote.", "A further 77 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus - the lowest daily increase since the lockdown began.\n\nNo new coronavirus deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland.\n\nExperts say the number of deaths recorded over weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nAnd earlier, a scientist advising the government said there was still \"an awful long way to go\" before the pandemic would end in the UK.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said there was a risk the disease will \"come back very fast\" if the UK \"relaxed its guard\".\n\nAnd he said he wished the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nA total of 40,542 people have now died after testing positive for the virus the UK.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to reach 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe last time Scotland recorded no new deaths was on 20 March - three days before the lockdown was announced.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman gave a \"note of caution\" about reading too much into Sunday's figures.\n\nShe said: \"It is still very likely that further Covid-19 deaths will be reported in the days ahead.\"\n\nNHS England announced another 72 deaths and Wales announced five.\n\nThe daily figure only includes those who have tested positive for the virus, and other figures show the death toll could be higher.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.\n\nIt has been just over three months since the UK recorded its first coronavirus death on 2 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock rejected the comments by Prof Edmunds, who sits on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe insisted: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that there were more than 100 members of Sage, and said the government had been guided by the balance of scientific opinion from the group.\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it has now reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nMr Hancock said coronavirus test kits have been offered to every care home in England and have delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nConor McGregor says he has retired from fighting - for the third time in four years.\n\nIreland's former two-weight UFC champion, 31, has a record of 22 wins and four defeats.\n\nHis last fight, in January 2020, saw him beat American fan favourite Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in just 40 seconds in Las Vegas.\n\nHe has previously announced his retirement in 2016 and 2019 before twice returning to the octagon.\n\nMcGregor also tried boxing, losing to former five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather in August 2017.\n\n\"Hey guys I've decided to retire from fighting,\" he said on Twitter on Sunday.\n\n\"Thank you all for the amazing memories! What a ride it's been!\"\n• None Nunes dominates Spencer to win on points at UFC 250\n\nHe later told ESPN he was \"bored of the game\".\n\nMcGregor added: \"The game just does not excite me, and that's that. All this waiting around. There's nothing happening.\n\n\"I'm going through opponent options, and there's nothing really there at the minute. There's nothing that's exciting me.\"\n\nSpeaking after UFC 250 in Las Vegas on Saturday, the organisation's president Dana White said he had not been given advance warning of McGregor's announcement.\n\n\"One of my people grabbed me and showed it to me on social media - that's Conor, that's how Conor works and does things,\" said White.\n\n\"Conor McGregor's not going to need some money any time soon. He loves the fight, he's passionate about it and he has an incredible fighter IQ. But whatever his reason is, when you say you want to retire, don't worry about it. Do your thing, man.\"\n\nWhite added: \"We're in a pandemic, the world is a crazy place right now. If these guys want to sit out and retire right now, or if anybody feels uncomfortable in any shape or form about what's going on, you don't have to fight - it's all good. So if that's what's Conor's feeling right now, Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal, I feel you.\"\n\nUFC events are taking place without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic and last month McGregor suggested he would like to compete in a behind-closed-doors event.\n\nMcGregor signed for the UFC in 2013 as a two-division Cage Warriors champion, and went on to capture the UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight, becoming the first man to simultaneously hold UFC titles in two weight classes.\n\nThose titles were subsequently stripped by the UFC after he failed to defend his belts.\n\nAfter his first 'retirement' in 2016, he returned in October 2018 to unsuccessfully challenge for the UFC lightweight title against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229.\n\nEarlier this year, he displayed one of the most spectacular performances of his career to defeat Cerrone - his first win inside the octagon since taking his second world title in 2016.\n\nIn May, McGregor declared himself as the second greatest mixed martial arts fighter of all time behind Anderson Silva, adding he would \"easily\" surpass the Brazilian before retiring.\n\nHowever, McGregor's time in mixed martial arts has also been marred by controversy.\n\nIn 2018, he was ordered to have anger management training and perform five days of community service by a court in return for criminal charges being dropped after he had attacked a bus containing rival UFC fighters.\n\nVideo footage appeared to show McGregor throwing a railing at a bus carrying Nurmagomedov and a number of other UFC fighters.\n\nIn March 2019, McGregor was arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures of him. The charges were later dropped, although McGregor settled a civil lawsuit with the victim out of court.", "Hundreds of people attended a protest in Merthyr Tydfil on Sunday\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the Black Lives Matter campaign is \"fundamentally important\" but he wished people had found other ways to protest rather than public demonstrations during the pandemic.\n\n\"There are other ways that don't pose a public health risk,\" he said.\n\nFurther protests have been held in Wales on Sunday.\n\n\"I absolutely understand the strength of feeling that brings people to the sort of scenes we saw yesterday,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"I'd wish they'd done it in a different way because I think there are other ways that don't pose a public health risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But I do have to say to them again today, we are in the middle of a public health emergency.\"\n\nMany protesters in Wales wore face coverings and others wore gloves.\n\n\"We're here to make a stand. We're here to show everyone's equal and, of course, black lives matter,\" one protester in Cardiff said.\n\nThe majority of Saturday's protests in the UK were peaceful but in the evening there were disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nAround a thousand people joined the protest in Cardiff\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"There were online protests going on yesterday, there are petitions running, there are organisations to join and campaign with.\n\n\"And I still say to people in Wales, please don't put yourself in a position where the strength of feeling, the absolute strength of feeling that I share on the Black Lives Matter issue leads you to do things that put yourself and other people at risk.\"\n\nAfter seeing the large crowds in Cardiff, Andrew RT Davies, the former Conservative leader in the Senedd, said \"lockdown and social distancing appears to be over in Wales\".", "Eddie Flett wore a disguise so his children would not recognise him while he watched them in the park\n\nAn oil worker has told how he wore a disguise so he could watch his young children without them recognising him while he was in quarantine.\n\nEddie Flett, from Edinburgh, spent 14 days living in a flat in his street when he returned to Scotland after being stuck in Kazakhstan for 10 weeks.\n\nHe wore a mask and hood so his two-year-old twins would not recognise him and come too close.\n\nHis wife Erica Clinefelter said the enforced separation was \"a nightmare\".\n\nShe said: \"I'd held it together for months until those last few days when I reached breaking point.\n\n\"Having him so close but not home was very hard.\"\n\nErica would take her children to play in the street outside her husband's quarantine flat so he could see them from afar\n\nEddie, 51, told BBC Scotland: \"The hardest part was being down the road.\n\n\"The proximity was painful. I would stand at the fence and watch them play outside.\"\n\nHe then started going to the park so he could watch his children Isobel and Campbell from a distance.\n\nErica, a former project manager, said: \"We would arrange a time when we would be in the park and come to watch.\n\n\"He would wear a mask and a jumper with the hood up and he would sit on the bench.\"\n\nThe family would videocall at breakfast daily when Eddie was having lunch\n\nEddie said it was \"absolutely fantastic\" when he was finally able to be reunited with his family.\n\nEddie, a logistics consultant subcontracted to work on Chevron's giant Tengiz oil field in Western Kazakhstan, flew out for a four-week run of shifts on 4 March.\n\nBut he was then unable to return home to his partner Erica, their twin toddlers and 20-year-son Alex.\n\nErica said: \"This particular separation felt more painful than usual. It was beyond our control, full of worry and anxiety, and I had a fair amount of anger at being so vulnerable.\"\n\nShe said the ability to go outside for walks had been a \"lifeline\" while dealing with the isolation and the demands of two young children.\n\nThe family would videocall at breakfast daily when Eddie was having lunch in Kazakhstan, where he was stranded along with thousands of other oil workers from all over the world.\n\nThere were 300 positive cases of Covid-19 in the camp where they were staying by early May, but no deaths.\n\n\"We were busy, we didn't stop work,\" he said.\n\n\"The company was concerned about the virus, we were more concerned about the oil price.\"\n\nEddie Flett has now been reunited with with his twins Isobel and Campbell\n\nEddie said the decision was eventually taken to shut down drilling completely and, after a couple of false starts, he set off for home on 13 May.\n\nHe was one of 20 men flown back to the UK. The long journey home involved road blocks, security checks, and coach, plane and minibus journeys - as well as a plague of mosquitos at Atyrau Airport.\n\nWhen he arrived back home in Edinburgh, Eddie spent two weeks living away from his family as a precautionary measure.\n\nHe was able to live at the end of his street after neighbours lent him their vacant Airbnb flat for free.\n\nEddie does not know when, or if, he will be able to return to work on the oilfields again.", "Group worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nPlaces of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week.\n\nThese are not expected to include weddings of any size, or full services - which will come at a later date.\n\nThe prime minister is set to outline measures which will come into effect in England on 15 June.\n\nNorthern Ireland has already allowed private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to update his cabinet on the plans on Tuesday.\n\nMinisters have been working with faith leaders on guidance for how places of worship can re-open safely with social distancing measures in place.\n\nIndividual churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will have to manage the number worshippers attending.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nFaith leaders have called for churches, mosques, synagogues and temples to be allowed to reopen as other lockdown measures have been lifted.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the \"first, measured step in restoring\" church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that \"not every Catholic church will be open on 15 June\".\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Seders and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public is ready to re-engage in retail therapy then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\" during the unprecedented time.\n\n\"We plan to open up places of worship for individual prayer in a safe, Covid-secure way that does not risk further transmission.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\".\n\nHe said: \"People of all faiths have shown enormous patience and forbearance, unable to mark Easter, Passover, Ramadan or Vaisakhi with friends and family in the traditional way.\n\n\"As we control the virus, we are now able to move forwards with a limited but important return to houses of worship.\"\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions and rituals such as singing which may lead to the virus. spreading more freely", "Lyra McKee was shot dead as she observed rioting in Londonderry\n\nA gun found by police during searches in Londonderry is believed to be similar to the one used in the New IRA murder of Lyra McKee.\n\nThe weapon is being forensically examined to establish if it was the gun used.\n\nPolice have said a bomb also discovered during the searches was fully primed for an imminent attack.\n\nMs McKee, a 29-year-old journalist, was shot during trouble in the city's Creggan area in April 2019.\n\nThe gun, along with the bomb, was found during planned police searches in Derry on Friday and Saturday in the Ballymagroarty area of the city.\n\nSearch operations took place over two days, and covered 38 acres.\n\nDerry City and Strabane district commander Ch Supt Emma Bond said the gun was the same type and calibre used to murder Ms McKee and that extensive forensic examinations would be taking place in the coming days and weeks.\n\nShe said:\"Whilst we regard this as an encouraging line of enquiry, I will repeat that we cannot definitively say at this time whether or not this is the murder weapon,\" she said.\n\n\"That determination will be guided by the forensics.\"\n\nCh Supt Bond added: \"We were able to locate and safely remove a command-wire initiated bomb, a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.\n\n\"A strong line of enquiry is that these munitions belong to the New IRA.\n\n\"They have now been seized and will be subject to rigorous forensic examination in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"The fact that these items were left close to a populated area, and particularly on land where children are known to play, yet again underlines the total lack of regard these violent terrorist criminals have for their own communities,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are so singularly focused on murdering police officers that they do not care if others - men, women, children, families - are caught up in their evil plots.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne described the find as a \"major breakthrough,\" adding it was a \"reminder that a small number of people with no community support or mandate are still determined to wreak havoc, destroy lives and devastate families\".\n\nA children's den was located near to where the weaponry was found\n\nEarlier in the year Paul McIntyre, 52, from Kinnego Park in Derry was charged with Ms McKee's murder, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking on the first anniversary of her death, Det Supt Jason Murphy said there were up to 17 suspects in the investigation.", "Will there be a post-Covid baby boom?\n\nWith people stuck at home with not much to do under lockdown, it was predicted that scores of new babies could make their appearance in a few months' time. This was based on previous baby booms after, for example, World War Two. Not so says French newspaper Le Parisien, which has been speaking to couples about their baby plans . Generally speaking, people like to feel secure before embarking on the biggest adventure of their lives, it says. But with mounting job uncertainty and financial insecurity, this is looking less likely for many. “During the 2007-2008 financial crisis, fertility declined in most European countries,” says Gilles Pison, a demographer. “When we look at past crises, we see above all a postponement of birth plans, but not an abandonment. These births generally recover once the crisis has passed. So I don't expect a baby boom in the short term.\" People may not be intentionally having more babies. However, there were warnings early on in the crisis that lockdowns would restrict women’s access to contraception and family planning services, which could lead to millions of unplanned pregnancies.", "Thousands have lined the streets of London, from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square, in an anti-racism protest following the death of George Floyd.\n\nProtesters appeared to be ignoring warnings from both the police commissioner and Health Secretary Matt Hancock not to congregate and risk spreading coronavirus.\n\nFree masks, gloves and hand gel were being handed out by some volunteers.\n\nThis video shows six minutes and 30 seconds of footage condensed into 75 seconds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of protesters gathered in UK cities on Saturday - in London, missiles were thrown and a police horse bolted\n\nA total of 27 police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London, the Met Police has revealed.\n\nDame Cressida Dick, Met Police Commissioner, said the attacks were \"shocking and completely unacceptable\".\n\nProtests on Saturday - sparked by the death of George Floyd - were largely peaceful, but were marred later by disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nOne demonstrator, who was not at Downing Street, saw officers \"acting very aggressively\" elsewhere.\n\nFurther demonstrations are taking place across the UK including in Bristol, where the statue of a prominent slave trader has been pulled down.\n\nIn a statement Dame Cressida, the UK's most senior officer, thanked officers at Saturday's protests in London for their \"extreme patience and professionalism\".\n\nA police officer knocked from her horse was among 14 injured during clashes with protesters on Saturday\n\n\"I am deeply saddened and depressed that a minority of protesters became violent towards officers in central London yesterday evening,\" she said.\n\n\"This led to 14 officers being injured, in addition to 13 hurt in earlier protests this week.\n\n\"We have made a number of arrests and justice will follow. I know many who were seeking to make their voices heard will be as appalled as I am by those scenes.\n\n\"I would urge protesters to please find another way to make your views heard which does not involve coming out on the streets of London, risking yourself, your families and officers as we continue to face [the deadly coronavirus].\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 14 arrests were made in London\n\nThe majority of Saturday's protests were peaceful but in the evening there were disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the protest was largely over when missiles and fireworks were thrown at a police line.\n\nTwo officers were seriously injured, including a Mounted Branch officer who was knocked from her horse when it hit a set of traffic lights whilst appearing to bolt.\n\nShe suffered a broken collarbone, a broken rib, and punctured lung, according to the Metropolitan Police Federation\n\nThe officer had struggled to stay in control as she was riding down the street surrounded by protesters.\n\nShe remains in hospital in a stable condition after undergoing surgery.\n\nBut Asia Ahmed, an activist who attended several of the protests, said \"these situations don't come from nowhere\".\n\nShe told the BBC she had seen the police \"acting very aggressively\" towards protesters.\n\nMs Ahmed, who was not at Downing Street during the disturbance, said a \"lot of people\" she spoke to \"feared for their lives when they saw police horses\".\n\n\"I don't think that was the best tactic to use if you're trying to create a peaceful environment,\" she said.\n\nActivists say police have \"acted very aggressively\" towards protesters during demonstrations across London\n\nPolice arrested 29 protesters for variety of offences, including violent disorder, public order offences and assault on emergency service workers.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the pockets of violence were \"simply not acceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I stand with you and share your anger and pain. George Floyd's brutal killing must lead to immediate and lasting change in countries, cities, police services and institutions everywhere.\n\n\"But this vital cause was badly let down by a tiny minority who turned violent and threw glass bottles and lit flares, endangering other protestors and injuring police officers.\"\n\nA rally is currently being staged outside the US Embassy in Battersea, south-west London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From Monday, outdoor weddings can take place in Northern Ireland with up to 10 people present.\n\nThe devolved government has decided to allow them as part of its strategy to ease lockdown.\n\nFor weeks, couples who wanted to get married this summer haven’t been sure if they would be able to.\n\nBut now they - and people working in the wedding industry - are making plans, as Chris Page reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston\n\nThe name Edward Colston looms large over Bristol, with streets and buildings named after the 17th Century merchant and slave trader.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in the city toppled a statue of Colston and dumped it in Bristol Harbour. The BBC's Jack Grey witnessed the statue's fall.\n\nThousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UK sparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.\n\nA group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.\n\nColston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.\n\nThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895\n\nThere was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.\n\nThe canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.\n\nOnce the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.\n\nThirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.\n\nThere was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.\n\nIt was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.\n\nThe statue was taken from Colston Avenue and dumped into Bristol Harbour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPlaying in empty stadiums is going to become the new norm for footballers, so it's probably best they start to get used to it.\n\nThat may have been the reasoning behind several Premier League teams holding training sessions at their grounds this week, with some even playing full friendlies to give their players a taste of what is to come.\n\nThe Premier League is set to resume behind closed doors from 17 June after being suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Old Trafford, Harry Maguire captained a 'home' Manchester United team against an 'away' side led by Bruno Fernandes.\n\nIt marked the first time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men had played on home soil since their 2-0 win over derby rivals Manchester City on 8 March - their final match before lockdown.\n\nIt had been even longer since Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba had done so, last featuring for United on 26 December and 15 January respectively before long injury lay-offs.\n\nThey both donned the red home kit as Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined Fernandes in the away team for the match refereed by fitness coach Charlie Owen.\n\nUnited - currently fifth in the Premier League - will restart their season away at Tottenham on 19 June before welcoming Sheffield United to Old Trafford on 24 June.\n\nRather than an inter-squad match, Arsenal went one step further and welcomed Championship strugglers Charlton to Emirates Stadium.\n\nMikel Arteta's Gunners ran out 6-0 winners over the Addicks, with Eddie Nketiah scoring a second-half hat-trick in addition to strikes from Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Joe Willock.\n\nNinth-place Arsenal travel to Manchester City on 17 June to kick off their return to action.\n\nFrank Lampard took his Chelsea players to Stamford Bridge for a change from their Cobham training base, holding an in-house game on Saturday.\n\nLampard and his coaching staff officiated the match, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek scoring for the Blues in blue.\n\nChelsea are three points above United in fourth and resume their campaign at Aston Villa.\n\nTalking of Villa, they reportedly held a behind-closed-doors friendly against West Brom, who are second in the Championship, at Villa Park.\n\nJack Grealish and Keinan Davis scored for the hosts as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with the Baggies, for whom Kamil Grosicki and Filip Krovinovic found the back of the net.\n\nNewcastle also took a trip home to St James' Park for an inter-squad friendly which finished in a 1-1 draw.\n\nJoelinton gave his side - wearing the Magpies' orange strip - the lead before Nabil Bentaleb equalised for those wearing the black and white kit with a stunning strike from outside the box.\n\nEarlier in the week, Premier League leaders Liverpool held a series of short 11v11 matches at Anfield, while Norwich and West Ham also returned to Carrow Road and London Stadium respectively.", "England and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has backed protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".\n\nThousands of people have taken part in Black Lives Matter marches in the UK, despite government warnings to avoid mass gatherings because of the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is the most important thing at this moment in time because this is something that is happening for years and years,\" Sterling, 25, said.\n\nLarge protests have been held in London, Bristol, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh following the death of American George Floyd.\n\nFloyd, 46, died while being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis. The four officers involved have since been charged over the death, which sparked days of protests in the US and demonstrations across the world.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, Sterling said: \"Just like the pandemic, we want to find a solution to stop it.\n\n\"At the same time, this is what all these protesters are doing. They are trying to find a solution and a way to stop the injustice they are seeing and they are fighting for their cause.\n\n\"As long as they are doing it peacefully and safely and not hurting anybody and not breaking into any stores, they continue to protest in this peaceful way.\"\n• None Watch the full Sterling interview on Newsnight on BBC Two on Monday at 22:45 BST\n\nMany sports people have spoken out in protest over Floyd's death, with Sterling's England team-mate Jadon Sancho making on-pitch statements in Germany's Bundesliga.\n\nSterling, whose City side return to Premier League action on 17 June, has previously spoken of racist abuse he has suffered and the media's portrayal of black players.\n\nAsked whether speaking out makes his job as a footballer harder, he said: \"First and foremost, I don't really think about my job when things like this happen. I think about what is right.\n\n\"And at this moment in time, there's only so much people can take. There's only so much communities and other backgrounds can take - especially black people.\n\n\"It's been going on for hundreds of years and people are tired and people are ready for change.\n\n\"I keep saying this word. I see a lot of people on social [media] supporting the cause. But this is something that needs more than just talking.\n\n\"We need to actually implement change and highlight the places that do need changes.\n\n\"But this is something that I myself will continue to do, and spark these debates and get people in my industry looking at themselves and thinking what they can do to give people an equal chance in this country.\n\n\"Hopefully other industries can do that, and everyday society and the system as well.\"\n\nSpeak out if you feel the need - Archer\n\nEngland pace bowler Jofra Archer says the events of the past week show \"so many people around the world are behind equality\".\n\nThe 25-year-old was subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand in 2019.\n\n\"No longer will people just sit around quietly and let unjust things happen,\" Archer wrote in his Daily Mail column.\n\n\"As an individual, I've always been one for speaking out, especially if something bothers you. My personal view is that you should never keep things bottled up, because racism is not OK.\n\n\"If you feel the need to speak out, you should do so. I accept that others might choose not to make it public and deal with things in their own way, but it is why I acted when I was verbally abused in New Zealand last year.\"\n\nThe spectator responsible - a man from Auckland - was banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years after admitting the abuse.", "The heatwave of 2018 uncovered hundreds of new sites - many Roman - including new details of this fort at Trawscoed, Ceredigion\n\nRoman forts, roads, military camps and villas have been identified by a new analysis of aerial photographs taken in the 2018 heatwave across Wales.\n\nScorched crop marks uncovered about 200 ancient sites during the drought.\n\nExperts say the Roman finds are key pieces in the jigsaw to understand how Wales was conquered and dominated 2,000 years ago.\n\nResearcher Toby Driver said the discoveries \"turn everything we know about the Romans on its head\".\n\nThe aerial investigator for the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales said the new research published in the journal Britannia showed the \"Roman military machine coming to rural Wales\".\n\nIn Monmouthshire, the researchers have identified a new \"marching camp\" at a site near Caerwent.\n\n\"The marching camps are really, really interesting. They are the temporary overnight stops that the Romans build on manoeuvres in hostile territory.\"\n\nCarrow Hill fort is the first Roman fort found in the Vale of Gwent - with probable links to the Caerleon legionary fortress\n\nThe site would have provided defensive positions, camping and kitchens for bread ovens.\n\n\"This is when Wales is still a very dangerous place to be for the troops, they are still under attack,\" added Dr Driver.\n\nThe entire area heading into south-east Wales through Usk to Caerleon would have been peppered with similar sites, believe the experts, as the Roman armies fought a 20-year battle to crush resistance amongst Celtic tribes, notably the Silures in southern Wales.\n\nBut these sites were \"ploughed away pretty quickly\" when the fighting was over.\n\n\"This is only the third marching camp in south-east Wales that we have discovered. We know there should be more of these around to show how the army was moving in Wales - it shows the big routes they are pushing through to control different parts of Wales,\" added Dr Driver.\n\nWith conquest came reinforcements, and that meant forts.\n\nThe aerial photographs confirmed the locations of at least three new fort sites, including the first found in the Vale of Gwent at Carrow Hill, west of the Roman town of Caerwent and the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon.\n\nThe crop images show it had inner and outer defensive structure and a \"killing zone\" in between, perfectly ranged for a javelin throw.\n\nThe photographs found a long suspected fort site at Aberllynfi near Hay-on-Wye is indeed Roman, even though part of it has long since been built over by housing.\n\nWhile further investigations at Pen y Gaer in Powys, near Tretower and Crickhowell, have revealed new detailed structures previously undiscovered - despite digs and surveys on the ground.\n\nWyncliff villa north of Chepstow was originally thought to be a temple - but this new image confirms it was a Roman villa\n\nThe researchers, who included Roman experts Jeffrey Davies and Barry Burnham, have also been able to identify details of new villas - including at St Arvans, north of Chepstow in Monmouthshire.\n\nThe location had previously been considered a temple site, after part of a bronze statue of Mars was unearthed.\n\nBut the heatwave images make it clear this was a Roman villa of some note, with its room structure clearly visible.\n\nPerhaps the most startling discoveries have been pieces of unknown Roman road.\n\nThis section of Roman road runs south from Carmarthen to Kidwelly, and was unknown until this image was captured\n\nOne shows how the Roman armies pushed their way south from Carmarthen to Kidwelly, reinforcing speculation the town was home to a Roman fort - even if it may now be covered by Kidwelly Castle.\n\n\"It's the scale of the control of Wales which is exciting to see,\" said Dr Driver.\n\n\"These big Roman roads striking through the landscape - straight as arrows through the landscape.\"\n\nAnother section of Roman road uncovered in Lampeter, Ceredigion - hinting of further discoveries to be made\n\nAfter the driest May on record, Dr Driver hopes he will be able to get back in the air as soon as coronavirus lockdown measures allow, to see if he and his teams can find more pieces of the Roman puzzle in Wales.\n\n\"There are still huge gaps. We're still missing a Roman fort at Bangor, we've got the roads, we've got the milestones - but no Roman fort. We're still missing a Roman fort near St Asaph, and near Lampeter in west Wales we should have one as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Although we had loads come out in 2018, we've got this big gaps in Roman Wales that we know should have military installations - but you've got to get out in dry weather to find them.\"\n• None Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archaeologists believe the find marks \"a new chapter\" in Stonehenge's story\n\nA ring of large shafts discovered near Stonehenge form the largest prehistoric monument ever discovered in Britain, archaeologists believe.\n\nTests carried out on the pits suggest they were excavated by Neolithic people more than 4,500 years ago.\n\nExperts believe the 20 or more shafts may have served as a boundary to a sacred area connected to the henge.\n\n\"The size of the shafts and circuit is without precedent in the UK,\" said Prof Vince Gaffney, a lead researcher.\n\nThe 1.2 mile-wide (2km) circle of large shafts measuring more than 10m (30ft) in diameter and 5m (15ft) in depth are significantly larger than any comparable prehistoric monument in Britain.\n\nA team of academics from the universities of St Andrews, Birmingham, Warwick, Bradford, Glasgow and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David worked on the project.\n\nThe pits surround the ancient settlement of Durrington Walls, two miles (3km) from Stonehenge, and were discovered using remote sensing technology and sampling.\n\nYellow dots mark the location of the finds, with Durrington Walls marked as the large brown circle and Stonehenge top left\n\nProf Gaffney, of the University of Bradford, said the discovery demonstrated \"the capacity and desire of Neolithic communities to record their cosmological belief systems in ways, and at a scale, that we had never previously anticipated\".\n\n\"The area around Stonehenge is amongst the most studied archaeological landscapes on earth,\" he added.\n\n\"It is remarkable that the application of new technology can still lead to the discovery of such a massive prehistoric structure.\n\n\"When these pits were first noted, it was thought they might be natural features. Only through geophysical surveys, could we join the dots and see there was a pattern on a massive scale.\"\n\nProf Gaffney said a \"proper excavation\" was required to determine the exact nature of the pits but that the team believed they acted as a boundary, perhaps marking out Durrington Walls as a special place, or emphasising the difference between the Durrington and Stonehenge areas.\n\nThe shafts surround the known location of Durrington Walls\n\nHe said it was difficult to speculate how long they would have taken to create, but using manual stone tools, there would have been \"considerable organisation of labour to produce pits on this scale\".\n\n\"The pits are massive by any estimate. As far as we can tell they are nearly vertical sided; that is we can't see any narrowing that might imply some sort of shaft. Some of the silts suggest relatively slow filling of the pits. In other words they were cut and left open,\" added Prof Gaffney.\n\nDr Richard Bates, from St Andrews' School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said it had given an insight to \"an even more complex society than we could ever imagine\".\n\nHis colleague Tim Kinnaird said sediments from the shafts had allowed archaeologists to \"write detailed narratives of the Stonehenge landscape for the last 4,000 years\".\n\nDr Nick Snashall, National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, hailed the discovery as \"astonishing\".\n\nShe said: \"As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape, and this astonishing discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs of our Neolithic ancestors.\n\n\"The Hidden Landscapes team have combined cutting-edge, archaeological fieldwork with good old-fashioned detective work to reveal this extraordinary discovery and write a whole new chapter in the story of the Stonehenge landscape.\"", "Lower-income households are using savings and borrowing more during the coronavirus lockdown, while richer families are saving more as eating out and trips abroad are banned.\n\nThat's according to research from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank.\n\nLower-income households are twice as likely as richer ones to have increased their debts during the crisis, it said.\n\nWorkers in shut down parts of the economy have average savings of £1,900, it found.\n\nThat compares to the £4,700 buffer of someone who has been able to work from home during the lockdown.\n\n\"Pre-coronavirus Britain was marked by soaring wealth and damaging wealth gaps between households,\" said George Bangham, economist at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These wealth divides have been exposed by the crisis. While higher-income households have built up their savings, many lower-income households have run theirs down and had to turn to high-interest credit.\"\n\nAccording to the research, which was funded by the Standard Life Foundation charity, wealth gaps across the country have also grown.\n\nThe study found that London and the South East accounted for 38% of all wealth between 2016 to 2018, up from 32% a decade earlier.\n\nWealth inequality remains almost twice as high as income inequality, it adds.\n\nLast month, the think tank found that young people are most likely to have lost work or seen their income drop because of Covid-19.\n\nMore than one in three 18 to 24-year-olds is earning less than before the outbreak, it found.\n\nIt said younger workers risk their pay being affected for years, while older staff may end up involuntarily retired.\n\nLast year, a different think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy.\n\nIt warned of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in \"deaths of despair\", such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.", "Former chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the UK economy struggles with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he also called for low taxes on business to aid the UK's recovery.\n\nThe conservative think tank, which was co-founded by Margaret Thatcher, said this should be based on \"a dynamic private sector and low taxes\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said there will be no return to \"austerity\".\n\nHowever, Labour has said the government should have offered more generous support during the crisis.\n\nThe report by the Centre for Policy Studies said that a quick economic bounce back from the coronavirus crisis is is unlikely.\n\nBut it said coronavirus emergency spending measures should be stopped, if possible, by April 2021.\n\nIt said that polls suggest the UK is \"not ready\" to return to austerity measures introduced by former chancellor George Osborne, \"necessary though they were\".\n\nInstead, the report calls for tax to shift away from profits and incomes and towards reformed property tax and tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\".\n\nNational insurance should be given a \"significant temporary\" reduction to make it cheaper for employers to take on staff.\n\nMr Javid, who resigned from the Treasury in February, said \"early hopes of a V-shaped recovery\" had \"proved optimistic\".\n\nHe predicted that \"some long-term damage to the economy\" had become \"unavoidable\", with as many as 2.5 million people out of work due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nBut to speed up the rate of people re-entering employment, Mr Javid argued in the After The Virus report, published on Tuesday, that ministers must make it easier for businesses to hire workers.\n\n\"If we want to support and stimulate employment, then axiomatically the best option is to cut the payroll tax - employer's National Insurance,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"Tax employment less, and all other things being equal you will end up with more of it.\"\n\nOther recommendations made in the report include temporarily cutting VAT and bringing forward \"shovel ready\" infrastructure projects, with Mr Javid arguing that the \"only way out of this crisis is growth\".\n\nHe joins fellow former chancellor Alistair Darling in calling for an emergency VAT cut to boost consumer spending, a move undertaken by the Labour peer after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Javid said: \"If we want to secure the strongest possible recovery, it's essential that no stone is left unturned.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, in a report in March on the economic effects of coronavirus, criticised the government for acting too slowly and said it should underwrite a bigger proportion of wages for those who lose their jobs.", "Stars including Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Carrey and Sharon Stone have paid tribute to the \"wonderfully creative and heroic\" St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher.\n\nSutherland, who starred in several of Schumacher's films, said his \"joy, spirit and talent will live on\".\n\nCarrey, who appeared in Batman Forever, also remembered Schumacher fondly following his death at the age of 80.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Carrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Falling Down filmmaker had been ill with cancer for more than a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kiefer Sutherland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinnie Driver, who appeared in Schumacher's film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, remembered the director as \"the funniest, chicest, most hilarious director I ever worked with\".\n\nShe recalled: \"Once, on set, an actress was complaining about me within earshot; how I was dreadfully over the top (I was) Joel barely looked up from his NYT + said 'Oh Honey, no one ever paid to see under the top.'\"\n\nMatthew McConaughey, who was given his big break by Schumacher in 1996's A Time to Kill, told Variety: \"Joel not only took a chance on me, he fought for me... I don't see how my career could have gone to the wonderful places it has if it wasn't for Joel Schumacher believing in me back then.\"\n\nCorey Feldman, who appeared in The Lost Boys, said the director was \"a beautiful soul\" who had \"sent me supportive messages tight til the end of his life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sharon Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and presenter Padma Lakshmi described him as \"sharp, whip smart, witty and wise\", adding: \"He was kind and always had the best advice.\"\n\nFellow director Kevin Smith tweeted: \"He couldn't have been nicer or more hospitable.\"\n\nStar Trek writer and producer Bryan Fuller wrote: \"I distinctly remember feeling hopeful when I learned he was gay and out and that there may be a place for me yet.\"\n\nVariety wrote that the director \"brought his fashion background\" to directing and captured the feel of an era with his \"stylish films\".\n\nThe New York native first entered the film industry as a costume designer in the 1970s, working alongside luminaries such as Woody Allen.\n\nHe went on to write the 1976 low-budget comedy Car Wash, as well as the screenplay for a film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.\n\nBut his big break came in 1985, with his third feature film St Elmo's Fire, which he co-wrote and directed.\n\nAlongside The Breakfast Club, which came out in the same year, it became one of the seminal films of the Brat Pack era and launched Demi Moore's film career.\n\nHis follow-up, The Lost Boys - about a group of young vampires in small-town California - became a cult favourite, and his 1990 hit Flatliners saw him again team up with Kiefer Sutherland.\n\nSchumacher worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Michael Douglas. He directed Douglas in 1993's Falling Down, which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'Or.\n\nHe took over the reins of the Batman franchise from Tim Burton in 1995, casting Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader and Jim Carrey as the Riddler. The film grossed more than $300m worldwide.\n\nHowever, his second outing - Batman and Robin - starring George Clooney in the lead and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze was critically panned and nearly finished off Clooney's burgeoning film career.\n\nSchumacher was noted for his ability to pick out new talent and he was fundamental in establishing the careers of A-list stars such as Sutherland, Rob Lowe and Colin Farrell. He directed Farrell in 2000's Tigerland, the actor's first leading role, and later in Phone Booth.\n\nSchumacher's style came to the fore in two memorable music videos, Seal's Kiss From a Rose and INXS's Devil Inside.\n\nHis film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, which received three Oscar nominations despite lukewarm reviews, was among his last films.\n\nSchumacher was reportedly the composer's first choice as director, with Lord Lloyd Webber having admired his work with music on The Lost Boys.\n\nMost recently, in 2013, he took the helm on a couple of episodes of the first season of Netflix series House of Cards, before more or less retiring from working life.\n\nHe once said: \"If you love a movie, there are hundreds of people who made it lovable for you. If you don't like it, blame the director. That's what our name's there for.\"", "Michaela Coel stars in, wrote and co-directed I May Destroy You\n\nThe BBC is to increase diversity by investing £100m of its TV budget over a three year period to produce \"diverse and inclusive content\".\n\nDirector general Tony Hall has described the move, which will apply from April 2021, as \"a big leap\".\n\nThe BBC has set itself a mandatory target - 20% of off-screen talent must come from under-represented groups.\n\nThat includes those with a disability or from a BAME or disadvantaged socio-economic background.\n\nThere will also be three \"tests\" for diversity in the BBC's TV output, with programmes needing to meet two of them to qualify - diverse stories and portrayal on-screen, diverse production teams and talent and diverse-led production companies.\n\nThe announcement follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of George Floyd while in police custody in the US.\n\nJune Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity in October 2019\n\n\"The senseless killing of George Floyd - and what it tells us about the stain of systemic racism - has had a profound impact on all of us,\" said Lord Hall.\n\n\"It's made us question ourselves about what more we can do to help tackle racism - and drive inclusion within our organisation and in society as a whole.\n\n\"This is our response - it's going to drive change in what we make and who makes it. It's a big leap forward - and we'll have more to announce in the coming weeks.\"\n\nRecent BBC productions from ethnic minority creatives and featuring actors from BAME backgrounds include Michaela Coel's 12-part drama, I May Destroy You.\n\nIt charts the fallout from a sexual assault and received rave reviews.\n\nElsewhere, the story of Anthony Bryan and the Windrush scandal was brought to our screens in the feature-length drama, Sitting In Limbo.\n\nIn fact, the diversity announcement arrives on the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush arrived at the port of Tilbury symbolising the beginning of the migration of thousands of people from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC reporter Shamaan Freeman-Powell speaks to members of her family about the impact of moving to the UK\n\nIn October last year, TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong was appointed as the BBC's director of creative diversity, as it pledged to ensure 50% of on-air roles will go to women by 2020, with targets of 15% for black, Asian and minority ethnic groups [BAME], 8% for disabled people and 8% for LGBT staff.\n\nOff air, the BBC promised at the time to increase the proportion of leadership roles filled by women from 44% to 50% by next year, and raise the share of such senior roles held by BAME staff from 11.5% to 15%.\n\nReacting to Monday's latest package, Sarpong said: \"I came to the BBC as an outsider. Before joining I had an idea of this being an organisation that did not want to change. What I found was something different: an organisation that had ambitious goals for diversity and inclusion but didn't know how to reach them.\"\n\nShe believes the commitment \"will help to drive real change that will be felt by all audiences\".\n\n\"I'm pleased that we're announcing this fund as the first of a series of bold steps that will help make the BBC an instrument of real change.\"\n\n\"As a black woman,\" she added, \"I feel and share in the pain that so many are feeling worldwide.\n\n\"It makes it all the more important that we show up now not just with words but with meaningful action.\"\n\nThe cash injection will support diversity and inclusion across all genres of TV, including Children's, Education and Current Affairs.\n\nThe BBC is calling it \"the biggest financial investment to on-air inclusion in the industry\", declaring that \"the media industry is not changing fast enough\".\n\n\"The measures announced today are designed to accelerate the pace of change in increasing diversity and inclusion both on and off air,\" the statement read.\n\nDirector Steve McQueen dedicated his two 2020 Cannes films, from his Small Axe series, to the late Mr Floyd\n\nSpeaking to The Observer on Sunday, director Steve McQueen led the attack on racism in the British film and TV industry and the lack of diversity.\n\n\"It's just not healthy,\" said Sir Steve. \"It's wrong. And yet, many people in the industry go along with it as if it is normal. It's not normal. It is anything but normal. It's blindingly, obviously wrong. It's blatant racism. Fact. I grew up with it.\"\n\nThe BBC's director of content, Charlotte Moore, said McQueen challenged her and the organisation to \"set meaningful targets and take proper action\" last year during the making of his upcoming anthology series, Small Axe.\n\n\"He was right,\" said Moore. \"Today's announcement represents a truly transformational commitment to both on and off screen representation.\n\n\"Concrete, tangible action is the only way we can bring about real sustainable change.\"\n\nMeanwhile, actors including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michaela Coel and Noel Clarke, as well as David Oyelowo and Meera Syal, have signed an open letter demanding that the UK film and TV industry will now \"put its money and practices where its mouth is\".\n\nThe document, revealed on Monday, has more than 4,000 signatures, including those of presenter Anita Rani and directors Asif Kapadia, Gurinder Chadha and Rapman.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Harry Dunn, 19, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash near RAF Croughton\n\nDid Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer in Britain, have diplomatic immunity when she allegedly killed Harry Dunn in a road accident in Northamptonshire last August?\n\nHarry's parents insist that she didn't, and that she can be tried for causing his death.\n\nThe Foreign Office and the US embassy in London argue that she did.\n\nNow one of Britain's top experts on diplomacy has poured scorn on the British and American argument.\n\nThe Dunns' lawyers, headed by Geoffrey Robertson QC, asked Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, for his opinion. After retiring from the diplomatic service Sir Ivor was head of Trinity College, Oxford.\n\nHis report on the arguments produced by the British and US governments, which I have read, is remarkably strongly worded.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMrs Sacoolas's husband was an American intelligence officer based at RAF Croughton. That gave him a certain level of diplomatic immunity. The British and US governments maintain that this meant that, as his wife, Mrs Sacoolas had immunity too.\n\nSir Ivor says this is \"a palpable absurdity\".\n\nHe quotes a letter of agreement between the Foreign Office and the US ambassador to Britain in August 1995 about the American personnel at RAF Croughton. This says explicitly that diplomatic immunity for people like Mr Sacoolas would not apply for \"acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\nIf Mr Sacoolas wasn't covered for acts outside his duties, Sir Ivor says, it would be absurd for Mrs Sacoolas, who had no official position, to be immune from prosecution when her husband wasn't.\n\nHe doesn't mince his words. \"It was clearly not anticipated that this agreement might be dishonourably challenged by the US government through their embassy in London,\" he says.\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles are going through \"torture\", says their son Niall\n\nIn Sir Ivor's view both the British and US sides knew that back in 1995 they had agreed that \"both agents and their dependants\" were subject to British criminal law in their non-work activities at RAF Croughton.\n\nFor the Americans to argue the opposite would, he said, be regarded by professional diplomats as a breach of good faith.\n\nWords and expressions like \"palpable absurdity\", \"dishonourably\" and \"breach of good faith\" are rare from a top expert on diplomacy.\n\nAlthough the judges at the High Court agreed that Sir Ivor was a leading figure in the study of diplomacy, they did not accept his report on the technical grounds that he was not a practising lawyer.\n\nThey rejected an application by the Dunns to force the Foreign Office to disclose evidence relating to a \"secret agreement\" between the US and British governments.\n\nBut this was a preliminary hearing, and it seems reasonable to assume that Sir Ivor's scathing opinion of the case presented by the Foreign Office and the US embassy will have an influence on the case as it continues.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: \"Anne Sacoolas held diplomatic immunity on arrival in the UK on 24 July until her departure from the UK.\n\n\"Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, any waiver of immunity must be express.\n\n\"The historic arrangements covering Croughton contained no such waiver for family members.\n\n\"We are committed to revising this anomaly in the arrangements at Croughton so they cannot be used in this way again.\"", "The attack happened in a residential courtyard in Moss Side\n\nTwo men have died in a shooting after a lockdown party of \"hundreds of people\".\n\nPolice were called to reports that gun shots had been heard in Caythorpe Street in Moss Side, Manchester, at about 01:00 BST.\n\nThe two victims, aged in their 20s and 30s, \"self-presented\" in hospital and died a short time later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the shooting happened at \"an unplanned event\" near to the location of an \"earlier community event\".\n\nNo arrests have been made yet.\n\nA local resident said the shooting followed a lockdown party with a DJ and \"hundreds of people\".\n\nFootage on social media showed crowds dancing to loud music in a courtyard.\n\nA cordon was placed around a courtyard between Caythorpe Street, Broadfield Road and Bowes Street.\n\nA teacher, who lives nearby, said he heard music from about 22:00 BST into the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe man, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's a really normal neighbourhood with an occasional spike in violence.\n\n\"I had a walk out to see what was happening and I would say there were hundreds of people around but I did see police patrols. Later, we heard a helicopter overhead.\"\n\nOfficers gather evidence at a courtyard where \"hundreds\" of people attended a party\n\nHe said people who rang police were told that officers were unable to break up the party because it was too large.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Butterworth said: \"We are aware that, a number of hours before this incident, there was a community event in Moss Side.\n\n\"This event was attended by Greater Manchester Police along with local people and partner agencies - it was not an illegal rave and it had concluded prior to this incident.\n\n\"It does appear that the incident took place at what we believe was an unplanned event near to the location of the earlier community event.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a forensic tent was seen partially covering a car, with alcohol bottles and canisters of laughing gas surrounding the area.\n\nSince the 1980s, Moss Side has been associated with problems due to drugs and violence, although in recent years, there have been fewer shootings and money has been spent on redeveloping the area.\n\nThousands attended raves last weekend in Greater Manchester (above), despite gatherings of more than six people being illegal due to coronavirus\n\nEarlier this week, Greater Manchester Police said it would take \"serious action\" to deter more illegal gatherings after raves in Trafford and Oldham last weekend, when a 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose and an 18-year-old woman was raped.\n\nMore than 6,000 people attended the events, where three men were stabbed.\n\nAsst Ch Con Nick Bailey said prevention was the key to controlling illegal parties but conceded that senior officers could decide it was more dangerous to close an event because of its scale, and factors such as terrain and darkness.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "The Welsh Government has used the two-metre social distancing recommendation in line with the rest of the UK\n\nThe first minister of Wales has not ruled out reducing the two-metre social-distancing rule to one metre.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to relax the two-metre rule in England, with some conditions.\n\nMark Drakeford told the Welsh Government's daily briefing he would do the same if Welsh advisers said it was safe to do so.\n\nThe pub industry has been calling for the rule to be eased, saying they would struggle otherwise.\n\n\"We put the health of the public first,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"Of course, we will follow the advice that the prime minister will be relying upon for any announcement that he makes.\n\n\"If the advice we get through our scientific networks and through our chief medical officer is that it is possible to amend the advice we give and things can open safely - of course, that is what we would want to do, but we will assess that for ourselves.\n\n\"We will make decisions in a way that are right for Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nThe change to the rule in England, which follows a UK government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.\n\nThe Welsh Government has put the two-metre rule into legislation.\n\nPubs have been closed in Wales since March\n\nFirms operating in Wales must do all they can to ensure two-metre separation at work, risking fines otherwise.\n\nShops opening in Wales on Monday have been expected to use social distancing measures.\n\nWhile 4 July has been given as a potential date for reopening pubs in England, the Welsh Government has not set a date.\n\nThe Welsh Government has however promised discussions with the sector for a phased reopening. The next review is due around 9 July.\n\nNick Newman, chairman of Cardiff Licensees Forum and general manager of the Philharmonic, said bars were hoping to open on 3 August but added he was \"in the dark\" on the matter.\n\n\"We were really hoping to have heard something positive last Friday,\" he told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nMr Newman said easing the social-distancing rule would make a \"huge difference\" to the industry.\n\n\"Some of the experts way above my paygrade have calculated that we need to be at 70% capacity just to break even,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile the average number of people infected by each person who gets the virus is now 0.9 in Wales.\n\nThe R-number is up from 0.7.\n\nBut Welsh Government advisers suggested that as numbers of cases fall, the transmission rate (R) is less of a useful tool for looking at the progress of the virus.\n\nThe latest analysis from experts at the Technical Advisory Cell (Tac) said as the number of new cases drops to low levels, the R number \"becomes very sensitive\" to daily changes in cases found through testing and tracing, causing it to fluctuate weekly and that it \"tends towards\" 1.\n\nIf infections continue to fall, it says the number of new cases and GP reports will become \"more important\" than using the R number as a primary indicator.\n\nWelsh Government advisers said there was no evidence it was \"significantly different\" in Wales and other UK nations but there was \"greater uncertainty in the estimates\" due to the smaller numbers of cases and deaths.", "New pictures showing the Duke of Cambridge playing with his children have been released to mark both Father's Day and the duke's birthday.\n\nOne image shows Prince William, who turned 38 on Sunday, being jumped on by Prince George, aged six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two.\n\nAnother shows the children posing with their father on a swing at Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nBoth scenes were captured earlier this month by the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nA third photograph taken by Catherine, showing a beaming William with his arm around his father Prince Charles, was released by Clarence House to wish the duke a happy birthday.\n\nWilliam's birthday is the latest in what has been a busy birthday season for the royals, since the UK went into lockdown due to coronavirus.\n\nPictures, also taken by keen photographer Catherine, have been released to mark Charlotte and Louis' birthdays recently.\n\nLast month, new photographs showed the young princess delivering homemade care packages to those in need.\n\nPrince Louis was also pictured in April making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the lockdown.\n\nThe pair were also joined by their eldest brother George to join with the first Clap for Carers event in March, to applaud NHS staff and care workers.\n\nWilliam spoke about fatherhood during a BBC documentary on mental health last month.\n\nIn the interview, he said having children was the \"biggest life-changing moment\" and described fatherhood as a \"very different phase of life\" to his younger days.\n\nAsked about becoming a father, he added: \"I think when you've been through something traumatic in life - and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger - your emotions come back in leaps and bounds because it's a very different phase of life.\n\n\"And there's no one there to, kind of, help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William on being a parent: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life, but also one of the scariest\" (Video from May 2020)\n\nPrince Charles, has also marked Father's Day, writing on Twitter: \"Whether you are a Father, a Dad, a Daddy or a Pa, wishing you a Happy Father's Day!\"\n\nThe post featured an archive photograph of Charles with his own sons - William and the Duke of Sussex - in matching polo shirts.\n\nA second picture showed a young Charles being held by his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the 1950s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, who are both currently shielding at Windsor Castle, have also celebrated birthdays recently.\n\nThe Queen made her first official public appearance since the lockdown began to mark her official birthday last week.\n\nAnd the Duke of Edinburgh posed with the Queen in an official photograph released two weeks ago as he turned 99.", "St Cuthbert's church in Edinburgh is reopening for small numbers of worshippers to pray Image caption: St Cuthbert's church in Edinburgh is reopening for small numbers of worshippers to pray\n\nA memorial chapel at a church in Edinburgh is to open for private prayers as lockdown restrictions have been further eased.\n\nSt Cuthbert's Church will allow three people to be praying at once with standalone chairs set up two metres apart to assist social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Church of Scotland building is to open on certain days for two hours as the country has progressed to phase two of the lockdown exit strategy.\n\nQuote Message: St Cuthbert's has been a house of prayer for 1,400 years and the memorial chapel has always been a place of private prayer and reflection which we use at this time of year for visitors. The congregation is really pleased that other people will be able to drop in and experience the peacefulness of the beautiful chapel imminently. from Rev Peter Sutton St Cuthbert's minister St Cuthbert's has been a house of prayer for 1,400 years and the memorial chapel has always been a place of private prayer and reflection which we use at this time of year for visitors. The congregation is really pleased that other people will be able to drop in and experience the peacefulness of the beautiful chapel imminently.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker has been speaking about her friend Joe Ritchie-Bennett.", "Joe Ritchie-Bennett has been named as the second victim of the stabbings\n\nAn American man is the second victim of the Reading stabbings to be named.\n\nJoe Ritchie-Bennett had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS. His friend James Furlong and one other person also died.\n\nMeanwhile, police continue to question the suspect in Saturday's attack, Khairi Saadallah, who has been arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nSources told the BBC he was originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nA two-minute silence was held at 10:00 BST for the three victims.\n\nRobert Ritchie told CBS the family was \"heartbroken\" and described his 39-year-old son, who was originally from Philadelphia, as \"brilliant and loving\".\n\nUS ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson confirmed that an American citizen was killed and condemned the attack.\n\nHe said: \"I offer my deepest condolences to the families of those killed. To our great sorrow, this includes an American citizen. Our thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nPolice officers carry flowers left at the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\n\"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all,\" they said in a statement. \"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates as a bell rang out to mark the start of the silence at the school where Mr Furlong taught, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nOne former pupil, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\n\"I wouldn't have gone to university, I don't think, had I not spoken about it with him. He just really took the time to support me and make me more confident,\" she said.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nKatya Beaver, 24, who was taught by Mr Furlong in his hometown of Liverpool, described him as a friend as well as a teacher. \"He let us call him Jimmy,\" she said.\n\nCurrent pupils have also expressed their sadness at the news.\n\nSophie McEwan wrote on Instagram that Mr Furlong was \"an inspirational teacher, [who] genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nWhile Ella Banbury, 17, said: \"He was just a really kind teacher. You would always see him smile - there wouldn't be a time where you wouldn't see him smiling.\n\n\"He wasn't just there to teach the subject, he wanted to make sure everyone was OK.\"\n\nStaff and pupils laid flowers and held a two-minute silence at the school Mr Furlong taught at in Wokingham\n\nCo-head teachers at Mr Furlong's school said he \"truly inspired everyone he taught\".\n\nAnne Kennedy and Katie Pearce said in a statement: \"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice.\"\n\nMartin Cooper said he had known Joe Richie-Bennett for four years and Mr Furlong for at least two, having met them at the Blagrave Arms in Reading - a pub where they were regulars.\n\nMr Cooper, who is chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, added that Mr Richie-Bennett and Mr Furlong were \"great supporters\" and members of the community.\n\n\"Their loss is a tragedy to so many people,\" the 36-year-old from Reading said, adding that they were \"fun, engaging and a pleasure to be around\".\n\nMr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett were two of three people who died in Saturday's attack at Reading's Forbury Gardens, to which police were called at about 19:00 BST.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nSecurity guard Sydney McDonald, 65, said he saw the suspect being \"rugby-tackled\" to the ground by police and arrested shortly after the incident.\n\n\"There was a guy and I saw him pointing to a man and saying 'There he is, there he is'. If he hadn't, they would have missed him. He was running really fast, properly fast.\"\n\nMr McDonald said the suspect was \"all quiet\" once he was in the police van and \"wasn't putting up a fight\".\n\nThree other people suffered serious injuries in the attack, but only one remains in hospital, where his condition is described as stable.\n\nMr Saadallah, 25, is from Reading and was arrested initially on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nPolice said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers \"is growing\".\n\nShe said the UK has \"one of the most comprehensive approaches to countering terrorism in the world\" and described the threat as \"complex, diverse and rapidly changing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another performed first aid.\n\n\"These officers are heroes. They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nSources told BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani that Mr Saadallah came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism-related reasons.\n\nHowever, when the information was further investigated no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified, our correspondent said.\n\nIt meant that no case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nPolice tents and equipment at Forbury Gardens in Reading\n\nSir Mark Rowley, a former national lead for counter-terrorism policing, told the BBC that MI5 has 3,000 people under investigation, but there are 40,000 who have \"touched the system\" at some point.\n\nHe said there were many volatile people who become interested in extremist ideology, but the security services faced a problem in identifying which of those would turn into an attacker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: We must \"learn lessons\" from the Reading attack\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over ten years, the government needed to re-examine the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this\".", "The author of a report into the Windrush scandal is warning there is a \"grave risk\" of similar failures happening again if the government does not implement its recommendations.\n\nWendy Williams told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour the Home Office still needed to \"make good on its commitment to learn the lessons\".\n\nPeople from the Commonwealth were told wrongly they were illegally in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said the home secretary intends to \"right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams' warning comes as the country pays tribute to the outstanding and ongoing contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.\n\nNational Windrush Day, on Monday, commemorates the day, 72 years ago, when the ship HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, carrying migrants to help fill jobs in the UK.\n\nIn a video message, the Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"debt of gratitude\" the nation owes the Windrush generation.\n\n\"Today offers an opportunity to express the debt of gratitude we owe to that first Windrush generation for accepting the invitation to come to Britain and, above all, to recognise the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to so many aspects of our public life,\" said Prince Charles.\n\n\"I dearly hope that we can continue to listen to each other's stories and to learn from one another.\"\n\n\"The diversity of our society is its greatest strength and gives us so much to celebrate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Kirton: \"It's all of our history\"\n\nIn honour of Windrush Day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair of the Windrush Working Group, and representatives of the British Caribbean community.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, co-chaired by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Bishop Webley, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\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.\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\nMs William's review, published in March, was critical of the \"hostile environment\" policy operated by successive governments to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nShe told The Westminster Hour the Home Office and ministers \"should have realised the impact\" of the legislation on different groups of people.\n\nThe report concluded the Home Office had shown \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\" on the issue of race when some people were incorrectly told they did not have the right to be in Britain.\n\nMs Williams, an inspector of constabulary, previously called on the government in March to provide an \"unqualified apology\" to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said in House of Commons 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\nWendy Williams warns there is a risk that a similar scandal could happen again\n\nMs Williams said the risks posed by the controversial policy were flagged to the Home Office by \"other groups and stakeholders\" but because ministers ignored the warnings, the outcome of the Windrush scandal was \"both foreseeable and avoidable\".\n\nShe said: \"The Home Office has a very stark choice. It can decide not to implement my recommendations and, if that happens, then I think there is a very grave risk of something similar happening again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement the home secretary has been clear that the mistreatment of the Windrush generation by successive governments was \"completely unacceptable and she will right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams also said the compensation scheme for victims of the scandal is not demonstrating the benefits it should and applications need to be processed quickly and sensitively, with interim payments made where possible.\n\nHowever, the Home Office pointed out that the scheme made the first payment within four months of opening and has offered claimants over £640,000 in the first year.\n\nIt said that Ms Patel will give an update on her intended response to the review before the summer recess and will then provide a detailed formal response in September.\n\nIt added the Commonwealth Citizens Taskforce has granted over 12,000 people a form of documentation that confirms their right to remain in the UK and guarantee their access to public services.", "Members of \"The Base\" posed for photos that were used as propaganda\n\nSecret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings.\n\nThey capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalise them.\n\nThe FBI has described the group as seeking to unite white supremacists around the world and incite a race war.\n\nThe recordings were passed to US civil rights organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center, before some were shared with BBC One's Panorama.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro, founder of The Base, is a 47-year-old American. Earlier this year the BBC revealed he was directing the organisation from his upmarket flat in St. Petersburg, Russia.\n\nThe interviews, which took place via conference call on an encrypted app, followed a pattern - prospective members were asked by Nazzaro about their personal history, ethnicity, radicalisation journey and experience with weapons, before a panel of senior members posed their own questions.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro is now living in Russia\n\nThe would-be recruits were quizzed on what books they had read, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and were encouraged to familiarise themselves with the group's white supremacist ideology, which predicts and seeks to accelerate racial warfare, requiring followers to prepare for conflict and social breakdown.\n\nDuring the calls, Nazzaro can be heard welcoming members of other extremist groups.\n\nThe young applicants, who hide behind aliases and display varying degrees of ideological awareness, describe their radicalisation by online videos and propaganda.\n\nWhen interviewees left the calls, senior members discussed their potential before arranging to vet them in person at a later date.\n\nThe recordings make clear that The Base sought to recruit soldiers from western militaries to draw on their training with tactics and firearms.\n\nNazzaro, who the BBC investigation has been told used to work as an analyst for the FBI and as a contractor for the Pentagon, informed one British teenager that the idea of societal collapse was a \"guiding philosophy\".\n\nA European teenager was told that such a collapse would be desirable, even at a local level, if it offered a \"power vacuum that we can take advantage of\".\n\nOne boy was told \"we have a goal of initially creating two to three man cells in as many areas as possible\" and that the \"UK is a place that we think there is a lot of potential\".\n\nDuring a post-interview discussion about a 17-year-old from Europe, one older man spoke of \"shaping\" his belief system, with Nazzaro saying he needed a \"little work ideologically\" but was \"definitely headed in the right direction\".\n\nCommenting on one British teenager, Nazzaro suggested he probably needed to \"mature ideologically\".\n\nDr Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, describes the recordings as a \"highly unusual glimpse\" into this extreme world, showing there was \"no singular pathway to radicalization\".\n\nShe says those applying to The Base came from a variety of backgrounds.\n\n\"I think the fact that a lot of these people are so utterly normal is in itself significant.\n\n\"They didn't possess some traits that predispose them to want to become a terrorist or to become attracted to extremist ideology.\n\n\"I think it's really best to think of them as a reflection of a society that is so deeply politically polarized\".\n\nFrom left: Jacob Kaderli, Michael Helterbrand and Luke Austin Lane, face charges in Georgia\n\nIn the American State of Georgia, three members of The Base are currently facing conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to murder an anti-fascist couple.\n\nThe Base is the latest underground organisation to emerge from an international neo-Nazi network originally generated by a now-defunct web forum called Iron March.\n\nOther organisations include the banned British groups National Action and the Sonnenkrieg Division, as well as the Atomwaffen Division in the USA, which has been dismantled by a nationwide FBI investigation.\n\nThe BBC investigation reveals the real identity of a man who is both a senior member of The Base and the creator of a successor online forum linked to several UK terrorism prosecutions involving teenagers.\n\nMatthew Baccari, an unemployed 25-year-old from Southern California, used the alias 'Mathias' to run a notorious website called Fascist Forge, where terrorism and sexual violence were openly encouraged.\n\nHe was a vocal presence on The Base interview calls and promoted the group on his website, which he took offline earlier this year following significant attention by law enforcement.\n\nMatthew Baccari (r), posing for a propaganda image, is an unemployed 25-year-old from California\n\nThe forum was central to the case of a boy from Durham, who last year - aged 16 - became the youngest person convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK.\n\nTwo other young British members of Fascist Forge, one aged 15, are separately making their way through the youth court system charged with a combined 25 terrorism offences.\n\nBaccari refused to leave his bedroom when a BBC team went to his house to ask questions.\n\nBaccari and Nazzaro did not respond to letters setting out the evidence against them.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Panorama: Hunting the Neo-Nazis, Monday 22 June at 7.30pm on BBC One, and by listening to File on 4, Tuesday 23 June at 8.00pm on BBC Radio Four\n\nIf you have information or experiences to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Energy companies have been given the go-ahead to chase unpaid energy bills again - although they have been warned not to be aggressive in their pursuit.\n\nRegulator Ofgem has told suppliers it is not in anyone's interests for an open-ended debt collection delay.\n\nMany households are benefitting from coronavirus-related payment holidays.\n\nBut bailiffs have been banned from knocking on doors for another two months to collect other unpaid debts, such as parking fines or council tax.\n\nThe government has said that the current restrictions on civil enforcement officers would continue until 24 August.\n\nHouseholds struggling with their finances during the coronavirus outbreak have been able to negotiate help on their regular bills, such as mortgages, credit card repayments, and energy bills.\n\nAlongside this, energy companies paused their pursuit of any outstanding unpaid bills, but now the British energy regulator has said this could begin again assuming collection by companies or their agents is \"fair\".\n\n\"We recognise that suppliers cannot extend unlimited credit to customers - nor is this in customers' interests overall - and we anticipate suppliers will begin to restart debt management activities that may have been paused during the immediate crisis,\" Ofgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley said in a letter to suppliers.\n\nHe added that suppliers must take into account customers' ability to pay.\n\n\"We will not tolerate sharp practice or aggressive debt collection and suppliers could face enforcement action where this is the case,\" he said.\n\nParking restrictions were eased while all but key workers stayed at home\n\nWider debt collection still faces various restrictions, primarily through curbs on bailiffs.\n\nCouncils, some of which suspended parking enforcement during lockdown, have returned to enforcing parking restrictions across much of the UK. Northern Ireland has traffic wardens back on the streets and fines will be issued again from 29 June.\n\nMeanwhile, a significant proportion of people making payments for unpaid taxes have continued to do so during lockdown.\n\nHowever, bailiffs - who are usually permitted to seize property or clamp vehicles to collect unpaid debts to local authorities - will see visits to people's homes restricted for another two months.\n\nThe Civil Enforcement Association, which represents bailiffs, said it would comply with government regulations and ensure public health was not put at risk.\n\nHowever, it said a code of conduct for agents which had been drawn up in the expectation of an earlier return to work would probably need updating assuming further easing of restrictions such as social distancing.", "Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead.\n\nMixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch.\n\nBut despite the investment, Microsoft says the platform will close in one month's time.\n\nNinja and other major gamers will no longer be tied to exclusivity deals.\n\nNinja had been signed to Mixer for less than a year.\n\nFrom 22 July, Mixer's website and app will redirect users to Facebook Gaming.\n\nAs part of the deal, Microsoft will work to bring its xCloud games-streaming service to Facebook.\n\n\"This seems quite ruthless, but Microsoft's strategy to reach more gamers is underpinned by its cloud business, not Mixer,\" said Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Clearly Facebook has significant reach globally, to expose users to xCloud.\"\n\nAll games-streamers in Mixer's partner programme will be granted partner status on Facebook Gaming if they wish to move to the platform.\n\n\"Ultimately, the success of partners and streamers on Mixer is dependent on our ability to scale the platform for them as quickly and broadly as possible,\" Mixer said in a statement.\n\n\"It became clear that the time needed to grow our own livestreaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences that Microsoft and Xbox want to deliver for gamers now, so we've decided to close the operations side of Mixer and help the community transition to a new platform.\"\n\nIn a separate blog post, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the transition deal was part of a wider agreement between Xbox and Facebook, with Xbox aiming to introduce gaming features that work on Facebook and Instagram in the future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThose partnered streamers who do choose to move to Facebook Gaming can begin the process by filling out a form, Mixer said that Facebook \"will honour and match all existing Partner agreements as closely as possible\".\n\nFacebook said it was \"proud to invite everyone in the Mixer community to Facebook Gaming\".\n\nThe company promised streamers: \"We'll do everything we can to make the transition as easy as possible for those who decide to make the switch.\"i", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBurnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading \"White Lives Matter Burnley\" that was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.\n\nThe aircraft circled over the stadium just after kick-off in City's 5-0 win.\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments earlier.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\n\n\"It definitely had a massive impact on us to see that in the sky.\n\n\"We are embarrassed that our name was in it, that they tried to attach it to our club - it doesn't belong anywhere near our club.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\n\"Burnley strongly condemns the actions of those responsible for the aircraft and offensive banner,\" the statement added.\n\n\"We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor.\n\n\"We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"The club has a proud record of working with all genders, religions and faiths through its award-winning community scheme, and stands against racism of any kind.\n\n\"We are fully behind the Premier League's Black Lives Matter initiative and, in line with all other Premier League games undertaken since Project Restart, our players and football staff willingly took the knee at kick-off at Manchester City.\"\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nThe stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and makes and flies banners. It has flown banners over football stadiums in the past, including a \"Moyes Out\" one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not \"take sides\" and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nSanjay Bhandari, chair of Kick It Out, English football's anti-racism charity: \"The point of Black Lives Matter is not to diminish the importance of other people's lives. It is to highlight that black people are being denied certain human rights simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"It is about equality. We shall continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for greater equality for all in football.\"\n\nPFA equalities director Iffy Onuora: \"You get that moment of deflation but then there's the positive reaction since. I thought Ben Mee was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"You feel inspired again. These are uncomfortable conversations but in order to progress, you have to have them.\n\n\"In itself, the words themselves aren't offensive, it's the context. It's the rejection of conversations we are having at the moment and that's what it represents.\"\n\nPiara Powar, executive director of anti-discrimination body Fare: \"Set against the BLM message of equal rights, 'White Lives Matter' can only be motivated by racism and a denial of equal rights. It shows exactly why the fight for equality is so important and why the majority of people have supported it.\n\n\"The movement, the issues that are being discussed and the change that will arise is unstoppable. History will judge that this was a moment that led to change.\"\n\nSince the Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards said seeing the banner was \"disheartening\".\n\n\"After how far we've come in these last couple of weeks, it really does hurt me,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I agree everyone should have free speech but when it looked like everything was on the up there's a small fraction who want to ruin it.\"\n\nCity and England forward Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter on the opening night of the top-flight's return.\n\nAsked about the banner, City boss Pep Guardiola said society could not overturn 400 years of racial injustice in one week but added \"we are going to change the situation\".\n\n\"We need time, the racism is still there. We have to fight every day and condemn the bad things,\" he said.", "The duchesses were impressed by Stuie Delf's fundraising prowess\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has pledged to plant a sunflower in memory of a boy who was cared for by a hospice.\n\nCatherine spoke to Stuart and Carla Delf, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, about their nine-year-old son Fraser, who died in January.\n\nShe congratulated Fraser's 13-year-old brother Stuie, who ran a sponsored 5k every day last month to raise money for the Each hospice in Milton, Cambridge.\n\nThe duchess said the fundraising was \"amazing\".\n\nShe was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall in the video call last week to mark Children's Hospice Week.\n\nStuie Delf said his brother was his best friend\n\nFraser Delf was cared for by Each in Milton\n\nThe Delfs spent seven weeks living in the hospice with Fraser before he died as a result of Coats plus syndrome, a rare condition that affects multiple organs and causes brain abnormalities.\n\nStuie told the duchesses he had been inspired by 100-year-old NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nCamilla said: \"Captain Tom has done a lot for this country, hasn't he? He's inspired so many people. You must be very fit, Stuie.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is patron of the East Anglia Children's Hospices\n\nFraser Delf died as a result of Coats plus syndrome\n\nThe duchesses heard that the hospice where Fraser spent his final weeks had experienced a dramatic drop in fundraising because of coronavirus.\n\nStuie set out to raise £500 to fill the gap but ended up with £18,500 in total.\n\n\"Fraser wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend,\" he said.\n\nAfter the video call, Mr Delf, 42, said: \"[Catherine] said she was going to plant a sunflower in memory of Fraser.\"\n\nThe sunflower has been adopted as the emblem of hospice care.", "Boris Johnson has said his thoughts are with the families of the three people killed in a stabbing attack in Reading.\n\nThe prime minister said that if there were lessons to be learnt after the attack the government would not hesitate to take action.", "Bio-logging devices are trackers fitted to animals, like this Alpine ibex, that record their movements\n\nResearchers have launched an initiative to track wildlife before, during and after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe UK-led team's aim is to study what they have called the \"anthropause\" - the global-scale, temporary slowdown in human activity, which is likely to have a profound impact on other species.\n\nMeasuring that impact, they say, will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nThey outline the mission in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.\n\nAll over the world, some animals have been tracked throughout lockdown\n\nThey outline \"urgent steps\" to allow scientists to learn as much as possible from the sudden absence of humans in many landscapes - including ensuring that researchers have access and permission to carry out their work, and can gain access to information about human movement, as well as animal-tracking data.\n\nProf Christian Rutz from the University of St Andrews is president of the International Bio-logging Society.\n\nHe pointed out that bio-loggers - small tracking devices fitted to animals in order to record their movements and other behaviour - have been collecting information in habitats all over the world throughout the pandemic.\n\nTracking whales could also reveal the impact that the \"anthropause\" has had on ocean wildlife\n\n\"There is a really valuable research opportunity here, one that's been brought about by the most tragic circumstances, but it's one we think we can't afford to miss,\" he told BBC News.\n\nUsually, studies which try to examine the impact of human presence and activity on wild animals are limited to comparing protected habitats to unprotected areas, or studying landscapes in the wake of a natural disaster.\n\nDisasters like the one in Chernobyl can become tragic \"natural experiments\"\n\n\"But during lockdown we have this replicated around the globe - in different localities and for habitats where some species have been fitted with tracking devices the whole time,\" said Prof Rutz.\n\nThere have been many accounts on social media of wildlife apparently making the most of our absence - moving freely through surprisingly urban settings. In some places though, the lack of human activity appears to have been detrimental - increases in poaching driven by poverty, and the absence of ecotourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"No one's saying that humans should stay in lockdown permanently,\" added Prof Rutz.\n\n\"But what if we see major impacts of our changes in road use, for example? We could use that to make small changes to our transport network that could have major benefits.\"\n\nProf Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth has been part of what might be considered the first anthropause study - a long-term investigation into the changes in the abandoned landscape around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nChernobyl's wolves returned in the wake of the abandonment of the Exclusion Zone\n\n\"Just a few years after the evacuation of the Exclusion Zone, Belarussian and Ukrainian researchers found species associated with humans - like pigeons and rats - were disappearing, but wild animals - wild boar, deer and wolf - were multiplying,\" he said.\n\n\"Still abandoned more than 30 years later, the zone has become an iconic example of accidental rewilding.\"\n\n\"At great economic and human cost, Covid and Chernobyl forced us to push the pause button on our environmental damage,\" Prof Smith continued.\n\n\"Stopping some of those impacts altogether will be hard, but will be helped by what we can learn from these extreme events.\"\n\nProf Rutz and his team pointed out in their paper: \"Scientific knowledge gained during this devastating crisis will allow us to develop innovative strategies for sharing space on this increasingly crowded planet, with benefits for both wildlife and humans.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Ceremonies can go ahead from 22 June, but must remain socially distanced\n\nA lockdown ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will be lifted from Monday - but there will be no big celebrations allowed.\n\nThe announcement was added to new rules published by the Welsh Government.\n\nHowever, the ban on social gatherings remain, as do social distancing rules.\n\nInvited wedding guests can now also travel any distance to be at a ceremony - but services must be small enough to stay safe.\n\nIt comes as easing other restrictions in Wales mean non-essential shops will also reopen on Monday.\n\nThe new wedding measures follow calls from couples to marry, even if it means a ceremony with just witnesses and a registrar.\n\nIt prompted 22-year-old Elizabeth Facer and her fiancé Ian Choi, 22, from Cardiff to launch a petition after being forced to abandon their plans for a wedding with 300 guests.\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate,\" explained Ms Facer.\n\n\"We're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married.\"\n\nThe changes include a provision for travel outside of a local area to a venue to \"attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership\".\n\nWeddings and civil partnership ceremonies can go ahead, but only in places of worship and register offices, and if they choose to open.\n\nThis means that other venues, such as hotels, cannot be used for these ceremonies.\n\nWhen it updated its coronavirus regulations last week, the Welsh government said all weddings and civil partnerships could now proceed, subject to social distancing.\n\nBut it has now clarified that this only applies to places of worship, such as churches and register offices.\n\nIt brings it into line with the rules on attending funerals, where the number of mourners has been severely restricted by venue sizes.\n\nThe change of heart on marriage and partnership ceremonies follows moves to relax other restrictions, including changes to allow private prayer in places of worship.\n\nIt will also mean sports such as tennis can be played for the first time since the covid restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHowever, First Minister Mark Drakeford has asked the Welsh public to adhere to the stay local message for another two weeks.\n\nHe used the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday to state the movement rule would be lifted on 6 July, as long as cases of coronavirus continued to fall.", "The events were opened in Batley with a cake bake\n\nA weekend of nationwide events to honour murdered MP Jo Cox is under way.\n\nThe Great Get Together began in 2017 using the Batley and Spen MP's Commons speech that said we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThe fourth event has to be celebrated in a \"slightly different way\" because of the coronavirus social distancing rules, her sister Kim Leadbeater said.\n\nOlympic medalist, Tom Daley said: \"It's a perfect way to illustrate the power of community.\"\n\nMrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June 2016. Thomas Mair was convicted of her murder later that year.\n\nMonday would have been Jo Cox's 46th birthday.\n\nThe event was set up to honour the message in Jo Cox's maiden speech\n\nThis weekend sees neighbours, friends, and community members gathering to celebrate what they have in common while complying with social distancing.\n\nThe events started with a bake off at Upper Batley High School in Ms Cox's former constituency.\n\nHer parents, Gordon and Jean Ledbeater, and Kim, took part in the judging.\n\nMr Daley features in a nine-hour community radio get-together on Sunday, at what is traditionally the biggest Great Get Together in Bankside, South London.\n\nKim Leadbeater pictured with Tom Daley before social distancing rules came into force, said those rule meant this year's events would be done differently\n\nThis year everybody can also take part in the Run for Jo on Sunday, wherever they live, to run or walk along your own chosen route, while observing social distancing.\n\nDue to coronavirus restrictions on visits in person the Muslim Council of Britain will instead bring the mosque to everybody with a series of virtual tours across the weekend.\n\nA virtual service with people of many faiths and beliefs took place on Saturday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Great Get Together 'doing Jo proud'\n• None The Great Get Together – Jo Cox Foundation The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends have paid an emotional tribute to Joe Ritchie-Bennett, James Furlong and David Wails who died after a stabbing attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, police continue to question the suspect, Khairi Saadallah, who was arrested shortly after the incident under the Terrorism Act.", "Tim Cook said it was a \"historic day for the Mac\"\n\nApple has confirmed it will transition its Mac laptop and desktop computers to its own ARM-based processors.\n\nThe move means that Macs will run on the same type of chips as the firm's iPhones and iPads, rather than Intel's.\n\nIntel had faced problems manufacturing its own designs, leading it to issue a public apology to computer-makers.\n\nApple's challenge will be to carry off the transition smoothly and convince third-party developers to update their apps accordingly.\n\n\"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of the year,\" said chief executive Tim Cook, adding that it would likely be two years before its full product line had made the jump.\n\nThe firm said the move would allow it to offer new features and improved performance as well as making it easier for developers to \"write and optimise software for the entire Apple ecosystem\".\n\nThe announcement was made at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).\n\n\"Apple's motivations for doing this include reducing its dependence on Intel, maximizing its silicon investment, boosting performance and giving itself more flexibility and agility when it comes to future products,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Embracing ARM and making its hardware more consistent across the iPhone, iPad and Mac ranges is a strategic necessity, but there will be inevitable bumps along the road.\"\n\nMacOS was shown running on the current iPad Pro chip, but the new computers will have processors of their own\n\nApple said it had already developed native versions of several of its own apps, including Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro. iPhone and iPad apps will also be able to be run on the computers.\n\nApple said that Microsoft was working on an optimised version of Office, and Adobe was developing a version of Photoshop.\n\nOther developers should be able to recompile their apps to get a version running \"in just a matter of days,\" said the company's software chief Craig Federighi. He added that old apps would automatically be translated at point of installation to run, although they would not work as well.\n\nTo mark the significance of the move, MacOS will move to version 11. Since 2001, it had only moved from 10.0 to 10.15.\n\nApple successfully made the switch from IBM-Motorola's PowerPC processors to Intel's x86 family in 2006.\n\nHowever, some software was never updated and cannot easily be run on today's Mac computers. Apple dropped support for running older software under emulation in the 2011 release of its Mac operating system.\n\nMicrosoft already allows Windows 10 to be run on both Intel and ARM-based processors and looks set to continue supporting both chip architectures.\n\nApple has not stated how long it will do the same.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Fogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs a result, some people considering buying one of its laptop or desktop computers may decide to postpone a purchase until its first ARM-based computers go on sale.\n\nThis could hit sales both at Apple and the development studios that make software for the platform.\n\nARM-based chips are based on the designs of the UK-based company, which is headquartered in Cambridge. Other companies then adapt these to add capabilities of their own.\n\nSamsung, Qualcomm and Huawei are among the many other companies to do so.\n\nApple is the fourth-largest PC vendor, according to market research firm Gartner, coming behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.\n\nThe company has said that it has more than 100 million active Mac users. Back in June 2005, when it first announced the move to Intel chips, the figure was about 12.5 million.\n\n\"Apple is approximately 4.5% of the laptop market and 2.6% of the desktop market, so the financial impact to Intel will not be significant,\" commented Gartner's Jon Erensen.\n\n\"However, this transition... could give momentum to Microsoft's current efforts to run Windows on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors.\"\n\nThe new version of MacOS, \"Big Sur\", was shown off with design tweaks\n\nExisting Mac owners will see changes to the next MacOS operating system - called Big Sur - which Apple said marked its biggest redesign to date.\n\nThe best way to describe a processor is the brain of the computer.\n\nHardly surprising then that the processor in your computer is kind of important. Changing it is no small thing - and Apple hasn't decided this lightly.\n\nThe big question though - and the one that if you're reading this you're probably more interested in - is what will this do for Macs in general?\n\nThe prevailing view in Silicon Valley is moving to Apple silicon will make for more powerful Macs.\n\nBringing it in-house could create cheaper processors - so in theory you could have cheaper Macs (that's if Apple wanted to pass on savings to the consumer).\n\nThe first is that Apple still has Intel-based Macs yet to come out. Will people simply wait for Apple's new processor to go live before choosing to buy a new computer?\n\nAnd - considering how well Mac products sell there will be a nervousness about changing a formula that has worked very well for Apple for the last 15 years.\n\nOther announcements at WWDC included the ability to use an iPhone as a substitute for a car key by transmitting an NFC (near-field communication) signal to unlock doors and start the engine.\n\nThis will initially be limited to some new BMWs, but the firm said it intended to expand to other models in 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 2 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the biggest changes to the iPhone's iOS14 operating system will be a shake-up of the home screen.\n\nApps can now be automatically organised into folders containing:\n\nIn addition, the firm is updating its \"widgets\" - blocks that display a stripped-down, small app window - so that they can be placed among the icons for other programs. Examples included weather forecasts, news briefings, and calendar meetings. Android already has something similar.\n\nAnother Android-like new feature is the introduction of App Clips, which allow part of a program to be downloaded quickly. These must be less than 10 megabytes in size and will be able to be triggered via an NFC-transmission or by scanning a QR code.\n\nSuggested uses included the ability to order a drink in a cafe or to pay for a car-parking space.\n\n\"App Clips\" are lightweight apps that can be launched easily, without installing, for immediate functionality\n\nApple is also releasing a new app called Translate that carries out language translations offline, offering an alternative to Google Translate.\n\nIt will support 11 languages to begin with including English, Mandarin, French, German, and Arabic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Wayne Lam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the first time, users will be able to set third-party email and web browser apps as the default in iOS, rather than Apple's own software.\n\nThe UK and Ireland will be among countries given access to an overhauled version of its Maps app, which provides more detailed views of roads and paths than before - as well as new cycling directions and routes for electric cars that pass charging stations.\n\nAnd its MeMoji cartoon-like characters now feature new styling options, including the addition of protective face masks.\n\nApple's tablet operating system iPadOS will also benefit from several enhancements to its Pencil stylus.\n\nThe next version of WatchOS adds sleep-tracking functionality to the firm's smartwatch - which will be based on a user's movements in bed.\n\nIt also adds the ability to determine when the owner is washing their hands, in order to confirm whether they have done so for long enough to help protect against Covid-19.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the wearable will allow third-party \"curated\" watch faces to be shared and installed. The Activity app - which is now renamed Fitness - will track calories used for various dance styles.\n\nApple Watch receives new customisation options - and the ability to share customised watch faces\n\nApple's AirPod Pro earphones will gain spatial audio to recreate a cinema-style surround sound experience. They will also automatically switch between a user's Apple devices as the owner moves from one to another.\n\nAnd the firm's Apple TV set-top box will soon allow compatible third-party video doorbells to live-stream footage of visitors to television screens, while iOS 14 will make it possible to use facial recognition to identify them.\n\nThe company said Homekit-compatible security cameras will now offer facial recognition when viewed on an Apple TV\n\nThis will only work with members of the owner's family and friends, who need to be tagged in advance.\n\nIt has also emerged that Apple TV's YouTube app will play clips in 4K for the first time, ending a stand-off with Google over the video-encoding technology involved.", "The UK has recorded its lowest number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases - 958 - since the lockdown began.\n\nThe number of daily virus deaths also fell to 15, the lowest figure since 15 March, the day before the government began its daily televised briefings.\n\nHowever, the number of deaths announced are often lower on Mondays due to reporting lags over the weekend.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm further easing of lockdown rules in England on Tuesday.\n\nThe new government figures on Monday show that for the first time both the number of deaths and the number of positive tests are back at pre-lockdown levels.\n\nOn 23 March, when the UK went into lockdown, 967 cases were recorded. And that was before testing was massively ramped up - with tests now available to anyone with symptoms.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock also revealed a third piece of positive news - that the number of people currently being treated in hospital for coronavirus has dropped below 5,000. At its peak, on 12 April, the number of patients in hospital was 20,699.\n\nMr Hancock said the figures were \"pointing in the right direction\", adding: \"The plan is working.\"\n\n\"Infections are falling, the NHS is restoring and the virus is in retreat,\" he said.\n\n\"A month ago around one in 400 people had the virus, now it's about one in 1,700 - and this means that tomorrow the prime minister will be able to set out the next steps in our plan to ease the national lockdown.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers downgraded the coronavirus alert level from four to three last Friday - days after non-essential shops in England were allowed to reopen.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nFace coverings on public transport became compulsory in Scotland on Monday, a week after the rule was introduced in England\n\nOn Tuesday, Boris Johnson is expected to announce if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July.\n\nIt is also expected that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed - to 1m - with some mitigating measures.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a surge in cases.\n\nNon-essential stores re-opened in Wales on Monday, and in Scotland, dental practices and places of worship have been allowed to operate again.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the executive has said groups of up to six people can meet indoors from Tuesday.\n\nAcross the nations in the past 24 hours, there were no deaths from coronavirus in Scotland or Northern Ireland, and only one in Wales.\n\nThe official total number of deaths in the UK from coronavirus, among those who tested positive, stands at 42,647, across all settings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid to three \"true gentlemen\" stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were regular customers at a pub near Forbury Gardens, where Saturday's attack took place.\n\nLocal residents held silences and laid flowers around the town for the trio.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims, describing the attack as an \"act of cowardice\".\n\nOn Monday, mourners gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where Somewhere Over The Rainbow was played. A tribute on the door said management and staff were \"devastated\".\n\n\"Our friends were the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people in our community that we had the the pleasure of knowing,\" the note said.\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nJamie Wake, a friend of the victims, called the pub a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\n\"We become so used to seeing incidents like this on the television,\" he said.\n\n\"This time, we cannot change the channel. This time, it's on our doorstep.\"\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nMartin Cooper, a friend of the three men who were killed and the chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described them as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\n\"We'd have a lot of banter... it's sad to know he's gone so early,\" he added.\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS.\n\nRobert Ritchie said in a statement: \"I was absolutely blessed and proud to be Joe's father for 39 years and we are heartbroken by what has happened.\"\n\nHis brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\" and they were \"absolutely devastated\" by his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\n\"He was one of those unique people who on one hand could make you properly belly laugh, but, at the same time, he could show you such extraordinary kindness,\" she said.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nOne of Mr Furlong's former pupils, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nJackie James, a former landlady of another pub in Reading and a friend of Mr Ritchie-Bennett and Mr Furlong, said they were \"shining examples of all that is good in this world\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information - and asked any drivers with relevant dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\n\"They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nThe head of counter terrorism policing, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, said he was proud of those who assisted the victims of Saturday's attack, describing them as \"heroes\" who have inspired others to \"step forward and play our part\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "‘Communities defeat terrorism. We must come together as one’\n\nAn increased police presence will be seen across Reading over the next few days, the town’s local policing area commander has said. Supt Nicholas John said residents should not be alarmed if cordons remain in place, though many have already come down. He said the town’s response and community spirit had been “very moving” since the attack. Supt John said: “It is now more important than ever that everyone plays their part in tackling terrorism. “Communities defeat terrorism. In times of adversity we must come together as one community as the co-operation between each other is our most powerful defence. “I am proud to be part of the diverse Reading community and we will together stand up against those who aim to divide us.” Cordons remain in place near Forbury Gardens, including Town Hall Square, Blagrave Street, Forbury Road and The Forbury.", "During the final Democratic primary debate in March, Joe Biden pledged that if he were to win the party's presidential nomination, he would choose a woman as his running mate.\n\nA lot has happened since then, not the least of which is Biden securing the required Democratic Convention delegates to become his party's presumptive nominee. Even before that point, however, speculation swirled around a dozen or so contenders to be Biden's running mate.\n\nBuzz around the various candidates has risen and fallen as the nation has been buffeted by a viral pandemic, economic disruption and mass protests and racial tension.\n\nIf the former vice-president follows through with his pledge, it would mark only the third time a major party has selected a woman for the number two spot - four years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be a presidential nominee.\n\nThe move would suggest the Democrats are looking to secure the advantage they have among female voters according to polls, and perhaps insulate Biden from allegations that he engaged in unwanted physical contact with women.\n\nBiden has said he will announce his choice in early August. In the meantime, here are the current top contenders - and how they stack up.\n\nKamala Harris is widely considered the front-runner. She has a resume that includes time in the US Senate and as California's attorney general, as well as San Francisco's district attorney. She has a diverse background, with a mother from India and father from Jamaica. She's at least been somewhat vetted by the national media, given that she ran for president last year and was considered, for a time, as a top-tier candidate.\n\nShe did have a dust-up with Biden in the first primary debate last June, where she suggested his past views against desegregating schools through mandatory busing was hurtful, but that was a lifetime ago in modern US politics.\n\nHarris brings access to California money (she raised $2m for Biden in a recent virtual event), she's quick on her feet, and she would satisfy those who are calling for Biden to add a black woman to the ticket. She has won praise from a wide range of Democrats for being an outspoken advocate for police reform during the recent mass demonstrations. Biden-Harris felt like the obvious ticket a year ago - and it still does.\n\nSusan Rice is a bit of a surprise entry on this list, given that she has no experience holding elected office or campaigning in general, and is a relative unknown for most Americans. The diplomat is well-known to Biden, however, as she served in the Obama White House with him as national security adviser after a stint as the US representative to the United Nations.\n\nIf Rice is the pick, she could play a key role in a Biden foreign policy team, suggesting that international relations will be a focus for his administration.\n\nRice was a lightning rod for criticism during her Obama years, however. Republicans accused her of deceiving the American public about the reasons behind the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.\n\nRice has recently emerged as one of the front-runners for the spot, along with Kamala Harris. If she ends up as Biden's pick, it could indicate that he's more interested in having a loyal and knowledgeable second-in-command than in anointing a political heir.\n\nJust a few months ago, there wasn't a lot of buzz around Gretchen Whitmer, a former state legislator in her second year as Michigan's governor. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and she became the face of her state's response, which included occasional criticism of what she viewed as the federal government's lacklustre handling of the outbreak. That made her a target for Donald Trump's vitriol - and elevated her national profile.\n\nHer decision to enact sweeping social distancing and business-shutdown measures as Michigan became one of the top US hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak also led to several angry conservative-organised protests in her state, boosting her standing among Democrats.\n\nIn 2016 Hillary Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Donald Trump - one of the upsets that helped decide the election. If Biden hopes to avoid a similar outcome, he might decide to put a Michigan native on the ticket.\n\nTammy Duckworth, the junior senator from Illinois, has a CV that jumps off the page. She lost both her legs when the Army helicopter she was piloting was shot down by insurgents in Iraq. She stayed in the military and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel, before becoming an assistant secretary in President Barack Obama's Department of Veteran Affairs.\n\nDuckworth served in the House of Representatives and then won her Senate seat in 2016. She is the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, as well as the first double-amputee woman. In 2018 she became the first woman to give birth while serving in the Senate.\n\nIllinois is a safe Democratic state, but its proximity to key Midwest battlegrounds - as well as her middle-of-the-road politics - could make her an attractive pick for Biden.\n\nElizabeth Warren's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is a story of what might have been. Her \"I have a plan for that\" mantra seemed to strike a chord with Democrats, and she led the polls for months in mid-2019, drawing enthusiastic crowds and cruising through the early debates with seeming ease. Then her support faded, as many progressives drifted back to Bernie Sanders, while moderates opted for younger candidates like Pete Buttigieg.\n\nMany progressives expected her to endorse Sanders when she dropped out of the race in early March, so her decision to hold back may have earned her some appreciation from the Biden team.\n\nNow they have the opportunity to return the favour by offering Warren the running-mate spot. While there was some friction between the Sanders and Warren camps, Warren would still be a significant signal that Biden wants to reach out to his party's left wing - and govern as more of a progressive than he let on during the campaign.\n\nWith the nation facing a serious economic crisis, Warren could lend some liberal policy heft to the Democratic ticket.\n\nKaren Bass was a late addition to Biden's vice-presidential contender list. With numerous senators and governors under consideration, a soft-spoken five-term congresswoman from California was not an obvious choice for the position. The death of George Floyd and the subsequent national protest movement, however, has elevated concerns about institutional racism and policing - and increased pressure on Biden to pick an African-American woman for the number-two spot.\n\nThat's when talk of Bass, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus and former speaker of California's state assembly, began to circulate - and, unlike some little-known contenders whose prospects have peaked and then subsided, she's stayed in the mix as a safe, broadly acceptable choice. Perhaps the biggest cause for concern among some Democrats is prior positive comments Bass made about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which could hurt Biden's chances with the anti-communist Cuban vote in swing-state Florida.\n\nIf Biden wants to bring diversity to his ticket without having a flashy running mate who upstages him on the campaign trail or is angling for the presidency (i.e., not Kamala Harris), 66-year-old Bass might be the answer.\n\nFour years ago, Hillary Clinton was lambasted for never campaigning in Wisconsin during the general election, then losing the pivotal state to Donald Trump as her Midwest Democratic \"blue wall\" crumbled. Democrats have pledged not to repeat that mistake, going so far as to pick Milwaukee as the site of their (now entirely virtual) national convention.\n\nIf Biden wants to lean into the whole \"don't ignore Wisconsin\" theme, he couldn't do much better than to pick an actual Wisconsinite as his running mate. Tammy Baldwin is in her second term as one of the state's senators, having served in the House of Representatives for 14 years prior to that.\n\nHer selection would also be historic, as she would become the first openly gay person to serve on a major party's ticket - just as she became the first openly gay member of the Senate. In a season where Pete Buttigieg, who is also gay, proved to be a potent electoral force in Democratic politics, there may be particular appeal for such a move.\n\nThere's a line of thought among Democrats that this election's Wisconsin is not, in fact, Wisconsin, it's Arizona. The desert state, they say, will be the \"tipping point\" that delivers the election to Biden, freeing him from worrying about fickle Wisconsin voters. Polls suggest Biden's brand of political moderation, combined with Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric on immigration, have the state leaning toward the Democrats. One strategy for securing that lead would be to put an Arizonan on the ticket.\n\nIn 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win an Arizona Senate seat in 30 years. She's young, telegenic and politically centrist - perhaps too centrist, according to the party's left-wing activists.\n\nShe is a bit quirky - turning heads recently when she wore a purple wig on the floor of the Senate. It could present a beneficial contrast with the often staid Biden.\n\nIf Biden picks her as his running mate, she would make history as the first openly bisexual person on a presidential ticket.\n\nLast year, Val Demings was a little-known Democratic back-bencher in Congress. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her a high-visibility role as one of the impeachment managers - the congressional equivalent of prosecutors - during Donald Trump's January Senate trial.\n\nEven before the mass protests over the death of George Floyd made racial justice a top issue among voters, the black former chief-of-police from Orlando, Florida, was on the Biden team's radar as a possible vice-presidential pick. Now she's getting more than just a passing mention.\n\nCutting against her is her relative lack of political experience and low name recognition. But if Biden feels she can hold up under the intense scrutiny of being on a national ticket, she could be the woman for this particular national moment - and a signal that Biden is serious about making tackling racism and police reform his top issues.\n\nDuring the primaries, Hispanics were consistently one of Biden's weakest voting blocs. In states like California, Texas and Nevada, liberal champion Bernie Sanders outpaced Biden among a demographic that is well represented in numerous states that will be battlegrounds in the November general election.\n\nIf Biden decides he needs to shore up his support among one of the fastest-growing segments of the US electorate, New Mexico's first-term governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is the most obvious choice for a running mate now that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has said she's not interested.\n\nUnlike Masto's Nevada, New Mexico is a reliable Democratic state in presidential races, with few electoral votes. Lujan was comfortably elected governor after Republicans held the office for two terms, however. The 60-year-old Lujan previously served in Congress and as her state's health secretary - a helpful CV entry in the pandemic age.\n\nStacey Abrams doesn't have much of a traditional political CV for a vice-presidential pick. She spent 10 years as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She ran and narrowly lost the 2018 race to be the state's governor - a defeat she attributed, in part, to what she alleges was voter suppression by her Republican opponent.\n\nWhat Abrams has, however, is a voice that has resonated powerfully with much of the Democratic base. Her activism on voting rights has helped boost it as an issue for the party. She gave the Democratic response to Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, making her the first black woman chosen for the task.\n\nUnlike her rivals, Abrams has actively campaigned to be Biden's vice-presidential pick - a move that has elicited cringes from some, while others see it as refreshing honesty. Abrams is a rising star within the party, the face of a demographic segment of the Democratic Party that has traditionally been underrepresented in leadership positions. Even if she doesn't become the pick, the early buzz around her has helped advance the prospects of all the black women under Biden's consideration.\n\nThe nationwide protests over George Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police gave a handful of big-city mayors a national platform, as they dealt with difficult issues of racism, law enforcement and civil unrest in their jurisdictions. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, in particular, proved particularly adept at balancing official responsibilities while expressing her personal experiences as a black woman raising four children in these turbulent times.\n\nA heartfelt Vice interview, in which she explained the challenge of having to tell her 12-year-old son not to play with toy guns lest he provoke an incident with police, was praised as both raw and powerful.\n\nA first-term mayor would be an unconventional pick for Biden, but Bottoms is from Georgia - a traditionally conservative state that is trending toward being an electoral battleground. She's also won praise from Democrats for waging political battles with the state's Republican governor over when and how to ease business closures and shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn early July, Bottoms announced that she and her family had tested positive for Covid-19, although they had minimal symptoms. They have since fully recovered.\n\nThe traditional first rule for selecting a vice-president is to do no harm. Given that the choice doesn't offer much of a boost to the ticket, the theory goes, it is better to pick someone safe, who minimises the risk of embarrassment and won't overshadow the presidential nominee.\n\nMost of the other candidates on this list fall somewhere on the \"very safe\" to \"mostly safe\" spectrum. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama is in a category by herself.\n\nShe's beloved by a large swathe of the American public and is a near universally recognisable figure. Yes, she might steal the stage from Biden, but what better way for Biden to cast himself as the continuation of Obama's presidential legacy than to put his wife on the ticket?\n\nA Biden-Obama ticket would electrify the Democratic base - particularly black voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama-Biden in 2008 and 2012.\n\nThe only kink in such a bold plan is that Michelle Obama has shown less than zero interest in entering politics. In her autobiography she frequently complained about the toll her husband's political career took on her life and marriage - and she seems very happy to have those travails in the rear-view mirror.", "Joshua Flynn, 37, and his son Coby-Jay, 15, and daughter Skylar, 12, died when they were struck by a car\n\nA father and his two children who were killed in a crash while out walking their dog have been named.\n\nJoshua Flynn, 37, son Coby-Jay, 15, and daughter Skylar, 12, were struck by a car on Abbey Road in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Sunday.\n\nOne local resident described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\".\n\nA 47-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe family's dog Troy was also killed in the crash, which happened at about 14:30 BST.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near the scene\n\nOne woman, who lives nearby, said: \"There's an intense sadness.\n\n\"It's horrific and it just feels heavy. We're in disbelief.\n\n\"Whenever something like that happened it would be awful, but I think the fact it was Father's Day just multiplied everything.\"\n\nThe vicar of nearby St Mary's Church said it would be open for private prayer.\n\n\"Everybody obviously will be in real shock and there'll be a lot of sadness and a lot of questions of why this has happened,\" the Rev Ruth Crossley said.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police urged witnesses, or anyone who saw the car - a Peugeot - in the area to contact the force.\n\nThe three were pronounced dead at the scene\n• None Driver held after three pedestrians die in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police reinforcements have been sent to maintain a coronavirus quarantine on a tower block in the German city of Göttingen after violence on Saturday.\n\nSeven-hundred people were placed in quarantine, but about 200 who attempted to get out clashed with police.\n\nResidents - now fenced off - attacked police with fireworks, bottles and metal bars, officials said.\n\nThe quarantine was imposed on Thursday, after two residents tested positive, then more tests showed 102 infections.\n\nAt that point the infection rate there had risen to a critical level of 44.8 per 100,000 inhabitants across seven days - the national threshold for containment of the virus is 50 new infections per 100,000.\n\nLocal authorities in Germany have flexibility to impose rules for their area, which differ regionally.\n\nBy Friday, 120 people were found to be infected. Most residents have been complying with the quarantine.\n\nEight police officers were injured in Saturday's violence and a suspect was detained, but released after questioning.\n\nThe Göttingen tower block where all residents are in quarantine\n\nAnyone within the block who tests negative has to have a further test. If that is also negative, they will be allowed to leave the block, but under certain conditions, such as wearing a mask.\n\nLocal officials cited communication problems, with many of the residents not understanding the need for a second test.\n\nTranslators have been used and information in German and Romanian is now being texted to those who need it, German media report.\n\nGöttingen officials say there is overcrowding among the block's poor residents: the flats are only 19 to 39 sq m (205 to 420 sq ft) in size and some families have four children.\n\nIn another development, Germany's reproduction (R) number has risen to 2.88 - the number of people who someone with Covid-19 could infect. A number below one is seen as necessary to contain the spread of the disease.\n\nThe Robert Koch Institute issued the data based on a four-day average. The seven-day average came up with a lower figure of 2.03.\n\nThe institute cited isolated outbreaks, such as the Tönnies meat processing plant in Gütersloh district, North Rhine-Westphalia, for the rise.\n\nSo far there is no sign that Germany is seeing a second wave of Covid-19, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin. As Germany's overall infection rate is low, these sudden local outbreaks have a big impact on the national R number.\n\nIn the past week, 140 local authorities have seen no new cases at all.\n\nGermany is generally considered to have done a good job containing the virus, thanks to widespread testing. The latest confirmed figures show 189,949 people testing positive, and 8,889 deaths - significantly lower than similar sized European neighbours.\n\nThe localised outbreaks - such as the Göttingen apartments and Tönnies - have been contained so far and have been attributed to poor living and working conditions.\n\nBecause of the Tönnies case the Gütersloh area has risen above 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days - over the limit set by the German authorities to contain the virus.\n\nWork has been suspended at the Tönnies plant\n\nCovid-19 cases have continued to rise at the Tönnies slaughterhouse.\n\nThe number of positive tests linked to the plant in western Germany has risen to 1,331 - more than 20% of the workforce. The Gütersloh authorities told the 6,500 employees and their families to go into quarantine last week.\n\nThe prime minister of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, warned of \"an enormous risk of pandemic\", while conceding that the outbreak was currently confined to Tönnies and could still be dealt with through a targeted lockdown.\n\nGerman slaughterhouses employ many foreign workers, and the local authorities are trying to arrange Polish, Bulgarian and Romanian translators to explain the need for restrictions.\n\nThe outbreak there has fuelled calls in Germany for improving working conditions at slaughterhouses, as Covid-19 infections have also occurred at other meat plants.", "Efforts to increase the number of black managers at British companies have stalled, according to a business group.\n\nJust 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black.\n\nThat compares to 3% of the population of England and Wales.\n\nWhile the ratio is an improvement on the 1.4% of 2014, there is much ground still to cover, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community, which has campaigned for workplace racial equality for 25 years.\n\n\"It is clear that black people continue to be under-represented at a senior level,\" she said.\n\n\"Black livelihoods matter and employers need to take urgent action to ensure that their organisation is inclusive and a place where people of any ethnic background can thrive and succeed.\"\n\nThe new figures coincide with the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, which brought workers from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nEmployers should make their companies welcoming to black workers, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community\n\nThey also come amid global protests over racial inequality and as some older British companies come to terms with their historical links with the slave trade.\n\nPub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London apologised for those ties last week.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nLloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\".\n\nIn March, a report from the Carnegie Trust, University College London's Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Operation Black Vote said young BAME members are 47% more likely to to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe researchers compared the experiences of 25-year-olds in England.\n\nThey looked at people who are white, as well mixed-race, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black African and Caribbean, and other minority ethnicities, sometimes collectively known as BAME workers.\n\nThat report followed research from February that about a third of FTSE 100 firms have no ethnic minority board members.", "Avon and Somerset Police said it wanted the public to help identify several people\n\nPolice have released images of people they want to speak to as part of an investigation into criminal damage to the Edward Colston statue in Bristol.\n\nThe slave trader's effigy was torn down and thrown into the harbour during an anti-racism protest earlier this month.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it wanted the public to help identify 15 people.\n\nDet Supt Liz Hughes said \"in the eyes of the law\" a crime had been committed and the force was \"duty-bound to investigate without fear or favour\".\n\nShe added the incident attracted worldwide attention and there was \"no denying it has polarised public opinion\".\n\nPolice said a \"large amount\" of footage and photographs of the incident has been examined\n\n\"I'd like to reassure people we're carrying out a thorough, fair and proportionate investigation and have sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.\"\n\nShe added a \"large amount\" of footage and photographs of the incident, and CCTV footage from the area, had been examined, and 18 people had been isolated.\n\n\"We've carried out a number of enquiries to try and establish who these people are, in the hope we wouldn't need to release their images into the public domain and have managed to identify a small number who we're making arrangements with to get their account of events.\n\n\"However, despite every effort being made to identify the remaining people we'd like to talk to, we still don't know who they are which is why we're now releasing images of them in the hope the public can help.\"\n\nDet Supt Liz Hughes said police were \"confident someone will know them and be able to provide us with their name\"\n\nShe said some of the images were \"not as clear as we'd like\" and the fact some of the people were wearing masks further hindered their inquiry.\n\n\"But we're confident someone will know them and be able to provide us with their name.\"\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth in the city centre and rolled into the harbour at about 14:30 BST on 7 June during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.\n\nIt was later recovered from the water and is expected to be given a new home in a city museum.\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth on 7 June\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Following the announced changes to the coronavirus shielding programme, a charity boss has called on the government to ensure people are not forced to choose between protecting their health and making ends meet.\n\nLynda Thomas, Chief Executive at Macmillan Cancer Support said the easing was \"welcome news\" for some, but others may be left \"incredibly anxious about what's to come\".\n\n\"It’s positive that the government have clarified how people can continue to access essential food, medicines, healthcare and financial support, however people need to be reassured that these systems will work,\" Ms Thomas said.\n\nShe called on the government to make sure there were \"no gaps in the support available\" for the vulnerable group, and officials should also ensure employers \"met their legal obligations\" to support former shielding employees had a safe return to work.\n\nMs Thomas continued: \"Those who are unable to work safely should be able to continue to access support from the Government’s Job Retention Scheme, whether they have been furloughed before or not.\"", "Tony Hudgell was inspired to take on the 10km challenge after watching Captain Tom Moore\n\nA five-year-old boy who had to have both legs amputated has raised over £1m for the hospital that saved his life.\n\nTony Hudgell, from Kings Hill in Kent, needed the surgery because of abuse by his birth parents when he was a baby.\n\nHe set out to raise £500 by walking every day in June, but now has raised £1,014,348 including offline donations and gift aid, the Evelina London Children's Hospital has confirmed.\n\nShe said: \"I'm speechless. It doesn't feel real.\"\n\n\"He overcomes every obstacle\", Tony's mum Paula says\n\nInspired by Captain Tom Moore, Tony set a target of walking 10km in a month.\n\n\"We're up to 8.3km and may go over if there are days when he wants to do extra walking,\" Mrs Hudgell said.\n\n\"He knows it's a huge amount of money and he's going to be extremely proud and chuffed.\"\n\nMrs Hudgell said Tony had walked more than 800m on Saturday, having set a daily target of 300m\n\nCaroline Gormley, associate director of fundraising at Evelina London, said: \"We are completely blown away by the generosity of those giving money to support Tony's incredible fundraising challenge.\n\n\"It has been truly inspiring following Tony's journey and seeing his confidence grow as the month has gone on.\n\n\"He is an absolute star and it's wonderful to know that the money he has raised will help children like Tony and their families.\"\n\nMrs Hudgell added: \"This was set up to improve his walking, which would give us an idea if prosthetics were a solution, which we've seen they are.\n\n\"His walking has improved immeasurably during the challenge.\n\n\"Yesterday he even went running.\"\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.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "Next year's A-levels and GCSEs in England could be pushed back later into the summer to allow more teaching time, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nThis would allow schools to catch up some of the time lost since the lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs he would be consulting the exam regulator Ofqual about extra time to deliver courses.\n\nIt follows a similar proposal announced for exams in Scotland.\n\nEngland's education secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, said he wanted to find a way to \"add more teaching time\".\n\n\"And that is why we'll be consulting with Ofqual about how we can move those exams back, giving children extra time in order to be able to learn and really flourish,\" Mr Williamson told MPs.\n\nThis year's GCSEs and A-levels were cancelled because of the pandemic - but most of them had been scheduled to run between the week beginning 11 May and the week beginning 15 June.\n\nSo this could see next summer's exam season having a later start date and then going into July.\n\nAlthough some pupils in next year's exam groups have begun to return to school, many weeks will have been lost - and there were concerns about how teachers could catch up and deliver the full exam courses.\n\nIn Scotland, Education Secretary John Swinney suggested last week that the exam season could be run later next year, so that courses could be completed.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Williamson said that plans would be presented next week for a \"full return\" to school in the autumn.\n\nHead teachers have warned that the extra space needed for social distancing could make it impossible to bring back all pupils at the same time.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the confusion over pupils going back back to school had been caused by ministers not involving teachers' leaders in decision making.\n\n\"All of this uncertainty could have been avoided if the secretary chose to listen to the sector,\" said Ms Long-Bailey.", "Police officers in Ireland trialled the app ahead of its planned national rollout\n\nIreland's health authority plans to press ahead with the launch of a coronavirus contact-tracing app based on Apple and Google's technology.\n\nThe Health Service Executive told the BBC that it would submit a memo to government this week, and \"subject to approval\" would launch its Covid Tracker app shortly after.\n\nThe move comes despite concerns raised about the tech's accuracy in its current state.\n\nThe UK is worried about false alerts.\n\nAnd researchers advising the Irish effort have also questioned whether the software should be rolled out in its current state.\n\nIreland would follow Germany in deploying such an app nationwide.\n\nTwo tests were carried out in Ireland ahead of the launch of its app.\n\nMembers of the An Garda Siochana police force volunteered to take part in field trials at the start of the month to see how it would perform in everyday situations.\n\n\"The Gardai are one of the few groups of people that are moving around and interacting with each other as they carry out their duties,\" explained a spokeswoman for the country's government.\n\nThe results have given health chiefs confidence to roll it out to the public.\n\nAnd they note that because it has been designed to support UK mobile numbers, visitors crossing the border from Northern Ireland or travelling across from Great Britain can also make use if it.\n\nThe second experiment involved a team at Trinity College, Dublin testing an app based on the Google-Apple API [application programming interface] on a commuter bus.\n\nIt found that metal in the vehicle's structure and fittings caused problems.\n\nThe Google-API allows the threshold for what triggers a contact match to be adjusted based on the strength of the Bluetooth signal and duration of the exposure.\n\nWhen using the settings already in use by Switzerland's contact-tracing app, the researchers found that no contact logs were logged despite 60 pairs of handsets being placed within 2m of each other.\n\nAnd they only managed to raise this to an 8% detection rate when they shortened the exposure time and adjusted the Bluetooth strength to a level that they said would be likely to cause false alerts in other environments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nIn addition, the researchers said signal strength was sometimes higher for phones that were far apart than those close together, which they said made reliable proximity-detection \"hard or perhaps even impossible\" to achieve.\n\n\"As to whether it is sensible to deploy these apps, I'd say the jury is still out on that,\" Prof Doug Leith told the BBC.\n\n\"But the likely effectiveness of apps based on the Apple-Google API in real-world situations -ie outside the lab - is certainly far from clear.\"\n\nLast week, the UK ditched its own contact-tracing technology to switch to the Apple-Google model.\n\nBut while the government now intends to launch a Covid-19 app of some sort in England by the Autumn, it has said it may still not include contact-tracing functionality.\n\n\"I was only prepared to recommend to people that they download an app when I'm really confident in it,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\nApple and Google are under pressure to become less restrictive about the data they share to let apps become more accurate.\n\n\"The API does not expose Bluetooth received signal strength (RSS) measurements directly, rather it abstracts this,\" explained Dr Brendan Jennings, who is also involved in developing Ireland's app.\n\n\"There certainly are some changes in the API that we believe would be helpful - and we do believe that Google/Apple will be willing to take on board suggested changes in future revisions.\"\n\nBut in the meantime, others have already decided to launch apps based on the two US tech firms' software tool, including:\n\nOne of the developers of Germany's app said it was currently 80% accurate at logging matches across a range of scenarios, and it had been felt that this was good enough to go with.\n\nBayern Munich football players promoted the German app during a Bundesliga match at the weekend\n\n\"There can be false alerts,\" added SAP's Thomas Leonhardi.\n\n\"But that can also happen via manual contact tracing. It's the best we have and of course we're still working on it.\"\n\nThe Robert Koch Institute, which published the Corona-Warn App on behalf of the German government, said on Friday morning that it had already been downloaded 9.6 million times. The country's population is about 83 million.\n\nOnce Ireland has got an app based on the Apple/Google toolkit up and running then Northern Ireland and indeed the rest of the UK should be able to use it - job done, right?\n\nWell, no, say insiders on the NHS team. First, an app is more than just the code - you would need to integrate it with the public health advice, the testing infrastructure and the manual contact-tracing systems for each of the four home nations.\n\nBut the key issue is the question of whether the Apple/Google system is actually working well at measuring the distance between two phones using Bluetooth - last Thursday Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Test and Trace supremo Baroness Dido Harding made it clear they thought it wasn't.\n\nIncidentally, Baroness Harding may have overstated the failings of the centralised app in the Isle of Wight during Thursday's briefings when she said it could only detect 4% of iPhone contacts.\n\nSomeone on the island who was briefed about what went wrong tells me that this disastrous 4% only referred to cases where the app was asleep in the background after a long period when two iPhones had not been in use for a while - which apparently accounts for just a small percentage of overall iPhone contacts.\n\nWhat's frustrated both the app team and Apple is that in the days before the U-turn, the two sides had apparently begun working closely on ways to make Bluetooth work better with the app in the background.\n\nThursday's announcement came as a surprise to the developers and to the tech giant - which was then dismayed to hear Mr Hancock accusing it of a failure to co-operate.", "Three people have died following a road crash in Cumbria.\n\nThe crash, which involved a single car and pedestrians, happened in Abbey Road, Dalton-in-Furness, at about 14:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe victims, all pedestrians, are believed to be from the same family.\n\nPolice said the driver of a Peugeot, a 47-year-old local man, has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police said: \"The family are currently being supported by our family liaison officers.\n\n\"Officers are urging anyone who might have witnessed the incident or the vehicle in the area to contact the serious collision investigation unit or call 101.\n\n\"Officers are also keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage which may have captured the collision or the moments immediately before or after.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pausing of shielding in England from 1 August will affect more than two million people.\n\nAnd it was interesting that, if shielding needs to be resumed, Dr Jenny Harries felt it was likely to be imposed in a more targeted form – with very few children asked to shield in future.\n\n\"Only\" 36 children had been admitted to an intensive care unit with Covid-19.\n\nBut while the topic of today’s press conference was health-related, this was also about the economy and getting people back in to employment.\n\nFrom 1 August those who are shielding and can’t work from home will be able to return to work if their business is \"covid secure\".\n\nBut for those who are anxious about returning, then it’s likely they will no longer be eligible for the statutory sick pay they have been given since April.\n\nGiving people the confidence to return to work is still a challenge for the government.\n\nAs is getting parents to send children back to school.\n\nThe health secretary also underlined that to get the economy moving, infrastructure projects will be \"accelerated\".\n\nAnd at this time of year, minds turn to holidays and not just work.\n\nSo Matt Hancock sought to reassure us that the government was \"working very intensively\" on \"travel corridors\" - though the quarantine policy as a whole was unlikely to be withdrawn.", "A leaked video revealing how sales have plunged at Pret a Manger during the coronavirus crisis has raised fears about job cuts at the sandwich chain.\n\nBoss Pano Christou told staff in a recent online meeting that an announcement about the \"job situation\" would be made on 8 July.\n\nHe said Pret's global weekly takings had fallen to £3m, just 15% of what they would normally be.\n\nA Pret spokeswoman said staff would be the \"first to hear about any changes\".\n\nPret stores in the UK, the US and France have been hit hard by lockdowns as office workers stayed in their homes.\n\nIn May, Pret called in consultants to help renegotiate its rents as it attempted to avoid store closures, and said it was putting a \"clear plan\" in place to deal with reduced footfall.\n\nIn a recent video call to staff, which was leaked and shared on Twitter, Mr Christou discussed the \"job situation\":\n\n\"What will be the case is, on 8 July, we'll be doing a broader communication to the teams, just talking through the initial work that's been done on this, so things will start to become clearer from 8 July,\" he said.\n\nA Pret spokeswoman said: \"As we have already confirmed, at the end of May we appointed advisers to help Pret develop a comprehensive transformation plan to adapt to the new retail environment.\"\n\n\"Transparency is very important in our business and we will make sure that Pret's team members are the first to hear about any changes. We will update our team members in early July once the plan has been finalised.\"\n\nRestaurants and food chains have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nLast week bosses at restaurant and food chains including Wagamama and Pizza Hut warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the sector faces mass job cuts without more help.\n\nAlthough Pret has re-opened more than 300 stores in the UK, they are only offering takeaway or delivery services. The firm is trialling a click-and-collect service so customers can avoid queuing when demand returns.\n\nThe video call indicated that sales were substantially down compared with normal figures, although improving as lockdown restrictions lift.\n\nWhen asked what sales Pret needed to make for the company to stop losing money, he said: \"I think globally we'll need our sales to get to about 60% [of pre-crisis levels] to break even.\"\n\n\"We're trying to aim to the month of September to get to that 60% but clearly there is a lot of work going into that from the team, but at the same time we're so dependent on footfall coming back into the cities to drive our sales up.\"\n\nMr Christou said the chain's US stores took close to $100,000 in sales in one week recently, a 98% drop from pre-crisis levels.\n\nIn the same video, Pret's UK managing director, Clare Clough, said UK sales were down almost 90%. \"We're creeping up point by point, but we're still sitting around -86% in the UK,\" she said.\n\nIn the meeting, Ms Clough said the company is engaging in \"quite intense negotiations\" with more than 300 individual landlords to deal with property costs.\n\nShe encouraged staff to drive up sales, saying: \"We want to make sure that we are the winners as people come back onto the High Street.\"\n\nIndustry body UK Hospitality has urged the government to find a solution to the rental problems facing many businesses in the struggling hospitality sector.", "'More to do' to tackle discrimination, says first minister\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford says there \"certainly is more to do\" in addressing tackling discrimination and disadvantage for black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) people in Wales. He pointed to the \"need for us to do more\" to ensure decision-makers in Wales \"reflect the society in which we live\". Mr Drakeford added that \"we have had a proud cross-party commitment in Wales throughout the devolution era\" to addressing discrimination people from different backgrounds face in Wales, but said \"there is more to do.\" The first minister was responding to a question about the Welsh Government advisory group report into the impact of Covid-19 on Wales' BAME communities, which highlighted a \"lack of action on race equality\". Mr Drakeford added: \"Before the coronavirus crisis hit, we had commissioned and concluded a radical review of the way in which public appointments are made here in Wales. \"[The review is to] make sure the people who are appointed to those important positions reflect the diversity of Wales. \"We are going to implement that report and we're going to begin its implementation as soon as we are able to resume making public appointments in Wales.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPhil Foden and Riyad Mahrez both scored twice as Manchester City thrashed Burnley to ensure Liverpool will have to wait a little longer to wrap up the Premier League title.\n\nThree first-half goals saw City on their way to the most comfortable of wins at Etihad Stadium, with Foden's superb long-range strike breaking the deadlock before Mahrez's double just before the break.\n\nThe Algerian's fine solo effort made it 2-0 before he added another from the spot after Ben Mee fouled Sergio Aguero, with the penalty being awarded by the video assistant referee.\n\nIt was all too easy for City against a Burnley side that did not name their full complement of substitutes for their first game since the Premier League restarted behind closed doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFoden played a starring role in the rout, starting the move that saw Bernardo Silva tee up David Silva to make it 4-0 soon after the break, and then adding a fifth himself after Gabriel Jesus helped on a David Silva cross.\n\nBy then the evening was a stroll for Pep Guardiola's side, who are now 20 points behind the leaders with eight league games remaining.\n\nIf the defending champions had dropped points against the Clarets, a win for Liverpool against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Wednesday would have seen them officially take City's crown.\n\nInstead Jurgen Klopp's side must beat the Eagles and then rely on City dropping points against Chelsea on Thursday if they are to clinch the title before they visit Etihad Stadium on 2 July.\n\nBurnley issued a statement during the game condemning the actions of those responsible after a plane carrying a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was flown over the ground shortly after kick-off.\n\nBoth sets of players had taken a knee before the game started in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n• None Burnley 'ashamed and embarrassed' by banner flown above Etihad Stadium during Man City game\n\nFoden was given only limited game-time earlier in the season but he is threatening to end it as one of City's main men.\n\nThe 20-year-old enjoyed the wide open spaces that Burnley increasingly gave him as the game progressed, and made the most of them with his build-up play, as well as his finishing.\n\n\"Foden stood out as the best player on the pitch,\" said BBC Radio 5 live summariser Pat Nevin. \"He had everything about his game - good energy and runs with the ball, but also the eye of a pass which all City players have.\n\n\"As an outsider, I would build my team around him, not just City but England too. If it was Spain, they would make him the core of the team early on. I watch Chelsea who have a lot of good young players, but Foden is extraordinary and has the vision that others don't.\"\n\nFrom City's point of view, this was the perfect way for them to ease more of their players back into action with Pep Guardiola making eight changes from the side that beat Arsenal last week.\n\nThe only blip was the injury sustained by Aguero as he won City's penalty, with the Argentine striker forced off and Guardiola saying afterwards that it \"does not look good\".\n\nGuardiola added: \"He felt something in his knee. He struggled in the last month with some pain in his knee. We will see on Tuesday.\"\n\nCity were able to give Leroy Sane his first competitive outing of the season before the end, when the German winger replaced Foden.\n\nGuardiola confirmed on Friday that Sane, who had been out of action since injuring his knee ligaments in the Community Shield in August, will be leaving the club either in the next transfer window or when his contract ends in the summer of 2021.\n\nHe was given an 11-minute cameo against the Clarets, which suggests he will play a part in Guardiola's plans during the remainder of this campaign as City, who have already collected the Carabao Cup, look to defend the FA Cup and try to win the Champions League for the first time.\n\nBurnley have now lost 5-0 on their past three visits to Manchester City in all competitions, but this defeat could have been even worse.\n\nThe Clarets did not manage an effort at goal until Dwight McNeil lashed a free-kick into the empty stand behind Ederson's goal after 63 minutes, and that was the only time they came close to threatening a reply.\n\nThere were mitigating circumstances for Burnley boss Sean Dyche, however.\n\nA trip to this part of Manchester is hard enough without the contract issues and injuries which meant he could not fill his bench in his side's first game after their enforced three-month break.\n\nFirst-choice strikers Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood were absent through injury, while Jeff Hendrick, Aaron Lennon, Phil Bardsley and former England goalkeeper Joe Hart are all free agents from the end of June and were not considered for selection.\n\nIt meant that, while City had players of the calibre of Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling among their substitutes, the Clarets named two untried youngsters in Max Thompson and Bobby Thomas, and two keepers - Lukas Jensen and Bailey Peacock-Farrell - among their potential replacements.\n\nBefore their season was stopped, Burnley were on a seven-game unbeaten run that had taken them to the fringes of the race for Europe. Dyche's mission now is to try to regain some of that momentum in the next few weeks.\n\nBurnley host Watford on Thursday (18:00 BST) while Manchester City play Chelsea at Stamford Bridge later the same evening (20:15).\n• None Attempt missed. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Liverpool move one step closer to the title", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss the next steps in relaxing England's lockdown with senior scientific advisers and ministers today. He'll set them out for the public on Tuesday. The expectation is that the prime minister will confirms pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can start reopening on 4 July. It looks likely, too, that the two-metre social distancing rule will be reduced - we've looked at the science behind that decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFace coverings are now compulsory on public transport in Scotland. The rule applies to buses, trains, trams, taxis and more, with only a few exemptions. Other changes coming into effect from today include the partial reopening of dentists and places of worship. Professional sport can also get going again behind closed doors. See the latest figures on coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pandemic is widening existing inequalities of wealth, according to think tank the Resolution Foundation. It says lower income households are turning to borrowing, most commonly credit cards, to cope, while many higher income households, by contrast, have boosted their savings. Meanwhile, a charity is warning that already disadvantaged children are developing serious mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, during this time.\n\nA new \"no swab\" saliva coronavirus test that lets people collect their own sample at home is being trialled in Southampton. The hope is that it could provide an alternative to taking swabs from the nose and throat which can be uncomfortable and hard to do without help. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the study is \"highly promising\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from around the world via our live page.\n\nEven countries currently controlling the virus fear \"the second wave\". Is that inevitable? And how bad could it be?\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.", "A black Mercedes van was struck by a train near Welshpool\n\nOne person has been seriously injured after a train hit a van on a level crossing in mid Wales.\n\nThe driver of a black Mercedes was airlifted to hospital after their vehicle was struck by a train heading from Shrewsbury to Welshpool.\n\nThey were flown by air ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital.\n\nNo train passengers were hurt in the crash where the single-track railway crosses a side-road near Trewern, north of Welshpool, just after 13:45 BST.\n\nNational Rail said disruption to services was expected until the end of Monday.\n\nThe incident happened on the singe-track Cambrian Line crossing\n\nThe ambulance service also sent three emergency ambulances and a rapid response vehicle to the collision between the van and what is thought to be the 13:27 service from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth.\n\nBritish Transport Police said: \"The driver of the vehicle suffered serious injuries and has been taken to hospital.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service confirmed no train passengers were hurt.\n\nAll trains on the single-track Cambrian Line - between Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth in Ceredigion and Pwllheli in Gwynedd - have been affected as the line is blocked.\n\nThe van was hit on a side road off the main A458 Welshpool to Shrewsbury road\n\nNetwork Rail said rail replacement bus services were in operation and would serve all stations in both directions between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.\n\nThe incident happened at an unmanned level crossing - monitored by Network Rail CCTV - where the Cambrian Line crosses on a side-road going to a dog training centre.\n\nThat track leads onto the main Welshpool to Shrewsbury road - the A458 - which has now reopened after it was initially shut between Buttington and Trewern.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"We were made aware of an incident between Sutton Bridge Junction and Welshpool just before 14:00 today.\"\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch confirmed it had been notified of the incident and had sent an inspector to the scene to conduct a preliminary examination and gather evidence. ​", "More than 100 students gathered at the gates to hold a silence at the school where James Furlong taught.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHe was one of three people who died after a stabbing in Reading.", "Groups had been relaxing in Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading when the attack happened\n\nReading's Forbury Gardens were dotted with groups of friends relaxing in the early evening sunshine when the peace was shattered by a commotion and frantic shouts of \"run\". Three people had been stabbed to death in an attack that has left the town reeling.\n\n\"Everyone was just having fun and then suddenly a man shouted,\" said Lawrence Wort, who had been sitting nearby.\n\nThe 20-year-old said he could not make out the words or in what language they were spoken.\n\nWhat he could see was a man with a \"massive knife\".\n\n\"He stabbed the first person - they were sat in a circle in a big group of about eight to ten people - and he darted round anti-clockwise, got one, went to another, stabbed the next one, went to another and stabbed them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested at the scene by unarmed officers who have been praised for their \"incredible bravery\".\n\nHe remains in police custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nAs well as those killed in the attack, three more people were injured.\n\nGreg Wilton, who tried to help the victims, said he had been left \"very shocked and shaken\".\n\nHe was having a picnic with his wife and three friends, after listening to speeches at a Black Lives Matter protest held in the park earlier in the day.\n\n\"We stayed in the park as the weather was nice and had some drinks,\" he said.\n\n\"At one point without much noise we noticed a commotion on the other side of the park.\n\n\"We ran over and without seeing an attacker we found three men lying on the floor bleeding profusely from what we thought was their heads, necks or body.\n\n\"Another member of the public took off his t shirt and tried to stop the bleeding alongside someone we assume to be his girlfriend.\n\n\"Me and my friend, Tom, put a second victim in the recovery position and tried to stem his bleeding from his ear with my canvas shopping bag.\"\n\nHe said Reading as normally a \"relatively peaceful\" town.\n\nAlice Penney said she felt like she had \"cheated death\"\n\nOn Sunday, an atmosphere of shock and mourning was palpable in the town centre - where bloodied roads were cordoned off by police.\n\nLarge areas outside the gardens are taped up, and the streets are largely deserted but for police officers, journalists and TV crews.\n\nLocals who had ventured into the town said they were frightened.\n\n\"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work,\" said Marie Castro, from Slough, who works at a coffee shop in the town.\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she said.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nAlice Penney, who moved to Reading from Kent a year ago, said she left the town and went to a friend's house after hearing about the stabbings.\n\n\"I was absolutely mortified. I had been at the protest a few hours earlier when I heard the news. It was something I couldn't process.\n\n\"I feel like we cheated death. It's a safe place, normally. It's very confusing.\"\n\nJournalists have descended on the town centre's streets\n\nCordons and police tape are now a common sight on the deserted streets\n\nJames Hill is among those who have laid flowers at the scene to remember the victims\n\nAs helicopters patrol the town from above, on the ground floral tributes have been laid.\n\nJames Hill, from Reading, said: \"I've come here today because I've lived in Reading all my life.\n\n\"This park is very close to my heart - I know it very well - and I feel obliged when something as bad as this happens, that I play my part and make a tribute.\"\n\nOne card left near the scene reads: \"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\"", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nThe number of workers testing positive for coronavirus at an Anglesey chicken factory has risen to 158.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nA Welsh Government minister has not ruled out local lockdown measures to contain the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the number of cases was expected to rise.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson from PHW said 400 staff had been tested since the outbreak was confirmed on Thursday.\n\n\"As of 15:00 BST on Sunday 21 June we have recorded an increase of 83 confirmed positive cases identified over the past 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"Testing of employees continues, and it is likely that some additional cases will be identified in the coming days.\n\n\"The increase in cases is as we anticipated when a focused track and trace programme is implemented, and does not mean that the spread of infection is increasing.\"\n\nEconomy minister Ken Skates has said the fallout from the outbreak must be contained\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales are due to be lifted from 6 July, allowing people to \"travel as far as they like for all purposes\", as long as covid cases continue to fall.\n\nBut speaking on BBC Wales Politics Show, the Economy Minister Ken Skates said it was essential to make sure the Anglesey outbreak was \"kept as local as possible\".\n\nMr Skates did not rule out restrictions remaining in place in Anglesey, and said the council, PHW and Betsi Cadwaladr health board were \"right to contain the fallout from the 2 Sisters plant\" and \"making sure that spike is kept as local as possible\",\n\nHe said: \"That will help contain the virus, and that, in turn, help Anglesey open up its economy sooner, and that is something I think the island will welcome and I think the entire population of Wales will welcome.\"\n\nAnglesey council has already confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following incidents at the plant.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Isle of Anglesey CC #KeepWalesSafe\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, thanked the workforce and wider community for their \"swift co-operation\" with the test and trace process.\n\n\"This rapid response is providing vital information to help minimise the further spread of Covid-19 locally,\" said Dr Johnson.\n\n\"We must remember that Covid-19 has not gone away.\n\n\"Incidents like this show the potential for pockets of asymptomatic undiagnosed infection in the community, highlighting the importance of the adherence to social distancing and hygiene measures.\"\n\nDr Johnson said rapid test and trace facilities had \"helped identify this situation\" and said health teams would keep measures in place to \"bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion\".\n\nHe added: \"It therefore remains essential that all members of the public, including employees of 2 Sisters Food Group and their close contacts, continue to recognise the vital role they have in preventing the spread of coronavirus, to help keep Wales safe.\"\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nResponding to the increase in confirmed cases, Anglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the outbreak was \"causing concern on Anglesey\".\n\nShe said the authority's thoughts were \"with 2 Sisters' employees and their families at this uncertain time\" and urged all workers to get tested and to make sure they self-isolated.\n\n\"This is imperative to stop the spread and further positive cases in our communities,\" she said.\"The county council is working with partners across the Island to ensure those who are self-isolating, who have no support networks, are helped during this challenging period.\"\n\nThe council leader said the authority would be holding discussions with the Welsh Government on Monday to see \"what local lockdown looks like\".\n\n\"How do we enforce local lockdown, and also how do we support those businesses that would not be able to operate during a local lockdown, as well,\" she added.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nIt said the virus was \"not known to be transmitted by exposure to food or food packaging\".\n\nDo you work in a meat processing facility? 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.", "The man held on suspicion of killing three people at a park in Reading was known to MI5, security sources say.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, from the town, was arrested on Saturday and police say they are not looking for anyone else over the terror incident.\n\nSources told the BBC he is originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nOne victim has been named as teacher James Furlong - described by his family as \"a wonderful man\".\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Furlong, 36, head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, his parents Gary and Janet said: \"He was beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East (CTSPE) said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nSecurity sources said the suspect came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nWhen the information was further investigated, as the first stage of looking into a potential lead, no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified.\n\nNo case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nTeacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe Holt School said Mr Furlong was a \"kind and gentle man\" with a \"real sense of duty\".\n\nIn a statement, Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce - co-head teachers of the secondary school for girls - said Mr Furlong \"truly inspired everyone he taught through his passion for his subject and his dedication\".\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" they said.\n\nMr Johnson has promised action following the incident \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described it as an \"atrocity\" and said his \"deepest sympathies go to the families who will be mourning loved ones after this horrific act\".\n\nMr Basu said investigators are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nSaturday's horrifying killings may be another example of what security chiefs call a \"lone actor\" attack where a single individual turns extremist beliefs into murderous actions.\n\nIn November last year, the UK's official threat level from terrorism was reduced from \"severe\" to \"substantial\" - meaning it remained likely - but there was no intelligence of an immediate risk to life.\n\nSince then, there have already been three major incidents in which two people have died. Two of those attacks were carried out by lone individuals.\n\nToday, detectives will be interviewing their suspect - and a huge operation will have swung into operation.\n\nElectronic analysts will delve into any social media accounts linked to the suspect; they'll trawl every call and text message going back years, looking for contacts with extremists.\n\nIntelligence officers at MI5 will review both their open and closed case files on so-called \"subjects of interest\".\n\nA picture will emerge of the suspect's movements. What led to the attack may be very difficult to identify.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of CTPSE, said the investigation \"continues to move at a fast pace\".\n\nThe suspect was arrested within five minutes of the first emergency call made to police, and a number of officers were quickly on the scene, she confirmed.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whisky and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nMr Sandford was also told by neighbours of the suspect that he once threw a television out of a top floor window and was regularly visited by a mental health key worker.\n\nA witness told the BBC he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park in Reading town centre, trying to stab them.\n\nThree other people were injured in the attack, which took place at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this.\"\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics,\" he said.\n\n\"It's incumbent on all of us to pull together in response to this on a cross party basis.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said on Sunday morning the attack was now being treated as terrorism and that Counter Terrorism Policing South East would be taking over the investigation.\n\nSpeaking to reporters later, the force's chief constable, John Campbell, said lives had been \"devastated\", but added that there was not believed to be a wider risk to the public and there was nothing to suggest anyone else was involved.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure we would all want to recognise the bravery of those police officers responding, but also that a number of members of the public were helping my officers and the victims at what was a very distressing scene.\"\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\nOfficers in forensic suits were seen walking near to the scene on Sunday\n\nThe prime minister has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers over the incident.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nOf the three injured people, one was seen at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where they were discharged without being admitted to hospital.\n\nTwo were admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. One has been discharged, while another remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place around Forbury Gardens - which is a short walk from the train station - and blue and white tents have been erected next to the walls of the park.\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level of \"substantial\" is the third of five ratings at which the threat level can stand.", "Teacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe parents of a teacher who was killed in the Reading stabbing attack have paid tribute to their \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" son.\n\nJames Furlong, 36, head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, was described by his family as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nHis school colleagues said he was \"talented and inspirational\".\n\nMr Furlong was one of three people who died in Saturday's attack that police are treating as a terror incident.\n\nTwo other people who were injured have subsequently been discharged, while a third remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Furlong was in Reading's Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of town, when witnesses say a lone attacker with a knife targeted a group of people at about 19:00 BST.\n\nAn eyewitness described how an individual in the park \"suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old man who lived locally, was arrested on Saturday and remains in custody.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nPolice have been carrying out investigations in Forbury Gardens\n\nIn a statement, his parents Gary and Janet described their son as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nThey said: \"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all.\"\n\n\"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nIn their statement, The Holt School's co-heads Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce described Mr Furlong as a \"kind and gentle man\" who had a \"real sense of duty\".\n\n\"As a Holt community, we all now need to absorb this sad news,\" they said. \"He truly inspired everyone he taught.\"\n\nAs head of history and government and politics at the school, Mr Furlong's \"passion for his subject\" and \"his dedication\" was praised.\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" the head teachers said.\n\nThey said lessons would be cancelled on Monday, with counsellors available at school for staff and students.\n\n\"Words cannot describe our shock and sadness at this time. Our thoughts are with his mum, dad, brother and family, and his friends and colleagues.\n\n\"He was a cherished colleague and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nJade Simon, a former pupil at The Holt School, remembered Mr Furlong as \"an incredible teacher\".\n\n\"He was funny and kind and always made history fun and entertaining,\" she told the Press Association.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Keith Power, whose daughter currently attends the school.\n\n\"He was a wonderful man. He was so helpful and supportive of my daughter.\"\n\n\"It's so senseless,\" he added. \"So much hatred in the world right now. I fear for my kid's futures.\"\n\nSt Francis Xavier's College in Liverpool, where Mr Furlong is reported to have grown up, paid tribute to their former pupil.\n\n\"Our prayers are with him and his family,\" said a statement posted by the secondary school on Instagram.\n\nPupils of Mr Furlong have posted tributes on Instagram.\n\nSophie McEwan said Mr Furlong \"really was an inspirational teacher, he genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nAnd Emily Mugnier wrote: \"Thank you for being an incredible, enthusiastic teacher and lover of life.\"\n\nWokingham Labour tweeted: \"His loss is a devastating blow to his family, colleagues, students, the wider Holt family and our whole community. Our thoughts are with them all.\"\n\nThe names of the two other victims in the attack have yet to be made public.\n\nThe suspect was detained within five minutes of the first call made to the emergency services, with the Sunday Mirror reporting that a police officer \"rugby tackled\" the perpetrator to the ground.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Saadallah had previously come to the attention of MI5 after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Mr Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whiskey and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack and promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the attack as an \"atrocity\" and thanked the \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" officers who attended the scene.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said \"multiple ambulance resources\" were sent to the scene, including five ambulance crews and a helicopter.\n\nMr Basu said the \"motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but said investigators were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nHe said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nMore than 40 witnesses came forward within 24 hours of the incident, which took place on a sunny afternoon in a popular area of town.\n\nOne eyewitness described a man carrying \"a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches, minimum\".\n\n\"The park was pretty full, a lot of people sat around drinking with friends when one lone person walked through, suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them,\" Laurence Wort, 20, told the BBC.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nHave you been personally affected by the attack in Reading? If you feel able to do so 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford says any decision for stricter lockdown rules for Anglesey \"would not be taken lightly\"\n\nA local lockdown could be enforced to get the coronavirus outbreak at a food factory on Anglesey under control, Public Health Wales (PHW) has said.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson said control measures were in place to bring the outbreak to a \"rapid conclusion\".\n\nOn Monday, he confirmed the number of workers tested positive at 2 Sisters in Llangefni had increased by 17 to 175.\n\nAll staff are self-isolating and the factory has closed as workers continue to be tested.\n\nDr Johnson, a consultant in health protection at PHW, said: \"Since we commenced targeted testing last Thursday, over 400 members of staff have provided samples...\n\n\"Incidents like this are a reminder that coronavirus is still circulating, sometimes invisibly, and that we all need to be vigilant.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said if there was a need to impose a lockdown on Anglesey he would do so, but his approach would be \"proportionate\" and based on evidence.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni have been sent home on full pay\n\nEarlier, Dr Giri Shankar, PHW incident director for the novel coronavirus, told BBC Radio Wales local lockdowns could be something \"we need to consider\".\n\n\"At the moment the outbreak is localised to members of staff working in that particular factory,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no evidence of widespread community transmission, but therefore I think at this point of time we need to weigh all the options carefully before going into a blanket lockdown.\n\n\"It is a possibility, providing there is enough evidence to support such an action.\n\n\"We need to see how the outbreak progresses.\"\n\n\"As we begin to ease lockdown in society, such clusters of outbreaks will occur and we do expect these,\" Dr Shankar added.\n\n\"And these will uncover a pocket of asymptomatic infection that existed.\n\n\"So we shouldn't be surprised, but we should be concerned and take swift action.\"\n\nThe Food Standards Agency has said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus news briefing, Mr Drakeford said he was meeting local health officials from Anglesey on Monday afternoon to review what was happening and to see whether further measures needed to be put in place.\n\nThe first minister added that the outbreak had been in a closed setting and the contact tracing system meant the Welsh Government was able to keep on top of whether the virus had spread any further from the factory into the wider community.\n\nCommenting on whether there was a need for a localised lockdown he said: \"Our approach will be proportionate, it will draw on the evidence, it will draw on local intelligence and information.\n\n\"And then we will take the action that is required in a way that responds directly to the outbreak, but doesn't do so in a way that unfairly places restrictions on people where there would be no public health advantage to doing so\".\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for workers forced to self-isolate because of localised coronavirus outbreaks to get similar support from the UK government to those on furlough.\n\nThe party says statutory sick pay of £95.85 a week is not enough for many households across the UK.\n\nWorkers at 2 Sisters are receiving full pay, but the party fears employers elsewhere may not be so generous in future.\n\nBen Lake, MP for Ceredigion, said: \"Workers in the food processing industry are particularly vulnerable, with a Low Pay Commission (LPC) report last year finding that around 6,700 workers - 11.8% of low-paid employees in food processing jobs - were paid lower than the national living wage.\n\n\"I fear that the inadequacy of the Statutory Sick Pay scheme is asking individuals to choose between being able to put food on the table for their family, or risk transmitting the virus to others in the community.\"\n\nThe UK government was asked for comment.\n\n2 Sisters has said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most\".\n\nIt said it would not tolerate unnecessary risks to its workforce at the plant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're about to see another step in the plan\"\n\nThe government will \"bring forward proposals\" on how to safely reduce the 2m social distancing rule in England this week, says Matt Hancock.\n\nThe health secretary said the distance could be lowered with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nLabour said it would support a change to 1m \"under certain circumstances\".\n\nMr Hancock confirmed new easing of lockdown measures would be announced in the coming days, including whether pubs and restaurants can re-open on 4 July.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to the roadmap it announced in May - when it said the venues could re-open on 4 July \"at the earliest\".\n\nHe added: \"We are going step-by-step, making things easier for people, helping people to see more of each other, allowing more social contact, more social interaction, and we will be setting all that out.\n\n\"But it's very important that we don't lose our vice like grip on the disease. We have got to keep it on the floor where we have got it and so we have got to keep making those trade-offs.\"\n\nA further 43 people who had tested positive for coronavirus have died in the UK, it was announced on Sunday.\n\nThere was one death in Wales, but no deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland over the previous 24 hours.\n\nMr Johnson announced a review into the 2m rule last week, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming on Saturday its conclusion would be published this week.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Hancock appeared to go further, saying: \"The proposals we'll bring forward are how you can safely reduce the 2m with the sort of mitigations we've been talking about.\"\n\nHe said there were \"all sorts\" of measures that could be introduced, referring to the use of face masks on public transport, Perspex screens in shops, and studies on the reduction of transmission risk when people sit side-by-side or back-to-back.\n\nBut while the health secretary said he \"very much hopes\" to reduce the distance, the government would be \"guided by the science\", and would only make changes \"in a way that is safe and doesn't lead to resurgence of virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"On social distancing... watch this space, you won't have very much more to wait now\"\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nOfficially, the review is still under way. But it now seems inevitable the result will be a move from a 2m social distancing rule in England to 1m.\n\nThe government is set to announce this in the week ahead - probably alongside a confirmed date in early July for pubs and restaurants to reopen, under certain conditions.\n\nScientists seem relaxed about this change - the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance having indicated that, ultimately, this is a political decision, with no continuing body of evidence to stand in the way of the move.\n\nA member of Sage, Professor Calum Semple, says he has changed his mind and it is now reasonable to \"relax these rules\".\n\nIt's understood there will need to be \"mitigation\" - requirements to stop overcrowding in bars, taking contact details of people booking restaurant tables and a more widespread use of face coverings, for example.\n\nBut as the eminent microbiologist Prof Peter Piot reminded us today, the virus won't just fade away. He said it will be with us for some time and a second spike of some sort was highly likely.\n\nThe pubs and bars may reopen in England and Northern Ireland within weeks (Scotland and Wales are keeping the issue under review).\n\nBut no health or scientific official or adviser will be celebrating any time soon.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said his party were \"prepared to look at [the proposals] carefully\", adding that if a change was \"backed by the science, then that'll be an understandable move\".\n\nBut he said countries who have lower social distance rules also have a \"broader combination of measures\", such as face shields and tracing apps, and his support would depend on other mitigations being introduced.\n\nMr Hancock also said pubs and restaurants would find out this week whether they can re-open on 4 July.\n\nHe said the potential date was \"part of the plan that we've been working through\" since it was announced last month as a possible next step.\n\nThe health secretary added: \"The plan is clearly working because the number of new infections is coming down, the number of people on ventilated beds in hospital is coming down and, thankfully, the number of people who are dying is coming down.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he \"wouldn't rule out\" following in the footsteps of countries like New Zealand - where customers need to register their details before going to the venues - as it could be \"an additional way that you can do contact tracing so that you can find people who might be at risk\".\n\nBut he said there were \"lots of ideas out there\" and the government would confirm its plans this week.\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:", "Paul and Elaine Gait said at the time they felt \"violated\" by Sussex Police\n\nA police force has paid out £200,000 over the arrest of a couple falsely accused of causing chaos at Gatwick Airport with a drone.\n\nArmed officers stormed the home of Paul and Elaine Gait in December 2018, and held them for 36 hours after drones caused the airport to close repeatedly.\n\nThe couple were released without charge, and sued Sussex Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.\n\nThe Gait's legal team said the force had agreed an out-of-court settlement.\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel\n\nSussex Police confirmed it has paid the couple the £55,000 owed in damages, and law firm Howard Kennedy said it has billed the force an additional £145,000 in legal costs.\n\nFlights were cancelled in droves over a three-day period, as police investigated multiple reported drone sightings.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged, and police have said that some reported drone sightings may have been Sussex Police's own craft.\n\nTwelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.\n\nIn a statement released by their legal team on Sunday, the couple said: \"We are delighted to have finally received vindication, it has been a very long fight for justice.\n\n\"It has taken lengthy legal proceedings to obtain resolution from the police and to finally have closure on this distressing time.\"\n\nAnti-drone equipment was used at Gatwick Airport after the drone stopped flights intermittently for days\n\nIn a letter to the couple, Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable David Miller said he was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"unpleasantness\" the couple experienced, and acknowledged it would have been \"traumatic\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, when the police carry out their functions on behalf of the public, sometimes innocent people are arrested as part of necessary police investigations in the public interest.\n\n\"However, we recognise that things could have been done differently and, as a result, Sussex Police have agreed to pay you compensation and legal costs.\"\n\nThe force commissioned a \"thorough independent review\" of the drone incident last year.\n\nIt revealed 96 people \"of interest\" were identified, researched and ruled out during the investigation and the cost of the operation and subsequent investigation was £790,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nThe Met Police said officers had arrested a man on suspicion of outraging public decency.\n\nHe is currently in custody in Essex after presenting himself at a police station.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nSpeaking on Saturday in response to a photo posted on social media, Commander Bas Javid said: \"We are aware of a disgusting and abhorrent image circulating on social media of a man appearing to urinate on a memorial to PC Palmer.\n\n\"We have immediately launched an investigation, and will gather all the evidence available to us and take appropriate action.\"\n\nMP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament, said the image of the urinating man was \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe remembrance stone was placed at the Carriage Gates at the Palace of Westminster, where PC Palmer was attacked.\n\nThe Police Memorial Trust said the stone was a reminder of PC Palmer's sacrifice and heroism.\n• None Memorial for murdered PC by end of year\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nPledges have been made by police, the council and community leaders aimed at bringing about long-term change in Bristol following the Black Lives Matter protest that saw a statue of Edward Colston toppled.\n\nProtesters tore down the statue of the 17th Century slave trader and pushed it into the city's harbour, in one of the most symbolic moments of a series of demonstrations around the country.\n\nAn estimated 10,000 people had gathered in Bristol to demonstrate last weekend and many said the events felt empowering but they hoped for real change in the city.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees has commissioned research into the city's history in a pledge to better understand its story, while other pledges made include updating the school curriculum and efforts to improve BAME representation within the police force.\n\nThe statue was recovered on Thursday morning from Bristol's harbour and is set to become a museum exhibit, alongside protestors' placards from the demonstration.\n\nMarvin Rees said a commission of historians would be set up to research the city's \"true history\"\n\nMr Rees, Bristol's mayor since 2016, said: \"The events over the last few days have really highlighted as a city we all have very different understandings of our past.\n\n\"The only way we can work together on our future is by learning the truth of our beginnings, embracing the facts, and sharing those stories with others.\n\n\"Bristol's journey to become the modern city it is today includes a history of huge disparities of class, race and gender and the struggles for equality.\"\n\nFollowing many calls for schools' curriculums to better reflect the culture, literature and history of black communities, Joanne Jefferson, head of English and associate head teacher at St Katherine's School in Pill, Bristol, said the school would be leading on cultural awareness and inclusion in September.\n\nJoanne Jefferson will be helping lead her school with its cultural awareness programme\n\nShe said the protests had inspired the school to \"evaluate everything\" about its teaching.\n\n\"White privilege and what it means is one of the first things that we are educating our young people on, because there are elements of mainstream media and people in society that think it's a made up thing. It's not - it exists,\" Mrs Jefferson said.\n\n\"One of the things we are trying to do as a school is to encourage our young people to put themselves in somebody else's shoes.\"\n\nMrs Jefferson and two of her black colleagues recorded a video conversation about the issues to show pupils \"it's OK to talk about race\".\n\nThe school has launched a reading challenge to \"promote black fiction, political fiction and anti-racist fiction\" and encourage teachers \"to educate themselves\" on race.\n\nLiza Bilal was a part of the Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol\n\nLiza Bilal, 21, one of the organisers of the city's protest, has pledged to lobby the government into reviewing positive discrimination under the Equality Act.\n\nShe said: \"It is so companies are actively hiring, and filling their boards with, black and brown people.\n\n\"Martin Luther King said 'protests and riots are the expression of the unheard', so if change doesn't occur and we don't see it soon there will be more protests.\"\n\nDesmond Brown said this was a defining moment for the city\n\nDesmond Brown, chair of the local group of the Lammy Review, investigating racial bias in the criminal justice system, said he had collected data on how decisions were made at each point of a person's journey through the system, to understand where any bias was and then challenge it..\n\nHe pledge to create a framework, working with people in independent advisory and community groups, that would see information flow between the community and police so pressing issues could be raised.\n\nAnd Mr Brown said he would offer workshops to help young black people \"survive encounters with the criminal justice system\", access help and not become criminalised.\n\n\"This is a defining moment and if we don't see change here, I don't think we are going to go back to quiet times,\" said Mr Brown. \"I think the rage in young people across the board, black and white male and female is - enough is enough now.\"\n\nThe Avon and Somerset Police Outreach team says its diversity champions will support people interested in joining the force\n\nA spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police's outreach team described an ambitious vision \"to be the UK's most inclusive police force\".\n\nShe said: \"We currently don't represent the communities we serve and so this needs to change.\n\n\"Our continuing work with the Black Police Association ensures those of a black and minority ethnic background within the service are treated fairly.\"\n\nThe force has been certified by the National Equality Standard and achieved accreditation for best practice in equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.\n\nIt has diversity champions who support people from under represented backgrounds who are interested in joining the police.\n\nProtesters knelt on the neck of the bronze statue of Colston, which is destined to be a museum exhibit\n\nThe University of Bristol has committed to reviewing the names of its buildings and logo.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The Black Lives Matter campaign has served to amplify existing concerns about the university's history and whether we should rename the Wills Memorial Building, and other buildings named after families with links to the slave trade.\"", "It is feared the 30ft (10m) fin whale might not survive\n\nA beached whale which became stranded in the same estuary twice in as many days has a \"high chance\" of dying, rescuers have warned.\n\nIt was hoped the 30ft (10m) sea mammal had returned to open waters when it was seen swimming out to sea on Friday.\n\nBut it was again found stranded on Saturday morning on the same stretch of Flintshire coastline.\n\nThe fin whale - the second largest whale breed in the world - is thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nAn expert from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is assessing the 14-tonne creature.\n\nWriting on its Facebook page on Saturday evening, the group said its team had withdrawn to safety after the tide came in.\n\n\"The whale is still alive and it will be monitored from the boat and the shore,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\n\nA spokesman said whales cannot support their own weight on land, so are in danger of causing \"significant internal damage to themselves\" when stranded.\n\nAfter so many hours out of the water, there are fears the whale may not survive.\n\n\"Although we want to be optimistic, we have to be absolutely realistic about the animal's chances of survival at this point,\" BDMLR added.\n\n\"It has spent several hours out of the water gradually being crushed under its own weight over the last couple of days and the degree of internal damage this may have caused could be very significant by now.\n\n\"Even if it does swim off again this evening there is a high chance that it will re-strand and, or pass away as a result.\"", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nPortuguese police say the German evidence against the new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is \"significant\".\n\nA senior police source also told the BBC they were keen to cooperate in the investigation into the disappearance of the British girl in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, who is in prison in Germany.\n\nHe was revealed as the main suspect earlier this month, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help.\n\nThe convicted paedophile is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nA senior Portuguese police source, who has seen the German evidence against Christian B, has told the BBC it is \"very important\" and \"significant\".\n\nThe source also rejected criticism that their procedures were slow, amid reports that the German authorities have privately been critical of their Portuguese counterparts.\n\nAnother source close to the investigation said Portuguese police accepted that Christian B was now a suspect.\n\nAsked whether they had access to his previous convictions for child sexual offences at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, he said it was important not to judge the past with the benefit of hindsight, and that police systems since then had changed.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nSome of those who knew the German suspect during his time in Portugal have criticised the investigation as \"very slow\", telling the BBC that they were only approached by police - either British or Portuguese - in the past year or two.\n\nSeveral people remembered Christian B as angry and untrustworthy, with one neighbour saying he squatted in a nearby house without paying rent, and left it \"ransacked\" in a terrible state when he departed, two years before Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nWhen German police - newcomers to the Madeleine McCann investigation - announced they had evidence that indicated the toddler was dead, it seemed to get a cautious response from their Portuguese and British counterparts.\n\nBritish police stuck to their line that it was a \"missing person inquiry\", and the impression from Portuguese media was that their own tight-lipped authorities were staying open-minded.\n\nThis first-hand confirmation from a senior Portuguese police source that the German evidence is \"very important\" and \"significant\" is a sign of how seriously this new development is being taken there.\n\nThere's been plenty of mutual recrimination between the British and Portuguese forces in the 13 years since Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment.\n\nNow a third country has entered the quest for answers.\n\nAwkward? Maybe. But the German evidence, it seems, is convincing enough for the Portuguese police to signal their support.\n\nAfter living for so long under the pressure of unanswered questions, they won't want to be left out of a development that might promise some answers.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they have evidence that leads them to believe Christian B killed Madeleine, but it wasn't strong enough to take him to court.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe suspect is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in May 2007, when Madeleine went missing while on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, have said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Police have closed Water Lane in Roydon while investigations continue\n\nA man injured in a \"drive-by\" shooting after a party has died.\n\nThe victim, who was shot multiple times outside a property in Roydon, Essex, was one of three people hurt in the gun attack on Saturday.\n\nHe has since died in hospital, Essex Police said. Two women in their 20s who sustained single gunshot wounds were not seriously injured.\n\nDetectives have appealed for any information which could assist their murder investigation to come forward.\n\nAfter the shooting at about 05:00 BST, the suspects fled and drove off in the direction of Harlow, the force said.\n\nDet Insp Greg Wood said the investigation was \"progressing well\" and officers were \"beginning to build up a picture of what happened\".\n\nEssex Police said the car drove off in the direction of Harlow after the shooting\n• None Three injured in 'drive-by' shooting after party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner has five years to stake their claim\n\nWhile many of us have left something on a train - a phone, a wallet, headphones - it's highly unlikely you've wandered onto the platform leaving a bagful of gold behind.\n\nWell, one person in Switzerland has. And the authorities would quite like to find them.\n\nEfforts are being made to track down the owner of more than 3kg of gold that was left in a carriage last October.\n\nThe hoard, worth around £152,000 ($191,000), was found on a train between St Gallen and Lucerne.\n\nThe owner has five years to stake their claim at the prosecutor's office in Lucerne, an official statement said.\n\nThe discovery is only being made public now after efforts to track down the owner were unsuccessful.\n\nIt's unclear how authorities will verify the claims of anyone who comes forward to say the gold is theirs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km.\n\nSolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.\n\nIn the coming years, SolO will go nearer still, closing to within 43 million km of the Sun on occasions.\n\nAs it stands today, only five other missions have dived deeper into the inner Solar System: Mariner 10, Helios 1 & 2, Messenger, and Parker Solar Probe.\n\nEarth orbits 149 million km (93 million miles) on average from the Sun.\n\nSolO is a European Space Agency (Esa) craft that was assembled in the UK by the aerospace company Airbus.\n\nIt has spent the four months since launch undergoing a checkout phase. Engineers have been running the rule over all the probe's systems and commissioning its 10 scientific instruments.\n\nRoutine operations for the full suite of onboard experiments are still a year away, but SolO's magnetometer is up and running and will remain so.\n\nSitting at the end of a long boom at the back of the spacecraft, the MAG senses the magnetic fields embedded in the solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun.\n\nAlready, the instrument is catching the disturbances that result from big explosions on the star called coronal mass ejections - in addition to the everyday waves and turbulence that trace the wind's structure.\n\n\"We switched on, on 24 February - we've already got over 2 billion magnetic field vectors on the ground. We've got a happy, busy science team working away at the data,\" said Prof Tim Horbury, the MAG principal investigator at Imperial College London.\n\nOne of the reasons the British group's instrument got turned on very early was so it could start to characterise the confounding magnetic fields generated by the electronics in the rest of the spacecraft. This signal is small but needs to be subtracted from the Sun measurements to finesse the detail in the data properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThe early start also gave the London team the chance to do some tandem study with the magnetometer instrument on Esa's BepiColombo mission. As chance would have it, this probe was making a return visit to Earth in April on its way to Mercury. The two missions were therefore able to do some multi-point sensing of the solar wind in relatively close proximity to each other.\n\nThe same has been true with the American Parker Solar Probe - but at a much greater separation. This US mission is in the process of making some very deep dives past the Sun (on 7 June it passed just 19 million km from the star).\n\n\"We're now just one of a constellation of spacecraft flying around the Sun,\" Prof Horbury told BBC News.\n\nThe next major event for SolO is a flyby of Venus. This occurs at the end of December and will see the probe track about 500,000 km above the planet's surface.\n\nThe full science phase of the mission is due to start in 2021 when all 10 of SolO's instruments, including its imagers, will begin regular observations.\n\n\"I was so nervous when we launched,\" said Prof Horbury. \"I guess the more you know about a project, the more you know about the things that can go wrong. But Solar Orbiter is out there, it's working and it's going to be a fantastic success.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is a \"scandal\" that the recommendations of a report on the impact of coronavirus on people in black, Asian and minority communities have been \"buried\", an MP has said.\n\nA leaked Public Health England draft cited racism as a possible factor in why people of such backgrounds are at increased risk of dying of the virus.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said it was \"horrifying\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the report would be published next week.\n\nThe review, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill as a result of it.\n\nIt found that historic racism may mean people were less likely to seek care or demand better personal protective equipment, while other potential factors included risks linked to occupation and inequalities in conditions such as diabetes.\n\nMr Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, told The Andrew Marr Show it was hard for black and Asian people not to know someone who had died from the virus, adding that his uncle and a classmate had lost their lives.\n\n\"But the point is it is a scandal if one week Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock say black lives matter and then we find out today that they have buried part of the review that had the recommendations in it to do something about it,\" he said.\n\n\"It is no wonder why people are upset, this is a very, very serious business, the statistics are grim, again, you are in government do something about it - save lives.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak refused to comment on the leaked report but said he believed it was due to be formally published next week.\n\nMr Lammy also told Andrew Marr that the prime minister's tweets about Winston Churchill's statue, and the risk to it from anti-racism protesters, were a deflection from the issues at hand.\n\nHe said: \"He's never tweeted eight times in a day on coronavirus, he's never tweeted eight times in a day on the Windrush review or what he's going to do about it, or on the review that David Cameron asked me to do on disproportionality in the criminal justice system and what he's going to do about it.\n\n\"This feels to me like a bit of a deflection. Let's get to the action, let's have some substance, let's do something about these historic injustices that still exist in our country.\"\n\nA recent review confirmed that the risk of death from Covid-19 is higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can tell us about 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:", "India is to convert another 500 railway carriages to create 8,000 more beds for coronavirus patients in Delhi, amid a surge in infections.\n\nHome Minister Amit Shah announced a package of new emergency measures for the capital, including a rapid increase in testing for Covid-19. Nursing homes will also be requisitioned.\n\nHe met Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to address the crisis.\n\nIndia's daily number of confirmed new cases has reached almost 12,000.\n\nThe total number of 320,922 officially confirmed cases puts India fourth in the world - after the US, Brazil and Russia - in the pandemic.\n\nThe death toll in India stands at 9,195, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University from official sources.\n\nThe Hindustan Times reports that Delhi is the third worst-hit state in India after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.\n\nIt reports that Delhi's bed capacity across private and government hospitals for Covid-19 patients stands at 9,698, of which 4,248 beds are vacant.\n\nMr Kejriwal's government plans to use 40 hotels and 77 banquet halls as makeshift hospitals.\n\nIndia began converting railway carriages into quarantine or isolation wards in April, when large parts of the railway network were suspended owing to the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Death and despair for migrants on Indian roads\n\nLast month the national government announced plans to end a national lockdown that began on 25 March.\n\nRoad and plane traffic increased as restrictions started to ease, and many businesses and workplaces reopened. Markets are crowded again.\n\nThe lockdown has imposed huge economic costs on India, throwing millions of people out of work, especially migrant workers in precarious, meagrely-paid jobs. Food supply chains were also put at risk.", "Aerial footage shows protesters gathering in central London, despite police warnings to avoid demonstrations.\n\nVarious groups from around the country, including right-wing activists, said they had come to London to protect symbols of British history.\n\nA Black Lives Matter demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day over fears there could be clashes with far-right groups.\n\nOrganisers urged people not to join any anti-racism rallies planned for the weekend.", "Joseph John was about to get into bed in the early hours of 14 June 2017. He heard noise coming from outside the second-floor apartment he shared with his partner and 14-month-old son in the Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe looked through his curtains and saw a fire engine. He then caught a bright red reflection in the window of a parked car.\n\n\"I saw the building was on fire,\" Joseph, 29, recalls.\n\nHe woke his partner and rushed out of the flat to seek help. Joseph's partner is disabled and he needed help in evacuating his family from the 24-storey tower. A firefighter told him to go back inside the flat and someone would assist them in getting out.\n\nBut after an hour, as flames engulfed the tower's upper floors, he and his partner realised they couldn't risk waiting any longer. Joseph passed their baby over a large gate to a stranger downstairs before carrying his partner through the window and over the gate himself.\n\nThey managed to get out just in time. Seventy-two people did not. Joseph is still struggling to process the trauma he experienced. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.\n\nA few months after the fire, Joseph heard about a new local football team that had started up. A keen player, he eventually decided to check out a training session.\n\nFinally, he could take his mind off what had happened that night.\n\n\"I tried cooking, I tried working, I tried everything,\" he says. \"Nothing seemed to work for me, other than football.\"\n\nJoseph wasn't the only one. This is the story of a very special Sunday league team, Grenfell Athletic.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, west London, was one of the worst disasters in British modern history. It began on the fourth floor of the tower just before 01:00 BST on 14 June. By 04:30 more than 100 flats were on fire. The blaze did not burn itself out for 24 hours.\n\nRupert Taylor was born and raised on the streets surrounding Grenfell and used to play on football pitches beneath the tower. He started volunteering as a youth worker in 2005 and at the time of the fire was manager of the local youth centre. Nine children from the youth centre died in the tower.\n\nRupert was on holiday in Gibraltar when he received a phone call in the early hours of 14 June.\n\n\"I turned on the news. My heart sunk, it was horrific,\" he recalls. \"We didn't know who was alive.\"\n\nHe got the first plane back to London and got straight to work in helping people affected by the fire. \"When I got back I drove in… the smell of burning was real,\" he says. \"I was trying to get support for the residents who were wandering the streets trying to find out about their loved ones.\"\n\nA few days later, Rupert noticed a young man wandering outside the youth centre looking lost. He asked the man if he was OK and if he wanted to come in and get some supplies. He politely declined but they exchanged phone numbers. The man later came into the centre and they started to talk. He told Rupert he was a resident of the tower.\n\n\"He seemed like a very lonely chap,\" Rupert says. \"He told me that he'd lost both his parents a few years ago. A couple of weeks in, we were building a relationship and I noticed he was really struggling. I asked what helped him get through the time when he lost his parents and the first thing that came out of his mouth was 'football'.\n\n\"I said: 'Right, we're going to create a team.'\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic was born barely a month after the fire. Rupert started to put word around the local community and training sessions were set up.\n\nBecause it was so soon after the fire, he wanted it to be as open as possible. Many were still recovering mentally and physically, and he wanted residents to feel able to pop in for training sessions without fully committing to the team.\n\nGrenfell Athletic joined the Middlesex County Football League for the 2017-18 season. The early days were turbulent.\n\n\"It was the strain of the shadow of what we were all walking out for,\" Rupert says. \"The 72 lives that were lost. Every time we went out to the pitch, we did a minute's silence. It starts to wear you down and it's quite heavy on the soul.\n\n\"Children lost their lives. You're seeing their faces when you get out on the pitch and you say you're doing this for them. You're trying to build something greater than your bog-standard Sunday league team.\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic soon started to gel and finished fifth out of 12 teams in their first season - a solid start for a new team founded under such tough circumstances.\n\nAt the end of the season, the team went on a tour of Italy where they played semi-professional Lanciano from the Italian fifth tier. The trip was an important part of the healing process for a lot of the players, many of whom hadn't properly left the area since the fire. It was, Rupert says, \"a time for them to be away from the shadow of this area and the tower\".\n\nBonded after their Italian tour, the team fully found their stride in the second season. They lost just one game and won both the league - gaining promotion - and League Cup.\n\nAfter the fire, Joseph and his family had to spend the first few days living in a local church, before eventually being given a room in a hotel - where they stayed for a year. They have been in temporary housing since.\n\nAs time went on, Joseph struggled to come to terms with the night of the fire. He knew people who lost their lives. He recalls a family he would chat to and help out in the tower's lift. They didn't make it out.\n\n\"For me, it was super difficult, even now. Every day I feel like I am living back in 2017,\" he says.\n\nJoseph, who moved to the UK four years ago, is from a family of footballers and grew up playing in his native Trinidad and Tobago - even representing his country at under-17 level.\n\nThe team soon helped him escape the trauma in ways he hadn't been able to before. He also started opening up to some of his team-mates about the fire.\n\n\"It helped me grow bonds with them, it helped me be open. I can discuss anything with some of my team-mates,\" he says. \"We can chat one to one - man to man - it makes me feel comfortable.\n\n\"I don't like being around people, I don't like meeting people, I don't like being in people's space - I like to be around myself. But in football you can't have that.\n\n\"You have to be respectful, you have to be considerate to your team-mates, you have to be uplifting. It's different rules - being part of the team.\"\n\nBy mid-March of this year, Grenfell Athletic were joint second in the table, and then coronavirus hit.\n\n\"Right now my mental health is going down badly with no football and just staying at home,\" he said in April. \"I can't go to my physio, I can't go to my therapist. It's hard.\"\n\nMany of the team did not live in Grenfell, but the tower had been a constant in their lives.\n\nBoxer Dan-Dan Keenan, 23, grew up in the area and started training at the Dale Youth Boxing Club inside Grenfell Tower aged 10.\n\nDan-Dan was outside the tower on the night of the fire, speaking to his best friend's father, Tony, on the phone. Tony was trapped on the 23rd floor and never made it out.\n\n\"I rang him when I first got there to tell him there was a fire and he said 'thanks for making me aware but I already know,'\" Dan-Dan recalls. \"We were watching it, so it's pretty bad.\"\n\nDan-Dan soon heard about Grenfell Athletic from local friends he grew up with playing football.\n\n\"I wanted to get involved in remembrance of Grenfell and especially in remembrance of Tony. But also, besides that, I just wanted to play football,\" he says.\n\n\"It means that everyone is still talking about Grenfell, which is always a good thing. Obviously we want to remember them and not just let it get swept under the carpet.\"\n\nWhile the club is still in its infancy, everyone you speak to from Grenfell Athletic is dreaming big.\n\nRupert is eyeing up a plot of land in Greenford, west London, that could one day be the team's official home (they currently play around six miles away in Chiswick).\n\nDan-Dan says that a home ground of their own would help build the team's profile.\n\n\"I see a lot of Sunday league clubs - YouTube teams, for example - and they've got hundreds and hundreds of people watching and supporting them,\" he says.\n\n\"If we can get a home pitch which is local to Grenfell I'm sure people - whether they like football or not - will come and support us just because we are representing Grenfell.\"\n\nJoseph agrees that a real home and top-quality coaching is needed for the team to take the next step up and bag more silverware.\n\nBut the importance of Grenfell Athletic goes far beyond titles and trophies for Joseph.\n\n\"I have no family here, I'm here on my own with my kids and my partner. Football is my family, football is my community,\" he says.\n\n\"They're like my brothers. Well, they are my brothers.\"", "People have been paying their respects to the victims of the fire on its third anniversary\n\nThe survivors of Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, have said \"nothing has changed\" three years after the disaster.\n\nThose who escaped from the west London tower block said they feel \"left behind\" and \"disgusted\" by a lack of progress in making other buildings safe.\n\nSome 246 buildings still have Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding.\n\nChurches across London will ring their bells 72 times to mark those who died.\n\nThe inferno at Grenfell - the biggest domestic blaze since the Second World War - started as a small kitchen fire.\n\nIt spread to engulf the whole building, and the type of cladding used has been blamed.\n\nA Parliamentary committee has warned cladding, like that which helped the flames spread, could cost up to £15bn to remove nationwide.\n\nOn the third anniversary of the fire, with commemoration services planned online, survivors and relatives also expressed disbelief that a public inquiry into the disaster had yet to conclude.\n\nHearings were paused in March because of the coronavirus pandemic and are due to restart on 6 July.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the blaze, said \"there's not a lot of compliments right now\" for the government.\n\n\"A lot has changed, but nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"We're still talking about cladding, we're still talking about justice. The public inquiry keeps stopping and starting.\n\n\"It never feels like there's any urgency with the emergency that this country is in with the whole cladding situation.\"\n\nSurvivor Tiago Alves added: \"We knew this wasn't going to be an easy fight. Did I think we'd still be here three years on still talking about the removal of cladding? I think that's a bit absurd.\"\n\nJoseph John, who escaped the fire by climbing out the window of his second floor flat with his then-partner and child, has said he feels \"disgusted\" about where victims still find themselves.\n\n\"I feel like I've been left behind since Grenfell, I haven't been supported.\"\n\nA silent march was held to honour the victims on Sunday afternoon\n\nCampaign group Grenfell United - set up in the wake of the tragedy - organised a series of events, including online commemorations.\n\nA silent march was held to honour victims on Sunday afternoon, and a video message from singer Adele, who visited the site shortly after the fire, was played to a virtual service.\n\n\"Even though we're having to do this in the virtual world, online, 2020 Zoom life as it is, it is still so important for us to mourn together, and for us to remember that night and to reflect on that and also reflect on where we are now,\" she said.\n\n\"And also to celebrate the lives that were lived before sadly being taken that night.\"\n\nRapper Stormzy also sent a message of support to the survivors and those affected by the disaster.\n\n\"To all the people of Grenfell, we're still mourning with you,\" he said.\n\n\"When the Government and the powers that be have turned their back on you, we're here. We've got you, we remember.\n\n\"It was just a day, it was just a week, it was just a month for us, it was a green heart, it was a badge, it was a tweet but that's still a dark reality for these people.\"\n\nAt 22:30 BST, people in homes across the UK have been asked to shine a bright green light from their screens to show solidarity with the bereaved and survivors.\n\nMessages from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer were played at a virtual service hosted by the Bishop of Kensington.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"As a nation, we are still dealing with the consequences of what happened and working to make sure it never happens again.\"\n\nPeople have been asked to shine a green light in their homes to pay tribute to the victims\n\nHe added stricter laws on fire safety had been introduced and that the government was working to implement \"every recommendation made by the first phase of the public inquiry\".\n\nLabour has estimated 56,000 people were still living in homes wrapped in the same flammable cladding as Grenfell.\n\n\"In the midst of their suffering, the Grenfell community came together to campaign for justice, safe homes and change.\n\n\"Because no-one should ever go through the loss and pain they experienced,\" said Sir Keir.\n\n\"But three years on and, unbelievably, tonight, people will go to bed in unsafe homes,\" he added.\n\nIn a written statement, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would be relentless in ensuring the Grenfell community gets justice and that Londoners would feel safe in their homes.\n\nSome of victims of the fire have said they feel \"left behind\" by the government\n\nThe public inquiry is due to restart on 6 July\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government spokeswoman said it had set up the Building Safety Programme and testing process to identify all high-rise buildings with ACM cladding and had worked with councils to ensure buildings at risk were made safe.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said high-rise residents faced a \"postcode lottery\" concerning how many firefighters would be sent to their building in the event of a blaze.\n\nIt said \"many brigades would not be able to mobilise anywhere near the scale\" that was needed to tackle the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nA public inquiry is due to restart in July\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will talk online with EU institution leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday\n\nPsssst .. Over here! Lift the tarpaulin and dust down the jargon. Brexit is back on the political menu. Whether you voted for it or not, now is the time to start sitting up and listening again.\n\nIt starts with Monday's online meeting between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU institution leaders (the president of the European Council, Commission and Parliament).\n\nI know you've seen countless \"make or break summits\", so many \"deadlines\" come and go, so many threats of \"no deal\" that came to nought.\n\nSo here is an attempt to try and help navigate what's spin and what you should be looking out for. More insights - including deal-making tips from a professional hostage negotiator - in my podcast here.\n\nFirst off, Brexit has, of course, \"happened\". The UK left the EU at the end of January. But we're not yet living the next chapter. The transition period we're in means that, in practical terms, little has changed. The UK is still a member of the EU's single market and customs union. The UK isn't going it alone, just yet.\n\nThe EU and UK have until the end of this month - according to the Withdrawal Agreement, aka the Brexit divorce deal - to call for an extension to transition. But the UK government has long rejected the idea. On Friday, the EU publicly accepted that UK \"no\" as definitive.\n\nSo, there are six months left to negotiate, sign and seal the parameters of the UK's future relationship with its biggest and closest trade partner.\n\nThat's six months left to compromise.\n\nBecause without compromise - on both sides - there will be no trade deal come the end of this year.\n\nThat is why it's worth keeping a closer eye on things again. The UK government promised a brighter future post-Brexit - a taking back of control over national borders, waters and immigration.\n\nThe next half-a-year is when we find out if it will keep those promises.\n\nWhat compromises, if any, will the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal with the EU and others?\n\nAnd if the UK refuses to compromise, how might having no deal at all with the EU affect our lives?\n\nRight now, EU-UK trade negotiations are at an impasse, because of political priorities both sides of the Channel.\n\nThe government rejects EU demands on competition regulations and fishing because, it says, they fail to respect the UK's post Brexit national sovereignty.\n\nThe UK and EU have so far failed to agree on fishing and competition rules\n\nThe EU insists without agreement on fishing and competition rules, there'll be no deal at all. It wants restrictions on the UK's ability to slash costly environmental or labour regulations for example, in order to prevent UK businesses becoming more competitive than European ones in their own market. This, says the EU, is imperative to protect the \"integrity\" of the single market and what it calls \"the European project\".\n\nBut political rhetoric aside, Boris Johnson and EU leaders want a deal. It makes economic sense. This doesn't mean a deal is certain. But the UK isn't walking away from talks this month either, as it once threatened to do.\n\nInstead, after their meeting on Monday, the prime minister and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to announce a timetable of intensified negotiations this summer, including some face-to-face meetings (Covid-19 permitting) in a declared attempt to break the deadlock.\n\nPrepare for the setting of more deadlines too. Plus dark mutterings from both sides (France's Europe minister was already at it on Thursday) should these deadlines not be met.\n\nThe UK says a deal must become clear before the autumn to give businesses and workers the chance to prepare. Spoiler alert: a deal is extremely unlikely to materialise by then.\n\nThe EU insists 31 October is the latest date a deal can be reached, if it is to be ratified by the end of the year (the UK's other deadline).\n\nSpoiler alert Number 2: the late October date is also quite possibly not going to be met.\n\nThe UK has so far insisted it won't extend the transition period\n\nSo, does this make no-deal now the most probable outcome?\n\nNot necessarily. A deal is there to be done by December if both sides want one and if both are willing to make concessions. A compromise could be found on fishing, if, for example, EU coastal nations give up the dream of keeping the same quotas they had to fish in UK waters when the UK was an EU member. And if the UK accepts it can't have the exact same fishing agreement Brussels has with much smaller Norway.\n\nOn competition rules - aka level playing-field regulations - the EU would need to give up its insistence that the UK mirror the bloc's evolving state aid rules forever in to the future.\n\nThe UK concession could be to sign up to not weakening labour and environmental regulations below the current level.\n\nBut that is a political decision for the UK. The EU recognises that. And it's really not sure which way the government will eventually jump. Much will depend, Brussels thinks, on whatever else is going on for Boris Johnson domestically, come the autumn.\n\nGive up some sovereignty (as trade negotiators say all deals demand, to a greater or lesser extent) and come under fire from Brexit purists, or walk away, declaring that no deal was possible with the EU, and face an outcry from many in the business community and beyond.\n\nIt's at this point in off-the-record chats that my EU contacts love to repeat the phrase they've so often directed at the UK since the 2016 referendum, that \"you can't have your cake and eat it\". Or as the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier likes to say: \"You can't have the best of both worlds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatever the next months may bring, negotiators from both sides privately acknowledge this summer is probably too early for big compromises.\n\nThe theory is that the \"other side\" would simply bank those summer compromises and demand more come the autumn.\n\nAnd if they're almost there but not quite, come November, the whispered wisdom in Brussels is that with all the \"clever lawyers\" in town, as they're described to me, it should be possible to find a way of fudging an extension (though for political face-saving reasons, especially in the UK, not actually calling it an extension) for a limited period beyond the end of the year, if both sides want one, and only if they are very close indeed to sealing the deal.\n\nAfter all my years EU-watching, I cannot imagine the bloc allowing a deal with close neighbour and ally UK to fall through over a deadline, if the UK government too were keen to keep talking.\n\nBut this is not an official topic of discussion in Brussels, never mind London, at this stage.\n\nMeanwhile in Berlin, Paris, Rome and elsewhere, EU leaders are still very much focussed on Covid-19 and its fallout.\n\nYet another reason Brussels predicts the bartering and compromise possibilities will only become clearer come October, with the clock ticking down to the end of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Hutchinson: \"We did what we had to do\"\n\nThe person pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between protest groups in London has said he and his friends \"stopped somebody from being killed\".\n\nPatrick Hutchinson was widely praised after a photo of him helping the man on Saturday went viral.\n\nDescribing the events behind the image, he told the BBC the situation \"wasn't going to end well\" without their help.\n\n\"I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out,\" he said.\n\nA number of peaceful anti-racism protests took place in London and other cities across the UK on Saturday.\n\nBut groups including some far-right activists also congregated in the capital, and more than 100 people were arrested after violence broke out and police were attacked.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Hutchinson's \"instincts in that moment represent the best of us\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added: \"The images are very moving. Nobody should have to face vile racism and abuse.\"\n\nSpeaking about the events leading up to the photo, Mr Hutchinson said he was with his friends when one of them saw an altercation at the top of the stairs by the Southbank Centre, near Waterloo.\n\n\"The guy ended up on the floor and these guys [signalling to his friends] rushed in to stop him from getting trampled,\" said Mr Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather.\n\n\"In doing so, they created a barrier around him, and I was the last one to come in. I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment.\"\n\nHe said people were still trying to hit the man as they were leaving the scene.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking, I was just thinking of a human being on the floor. It wasn't going to end well had we not intervened,\" Mr Hutchinson said. \"I had no other thoughts in my mind apart from getting to safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"We did what we had to do. We stopped somebody from being killed.\"\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world following the death of African American man George Floyd, who died last month as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nFour police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nMr Hutchinson told Channel 4 News in a separate interview that Mr Floyd \"would be alive today\" if the other police officers had intervened - as he and his friends did on Saturday.\n\nPierre Noah was one of those to help Mr Hutchinson during the clash between protesters.\n\nMr Noah, who works as a bodyguard, told the BBC: \"I'm saving two lives right there. I'm saving the man that's just about to get squashed up and beat up. And then I'm saving those young boys to get a life sentence.\"", "Dr Muge Cevik has studied cases from around the world Image caption: Dr Muge Cevik has studied cases from around the world\n\nThe World Health Organisation said this week that coronavirus could be transmitted by people who never develop symptoms, so may not know they are carrying the virus.\n\nDr Muge Cevik, an infectious diseases expert at St Andrews University, has studied a range of asymptomatic cases from contact tracing around the world.\n\n\"What we found is that while asymptomatic patients can certainly transmit the virus to others, they transmit the infection to fewer cases, which means they are less contagious compared to someone with symptoms,\" she told Politics Scotland.\n\nMs Cevik said transmission rates depend on many different aspects, including the duration of the contact, proximity, and the environment.\n\nShe explained that 'super-spreaders' - cases when maybe 20 people are infected at the same time - occur when someone at their most infectious goes to an all-day meeting for example, or a crowded indoor event, and then might go out for dinner afterwards.\n\n\"If the same person had an evening at home, we might not see any transmission,\" she added.\n\nQuote Message: We still need to understand when patients are at their most infectious, but it seems to be when they start to develop symptoms or feel mildly unwell.\" from Dr Muge Cevik We still need to understand when patients are at their most infectious, but it seems to be when they start to develop symptoms or feel mildly unwell.\"", "Rescuers tried to save the 30ft (10m) fin whale after it was beached twice\n\nA beached whale has died after getting stranded for a third time on the same stretch of the coastline.\n\nThe 30ft (10m) fin whale was spotted again on a sand bank near the Dee estuary in Flintshire on Sunday morning.\n\nThe 14-tonne sea mammal was being observed by rescue teams from a distance for \"signs of life\".\n\nBut a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokeswoman confirmed the whale had died.\n\n\"It will be taken away and post-mortem examination carried out in the next day or two to determine how and why it died,\" she said.\n\nMembers of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) spotted the whale this morning but said there were \"no signs of life left\".\n\nOn their Facebook page, they said: \"The fin whale re-stranded late last night on a sand bank near the Dee estuary mouth on the outgoing tide, but it was far too dangerous to send anyone out there to see if it was still alive.\n\n\"It has been found stranded once again this morning and a team from the coastguard and a licensed drone pilot with permission to fly the area have been observing it from a distance.\n\n\"Sadly, though expected, there appear to be no signs of life left.\"\n\nThe whale beached itself for the first time on Friday\n\nThe BDMLR urged members of the public not to enter the estuary in an attempt to get near the whale, which was thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nThey said it had been a \"harrowing ordeal over the last couple of days\" for the team as they had battled to save the whale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers were keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\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. Delight as family reunites after weeks apart\n\nThere were squeals of delight as a family had their first hugs after weeks of social distancing.\n\nLike many, Hayley Matthews, 36, from Telford, Shropshire, was separated from her mother Rita Kenyon during lockdown.\n\nBut on Saturday they were reunited, after the government allowed single adults living alone to link with another household.\n\nThe family said news they were able to reunite was like \"being let out of jail\".\n\nMrs Matthews and her husband Rob both work, so she said her mum was her \"main source of childcare\" for nine-year-old Maddison, seven-year-old Jude and Rowan, five.\n\nThe Matthews family and Rita Kenyon always go on holiday together, as seen in this pre-lockdown snap\n\n\"We have really missed her, especially my youngest,\" she said.\n\n\"Rowan spends lot of time with Nanny, so it has been really difficult, the other two understand a bit more.\n\n\"At the first part of lockdown, I wouldn't go to see her because I couldn't deal with it.\n\n\"My husband went and dropped the shopping off, because we have done all her shopping throughout lockdown.\"\n\nHayley Matthews said her mother was her \"rock\" (pic taken before lockdown)\n\nIt was very emotional when they realised they would be able to get back together, she said.\n\n\"I rang her because she didn't watch the news, and she was crying down the phone, it is like being let out of jail were mum's words,\" Mrs Matthews said.\n\n\"Rowan couldn't get his head around it, when we are out for walks he knows you have to socially distance and he gives Nanny a virtual hug.\n\n\"He has been counting down the days.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A statue of Robert Baden-Powell in Poole has been boarded up\n\nThe Scout movement must learn from the \"failings\" of its founder Robert Baden-Powell, chief scout Bear Grylls says.\n\nThe adventurer was speaking following a row about whether to take down a statue of Baden-Powell in Poole, Dorset.\n\nAmid claims of Baden-Powell being a supporter of Hitler, the local council initially said it would remove the statue to stop it being targeted.\n\nGrylls said of the Scouts' founder: \"We most certainly do not celebrate Baden-Powell for his failings.\"\n\nIn a statement on the Scouts website, the TV presenter continued: \"We see them and we acknowledge them.\n\n\"And if he were here today we would disagree with him on many things, of that there is no doubt. And I suspect he would too.\n\n\"But we also recognise that Baden-Powell is part of our history, and history is nothing if we do not learn from it.\"\n\nBear Grylls said he hoped Poole's statue of Baden-Powell would remain in place\n\nHe added: \"Baden-Powell may have taken the first step in creating Scouting, but the journey continues today without him.\n\n\"We know where we came from but we are not going back.\"\n\nHe said that he hoped Scouting statues, like the one in Poole, would remain in place \"to remind us all of one thing - the huge positive influence that Scouting continues to bring to so many young people worldwide\".\n\nThere was a public outcry over the decision to remove the Baden-Powell statue temporarily, following its appearance on a target list, and it was instead boarded up.\n\nBaden-Powell had been criticised by campaigners who have accused him of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler - although this characterisation of him has been rejected by his biographer.\n\nThe Baden-Powell statue was ultimately not removed from Poole Quay\n\nThere had been fears over the monument since Black Lives Matter protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol last weekend.\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council leader Vikki Slade said she and her 15-year-old daughter had been verbally abused after giving interviews about the monument's removal.\n\nA petition to keep it in place gained more then 40,000 signatures and protesters gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue on Thursday, with some camping overnight to ensure it was not vandalised.\n\nCouncil deputy leader Mark Howell said the decision to board it up temporarily was made because \"some people were suspicious the council might not put it back\".\n\nSupporters of the statue remaining in place include Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, who congratulated protesters who \"stepped forward to defend modern-day values, to defend [against] any vandalism and also - dare I say it - a rush to remove this statue without actually any debate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The largest gathering on Sunday was in Monmouthshire\n\nHundreds of people across Wales have attended protests in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nThe largest gathering was in Monmouth, where about 400 people wore masks and social distanced due to coronavirus.\n\nA further 200 were at a separate event in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, along with about 30 others, including ex-service personnel, saying they were protecting the cenotaph from potential damage.\n\nBrecon and Aberavon Beach, near Port Talbot, also hosted demonstrations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 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\nMargaret Ogunbanwo, from nearby Penygroes, spoke at the event in Caernarfon after deciding not to erase a swastika found painted on her garage door.\n\nShe shared her experiences of racism and also spoke of the support she received from locals, especially over the past few days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Ogunbanwo spoke in Caernarfon after deciding not to erase a swastika daubed on her garage\n\nOrganisers, the North Wales African Society, said they wanted a peaceful demonstration to raise awareness and show that racism exists everywhere.\n\nSgt Non Edwards from North Wales Police said the force was \"very happy\" with the way the protest had been organised.\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo (right) had a swastika spray painted on her garage door on Saturday\n\nShe added social distancing had been observed and the event was trouble-free.\n\nThe latest demonstrations follow peaceful protests in Chepstow and Barry on Saturday.\n\nBut there were more than 100 arrests at a protest in London in clashes with police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nProtests around the world have been sparked following the death of George Floyd in the US.\n\nPeople gathered on the Maes in Caernarfon for the demonstration\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nOrganisers of the demonstration at Chippenham Fields in Monmouth said they \"do not tolerate any violence\" and personal protective equipment was mandatory.", "PM Boris Johnson has commissioned a review into the 2m social distancing rule, the chancellor has confirmed.\n\nMr Johnson said there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nRishi Sunak told the BBC the government would \"actively\" look again at the measure, given its \"enormous impact\" on the profitability of businesses.\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, when pubs and restaurants could open in England.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"\n\nThe chancellor added he would like to see the rule relaxed, if \"safe and responsible\" to do so.\n\nEx-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the evidence \"already shows that it is wholly feasible to move to 1m\".\n\n\"If other countries are doing it successfully, we need to move now,\" he added.\n\nThe review, which was first reported in the Mail on Sunday, will take evidence from scientists as well as economists, Mr Sunak confirmed.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Sunak said \"many other countries\" had a rule less than 2m and the review would \"look at the issue in the round\".\n\n\"Much as I would like to see it reduced - everyone would like to see that reduced from an economic perspective - we can only do that if it's safe and responsible to do so,\" he said.\n\nHe added that scientists had made clear there is a \"different degree of risk at different levels,\" and the decision on relaxing it is \"ultimately\" for ministers to make.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThis is further than the World Health Organization's recommendation of at least 1m (just over 3ft), and some other countries like France and Denmark. But the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nHowever, there are widespread concerns about the impact of the rule on the UK economy, which is already suffering from the pandemic.\n\nShops in London's Oxford Street are preparing to reopen on Monday with the 2m rule in place\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen. Tourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the industry body UK Hospitality, says that with a 2m rule, outlets would be only able to make about 30% of normal revenues, whereas 1m would increase that to 60-75%.\n\nRichard Caring, chairman of Caprice Holdings which runs the Ivy, told the Mail on Sunday the government was \"killing the country\".\n\n\"There are estimates saying we could have up to five million unemployed,\" he said. \"It's not going to be five million - it's going to be more. I don't think we've seen anything yet.\"\n\nMr Johnson is also under pressure from some of his own MPs to reduce the 2m rule over concerns it would made it difficult for firms to turn a profit after they reopen.\n\nSir Iain said the review should be \"swift,\" and called on the prime minister to reduce the rule now \"for the good of the economy\".\n\n\"Whether there is a review or not, it will come down to a political judgment for the prime minister to make,\" he added.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said Labour would support a relaxation of the 2m rule if the evidence showed it was \"the right time to do it\".\n\nAlso speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, he said the government should \"follow the science,\" and be \"frank and honest with the public on balancing risk\".\n\nHe added: \"I think the government's been slow, slow on testing, slow on lockdown, slow on PPE [personal protective equipment], and I suspect they'll be slow again on this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nThe 2m distance has been implemented by all nations of the UK, which have their own powers over restrictions. But so far, political leaders have rejected calls to relax the 2m rule.\n\nEarlier this week, Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said the evidence was \"incontrovertible\" that the risk of transmitting the virus increased the closer you got to someone.\n\nHe said it was a \"balanced and sensible precaution\" to ensure transmission is reduced.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said the medical advice suggested 2m apart was the \"safest place to be\".\n\nWhile pubs, bars and restaurants could open in England from 4 July, no date has been given in Scotland, Wales or NI.\n\nFrom Monday, all non-essential shops in England will be allowed to reopen - as long as they enforce the 2m guidance among shoppers and staff.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all shops were allowed to open from Friday. No dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown.\n\nThe UK government has repeatedly said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.", "Police were present as scores of young people made their way to the Carrington area rave\n\nA 20-year-old man has died, a woman has been raped and three people have been stabbed during two illegal \"quarantine raves\" that attracted 6,000 people.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester late on Saturday.\n\nThe man at the country park died of a suspected drug overdose and the stabbings and the attack on an 18-year-old woman took place in Carrington.\n\nPolice said the illegal raves have had tragic consequences.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes condemned them as a clear breach of coronavirus legislation, adding officers \"were met with violence, resulting in items being thrown and a police car being vandalised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nPolice said about 4,000 people were at the Daisy Nook rave in Failsworth, Oldham, where there were no reported crimes.\n\nThere were, however, three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice were able to find the man and give him first aid before paramedics arrived.\n\nTwo other men, aged 25 and 26, were hurt in separate stabbings and a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\n\"We are also investigating the rape of an 18-year-old woman... and we have specialist officers supporting her and her family,\" police said.\n\nThe raves continued through the night\n\nPeople were seen congregating near the rave site\n\nStreams of young people were seen on their way to an area just off Common Lane in Carrington on Saturday evening.\n\nThere was a large police presence at both sites.\n\nImages and footage were also shared on social media showing densely-packed crowds of people dancing and singing at the outdoor raves.\n\nA large sign reading \"Quarantine Rave\" can be seen in background of one video.\n\nAnyone with footage that could help with inquiries has been asked to contact police.\n\nPolice were called to Daisy Nook Country Park after illegal raves were reported\n\nSacha Lord, who is the night-time economy adviser for the region, said those that had attended had put themselves and those they loved at risk.\n\nMr Lord tweeted: \"I've seen some of the footage. You aren't clubbers. Just selfish idiots.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sacha Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 MP for Ashton-Under-Lyne, Angela Rayner, said she had joined Oldham Street Angels at the Daisy Nook site during the rave.\n\nThe group offers support and pastoral care to partygoers and others that need it during the night-time.\n\nMs Rayner tweeted that she had \"just finished my shift at Street Angels in Oldham\" and had been \"dealing with the illegal rave at Daisy Nook liaising with the police\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVolunteers spent Sunday morning clearing away rubbish left scattered across the fields at the Daisy Nook site with help from Oldham Council.\n\nVolunteers helped clear the rubbish left on the grass\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding tweeted his thanks to the \"dozens of volunteers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sean Fielding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Bev Hughes, said the events industry had agreed \"to blacklist any supplier who is involved with illegal raves\".\n\nShe said \"those reckless individuals\" have \"put a needless demand on vital police time,\" and \"themselves and their communities in real danger\".\n\nBut she praised communities helping clean up, saying: \"We have seen the real Greater Manchester this morning.\"\n\nACC Sykes responded to suggestions police had been slow to act or allowed the events to go ahead in a lengthy statement on the force's website.\n\nGreater Manchester Police had seen huge demand including a 60% surge in emergency calls from 17:00 BST on Saturday to 04:00 on Sunday, he said.\n\nHe said said the gatherings were carefully monitored but \"we needed to balance the present public health emergency and our overall demand with ongoing incidents\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's very exciting, we can't wait to have our customers back,\" says Annie Martin, who manages the Waterstones Piccadilly bookshop, in London.\n\nNon-essential retailers, such as fashion, toy and book shops, will be allowed to reopen in England on 15 June - as long as they have coronavirus-related safety measures in place.\n\nWaterstones, for example, is introducing Perspex \"sneeze screens\" and a quarantine trolley where books that have been browsed will be held for \"a couple of days\".\n\n\"We want to keep bookshop experience exactly as it normally would be,\" says Annie. \"We're still encouraging people to browse, we're just looking after those books once you've browsed them.\"\n\nAnnie has been working on implementing those changes behind-the-scenes, but is also looking forward to seeing her colleagues back in-store.\n\n\"Bookshops are quite close teams... We've been messaging, but it's not quite the same as seeing colleagues in person for a chat, particularly about the books you've been reading on furlough.\"\n\nSuki, who works at a Boots beauty hall in London, also says that it's \"refreshing to come back to work, which is like my second home\".\n\nMost Boots stores have remained open during lockdown. That means that staff on the beauty counter have had the chance to trial different ways of working about a week before shoppers return to the High Street.\n\nBoots is removing all make-up testers, and assistants will wear plastic visors in its beauty halls, to try to keep both customers and staff safe.\n\nSuki acknowledges that some changes could make shopping more difficult. That there won't be testers is \"going to be a shock for a lot of us, because with beauty you often need to try things on,\" she said.\n\n\"The visor isn't the most glamorous thing in the world, but it does mean that I'm not touching my face and my make-up can stay on longer. And, safety isn't supposed to be glamorous,\" she adds.\n\nOverall, Suki feels as though she's in a safe pair of hands: \"We're all as nervous as each other, so I think as long as we all take the necessary steps, we'll be fine.\"\n\nShoppers, though, might be feeling more anxious about their return to the High Street.\n\nMore than half of UK customers expect they will now go shopping less often over the next one or two years, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people by accountancy giant EY.\n\nOne trade body, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), is urging the public to \"play their part\" in making shopping safer. Along with 25 other retailers, it says customers should follow five steps:\n\nHelen Dickinson, the BRC's chief executive, said: \"Every visit we make helps support jobs in retail, as well as throughout the supply chain. Retailers have been working around the clock to create a safe shopping environment\".\n\n\"Our shopping experience may be changing, but if we all follow the necessary social distancing measures and show a little consideration to those around us, then everyone will be better off.\"\n\nHer plea was echoed by Damian McGloughlin, chief executive of Homebase.\n\n\"While the vast majority of our customers have adhered to the safety measures we have in store, in recent weeks, a small minority of shoppers are disobeying the guidelines set out and at times reacting abusively when challenged by store teams,\" he said.\n\n\"It's for this reason we're calling on members of the public to help us reverse the trend that saw cases of abusive incidents towards shop workers rise by 9% during the last year.\"\n\nFor any customers who don't want to go into a store, HMV will offer to do their shopping for them. From Monday, people can drop in a shopping list, a team member will collect it, package it up and have it waiting for the customer to pick up later. Alternatively, customers can ring their local HMV to have a product put aside for them to collect later on.\n\nThe idea came from the chain's Canadian customers who have been a little bit more cautious about returning to stores as opposed to its US shoppers, says its owner Doug Putman.\n\nSo what does he expect from customers in England when HMV opens 93 shops on Monday? Read more here.\n\nMany retailers in England will soon open their doors for the first time since lockdown measures were introduced in March.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown. Those in Northern Ireland have been open since Friday.\n\nJohn Lewis stores in Poole and Kingston will be the first to reopen on 15 June, followed by another 11 shops later that week. Marks & Spencer will also reopen the majority of its clothing stores.\n\nPrimark has also announced that it will reopen all 153 of its stores in England on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, Debenhams will open 50 shops in England. The firm collapsed for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business. It has struck deals with landlords to keep 120 stores open.\n\nHowever, 17 of its stores will remain closed for good when coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted. It is still in discussions over a \"handful\" of others.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said: \"The survival of so many retailers will hinge on the success of reopening stores over the coming weeks and the pace at which consumers return.\"\n\nMr Lim also pointed out that the \"significant shift\" towards online seen during lockdown may change shopping habits for good.\n\n\"Many of these consumers are shopping for goods online for the first time, overcoming the barriers of setting up online accounts, entering payment details and gaining trust. It is inevitable that some of these behaviours will become sticky,\" he said.\n\nFormer John Lewis boss and current mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, told Sky News he hopes to see a permanent reform to business rates, a kind of council tax businesses pay.\n\nHe is also keen on proposals for a digital sales tax for online retailers, \"making sure online companies pay a fair share,\" he said.\n\nFor physical shops, a rare ray of sunshine from the lockdown could be customers wanting to visit local shops as they work from home and spend more time near their homes, he added.\n\n\"I do believe one of the things to come out of this is a concentration on local areas,\" he told Sky.", "Little Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008.\n\nMatt Lucas and David Walliams have apologised for playing characters of different ethnic backgrounds in their sketch show Little Britain.\n\nThe series used blackface make-up in some sketches. Earlier this week it was removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox after objections resurfaced.\n\nThe pair said they \"regret that we played characters of other races\".\n\n\"Once again we want to make it clear that it was wrong and we are very sorry,\" they said in their statements.\n\nLucas and Walliams said they had both spoken publicly in recent years about the regret they felt about such scenes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by realmattlucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option.\n\nWalliams used black make-up and an afro wig to play the black woman Desiree DeVere, while Lucas used blackface to play Pastor Jesse King.\n\nLast Friday in the wake of anti-racism protests, Netflix took the show off its platform along with their other comedy, Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008.\n\nCome Fly With Me aired in 2010 and there were complaints then over its portrayal of racially stereotyped characters and the use of blackface.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary John Swinney said the new academic year, starting in August, is unlikely to get back to normal\n\nNext year's exams may take place later than normal, according to Education Secretary John Swinney.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's Politics Scotland it was possible the timetable could be put back to allow courses to be completed.\n\nNormally the diet begins towards the end of April. This year, exams were cancelled for the first time ever.\n\nMr Swinney accepted next year's exams could also have to be cancelled but was hopeful that would not happen.\n\nExams could be held later in the year in Scotland in 2021\n\n\"The exam diet is being prepared for the spring of 2021 and our working assumption is that it will take place,\" he said.\n\n\"We have also said to schools that they should be gathering evidence of the achievements of young people on an ongoing basis in case we are not in a position to be able to run the exam diet in the spring of next year.\n\n\"It normally starts in late April, it might be possible that we could start it later in the year.\"\n\nThe longer these emergency arrangements continue, the harder it will be to complete National 5 and Higher courses.\n\nMr Swinney said he hoped the blended model would not go on for a moment longer than necessary.\n\nThe fact students hoping to go to college or university next autumn would need their results by a certain date means there are practical limitations on how long any postponement of the exams could be.\n\nThe SSTA union has already called for next year's exam diet to be cancelled.\n\nThe largest union, the EIS, had previously argued that some students should not sit exams next year - such as S4 students who intended to continue with a subject in S5.\n\nMr Swinney also told the programme he was confident schools could go back on 11 August and hoped the \"blended\" model of home and face-to-face learning would not go on for \"a minute longer\" than was necessary.\n\nHowever, he said he accepted it was \"unlikely\" that schools would return to normal before the end of the academic year due to social distancing.\n\n\"The more we can try to expand the capacity and involvement of young people in their education in face-to-face schooling we will be taking those opportunities when it is safe to do so,\" he said.\n\nMr Swinney added that he understood parental anxiety about sending children back to school in August which he said would be a legal requirement.\n\n\"We will have considered discussions with parents about the issues about which they are concerned,\" he said.", "Private care homes are getting some of the heat for the spread of coronavirus and high numbers of residents' deaths.\n\nThat has led to claims they should be in public hands, and that they are raking off excess profits.\n\nThere are examples of that. But the wider problem seems to have more to do with under-funding than profiteering.\n\nIndeed, private care homes in Britain are struggling with unsustainably low levels of government-paid fees.\n\nThe shortfall is reckoned to be around £1bn, and much of that is made up with excess fees, paid by older and vulnerable residents, required to draw on often modest savings.\n\nThat was the finding of the Competition and Markets Authority, when it took a close look at the private care home sector in 2017.\n\nIt was trying to find out if the market operated in the interests of those who have to use the homes.\n\nThe answer: not sufficiently. At the point of choosing a home, people are often in a weak position to choose or negotiate.\n\nBut the other main finding was that local government is failing to pay sufficient fees to make the sector sustainable. It needs more to pay for repairs and maintenance, and to attract new investors, when demographic change points to the need for a big rise in capacity.\n\nThose that are building new care homes are doing so in affluent areas, where they can attract wealthier \"self-funders\", the CMA found.\n\nIn Scotland, a self-funder is someone who has to pay their way, after getting the standard government grants for nursing and personal care - if they're assessed as needing them.\n\nWith care home fees for private individuals costing more than £900 per week on average, that's £200 more than the nationally negotiated set rate for council-funded residents.\n\nThe Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) tells care homes what it thinks is reasonable to pay. It assumes the minimum level of staffing, and a minimum £9.30 per hour for care assistants, though the maximum isn't much more.\n\nScottish Care, which represents most private care homes, says the National Care Contract assumes a lower level of nurse pay than equivalent work in the NHS. There's heating, and less than £6 a day for food. A 4% margin is allowed for profit.\n\nFor a nursing home resident, that comes to a weekly £740 this year. Care Scotland says the true price should be £950 to £1000. But it's not in a strong negotiating position.\n\nIn England, each council negotiates its own rates, leaving a much less clear picture. The rates for private individuals in England can be up to a third higher than the council rate.\n\nAn alternative analysis of the private care home sector, by the GMB trade union, found that care homes can be far too profitable, and that some people have become very rich.\n\nOwnership is hard to pin down, through complex corporate vehicles, these \"private equity\" owners are hard to determine, sometimes because their profits go to tax havens.\n\nThat union research suggests the bumper profits are made from property rather than running the service. But the GMB argues that it has a direct effect on the low pay and poor employment conditions of care home workers.\n\nThe private equity ownership model accounts for fewer than a fifth of Scottish care homes.", "As face coverings become mandatory on public transport in England from tomorrow, we've been listening to what you have to say.\n\nChristine Bithrey, from London, told us she has chronic asthma and that wearing a mask makes it feel harder for her to breathe. In a government briefing earlier this month, transport minister Grant Shapps said people with breathing difficulties would be exempt from the new law.\n\nChristine is currently working from home but she doesn't want to use public transport, because as her condition is hidden, she fears she will be attacked or stopped for not wearing a mask.\n\n\"I am terrified about the prospect of using public transport\", she says. \"A couple of weeks ago I went on a bus to a different location, and I was coughing because of my asthma. I am nearly 60. A man appeared in front of me with a disgusting tissue and asked me to put it over my mouth.\"\n\nBut Christine says she will need to travel to work at some point.\n\n\"I have no idea how I am going to get to my office,\" she says. \"I spoke to some staff at Camden Road station who said they weren't even aware of any exemptions. If London Transport Police approaches me, how can I prove I have a health condition?\"", "It is the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with a unique ceremony performed by the Welsh Guard at Windsor Castle.\n\nIt comes after the traditional Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is only the second time in her 68-year reign that the parade in London has not gone ahead.\n\nThe Queen, flanked by officials, sat alone on a dais for the ceremony. It was her first official public appearance since lockdown began.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 94th birthday in April, but it is officially - and publicly - celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year.\n\nIt is typically accompanied by the annual announcement of the Queen's Birthday Honours' List. However, this year she has \"graciously agreed\" to postpone publication of the list to the autumn.\n\nIn a statement last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the delay \"will allow us to ensure that the list, agreed before this public health emergency developed, reflects the Covid-19 effort, and comes at a time when we can properly celebrate the achievements of all those included\".\n\nGuardsmen kept their distance as they stood in formation in the central quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nAll the troops had learnt new marching techniques for the occasion, to conform with social distancing measures\n\nThe ceremonial tribute, dubbed a mini-Trooping, was performed by a small number of Welsh Guardsmen and the band of the Household Division.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell described it as \"a birthday parade for changed times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen received a royal salute. It was followed by a display of precision marching - with the military maintaining strict social distancing measures, in keeping with government guidelines.\n\nWith fewer people on parade because of social distancing rules, \"there is no hiding place\" said Garrison Sgt Maj Warrant Officer Class 1 Andrew Stokes, who created the display.\n\n\"But more spacing between individuals means that there is also no room for errors and so the soldier has to really concentrate on their own personal drill, reaction to orders, dressing and social distancing,\" he said.\n\nNormally, Guardsmen stand shoulder-to-shoulder during their drills or when formed up on the parade ground, but on Saturday they stood 2.2m apart.\n\nGuardsman Lance Corporal Chusa Siwale, 29, originally from Zambia, had a central role in the ceremony, performing the Drummer's Call.\n\n\"Only four weeks ago I was involved with testing key workers for Covid-19, as part of the Welsh Guards' contribution to the battle against the virus. Now I am on parade performing in front of Her Majesty.\n\n\"This is a very proud day for me.\"\n\nThe Queen appeared to enjoy the more intimate occasion\n\nNo other members of the Royal family attended the ceremony on Saturday\n\nIt was the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle. An event for a sovereign's birthday has not been staged there since 1895, during the reign of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the lockdown in isolation at Windsor Castle, and were photographed there earlier this month to mark Prince Philip's 99th birthday.\n\nA new photo of the Queen and Prince Philip was released to mark his 99th birthday\n\nLast year's parade: The Queen and other royals gather to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in Whitehall is usually watched by thousands of spectators and senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe last time the event was cancelled was in 1955, two years after the Queen's coronation, due to a national rail strike.\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, who commands the Household Division, said the circumstances surrounding the decision to host the tribute in Windsor were \"clouded in tragedy\".\n\n\"The effects of Covid-19 have been devastating in terms of loss of life and the threatening of livelihoods of so many across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had to endure separation from loved ones, great uncertainty and the suspension of so much of what is special about our national life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Royal Opera Chorus reunites online for the Queen's official birthday\n\nGen Ghika added: \"The Welsh Guards and many of those on parade have recently been deployed within the United Kingdom as part of the nation's response to the virus and so the context of the ceremony is particularly poignant.\"\n\nThe Welsh Guards, along with the rest of the Household Division, have been among the soldiers helping with the coronavirus response, for example at test centres.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been charged after an individual was photographed apparently urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nAndrew Banks, aged 28, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nThe image of a man was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nThe man in the photo was widely condemned by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament by Masood in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A statue of Churchill in Parliament Square was boarded up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.\n\nEmma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a \"complex man\" but he was considered a hero by millions.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.\n\nIt came after protesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the statue last weekend.\n\nMs Soames said it was \"extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial.\"\n\n\"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMs Soames acknowledged her grandfather had often held views which \"particularly now are regarded as unacceptable but weren't necessarily then\".\n\nHowever she added: \"He was a powerful, complex man, with infinitely more good than bad in the ledger of his life.\"\n\nShe said if people were \"so infuriated\" by seeing the statue it may be \"safer\" in a museum.\n\n\"But I think Parliament Square would be a poorer place without him,\" she added.\n\nChurchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames said he was \"deeply upset\" after the statue was vandalised and then boarded up.\n\n\"I find it extraordinary that millions and millions of people all over the world who look up to Britain will be astonished that a statue of Churchill and the Cenotaph, our national war memorial, could have been defaced in this disgusting way,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nLast weekend the statue of Winston Churchill was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nHowever, author Shrabani Basu, who has written books about the British Empire, said there were \"two sides of Churchill\" and \"we need to know his darkest hour as well as his finest hour\".\n\nShe argued that in India, Churchill is not seen as a hero, citing his role in the 1943 Bengal famine, during which at least three million people are believed to have died.\n\nWhile Ms Basu said she did not want to see the statue removed from Parliament Square, she said people should be taught \"the whole story\" about the war-time figure.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activist Imarn Ayton said statues of slave traders and people who had spoken negatively towards black people were \"extremely offensive\" and should be moved to museums.\n\n\"I think it's a win-win to everyone so we no longer offend the black nation and we also get to keep our history,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the boarding up of the statue to protect it from potential vandalism as \"absurd and shameful\".\n\nMr Johnson said the former prime minister had expressed opinions which were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster on Friday evening.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Met Police have placed restrictions on several groups intending to protest on Saturday, including requiring demonstrations to end at 17:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people gathered in Central London on Saturday, including around the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall and the nearby Churchill statue.\n\nThe protesters, largely groups of white men who were right-wing activists, sang the national anthem and chanted \"England\", amid a tense atmosphere and heavy police presence.\n\nAmong the demonstrators was Paul Golding, leader of far-right group Britain First, who said they had turned out to \"guard our monuments\".\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph has also been covered.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected, saying there was a risk statues could become a \"flashpoint for violence\".\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the harbour in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests were sparked following the death of George Floyd in the United States\n\nHundreds of people have marched through two towns in a peaceful protest in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nMore than 350 people gathered outside the town hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nAnother protest in Chepstow saw about 200 people march from Dell Park, past Chepstow Castle to the riverfront, where they listened to speakers.\n\nProtesters were asked by organisers to wear a face mask and respect social distancing.\n\nProtests were sparked following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nOrganisers of the Barry protest, Stand Up to Racism Cardiff, said they were protesting in support of the Justice for George Floyd campaign.\n\nSpeakers included lawyer and activist Hilary Brown and Suresh Grover from the Stephen Lawrence Campaign.\n\nAt regular intervals Ms Brown led the crowd in chants of \"no justice, no peace\" and \"whose lives matter? Black lives matter\".\n\nEarlier, Luis Williamson, 29, told the crowd how he had been subjected to racial abuse last week while he was jogging with his top off near Barry Island.\n\nSomeone in a passing car wound down their window and shouted racist insults at him, he said.\n\nHe told the crowd that not being racist is \"not enough\" and said people must be \"vocally and visibly\" anti-racist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Not My Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Not My Britain\n\nAnother speaker, Jamie Baker, told BBC Wales: \"This is Barry and it never has events, it never has demonstrations, it never does this kind of thing.\n\n\"So to see young people - and the majority of our audience or young people - actually angry and annoyed and seeking change, that puts all of their parents, their grandparents, and everybody on notice.\"\n\nCalling for schools and the local authority to better reflect the area's black history, he added: \"And hopefully it'll put some schools on notice that what they're teaching is inaccurate.\"\n\nProtesters gathered on King Square, Barry, to listen to speakers in support of Black Lives Matter\n\nThe two peaceful demonstrations have followed a number of similar events in towns and villages around Wales including Bridgend, Cardiff and Machynlleth.\n\nOn Thursday, about 1,000 people gathered in Newport in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany carried placards bearing political slogans while others knelt on one knee - a protest against racism that stems from the US.\n\nThe demonstrators marched from the civic centre toward the University of South Wales building on the banks of the River Usk.", "Saab was charged with money laundering in the US last July\n\nCape Verde authorities have arrested a businessman accused by the US of corrupt dealings with the government of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nAlex Nain Saab, who is Colombian, was indicted by the US justice department for money laundering last July.\n\nThe 48-year-old was detained on Friday on an Interpol \"red notice\" stemming from the indictment.\n\nMr Saab was reportedly travelling to Iran on a Venezuelan plane and had stopped in Cape Verde to refuel.\n\nHis lawyer in the US, María Domínguez, confirmed the arrest, but declined to comment.\n\nMr Saab is accused by the US government of serving as President Maduro's front man in a large network of money laundering and corruption.\n\nHe is accused of making large amounts of money from overvalued contracts, as well as Venezuela's systems of government-set exchange rate and centralized import and distribution of basic foods.\n\nVenezuela has faced chronic shortages of food and medicine as a result of years of political and economic crisis.\n\n\"Saab engaged with Maduro insiders to run a wide-scale corruption network they callously used to exploit Venezuela's starving population,\" said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said when the sanctions were announced.\n\n\"They use food as a form of social control, to reward political supporters and punish opponents, all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2018: Families have resorted to eating rotten meat in Zulia state\n\nMr Saab was also wanted for money laundering in his native Colombia, where he is regarded as a fugitive from justice.\n\nWashington has long accused the President Maduro of leading a corrupt regime in Venezuela - a charge he has repeatedly rejected.\n\nIn March, the US charged him and other senior officials in the country with \"narco-terrorism\".\n\nThe Trump administration backs Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last year.", "After three months of lockdown learning through online platforms, some Year 10 and Year 12 pupils in England are heading back to school.\n\nAs part of lockdown restrictions easing, students will be able to go back to class under social distancing measures.\n\nAt Swanmore College in Hampshire teachers say they are excited to be back with their students and for the children of key workers who have been in since the start, it's time to see their friends again.", "Young people can feel isolated from friends despite the presence of social media\n\nThe delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a \"national disaster\" that is putting their mental health at risk, say leading psychologists.\n\nIn an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, they say the isolation of lockdown is harming already vulnerable young people.\n\nHighlighting the low risk to children of Covid-19, they call for social distancing measures to be minimised.\n\nAnd for a return to normal life.\n\nIn the letter, signed by more than 100 specialists in psychology, mental health and neuroscience, and published in The Sunday Times, they write: \"As experts working across disciplines, we are united as we urge you to reconsider your decision and to release children and young people from lockdown.\n\n\"Allow them to play together and continue their education by returning to preschool, school, college and university, and enjoy extra-curricular activities including sport and music as normally, and as soon, as possible.\"\n\nIt comes after an opinion piece in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health warned of the damaging long-term consequences of a lack of face-to-face contact among young people and their peers.\n\nProf Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, who organised the letter, said mental health problems such as anxiety were already rising in young people before lockdown.\n\nShe told the BBC there was evidence that growing feelings of loneliness and social isolation as a result of school closures during the pandemic could be making that worse, especially among teenagers.\n\nAnd she described hearing some \"heart-breaking stories\" of children struggling.\n\nThe letter also points to evidence that children are at low risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Suicide is already the leading cause of death in 5-19 year olds in England and the second leading cause of death in young people globally; thankfully, Covid-19 will never claim this many young lives,\" it says.\n\nThe letter goes on to say that children are being \"neglected in this crisis\" and \"their futures must now be given priority\".\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.\n\nSignatories to the letter include Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, Prof Rory O'Connor, chair in health psychology at Glasgow University, broadcaster and author Prof Tanya Byron and Prof Uta Frith, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.\n\nFrom now on, young people must be included in making decisions involving them, they say.\n\n\"We need to recognise the sacrifice that children have already made for others and we should not ask for that sacrifice to continue.\n\n\"When many of this cohort enter adulthood, we will be deep in recession, so they will need mental resilience and educational preparedness.\n\n\"Instead we are damaging both, with lifelong consequences for them and society,\" the letter ends.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, said removing the episode was \"stupid\"\n\nA classic episode of the comedy Fawlty Towers will be reinstated to streaming service UKTV with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the BBC Studios-owned platform because of \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major character uses highly offensive language, and John Cleese's hotel owner Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV had temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review.\n\nThe move had been criticised by Cleese who wrote on Twitter: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the episode is best remembered for Fawlty's goose-stepping it also contains scenes showing the Major Gowen character using offensive language about the West Indies cricket team.\n\nAccording to reports, the Major's scenes had already started to be edited out by some broadcasters.\n\nAs the Black Lives Matter movement has returned to prominence following the death of George Floyd, broadcasters and streaming services have reevaluated their content.\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year.\n\nA UKTV statement said: \"We already offer guidance to viewers across some of our classic comedy titles, but we recognise that more contextual information can be required on our archive comedy, so we will be adding extra guidance and warnings to the front of programmes to highlight potentially offensive content and language.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jan Maddox has not been able to see her partner since the day before lockdown.\n\n\"For the last three months, the only living thing I've touched is a dog.\"\n\nFor people living alone like Jan Maddox, 71, the risks of loneliness in lockdown are significantly greater, according to data.\n\nBoris Johnson has announced that, in England, adults living alone or single parents can form a \"support bubble\" with another household.\n\nBut that's not the case in Wales, with Cardiff Bay saying changes will only be made when it's safe to do so.\n\nAnd Jan, whose partner lives in the Midlands, is starting to struggle.\n\n\"I did have a terrific social life,\" she said.\n\n\"I was always out with friends, pub quizzes, music - everything. That all stopped. It's been a very lonely time.\"\n\nJan, from Newport is one of nearly eight million people in the UK who live alone. They are a group at significantly greater risk of loneliness during lockdown.\n\n\"I have a lot of texts from friends, and people ring up, from that perspective it's been really good,\" she said.\n\n\"At the beginning we managed alright. But now we're three months in... I think mentally we're getting a bit stretched.\"\n\nWales' next lockdown review is due on 18 June, but it is not clear whether there will be similar support bubble measures introduced.\n\nNew ONS data showed working-age adults living alone are at greater risk of lockdown loneliness than older people, and those aged 16-24 more than twice as likely to have experienced it than those aged 55-69.\n\nCraig Johnson says living alone during lockdown has been \"draining\"\n\nCraig Johnson, 29, lives in Cardiff and says there's a \"tension\" between what people living alone would like to see on an individual level, and what \"the collective societal thing needs to be\".\n\n\"I live alone in a small flat. In normal times I would've largely just come home to eat, come home to sleep.\n\n\"The rest of the time I'm either working in an office with colleagues, with friends or I'm in a pub, or a restaurant or café, with friends, or friends are coming here for food.\n\n\"Prior to March every bit of what made my life happy, every positive thing to look forward to during the week are the kind of things not now allowed - and with good reason. All of my life was non-essential social and close contact.\n\n\"From a public health angle, I support the fact they aren't allowed. But it's kind of follows that if everything I did that was a good thing in my life, I can't now do, that has knock-on effects for how happy and mentally healthy you feel.\n\n\"Draining I think is the word.\"\n\nCraig said he broadly supported the Welsh Government's \"more cautious approach\".\n\nHe added: \"The UK government has been talking about quarantine corridors between the UK and other countries so that people could have holidays in Portugal or in Spain. I watched that thinking: 'I've not had a hug for three months.' Can we balance the priorities a little bit?\"\n\nJulia Lloyd says loneliness in lockdown has been \"immense\" without friends living nearby.\n\nFor Julia Lloyd, 66, who lives inland from Colwyn Bay, the differences in lockdown rules between England and Wales have made things harder.\n\n\"You accept it, you accept it, you accept it. But then when you hear what England are getting you think, 'hang on a minute. Why can they do that and I can't?'.\"\n\nJulia said before lockdown she had a \"really good social life\" but has felt \"really shutdown\" since and has experienced anxiety attacks.\n\n\"Because I live out in the country and I don't have any neighbours - I just don't see another human being. For 14 weeks, the only other person I've seen is the postman or a food delivery driver.\n\n\"I have some days I just get so down I spent half the day crying, because I just don't see when I'm going to be able to see people or do anything.\n\n\"I'm lonely, I don't see anybody. All I see is sheep.\n\n\"I have times I feel like I am being punished for abiding by all the rules and regulations.\"\n\nSimon Jones, head of policy at Mind Cymru, said: \"The coronavirus pandemic is as much a mental health crisis as it is a physical one.\n\n\"People are really struggling with isolation, stress, grief, financial worries and fears about the future.\n\n\"People who live alone have been particularly affected by lockdown, and we know that loneliness is a real problem.\"\n\nHe said it is \"especially important\" to reach out to people who live alone at the moment.\n\n\"A good place to start is to ask them how they are, and what support they need, and listen non-judgementally to their response.\"\n\nBefore the lockdown began, the Welsh Government launched a loneliness strategy, including a fund of £1.4m over three years to help tackle it.\n\nJulie Morgan MS, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, said £440,000 of this has been given to a scheme to tackle loneliness in older people at this time - by pairing them up with volunteers to speak to weekly.\n\nBut she acknowledged loneliness during lockdown is an issue particularly affecting young people.\n\n\"Obviously, the physical health of people is the primary concern. But we are aware that the longer it goes on, it does have an effect on people's mental health.\n\n\"So all of the decisions we make are a fine balance between those two - we are trying to do all we possibly can to mitigate loneliness and the inevitable mental health problems that arise from that.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC 1 Wales at 10:15 BST on 14 June\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds filled Trafalgar Square in London - but protests were held in many smaller towns and cities too\n\nA shocking death caught on video in the US sparked protests all over the UK and a national debate over Britain's history.\n\nBut what are some of the issues in the UK which prompted so many to react so strongly to the killing of George Floyd 4,000 miles away?\n\nIt was the \"absolute brutality\" of George Floyd's death and the fact that it was caught on video which mobilised people to come out and protest in the UK, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury, an academic at the University of Manchester and an organiser with the Racial Justice Network.\n\nAnd he says incidents are increasingly being recorded in the UK, such as the footage of Desmond Mombeyarara being Tasered in front of his five-year-old son in Manchester last month. Police are investigating the incident.\n\n\"People are starting to connect the dots with what's going on in the UK,\" says Dr Joseph-Salisbury, citing the video of rapper Wretch 32's father being Tasered at home and the death of Simeon Francis in a Devon police cell. Police are investigating the case of Mr Francis. In the case of Wretch 32's father, police say a review had found no indication of misconduct.\n\nOfficial figures show that police in England and Wales were three times more likely to arrest a black person than a white person and five times more likely to use force in 2018-19.\n\n\"The UK is not innocent\" was one of the protest's rallying cries\n\nBlack people were also more than nine times as likely to be stopped and searched.\n\nDr Joseph-Salisbury says it has sometimes been more difficult to mobilise UK protesters in the past. \"Britain likes to think of itself as being much less racist than the US,' he says.\n\nBut, he says, abuses caught on video were a powerful motivating factor. \"There's something more grassroots and more urgent to what's happening this time.\"\n\nSince 1990, there have been 1,743 people in England and Wales who have died following contact with the police, according to the charity Inquest.\n\nAs a proportion of the population in these countries, black people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody and force or restraint is more than twice as likely to be involved in their deaths.\n\nAnd for Ken Fero, a spokesman for the United Friends and Families Campaign, which represents those whose loved ones have died after contact with the police, there is increasing evidence that this history of deaths in custody is motivating protesters.\n\nThe names of British men who died in custody such as Sean Rigg appeared alongside US victims on placards\n\nNames such as Sean Rigg and Leon Patterson have appeared on placards or been chanted by protesters.\n\n\"With the young people who are protesting at the moment, and it does seem to be young people, there is a stronger sense of history and consciousness than there has been in the past,\" he says.\n\nIt has also been a feature of Black Lives Matter protests in the US to make the names of those who died due to police violence a focus of demonstrations and online activism, with the hashtag #saytheirnames.\n\n\"When ordinary people begin talking about it, tweeting about it, protesting about it, when celebrities start speaking about it, when people who have a voice and who are not politicians, speak out - that is what gives them some hope,\" Mr Fero says of the campaigning families.\n\nProtesters have said both of these \"deadly pandemics\" - racism and coronavirus - must be tackled together, as data has shown black Britons in England and Wales have been nearly twice as likely to die with the disease as white people.\n\nThe government's review into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities told a similar tale of social and economic inequalities with poverty, overcrowded housing, and being employed in lower-paid or key worker roles being put forward as factors for this disparity.\n\nRailway station worker Belly Mujinga has become a symbol of inequality during the pandemic\n\nPeople from black and ethnic minority groups have also been hit harder financially during the crisis, as research has shown they are more likely to be working in shut-down sectors or precarious jobs.\n\nBelly Mujinga, a railway ticket office clerk in London who died with coronavirus after reportedly being spat at, has become a symbol during the protests of these socio-economic divides. \"Black lives do matter. Belly's life mattered,\" placards read.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people have since signed a petition calling for \"justice\" for the 47-year-old, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the British Transport Police closed her case due to insufficient evidence.\n\nAs ethnic minority groups continue to bear the brunt of the labour, health and socio-economic impact of this pandemic, many will be hoping protective measures will be brought in soon.\n\nEven before the UK had a Black Lives Matter movement, it had the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Inspired by similar movements in South Africa, it sought to remove the statue of Oriel College's imperialist benefactor Cecil Rhodes and to reform Oxford University's curriculum to focus less on white Europeans.\n\nOn Sunday, that debate about the symbols of Britain's colonial past moved from academia to the streets, when protesters pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre and threw it into the harbour.\n\nThe action recalled similar forced removals by protesters of Confederate memorials in US states such as North Carolina and Georgia.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was rolled through the streets on the way to the harbour\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, suggests the movement's success in increasing support from white people may have played a part in the removal of the Colston statue.\n\n\"If you look at who tore down the statue, it was predominantly white protesters. They can get away with things that we probably couldn't,\" he says.\n\n\"If you have a majority black protest tearing down a statue like that, I'm not sure what the response is - from the police, let alone the media.\"\n\nWhen Black Lives Matter started in the UK in 2016, Patrick Vernon says it was a youth-led movement that was not taken very seriously by older black people.\n\nThe movement, started in protest at police killings of black people in the US, came to Britain as a coalition of black activists opposing unjust policing and other forms of racism.\n\nOver the next two years, Mr Vernon says, older people changed their minds.\n\nFirst came the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which led to the deaths of 72 people, many of them black and Asian, amid claims of official neglect. Then the Windrush scandal emerged in 2018, with thousands of people from Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean and Africa wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMr Vernon, a campaigner for the Windrush victims, said people lost their homes, their jobs and were deported, having a \"traumatic effect\".\n\n\"It raises that vexed question, are we British? Are we really British? Are we valued? Is our contribution valued in this country? The whole Black Lives Matter thing crystallises that,\" he says.\n\nBlack Lives Matter has become an increasingly multi-generational protest in the UK, some say\n\nThis succession of issues affecting black communities has made people more willing to speak out and demonstrate, Mr Vernon suggests.\n\n\"They are now activists because they are fighting for their rights to stay in this country or for their compensation,\" he says.\n\n\"They want to take action because the current democratic process is not working for people.\"", "Sushant Singh Rajput was perhaps best known for playing legendary cricketer MS Dhoni\n\nA rising star in Bollywood, Sushant Singh Rajput, has been found dead in his apartment in Mumbai.\n\nThe 34-year-old is believed to have taken his own life, Mumbai police said.\n\nPopular for his acting in both TV and film, Rajput is perhaps best known for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, where he played the legendary cricketer.\n\nMany have been paying tributes to Rajput, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called him \"a bright young actor gone too soon\".\n\nRajput's death comes just days after that of his former manager.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in the eastern state of Bihar, Rajput dropped out of a university course in engineering to pursue a career in acting and dance.\n\nHis Bollywood breakthrough came in the 2013 film Kai Po Che, which won acclaim at the Berlin film festival.\n\nThe actor's last film was Chhichhore, which was released last year. The film's director Nitesh Tiwari said he had spoken to Rajput last week.\n\n\"I am at a loss for words. I spoke to him last week over messages. We would text each other on and off. Now this is what I get to hear. He was like a younger brother to me,\" he told the Press Trust of India (PTI).\n\nIn his last post to his 10.2 million Instagram followers on 3 June, Rajput posted a picture of his late mother, who died in 2002, when he was a teenager, according to PTI.\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 sushantsinghrajput 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\nHis former manager, Disha Salian, 28, died earlier this week after falling from the 14th floor of a building in Mumbai.\n\nIn a Instagram story after her death, Rajput wrote: \"It's such devastating news. My deepest condolences to Disha's family and friends. May your soul rest in peace.\"\n\nHis death will be mourned by Bollywood fans across the globe still reeling from the deaths of legendary actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan within days of each other in April.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.", "Many of Wales' poorest areas have been hardest hit by the pandemic\n\nA coronavirus community recovery fund worth £250m should be set up to support the hardest-hit communities, the Welsh Conservatives have said.\n\nThe party's group leader in the Welsh Parliament said it would help address a \"public economic crisis\".\n\nPaul Davies said business rates could be scrapped for certain businesses in the worst-affected towns.\n\nHe said the money was already available, but Welsh Labour has questioned the figures.\n\nThe Conservatives' policy announcement follows the publication of a report that claimed a number of Welsh towns were among the most vulnerable across the UK.\n\nUnder the party's plans, a £250m fund would be established for the term of the next Welsh Parliament to support the worst-affected communities.\n\nThe Conservatives said it would allow the establishment of \"business rate-free zones\" where business rates would be scrapped for all businesses for three years.\n\nBeyond those zones, the party wants to scrap business rates for businesses with a rateable value of up to £15,000.\n\nCurrently, businesses with a rateable value of less than £6,000 are exempt from paying rates and the amount payable is tapered for those valued between £6,000 and £12,000.\n\n\"We are going through not only a public health crisis, but we're also going through a public economic crisis,\" Mr Davies told the BBC's Politics Wales.\n\n\"And that's why it's absolutely crucial now as we come out of this pandemic that we support the communities which will be hardest-hit by this pandemic.\"\n\nMr Davies said the business rates relief scheme would \"support those existing businesses in those communities, but also attract new businesses\".\n\nHe claimed there was enough money in the Welsh Government's coffers to pay for the scheme as a result of UK government spending on the pandemic in England.\n\nBut a Welsh Labour spokesman said that was not the case: \"The Welsh Conservatives seem not to understand that there are strict limits in the extent to which we can carry forward funds from one year to the next, with our maximum reserve being £350m.\n\n\"Small businesses with premises with a rateable value of less than £12,000 already get small business rate relief.\n\n\"While extending this further would be desirable, we would only be able to consider doing so if the Conservative government at Westminster were to provide a significantly more generous financial settlement.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's recovery plan includes guaranteeing a job for every unemployed 18-24 year old in Wales and setting up a \"renewal fund\" to \"transform sectors identified as being hit hardest by Covid-19\".", "From Saturday, some children in England may be able to see grandparents again\n\nPeople who live alone in England and Northern Ireland will be able to form a support bubble with another household from Saturday, in a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nAdults who live alone will be allowed to visit someone else's home and are even allowed to stay overnight.\n\nIn England, the rule also applies to single parents with children under 18.\n\nIt comes as charities warned about isolation, with the latest changes aimed at helping those who are lonely.\n\nThe new measures open up the possibility for grandparents who live alone to visit and hug their grandchildren for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nCouples who live apart will also be able to be close to each other again.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll rose by a further 181.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, released on Saturday, 41,662 people who tested positive for coronavirus - across all settings - have now died.\n\nThe latest relaxation of the lockdown rules in England was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this week.\n\nA person's bubble can be with one other household of any size and close physical contact is allowed, meaning people in the bubble do not have to stay 2m apart.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning someone can only form a bubble with one other household and they cannot swap.\n\nIf anyone in the bubble develops symptoms of coronavirus, then everyone in the bubble must self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has introduced a similar scheme, allowing people who live alone indoor visits with one other household.\n\nNeither the bubble measures in England or NI apply to people who are shielding.\n\nIn Scotland, the government is considering the idea, while the Welsh government is reviewing the next steps out of lockdown.\n\nSarah Griffiths Hughes will hold her daughter and grandchildren after months of no physical contact\n\nAmong those who are looking forward to Saturday's changes are 70-year-old Sarah Griffiths Hughes, from Dorset, who said she is looking forward to hugging her daughter for the first time in months.\n\n\"It's the loneliness,\" she said. \"I don't think people realise how lonely and frightened we all are.\"\n\nKeith Grinsted, from Sudbury in Suffolk, said he was \"welling up just thinking about\" hugging his daughters, who live with his ex-partner.\n\nBut as he has type-2 diabetes, making him vulnerable to coronavirus, and he still has concerns about his safety.\n\nHe said: \"Even now it is still quite worrying, for example, because one of my daughters works for a fashion retailer and they are opening on Monday and she has her first shift on Thursday next week, now we are discussing, okay we can have a hug on Saturday but once she starts working does that still mean it is safe to hug?\"\n\nAlso from Saturday in NI, the maximum number of people who can gather outside together has also been increased to 10. In England, that number is six, while it is eight in Scotland and unlimited in Wales.\n\nThe latest papers published by the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), revealed that last month some experts urged \"strong caution\" that allowing bubbles could cause \"significant unwanted effects\" - especially if it was accompanied by lifting other restrictions.\n\nIt also warned there was \"significant potential risk\" if larger households are allowed to bubble together - although the government's new rules only apply to single-person or single-parent households.\n\nIt comes ahead of the next stage of easing lockdown in England, as non-essential shops prepare to reopen on Monday.\n\nShoppers queued to get into some clothing shops in Belfast on Friday\n\nShops in NI began opening on Friday, with customers encountering queuing systems, screens at tills and shop workers wearing masks.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt comes after figures showed the UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April - the largest monthly contraction on record.\n\nMeanwhile, there are growing calls for the government to drop the 2m social distancing rule in England, with Tory MPs saying it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nHave you planned to visit the home of a loved one today for the first time since lockdown? After your reunion, tell us what it was like 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:", "Statistics from England show people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups are more likely to die from coronavirus than those from white ethnic groups.\n\nPublic Health England found people from black ethnic groups are most likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19, and death rates were highest among people of black and Asian ethnic groups.\n\nBut why is this exactly? Is it to do with ethnicity - or are there other reasons which put people from BAME communities at such a disadvantage?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nPeople living alone in England will be able to stay at one other household as part of a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced that, from Saturday, single adults can spend the night at another house in a \"support bubble\".\n\nNo 10 said the change aims to help combat loneliness and that people are being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nThe PM also announced a new national \"catch-up programme\" for school pupils in England, after it was confirmed most children will not return to classrooms until September.\n\nMr Johnson told the daily Downing Street briefing the new \"support bubbles\" apply to single adult households or single parents with children under 18.\n\n\"All those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household, meaning they can spend time together inside each others' homes and do not need to stay two metres apart,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I want to stress that support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning you can't switch the household you are in a bubble with or connect with multiple households.\n\n\"And if any member of the support bubble develops symptoms, all members of the bubble will need to follow the normal advice on household isolation.\"\n\nIn addition to the new \"support bubbles\", the PM also confirmed non-essential shops can reopen on 15 June alongside outdoor zoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas.\n\nThe government gave examples for how the new \"support bubbles\" might work for single adults in England:\n\nNo 10 also said that if a person lives alone but their partner has a flatmate, for example, then they can form a bubble but the flatmate cannot then form their own with another household.\n\nIf anyone within a bubble develops coronavirus symptoms, everyone within the bubble must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere were 8.2 million people living alone in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, with just under half aged 65-and-over. There were also 2.9 million single-parent households.\n\nMr Johnson said the new rule is \"not designed for people who don't qualify to start meeting inside because that remains against the law\".\n\nOne part of the bubble has to be a single household, or be a single parent to children aged under 18.\n\nIt does not apply to grandparents who live together, people living in houses of multiple occupancy, such as flat shares, or to couples who already live together.\n\nThose who are shielding cannot be advised to form a bubble, the PM said.\n\nHe added: \"However, I want to say I know how hard it is for those of you who are shielding and we will say more next week about the arrangements that will be in place for you beyond the end of June.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is keen to emphasise the government is moving slowly in easing the lockdown.\n\nThe \"support bubble\" plan is very limited - designed to help the loneliest in England.\n\nIt's the government dipping another very tentative toe into the water when it comes to easing distancing restrictions.\n\nBut just as lockdown is eased further, questions are increasing about the decisions we've seen so far.\n\nComments from Prof Neil Ferguson on lockdown coming too late will be very uncomfortable reading for those in power, even if they can say they were acting on the advice they were getting.\n\nLikewise, England's chief medical officer saying testing could have been ramped up earlier will be seized upon by the government's critics.\n\nThe government doesn't want to talk about its early decisions yet - but many others already are.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked why children will soon be able to go and look at lions in a zoo but may not be able to return to the classroom until September.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had wanted to get the remainder of primary pupils back before the summer holidays.\n\nBut the circulation of coronavirus was \"not quite down far enough to change the social distancing measures that we have in our schools\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he pledged, adding that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson \"will be setting out a lot more next week about the catch-up programme\".\n\nHe defended the approach on schooling by comparing England's policy to other European countries.\n\nAnd he said a return for all pupils in September depended on progress continuing in controlling the virus.\n\nEarlier, Prof Neil Ferguson, a former government science adviser, told MPs deaths in the UK would have halved had the country entered lockdown a week earlier.\n\nAsked about the comments at the government briefing alongside the PM, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said people would have different views on when the lockdown should have been introduced.\n\nHe said there was \"very limited\" information about the virus at that stage and we now know more.\n\nThe PM said: \"It's too early to judge ourselves. We know a lot more about the virus than we did in January, February or even March.\n\n\"You have to proceed with caution, that is what we are doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Lockdown decisions should be assessed 'in fullness of time'\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus on to - remains \"just below one\".\n\n\"The epidemic is shrinking, but not fast,\" he said. \"Numbers are coming down but are not yet very low.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed there have been a further 245 coronavirus deaths across all settings in the UK, taking the UK death toll to 41,128.\n\nThe pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management - that's because, as Prof Witty says, nothing is \"risk free\".\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further.\n\nThat would further reduce the spread of coronavirus - and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost economically, socially, to children's education and also to people's health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nInstead, the fine line being trod by the government and its advisers is to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a whole other question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while reopening society.\n\nWhatever is done, there will be victims.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements, in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.\n• None What are the social distancing rules?\n• None Who can you have in your bubble?", "President Donald Trump talks about imposing law and order, and his hardline approach towards the protesters this week is helping to shore up his base of supporters. But what do the parts of the US that propelled him to victory in 2016 think of his aggressive strategy?\n\nShirley Hartman, an artist who works in watercolour and acrylics, moved to Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, years ago because she wanted to feel safe. She had been robbed in Philadelphia, a city about 60 miles away, and she was looking for a place where she did not have to worry about violence.\n\nWith protests unfolding across the US, she says that she is again concerned about her safety and is glad that the president acted forcefully, threatening to deploy the military. The demonstrators went too far, she says, and he responded appropriately.\n\n\"It's gotten out of hand,\" says Ms Hartman. \"They've gone to extremes, and sometimes it's necessary to go to extremes, too, to respond.\"\n\nThe protests have continued for more than a week, with tens of thousands taking to the streets across the US. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, however, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests most people in the US disapprove of the president's hardline approach.\n\nStill a significant number of people, one-third of those who were surveyed, support the president and his actions.\n\nMany of them are like Ms Hartman - they live in suburban areas of the country and are concerned about security. Their views will play a significant role in the November election.\n\nMs Hartman lives in a swing district in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which Mr Trump won in 2016 and is widely viewed as crucial to his chances again this time around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nFor that reason, political operatives, scholars and others are watching closely to see how the president's law-and-order message plays in key states across the country.\n\nIn a week of more than 20 interviews in Pennsylvania, Missouri and North Carolina - three states Trump won in 2016 - most people echoed the views of Ms Hartman and agreed that the president's tough rhetoric was necessary and say they will support him in November.\n\nSome said they supported the protesters and their goals, but were concerned about those who had become violent.\n\n\"I understand how people feel about George Floyd and I agree that something needs to change. But burning a church, looting, turning over cars - I don't agree with that. I don't agree with burning a town to the ground,\" says Brian Bufka, 47, who lives in Warrenton, Missouri, and runs a printing company.\n\n\"I support our president - I think his heart is in the right place, and I will vote for him again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak\n\nLyle Updike, who is 75 and lives in Kearney, Missouri, says: \"I'm strong on law and order. I don't tolerate this violence - this rioting. I'd like to see the president tighten the screws better.\" He added: \"The mayors and governors won't do it, so he needs to.\"\n\nRosella Roberts, who works for a musical theatre company in Steelville, Missouri, says she is concerned about the violence: \"I'm not saying that all of the people who are protesting are evil. But when you shoot at a policeman - that's just evil.\"\n\nThe election is still five months away, and the fortunes of the candidates and their political parties may change dramatically. One of the factors is the economy.\n\nFor many conservatives, the Trump presidency has been a blessing - spiritually as well as financially. Brian Watts, 45, from Kearney, Missouri, says that he loves the image of the president holding a bible while walking near the White House: \"It shows he's for the church.\"\n\nBrian Watts, who lives in Missouri, says the president has \"got to have security\"\n\nMr Watts' radio station has survived the financial problems brought about by the pandemic, and he is confident that Mr Trump will pull the country out of its malaise.\n\nThis upbeat view could play a crucial role in the election. As Matthew Mackowiak, a Texas-based political consultant, points out, most elections hinge on economic concerns, not social issues.\n\n\"In the end the president's law-and-order mandate probably won't contribute much to the election,\" says Mr Mackowiak. \"But coronavirus and the economy will.\"\n\nEconomists are predicting an uptick in the coming months, a trend that is likely to help Mr Trump. The monthly job numbers this week were better than expected but it's unclear how the pandemic - and possible new infection spikes - will affect the economic recovery.\n\nOthers the BBC spoke to said they have been energised by the protests and horrified by the White House response. They fear the president's language would embolden aggressive police officers.\n\n\"People have been turned off by the president's behaviour,\" says Lauren Arthur, 32, a Democratic state senator in Missouri's 17th district, which includes parts of suburban Kansas City. She won in 2018 and believes that progressive women, disturbed by the president's actions, will vote in large numbers: \"They're saying: 'We are going to show up in full force.'\"\n\nIn Durham, North Carolina, an important battleground state, Gemynii, a 35-year-old poet, wasn't happy to see Mr Trump hold a bible in front of a church near the White House after peaceful protesters were cleared out of the way.\n\nGemynii at a beauty-supply store in North Carolina: \"He's definitely not my president\"\n\n\"Yeah, it definitely feels like a nightmare,\" says Gemynii of the president's efforts to impose order. \"I can understand how other countries look at us and don't have respect because of what's going on.\"\n\nThe experience of watching the president in news clips this week has made Gemynii and her friends in Durham even more determined to change the country's leadership. She was distressed when Mr Trump was elected, and his recent actions have reinforced her mission: \"It's another wake-up call for America.\"\n\nThe dismay among Democrats is near-universal, and many of those who have felt lukewarm about Mr Biden, who has centrist roots, now have a different view. They are focused on getting the president out of the White House.\n\nSays Peggy Wilson, 68, a retired schoolteacher in Kansas City: \"I don't care who is it - it could be anybody. Just someone to replace him.\"\n\nShirley Hartman says that she's had her ups and downs as an artist in Philadelphia, New York and most recently in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and voted for Democrats in some elections. She chose Mr Trump last time. Afterwards, she says, her business \"slowly went up, year after year\". She has been happy with him as president.\n\nWith the onset of the pandemic, business has dropped off again, and she is spending time at home with her cats, Darma and Peanut. She takes walks in the park, \"sketching and doing pastels in the grass\", and is hoping for a speedy economic recovery. This variable, one that is still unknown, is likely to decide her vote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shaniqua Okwok: \"I really felt this weight on my shoulders\"\n\nA group of young BAME actors who have spoken out about racial discrimination they endured at a leading drama school have proposed their own action plan.\n\nThe Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London has admitted it has been complicit in systemic racism.\n\nNow, 240 former students have signed a blueprint letter which they hope could be a model for other drama schools.\n\nThey say \"racism is real at Central and it scars the lives of its students [and] staff\" as well as many alumni.\n\nThe group formed after being dismayed when the institution posted a message supporting Black Lives Matter last week.\n\nTheir letter says: \"Words and actions of open and overt racism - primarily by staff towards students - have taken place on a consistent and regular basis without respite or consequence.\"\n\nBig names from theatre and TV, including Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah and writer Russell T Davies have added their names to it.\n\nFormer students of other drama schools, including Rada, the Oxford School of Drama, Alra and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, have also spoken out in recent days after similar messages.\n\nCentral's acting principals have said they \"personally commit to bringing about lasting and wide-ranging change\".\n\nOne former student has spoken about how she was told to accept she would play a slave in her career because she had \"inherited this trauma\", and was silenced when she complained.\n\nOthers have said the school failed to take action about racism by directors and other students; that teachers regularly called black students by the wrong names; that they were stereotyped in the roles and comments they were given; and that there was a lack of diversity among staff and in the plays they studied.\n\nAnna Crichlow, who graduated in 2016, said she didn't work on a play by a black playwright until her second year, and none at all by a black British playwright over three years.\n\n\"I was told by a teacher that I would never work classically,\" she told BBC News. \"When I graduated, my first job was in a production of Pride & Prejudice. So it's just simply not true.\"\n\nShe added: \"People are not getting the breadth of training that prepares them for this really quite diverse industry now. They're not getting training that's inclusive to them and their experiences.\n\n\"Everyone wants to help the school move on because there is great teaching going on, but it's being detracted from because of this systemic issue and this racism which is running through the school's centre.\"\n\nAnother black former student said Central is not racist, \"just very stupid\".\n\nThe action plan calls for: A system to report racism and prejudice, and to investigate all complaints; more staff training; to restructure the curriculum; a more diverse workforce; and more people of colour on the board.\n\n\"We hope this is taken with the intention in which it's being given,\" said Chi-San Howard, who studied movement directing and teaching until 2016.\n\n\"We are never going to not read Shakespeare. We are never going to not enjoy the work of Pinter. They are brilliant. It's just that there are other brilliant people as well who deserve to be heard and deserve to be seen.\"\n\nCrichlow added that the past week had revealed that people in other drama schools had been through similar experiences.\n\n\"These places are historical and we're very lucky to have them here, but it does mean they've been operating in a similar way for a very long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I certainly think the blueprint letter that we've been working on could be applied to lots of different schools and institutions. All of our hopes are for it to be a really positive step for everyone.\"\n\nThe school's principal Prof Gavin Henderson, who was due to retire at the end of term, has brought forward his retirement by three months to deal with a \"personal, family matter\".\n\nHis acting replacements, Debbie Scully and Prof Ross Brown, said: \"We have no way to fully understand the pain that many people will have gone through over the last week, and in the past.\n\n\"We are committed to forging a transparent course of action, and we will be reaching out to many of the people who have posted online, as well as meeting with current staff and students.\n\n\"We will learn from shared experiences and act upon them to effect transformational change.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russell Harrison says many of his classmates are nervous about the estimated grades\n\nSchools and colleges in England have to submit their estimated grades for GCSE and A-levels by the end of this week.\n\nIn each subject, pupils will also be ranked from highest to lowest achieving.\n\nExam regulator Ofqual has issued extra guidance following a consultation on how to make the process as fair and accurate as possible.\n\nAny pupils unhappy with their grades will be able to sit the actual exam in October or November.\n\nBut they will not know how their have fared until mid-August when results are released.\n\nThe arrangements, put in place after exams were cancelled in the coronavirus lockdown, are a source of concern for pupils, according to Russell Harrison, a year 11 student at Blacon High School in Cheshire.\n\n\"You never know what you could have done in the exam, on the day you could have done better than any of the target grades you've been set,\" says Russell who, along with half a million other teenagers in England, was due to sit his GCSEs this May and June.\n\nNot doing the exams after the intense focus earlier in the year has been strange, he says.\n\n\"This year we had more work, more mock exams, coming into school during the holidays, [and] booster sessions to help get grades up.\"\n\nRussell recently had a bursary place at a private sixth-form school confirmed, regardless of his results, funded by the charity Hope Opportunity Trust.\n\nBut he says many of his classmates will be worried, especially those unsure of achieving the grade 4 or above they need in maths and English.\n\nHis mum, Julie Harrison, says her first reaction when the exams were cancelled was: \"Panic, at first.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I thought to myself: 'What's going to be happening with the grades?'\n\n\"It's unknown times for everybody, the first time of doing things this way, but once we knew how it was going to be worked out, we were absolutely fine with it.\"\n\nFor teachers this is an intensely stressful time, having not only to estimate pupil's grades but to rank each one from top to bottom in every subject.\n\nBlacon High School was rated good by Ofsted for the first time in its history in 2016, and it is now oversubscribed.\n\nMore than half the pupils, 55%, qualify for pupil premium funding because at some point in recent years they have been eligible for free school meals.\n\nHeadteacher Rachel Hudson says teachers feel a huge responsibility and senior staff have been reviewing decisions on every pupil.\n\n\"We all know, despite the two mock exams in November and February, that there are always students who excel at the last moment. It does tend to be boys, so trying to make a judgement holistically is very difficult.\"\n\nThe hardest judgements are on ranking pupils bunched around the middle grades or on grade borderlines.\n\nTeenagers and their parents will have to wait for results day to know what grades have been submitted by the school.\n\nLike many headteachers in schools which have been working hard to improve, Ms Hudson has to hope and trust the next stage in this new system will be fair.\n\nOnce the estimated grades and rankings have been submitted, the exam boards and the regulator Ofqual will compare them with previous years' exam performance and against national benchmarks, to ensure this year's results are not wildly out of kilter.\n\nBut the process has faced other criticisms.\n\nProf Kalwant Bhopal, director of Birmingham University's Centre for Race and Education, is one of a number of academics who wrote to the Department for Education when the plans were announced.\n\n\"To put it bluntly, when you look at the demographics of the teaching workforce, 85% of teachers are white - and 93% of headteachers,\" she tells BBC News.\n\nShe cites a wealth of research showing the impact of unconscious stereotypes in education, particularly in estimating A-level grades, which can be measured against the actual results.\n\nHer concern is that calculated exam grades this year for both GCSE and A-level will begin with estimates and rankings made by teachers which are likely to underrate some pupils\n\n\"Teachers have unconscious bias processes about particular students. So, for example, white middle-class students are seen as ideal, black working-class students are seen as aggressive and confrontational. So within this process there will be unconscious bias.\"\n\nShe would have preferred to see independent scrutiny from the outset in the school stage of the process.\n\nOfqual has issued extra guidance about unconscious bias to teachers after its consultation highlighted the issue as a potential concern.\n\nIt consulted a range of bodies including the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nIts advice to schools is that at least two people, including the lead teacher on each subject, should be involved.\n\nA formal declaration has to be signed by the headteacher, saying the estimated grades and rankings are an honest and fair reflection of the grades pupils would have obtained.\n\nAre you a parent or guardian of a GCSE or A-level student? Are you awaiting estimated grades? 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.", "Boris Johnson announces that from Saturday 13 June, single adult households in England can form one “support bubble” with one other household of any size.\n\nThis means they can go to each other’s houses, stay the night and don’t have to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe prime minister says all those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household.\n\nAs such, if any member of the bubble develops symptoms all members of the bubble have to follow guidelines.\n\n\"We're making this change to support those who are particularly lonely,\" he says.\n\n\"It is not designed for those who do not qualify to start meeting inside people's homes, because that remains against the law.\"\n\nThose who are shielding cannot take part.\n\nThe rules in Scotland remain unchanged, with people from two households only allowed to meet outdoors in small groups of no more than eight.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned people that meeting up with other households indoors is a \"surefire way\" of allowing coronavirus to spread.", "Chester Zoo’s chief operating officer Jamie Christon said the zoo was \"absolutely ecstatic\" at the prospect of reopening to the public.\n\nBut he said the coronavirus crisis had put a \"massive scar on the side of Chester Zoo\".\n\nHe said the attraction had a \"long way to go\" to get \"anywhere near\" where it was before the crisis.\n\nThe 128 acre site is home to more than 35,000 animals, from more than 500 of the world’s rarest species.\n\nTwo million people visited the attraction in 2019 and the zoo gets 97% of its income from visitors and costs £1.5m a month to run, Mr Christon said.\n\nQuote Message: We are already £5m down so far this year and even when we open on Monday we will be opening on controlled capacity of around 3,000 people a day - a fifth of our normal capacity. It’s going to take us a long, long, time to recover.\" from Jamie Christon Chester Zoo’s chief operating officer We are already £5m down so far this year and even when we open on Monday we will be opening on controlled capacity of around 3,000 people a day - a fifth of our normal capacity. It’s going to take us a long, long, time to recover.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate talks about the frustration of not knowing when she will be allowed to visit her mother who has Alzheimer's\n\nPatients with dementia, difficulty understanding English or other communication problems should be allowed a family member with them while in hospital, it has been argued.\n\nVisiting is currently suspended across Wales due to the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nNow calls are being made by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Alzheimer's Society for a review.\n\nThe Welsh Government said exceptions were in place for certain patients.\n\nA spokesperson suggested those with mental health issues, such as dementia, a learning disability or autism should be able to request a visit under the current guidelines.\n\nBut BBC Wales has spoken to a number of people in this situation who have had a different experience.\n\nFamily times with Janice aren't possible at the moment\n\nKate, from south Wales, said she fears her mother will no longer recognise her after months apart.\n\nDiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease four years ago, 71-year-old Janice was admitted to hospital a few weeks before the lockdown for help with medication.\n\nThe family accompanied her on admission and would visit every day, helping her to eat and wash, bringing in her familiar shower gel, hand cream and music to trigger memories and make her feel comfortable.\n\nBut then \"we were completely cut off\", Kate said.\n\n\"For somebody with dementia that has huge repercussions.\"\n\nThey had to wait nine weeks before being offered a video call with their mum, after an iPad was donated to the ward.\n\nJanice was admitted to hospital a few weeks before lockdown\n\nKate said the change she noticed in Janice's condition was \"distressing\".\n\n\"The worry is if we're not in touch, will it be more difficult for her to recognise us and feel comfortable in the house when she comes home?\n\n\"It makes you feel really anxious and really concerned that nobody seems to be thinking about the bigger picture and putting a strategy in place.\"\n\nAt the moment it's just 'it's not safe, end of story'\n\n\"Even if they said, 'right the R number would need to be this or we would need such and such to be in place to allow visiting' - then at least that would give us some reassurance that we're aiming for something.\n\n\"It would be something to hold on to, some light at the end of the tunnel. But at the moment it's just 'it's not safe, end of story'.\"\n\nThe wife of another hospital patient in south Wales with dementia - who wished to remain anonymous - said she had been preparing to visit her husband when lockdown happened, describing the situation since then as \"like a bereavement\".\n\n\"The ward was locked with immediate effect meaning I couldn't say goodbye,\" she said.\n\nDespite having power of attorney over his health and welfare, she says she is \"not being consulted or listened to\".\n\n\"He has definitely deteriorated a lot since lockdown. Dementia can change so quickly and you lose so much.\"\n\nSue Phelps, country director for Alzheimer's Society Cymru, said the current situation could lead to \"increased isolation, anxiety and unnecessary cognitive decline\" for patients with dementia.\n\n\"The most frustrating thing for carers or loved ones is not being able to share their insight. They are the ones who know the person best, they can articulate for that person and make sure they are getting the support they are familiar with.\"\n\nConcerns have also been raised for patients who have difficulties communicating for other reasons, including those for whom English is not their first language.\n\nJane Dodds said language issues had also been raised with the party\n\nJane Dodds, Welsh Liberal Democrats leader, said she wanted to see a relaxation of the rules, with hospitals considering whether to allow a family member to accompany patients on admission or visit them on a \"case by case basis\".\n\nRecalling her own experience of seeing her mother revert to only being able to speak Welsh at the end of her life because of dementia, she said it was \"something particularly for Wales to think about\".\n\nShe also said the party had been contacted by the family of an elderly man of Asian heritage who were distraught at not being able to accompany him into hospital as he could not understand English.\n\n\"We do understand totally the situation at the moment with Covid-19 and how difficult it is for medical staff to keep everybody safe. But we're asking that they look at every case and consider, where there are people with communication problems, whether they can take somebody in with them.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said exceptions were already in place to enable people to visit people with mental health issues, as well as dementia, a learning disability or autism in hospital.\n\n\"It is entirely appropriate for people with specific needs to be accompanied to hospital for an appointment if it would be detrimental to their care if they were unsupported,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"In all such instances, agreement should be sought in advance from the nurse in charge of the area.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another 3,600 UK jobs after the Restaurant Group, Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz announced major restructures.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Benny's, expects to cut up to 3,000 workers after confirming plans to shut 125 sites.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize has announced 545 job losses and the closure of 35 shops.\n\nAnd fashion chain Quiz has put its stores into administration because they are not currently \"financially viable\".\n\nSome 93 jobs will be lost through the reorganisation.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said the closures would fall mainly on its Frankie and Benny's restaurants, but other chains such as Garfunkel's and Chiquito will also be affected.\n\nMeanwhile, Monsoon Accessorize said its current structure was \"unviable\" following the lockdown.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize assets have been put into administration and sold to a business controlled by Peter Simon, the founder and owner of the chain.\n\nIt will now attempt to renegotiate the terms of its remaining 162 shops with its landlords and aims to safeguard up to 2,300 jobs.\n\nThe restructurings are coming thick and fast. And it's no surprise. Retail and hospitality businesses have taken a massive hit in this pandemic.\n\nSales have disappeared. Even when they're able to re-open, many firms will struggle, or be unable, to pay their rent bills for many months to come.\n\nThese household names were already having challenges before coronavirus. And they're all now hoping to survive in a leaner, slimmed down, form by securing better deals with their landlords.\n\nExpect to see a lot more of this in the weeks and months to come.\n\nThe Restaurant Group is restructuring part of its business through an insolvency procedure known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).\n\nAs well as the closures of some of its eateries, the company said it would attempt to renegotiate rents and terms on a further 85 sites.\n\nThe Restaurant Group's chief executive, Andy Hornby, said: \"The proposed CVA will deliver an appropriately-sized estate for our Leisure business to ensure we are well positioned despite the very challenging market conditions facing the casual dining sector.\"\n\nThe Restaurant Group also owns the Wagamama restaurant chain, but this will not be affected by the restructuring.\n\nSome of the company's brands were struggling before the pandemic hit as conditions in the so-called fast casual dining sector in which it operates were already tough.\n\nThe shift to online shopping has meant fewer visitors to its outlets on High Streets and in shopping centres.\n\nThat, together with rising rent and wage costs, has prompted a wave of site closures.\n\nLast year, Restaurant Group said it would close a number of its sites, and in February said it would close a further 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize will try to renegotiate rental terms on 162 of its remaining shops\n\nQuiz said it would put its 82 outlets in the UK and Ireland into administration before buying them back so it can negotiate better rental terms with its landlords.\n\nIt said some 822 employees out of a total of 915 would transfer to the new company.\n\nQuiz chief executive Tarak Ramzan said the company's shops were already facing challenges before the coronavirus outbreak as fewer people were shopping in store.\n\nHowever, he said that \"the significant economic uncertainty we now face as consumers and businesses emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic\" meant that the group had to be restructured.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown has prompted thousands of job cuts across the UK economy.\n\nOn Tuesday, Debenhams said a further 300 jobs would go and in recent weeks Rolls-Royce, British Airways, EasyJet and car dealership Lookers have announced extensive cuts.", "Coronavirus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, a major analysis of the genetics of the virus shows.\n\nThe study, by the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium (Cog-UK), completely quashes the idea that a single \"patient zero\" started the whole UK outbreak.\n\nThe analysis also finds China, where the pandemic started, had a negligible impact on cases in the UK.\n\nInstead those initial cases came mostly from European countries.\n\nThe researchers analysed the genetic code of viral samples taken from more than 20,000 people infected with coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThen, like a gigantic version of a paternity test, the geneticists attempted to piece together the virus's massive family tree.\n\nThis was combined with data on international travel to get to the origins of the UK epidemic.\n\nThey found the UK's coronavirus epidemic did not have one origin - but at least 1,356 origins. On each of those occasions somebody brought the infection into the UK from abroad and the virus began to spread as a result.\n\n\"The surprising and exciting conclusion is that we found the UK epidemic has resulted from a very large number of separate importations,\" said Prof Nick Loman, from Cog-UK and the University of Birmingham.\n\n\"It wasn't a patient zero,\" he added.\n\nThe study showed that less than 0.1% of those imported cases came directly from China. Instead the UK's coronavirus epidemic was largely initiated by travel from Italy in late February, Spain in early-to-mid-March and then France in mid-to-late-March.\n\n\"The big surprise for us was how fluid the process was, the rate of and source of virus introduction shifted rapidly over the course of only a few weeks,\" said Prof Oliver Pybus, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"This happened later than perhaps we would have expected,\" added Prof Loman.\n\nThe study estimates 80% of those initial cases arrived in the country between 28 Feb and 29 March - the time the UK was debating whether to lockdown.\n\nAfter this point, the number of new imported cases diminished rapidly.\n\nThe earliest one could be traced back to the beginning of February, but it is possible there were cases even earlier that could not be picked up by the analysis.\n\nThe study also says the controversial football match between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, on 11 March, probably had very little impact on bringing the virus into the country.\n\nAn estimated 3,000 fans flew in from Spain to watch the game, but there were 20,000 people flying in from Spain every single day in mid-March.\n\n\"[It] shows that individual events such as football matches likely made a negligible contribution to the number of imports at that time,\" the study says.\n\nThe imported cases each started off a chain of transmission where the virus is passed from one person, to the next, to the next and so on.\n\nHowever, the study shows lockdown has massively disrupted the spread of the virus.\n\n\"If there's good news here, these chains of transmission were and are being suppressed and going extinct as a result of social distancing and we continue to see that now,\" Prof Loman said.", "The guidance looks at how passengers and staff can stay safe while travelling\n\nThermal-imaging cameras and swab tests for coronavirus are not \"clinically valuable\" in airports, according to a panel of aviation health experts.\n\nAbout one in every three infectious people would be missed, they say.\n\nAir systems and low humidity on planes already reduces virus spread through the cabin.\n\nBut passengers should wear face coverings at all times, board and disembark one row at a time and be seated apart from others if possible.\n\nAnd those seated at the back should be the first on and last off.\n\nThe recommendations for safe air travel have been sent to the UK aviation industry and the Department for Transport.\n\nIt comes as the UK introduces a two-week quarantine period for anyone arriving from abroad by plane, train or ferry, although there are some exceptions.\n\nHowever, more than 200 travel companies have asked for the new rules to be scrapped and some MPs have voiced concerns.\n\nTemperature screening detects anyone with a high temperature, and so has \"substantial high false positive rate\" for coronavirus, causing hold-ups for many passengers, the document says.\n\nAnd throat swab tests, which could be introduced for potentially infected passengers, have \"a false negative rate of up to 30%\".\n\nThermal cameras have been set up in a number of airports in the UK\n\nProf Ashley Woodcock, from the University of Manchester, who led the panel, said air filtration systems in planes were very efficient and filtered out 99.8% of small particles.\n\n\"The air in planes is about as clean as an operating theatre,\" he said.\n\nOn board, there should also be 'sequencing' of toilet visits - with people asking permission to go from cabin crew - and a spare supply of face coverings, it adds.\n\nPassengers with a long-standing cough caused by asthma, COPD or other respiratory disorders should consider wearing a coloured mask to highlight their underlying condition.\n\nIn airports, shops and restaurants should be opened but managed carefully to avoid overcrowding.\n• None How safe is it to get on a plane?", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands\n\nThe RNLI is planning summer lifeguard cover at more beaches after saying staff were only to be at 70 in the UK.\n\nIt paused its roll-out programme in March amid measures to control the spread of coronavirus, and said in May it would not be at its usual 240 sites.\n\nThe charity said it was now planning a \"more comprehensive\" service but did not confirm at how many beaches.\n\nPlans also depend on no further virus spikes or \"reintroduction of [lockdown] restrictions\", bosses said.\n\nThe charity has been facing calls to increase cover in the UK and Channel Islands after several incidents during the recent sunny weather, including two people dying in incidents in Cornwall.\n\nChief Executive Mark Dowie said at that time, restarting the full service in a pandemic was not simple as staff needed \"time to train and prepare for ever-changing medical directions about what we can and can't do on the beach\".\n\nThe RNLI said it was now \"planning to maximise the number of beaches we can put lifeguards on in the fastest possible time\" and \"provide a more comprehensive lifeguard service this summer safely, despite the continuing challenges created by the pandemic\".\n\nIt said it had been testing \"new ways of operating\" and was reassuring everyone that \"we can accelerate and expand our plans.\"\n\nRNLI lifeguards have already started working on an additional beach in Cornwall.\n\nThey were due to be patrolling only seven beaches in the county, starting on 30 May, but increased it to eight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neville Staple is a singer with the ska band The Specials\n\nFacebook wrongly removed a page about The Specials in what band members think was a mistaken link to racism.\n\nBand legend Neville Staple and wife and manager Christine were among hundreds of people affected as pages linked with skinheads were removed.\n\nThe couple believe algorithms linked the 1970s 2 Tone movement with racism, which they said was \"the complete opposite of what we were about\".\n\nFacebook said the accounts were \"removed in error\" and were reinstated.\n\nMr and Mrs Staple realised their accounts had been removed on Monday evening and said they were \"astounded\" when it emerged it was because they had been wrongly identified as racist.\n\nThe Specials formed in Coventry in the 1970s\n\n\"We're the 2 Tone era, we came about when racial tensions were nuts - a bit like what we're going though now,\" Mrs Staple said.\n\n\"We were all about bringing black and white together.\"\n\nThe couple said they believed Facebook was \"generalising anyone associated with skinhead\" - often linked with far-right ideology - and should apologise.\n\n\"They've clearly not looked into 2 Tone,\" Mrs Staple said.\n\n\"It was all about change - we've got skinheads, rudies... a whole range of fans out there.\"\n\nNeville and Christine 'Sugary' Staple both had their Facebook pages removed for about 24 hours\n\n\"It's incredibly hurtful to be labelled racist,\" said one fan who had her account suspended.\n\nThe woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her Facebook page was restored on Tuesday evening, but she accused the company of \"blanket ignorance\".\n\n\"It's all just assumption - I've not shared anything offensive, or derogatory and I openly condemn those who do share hateful messages.\"\n\nCarrie Frost, a self-described skinhead since the age of 14, also had her profile removed.\n\nThe last thing she posted about was Snoopy, the cartoon dog from the Peanuts comic strip.\n\nThe 54-year-old from Coalville in Leicestershire said she was \"really upset\".\n\n\"I felt absolutely awful... you do feel you are being tarred with that [racism] brush,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for Facebook said the company was \"reviewing what happened in this case and taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shared online shows a male officer being pinned to the ground and kicked\n\nThe home secretary and the Police Federation have condemned a video which shows an officer on the ground apparently being kicked.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows an officer struggling with a man in Frampton Park Road in Hackney, north London.\n\nThe footage was branded \"sickening\" by Priti Patel, while the federation said: \"We are not society's punch bags.\"\n\nFour people have since been arrested on suspicion of assault on police.\n\nThey include a 13-year-old boy and three men, aged 20, 32 and 34.\n\nThe officers, a man and a woman, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment, the Met Police said.\n\nA member of the public, who had claimed to have been assaulted, flagged down the police on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"As an officer attempted to speak with those involved, one of the men resisted and a struggle ensued. A number of other people became involved whilst the officer was on the ground.\"\n\nAn officer was filmed while he was pinned to the ground in Frampton Park Road\n\nFootage appears to show the officer trying to restrain a man but they then fall to the ground with the officer pinned underneath.\n\nPassers-by began filming and taking selfies as the officer and the suspect grappled.\n\nThe female officer attempted to keep people away from the scene and also suffered injuries before more officers arrived and the first two arrests were made.\n\nTwo police officers, presumably awaiting backup, are having to fight for control, on a London pavement, surrounded by people, seemingly hostile.\n\nAs is so often the case, phones came out of pockets as the incident developed, so the video doesn't show what happened in the minutes before.\n\nThat is crucial since officers have to justify the force they use.\n\nEven before George Floyd's death, any number of controversial arrests in recent years have demonstrated that a single video posted on social media can transform the public's opinion of an incident, and therefore their views of the police.\n\nThis investigation may be able to rely on the officer's own body-worn video cameras, increasingly vital in establishing the context.\n\nBut more generally, figures show the number of reported assaults on police officers have been rising steadily since 2014.\n\nThis, during a period when police numbers fell because of years of austerity. Fewer officers on the streets means fewer officers to respond, when their colleagues get into difficulty.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: \"Yet again this starkly shows the dangers [officers] face and the bravery they show each and every day keeping Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are not society's punch bags. We have families we want to go home to at the end of every shift, but the dangers are stark and seemingly escalating.\"\n\nSupt Martin Rolston said: \"This incident, which was captured on someone's mobile phone is truly shocking.\n\n\"My officers went to the assistance of a member of the public - who asked for their help - after stating that they had been assaulted.\n\n\"What happened next is a reminder of the risks our officers take whilst going about their duties.\"\n\n\"My thoughts are with the outstanding officers who were subject to this disgusting violent attack.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I utterly condemn the disgraceful attack on two Metropolitan Police officers this afternoon.\n\n\"These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public. We owe them a debt of gratitude.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nGovernment plans for schooling during the pandemic \"lie in tatters\", with England's pupils set to miss six months of lessons, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nCalling for a national task force to tackle the issue, the Labour leader said the consequences for inequality and children's education were stark.\n\nBoris Johnson defended the plan during Prime Minister's Questions, pledging extra support for vulnerable families.\n\nPlans for all primary pupils to go back this term were ditched on Tuesday.\n\nAnd although some secondary students, most of whom have been out of school since the end of March, are expected to be invited back for some face-to-face time with their teachers, their lessons are not expected to resume until September at the earliest.\n\nSpeaking during Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said the government \"fully intends\" to bring all children in England back to school in September \"provided the progress we are making continues\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he said, adding that the education secretary will announce more on a catch-up programme next week.\n\nAt PMQs, Sir Keir said Mr Johnson had announced his plan to reopen primaries on 1 June, without consulting head teachers or having convincing scientific evidence on safety.\n\nAnd he said parents had lost confidence in the government's schools plan.\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"flailing around trying to blame others\" for what had been a completely avoidable \"mess\".\n\nMr Johnson retaliated, during a series of testy exchanges, saying Sir Keir should ask \"his friends in the left-wing trade unions\", meaning the teachers' unions, to help schools prepare.\n\nHe also accused the Labour leader of changing his mind over whether schools should be open.\n\nSir Keir said England was an \"outlier\" compared with other countries in Europe, which had re-opened some of their schools.\n\nAnd his attempts to set up a cross-party task force to tackle the issue had been ignored.\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said the government's decision not to require all primary school pupils in England to return to the classroom before the summer holidays was \"disappointing\".\n\nShe told a House of Lords Committee she was \"saddened\" that people may have become \"more frightened than they actually need to be\".\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield called for a national strategy to return pupils to classes, warning children risked being forgotten as the lockdown lifted.\n\nAnd concerns were raised at the Commons Education Committee about the impact of school closures on children's life chances.\n\nProf Lee Elliot Major, former chief executive of the Sutton Trust education equality charity, said he was \"really worried\" about the eight million children currently out of school.\n\nHe said: \"There is a tsunami of anxiety hitting schools about the one million children who are going to be taking their GCSEs and A-levels next year.\"\n\nAnd there needed to be clarity about how public exams would be handled next year, adding that he preferred a combination of exams and teacher assessment.\n\nSally Collier, chief executive of England's exams watchdog, told the committee contingency plans were being drawn up but gave no details.\n\nReports have suggested Ofqual might be considering delaying exams or using a system involving predictive grades.\n\nMs Collier suggested the government may be re-thinking the content of exams for next year and that schools would need to know at the earliest opportunity what they were going to need to teach next year.\n\nOfqual would be publishing a consultation in the coming weeks on possible measures to ameliorate the impact of educational disruption on next year's exam candidates, she told MPs.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said it was increasingly clear disruption to schooling was going to continue.\n\n\"Looking at the exams system, we could face some of this, a very similar situation, next year, we have got to learn from this year,\" he said.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, of the Runnymede Trust, said there needed to be an urgent look at what could be done for pupils who were not going back to school this summer.\n\nShe said there were lots of venues available out of school, which could be utilised because of Covid-19 restrictions - such as football stadiums, private schools and golf fields.\n\nShe urged ministers to think creatively and urgently about how such facilities could be used, with a view to setting up summer schools to help pupils catch up and support them with pastoral and emotional needs.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, using a blended model, with some continued home-learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Ant and Dec have apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway.\n\nThe duo concealed their real identities with darker make-up and prosthetics in order to pull pranks on famous people.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, they said they were \"sincerely sorry\" and had requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nTheir apology follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, in the US and the UK, over the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour in the Undercover segment of the show,\" they wrote in a statement.\n\n\"We realise that this was wrong and want to say that we are sincerely sorry to everyone that we offended.\"\n\nThey added: \"We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not make these sketches today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe presenting pair dressed up as two fictional Jamaican women, Patty and Bernice, during a segment in 2003, and as two Japanese girls, Suki and Keiko, the year after, adopting fake accents.\n\nIn January, Ant and Dec won their 19th consecutive presenting award, at the National Television Awards.\n\nBut it's not the first time this year that they have had to apologise for causing cultural offence on their primetime weekend show.\n\nIn March, they both wore headbands that featured the Japanese Rising Sun flag - seen by some as a symbol of Japan's imperialist past - during a martial arts inspired performance alongside pop singer Anne Marie.\n\nTheir latest apology arrives just days after the BBC removed the popular comedy Little Britain from streaming sites due to objections resurfacing regarding some of the sketch show's similarly outdated characters.\n\nOn Wednesday, BBC director general Tony Hall said creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams had agreed with the decision.\n\n\"We are constantly looking at what we have in our archive and thinking, is it still appropriate?\" Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4 Front Row.\n\n\"Times move on. Indeed I think David and Matt, who made the programme, felt that times had moved on as well. It was acknowledged by them. So we're constantly keeping this under review, and that's why the decision has been made.\"\n\nHowever, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would not have removed the series, which was originally broadcast between 2003-2008.\n\n\"The BBC have editorial independence, and it wouldn't have been my choice, but that's up to the BBC,\" he told ITV's Robert Peston. \"I'm not going to second-guess them all the time.\"\n\nAsked about the sketches in question last November, Walliams told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz that blacking up was acceptable at the time - but it was \"probably the right thing\" that people don't do it any more.\n\n\"It was acceptable at some point about 15 years ago because lots of other comedians were doing it at the time, and now it's become unacceptable again,\" he said.\n\n\"It was unacceptable, then it was acceptable, then it was unacceptable again, so it's quite interesting how that has shifted. I don't exactly know why, but I think it's good that people express what they want to see and what they don't want to see - it's perfectly reasonable.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having made himself up as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wildlife crime is the greatest threat to the pangolin\n\nConservation groups have welcomed China's move to remove pangolins from the official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, saying this could be a \"game changer\".\n\nThe news, reported by China's Health Times newspaper, comes after China raised the animal's protected status to the highest level last week.\n\nPangolins have been pushed to the brink by illegal hunting for scales and meat.\n\nThey are implicated in coronavirus, but the evidence is unclear.\n\nConservation charities have welcomed the move to remove them from the official list of traditional Chinese medicines. Paul Thomson of Save Pangolins said it was a breakthrough moment.\n\n\"China's move to phase out pangolin scales from traditional medicines could be the game changer we have been waiting for,\" he said.\n\n\"We hope China's next move will be to enforce the regulations and work to change consumer behaviour.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands of pangolins have been killed for their scales\n\nAnd Katheryn Wise of animal welfare campaign group, World Animal Protection, said it was \"great news\" that China had upgraded pangolins to the highest level of protection and removed them from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.\n\nShe called for this to be extended to all wild animals, \"who, like pangolins, are poached from the wild and often placed in squalid, cramped cages, creating a lethal hotbed of disease\".\n\nPangolins are covered with a layer of scales, which are designed to protect them against predators. The scales are highly coveted by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, while pangolin meat is seen as a delicacy.\n\nChina banned the consumption of live wild animals for food in the wake of the outbreak, but there are certain exemptions, such as for medicine or fur.\n\nPangolins are in the spotlight as a possible animal host for coronavirus, but no direct link has been shown.\n\nThere are eight species of pangolin across Asia and Africa\n\nNicole Benjamin-Fink of Conservation Beyond Borders said that, whether pangolins served as the conduit for the coronavirus or not, it's time to halt the demand for the most trafficked mammals worldwide.\n\n\"Let's hope that this ban is the first in a series that ultimately ban all wildlife usage in traditional Chinese medicine,\" she said.\n\nPangolins eat ants and other insects, and are often known as the scaly anteater. All eight species are protected under international law, but trade has been growing.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were photographed in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nBuckingham Palace has released a new photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to mark the duke's 99th birthday.\n\nPrince Philip, who celebrates his birthday on Wednesday, has been shielding with the Queen at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe photo was taken in the castle's grounds during sunny weather last week.\n\nIt is the first public photo of the duke since he was seen leaving hospital in London on 24 December last year.\n\nPrince Philip spent four nights in the private King Edward VII's Hospital in relation to a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nIn the picture, which was taken by a Press Association photographer, the duke is wearing a Household Division tie.\n\nThe Queen is wearing a heart-shaped 18.8 carat diamond brooch called Cullinan V, which she has worn many times, including for her granddaughter Princess Eugenie's wedding and London Fashion Week.\n\nIt follows another photograph last week that showed the Queen, 94, riding a pony called Balmoral Fern in Windsor Home Park.\n\nThe Queen was seen outside for the first time since lockdown began riding a 14-year-old Fell pony\n\nPrince Philip, who has been married to the Queen for 72 years, has rarely been seen in public since he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nHe is the longest-serving consort in British history and the oldest serving partner of a reigning monarch.\n\nThe duke issued a rare statement in April thanking key workers who were keeping essential services running during the pandemic.\n\nIt followed the Queen's own message on television, watched by about 24 million viewers.\n\nMeanwhile the Duke of Cambridge said he was worried about Prince Philip and the Queen during the coronavirus outbreak, but said his grandparents were doing everything they could to ensure they were protected and isolated.\n\n\"Obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents who are the age they're at - we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this,\" said Prince William.\n\nPrince Philip was last seen in public leaving hospital in time for Christmas last year\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus in mid-March.\n\nPrince Philip, who had been staying at the Sandringham estate, was flown by helicopter to join the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe government's rules for the lockdown identified groups of \"clinically vulnerable\" people who should take particular care to minimise contact with anyone outside their household.\n\nThey included those aged 70 or over, \"regardless of medical conditions\".\n\nThe managing editor of Majesty magazine, Joe Little, said the royal couple's time in lockdown together was \"an opportunity for them in their later years to reconnect... It is the perfect royal cocooning\".\n\nHe added: \"They will make a fuss of him on Wednesday as much as you can make a fuss of the Duke of Edinburgh.\"", "The UK's most senior black and minority ethnic police officer has urged forces to \"stand up to racists, inequality and injustice\".\n\nAnti-racism protests have been held across the UK in the wake of George Floyd's killing in the United States.\n\nIn a message to officers, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said he was \"horrified\" by Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBut he said it could be \"a moment for change\" similar to the Macpherson Inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder.\n\nHowever, in an interview with The Guardian, Mr Lawrence's father Neville said police forces had fallen \"way, way short\" of making reforms promised after the 1999 inquiry and remain \"institutionally racist\".\n\nBlack people are still treated as second-class citizens \"not only in this country but all over the world\", he added.\n\nThe death of 46-year-old black man Mr Floyd, in Minneapolis, after a white police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck, triggered an international outcry and has sparked days of protests in cities across the UK.\n\nProtests have been held across the UK since the weekend\n\nDemonstrations have been largely peaceful, but there were clashes in London on Saturday, and a statue of Winston Churchill was vandalised.\n\nIn Bristol, demonstrators toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the harbour.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has condemned a \"lawless minority of protesters\" who \"regrettably turned to violence\" while the prime minister urged the country to \"work peacefully, lawfully\" to defeat racism and discrimination.\n\nMr Basu said \"the overwhelming majority\" of protesters were \"showing solidarity with George and what his death represents\" and should be listened to.\n\nThe protests on both sides of the Atlantic have been based on \"anger directed not just at police brutality but the racial bias built into the very fabric of our institutions and society\", he added.\n\nMr Basu said there had been progress since the Macpherson Inquiry but \"despite how far we have come we must confront the fact that with many of our communities - especially the black community - we still have a long way to go\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters who were found dead in a park where they had been celebrating a birthday had both been stabbed multiple times, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThey had been among a group who had gone to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday on Friday evening. The pair were reported missing the next day.\n\nNo arrests have been made but the Met said they had several lines of inquiry.\n\nThe group had met at about 19:00 BST at a spot in the park about five minutes from the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nPeople gradually left during the evening with Ms Smallman and Ms Henry being the only ones remaining by midnight.\n\nA search began late on Saturday after they failed to return home, before they were both discovered shortly after 13:00 and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said their families were \"devastated by their loss\".\n\nHe added that the group had met in a \"well-known spot to sit and look over London\" and appealed for anyone who noticed them or \"may have seen a person acting suspiciously in the days leading up to the attack\" to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nGerman prosecutors say they may have to drop the investigation into a convicted paedophile suspected of killing Madeleine McCann if they do not receive more information from the public.\n\nInvestigators told the BBC they have substantial evidence that Madeleine is dead - but this is not enough to take the suspect to court.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe suspect, 43, has been named by German media as Christian B.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, a prosecutor in the northern city of Braunschweig - where detectives are leading the investigation - told the BBC: \"We have evidence against the accused which leads us to believe that he really killed Madeleine but this evidence is not strong enough at the moment to take him to court.\"\n\nThe evidence is \"strong enough to say that the girl is dead and strong enough to accuse a specific individual of murder - that strong,\" he said.\n\nHowever he added: \"One has to be honest and remain open to the possibility that our investigation could end without a charge, that it ends like the others have.\n\n\"We are optimistic it will be different for us but for that we need more information.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe suspect, a German man, is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in 2007, when Madeleine went missing. She had been there on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe rape conviction is currently under review in the German courts, according to German n-tv news.\n\nGerman media say Christian B has also been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl, named only as Inga. She went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nInvestigators were told by a friend of Christian B that the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a German bar, as they were watching news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, according to the source.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they are assuming Madeleine is dead.\n\nHowever, the Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there is no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nLabour has urged Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to publish all correspondence relating to his approval of a £1bn property scheme.\n\nThe call came after it emerged the developer of the scheme has since given money to the Conservative Party.\n\nRichard Desmond donated £12,000 to the party two weeks after Mr Jenrick gave planning permission for his company to build 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nThe Conservatives said policies were \"in no way influenced by donations\".\n\nLabour has criticised Mr Jenrick for \"refusing\" to answer an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the matter.\n\nChris Pincher - a junior housing minister - is answering the question instead.\n\nSources close to Mr Jenrick say he will be taking MPs' questions on Monday, at his regular Commons question time.\n\nMr Jenrick granted planning permission on 14 January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs.\n\nIt has emerged that Mr Desmond made a personal donation to the Conservatives on 28 January.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must show the process was \"fair and transparent\" and a local councillor said the donation \"raised questions\" for the minister.\n\nThe property development was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted he did not show any bias\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate whch said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council has since challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nThe £12,000 figure was included in Tuesday's Electoral Commission audit of party donations for the first three months of the year and first reported by the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Jenrick has come under growing political pressure in recent weeks after it emerged he sat at the same table as Mr Desmond, the former owner of the Daily Express, at a Conservative Party fundraiser last November.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Jenrick told the Daily Mail \"the developers did raise their application, but Mr Jenrick informed them that it would not be appropriate for them to discuss the matter with him, or for him to pass comment on it\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must now make clear whether he told officials at his department about the meeting and disclose whether he or members of his team had any other contacts with the developer.\n\nUnless the Housing Secretary published all documents about the application and any correspondence with Mr Desmond in the run-up to the decision, the opposition said \"the public will be entitled to think it's one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy friends, and another rule for everyone else\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\n\"Communities must have confidence that the planning process is fair and transparent, but the unanswered questions around Robert Jenrick's unlawful decision have weakened that trust,\" said Labour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed.\n\n\"It's time for Mr Jenrick to come clean and answer these crucial questions about why he over-ruled his own inspector to grant planning permission for a billionaire Conservative Party donor to build a luxury development.\"\n\nAndrew Wood, who resigned as leader of the Conservative group on Tower Hamlets Council because of his concerns over the property deal, has called for the Cabinet Office to launch an investigation.\n\nHe told the BBC details of Mr Desmond's donation raised \"more questions about what was going on\", adding that although £12,000 was \"not a lot of money,\" it did not look good.\n\n\"The optics are terrible,\" he added.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Desmond's donation was properly declared to the Electoral Commission and fully complied with the law.\n\n\"Government policy is in no way influenced by party donations - they are entirely separate,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"\n\nMr Desmond has, in the past, donated money to both Labour and UKIP.\n\nNorthern & Shell, of which he is the majority shareholder, sold its publishing interests in 2018 and now focuses largely on property development as well as digital ventures and the Health Lottery.\n\nFormer Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has written to the Cabinet Secretary about the matter.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Lord Adonis said he would raise Mr Jenrick's \"failure to answer parliamentary questions about his conduct\" in the House of Lords.", "The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman.\n\nKennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, suggested that the definition should include a reference to systemic oppression.\n\nAn editor then responded, later agreeing to update their definition.\n\nThe decision comes amid international anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nFloyd died after a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nMs Mitchum had encountered people pointing to the dictionary to prove that they were not racist because of the way they felt towards people of colour. She felt the definition needed to reflect broader issues of racial inequality in society.\n\nMs Mitchum told the BBC that she first became aware of the shortcomings of the current definition around four years ago.\n\n\"I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,\" she said. \"There were a lot of things that were racist but it wasn't as blatant.\"\n\nMs Mitchum says the dictionary definition was being used by people attempting to tell her she was wrong.\n\n\"Some troll was messaging me trying to say 'You don't understand what racism truly is,'\" she said.\n\nPeople were copy-and-pasting the definition to her in an attempt to prove racism could only exist if you believe your race to be superior to another.\n\n\"They were saying: 'You're in school [university], so what do you mean? You have privileges as well'. I said it's not about that, it's about the hurdles that I had to jump over because of the colour of my skin and the systems that are in place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muhammad Ali: 'Why is everything white?'\n\nOn 28 May, Ms Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to point out that racism is \"both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. It is a system of advantage based on skin colour\".\n\nTo her surprise, she got a response the next day. After some back-and-forth, Merriam-Webster said the \"issue needed to be addressed sooner rather than later\" and that a revision would be made.\n\nMerriam-Webster's editorial manager Peter Sokolowski told the BBC that the wording of the second definition of racism will be \"even more clear in our next release\".\n\n\"It could be expanded ... to include the term systemic and it will certainly have one or two example sentences, at least,\" he said.\n\nThe people working on the new definition will be consulting the work of experts in black studies, he said, adding that the revision could be done by August.\n\nMs Mitchum said the issue of definition is vital.\n\n\"I think it's very important for people to be on the same page,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Floyd's niece: 'This is not just murder, but a hate crime'", "Annemarie Plas is credited with starting the clap for carers initiative, which ran for 10 weeks\n\nPeople are being encouraged to celebrate the NHS's 72nd birthday and thank key workers for their support during the coronavirus pandemic with a nationwide clap next month.\n\nNHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby are among the influential figures supporting the initiative.\n\nThe initiative would make 5 July an official day to pay tribute.\n\nClap for carers founder Annemarie Plas is also backing the campaign.\n\nDutch-born Londoner Ms Plas was credited with starting the nationwide applause for NHS staff and key workers, which saw millions of people clapping at their windows and on their doorsteps on Thursday evenings in lockdown.\n\nMs Plas, who called for the event to end in its 10th week and be replaced by an annual event, said: \"Now is the time to expand this gratitude and acknowledge everyone who has and is still helping us through this crisis.\n\n\"I hope we can make 5 July a day which unites us in a countrywide 'thank you'.\"\n\nIn a letter, compiled by the Together coalition, public figures including Sir Simon and the Most Reverend Justin Welby, the leader of the Church of England, voiced their support.\n\nIt said: \"We all owe a debt of gratitude to the nurses, doctors, physios, porters, cleaners, and countless others who have delivered for patients and their families along with all those in the care sector.\n\n\"But we are also hugely grateful to the shop workers, transport staff, delivery drivers, teachers, refuse collectors, farmers, armed service personnel and other key workers who have kept the country going.\"\n\nSir Simon added he wanted to thank the public, in particular, whose support had meant so much - \"from the children who put rainbows and NHS signs in their windows, to all those who saved lives by staying at home to slow the spread of this terrible virus\".\n• None Is this the last hurrah for clap for carers?", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson: Accused of spreading hate without breaking hate laws\n\nThe government's adviser on extremism is investigating whether it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.\n\nThe Commission for Countering Extremism says there may be gaps in the law, allowing extremists to sow divisions.\n\nThe former head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Rowley, will lead the review into the complex area of law.\n\nSuccessive governments have tried and failed to come up with an agreed criminal definition of extremism.\n\nThe commission, set up by the Home Office but operating independently of ministers, says it has gathered widespread evidence of people falling victim to hate that leaves them living in fear - but is short of a crime.\n\nIncidents include sectarian campaigns between communities, far-right street and Islamist protests that encourage hostility to other groups, and online abuse that makes violence more likely.\n\nIn each case it says victims can feel let down by the authorities who are powerless to stop subtle attacks that are not crimes under terrorism legislation or hate laws.\n\nAnjem Choudary: Radical preacher evaded prosecution for years because he did not directly advocate violence\n\nLast year, the commission concluded in a report that government should focus on \"hateful extremism\" - meaning activity that amplifies hate and pitches communities against each other - potentially leading to violence.\n\nNow it has asked Sir Mark Rowley to examine the existing laws and how they are used to see if there are gaps that may need filling.\n\nSara Khan, head of the commission, said: \"Hateful extremism threatens our ability to live well together. Yet despite this, our ability to counter repeat and persistent offenders is inconsistent and often ineffective.\n\n\"When extremists engage in terrorist activity, they are often caught by robust counter-terrorism legislation. But when they incite hatred, engage in persistent hatred or justify violence against others, extremists know they will not cross over into the threshold of terrorism.\n\n\"As a result, many extremist actors and organisations, whether far-right, Islamist or other continue to operate with impunity in our country both online and offline.\"\n\nSir Mark Rowley said: \"Extremism, hate crime and terrorism have all been increasing challenges for our communities and society as a whole.\n\n\"While I was in post as head of counter-terrorism policing for four years, I knew that we had strong counter-terrorism system, resources and laws in place. However, I increasingly realised that nationally we are less experienced and ready to address the growing threats from hateful extremists.\"\n\nTheresa May, when she was Home Secretary, pledged to introduce new powers to act against extremist groups which could not be outlawed under terrorism legislation - but the 2016 plan was abandoned.\n\nSir Mark said: \"When Sara asked me to look... at whether the existing legal framework has gaps that allow extremist to flourish, I was initially cautious - not least because successive governments have tried to tackle this very problem, by proposing new legislation, and failed.\n\n\"However, after some initial scoping I am convinced that the Commission's clarity of focus on 'hateful extremism' can help identify the gaps that exist at the boundaries of current laws, such as hate crime and terrorism, which are being exploited daily by extremists.\"\n\nHe will report his findings later in the year.", "London Zoo had said it faced an \"uncertain future\"\n\nZoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas are set to reopen in England from Monday, the PM has said.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's daily briefing, Boris Johnson outlined the latest steps in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the outdoor attractions can reopen as long as they follow social distancing rules.\n\nSome zoos, including Chester Zoo and London Zoo, have reported financial struggles during the pandemic.\n\nA number of Tory MPs have been calling for zoos to reopen to ensure they survive the crisis.\n\nThe move will pave the way for zoos to reopen in England alongside non-essential shops, which can also open from 15 June.\n\nBut Mr Johnson faced criticism from the Labour leader at Prime Minister's Questions, after the plan for the reopening of all primary schools in England by the summer was ditched by the government.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the government's plan for getting children back to school in England was \"in tatters\", blaming the situation on a lack of leadership from Mr Johnson.\n\nHe called for a \"national taskforce\" to be set up, to find a way forward.\n\nMr Johnson said Sir Keir had previously said school reopenings were happening too quickly and accused him of trying to have it both ways.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg at the daily briefing why children could go to the zoo but not school, the prime minister said he had wanted all children to return before the summer holidays but the \"continued prevalence\" of the disease meant it wasn't possible.\n\nHe said the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\" and the education secretary would be setting out further details.\n\nHe defended the government's policy on reopening schools saying: \"We're very much in line or slightly ahead of some other European countries.\"\n\nThe chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, has called on the PM to \"set out a national plan on how we get schools opening again and a catch up programme for left-behind pupils whose life chances are being damaged by being off school for 40% of school year\".\n\nEarlier this week Chester Zoo - which has been closed since 21 March - said its future was \"on a knife edge\", despite a government pledge to provide financial support.\n\nAnd last month London Zoo - closed since 20 March - said it faced an \"uncertain future\" without immediate support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large zoo says it needs government grants as it has no visitors or income\n\nSpeaking at the daily press conference, the prime minister said outdoor attractions where visitors remain in their cars can reopen because the risk of spreading the disease is lower outside.\n\nHe said zoos would be able to reopen \"provided visitor numbers are managed and safeguards are put in place - that includes keeping indoor places such as reptile houses closed\".\n\nZoos must also ensure amenities including cafes are take-away only.\n\nDowning Street continues to emphasise that the UK government wants to move forward carefully in further easing the lockdown.\n\nWednesday's announcement on zoos reflects the belief the risk of transmission is lower outdoors and is based on social distancing rules being followed.\n\nWe also know non-essential shops in England and Northern Ireland will reopen in the coming days (though we don't know when this will happen in Scotland and Wales). Small parts of normal life are returning, even if they will likely feel quite different.\n\nBut while steps to reopen the economy are being taken, the slow progress on schools shows that coming out of lockdown is not always easy and not always in the hands of ministers.\n\nThe delay in getting primary school pupils back to classrooms in England is a reminder that practicalities - and in some cases public reluctance - are important too.\n\nThe government says it has already provided a £14m support fund for zoos.\n\nThey have also been eligible to apply for a \"range of support schemes\", including business rate relief, during the pandemic.\n\nAndrew Hall, spokesperson for Biaza - British and Irish Association for Zoos and Aquariums - said he was \"delighted\" with the announcement, but added the sector was \"not out of the woods\".\n\n\"Aquariums are still closed, and zoos and safari parks have taken a real hit,\" he said.\n\n\"For some zoos, particularly those reliant on tourism, reopening isn't going to be financially viable for them.\"\n\nHe said the announcement was \"not the full answer\" and government support would still be required, especially with limited entry.\n\nHe added: \"Zoos and aquariums in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will still be facing significant challenges and we will be working hard to achieve positive outcomes in these nations.\"", "A total of 4,000 deaths in Scotland have now been linked to Covid-19, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland (NRS) data indicated that 89 people died in the week ending 7 June, down 42 on the previous week.\n\nThe NRS figures have now shown a reduction in the number of deaths from Covid-19 for six weeks in a row.\n\nDeaths involving Covid-19 accounted for 8% of all deaths registered last week, down from 36% at its peak.\n\nThe largest proportion of coronavirus deaths last week (47%) were still related to care homes but the proportion has dropped back from previous weeks.\n\nThe figures show that, as of 7 June, there had been 1,861 deaths in care homes when Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, higher than the 1,854 fatalities in hospitals.\n\nThree-quarters of all deaths involving Covid-19 have been of people aged 75 or over.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday that the figures represented the lowest number of total deaths since late March.\n\nDeaths in week beginning 23 March - the day lockdown was announced - were 63 and they peaked at 659 in the week from 20 April. Deaths have dropped for the past six weeks to this week's total of 89 Covid deaths.\n\nThe latest figures show \"excess deaths\" - the number above the five-year average for the same week of the year - were down to 37.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the downward trend would not console those who had lost loved ones to the virus, but that progress was \"significant\".\n\n\"We want to take care to see that it is sustained,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is, I hope that next week we will be able to announce some further, albeit careful, changes to lockdown measures.\"\n\nThe NRS figures are higher than those announced each day by Ms Sturgeon because they include all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.\n\nThe total number of patients who have died in Scotland after testing positive rose by 12 to 2,434 on Wednesday.\n\nIn the latest daily totals, there were 987 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, a decrease of 24. This represented the lowest number since figures for the pandemic became publicly available in March.\n\nThere are currently 18 ICU patients with Covid-19 or suspected Covid, a decrease of three.\n\nMs Sturgeon also revealed that since the Test and Protect scheme in Scotland was launched on 28 May, 681 cases had tested positive and 741 contacts had been traced.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said contact tracers had followed up each new positive test to ensure that those who may have come into contact with the virus take steps to isolate.\n\n\"By doing so, we can break the chains of transmission while slowly changing lockdown measures,\" she said.\n\n\"The average number of people traced for each positive case reflects that we are still in phase one of lifting lockdown restrictions and people should not be mixing with large numbers of people outside of their own household.\"", "The spill now threatens a huge, pristine area of Arctic wilderness\n\nDiesel oil from a huge spill in Russia's Arctic north has polluted a large freshwater lake and there is a risk it could spread into the Arctic Ocean, a senior Russian official says.\n\nEmergency teams are trying to contain the oil, which has now travelled about 20km (12 miles) north of Norilsk from a collapsed fuel tank.\n\nIt is the worst accident of its kind in modern times in Russia's Arctic region, environmentalists and officials say.\n\nThe oil started leaking on 29 May.\n\nSo far about 21,000 tonnes have contaminated the Ambarnaya river and surrounding subsoil.\n\nInvestigators believe the storage tank near Norilsk sank because of melting permafrost, which weakened its supports. The Arctic has had weeks of unusually warm weather, probably a symptom of global warming.\n\nThe power plant where it happened is run by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading nickel and palladium producer.\n\nLake Pyasino serves as the basin for the Pyasina river, which flows to the Kara Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. From October to June that river is usually ice-bound.\n\n\"The fuel has got into Lake Pyasino,\" said Alexander Uss, governor of Krasnoyarsk region.\n\n\"This is a beautiful lake about 70km [45 miles] long. Naturally, it has both fish and a good biosphere,\" Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.\n\n\"Now it's important to prevent it from getting into the Pyasina river, which flows north. That should be possible.\"\n\nOfficials say booms have not prevented the oil drifting\n\nClean-up teams have removed about 23,000 cubic metres (812,000 cubic feet) of contaminated soil, Ria Novosti news reports.\n\nThe pollution \"will have a negative effect on the water resources, on the animals that drink that water, on the plants growing on the banks\", said Vasily Yablokov of Greenpeace Russia.\n\nGreenpeace has compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.\n\nRussian prosecutors have ordered checks at \"particularly dangerous installations\" built on permafrost.\n\nDelays over reporting the collapse angered President Vladimir Putin and the power plant's director, Vyacheslav Starostin, has been taken into custody.\n\nThe Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over pollution and alleged negligence.\n\nThe term is used for ground that is frozen continuously for two or more years.\n\nSome 55% of Russia's territory, predominantly Siberia, is permafrost and home to its main oil and gas fields.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 2017 report to the Arctic Council, an international forum which includes Russia, warned that because of global warming and melting ice, foundations in permafrost regions could no longer support the loads they did as recently as the 1980s.\n\nA recent report by Bloomberg news agency points out that Russia's newer oil infrastructure takes account of the changing climate: storage tanks on the Yamal Peninsula, for instance, are mounted on piles.\n\nThe leaked oil turned long stretches of the Ambarnaya river crimson red.\n\nExperts have warned that the clean-up operation poses huge challenges\n\nIn a statement, Norilsk Nickel said the incident had been reported in a \"timely and proper\" way. The company has pledged to pay for the clean-up, estimated so far at $146m.\n\nNorilsk is already a well-known pollution hotspot, because of contamination from the industry that dominates the city.\n\nIn 2016, Norilsk Nickel admitted that an accident at one of its plants was responsible for turning a nearby river red.\n\nYulia Gumenyuk, deputy environment minister for Krasnoyarsk region, said booms had so far failed to stop the oil spreading downriver.\n\n\"We can see a large concentration of diluted oil products beyond the booms,\" she said.", "The pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management – that’s because, as UK chief medical adviser Chris Witty says, nothing is “risk free”.\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further. That would further reduce the spread of coronavirus – and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost – economically, socially, to children’s education and also to people’s health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nSo instead, the government and its advisers are treading a fine fine, and trying to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a different question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while re-opening society.\n\nWhatever is done there will be losers. After all, there is a new virus circulating, which for some is deadly.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.", "Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, spoke at a House Judiciary Committee hearing about police brutality and racial profiling.\n\nHe said his brother \"didn’t deserve to die over $20\" and urged lawmakers to ensure he did not die \"in vain\".\n\nMr Floyd died in Minneapolis last month as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe police had been called after a report that Mr Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 (£16.20) bill.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says black and minority ethnic workers are at the “forefront of the of the struggle against the coronavirus”\n\nWorkers in close contact with the public will get coronavirus tests even if they are not showing symptoms, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said the move would help mitigate higher risks faced by black and minority ethnic workers in \"frontline\" transport and health roles.\n\n\"High contact professions\" would now get expanded and targeted testing, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nIt followed criticism from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir referenced a Public Health England report, saying: \"That report concluded that death rates are highest among black and Asian ethnic groups and it went on to say, and this was the important bit, that it is already clear that relevant guidance and key policies should be adapted to mitigate the risk, already clear.\n\n\"If it is already clear that guidance and policy need to be changed, why has the government not already acted?\"\n\nThe report did not include any recommendations, and the government said it was carrying out more work to find out why risks were higher for certain groups, including whether housing density or profession played a role.\n\nSir Keir Starmer accused the PM of failing to take action\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the government was \"already acting\" to mitigate coronavirus risks for black and minority ethnic groups, after Sir Keir accused him of failing to take action.\n\nHe said: \"We are looking at the particular exposure of black and minority ethnic groups to coronavirus and be in no doubt they have been at the forefront of the struggle against coronavirus whether it is in the NHS or public transport.\"\n\nHe said he had reached an agreement with Dido Harding, head of the NHS England's test and trace system, to implement the new measures.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"What we are doing first and most directly is to ensure that those high-contact professions get expanded and targeted testing now.\"\n\nHe said 44% of the NHS workforce in London were from black and minority ethnic groups.\n\nThe prime minister also announced a £63m fund aimed at helping vulnerable families, after Sir Keir called for free school meals to be extended over the summer holiday.\n\nThe prime minister announced money for local authorities to aid families\n\n\"We are announcing a further £63m of local welfare assistance to be used by local authorities at their discretion to help the most vulnerable families,\" Mr Johnson told MPs.\n\n\"This government has put its arms around the people of this country throughout this crisis and has done its absolute best to help.\"\n\nThe extra money was welcomed by the Local Government Association, but it added: \"Many households are likely to be economically vulnerable for some time to come and it is vital that the government puts local welfare funding on a long-term, sustainable footing.\n\n\"The ability of councils to provide preventative support to all households who need it is vital if they are to ensure households can be financially secure and can benefit from council efforts to reboot local economies once the virus is defeated.\"\n\nDowning Street said the government was looking at whether to extend furlough scheme eligibility for workers who are shielding for health reasons, after it was raised at PMQs.\n\nAnswering a question from Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft, the prime minister said: \"Clearly newly-shielded people may be asking themselves whether they are entitled to furlough funds.\n\n\"I've been made aware of the issue very recently and I can assure her that we will be addressing it forthwith.\"", "Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox as objections resurfaced to some of the sketch show's characters.\n\nNetflix pulled the Matt Lucas and David Walliams series on Friday, along with their other comedy Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nBoth shows include scenes where the comedians portray characters from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"There's a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer, which we regularly review,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"Times have changed since Little Britain first aired so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.\"\n\nNetflix has not commented on the reasons for the removal, but has said recent reports that it was in negotiations with Walliams and Lucas to make a new series were false.\n\n\"We were not in active conversations about reviving the show,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe removal angered some fans, with one viewer saying people should be able to make their \"own choices\".\n\nBut others have expressed unease about watching sketches which featured the comedians wearing make up to portray different races.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and that they had had a conversation with Netflix.\n\nHe suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option, adding: \"It will come back in some form, we're just still figuring out what that will be.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis apologised for portraying black celebrities on sketch show Bo' Selecta.\n\nIt comes as certain parts of life have come under scrutiny in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.\n\nCome Fly With Me came off Britbox around November, and has not been available to view on iPlayer since it was first broadcast in 2010 and 2011.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008. There have also been a handful of specials, including a sketch on the BBC One coronavirus charity fundraiser The Big Night In this April.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "All 17 members of the Garg household\n\nMukul Garg wasn’t too worried when his 57-year-old uncle developed a fever on 24 April. Then, within 48 hours, two others in his family of 17 also became ill.\n\nThe symptoms trickled in as expected - temperatures spiked and voices grew hoarse with coughing.\n\nMr Garg initially chalked it up to seasonal flu, unwilling to admit it could be coronavirus.\n\n“Five or six people often fall sick together in this house, let’s not panic,” he told himself.\n\nOver the next few days, five more people in the house showed Covid-19 symptoms. And the pit in his stomach grew.\n\nSoon, the Garg family would become its own coronavirus cluster as 11 of its 17 members tested positive.\n\n“We met nobody from the outside and no-one entered our house. But even then the coronavirus entered our home, and infected one member after the other,” Mr Garg would later write in his blog, which has since attracted hundreds of comments from readers.\n\nThe exhaustive account shows how the multi-generational family, a mainstay of Indian life, poses a unique challenge in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe country's stringent lockdown, which began on 25 March and lasted until this week, focused on keeping people at home, off its busy streets and out of packed public spaces.\n\nBut in India - where 40% of households comprise many generations (often three or even four living together under one roof) - home is a crowded place.\n\nIt’s also vulnerable because research shows that the virus is more likely to spread indoors.\n\n“All families under lockdown become clusters the moment someone is infected, that is almost a given,” says virologist Dr Jacob John.\n\nAnd, as the Gargs discovered, social distancing isn’t possible within large families, especially during a lockdown when you are already cut off from the outside world.\n\nThe Gargs live in a three-storey home in a packed neighbourhood in north-west Delhi.\n\nMr Garg, 33, his wife, 30, and their two children, aged six and two, live on the top floor, along with his parents and grandparents.\n\nOn the two floors below them live his uncles - his father’s brothers - and their families. Members range from a four-month-old baby to a bedridden grandfather of 90.\n\nMr Garg's uncle may have caught the virus from a vegetable vendor\n\nContrary to cramped joint family homes where many people share a room and a bathroom, the Garg home is spacious. Each floor is about 250 square metres, roughly the size of a doubles tennis court, with three bedrooms, en suite bathrooms and a kitchen.\n\nAnd yet, the virus spread quickly, travelling across floors and infecting almost all the adults in the house.\n\nThey identified patient zero - Mr Garg’s uncle - but the family is still not sure how he caught the virus.\n\n“We think it could be from a vegetable vendor or from someone at the grocery store because that was the only time anyone from the family stepped outside,” he says.\n\nBut as the virus spread, fear and shame kept them from getting tested.\n\n“We were 17 of us, but we felt so alone. We worried that if something happened to us, would anyone even come to the funeral because of the stigma associated with coronavirus?”\n\nBut in the first week of May, when his 54-year-old aunt complained of breathlessness, the family rushed her to a hospital. And, Mr Garg says, they knew they all had to get tested.\n\nAll of May was spent fighting the virus.\n\nMr Garg says he would spend hours talking to doctors over the phone, while everyone checked in on each other on WhatsApp daily.\n\n“We also kept changing the position of the members depending on symptoms, so no two people with high fever were in the same room.”\n\nSix of the 11 infected have co-morbidities - diabetes, heart disease and hypertension - which made them more vulnerable.\n\n“Overnight, our home became a Covid-19 healthcare centre with all of us taking turns to play nurse,” Mr Garg says\n\nFamilies are particularly vulnerable to widespread infection in a lockdown\n\nVirologists say large families are like any other cluster, except for the range in ages.\n\n“When you have a range of age groups sharing common spaces, the risk is disproportionately distributed, with the elderly at most risk,” says Dr Partho Sarothi Ray, a virologist.\n\nThis weighed heavily on Mr Garg, who worried about his 90-year-old grandfather.\n\nBut the virus, which continues to confound medical experts around the world, also held surprises for the Gargs.\n\nIt wasn’t unusual that he and his wife, both in their early 30s, were asymptomatic. But it was bewildering that his grandfather was also asymptomatic. And one member of the family, who had no comorbidities, was taken to hospital. The others showed typical symptoms.\n\nMr Garg says he wrote the blog because he wanted to reach out to people worried about seeking help.\n\n“In the beginning, we cared so much about what people would think. And reading the comments, it’s so nice to see people saying it's ok if you get it, it’s not something to be ashamed of.”\n\nIn the second week of May, symptoms began to vanish and the family watched as more and more negative tests rolled in, bringing relief. This was also when Mr Garg's aunt was discharged from hospital after testing negative.\n\nThey finally felt like the worst was over.\n\nBy the end of May - “the month of the disease” as Mr Garg called it - only three people, including him, were still positive.\n\nOn 1 June, they got tested for the third time and the results came back negative.\n\nIndia’s large families can be a source of support and care, but also friction and thorny property disputes. But at times like these they can also come to the rescue.\n\n“Can you imagine an elderly person in quarantine all by themselves with no-one to help? Despite the challenges, joint families benefit from the young taking care of the old,” Dr John says.\n\nCases in India have sprinted past the 250,000-mark, spurring a debate over whether the pandemic could threaten extended families, as young people worry about carrying the infection home to older relatives.\n\n“It's a system that has survived hundreds of years of an onslaught of Western values and colonisation,” says Prof Kiran Lamba Jha, who teaches sociology at Kanpur's CSJM university. “Coronavirus is not going to destroy the joint family.”\n\nBefore the virus struck, the family was thriving. It was almost reminiscent of a 90s Bollywood flick, Mr Garg says.\n\n“As a family, we had never spent so much time together than we did that first one month of the lockdown. It was also the happiest the family had ever been,\" he says, adding that it only made it harder to watch as one person after another fell sick.\n\n“We saw each other at our best and worst but we came out of it stronger,” he says.\n\n“We’re still cautious about reinfection but right now, we’re basking in the glory that we managed to beat this virus and come out on the other side.”", "Three-quarters of the world's workers have seen their place of work close at least partially during the pandemic, the UN says\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth \"sharply negative\" this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.\n\nKristalina Georgieva said the world faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nShe forecast that 2021 would only see a partial recovery.\n\nLockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff.\n\nEarlier this week, a UN study said 81% of the world's workforce of 3.3 billion people had had their place of work fully or partly closed because of the outbreak.\n\nMs Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, made her bleak assessment in remarks ahead of next week's IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.\n\nEmerging markets and developing countries would be the hardest hit, she said, requiring hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid.\n\n\"Just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in over 160 of our member countries in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"Today, that number has been turned on its head: we now project that over 170 countries will experience negative per capita income growth this year.\"\n\nShe added: \"In fact, we anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.\"\n\nMs Georgieva said that if the pandemic eased in the second half of 2020, the IMF expected to see a partial recovery next year. But she cautioned that the situation could also worsen.\n\n\"I stress there is tremendous uncertainty about the outlook. It could get worse depending on many variable factors, including the duration of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer comments came as the US reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits had surged for the third week by 6.6 million, bringing the total over that period to more than 16 million Americans.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve said it would unleash an additional $2.3tn in lending as restrictions on activity to help contain the coronavirus had forced many businesses to close and put about 95% of Americans on some form of lockdown.\n\nSeparately, UK-based charity organisation Oxfam warned that the economic fallout from the spread of Covid-19 could force more than half a billion more people into poverty.\n\nBy the time the pandemic is over, the charity said, half of the world's population of 7.8 billion people could be living in poverty.\n\n2021 would only see a partial recovery, Ms Georgieva said\n\nOn Thursday, following marathon talks, EU leaders agreed a €500bn (£440bn; $546bn) economic support package for members of the bloc hit hardest by the lockdown measures.\n\nThe European Commission earlier said it aimed to co-ordinate a possible \"roadmap\" to move away from the restrictive measures.\n\nEarlier this week, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, warned that the pandemic posed \"the most severe crisis\" since World War Two.\n\nIt said the outbreak was expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours across the world during the second quarter of 2020 - the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers losing their jobs.\n\nLast month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that the global economy would take years to recover.\n\nSecretary general Angel Gurría said that economies were suffering a bigger shock than after the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001 or the 2008 financial crisis.", "Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel both won Oscars for their work in the film\n\nGone with the Wind has been taken off HBO Max following calls for it to be removed from the US streaming service.\n\nHBO Max said the 1939 film was \"a product of its time\" and depicted \"ethnic and racial prejudices\" that \"were wrong then and are wrong today\".\n\nIt said the film would return to the platform at an unspecified date with a \"discussion of its historical context\".\n\nSet during and after the American Civil War, Gone with the Wind has long been attacked for its depiction of slavery.\n\nBased on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, it features slave characters who seem contented with their lot and who remain loyal to their former owners after slavery's abolition.\n\nGone with the Wind received 10 Oscars and remains the highest-grossing movie of all time when its takings are adjusted for inflation.\n\nHattie McDaniel became the first black actress to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award for her role as domestic servant Mammy.\n\nWriting in the Los Angeles Times this week, screenwriter John Ridley said the film \"glorifies the antebellum south\" and perpetuated \"painful stereotypes of people of colour\".\n\n\"The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalise a history that never was,\" continued the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave.\n\nGone with the Wind was originally released in 1939\n\nIn a statement, HBO Max said it would be \"irresponsible\" to keep the film on its platform without \"an explanation and a denouncement\" of its \"racist depictions\".\n\nIt said the film itself would return \"as it was originally created\", saying \"to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed\".\n\nThe wording of the statement is similar to advisories that accompany Tom and Jerry cartoons and other vintage animations on various streaming services.\n\nDisney+ also advises its subscribers that some of its older films - among them 1941 animation Dumbo - \"may contain outdated cultural depictions\".\n\nHBO Max's move comes amid mass protests against racism and police brutality that have prompted several television networks to reassess their offerings.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany - who panned HBO's decision - likened the removal to conversations about whether the US should rename US military bases that are named for Confederate generals who fought against the United States during the Civil War.\n\n\"Where do you draw the line here? I'm told you can no longer find on HBO, Gone with the Wind because somehow that is now offensive,\" she said, questioning whether sites named after the US Founding Fathers would someday be renamed.\n\nHBO's decision follows the removal of Little Britain from Netflix, BritBox and BBC iPlayer. The show saw Matt Lucas and David Walliams play characters from different ethnic backgrounds, including Desiree DeVere - a woman played by Walliams in full blackface.\n\nThe issue at stake here isn't about one film. It's about a much broader issue of whether we judge history by modern standards, even while recognising that what we consider to be modern standards are fluid, contested and will some day themselves be consigned to history.\n\nWhether it's statues of long dead men or films from 1939, there does seem to be something like a global movement emerging which is asking us to re-appraise our heritage.\n\nThat is fraught with difficulty. Where does it stop? I'm reading TinTin with my son at the moment and an exhibition of tolerance it certainly is not. It reads like one long parade of racial cliches.\n\nThis might be the beginning of a new front in our culture wars, powered by digital media.\n\nWhich makes me think another novelist, William Faulkner, had it about right when he said: \"The past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The coronavirus lockdown may have led more individuals to become radicalised as they spend more time online, a police chief has warned.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's Lucy D'Orsi said the impact of the lockdown on the terrorism threat was not yet known.\n\nShe urged the public to remain alert and vigilant as people return to crowded places closed in March.\n\nThe current UK threat level is \"substantial\" meaning an attack is likely.\n\n\"The reality is that the threat has not gone away,\" Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner D'Orsi told the BBC.\n\nThere are also concerns some of the mechanisms to spot the signs someone has been radicalised will not have been present during the pandemic.\n\nCrowded places have been a prime focus for terrorist attacks in recent years.\n\nAs lockdown eases, she is concerned terrorists will be looking to make an impact.\n\n\"My plea to the public is as lockdown eases and people return to crowded places, we need to remain alert, we need to remain vigilant,\" DAC D'Orsi, who is also national policing lead for protective security, said.\n\nThe threat level comes from individuals supporting far-right as well as jihadist ideologies.\n\nPolice have said their own ability to operate has not been affected by lockdown and they have been able to take advantage of the fact that some people under investigation are staying in one place.\n\nBut they are also aware that people are spending more time online, which carries risks as that has increasingly been a means of radicalisation.\n\nDAC D'Orsi said what that meant in terms of radicalisation was as yet unknown.\n\nSome terrorist groups have adapted their methods and messaging to the new environment, including using the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"They are looking to change the way they deliver their propaganda,\" she said, adding that propaganda often seeks to divide communities.\n\nReferrals to the Prevent anti-radicalisation scheme, designed to spot and counter signs of radicalisation, have gone down during the pandemic.\n\nThat is because many will come from public bodies, including schools, which will have not been operating in the same way.\n\nIt leaves the possibility that a problem has been brewing beneath the surface which may now become visible.\n\nOfficers said one advantage of lockdown has been that people have undertaken an online counter-terrorism training course from home.\n\nSome 70,000 people have used the 'Action Counters Terrorism' interactive course which is designed for members of the public to help them spot and report suspicious behaviour and know what to do in the event of an attack.\n\nOverall half a million participants have responded to the call since the course was launched two years ago.\n\n\"Having more people with a basic level of awareness, and who know what to do if they see suspicious activity, is a real asset to the police,\" DAC D'Orsi said.", "Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations.\n\nA follow-up check by Babylon revealed a small number of further UK users could also see others' sessions.\n\nThe firm said it had since fixed the issue and notified regulators.\n\nBabylon allows its members to speak to a doctor, therapist or other health specialist via a smartphone video call and, when appropriate, sends an electronic prescription to a nearby pharmacy. It has more than 2.3 million registered users in the UK.\n\nLeeds-based Rory Glover had access to the service via his membership of a private health insurance plan with Bupa, one of Babylon's partners.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, when he went to check a prescription, he noticed he had about 50 videos in the Consultation Replays section of the app that did not belong to him.\n\nClicking on one revealed that the file contained footage of another person's appointment.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't expect to see anything like that when you're using a trusted app. It's shocking to see such a monumental error has been made.\"\n\nMr Glover said he alerted a work colleague to the fact, who used to work for Babylon. He in turn flagged the issue to the company's compliance department.\n\nMr Glover discovered dozens of replay videos in his app that he should not have had access to\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Glover's access to the clips was rescinded.\n\nBabylon, which has its headquarters in London, has since confirmed the breach.\n\n\"On the afternoon of Tuesday 9 June we identified and resolved an issue within two hours whereby one patient accessed the introduction of another patient's consultation recording,\" it said in statement.\n\n\"Our investigation showed that three patients, who had booked and had appointments today, were incorrectly presented with, but did not view, recordings of other patients' consultations through a subsection of the user's profile within the Babylon app.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the firm amended its statement to make clear that it meant two patients in addition to Mr Glover - who had in fact viewed a recording - to make the total of three.\n\n\"This was the result of a software error rather than a malicious attack,\" it continued.\n\n\"The problem was identified and resolved quickly.\n\n\"Of course we take any security issue, however small, very seriously and have contacted the patients affected to update, apologise to and support where required.\"\n\nA spokesman said that Babylon's engineering team was already aware of the issue before it was contacted by Mr Glover's workmate.\n\nHe said the problem had been accidentally introduced via a new feature that lets users switch from audio to video-based consultations part way through a call.\n\nAnd he said that Babylon had informed the Information Commissioner's Office of the matter.\n\n\"Affected users were in the UK only and this did not impact our international operations,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Glover said he still had concerns and did not intend to use the service again.\n\n\"It's an issue of doctor-patient confidentiality,\" he said.\n\n\"You expect anything you say to be private, not for it to be shared with a stranger.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that it had been contacted by Babylon and that it was now waiting to receive the company's breach report.\n\n\"People's medical data is highly sensitive information, not only do people expect it to be handled carefully and securely, organisations also have a responsibility under the law,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"When a data incident occurs, we would expect an organisation to consider whether it is appropriate to contact the people affected, and to consider whether there are steps that can be taken to protect them from any potential adverse effects.\"\n\nBabylon told the BBC it had already been in touch with everyone involved to inform them and apologise.", "There were fewer chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments during the epidemic\n\nAbout 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, treatment or tests, as a result of disruption to the NHS during the past 10 weeks, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nIt estimates 2.1 million have missed out on screening, while 290,000 people with suspected symptoms have not been referred for hospital tests.\n\nMore than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nCancer services are starting to reopen across the UK.\n\nCancer Research UK's figures are based on data for England and estimated for the whole of the UK.\n\nDuring lockdown, the health service focused on the care and treatment of patients with Covid-19, while other services, such as cancer care, were scaled back.\n\nPeople were still encouraged to seek medical help when they needed it - but there were fewer cancer operations and many chemotherapy and radiotherapy appointments were postponed.\n\nScreening programmes that detect early signs of bowel, breast and cervical cancer were paused in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although not officially stopped in England.\n\nAnd an estimated 2.1 million people who would normally have had routine screening missed out, Cancer Research UK says.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancers\n\nThe charity says urgent referrals, when patients with suspected cancer symptoms are referred to hospitals by their GP, fell by up to 75% in the first four weeks of lockdown, although these figures have since improved.\n\nPatients receiving treatments for cancer also fell, with 6,000 fewer people receiving chemotherapy and 2,800 fewer receiving radiotherapy over the past 10 weeks.\n\nAnd there were only 60% - 12,800 fewer - of the usual number of operations to remove tumours, Cancer Research UK estimates.\n\nChief executive Michelle Mitchell said Covid-19 has placed an \"enormous strain on cancer services\".\n\n\"The NHS has had to make very hard decisions to balance risk,\" she said.\n\n\"And there have been some difficult discussions with patients about their safety and ability to continue treatment during this time,\" she said.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give people with cancer the greatest chances of survival and prevent the pandemic taking even more lives.\"\n\nTo ensure no-one is put at risk from the virus now that cancer care is returning, Cancer Research UK said \"frequent testing of NHS staff and patients, including those without symptoms\" was vital.\n\nIt estimates that up to 37,000 tests for the virus would need to be carried out each day for this purpose if the NHS was back running as normal.\n\nThis is happening at different speeds in the four nations of the UK, with the setting up of safe Covid-free spaces in hospitals key to addressing the backlog of patients.\n\nNHS England said coronavirus \"has turned millions of lives upside down\" but cancer services were now largely \"open, ready and able to receive all patients who need care\".\n\nAnyone concerned about cancer symptoms should contact their GP.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments said cancer screening programmes would resume when safe, based on clinical advice.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there are plans for urgent cancer surgery and treatment to resume, along with routine screening.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support recently warned of a potential \"ticking cancer timebomb\" due to disrupted cancer services. It said urgent action was needed to make sure cancer does not become the forgotten 'C' during the pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to urge the government to set out exactly how it will support the NHS to rapidly rebuild cancer services, including how people will be protected from infection by ensuring there is enough staff, regular testing, plentiful supplies of PPE and... social distancing,\" Sara Bainbridge, head of policy, said.\n\nHave you or a loved one missed cancer screening, treatment or tests in the past 10 weeks? How has the lockdown affected your cancer treatment? 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.", "Reni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to top UK's best-seller list since the official book chart was launched in 1998.\n\nLast week, Eddo-Lodge's book Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race topped the paperback non-fiction chart, following protests about racism.\n\nThe 2017 work has now become the best-selling title in the UK overall, according to Nielsen BookScan.\n\nThe author said it felt \"absolutely wild to have broken this record\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reni Eddo-Lodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My work stands on the shoulders of so many Black British literary giants,\" Eddo-Lodge wrote on Twitter. \"Bernadine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Stella Dadzie, Stuart Hall, Linton K Johnson, Jackie Kay, Gary Younge - to name a few.\"\n\nFellow author Nikesh Shukla congratulated her, adding: \"Bewildering it's taken so long for this to happen but it couldn't happen to a better writer and person.\"\n\nAfter she topped the paperback non-fiction chart last week, Eddo-Lodge criticised the UK publishing industry for the fact it had taken so long for a black author to achieve the feat.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" that the achievement only came about under \"tragic circumstances\" - referring to the death of George Floyd.\n\nRenewed interest in the title was sparked following protests around the death of Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAfter her book topped the non-fiction chart, Eddo-Lodge said: \"The fact that it's 2020 and I'm the first. Let's be honest. Reader demand aside, that it took this long is a horrible indictment of the publishing industry.\"\n\nSince 1998, only one other black author, former US first lady Michelle Obama, has scored the overall best-selling book in the UK, with her 2018 memoir Becoming.\n\nEddo-Lodge's book explores the links between gender, class and race in the UK and around the world.\n\nLast month, the writer posted online that she had noticed an upsurge in sales, which she found unsettling.\n\n\"This book financially transformed my life and I really don't like the idea of personally profiting every time a video of a black person's death goes viral,\" she wrote, urging readers to offer a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.\n\nOn Monday, the newly-formed Black Writers' Guild sent an open letter to publishers raising concerns that the companies were \"raising awareness of racial inequality without significantly addressing their own\".\n\nThe letter was signed by authors including Evaristo, Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman.\n\nLast week, fellow author Dorothy Koomson posted an open letter to the publishing industry, in which she called it an \"extremely damaging\" environment for black authors.\n\nAlso last week, Evaristo became the first female writer of colour to top the mass market fiction chart with Girl, Woman, Other.\n\nHer novel jointly won the Booker Prize last year, together with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None ‘Britain is in denial about race’", "Prof Neil Ferguson modelled the impact of the epidemic for the UK government\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures had been taken.\n\nThe prime minister said it was still too early to make such a judgement.\n\n\"We will have to look back on all of it and learn the lessons that we can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"A lot of these things are still premature. This epidemic has a long way to go.\"\n\nChief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance said important questions about the measures taken \"still needed to be addressed\".\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said looking back at \"how we improve on what we do\" was routine.\n\n\"Part of the problem... at that stage is that we had very limited information about this virus,\" he added.\n\nIn the UK, lockdown began on 23 March.\n\nThe number of people known to have died with coronavirus in the UK stands at 41,128.\n\nProf Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told a committee of MPs: \"Had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half.\n\n\"So whilst I think the measures, given what we knew about this virus then, in terms of its transmission, were warranted... certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen many fewer deaths.\"\n\nProf John Edmunds, another scientist who advises government, recently said the delay to go into lockdown \"cost a lot of lives\" but the data available in March had been quite poor, making it \"very hard\".\n\nProf Ferguson, who resigned as a government adviser last month after allegedly breaching lockdown rules, indicated many lives in care homes could have been saved.\n\n\"We made the rather optimistic assumption that somehow the elderly would be shielded,\" be said.\n\nBut \"that simply failed to happen\".\n\nProf Ferguson said the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) had \"anticipated in theory\" the risk to people living in care homes.\n\nAnd it had been discussed in meetings as early as February.\n\nBut the \"only way you can really protect care homes is to do extensive testing to make sure it doesn't get in\".\n\nAnd more was now understood about how the virus was transmitted,\n\nCare home workers often worked at more than one facility and might be spreading infection between residences, for example.\n\nCoronavirus was growing \"exponentially\" in February and March.\n\nScientists have told BBC News an estimated 100,000 people were being infected every day in England by the time it went into lockdown.\n\nIntroducing measures a week earlier would have significantly cut that figure and in turn saved lives.\n\nWhy this did not happen is one of the major questions about the government's handling of this pandemic.\n\nIt is far easier to look back than to make the decision in the moment.\n\nThere was a lack of information and the scale of the outbreak within the UK was not clear.\n\nBut other scientists were making the case for the UK to go into lockdown weeks before it happened.\n\nDiscussing the timing of the lockdown on BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme, mathematician Kit Yates said there had been an \"overreliance\" on certain models when determining how fast the epidemic had been doubling.\n\n\"Some members of [pandemic modelling group] SPI-M have communicated their concerns to me that some of the modelling groups had more influence over the consensus decisions than others,\" he said.\n\nThis meant \"some opinions or estimates that may have been valid didn't get passed on up the chain\".\n\nOn average, about 1,600 people a day die in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths reported during the epidemic is to what extent those deaths are on top of that figure, or part of it.\n\nMost of the victims have been older or with underlying health conditions.", "The leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, is next up by video link. He starts by referring to comments made by the PM in front of the Liaison Committee, saying he did not read all the scientific papers on coronavirus.\n\n\"No wonder it took so long on quarantine measures,\" he says. \"This has been a complete shambles and too little, too late\".\n\nHe asks the PM which papers he has read on the 2m social distancing rule, to which Mr Johnson replies he has read a \"huge amount\".\n\nThe PM then confirms the 2m should be kept under review.\n\nMr Blackford says the cabinet has discussed reducing the distance, but \"that is not the experts advice right now\".\n\nHe adds: \"People are losing confidence in this government... will the prime minister continue to ignore the experts or start following the advice of those who have read the scientific papers?\"\n\nJohnson says \"the people of this country are overwhelmingly following the guidance\" and tomorrow the Commons will hear more on test and trace, which will labour this point.\n\nHe adds: \"There are all sorts of views about the 2m view, but clearly as the incidents of the disease come down, the statistical likelihood of being infected goes down.\"", "Mark Redfern said the head was \"saved by the people of Ashbourne\"\n\nA figure of a black man's head has been removed from a pub sign amid a row over racism.\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council said on Monday the 18th Century iron and wood feature in Ashbourne would be \"removed with immediate effect\".\n\nAbout 150 residents gathered to take down the figure, vowing to return it, before the council could act.\n\nA petition to remove the head, launched on Friday, has gathered more than 40,000 signatures.\n\nThe district council said permanent removal of the head would need listed building consent and consultation with Historic England\n\nAshbourne resident Mark Redfern said the head, which is part of the Grade II*-listed sign for The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel in St John Street, \"will be restored while on the ground and returned to its position at a later date\".\n\nHe said local councillors witnessed the removal.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Redfern said the head would be given \"a lick of black paint\", and claimed the move was to save it from vandalism.\n\nHis son, 17-year-old Shaun Redfern, has gathered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition calling for the head to remain for historical reasons.\n\nThe district council said it intended to remove the sign as it was a public safety concern and the issue required urgent discussion\n\nResident Darren Waring, who said he was involved in taking down the feature, said: \"People are making these racist overtures without knowing the facts.\"\n\nHe said the figure is a head of a Turkish man who came to Ashbourne hundreds of years ago and traded coffee.\n\n\"He brought prosperity. He was a well-respected and well-loved Turkish man so in his honour they put his head up. It has nothing to do with slavery,\" he said.\n\nHe added in the 1980s, he went up to the sign to restore it with his father.\n\n\"The sign was actually dark brown,\" he said. \"My dad explained to me this is a Turkish man, not a black man. It was painted brown then something has gone wrong in the restoration.\"\n\nA 19-year-old student from the town said: \"Having it in the middle of the street in a small town is so unwelcoming\"\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council's decision to remove the head followed the statue of a slave trader in Bristol being torn down during demonstrations on Sunday.\n\nA council spokesman said a councillor spoke to the group, explaining the council needed to take down the figure temporarily in the interests of public safety ahead of a consultation.\n\nHe said: \"The group, who had ladders, then decided they would remove the figure themselves for safe keeping and, not wanting to create a confrontation, in the circumstances we did not object.\n\n\"We expect to have possession of the head figure later today.\"\n\nHistoric England said: \"As the government's adviser on heritage, we will be ready to advise the council on next steps if they need it.\"\n\nOne 20-year-old anthropology student from the town - who did not want to be named - said the sign resembled a gollywog, a 19th Century rag doll which is largely considered racist.\n\n\"I think people are ashamed of it,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Holt, a 19-year-old international relations student from Ashbourne, said: \"It should be in a museum where we can learn about it with a description to contextualise it.\"\n\nCouncillor Barry Lewis, Derbyshire's County Council leader, said the figure should not be taken down, although it was \"clearly culturally insensitive and racist\".\n\nHe added: \"Cultural heritage is there to challenge us sometimes, to make us uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe district council said it was gifted the sign a number of years ago\n\nA Derbyshire Police spokesman said officers attended from 21:00 until 23:00 BST to \"monitor the situation and ensure there were no breaches of the peace\".\n\n\"There were no arrests,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government progress on improving the life chances of disadvantaged people in England has been \"disappointing,\" according to its own watchdog.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission says ministers have only delivered on 23% of its proposals since 2013.\n\nAnd it warns in a report that the coronavirus crisis could destroy any gains that have been made.\n\nThe government said it was committed to spreading opportunity and \"ensuring no-one is left behind by coronavirus\".\n\nA spokesperson said the government was pleased the Commission recognised progress in areas such as improving life chances for poorer groups and keeping disadvantaged pupils in education for longer.\n\nBut the commission warned that coronavirus was \"already having a huge impact on those from all disadvantaged backgrounds, and this will only get worse as the recession bites harder\".\n\n\"It is now really important to have a coherent and coordinated plan to help the most vulnerable in the months and years ahead,\" said the commission's joint deputy director Steven Cooper.\n\nThe commission says more progress is needed in a range of areas including:\n\nLabour's shadow works and pensions secretary Kate Green said the commission's report \"exposes a government with no interest in levelling up Britain\".\n\n\"It's an appalling record of mismanagement and indifference to the life chances working class families and their children,\" she added.\n\nThe commission was set up by Parliament to hold successive governments to account on many promises made on the steps of No 10: to rebalance the economy, to fight burning injustices, to level up and unite the country.\n\nAlthough couched in temperate language, this year's report lambasts ministers for their failure to put cross-government measures in place and to turn warm words into reality.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions is singled out for particular criticism.\n\nBenefit cuts are increasing child poverty, commissioners say, and the DWP \"appears to have done little work\" to ensure it is not making matters worse.\n\nThe government will speak of its commitment to improve life chances for all, but today's report says the pandemic means social mobility has never been more important and it will be the poor and young who suffer most.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission was set up in 2013 by David Cameron's coalition government - but its chairman, former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn quit in 2017, saying Theresa May's government was \"unable to devote the necessary energy and focus to the social mobility agenda\".\n\nIn a State of the Nation report last year, covering England, Scotland and Wales, the commission said that inequality was entrenched \"from birth to work\" - and little progress had been made on improving the situation since 2014.\n\nNow, in an audit of government departments, the commission has found that \"no or very little action\" has been taken in England on 31% of the proposals it has made since it was set up, most of which applied to England only.\n\nThere has been \"insufficient\" progress on 46% of its proposals, and strong progress had been made, or the proposal delivered, in only 23% of cases.\n\nExtending 30-hour free childcare to parents working the equivalent of eight hours a week and more funding for adult education are among the proposals the commission says have been ignored by government.\n\nAlan Milburn's successor Dame Martina Milburn, who is not related to the former Labour MP, told the prime minister in April she was standing down to concentrate on her concentrate on her \"day job\" as chief executive of the Prince's Trust charity.\n\nIn a foreword to the commission's new report, Dame Martina says there had been \"some evidence of success\" in boosting social mobility before the coronavirus pandemic, but renewed focus was now needed if Boris Johnson was going to meet his promise to \"level up opportunity\" across England.\n\nJustine Greening says the government needs a plan\n\nHer message was echoed by former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening, who stood down at the last election.\n\n\"We've heard a lot about levelling up but too little on the detail. A piecemeal plan, or a plan for a plan, announced in July won't cut it,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are pleased the Commission recognises progress in areas such as improving life chances for poorer groups, boosting mental health support for young people, and keeping disadvantaged pupils in education for longer.\n\n\"We remain committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"From the start of the outbreak, all vulnerable children have been able to attend school and we have provided over £100m to support children to learn at home.\n\n\"We also continue to invest significantly in schools and early years, alongside raising wages and increasing work incentives for the lowest paid families.\"", "William Ewart Gladstone argued against the abolition of slavery\n\nThe University of Liverpool has agreed to rename a building named after former prime minister William Gladstone due to his links to the slave trade.\n\nGladstone spoke out against abolition in Parliament because his family had slaves on plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nStudents wrote an open letter saying the move would \"show solidarity in the rejection of Black oppression\".\n\nThe university said it will work with students and staff \"to agree an appropriate alternative name\".\n\nGladstone Hall in the Greenbank Student Village was recently rebuilt but the name was kept\n\nStudents have been campaigning over the issue for several years, arguing that the university should not be honouring people who benefited from slavery.\n\nThe move follows Black Lives Matter protests in the city in response to the death of American George Floyd and the tearing down of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.\n\nThousands of people have also been demanding a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes be removed from Oxford University's Oriel College.\n\nLiberal politician William Ewart Gladstone was born in Liverpool in 1809 and is the only person to have been prime minister on four separate occasions.\n\nHe is described as having \"ultra-conservative\" views and used his maiden speech in the House of Commons to support his father's interests, arguing against abolition.\n\nWhile that argument failed, his finances did not - when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, the Gladstones received more than £90,000, about £9.5m in today's terms, as compensation for the slaves they were forced to free.\n\nCampaigners said William Gladstone shared the views on slavery of his father, \"who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies\"\n\nIn an open letter to university vice chancellor Professor Janet Beer, student campaigners urged the university to \"qualify your words\" about combating racism on campus \"with some real action\".\n\nThe letter said Liverpool is \"entrenched in the history of Black oppression\" with buildings \"built with bricks that were bartered for by slaves\".\n\nIt said Gladstone \"used his position to defend the interest of those who, like his father, owned West Indian slave-ran plantations.\"\n\n\"Whilst we cannot possibly expect that the entire architecture of Liverpool is torn down and replaced, renaming Gladstone Hall and removing this reminder of William Gladstone is one small and simple act that the university can enact to show solidarity in the rejection of Black oppression.\n\n\"We can not facilitate normalising people like William Gladstone by naming our campus after them.\"\n\nA University of Liverpool spokeswoman said: \"We share in the shame that our city feels because its prosperity was significantly based upon a slave economy.\"\n\nShe said the institution has \"an important opportunity to send a clear message about the commitments we have made to our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and student community\" and \"will work with the Guild of Students and with staff and student groups to agree an appropriate alternative name for the hall.\"\n• None How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history - BBC Culture\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is likely to be the hardest hit by Covid-19 among major economies, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.\n\nBritain's economy is likely to slump by 11.5% in 2020, slightly outstripping falls in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Italy, it said.\n\nIf there were a second peak in the pandemic, the UK economy could contract by as much as 14%.\n\n\"The crisis will cast a long shadow over the world,\" the OECD added.\n\nIt said that in what it called a \"single-hit scenario\", with no second peak, there could be contractions of 11.4% in France, 11.1% in Spain, 11.3% in Italy and 6.6% in Germany.\n\nIn its latest assessment, the OECD found that the UK's largely service-based economy meant that it had been particularly badly hit by the government's lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe services sector, including financial services, hospitality and tourism, makes up about three-quarters of the UK's GDP.\n\nIn response to the think tank's report, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK was not the only one to suffer: \"In common with many other economies around the world, we're seeing the significant impact of coronavirus on our country and our economy.\n\n\"The unprecedented action we've taken to provide lifelines that help people and businesses through the economic disruption will ensure our economic recovery is as strong and as swift as possible.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"Today's evidence from the OECD is deeply worrying, showing the UK was particularly exposed when the coronavirus crisis hit.\n\n\"The government's failure to get on top of the health crisis, delay going into lockdown and chaotic mismanagement of the exit from lockdown are making the economic impact of this crisis worse.\"\n\nThe central finding of the OECD forecasts is that the expectations or hopes of a rapid bounceback in the economy - a so-called V-shaped chart - is not now happening.\n\nAs Secretary General Angel Gurria put it to me, it will be \"U-shaped\", the question is how long will be the period at the bottom of this \"U\".\n\nThis pattern is not affecting all countries equally.\n\nAnd in the event of there being no further peak, the prediction is that the UK is the worst hit this year, though just a little bit worse than Italy and France.\n\nFor those who like a glass half full, it also predicts the strongest growth in the UK at 9% for 2021. But that is a rather hollow prize.\n\nThe reason why is that the UK economy is peculiarly exposed as a trading economy with significant service and tourist sectors.\n\nBut it is also a nation that has been among the hardest hit by the underlying pandemic.\n\nThis hit comes despite a much-praised rapid response deploying tens of billions to keep millions of workers on payrolls.\n\nThe OECD also mentions the pandemic economic impact being \"compounded\" by the looming plausible failure to sign a trade deal with the EU and new trade barriers with the European Union at the end of the year.\n\nIt recommends temporarily extending the UK's stay in the single market. That is advice that the government has shown no inclination to follow so far.\n\nThe bigger point is that the OECD is subtly pointing to the fact that one rescue package is not enough.\n\nLate last week the Germans announced a massive 4% stimulus to the economy, including a thumping cut to VAT, and significant subsidies for the purchase of cars.\n\nThe league table is an invitation to do more. And we will soon enough get actual hard economic data, as opposed to forecasts such as this, when the monthly GDP figure for April - entirely locked down - is published on Friday.\n\nThe OECD said the pandemic had started to recede in many countries and activity had begun to pick up, but it does not expect a convincing recovery. It sees the outlook for public health as extremely uncertain.\n\nOECD chief economist Laurence Boone said the pandemic would have \"dire and long-lasting consequences for people, firms and governments\".\n\nShe added: \"Extraordinary policies will be required to walk the tightrope towards recovery. Even if growth does surge in some sectors, overall activity will remain muted for a while.\"\n\nThe OECD looked at two scenarios for how the pandemic might unfold, depending on whether there is a second wave of contagion or not before the end of this year.\n\nIf that does happen, two countries - France and Spain - would suffer even deeper declines in economic activity than the UK this year.\n\nThe report describes both outlooks as sobering, but either way, the deep recession now unfolding will be followed by a slow recovery.\n\nIn the more severe case, the global economy could shrink by 7.6% over this year, the OECD says.\n\nThat figure is significantly worse than predictions put forward by other agencies, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have warned about the high level of uncertainty attached to their forecasts.\n\nBy the end of 2021, the report says that five or more years of income growth could be lost in many countries. It says the impact on livelihoods will be especially severe among the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe OECD also says the pandemic has accelerated the shift from what it calls \"great integration\" to \"great fragmentation\".\n\nThat is essentially a setback for globalisation, reflected in additional trade and investment restrictions and many borders that are closed at least while the health crisis persists.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who have lived away from home since the early days of the pandemic to avoid the risk of infecting their families. One says she fears that cases will begin to rise because members of the public, unlike medical staff, seem too eager to \"move on\".\n\nI am so humbled by the personal sacrifices that some of my colleagues have made during the pandemic. Those with young children who have sent them away to their parents to protect them from harm, like evacuees to the countryside during World War Two. Those who have retreated into lives of hermits to reduce the risk of any transmission from their work environments.\n\nHealthcare workers are five or six times more likely to be infected than the general public, so they also have a much greater risk of infecting others. Living as a civilian in a house with a healthcare worker can be bad for your health.\n\nBecky Aird is a specialist respiratory nurse and acting ward sister on our busiest Covid-19 ward. Three months ago, before we had our first patient, she made the tough decision to move out of her parents' home to protect her mother, who has MS.\n\nKirsten Sellick is a junior doctor who moved out of a family home to live in hospital accommodation. I see her on sunny days reading outside the hospital - the car park is her lockdown garden retreat.\n\nAfter lockdown I was offered the chance to move into the hotel to keep my family safe and I took it. That was 30 March. My mum is quite poorly, she's got secondary progressive MS, she's very independent and both she and my dad wanted me to stay at home; they kept thinking of ways we could live together safely but I knew it wouldn't be 100% safe. There was no way to eliminate the risk for my mum. The only option was to eliminate myself.\n\nBecky Aird with her mother and a young relative, pre-lockdown\n\nAt first I thought it was quite cool in the hotel - it was like going on a little holiday - but it quickly wore off. I've got a reasonably small room. I brought a travel fridge with me and it broke within the first week. It's just very lonely, and I mostly read. I haven't seen my friends, just one girl who I dropped a care package off to and she stood at her front door.\n\nI was very upset when one of my friends, Kelly, was admitted to my ward. I was the main nurse in charge and it really shocked me, it was such a big thing to see her fighting for breath and so ill. I was crying when I got back to the hotel - I couldn't stop thinking about her. She asked me to promise her that she wasn't going to die. Thankfully she went on to CPAP [non-invasive ventilation] and started to improve.\n\nWe are still admitting patients on to the Covid ward and I don't see much sign it's stopping. Some people tell us they haven't been social distancing - they've been with relatives, or to other houses. I definitely think it's going to get worse before it gets better, because I think people just think that it's over.\n\nThe sad fact is that there are nurses and doctors and healthcare workers struggling to work in PPE, working really hard for three months in such difficult conditions, and like me, making sacrifices - not seeing family and friends, following all the rules - and then there are people out there that aren't doing that. So that's disheartening.\n\nIt's really sad. It's funny because people did love the NHS and clapped and everything - people really cared. But then it's kind of people want to move on. I don't necessarily agree that we should be called heroes, but I think that that might have all been forgotten about now.\n\nI'm leaving soon, because soon I'll have done three months in the hotel and the bill [paid by the NHS] is mounting up. There's nowhere else I could stay to be isolated so I need to go back home - and that means stopping work on the Covid wards.\n\nI would stay if I could. Don't get me wrong, there have been some horrendous things, but this is what I'm trained for. I have the ability to help, to make a difference and if living in the hotel is the only way to do it, then I'm prepared for that. I don't have children. I don't have a partner. But I'm also really looking forward to being home, to having my own bed, to being with my parents again.\n\nI will miss the Covid ward. The team's fantastic. Everyone's been so pleasant and lovely with each other, I think that's been the best thing. I've actually seen patients get better and clapping them out is my favourite thing ever. I love that.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nMy garden is the hospital car park and my commute is dreamy - it takes me two minutes to get from my bed into work. But it's a bit odd - I don't ever leave the hospital site.\n\nI was living with family and it made more sense not to live with them as I'm high-risk, interacting with patients who are really unwell with coronavirus. The thought of taking it home to family was just too much.\n\nIt is pretty lonely. There are two other doctors but it's difficult not being around family or people you love, and a phone call can only do so much.\n\nI've been in the flat for months now. I had to properly isolate when my flatmate had a positive test, so we couldn't even leave the flat. That was really bad. It's a hospital flat so the window has a padlock on it and only opens less than an inch so my fresh air was leaning against the window trying to breathe in some air.\n\nYou get used to having a garden, a nice kitchen and a home but now I haven't got any of that. I have found a little bit of the car park that I sit in when the sun is out.\n\nIt's been sad work, seeing young people who aren't doing as well as I'd like them to. It's hard to explain to family members - I try to get across that we are doing our best. But it's been heart-breaking speaking to them on the phone.\n\nIt was a lovely moment to see our first patient come off the ventilator and leave the ward. That makes the sacrifice worth it - knowing we can really help people.\n\nI'd love to be done, so that I could go and see my family and my partner, I'd really love to do that but I don't feel like I can yet. I'm hoping that time will come soon.\n\nBecky and Kirsten are the embodiment of the dedication of the NHS front-line workers. This is what they trained for - to care for people and to save lives. However, working on the Covid \"red\" wards has to be one of the toughest jobs, both physically and emotionally, and I worry about the impact on their physical and mental health when they are separated from their usual support networks of loving family and friends.\n\nWe will have to work hard to care for our carers.", "Health bosses fear the Covid-19 crisis could see the number of people waiting for NHS treatment double to 10 million by the end of the year.\n\nThe NHS Confederation said challenges include a backlog of cases, maintaining social distancing, and staffing.\n\nThe body, which represents health and care leaders, said emergency funding and longer-term spending were needed.\n\nThe Department of Health has said it will continue to provide the resources, funding and support the NHS needs.\n\nGuidance had been issued on how the NHS \"should start to restore services in a safe way\", a spokesman added.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce further plans to ease lockdown restrictions in England later, with zoos and drive-in cinemas among the businesses expected to be allowed to reopen from Monday.\n\nMr Johnson will lead the daily Downing Street briefing, where he is also likely to face questions about the government scrapping plans for all primary school children in England to return to school before the summer break.\n\nProjections by the NHS Confederation show that the NHS waiting list is expected to rise from about 4.2 million currently to about 10 million by Christmas.\n\nThis assumes the health service makes a steady return to full capacity within the next 12 months.\n\nIn a new report, the NHS Confederation said healthcare services were operating at a reduced capacity of about 60% because of infection control measures.\n\nThe body - which covers organisations commissioning and providing health services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - said it faces an \"uphill battle\" as it tries to restart cancer, stroke and heart care services, while continuing to manage thousands of sick and recovering Covid-19 patients.\n\nPredicting the immediate future of the NHS and the likely path of patient demand is like holding a finger in the wind.\n\nNobody knows whether there will be a second spike of Covid-19 cases and, if there is, when that might happen and how serious it could be.\n\nIt is hard to forecast how quickly those patients who have stayed away from hospitals because of fears of the virus will return to seek urgent treatment.\n\nHospitals, GP surgeries and other NHS sites will need time to adapt to social distancing rules and assess how they manage their workload.\n\nThe NHS Confederation is simply saying that an independent forecast that the waiting list for routine surgery in England might hit 10 million by the end of this year looks reasonable. Others have floated similar predictions.\n\nThe bigger point being made by the confederation is that the government in Westminster needs to think very hard about how the health service is managed in the months ahead and how patients' expectations should be prepared.\n\nThe devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have to face up to the same challenges.\n\nHealth leaders urged the government to prepare the public not to expect the same level of service for many months.\n\nOver the past fortnight, cardiology services have restarted in England but the British Heart Foundation on Friday warned of a backlog as an estimated 28,000 heart procedures had been delayed since the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nCancer services are also starting to reopen.\n\nCancer Research estimates about 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for screening, treatment or tests with a potential 23,000 cancers having gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nThe already-long waiting lists were \"certain to rise significantly\", the body said, and coronavirus patients would continue to require care in recovery including respiratory and psychological treatment.\n\nIt added that care was being delivered by \"exhausted and traumatised staff\", and health leaders had to stay prepared for a second wave.\n\nIn its study and accompanying letter to the prime minister, the NHS Confederation warned that it would not be possible to simply \"switch on\" NHS services immediately.\n\nA patient receives physiotherapy at the NHS Seacole Centre for patients recovering from coronavirus, as health leaders call for extra funding in rehabilitation and recovery services\n\nIt also called for further assurances on the effectiveness of the Test and Trace programme and further guarantees over personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAnd the report said a review of the impact of the pandemic on NHS and social care staff was needed.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing has warned it will be a \"struggle\" for \"burnt-out\" nursing staff on short-staffed wards, care homes or in clinics to restart services.\n\n\"The legacy of this pandemic is yet to dawn - the professionals are still focused on the here and now,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"As services begin to return, the government must continue to invest in the workforce so that an exhausted profession... is properly supported.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for ministers to \"take heed of these warnings\".\n\n\"It is inevitable that the Covid-19 pandemic will impact our health service in the months ahead but it is vital that ministers begin to address this backlog of delayed treatment and rising clinical need,\" he said.\n\nThe NHS Confederation has asked for an extension of the government's deal with the private sector, to provide beds, equipment and staff to the NHS, until next March.\n\nIts chief executive Niall Dickson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Frankly, we need all the capacity we can get to try and build up services going forward.\"\n\n\"We're not entirely clear what the levels of demand coming out of this are. We of course know patients that were waiting beforehand, but of course we've now got a huge backlog of patients that we haven't seen and we don't know what their needs will be,\" he said.\n\nHe added that infection control measures would be \"really important\" as long as the virus is in the community.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast the prime minister was \"absolutely committed\" to \"making sure this forecast that has been put forward doesn't actually happen\".\n\nSpeaking about whether the deal with the private sector would be renewed, he said the NHS could resume delivering broader services \"without the private hospitals\".\n\nAsked when the government will publish data relating to England's track and trace system, he said statistical experts wanted figures to be \"robust\" before publication.\n\n\"The worst of all worlds is to publish figures that are then having to be changed or are wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"This country has a proud track record of making sure that we are transparent in everything we do. We will learn the lessons from this, I guarantee you, but we'll do it after we get through this challenge. That's the right thing to do.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson previously told the BBC that the NHS was \"safely bringing back other services\" and was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".\n\nNHS England published a plan in May setting out how to increase routine operations and treatment.\n\nHas your NHS treatment been affected by the coronavirus pandemic? Please 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.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey\n\nThe Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father will be assessed by the police watchdog after the Met was instructed to refer it.\n\nWretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey, north London, in April.\n\nThe force previously said a review had found \"no indication of misconduct\".\n\nBut the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) used its powers to require the force to refer it.\n\nIt will now assess what happened to decide if it needs to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Millard Scott was Tasered by officers after they entered his home in April\n\nThe 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jermaine Scott, shared the 36-second clip on his Twitter account with the caption: \"This is how the police think they can treat a 62 year old black man in Tottenham but this 1 happens to be my dad.\"\n\nHe later spoke about the lack of progression on \"police brutality\" in the UK.\n\nHis 62-year-old father told ITV News he believed he would not have been Tasered if he were white and he was \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThe video shows Mr Scott falling down the stairs after an officer is heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nScotland Yard said officers had gone to the property as part of \"a long-running operation to tackle drugs supply linked to serious violence\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"As officers entered the premises, a man came downstairs and started moving towards an officer suddenly.\n\n\"He was ordered to remain where he was but continued towards officers who, after several warnings, deployed a Taser.\n\n\"The man was not arrested, but was assessed by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. He did not require further medical treatment.\n\n\"Officers from the North Area Command Unit have liaised with the family to discuss any concerns they have about the incident.\n\n\"The incident, including body-worn footage, has been reviewed by the Met's directorate of professional standards and no indication of misconduct has been identified.\"\n\nPolice said a 22-year-old man found in the house was arrested and charged with encouraging another to commit an offence, while a 52-year-old woman was charged with obstructing police after being interviewed under caution at a later date.\n\nThe force said in a further statement that, following examination of the body-worn footage, it believed the incident \"does not meet the criteria for a referral to the IOPC\".\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 statue of Robert Milligan was removed by the Canal and River Trust to \"recognise the wishes of the community\"\n\nA statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nSadiq Khan earlier announced a review of all of London's statues and street names, saying any with links to slavery \"should be taken down\".\n\nOn Sunday, anti-racism protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nMilligan's monument was removed to \"recognise the wishes of the community\" said the Canal and River Trust.\n\nThere were cheers and clapping as the monument was lifted from its plinth using a crane.\n\nThe Museum of London Docklands said the statue of the prominent British slave trader, who owned two sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica, had \"stood uncomfortably\" outside its premises \"for a long time\".\n\n\"The Museum of London recognises that the monument is part of the ongoing problematic regime of white-washing history, which disregards the pain of those who are still wrestling with the remnants of the crimes Milligan committed against humanity,\" they added.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it had worked with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the museum and partners in Canary Wharf to have it removed.\n\nAs the Milligan statue was lowered from its plinth, thousands of people gathered outside an Oxford college to demand the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nMilligan was a noted slaveholder and founder of London's global trade hub, West India Docks\n\nMr Khan said London had to face \"an uncomfortable truth\" with its historical links to slavery.\n\nThe Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will review the city's landmarks - including murals, street art, street names, statues and other memorials - and consider which legacies should be celebrated before making recommendations.\n\nMr Khan said London was \"one of the most diverse cities in the world\", but said recent Black Lives Matter protests had highlighted that the city's statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain.\n\n\"It is an uncomfortable truth that our nation and city owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade,\" he said.\n\n\"While this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been wilfully ignored.\"\n\nDuring a Black Lives Matter protest in central London on Sunday, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nBut Mr Khan said he did not consider statues of the likes of Churchill to be included in the review.\n\nHe said pupils needed to be educated about famous figures \"warts and all\" and that \"nobody was perfect\", including the likes of Churchill, Gandhi and Malcolm X.\n\nThe statue of Robert Milligan was covered with fabric and Black Lives Matter sign before being removed\n\nMr Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he did not have ownership of the statues and the land they are on.\n\nHe also said it would be \"inappropriate\" to single out which statues and street names he thinks should go.\n\nInstead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.\n\nA statue of Sir Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest\n\nThe Local Government Association's (LGA) Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review \"the appropriateness\" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities.\n\nCampaigns calling for the removal or amendment of monuments celebrating controversial figures have increased in volume around the UK in recent days.\n\nIn Oxford, 26 councillors and an MP have called for a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college.\n\nA plaque is to be added to a Henry Dundas monument in Edinburgh to \"reflect\" the city's links with slavery, while the leader of Cardiff Council said he would support the removal of a statue of slave-owner Sir Thomas Picton from the city's civic building.", "Michael R White is seen here in an undated photograph\n\nA US Navy veteran is returning home after being freed from detention in Iran.\n\nMichael White was sentenced to prison last year on unspecified charges, but was released temporarily on medical grounds to the Swiss embassy in March.\n\nHe was arrested in 2018 after travelling to meet his girlfriend in the Iranian city of Mashhad.\n\nHis release came on the day that Iran's foreign minister announced the return from the US of an Iranian doctor.\n\nUS officials have yet to confirm the release of Majid Taheri, but a third man - an Iranian scientist detained in the US - was deported to Iran earlier this week.\n\nSirous Asgari, a materials science professor from Tehran, had been charged in 2016 with trying to trade secret research from an American university, but was acquitted in November.\n\nThe releases appear to be a rare example of co-operation between Iran and the US - although Washington has denied so far that it was a straight prisoner swap.\n\nUS President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday that Mr White had been freed and the Swiss plane he was travelling on had left Iranian airspace.\n\n\"I will never stop working to secure the release of all Americans held hostage overseas,\" 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\n\"For the past 683 days my son, Michael, has been held hostage in Iran by the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] and I have been living a nightmare,\" Mr White's mother said in a statement. \"I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely on his way home.\"\n\nBoth Mr White's family and President Trump thanked Switzerland for its help.\n\nThe 48-year-old was one of at least six US citizens either imprisoned in Iran or out on bail.\n\nHe was granted medical furlough to the Swiss embassy in March amid the release of large numbers of prisoners due to the spread of coronavirus in Iran.\n\nHis family said he had visited the country a number of times before he was detained.\n\n\"We look forward to reuniting him with his family,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.\n\n\"[We] will not rest until we bring every American detained in Iran and around the world back home to their loved ones,\" he added.\n\nIn December, the US and Iran conducted a prisoner swap in a rare sign of co-operation. Chinese-American researcher Xiyue Wang and Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani were freed.\n\nRelations between the two countries have been increasingly hostile since the US abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.\n\nBut tensions escalated further this year when the US assassinated top Iranian commander Gen Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq in January. Iran retaliated by launching ballistic missiles at Iraqi military bases hosting US forces.", "Police have been searching for Madeleine McCann for over 13 years\n\nA 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago.\n\nPolice believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen.\n\nMadeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing from an apartment on a Portuguese holiday resort on the evening of 3 May 2007, while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\n\"Someone out there knows a lot more than they're letting on,\" said Det Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met inquiry.\n\nThe force said it remained a \"missing persons\" investigation because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nHowever, German investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry.\n\nThe London police force said the German authorities had taken the lead at this stage of the case because the German suspect was in custody in their country.\n\nGerman police told the country's ZDF TV channel the suspect, who is not being named, is a sex offender currently in prison for a sex crime.\n\nThe man has two previous convictions for \"sexual contact with girls\", according to Christian Hoppe from Germany's federal criminal police office.\n\nAn appeal on German television was broadcast this evening at 19:15 BST.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the prisoner, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia de Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 7.32pm, which ended at 8.02pm.\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number and the number which dialled him, saying any information about them could be \"critical\" to the inquiry.\n\nThe suspect is believed to have been using a Portuguese mobile phone, with the number +351 912 730 680 on the day Madeleine went missing.\n\nThe phone received a call in the area of Praia da Luz from a second mobile number, +351 916 510 683, from someone not in the area. They want the person who made this call to come forward.\n\n\"They're a key witness and we urge them to get in touch,\" said Det Ch Insp Cranwell.\n\n\"Some people will know the man we're describing today... you may be aware of some of the things he's done,\" he said.\n\n\"He may have confided in you about the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\n\"More than 13 years have passed and your loyalties may have changed,\" he added.\n\n\"Now is the time to come forward.\"\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann, pictured in 2017, said they would never give up hope\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the inquiry, known as Operation Grange, originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter an appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.\n\nSince then, Met detectives have carried out \"extensive inquiries\" in Portugal and Germany in order to gather more details about him.\n\nThe force said it was trying to \"prove or disprove\" his involvement in the case and retained an \"open mind\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell: \"He could have looked somewhere between 25 and 32\"\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.", "Passengers may have to book trains and buses in future because of Covid-19\n\nPassengers might have to pre-book bus and train tickets in future to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, Wales' economy minister has warned.\n\nKen Skates said space on services would be \"vastly reduced\" for passenger safety.\n\nIt comes as travellers are being warned by a Welsh train operator to only use services if \"absolutely essential\".\n\nTransport for Wales said rail journeys had fallen 95% over the last 10 weeks.\n\nLeyton Powell, Transport for Wales' safety and assurance director, said: \"Only travel by rail if it's absolutely essential and you have no other means of transport available.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our capacity is down because of social distancing, less than 10% availability. We cannot guarantee people's safety unless we manage the controls at all times, we are trying to run a safe service for our key workers.\"\n\nMr Skates said the Welsh Government did not want trains and buses full of commuters in Wales, as happened in London when lockdown rules were relaxed.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would also consider prioritising places on public transport for key workers and disabled people.\n\nMr Skates said passenger safety on public transport was a \"huge consideration\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has been discussing with transport operators and unions how they will manage demand with social distancing in place.\n\nScenes like these could become a thing of the past as people are urged only to use public transport if absolutely necessary\n\nMr Skates said: \"Trains and buses will carry far fewer people.\n\n\"We will have to consider measures such as pre-booking only, such as careful travel planning, such as prioritisation of who travels on buses and trains - for example key workers and disabled people.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Transport for Wales is urging people to \"travel safe\" and keep public transport clear for key workers.\n\nIt said people should follow five new principles if they are going to travel.\n\nThese include staying local, avoiding busy periods, following travel advice and respecting other passengers.\n\nIn Newport, a pilot project is trialling booking bus journeys by phone and app.\n\nThe \"Fflecsi\" scheme is being run by Newport Bus with Transport for Wales.\n\nKen Skates said passenger safety on public transport was a \"huge consideration\"\n\nNumerous scheduled services have been replaced with flexible ones.\n\nPassengers can request to be picked up and dropped off near work, shops or home, rather than following a set timetable at fixed stops.\n\nOnce a passenger has booked, Newport Bus will guarantee them a seat and space to social distance.\n\nThe scheme runs Monday to Saturday and includes key destinations such as hospitals and supermarkets.\n\nIf the pilot is successful Transport for Wales will look to roll the scheme elsewhere.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have joined a protest in London over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody nine days ago.\n\nIt comes as UK chief constables said they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by his death.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the right to lawful protest was a \"key part of any democracy\".\n\nBut they stressed coronavirus restrictions, including not gathering in groups of more than six, remained.\n\nProtests began in the US after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Boyega gives emotional protest speech: \"Black men, it starts with you\"\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that Mr Floyd's death had been \"appalling\" and \"inexcusable\", but was criticised for failing to comment on the killing before now.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the UK government had \"shuttered itself in the hope no-one would notice\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to convey to US President Donald Trump the UK's \"abhorrence about his response to the events\".\n\nSpeaking later when asked about it at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"My message to President Trump, to everybody in the United States from the UK is that… racism, racist violence has no place in our society.\"\n\nHe said people had the right to protest but \"I would urge people to protest peacefully, and in accordance with the rules on social distancing\".\n\nProtesters in Hyde Park chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"we will not be silent\"\n\nThousands of people marched through Westminster in central London\n\nDemonstrators gathered in London's Hyde Park for the protest organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter, before marching south through the city.\n\nIt followed days of protests in US cities including Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Seattle, after the Floyd case reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism.\n\nTens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets there - not only to express their outrage at the treatment of Mr Floyd - but to condemn police brutality against black Americans more widely.\n\nIn the UK protesters marched to Victoria Station, where they hung a sign reading \"Justice for Belly Mujinga\" - referring to a railway worker who died with Covid-19. Initially it was thought this may have been because she was spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus. However, police concluded that her death was not linked to the attack.\n\nThe protestors then continued towards Westminster, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament.\n\nA number of videos shared on social media showed protesters and police clashing outside Downing Street.\n\nFootage showed objects, including signs and a traffic cone, being thrown at police, while one protester was wrestled to the ground and restrained by officers.\n\nSome protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street\n\nThere was anger in the crowd, as they sat, as they listened to speeches, as they took the knee.\n\nThis is yet another generation who have painted placards and taken to the streets to march against racism.\n\nAs they started to fill Hyde Park, organisers shouted at them to spread out their arms to maintain the two-metre social distancing rule. But so many gathered, it became impossible.\n\nFriends and families together, different ages, different races.\n\nAt the start, organisers told me they were expecting about 1,000 people. But the protesters came out in their thousands.\n\nThey chanted \"Black Lives Matter\", they shouted \"say his name\". They said the \"UK is not different\" when it comes to racism. They want change.\n\nEarlier, Star Wars actor John Boyega made an emotional speech to fellow protesters in which he said the crowds were \"a physical representation of our support\" for Mr Floyd along with two other black Americans who controversially died in the US, and Stephen Lawrence who was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.\n\nHe said he was speaking from his heart and did not know whether he would still have a career after speaking out.\n\n\"Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process - we don't know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don't know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we're going to make sure that won't be an alien thought to our young ones,\" he said.\n\n\"I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing.\"\n\nThe crowds marched from Hyde Park towards Victoria station\n\nProtesters in Whitehall took the knee to show solidarity with George Floyd\n\nFirefighters in uniform knelt in Windrush Square, Brixton, in south London\n\nPolice clashes with protestors on Downing St carried on into the evening\n\nOne activist attending the protest, Brogan Baptiste, told the BBC: \"It's imperative that all of us, whether you're black, white, that you're involved in this because we need change and we need it now.\"\n\nFilippa, a 20-year-old student who also joined the protest, said: \"I know that I'm healthy. So this felt more important than to stay inside when I have the opportunity.\"\n\nProtests also took place in other UK cities, including Belfast and Northampton.\n\nIn their joint statement, the National Police Chiefs Council said: \"We stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life. Justice and accountability should follow.\"\n\nThey said officers in the UK were \"trained to use force proportionately, lawfully and only when absolutely necessary\".\n\nHowever, they added: \"We strive to continuously learn and improve. We will tackle bias, racism or discrimination wherever we find it.\"\n\nThousands of protesters gathered in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday\n\nThey said UK police \"uphold and facilitate\" the right to lawful protest and \"we know people want to make their voices heard\".\n\nBut amid the coronavirus pandemic they stressed restrictions on gatherings were still in place and urged people to \"continue to work with officers at this challenging time.\"\n\nThis latest protest follows another on Sunday, which saw thousands gather in Trafalgar Square, in central London.\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan called on young people and students at the school to come together to rebuild society\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has issued a personal message about the impact of George Floyd's death in the United States, saying his life \"mattered\".\n\nAddressing students graduating from her former school in Los Angeles, Meghan said the events had been \"devastating\".\n\nShe also recalled living through race riots in 1992 and spoke of her regret that nothing appeared to have changed.\n\nIn her video message, Meghan called on young people and students at the school to come together to rebuild society.\n\nA wave of anti-racism protests have been triggered by the death of African-American Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on 25 May.\n\nFour officers have been charged in relation to his death.\n\nAnger has since spread to other parts of the world, including the UK, where thousands of people joined a protest in London on Wednesday organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter.\n\nThe sister of black teenager Anthony Walker, who was murdered by two men in a racially-motivated attack in Merseyside in 2005, called for an \"ongoing revolution\" following the demonstrations - to break down institutional racism in society.\n\nDominique Walker, vice chair of the Anthony Walker Foundation set up after her brother's murder, told BBC Breakfast that police reform in the UK \"has to be taken further\".\n\n\"There has to be that definitive work that works to break down institutional racism,\" she said.\n\nIn the UK, protesters marched to Westminster in central London, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament\n\nIn the video of her virtual address to Immaculate Heart High School, the duchess said she was \"nervous\" about addressing graduates and speaking about events of the previous weeks.\n\nBut she said that she \"realised the only wrong thing to say is nothing because George Floyd's life mattered\", before referring to other African-Americans who died in police shootings in the US in recent years.\n\nIn the video, which was first reported by the African-American female magazine Essence, Meghan also gave a heartfelt apology to the graduating students \"that we have not gotten the world to the place that you deserve it to be\".\n\nShe told the all-girls school: \"I wasn't sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing and I was really nervous that I wouldn't or it would get picked apart, and I realised the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing - because George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and Tamir Rice's life mattered.\n\n\"And so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know.\"\n\nShe then shared her memories of living in the city through race riots in 1992, after police officers were filmed violently beating Rodney King.\n\nThe duchess said: \"I was 11 or 12 years old and it was the LA riots, which was also triggered by a senseless act of racism.\n\n\"I remember the curfew and I remember rushing back home, and on that drive home, seeing ash fall from the sky, and smelling the smoke and seeing the smoke billow out of buildings.\n\n\"I remember seeing men in the back of a van just holding guns and rifles.\n\n\"I remember pulling up the house and seeing the tree, that had always been there, completely charred. And those memories don't go away.\"\n\nMeghan said she could not imagine that the students \"would have to have a different version of that same type of experience\".\n\n\"That's something you should have an understanding of, but an understanding... as a history lesson not as your reality,\" she said.\n\n\"So I'm sorry that in a way we have not gotten the world to the place that you deserve it to be.\"\n\nShe went on to highlight that people are \"standing in solidarity\" despite the unrest, and appealed to young people to \"be part of this movement\".\n\nThe duchess said: \"I know that this is not the graduation that you envisioned [...] but I also know that there is a way to reframe this for you, and to not see this as the end of something.\n\n\"But instead to see this as the beginning of you harnessing all of the work, all of the values, all of the skills that you have embodied over the last four years.\n\n\"Now all of that work gets activated, now you get to be part of rebuilding.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are going to rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuilt, because when the foundation is broken, so are we.\"\n\nIn the US, protests began in Minneapolis where Mr Floyd died, and quickly spread across the country.\n\nDemonstrations have taken place in areas including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC, South Carolina and Houston.\n\nSome have included clashes between police and protesters, including the use of tear gas and rubber bullets by officers.\n\nUS president Donald Trump has pressed state governors to take a more forceful approach against protesters.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now living in Los Angeles with their one-year-old son Archie, after stepping back as working members of the Royal Family.", "At the Scottish government's daily briefing the first minister called on people to focus even more so now on what the Scottish government is asking them not to do.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is by not doing certain things right now that we will all help stop this virus spreading.\"\n\nShe went on to say, that this weekend would see more traditional Scottish rain and warned: \"You cannot and you must not meet people from an other household indoors.\"\n\nThat's a surefire way of spreading the virus, Ms Sturgeon added.\n\nYou can find all the guidance below:\n\n1. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Phase 1: staying at home and away from others (physical distancing)\n\nThis is the guidance for the first phase of easing the lockdown.\n\n2. Scotland’s route map through and out of the crisis\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions. We are currently in phase one.\n\nIf you have Covid-19 symptoms go immediately to NHS Inform online or phone 0800 028 2816 to book a test\n\nThe latest from NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, including social distancing, face covering and stay at home advice.", "Twitter has accused the US president of making false claims, in one of the app's own articles covering the news.\n\nThe move - which effectively accuses the leader of lying - refers to a tweet by Donald Trump about his first defence secretary.\n\nMr Trump had tweeted that he had given James Mattis the nickname \"Mad Dog\" and later fired him.\n\nBut Twitter's article says that the former general resigned, and his nickname preceded Trump's presidency.\n\nIt follows last week's explosive confrontation, which saw Twitter fact-check two of President Trump's tweets and label another as glorifying violence.\n\nThe latest confrontation was prompted by a strongly-worded statement issued by General Mattis last night, in which he criticised the president's handling of the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd.\n\nGen Mattis described Donald Trump as \"the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.\"\n\nThe president fired back quickly in a tweet saying that the one thing he and predecessor Barack Obama had in common was \"we both had the honour of firing Jim Mattis, the world's most overrated general. I asked for his letter of resignation and felt good about it\".\n\n\"His nickname was 'Chaos', which I didn't like, and changed it to 'Mad Dog',\" he added.\n\nTwitter later published what it calls a Moment, a summary of a news story that you can see when you press the platform's search button. It has also been promoted within the What's Happening box that appears on Twitter's website.\n\nThe article says that \"Mattis resigned from the position... after the administration decided to withdraw US troops from Syria\", and attributes the fact to a report by the Associated Press news agency.\n\nIt then refers to journalists at CNN, the National Review, the Washington Post and The Dispatch as having written that the nickname 'Mad Dog' had been used before Trump's presidency, with published references dating back to 2004.\n\nMoments are curated by an internal team at Twitter. They provide a summary of a recent development before presenting some related tweets.\n\nThis is not the first time the tool has been used to call out Donald Trump.\n\nIn March 2019, it said the president had misidentified a co-founder of Greenpeace, and in April 2020 it said he had falsely claimed he could force states to reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut what is interesting here is that Twitter has chosen to raise the temperature of its clash with the president over what could be seen as a relatively minor issue.\n\nDesktop users of Twitter will have seen the story prominently featured alongside their streams of tweets\n\nIt was on 20 December 2018 that Gen Mattis announced his resignation, effective from 28 February 2019.\n\nA furious Mr Trump then announced his defence secretary was going from 1 January and stated he'd essentially fired him. So you could at least argue that, as in many cases, there is a blurry line between a resignation and a firing.\n\nPerhaps Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey is looking on, with a degree of schadenfreude, at what has happened in recent days at Facebook.\n\nThere, Mark Zuckerberg's determination not to follow Twitter's lead and take some kind of action over the president's posts has sparked open revolt.\n\nFacebook staff, who previously would only grumble anonymously about the company's practices, have put their names to statements deploring Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act.\n\nThis morning, nearly three dozen former employees, including some who had helped write the original guidelines on what can and cannot be posted, published an open letter accusing Mr Zuckerberg of a \"betrayal\" of Facebook's ideals.\n\nLast week, it felt as though Twitter might be putting its future in danger by taking on the president.\n\nThis week, it feels as though Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act might leave him facing an even bigger crisis than the Cambridge Analytica scandal.", "Dyfed-Powys Police said many of those it stopped were from England and thought lockdown restrictions were the same in Wales\n\nPolice turned away more than 1,000 cars from one beauty spot in just two days for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said many people officers spoke to in the Brecon Beacons were from England who said they did not know about Wales' different rules.\n\nThe force's commissioner has said the UK government \"hasn't been all that clear\" on the differences.\n\nSupt Steve Davies said fines were issued if people had \"clearly flouted the rules\".\n\nThe force said many of those stopped at the weekend claimed they thought the rules in Wales were the same as in England and came from as far afield as London and the Midlands.\n\nPolice said they were kept busy due to the volume of people trying to drive to the area around Ystradfellte, Powys, known as \"waterfall country\".\n\nThe force, which covers some of Wales' most rural areas, also said 72% of people reported for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions in Powys since 27 March had been from outside the force area.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn, Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio Wales that the \"majority\" of people had listened to advice to stay local.\n\nBut he concluded the number of people breaking the rules was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"We have people travelling from Cardiff and the valleys into the force area. We also are getting people coming across the border,\" he said.\n\n\"In the first instance the police are trying to educate those coming across the border because the message from the central government hasn't been all that clear.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said it had been \"absolutely clear\" that people should check and follow local guidance when travelling between different parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our analysis shows that this message has been received clearly and is helping to tackle coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn says he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales\n\nMr Llywelyn added he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales because it is often \"impossible\" for officers to do anything other than issue a fine.\n\nSupt Davies added: \"Our officers have worked hard to engage with the public at every opportunity throughout these unprecedented times by explaining what we are doing and why, and encouraging people to make the best choices to protect public health in Wales.\n\n\"But where people have clearly flouted the rules we have dealt with them appropriately and issued fines.\"\n\nHe said officers would continue to conduct stop checks throughout Powys and across the force area this weekend.\n\nWales' three national parks and all National Trust sites remain closed to the public during the lockdown, although the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority has said parts of the park will open from Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma is self-isolating at home after becoming unwell in Parliament.\n\nMr Sharma looked uncomfortable while taking part in a debate on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times with his handkerchief while speaking.\n\nA spokesman said the MP for Reading West had been tested for coronavirus and had returned home.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament - with additional motions due later to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy.\n\nBut critics have said the motions do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said Parliament had been brought into \"disrepute\" and stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - calling for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe added: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael is expected to apply for an emergency debate later on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, and took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was in the Commons chamber for nearly an hour while leading for the government on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\nA spokesman for the business secretary said on Wednesday: \"Alok Sharma began feeling unwell when in the Chamber delivering the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\n\"In line with guidance he has been tested for coronavirus and is returning home to self isolate.\"\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAnd the BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said the MP who had sat nearest to Mr Sharma during his statement insisted that social distancing protocols had been observed throughout.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nMr Sharma was one of hundreds of MPs who queued around the building on Tuesday at two metre intervals as the Commons introduced new temporary voting procedures.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nick Watt said talks were at an \"advanced stage\" to change the temporary system, instead allowing MPs to vote by swiping their parliamentary passes in the normal voting lobbies.\n\nBut while it would be quicker than the system used this week - which saw votes take up to 46 minutes - it would not be as fast as the usual system, which sees votes completed in around 15 minutes.\n\nMPs are supposed to be queuing two metres apart - but some are wondering whether the rules were properly observed\n\nWhile the number of MPs permitted to sit in the chamber is still limited, many MPs are unhappy about being forced to return to Westminster, saying it poses a risk to them and their constituents.\n\nOthers are concerned MPs will be forced to expose the personal situations of them and their families in order to fit the criteria to be allowed to participate virtually.\n\nThe SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsty Blackman, said she sent her best wishes to Mr Sharma, but added: \"It demonstrates just how ridiculous and irresponsible the Tory government's decision to end virtual participation in Parliament was.\n\n\"They must now rectify this serious mistake and reintroduce hybrid proceedings without delay.\"\n\nBut Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"premature\" to use Mr Sharma as the case to support keeping virtual proceedings, as his results have not even come back yet.\n\nLabour MP Karl Turner said he had asked the Health and Safety Executive to conduct an urgent risk assessment of working conditions in Parliament.\n\nHe said MPs having to \"huddle together\" on escalators on the parliamentary estate while lining up to vote were among a number of \"unsafe practices\".\n\nThe HSE said it was aware of the letter and would \"respond in due course\", adding: \"While we have no jurisdiction at the Palace of Westminster, all places of work are expected to adhere to the government's working safely guidelines.\"\n\nThere have also been issues in committee rooms, with members not being able to sit around the tables and still keep to social distancing rule.\n\nAt the start of the Domestic Abuse Bill Committee, it's chair, Tory MP Peter Bone, said some members were having to sit in the public gallery away from the microphones, meaning they could not be recorded so could not contribute.\n\nThe Westminster leader of Plaid Cymru, Liz Saville Roberts - who sits on the committee - called it a \"shambles\", adding: \"Westminster isn't working.\"", "Looting of Apple stores has led some to close temporarily\n\niPhones stolen in lootings of Apple stores in the US are tracked, disabled and the local authorities notified, according to messages displayed on their screens.\n\nApple has temporarily closed some of its US stores following a series of attacks, amid protests over the death of George Floyd.\n\nSeveral images of the warnings have been shared on social media.\n\nApple said that it did not comment on \"security matters\".\n\nIt is not clear whether the company has passed on the location of stolen devices to any police forces.\n\nIt has long been rumoured that the devices on display in Apple stores have software installed so that they can be tracked if any are stolen.\n\nPictures on social media confirm this. One image of a device posted to Twitter showed the message: \"Please return to Apple Walnut Street. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.\"\n\nThe store in Philadelphia was among those attacked and looted.\n\nPurchased devices do not have such software on them but they can be remotely locked by Apple if they are subsequently stolen or lost.\n\nThe firm had only recently started reopening stores following the easing of lockdowns around the country but a series of raids in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia has forced them to shut again.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook has told employees in a memo that the killing of Mr Floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer, was \"senseless\" and has pledged to donate to human rights groups.", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nMadeleine McCann is \"assumed\" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in 2007.\n\nA 43-year-old German man is being investigated on suspicion of murder, the public prosecutor added.\n\nThe suspect, who has been named in German media as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office in Germany, said in an update on Thursday: \"We are assuming that the girl is dead.\n\n\"With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and he's already serving a long sentence.\"\n\nHe said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe McCann family's spokesman said Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, felt the new development was \"potentially very significant\".\n\nClarence Mitchell, who has represented the family since Madeleine went missing, said that in 13 years he couldn't \"recall an instance when the police had been so specific about an individual.\n\n\"Of all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past, there has never been something as clear cut as that from not just one, but three police forces\", he said.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe man is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nThe suspect has been described as white with short blond hair, and about 6ft (1.8m) tall with a slim build at the time.\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is in charge of the Met investigation - known as Operation Grange - said the suspect, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the caller was a \"key witness\" and should get in touch, while he also appealed to the public for details about the suspect.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nThe joint appeal from the British, German and Portuguese police includes a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said he wanted to thank members of the public who had already got in touch.\n\n\"We are pleased with the information coming in, and it will be assessed and prioritised,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to urge anyone with information to come forward and speak with us.\"\n\nJim Gamble, who served as the senior child protection officer in the UK's first police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, said it was the first time in 13 years \"when I actually dare to hope\".\n\nThe \"circumstantial evidence\" that had been shared by the police made the new suspect a \"really significant person of interest\", he said.\n\nHe said he believed the man \"came to light a number of years ago\" but was only being made public now because it was a \"painstaking\" process which began from \"a point of chaos\" after the initial investigation had been \"bungled\".\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns, from Rothley in Leicestershire, welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the latest developments appeared to be significant and No 10's thoughts were with the McCann family \"who have had to endure so much\".\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the UK inquiry originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter a 10-year anniversary appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.", "People arriving in the UK will have to isolate for 14 days or face penalties\n\nThe travel industry has condemned the government's quarantine rules, warning the mandatory two-week isolation will deter visitors and put jobs at risk.\n\nFrom 8 June all passengers arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has added to the criticism, warning fewer flights will restrict imports and exports.\n\nThe boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr O'Leary said most countries in Europe have a lower rate of coronavirus than the UK.\n\nAt a time when \"Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are removing visitor restrictions, the UK is imposing them,\" he said.\n\nSwissport chief Jason Holt questioned why the rules were being put in place now.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said: \"If it's so important and it's so relevant to the virus, and we all want the country to be safe, why wasn't this done in March? That's why everybody's quite confused on this.\"\n\nMore than 200 travel companies have written to the government asking for the new rules to be scrapped, while some MPs have also raised concerns.\n\nThe boss of tour operator Red Savannah said the government had failed to listen to the concerns of the travel industry.\n\n\"We are none the wiser as to the science behind the rationale for quarantine,\" said George Morgan-Grenville.\n\n\"It is the wrong policy that is going to cause untold misery for hundreds of thousands of people who will now very likely be made redundant.\"\n\nBut the government says the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach'' to protect public health.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel told Parliament imported coronavirus cases now ''pose a more significant threat''.\n\n\"We are past the peak but we are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad,\" she said.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has warned the quarantine rules will have knock on effects for freight, and that will hamper the recovery of some businesses.\n\nSpeaking to a committee of senior MPs, Stephen Phipson, the head of the manufacturers' association Make UK, said \"passenger aircraft are really important for freight. The belly of the aircraft carries freight. Heathrow is the largest port in the country.\"\n\n\"For import and export in manufacturing that passenger freight traffic is vital\", he said.\n\nHe described the quarantine rules as \"disappointing from that point of view\".\n\nFrom Sunday, all passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the quarantine rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they are not at home.\n\nA spokesman for the trade body Airlines UK said the government needed to clarify whether people from some countries with low infection rates would be exempt from quarantine rules, under a so-called air bridge.\n\n\"If the government leave it too late we run the risk of the summer season being over and losing out to other countries who are starting to open up their borders now,\" he said.\n\nSwissport, which handles airport ground services and cargo, earned more than €3bn (£2.8bn) in revenue in 2019 but the coronavirus crisis has reduced revenue by 95%, according to Mr Holt.\n\nThe company has furloughed most of its 6,000 UK staff.\n\nMr Holt said they would remain on the Job Retention Scheme until the government's future travel policies became clear.\n\nHe said Swissport had lobbied the government to avoid introducing quarantine, but the company was now hoping the rules will only be in place for short time.\n\n\"We're really hoping no more than three weeks,\" he said. If it goes beyond that it could do \"irredeemable damage to the sector\".", "Almost £7bn has been raised to immunise 300 million children at a virtual global vaccine summit hosted by the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said up to eight million lives would be saved as a result of the funds pledged at the Gavi vaccine summit on Thursday.\n\nThe money will help immunise children against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles over five years.\n\nMr Johnson said the triumph of humanity over disease was the \"greatest shared endeavour of our lifetimes\".\n\nThe summit raised funds for Gavi, a global alliance of public and private sector organisations promoting vaccination among the world's poorest communities.\n\nPledges by more than 50 countries and individuals like billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw the total surpass an initial target of $7.4bn (almost £6bn).\n\nMr Gates donated $1.6bn (£1.3bn) from his foundation and Mr Johnson pledged £1.65bn over the next five years, making the UK the organisation's biggest donor.\n\nThe summit comes as the world continues to struggle to get to grips with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson also used the conference to urge world leaders to renew their \"collective resolve\" to find a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\n\"Just as we have great military alliances like Nato... where countries collaborate on building their collective military defence, so we now need that same spirit of collaboration and collective defence against the common enemy of disease,\" he said.\n\n\"It will require a new international effort to co-operate on the surveillance and the sharing of information - data is king - that can underpin a global alert system, so we can rapidly identify any future outbreak. And it will mean a radical scaling-up of our global capacity to respond.\"\n\nInternational Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan later said she believed the UK was capable of delivering a coronavirus vaccine to those who need it \"at speed\" when one becomes available.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at the virtual global vaccine summit.\n\nLast week, Mr Trump severed ties with the UN's health agency, the World Health Organization, stopping around $400m (£317m) in support, after accusing it and China of mishandling the outbreak.\n\nThere was international criticism of the decision, particularly because it was made in the middle of a global pandemic.\n\nBut at the summit, Mr Trump struck a different tone in what was a very brief and seemingly very off-the-cuff, pre-recorded message.\n\n\"As the coronavirus has shown, there are no borders, it doesn't discriminate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's mean, it's nasty but we're going to take care of it together.... We will work hard, we will work strong... good luck, let's get the answer.\"", "A forthcoming US ban on flights from China has left some Chinese students worried they won’t be able to get home.\n\nYesterday, the US announced that it would suspend all Chinese passenger planes from 16 June. This has led to an outpouring of anxiety on social media, with many asking, \"What will international students do?\"\n\nThe independent South China Morning Post said that last year some 370,000 students from China were enrolled in institutes across the US. .\n\nSeemingly in response to reaction to the US ban, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has signalled that it will loosen its own restrictions on arrivals, saying airports in 37 cities across China should now become available to international flights.\n\nThis has led to praise online, with users of the popular Sina Weibo platform saying that China is “putting people’s interests first” and that they hope those in the US can “hurry home”.\n\nBut there are also concerns. China has gone to great lengths to ensure that it doesn’t see a second wave of Covid-19, implementing mass testing and strict quarantine procedures. Many are worried that an influx of people returning from overseas could lead to a fresh spike in cases.", "It is unlikely Snowdon will be open to visitors soon, to prevent crowds gathering on the summit Image caption: It is unlikely Snowdon will be open to visitors soon, to prevent crowds gathering on the summit\n\nAny moves to reopen parts of the Snowdonia National Park will be \"cautious and measured and will be phased\" say officials.\n\nIt follows the announcement from the Brecon Beacons park authority that it is preparing to reopen some areas to the public from Monday 8 June.\n\nHowever, popular sites such as Pen y Fan, Waterfalls Country and Llyn y Fan Fach will remain closed for the time being.\n\nPictures of hundreds of people queuing at the top of Snowdon and overflowing car parks in the area are thought to have played a role in the coronavirus lockdown measures being implemented in March.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, officers in Snowdonia said they had been reviewing the measures in place.\n\n\"In the coming weeks there will be only minor changes to allow for local people to exercise locally as set out by Welsh Government,\" said a spokeswoman for the park authority.\n\n\"Internationally recognised sites that are very busy will be opened much later.\n\n\"We would like to thank visitors for their patience and for continuing to respect the restrictions in Wales.\n\n\"The ancient landscape, vast night skies and fragile wildlife of Snowdonia will be well worth the wait when it’s finally safe to return.\"", "Lookers has implemented safety measures including deep cleaning vehicles as it reopened its showrooms\n\nCar dealership Lookers has announced it will cut up to 1,500 jobs with the closure of more showrooms in the UK.\n\nThe company reopened its showrooms on Monday after the government lifted coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nLuxury carmaker Aston Martin also announced 500 redundancies, a week after naming a new chief executive.\n\nIt comes as the SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in May - down 89% year-on-year - in the worst May performance since 1952.\n\nCar manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms have been closed for weeks, with consumers in lockdown and holding off big-ticket purchases.\n\nAltrincham-based Lookers will shut another 12 sites - either by closure, merging with other showrooms or refranchising - on top of the 15 dealerships being closed already under plans announced in November.\n\nThe closures, blamed on what Lookers called \"the structural changes taking place across the industry\", will leave it with 136 dealerships across the UK\n\nLookers, which employs 8,000 people, resumed trading from all its sites on 1 June with social distancing measures in place.\n\nChief executive Mark Raban, said: \"We have taken the decision to restructure the size of the group's dealership estate to position the business for a sustainable future, which regrettably means redundancy consultation with a number of our colleagues.\"\n\nAston Martin shares have tumbled along with car sales\n\nAston Martin also announced 500 job cuts, to \"right-size the organisational structure and bring the cost base into line with reduced sports car production levels, consistent with restoring profitability,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast month, the 107-year-old company reported a deep first-quarter loss after sales dropped by almost a third due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts come a week after Aston Martin confirmed that Tobias Moers, boss of Mercedes-AMG, would become chief executive on 1 August, replacing Andy Palmer.\n\nThe scale of the problems facing the motor industry were underlined on Thursday in new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nBritish new car registrations tumbled by 89% in May on the same month last year, only slight improvement on April's record 97% collapse.\n\nLast month's new registrations of 20,247 units represented the weakest May since 1952. Sales were down 51.4% in the first five months of 2020 but the industry is hopeful that a re-opening of dealer showrooms in England this week will help to spur a recovery.\n\nHowever, Mike Hawes, the SMMT's chief executive, said: \"Early reports suggest there is good business given the circumstances, although it is far too early to tell how demand will pan out over the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nBut the uncertainty has not been helped by fresh worries about the UK leaving the European Union without a trade deal.\n\nNissan's car manufacturing plant in Sunderland, which employs 7,000 people, is \"unsustainable\" under a no-deal Brexit, the car company told the BBC on Wednesday.", "AG Ellison: US has under-prosecuted police killings in the past\n\nAttorney General Ellison ends the press conference by promising to \"hold everyone accountable for behaviour we can prove in court\". \"As the people who are legal professionals, professional prosecutors – we are taking our duty seriously, and we are working with the people who gather the facts, and we have done the work that we begin is possible, ethical and right.\" When asked about the lack of trust between the public and the authorities, he says: \"Our country has under-prosecuted these matters, in Minnesota and throughout the country.\" This, he says, is \"the origin of the trust problem\" - as \"people who have public guardians\" have not been held accountable in similar situations in the past. \"We can’t control the past – all we can do is take the case we have in front of us right now, and do our best to bring justice to the situation.\"", "Officers were called to Energen Close in Harlesden\n\nA two-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hurt in a shooting in Harlesden, north west London, police have said.\n\nThe lone gunman is thought to have fled on a motorbike after firing at two men, a mother and her child in Energen Close just before 21:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe three adults are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rick Sewart said the child had been the victim of \"wanton indiscriminate violence\".\n\nHe added: \"As result of this terrible crime an innocent two-year-old boy is now seriously ill in hospital.\n\n\"I know that people will be shocked and horrified that a little boy should be the victim of a gunman and I need the community to show their support for him and his family, by telling police what they know.\"\n\nPolice said specialist gang officers were helping with the investigation\n\nPolice believe the suspect was holding a hand gun and he approached the victims in the street.\n\nThe child suffered his gunshot injury while sitting in a car.\n\nThe three adults, aged in their late teens and late 20s, are said to have known one another.\n\nAn witness, who did not want to be named, said she was watching TV when she heard screaming from outside before \"everyone came out of their houses\".\n\nThe neighbour, who has lived in Energen Close for 10 years, said the mother was screaming after her son was shot.\n\nSpecialist detectives are continuing to investigate and the Met said no arrests have been made.\n\nForensic officers are continuing to examine the scene\n\nThe Met's North West Borough Cmdr Roy Smith said extra patrols of armed police officers will be carried out to reassure the public.\n\nHe said: \"I know that residents will be worried about their safety and the safety of their families.\n\n\"This is my primary concern and local officers will be conducting additional patrols to provide support and a visible reassurance.\"\n\nOvernight a Section 60 order was in place for the borough of Brent until 07:00, and a dispersal zone has been authorised for the Harlesden area, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "Luxury carmaker Bentley has said it will cut 1,000 jobs in the UK, about a quarter of its workforce.\n\nThe company, which makes its cars in Crewe, has offered all staff the chance to take voluntary redundancy.\n\nThe move comes as the car industry faces a sharp drop in sales due to coronavirus. Bentley has also struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nBentley's boss, Adrian Hallmark, said the virus was not the cause of the cuts, but a \"hastener\".\n\nCar sales have been severely hit by the closure of car manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms due to the virus.\n\nIn a statement, Bentley which turns 101 on 10 July, said it was launching a restructuring programme which would \"redefine Bentley for the next 100 years\". The plan had been due to be announced in March, but was deferred due to the pandemic.\n\nWhile the substance of the new strategy remained the same, the company said the effects on the short-term financial outlook for the company meant that it had to \"significantly reduce the size of the organisation through a voluntary release programme\".\n\nIt said it was looking for as many as 1,000 people to accept voluntary redundancy, but it \"cannot rule out future compulsory redundancies\".\n\n\"Losing colleagues is not something we are treating lightly but this is a necessary step that we have to take to safeguard the jobs of the vast majority who will remain, and deliver a sustainable business model for the future through our Beyond100 strategy,\" said Mr Hallmark.\n\nThat strategy aims to make Bentley the \"leader in sustainable luxury mobility for the next 100 years\", with an \"accelerated journey towards electrification with every model\".\n\nLast month, Mr Hallmark said that a quarter of the company's workers had been furloughed due to the lockdown while another quarter were working from home.\n\nThe carmaker has since restarted production at its Crewe factory, but with only around half the usual number of staff.\n\nBentley, which is owned by Volkswagen, has struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nIt is in the middle of a turnaround plan which began in 2018. Last year, it increased its worldwide sales by 5% to 11,000 cars and it reported a record performance in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nBut now with \"considerable forecast reduction to future revenues\" due to coronavirus it has carried out a review of its cost and investment structure and \"as the last resort... the people cost and structure\".\n\nThe SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in the UK last month - down 89% year-on-year - the worst May performance since 1952.", "The protest was held in Birmingham's Centenary Square\n\nThousands of demonstrators gathered in Birmingham to protest about the death of George Floyd in US police custody.\n\nMr Floyd, an African-American, died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nThousands of people marched in London on Wednesday after the death sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe Birmingham protest started outside the library but later moved through the city to the police's headquarters.\n\nWest Midlands Police said an estimated 4,000 people took part and there were no arrests.\n\n\"The protesters were loud and passionate, and made their voices clearly heard, but there were no arrests and no disorder,\" a force spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city \"has a proud history of standing up to racism\", the council said\n\nProtest organisers UK Isn't Innocent said Britain had \"a duty to stand in solidarity with the US while exposing the inner workings of racism and police brutality in the UK\".\n\n\"We are tired and we have been tired for too long,\" lead organiser Hannah Ringane said.\n\n\"We have been taught that we won't be treated the same as everyone else, that we will be viewed as aggressors.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death has led to protests around the world\n\nThe demonstration had to be relocated to a larger square due to the number of protesters\n\nCarol Smith, who was among the demonstrators, said: \"My grandchildren were born here, they have to have a different world to the world I have.\n\n\"They have to realise they have a right to be here, and they have a right to equality, just like everyone else who don't look like them.\n\n\"I can't give you the answer to racism. I didn't create it, people who look like me didn't create it.\"\n\n\"Not just for us, but changes for the world. These are the things that are demanded now.\"\n\nCrowds took a knee as the protest moved through the city\n\nAston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings - who was targeted with racist abuse while playing for his country against Bulgaria last year - indicated he would join demonstrators, urging his followers online to \"stand for what's right\".\n\nPeople were originally due to gather in Victoria Square outside the council house, but when it became clear the numbers would be too large it was moved to Centenary Square.\n\nAlthough it was billed as a stand-in demonstration, protesters moved on from the square and marched towards Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police, shouting \"justice now\" and calling for an end to police brutality.\n\nThe demonstration continued into the evening\n\nDemonstrators marched on Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police\n\nIn the past month, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun nine investigations into West Midlands Police connected to alleged excessive use of force on black men and two officers have been suspended.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Tambling, from the force, said she was \"really pleased with the atmosphere\" at the protest in the city.\n\nAlthough some people have begun to leave, many more are continuing to arrive. The atmosphere has been good, with whole families coming to express their solidarity with the demonstrators.\n\nA handful of police liaison officers have kept a respectful distance and the crowds have remained peaceful.\n\nThe younger generation in particular have made banners with clever slogans, while several older onlookers, especially from the Afro-Caribbean community, have been overcome with emotion when they see the size of the crowd.\n\nThe protest moved down Colmore Row after stopping outside West Midlands Police's headquarters\n\nBirmingham City Council said it supported the demonstration, but encouraged protesters to maintain social distancing.\n\n\"The city of Birmingham has a long and proud history of standing up to racism and to prejudice, and that is why today we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Labour councillor and cabinet member for social inclusion John Cotton.\n\nFour Minneapolis police officers have been charged over 46-year-old Mr Floyd 's death, including Derek Chauvin who faces a second-degree murder charge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nMr Sharma said he would like to offer \"huge thanks\" to those who have expressed their well wishes over the last 24 hours as well as the Parliamentary authorities.\n\nHe became unwell in the Commons on Wednesday, where he was seen mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nHe was then tested for the virus and went home to self-isolate.\n\nEarlier, the government had faced questions about whether the prime minister and chancellor would have to self-isolate, after Mr Sharma met them in Downing Street a day before falling ill.\n\nMr Sharma's condition also reignited concern over the scrapping of virtual Parliament this week, and the return of MPs to Westminster.\n\nAnnouncing the result of his negative test, Mr Sharma sent his \"grateful thanks\" to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\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 Reading West MP was in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" took place after the debate.\n\nA day earlier, Mr Sharma had a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 said the meeting had been \"socially distanced\".\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, after Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped online voting procedures brought in at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nMeasures to allow MPs who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said these measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nReacting to the news of Mr Sharma's negative test, Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper said it was \"good news\" but it \"should still be a wake-up call for Rees-Mogg\".\n\nShe said the government should lead by example by supporting people to work from home where they can and \"stop needlessly risking health of MPs and staff\".\n\nLabour MP Barry Sheerman said he was \"very relieved\" that Mr Sharma tested negative, but that \"doesn't mean that the reintroduction of physical presence voting is not stupid\".\n\nThe PCS union, representing about 800 of Parliament's clerks, security guards and kitchen staff, has written to the prime minister to say the decision to end virtual voting was endangering the workers.\n\n\"We believe Parliament has opened too soon and the lives of PCS members, and those of our sister unions, are being put at risk unnecessarily,\" general secretary Mark Serwotka said.\n\nEarlier, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\" and return to Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday.\n\nThe MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma met the prime minister and chancellor in No 10 the day before he became unwell in the Commons, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said the 45-minute meeting held in the cabinet room on Tuesday was socially distanced.\n\nMr Sharma is now self-isolating at home and is waiting for the result of a coronavirus test.\n\nHe had looked uncomfortable in the Commons on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nAsked about Mr Sharma's condition at the Downing Street daily 17:00 BST press conference, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"doing fine\".\n\nHe said he had spoken to Mr Sharma in the past hour and the business secretary was working from home and \"awaiting\" the result of his coronavirus test.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, and additional motions to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said the measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, when he attended a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in No 10. He then took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said those at the Downing Street meeting \"were all 2m apart\".\n\n\"Meetings in Number 10 are all socially distanced,\" he said.\n\nIf Mr Sharma has a positive coronavirus test \"he will work with the test and trace service\", the spokesman said.\n\nThe Reading West MP was also in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nIt comes amid a row among MPs over the return to physical sittings in Parliament.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - and she called for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday. The MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SNP MP Alison Thewliss' claims that forcing black people to work is a racist policy are rejected by Kemi Badenoch\n\nA minister has hit back at claims \"systemic injustice\" is the reason ethnic minorities are more likely to die from coronavirus in England.\n\nKemi Badenoch said work was under way on why risks were higher for some ethnic groups, including factors like jobs and housing.\n\nThe equalities minister told them: \"This is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.\"\n\nIn heated Commons exchanges, Labour's Zarah Sultana called for a strategy covering all government departments to tackle underlying inequalities and \"systemic injustice\", adding that Covid-19 does not discriminate but the \"system in which it is spreading does\".\n\n\"Higher rates of poverty, overcrowded housing, precarious work and jobs on the front line mean that if you're black or Asian you're more likely to catch the virus and to be hit worse if you do,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Black Lives Matter is not just a slogan and we are owed more than confirmation that our communities are suffering - we're owed justice.\"\n\nMs Badenoch said other groups, including those based on age and gender, have also been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus and must be looked at.\n\nBut she added: \"I'm not going to take any lessons from the honourable lady on race and what I should be doing on that. I think this government has a record to be proud of.\"\n\nLabour's Rupa Huq raised the Black Lives Matter protests in Westminster on Wednesday over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody, saying: \"The placard that sticks in my mind most is one that said 'Being black should not be a death sentence'.\"\n\nMs Badenoch insisted the government was examining the reasons for the higher death rate and stressed it would be more than just a \"box-ticking exercise\".\n\nBut she added: \"Let us not in this House use statements like 'being black is a death sentence', which young people out there hear, don't understand the context and then continue to believe that they live in a society that is against them when actually this is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.\"\n\nA report by Public Health England this week confirmed people from ethnic minorities are at higher risk of dying from coronavirus.\n\nThe report showed that age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe government has faced criticism for not publishing any recommendations to address these disparities.\n\nLabour's shadow equalities minister Marsha De Cordova called for an action plan, adding: \"The government must not wait any longer to address underlying racial and socioeconomic injustices, so that no more lives are lost.\"\n\nMs Badenoch also faced claims from Labour and Lib Dem MPs that the government had censored the Public Health England report to leave out comments from organisations and individuals who had contributed to the review.\n\nAccording to the Health Service Journal, one of the responses, from the Muslim Council of Britain, called on Public Health England to look into \"specific measures to tackle the culture of discrimination and racism\" in the NHS.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler accused the government of engaging in a \"whitewash\".\n\nMs Badenoch said it was never the government's plan to publish these responses - and she would be working with the government's Race Disparity Unit to come up with recommendations.\n\nShe said the Public Health England report did not cover factors such as housing density, underlying health conditions or the occupations of those who have died, which she said \"may well go some way to explain the gaps\".\n\nWork is also under way to find out why an initial report by Public Health Scotland, found no racial disparity in coronavirus deaths in Scotland, she told MPs.", "More than half the UK population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, a survey suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers said sleep problems were more common in people facing financial hardship, while two in five reported having more vivid dreams than usual.\n\nSome people slept for longer than usual, but without feeling rested.\n\nThe findings are based on online interviews in late May with 2,254 UK residents in the 16-75 age bracket.\n\nThe study was carried out by market research company Ipsos MORI and King's College London.\n\nThe researchers said lack of sleep may itself have had knock-on effects on people's capacity to be resilient during the pandemic, and there are signs of a disproportionate impact on particular groups: women, younger people and those facing financial difficulties.\n\n\"As with so much about Covid-19, the crisis is affecting people very differently depending on their circumstances, and that includes the most fundamental aspects of life, such as sleep,\" said Prof Bobby Duffy of King's College London.\n\nHe said nearly two-thirds of the public reported some negative impact on their sleep, showing just how unsettling the pandemic and lockdown measures have been.\n\nDisturbed sleep is often caused by stress, and can itself increase stress levels, creating a cycle that is difficult to break, added Dr Ivana Rosenzweig, of Kings College.\n\nHowever, a quarter of participants reported they were sleeping more and feeling better for it, she said, highlighting that, \"as a society, we simply do not get the chance to sleep as much as we need, and that this pandemic is allowing some of us to rediscover the importance of sleep\".\n\nPrevious research has shown that for many people lockdown has led to disturbed sleep, insomnia and vivid dreams.\n\nExperts have suggested keeping to a routine, not taking naps and trying to get some exercise outside.\n• None Five tips to help you sleep better", "Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was asked on Thursday to respond to former Defence Secretary James Mattis’s blistering criticism of his former boss, President Donald Trump, in an article published the previous day.\n\n“I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,\" she said. “I thought General Mattis's words were true, and honest and necessary and overdue.”\n\nMurkowski has always been a bit of a wildcard. She won re-election to the Senate in 2010 after losing the Republican primary and running as a write-in candidate. She voted against Republican efforts to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare reform in 2017. In 2018, she was the lone Republican opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a brutally partisan confirmation process.\n\nSo it’s hard exactly to figure whether her recent expression of doubt about supporting Trump reflects a turning point for the Republican Party or just another jab from an iconoclast.\n\nMattis’s critique of the president, however, was particularly stinging – and particularly noteworthy. A ex-general and former senior official in the Trump administration was accusing the president of being willfully divisive, suggesting he was abusing his power and making a “mockery of the Constitution”. It may give cover for other former officials, who have occasionally criticised the president without attribution, to come out of the shadows.\n\nTrump responded in predictable fashion (by attacking Mattis) and in a predictable forum (Twitter).\n\nThe president’s penchant for counterpunching, however, may work against him here. Besides inducing Murkowski’s reflection, Trump’s social-media belittling of Mattis prompted another former top aide, ex-chief of staff John Kelly, to contradict the president’s account of Mattis’s departure from the administration and call the former general an “honourable man”.\n\nEarly in his presidency, Trump had a penchant for surrounding himself with former military officers. Now that his threat of sending active duty military unites to secure US cities – even over the objections of local officials – has caused unease among the armed forces, those early staffing moves may come back to haunt him.\n\nIf the military is closing ranks in opposition of the president, they could make life very hard for him in the days ahead.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "More than 160 migrants travelled across the Channel in small boats in 24 hours - a record for a single day.\n\nThe Border Force intercepted seven boats on Wednesday, while 11 men were detained on a beach at Samphire Hoe in Kent.\n\nThere were 166 migrants in total, including one boat which had 48 males and 16 females who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Afghani.\n\nThe Home Office said they have all been taken to Dover to be assessed.\n\nPreviously the most migrants attempting to cross the Channel in a day was 145, on 8 May.\n\nAs well as the boat with 64 people on board, a second vessel earlier was carrying a group of 14 males, and a third had a group of 17 males and females.\n\nTwo more boats were carrying 16 males each, with one group presenting themselves as Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Iranian and Syrian.\n\nA sixth boat was carrying a group of 13 males who presented themselves as Iranian and Iraqi nationals, and a seventh was carrying a group of 15 males who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, and Chinese.\n\nIn the eighth incident, a group of 11 males, who presented themselves as Yemeni and Sudanese nationals, were arrested on the beach by Kent Police.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants would be interviewed, with transferrals to detention \"where appropriate\".\n\nImmigration minister Chris Philp said: \"We are determined to stop migrants putting their lives at risk, and we are working tirelessly alongside the French government to do so\".\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to pursue the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity.\n\n\"Last year, immigration enforcement made 418 arrests, leading to 203 convictions for a total of 437 years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales has said he \"got away with it quite lightly\" when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the UK's epidemic in March.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, self-isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said: \"I was lucky in my case... but I've had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through.\"\n\nHe expressed sympathy with those who had lost family or friends.\n\n\"I feel particularly for those who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That, to me, is the most ghastly thing,\" the prince said.\n\n\"But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, I'm so determined to find a way out of this.\"\n\nPrince Charles, who is the heir to the throne, recovered from coronavirus after spending his seven days of quarantine at his Birkhall home on the royal Balmoral estate. The Duchess of Cornwall, 72, was tested and did not have the virus.\n\nHe said: \"I can't tell you how much I sympathise with the way that everyone has had to endure with this unbelievably testing and challenging time.\"\n\nThe prince said the experience made him more determined to \"push and shout and prod\" as he called for nature to return to the \"centre of our economy\".\n\n\"Before this, nature has just been pushed to the peripheries, we've exploited and dug up and cut down everything as if there was no tomorrow, as if it doesn't matter.\"\n\nWithout learning from the pandemic, he said we may face a similar threat in future: \"The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy biodiversity, the more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger.\n\n\"We've had these other disasters with Sars and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity. So we have to find a way this time to put nature back at the centre.\"\n\nHe calls it - perhaps rather hopefully - \"the Great Reset\": a great opportunity to seize something good from this crisis.\n\nPrince Charles is not the only environmental voice out there; from those marvelling at the sound of birdsong these past few months, to those urging a shift to sustainable transport, there is a green wave that the prince is surfing.\n\nThe prince is no mere follower of fashion; he has (as he once put it in a broadcast chat with his son Prince Harry) been \"banging on\" about the environment for more than four decades now.\n\nIt means his words on the subject are often dismissed as same-old, same-old.\n\nBut there is new urgency in this interview, and a bluntness; catastrophes, he says, concentrate the mind. The current generation and those that have come before have, he says, acted as if there is no tomorrow.\n\nAnd there is controversy. Not everyone sees the planet as a sick patient in need of care.\n\nOthers, charged with the herculean task of restoring shattered economies, will have to grapple with trade-offs around environmental protection and quickly getting people back into jobs.\n\nPrince Charles has mellowed with age; no longer does he toss policy hand grenades into the public sphere.\n\nBut on the future of the earth his passion still burns bright. And it is clear that he believes a moment has arrived when change is possible; he is determined to try and drive that change.", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe government has said it will continue to fund the police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann until March next year.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.\n\nMore than £11m has been spent on the Met Police inquiry, known as Operation Grange, since it began in 2011.\n\nThe Home Office said a \"similar\" level of funding would be granted this year as in 2018/19, when the inquiry was given £300,000.\n\nHowever, the department said the final decision on the amount would not be made until October.\n\nDetectives have been applying to the Home Office every six months for a grant to continue their work.\n\nOperation Grange was set up after former Prime Minister David Cameron asked the force to \"bring their expertise\" to the inquiry, after the Portuguese investigation failed to make headway.\n\nFour people were identified as suspects in 2013, but no further action was taken after they were interviewed by Portuguese officers and the Met Police, who visited the holiday resort in 2014.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have pledged never to give up the search for their daughter, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment while they were dining at a restaurant nearby.\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance in 2017, detectives said that a \"critical line of inquiry\" was still being pursued.", "Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an image of how their daughter Madeleine, who went missing aged three, might have looked in 2012\n\nThe disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 was a shocking family tragedy. A perfect holiday became the most awful event imaginable. And 13 years on, still no answers.\n\nFor all the years that she has been missing, her parents - and a small group of British police officers who took over the case in 2011 - have not given up hope of finally discovering what happened.\n\nNow, with a potentially astonishing new lead on a known sex offender from Germany, the question is whether they are, finally, close to the truth after so many false turns.\n\nOn 3 May 2007 Madeleine was on holiday with her siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in an apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents were eating dinner with friends a short walk from the apartment - and when Mrs McCann went back to check on the three sleeping children, she discovered Madeleine was gone.\n\nThrough the night, local police and volunteers began to search. As the hours ticked by, more and more people gave up their holidays and time to find the little girl.\n\nBut within days, the first of a series of major wrong turns arguably hampered the investigation.\n\nHe became the centre of an erroneous police inquiry - and enormous attention from the British press.\n\nBut he had nothing to do with the disappearance - and 11 British newspapers eventually paid him £600,000 in libel damages after wrecking his life.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz\n\nAnd a month after Madeleine's disappearance, the Portuguese investigation was stalling.\n\nThere was an appeal for information on an unknown figure seen carrying a child - but a police chief admitted potentially vital forensic evidence had not been secured in the apartment.\n\nThe chance of finding fingerprints, DNA or fibres linking the scene to an abductor were lost.\n\nBy July, the local Portuguese police were at a dead end. They asked the UK to help - and a team of experienced search detectives and sniffer dogs were flown in.\n\nThe British team went back to basics with an agonisingly meticulous search, the gold standard for murder inquiries in the UK.\n\nThey did not find any leads - and in September 2007, with Madeleine's parents still in turmoil, the local police suddenly named them as suspects. There was no evidence to support that supposition, and that line of inquiry was later abandoned.\n\nNaming the parents as suspects felt to many observers at the time as a desperate clutching at straws by an investigation on the rocks. And 14 months after Madeleine McCann disappeared, the Portuguese authorities shelved its inquiry as unsolved.\n\nThe McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were convinced their daughter had been abducted.\n\nThe UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, experts in the trafficking of children into sexual abuse, became involved and in the following years tried to keep interest alive with artist's images of what Madeleine would now look like as she grew up.\n\nIn 2011, the McCanns lobbied then Prime Minister David Cameron to do more, and a senior Scotland Yard team were asked to review thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nThat decision may prove the crucial turning point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ended up with a list of 600 people they needed to find out more about and ultimately 41 potential suspects.\n\nBehind the scenes a tantalising lead began to emerge.\n\nStranger kidnaps of children are rare. They tend to involve calculating abusers who have thought carefully about how they will do it. People who have a plan and know the area where they will strike.\n\nDetectives reasoned that if Madeleine was kidnapped, the culprit could be German or Dutch - the two other predominant nationalities in the resort, along with British and Portuguese.\n\nIn 2013 the German equivalent of BBC TV's Crimewatch launched an appeal asking for any information about two German-speaking men at Praia da Luz.\n\nThat TV appeal led to a tip-off to German federal detectives, although it is not clear what it was or whether an individual was named.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nThen, around the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, the German Federal Police received more information that did identify a man who set alarm bells ringing, someone whose name had been known to Scotland Yard.\n\nAccording to the German Federal Police, the man is a sex offender - they have called him a \"predator\" - who has been convicted of offences against girls and is currently in prison.\n\nHe is also known to be a burglar, with experience of breaking into apartments.\n\nBetween 1995 and 2007 he was living a transient lifestyle in the Algarve and odd-jobbing in catering. At the same time, he is believed to have burgled holiday apartments and hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThey now know that this man was close to the McCann holiday apartment at the critical time on the night she disappeared in 2007, and he received a half-hour phone call from an unknown person.\n\nHe had been using two vehicles, a VW camper van and a Jaguar, with the British-made car having been re-registered to another person the day after Madeleine disappeared.\n\nHe has also been connected to two properties, one of which German police have described as a hideaway for stolen goods. Both homes are small, villas on quiet country lanes.\n\nOne is a 10 minute drive from Praia da Luz. The other lies just over a mile away - and is, in turn, just a mile from grassy land where British police carried out an extensive search in 2014.\n\nWho is the suspect? Neither German investigators nor Scotland Yard will confirm that name, but German media have identified him as Christian B.\n\nDid this man take Madeleine McCann? Was a dangerous sexual offender effectively hiding in plain sight in the middle of a peaceful holiday town? It would not be the first time - almost everywhere in the world there are stories of predatory offenders locating themselves in resorts.\n\nAt the moment, we just don't know. But one thing is certain in the minds of the German police who may unlock this tragedy. They believe Madeleine McCann is dead.\n\nAnd while her disappearance has always been a missing person inquiry in the UK - in Germany, this is now a hunt for the final clues that could catch a murderer.", "Thousands of homeless people who have been housed during the coronavirus pandemic could return to the streets by the end of June, a charity has warned.\n\nSince the lockdown began, more than 14,500 people who were on the streets or at risk of sleeping rough have been given emergency accommodation.\n\nBut Crisis has warned contracts between local councils and hotels are due to end as government funding runs out.\n\nThe government said councils must continue to provide accommodation.\n\nBut councils have asked the government to be clear on what extra practical support they will get.\n\nLocal authorities in England began moving rough sleepers into emergency accommodation such as hotels in March after the start of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe councils were given £3.2m from the government as part of an emergency scheme called \"Everyone In\", which was aimed at stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nBut earlier this month, it emerged government funding for that scheme was to end. The government said it had given councils an extra £3.2bn in funding to help them deal with the pandemic, although that money is not specifically for the emergency rough sleeping scheme.\n\nCrisis called the action to house rough sleepers over the past weeks \"extraordinary\", adding: \"This has demonstrated that when the political will is there it is possible to end homelessness.\"\n\nBut the charity said the government should take further action to provide everyone with permanent housing, warning that if not people will be forced to return to the streets.\n\nAmanda, who was given accommodation in Manchester, said she was \"dizzy with all the help\"\n\nMatt Downie, director of policy at the charity, said most contracts between local authorities and hotels are set to end at the end of June and the charity had received \"no indications at all\" from the government that more money is coming to extend the scheme.\n\nMr Downie said: \"We will take one of two paths here: one is that 15,000 people are permanently helped out of homelessness through the amazing Everyone In scheme, or we will see a massive increase in rough sleeping in this country just at the point when we thought it would be possible to avoid that.\n\n\"It's within the government's control to make decisions so that doesn't happen, for example to either continue hotel schemes or to give alternative arrangements to local authorities and individuals.\"\n\nCrisis has estimated it would cost £282m to provide the people in emergency accommodation with permanent housing and support for the next 12 months.\n\nThis 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\nThe charity also carried out a survey of 150 charities and organisations in England, Scotland and Wales and found more than half reported a rise in people seeking help during the lockdown.\n\nSome people have lost their homes because their jobs have gone, while for others there have been relationship problems or an end to sofa surfing arrangements.\n\nCrisis wants the government to pass an emergency homelessness bill forcing councils in England to provide emergency accommodation for a year to anyone who becomes homeless during the pandemic.\n\nThe government said any suggestion it was rowing back on its commitment to support rough sleepers was untrue.\n\n\"Our new rough sleeping taskforce will ensure as many people as possible who have been brought in off the streets in this pandemic do not return,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have accelerated plans for new services - backed by £433m - which will ensure 6,000 new housing units will be put into the system, with 3,300 available in the next 12 months.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has given a £20m to councils, after an initial £10m, to help councils house rough sleepers \"and ensure no-one need return to rough sleeping\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has announced £350m to help councils, charities and groups, including those working with rough sleepers.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's Housing Executive approved emergency measures including the sourcing of additional temporary accommodation for those who are homeless.\n\nThe body representing local councils in England and Wales, the Local Government Association, said councils had faced \"significant challenges\" housing large numbers of homeless people since the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nCllr David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said the overwhelming majority - nearly 15,000 - of rough sleepers and homeless people have been found accommodation.\n\nBut he added: \"Following the initial surge in demand for accommodation, councils are also now experiencing an urgent need for more accommodation as people, including young people, continue to face homelessness and rough sleeping.\n\n\"While the recently announced funding for councils to support rough sleepers is positive, we still need clarity from government on what additional practical support will be available to councils to help them move people out of hotels and temporary accommodation and into housing.\"\n\nThe government said any suggestion it is rowing back on its commitment to support rough sleepers is untrue, adding: \"We are clear that councils must continue to provide safe accommodation.\n\n\"Our new rough sleeping taskforce will ensure as many people as possible who have been brought in off the streets in this pandemic do not return. We have accelerated plans for new services - backed by £433m - which will ensure 6,000 new housing units will be put into the system, with 3,300 available in the next 12 months.\"", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Eight homes were swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in June in the Norwegian town of Alta.\n\nAs drones flew overhead to capture the damage - land continued to collapse.", "Debenhams is to reopen its first stores in Northern Ireland on Monday, followed by 50 shops in England the week after.\n\nIt says three stores with street access in Belfast, Newry and Rushmere will be able to open following updated guidance from the NI Executive.\n\nDebenhams collapsed into administration for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business.\n\nIt has struck deals with landlords to keep 120 stores open.\n\nHowever, 17 stores will remain closed for good when coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted. It is still in discussions over a \"handful\" of others.\n\nThe future of its five main stores in Wales has been secured after it reached agreement on business rates. Debenhams had threatened to close them if it did not get the same level of support enjoyed by its stores in England.\n\nSteven Cook, managing director of Debenhams, said: \"We are delighted to be welcoming customers back to our stores in the coming weeks.\n\n\"From the installation of perspex screens at till points to the roll-out of social distancing procedures and PPE, we have been working hard to ensure our colleagues and customers can work and shop with confidence.\n\n\"Our reopening plans follow the successful conclusion of lease negotiations on 120 stores, meaning that the vast majority of our stores will be reopening.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the administrators have written to creditors with an update.\n\nWhen Debenhams collapsed into administration, the business owed £155m to creditors, including many suppliers.\n\nIt is still unclear how much will be paid and to whom.\n\nDebenhams has also been cutting jobs at its head office and closing the majority of its store cafes in a bid to cut costs and become a leaner business.\n\nA total of 4,000 jobs will be lost as a result of these changes, as well as the 17 store closures.\n\nThe key question now is whether the chain can be rescued from administration as a going concern.\n\nIt is in what is being described as a \"light touch\" administration, where the current management has remained in place.\n\nIts lenders are said to remain supportive. They took control of the chain after it collapsed into administration last year, after struggling for years to keep up with the competition.\n\nThe business may not exit administration until the new year.\n\nAdministrators and lenders will no doubt want to see how the business performs post-lockdown, as well as the crucial Christmas trading period, in order to be confident it has a viable future in its current form.\n\nFuture store closures are still possible.\n\nDebenhams will be back in business on the High Street along with its rivals this month, but it still has a long and difficult journey ahead.", "The document plans for a massive expansion in offshore wind\n\nGreenpeace has joined a growing list of organisations demanding that the UK government puts protecting the environment at the heart of any post-Covid-19 economic stimulus package.\n\nThe campaign group has produced a detailed \"manifesto\" with measures to boost clean transport and smart power.\n\nThe document follows a comparable call from some of Britain's most powerful business leaders earlier this week.\n\nLast week, the prime minister also expressed a similar ambition.\n\nBoris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"fairer, greener and more resilient global economy\" after Covid-19 and that \"we owe it to future generations to build back better\".\n\nThe manifesto also contains measures to support the protection of nature, green buildings and the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused.\n\nGreenpeace says the crisis has given Britain a \"once in a lifetime\" opportunity to transform life, travel and work.\n\nIt added that the plan would create hundreds of thousands of secure jobs.\n\nOn Monday, more than 200 chief executives of some of the UK's top firms - including HSBC, National Grid, and Heathrow airport - signed a letter to the prime minister asking him to use the Covid-19 lockdown as a springboard to \"deliver a clean, just recovery\".\n\nMany people may be surprised how similar the recommendations of these two very different interest groups are.\n\nGreenpeace's manifesto is, however, considerably more detailed.\n\nIt is a 62-page document with specific policy, spending and tax measures covering most of the British economy.\n\nIt calls on the government to deliver its 2050 net zero emissions goal before 2045.\n\nThe manifesto contains measures to encourage clean transport\n\nMany voters say they support tackling climate change when polled.\n\nHowever, lots of the policies Greenpeace proposes would prove very controversial.\n\nFor example, motorists say they are ready to change their behaviour to improve air quality, according to a recent AA survey.\n\nBut many drivers may balk at Greenpeace's proposals to radically redesign the road network to favour walking and cycling, at the suggestion that petrol and diesel cars are banned by 2030 or that fuel duty is steadily increased.\n\nMany homeowners might be reluctant to spend money to upgrade their properties to meet tough energy efficiency standards.\n\nAt the same time, many local communities are likely to resist the plan for a big increase in onshore wind and solar power to complement a proposed massive expansion of offshore wind farms - few things unite local communities like a proposal to put in an array of wind turbines.\n\nThe manifesto proposes the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused\n\nBut, says Greenpeace, tough policies like these are essential if the government is going to take meaningful action to tackle climate change.\n\n\"The choices our government makes now will define… whether or not we succeed in the fight against the climate emergency\", says John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace.\n\n\"If we fail to get this right, we may never get another chance. Now is the time for a green recovery, and for that we need action not words.\"\n\nIt says there would be huge dividends in terms of job creation, should its programme be adopted.\n\nGreenpeace calculates that its plans would create hundreds of thousands of new high-skilled jobs as well as helping to level up inequalities between communities in the UK.\n\nThe UK government has already indicated that protecting the environment will feature heavily in any stimulus package.\n\nBack in April, Boris Johnson said a post-Covid-19 recovery plans should include efforts to \"turn the tide on climate change\".\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union has unveiled what it called the biggest \"green\" stimulus in history.\n\nLast week, it said it planned to commit a whopping €750bn (£667bn; $841bn) to its recovery package.\n\nAdd in spending from future budgets and the total financial firepower the European Commission says it will be wielding is almost €2tn (£1.8tn; $2.2tn).\n\nFighting climate change is at the heart of the bloc's recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThere will be tens of billions of euros to make homes more energy efficient, to de-carbonise electricity and phase out petrol and diesel vehicles.\n\nThe idea is to turbo-charge the European effort to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"If we do not do it, we will be taking much more risk,\" Teresa Ribera, deputy prime minister of Spain, told the BBC.\n\n\"The recovery should be green or it will not be a recovery, it will just be a shortcut into the kind of problems we are facing right now.\"", "Young people have already lost months of education and a global recession is being widely predicted in the wake of the current crisis.\n\n\"The reality is that 76% of Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been aged over 75 with most of those entirely avoidable - and that's a tragedy,\" says Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"But the risk for young people is minimal and I think we need to recognise that.\n\n\"Social distancing is something we all need to try and maintain because we don't want more preventable cases rising in the future.\n\n\"But we have to balance the need to restart society - to not seriously disadvantage the young in the longer term. I'd like to see a gradual, phased approach, but try to get education and the economy up and running as quickly and as competently as we can.\"", "Demand for water across the East of England was 20% above normal levels during May, Anglian Water has revealed.\n\nHand-washing to prevent Covid-19's spread may have further boosted demand during a dry, sunny month, it said.\n\nMay's drought compounded problems for farmers, already suffering after a wet February delayed seed germination, making some crops unlikely.\n\nAnglian Water said: \"An additional 200m litres of water was pumped to homes in May... roughly 20% more than normal.\"", "The Covent Garden venue has been closed since 17 March\n\nThe BBC is to broadcast the Royal Opera House's first post-lockdown performance across TV and radio later this month.\n\nThe concert, which will take place without a live audience, is scheduled for 13 June, hosted by the venue's director of music Antonio Pappano.\n\nIt will feature a dance premiere by Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, as well as music by Britten, Handel and Butterworth.\n\nRadio 3 will air the show on 15 June, with TV highlights later in the month.\n\nLike all cultural venues around the UK, the Opera House closed in March, when the government banned gatherings to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSince then, the venue's income has dropped by 60%, chief executive Alex Beard told the BBC.\n\n\"With no box office income and limited reserves we, like theatres and performing arts organisations across the country, face unprecedented financial stress,\" he said.\n\n\"We need all our creativity and resolve to get through this, alongside a catalysing and vital investment from Government. Together we can ensure that a generation of talent is not lost to history, and the UK's creative sector can continue to play its full role in our cultural lives.\"\n\nThe venue's re-opening performance will also be free to watch on YouTube and Facebook, with subsequent concerts on 20 and 27 June available to view live and on demand for £4.99.\n\nThe BBC's coverage was announced by director general Tony Hall as part of a raft of cultural commissions.\n\nPeter Capaldi will play Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Radio 3 drama marking the 250th anniversary of the German composer's birth, while BBC Four will present a \"major new series\" about his life.\n\nA performance of his opera Fidelio, filmed at the Royal Opera House before it closed its doors, will also be broadcast.\n\nThe musical family of royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will feature in a new BBC One film, culminating in a lockdown concert from their home; while BBC Four will profile conductor Bernard Haitink to mark his 90th birthday earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Growing up in a very musical family\n\nAnd with the summer music season on hold, a number of performances will be made available on iPlayer from opera houses that have had to shut their doors during the lockdown.\n\nAmong them will be The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne, The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage of Figaro from Garsington, and a performance of Opera North's La Traviata filmed from backstage.\n\nLord Hall said the BBC would also expand its Culture In Quarantine programme, with \"unique projects focused on museums and galleries\" and the release of archived concerts from the BBC's vaults.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Children's will launch a major Shakespeare project in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with readings and lessons from actors including Niamh Cusack and Jamie Wilkes on the educational website BBC Bitesize.\n\n\"While the weeks ahead may see many forms of retail opening again, culture will effectively remain in quarantine for some time,\" Lord Hall said in a blog post.\n\n\"Many theatres have had to face up to the fact they are unlikely to be able to produce new work until the second half of 2021. For some the consequences will be devastating.\n\n\"It has left me more convinced than ever that the BBC has an essential role to play as ringmaster and champion for the arts in this country.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The White House press secretary has likened President Donald Trump's \"resilience and determination\" during the #GeorgeFloyd protests to Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage during World War Two.", "Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.", "Prof Neil Ferguson's advice led to the UK government's decision to go into lockdown Image caption: Prof Neil Ferguson's advice led to the UK government's decision to go into lockdown\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, a former UK government adviser whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary.\n\nInstead, he said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks. He also said the easing of restrictions needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nThe UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking programme.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the two-metre (6ft) social-distancing rule will be reduced to \"one metre plus\".\n\nProf Ferguson said he \"did not disagree\" with the policy changes announced this week and did not expect to see \"very large growth of cases across the country\" as a result.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases,\" he said.\n\nBut he added he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.", "A former government adviser has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking the easing needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nAnd the UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit\" if cases increased.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule reduces to \"one metre plus\".\n\nThis will allow some pubs, restaurants and cafes to reopen while complying with safety guidelines.\n\nNorthern Ireland has also announced it will reduce the distancing rule to 1m with restrictions from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the 2m distancing rule remains in place for the moment.\n\nProf Ferguson, who quit his adviser role after he breached lockdown guidance, told the BBC's Nick Robinson: \"Right now we are experimenting, frankly.\n\n\"I don't disagree with the policy changes announced this week, but I would say we need to monitor their effects very closely and be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers.\"\n\nHe said it will be like playing \"a game of Whack-A-Mole\" - a phrase frequently used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson - with \"targeted\" lockdowns to suppress local outbreaks.\n\n\"I think we just need to look around Europe at the clusters of cases popping up in different contexts to have a good understanding of what we might expect to see here after 4 July,\" Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said.\n\n\"I don't expect to see a uniform, very large growth of cases across the country.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases - outbreaks in some individual facilities like food production plants, but also maybe in social contexts, particular work places and particular schools.\"\n\nHe said he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.\n\nProf Ferguson also said that if there is to be an inquiry into the UK government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, it should not be held until the end of the year.\n\nHe said that would be the \"appropriate\" time to look back as it would be \"highly disruptive\".\n\nAn inquiry would highlight \"how systems can work better and what structural things can be done better\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think inquiries in this context serve much purpose in attributing personal blame on individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the failure to set up testing, I wouldn't lay at any individual's door, but there were clearly some structural failures which led us to being quite so slow.\"\n\nIt comes as some MPs say they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe group, set up by campaign group March for Change, will be led by Layla Moran, who is bidding to be the next Liberal Democrat leader.\n\n\"This isn't about attributing blame, it's about working together across political parties to ensure the right lessons are learned ahead of a potential second wave,\" she said.\n\nConservative MP and group member Dan Poulter said: \"It is vital that we are not complacent during the summer months and use this time wisely to urgently learn lessons and ensure we are better prepared for the potentially dangerous winter months ahead.\"\n\nElsewhere, Bernard Jenkin, Commons Liaison Committee chairman, has said it was \"essential\" that the UK is prepared for a second wave of coronavirus later this year.\n\n\"Medics are right to call for a swift cross-party 'lessons learned' exercise to be completed by October,\" he said in response to an open letter from health profession leaders published in the British Medical Journal.\n\n\"This would not only contribute to UK's readiness for a new Covid peak but would also strengthen public confidence in the government's readiness.\"", "A government roadmap for the return of live theatre and music has been met with calls for financial support and a timetable for reopening, with many dismissing the plan as inadequate.\n\nThe five-step roadmap did not come with dates or monetary help attached.\n\nActors' union Equity said that without investment to save jobs and venues, such guidance \"will be meaningless\".\n\nBirmingham Hippodrome and UK Theatre head Fiona Allan said it was \"of no practical benefit\" without a timescale.\n\n\"We need dates to work towards in order to plan properly or more jobs will be lost and more venues and companies close,\" she wrote. \"How is this not clear?\"\n\nVenues have been shut since March, with many warning that they will go out of business in the coming months without support.\n\nMr Dowden said the roadmap \"provides a clear pathway back\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We want to get the performing arts fully back up and running safely as soon as possible and are working closely with the sector on a phased approach, guided by public health and medical experts.\"\n\nThe arts have been supported by loans, grants, the furlough scheme and a £160m Arts Council England emergency package, and the government is \"considering ways in which we may be able to support it further on top of the unprecedented financial assistance we have already provided\", the spokesperson said.\n\nOn Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the five-stage plan for a \"phased return\", which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.\n\nMr Dowden said he wanted \"to raise the curtain on live performances\" as soon as possible, and that the roadmap \"provides a clear pathway back\".\n\nHe said: \"I am determined to ensure the performing arts do not stay closed longer than is absolutely necessary to protect public health.\"\n\nSir Ian McKellen has given a ray of hope with the news that he will play Hamlet on stage\n\nDespite the lack of an official timetable, on Friday the producers of a musical based on Sleepless In Seattle went ahead and announced its world premiere at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London on 1 September.\n\nSleepless, A Musical Romance will star Strictly Come Dancing winner Jay McGuiness and ex-Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh. Audiences will be socially distanced, temperature checked and required to wear masks.\n\nThat news came a day after the announcement that Sir Ian McKellen will play Hamlet at the age of 81, in what was billed as the \"first major UK theatre production post-Covid to start rehearsals\".\n\nIt will be staged at Theatre Royal Windsor, but no opening date has yet been announced.\n\nOn Thursday, Leeds theatre company Slung Low staged a rare live performance with an audience. The children's show took place outdoors, with the performers on the back of a truck and families watching from tents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alan Lane This 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\nTheatre Royal Plymouth has warned it could cut 110 of its 350 staff\n\nEarlier this week, the Newcastle Theatre Royal and Plymouth Theatre Royal became the latest theatres to announce job cuts.\n\nWelcoming the government roadmap, Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatres and UK Theatre, said it was \"essential\" to have indicative dates for each stage.\n\n\"Otherwise with no information at all, theatres and producers will have to assume a worst case scenario and plan to be shut for a long period,\" he said.\n\nLouise Chantal, chief executive of the Oxford Playhouse, said the plan was \"as useful a map as a snakes and ladders board\", adding: \"We need dates, data and INVESTMENT now!\"\n\nPlaywright Lisa Holdsworth, chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, said \"a road map is only any use if you have enough petrol to get you where you need to go\".\n\nMatt Trueman, creative associate at Sonia Friedman Productions, which staged shows like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said: \"Destinations without directions - that's not a roadmap, it's a fantasy gap year.\" He dismissed the plan as \"fag packet stuff\".\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\nTom Kiehl, acting CEO of UK Music, which represents the music industry, said: \"A roadmap is welcome but we also need a timeline for when live performances can resume.\n\n\"Financial help in the form of sector specific support is increasingly needed to stop music businesses from going bust.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Music Venues Trust (MVT) published an open letter to the government calling for support to \"prevent the closure of hundreds of grassroots music venues\".\n\nIn response to the roadmap, MVT chief executive Mark Davyd said: \"We don't need guidance on how to organise creative activity and connect with audiences, this is what our venues do professionally.\n\n\"We need the money to survive the crisis and plan our own route back to full use.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Emily Robison (left) and Natalie Maines of The Chicks\n\nCountry band Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks, to help highlight racial inequality in the US.\n\n\"Dixie\" was often used as a nickname for the southern states that made up the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War era.\n\nThe Texas trio revealed they'd dropped it on Thursday, while unveiling a protest song called March March.\n\nThey follow in the footsteps of US pop group Lady Antebellum, who changed their name earlier this month.\n\nAntebellum has similar connotations with the slavery-era.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The Chicks This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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End of youtube video by The Chicks\n\nThe move allies the Not Ready to Make Nice singers, who have won 13 Grammy Awards, with the anti-racism movement that has gathered momentum in the wake of the death of George Floyd - a black American, who died while in the custody of a white police officer.\n\nIt comes a week after Variety writer Jeremy Helligar questioned the acceptability of the name in 2020.\n\n\"The Dixie Chicks don't need to change their name to get that kind of publicity,\" he wrote, referring to the widespread reports about the newly-named Lady A, \"but their silence has been deafening.\"\n\n\"This is a discussion we need to have, and they should be a part of it,\" he added.\n\nThe term Dixie, or Dixieland, which was also sung about in Elvis's epic American Trilogy, derives from the states around the Mason-Dixon line.\n\nIn a statement obtained by Pitchfork The Chicks offered \"a sincere and heartfelt thank you\" to a pre-existing New Zealand band, who were already operating under that name, for allowing them to share it.\n\n\"We are honoured to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters,\" they said.\n\nThe band have previously used their platform to make a political point, telling a London crowd in 2003 that they did not support the US's invasion of Iraq.\n\nNatalie Maines from the band said they were \"ashamed\" of then-US President George W Bush being from Texas.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Hit US band change name over slave-era links", "Peter Kraus, pictured with wife Doris, posted pictures on Facebook of monkeys by a photo of black protesters\n\nA former mayor has resigned after comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to monkeys jumping on a car.\n\nPeter Kraus, 68, resigned as a Pembroke Dock councillor after putting the images side-by-side on his Facebook page.\n\nThe images showed a group of monkeys on top of a car at a safari park paired with an image of black protesters stood on a police car during riots.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was investigating an alleged hate crime.\n\nMr Kraus, whose post was later deleted after complaints, first claimed he was hacked but later admitted he posted the images.\n\nMr Kraus, who was Pembroke Dock mayor between 2012 and 2013, said: \"I have lots of black and white friends around the world.\n\n\"I have never in my whole life been racist in any way or form.\n\n\"The picture in question actually means to me that some people are worse than animals and enjoy destroying things, whether it be vehicles, buildings or statutes.\"\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrations have taken place across Wales and the world\n\nHis fellow ward councillor Joshua Beynon complained to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales about the post.\n\nMr Beynon said: \"I'm sad to see another derogatory post, this time one that compares black people to monkeys, it is the lowest of the low.\n\n\"While it seems that there is a lot of hatred and negativity around, this whole event has highlighted the urgent need to fight racism that is clearly evident in our county.\n\n\"I will continue to call it out when I see it.\"\n\nThe statement said: \"Members of the council would like to thank Peter for all his hard work which he has undertaken over the years throughout the town and for his continued efforts within the town council.\"", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged with attempted murder\n\nA teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor balcony at London's Tate Modern has been jailed for at least 15 years.\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, of Northolt, planned an attack and targeted young children last August, the prosecution said.\n\nThe victim suffered a bleed to the brain, fractures to his spine and has been left with life-changing injuries.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice McGowan said Bravery intended to kill and \"almost killed that six-year-old boy\".\n\n\"That little boy has suffered permanent and life-changing injury,\" the judge said in her sentencing remarks after Bravery had admitted attempted murder.\n\n\"You went to the viewing platform, looked around and spotted the victim and his family and went to the boy and threw him over the railing.\n\n\"The fear he must have experienced and the horror his parents felt are beyond imagination.\n\n\"What you did on the day of this offence proves you are a grave danger to the public. You planned this and appeared to revel in the notoriety.\"\n\nThe boy had been visiting London from France with his parents\n\nOn 4 August Bravery made his way to the Tate Modern's viewing balcony and the court heard CCTV footage showed him following young children and looking over railings.\n\nFurther video showed the victim - who had been visiting London from France - skipping ahead of his family along the platform towards Bravery.\n\nProsecutor Deanna Heer said: \"The defendant scooped him up and, without any hesitation, carried him straight to the railings and threw him over.\"\n\nThe boy \"fell head-first towards the ground\", landing on a fifth-floor balcony below, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audio recording of Jonty Bravery telling carers in autumn 2018 about his plan to commit murder\n\nThe victim survived the 100ft (30m) fall, but suffered life-changing injuries including a bleed on the brain and multiple broken bones. He remains in a wheelchair.\n\nHe was moved to a hospital in France in September but will require round-the-clock care support until at least 2022.\n\nIn mitigation Bravery's defence barrister Pippa McAtasney QC said at the time of the attack the teenager had been in the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had a history of lashing out at staff, but despite this he was allowed to leave home unsupervised for up to four hours at a time.\n\nThe six-year-old boy taken by air ambulance to Royal London Hospital\n\nMs McAtasney referenced a recording obtained by the BBC which revealed Bravery told carers about his plans to kill a year earlier.\n\nShe said letters from his parents revealed to the court that Bravery was diagnosed with autism and \"is a loved child\".\n\n\"Both parents strived to improve the quality of his life and a secured and managed environment for their son,\" she said.\n\n\"They had no inclination their son would commit such a shocking crime. Those responsible for his care never communicated the contents of the shocking, prophetic recording that was revealed through the media.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page has raised more than £200,000 for the boy's medical treatment\n\nIn a victim impact statement taken in February, the boy's parents described Bravery's actions as \"unspeakable\".\n\n\"Words cannot express the horror and fear his actions have brought up on us,\" the couple said.\n\n\"Our son, who now, six months on, is wondering why he's in hospital.\n\n\"How can he not see in every stranger a potential 'villain' who could cause him immense pain and suffering?\"\n\nNo members of the victim's or Bravery's family were present in court for the sentencing.\n\nA Hammersmith and Fulham Council spokesman said a serious case review into Bravery's care was under way.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth on the second day of the UK heatwave\n\nThe UK is experiencing its hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures reaching 33.3C (92F) at Heathrow Airport, the Met Office has said.\n\nThursday's high surpasses the 32.6C recorded in London on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes after a major incident was declared in Bournemouth, as thousands of people headed to the Dorset coast.\n\nDorset Police urged people to stay away after reports of traffic gridlock, anti-social behaviour, fights and overnight camping.\n\nPeople have also been cautioned to stay safe by Public Health England and the Met Office.\n\nAn amber level three heat-health alert, issued by the Met Office, was extended on Thursday to take in Yorkshire and the east and south of England as well as the West and East Midlands.\n\nThat means people should drink plenty of fluids, avoid consuming excess alcohol and \"look out for\" young children, babies and those with underlying health conditions, the Met Office said.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) echoed the Met Office advice, saying older people, those with underlying health conditions, and very young children were all more at risk from the \"exceptionally hot weather forecast this week\".\n\nBoth Wales and Scotland also recorded their hottest days of the year on Thursday.\n\nIn Wales, the temperature reached 30.7C at Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth, beating the previous high of 30C from Wednesday. And in Scotland, a high of 30C was recorded in Prestwick.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a high of 25.5C was recorded in Aldegrove.\n\nThe Met Office also warned of high levels of UV radiation. By 13:00 BST, UV radiation was high or very high across the UK, with the south of England recording the highest levels.\n\nThe highest recording for UV radiation in the UK was in south-west England, which reached 9 on the UV index, the Met Office said.\n\nThe index goes up to 11, with a recording of 3-5 described as moderate, 6-7 as high, 8-10 as very high and 11 as extreme.\n\nUV exposure will not just put you at risk of sunburn.\n\nExcessive UV radiation from the sun is also strongly linked to increased skin cancer cases in fair-skinned populations worldwide - according to the WHO.\n\nThe amount of UV reaching your skin is not driven by the daily temperature. UV levels on a bright and breezy late April day will be about the same as a warm sunny day in August.\n\nPeople have flocked to the beach in Brighton to take advantage of the hot weather\n\nDr Lynn Thomas, medical director of St John Ambulance, said vulnerable people, such as young children or the elderly, should stay inside if possible - but she recognised it was tempting to go outside during the \"lovely\" weather.\n\n\"But make sure you've got plenty of sunscreen on, make sure you're wearing a hat, try and stay in the shade as much as possible and make sure you take plenty of cool drinks with you,\" she said.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Matt Taylor said high levels of UV radiation were due to the conditions.\n\n\"We have just gone past the summer solstice so the sun is higher in the sky,\" he said.\n\nThe seafront at Bridlington was also thronged with people\n\nHe added that an \"exceptionally large depletion of ozone in the northern hemisphere\", a recent lower level of pollutants and a current spell of high pressure were other factors that were helping to keep the skies clear, so UV rays were not being interrupted.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop after Thursday with thunderstorms forecast for Friday.", "The hailstones were about the same size as a £2 coin\n\nParts of Yorkshire were pelted with hailstones the size of a £2 coin during thunderstorms.\n\nPhotographs posted on social media showed people in Leeds and Sheffield cradling handfuls of the icy precipitation.\n\nThe \"large\" hailstones in the images appeared to be between 3 and 4 cm in size, a Met office meteorologist said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and rain is in place for much of the UK until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nHailstones are formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds.\n\nCraig Snell, a meteorologist with the Met Office, said those seen in winter were \"quite small\", but heat in summer months gives thunderstorms more energy.\n\nThis \"helps keep the hailstones up in the clouds for longer, they get to grow more and then fall from the sky,\" he said.\n\nExperts say hailstones are \"usually\" much smaller\n\nThe thunderstorms follow on from the heatwave on Thursday, when temperatures reached 33.4C (92.1F) at Heathrow Airport in west London.\n\nTemperatures on Friday reached a maximum of 31.2C (88.16F), recorded at Kew Gardens in west London, the Met Office said.\n\nIt warned up to 20mm of rain could fall in an hour in areas covered by the yellow warning, but said the storms were expected to clear towards the north east on Friday evening.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jurgen Klopp has succeeded where seven managers before him failed by ending Liverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title and guiding them to a first Premier League crown.\n\nThe Reds are on course for a record-breaking domestic season, but it has not always been smooth sailing for the charismatic German, who took charge in October 2015.\n\nBBC Sport - in conjunction with a BBC Radio 5 Live special featuring football correspondent John Murray, former Reds defender Stephen Warnock and John Gibbons from The Anfield Wrap - have selected 10 games which have shaped Klopp's reign at Anfield.\n\nHere they are in chronological order - and you can rank them in terms of importance at the bottom. You can listen to the discussion as an edition of the Football Daily podcast later on Friday or on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday at 11:00 BST.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n\nKlopp gets the fans on board\n\nTwo months into Klopp's tenure, a late Divock Origi goal rescued a point for Liverpool against West Brom at Anfield, taking them up to ninth in the Premier League table.\n\nKlopp did not shake hands with opposite number Tony Pulis - with then Baggies winger James McClean calling the German an \"idiot\" - and instead pumped his chest and took his players over to salute the fans.\n\nHe was ridiculed at the time for such a reaction to a draw against a team of West Brom's status, but he said years later: \"I wanted to show that we really are one unit. That means I know I am responsible for the performance, but the people are responsible for the atmosphere.\"\n\nIt was the first sign that a bond was developing between Klopp and the club's supporters.\n\nWarnock: \"I remember watching it and thinking: 'What is he doing?' A draw against West Brom - is that really where he thinks Liverpool are? But it was so much deeper than that, and it set things up for future games at Anfield.\"\n\nGibbons: \"About a month or so before, Liverpool lost to Crystal Palace - and when they scored their second goal in the 82nd minute everyone just left. Klopp was a bit taken aback by the exodus. He said after that game he felt lonely and gave us a bit of a telling off. He made the point that we decide when games are finished and we should go to the end. His words made an impact and against West Brom far more people stayed. He was then saying: 'Look what we can do when we stick together.' Jurgen believes in togetherness and unity, and when he talks about being stronger together there are echoes of Bill Shankly. The fact he was saying that chimed with supporters, who felt there had never been a greater gap between supporters and players. It was really exciting.\"\n\nThe return of magical European nights at Anfield\n\nKlopp again got his players to take a bow at the Kop after this one - but nobody was laughing this time.\n\nTrailing 4-2 on aggregate, Liverpool scored three goals in the final 24 minutes to knock Klopp's old side Borussia Dortmund out of the Europa League quarter-finals.\n\nIt was a sensational atmosphere at Anfield, with Klopp almost in a frenzy urging Reds fans to cheer them on in the dramatic finale.\n\n\"It was brilliant, outstanding, emotional,\" said Klopp afterwards. \"When we scored everyone could see something happen in the stadium. You could feel it, hear it, smell it.\"\n\nThey would go on to lose the final against Sevilla, costing them a place in the Champions League.\n\nGibbons: \"It was almost like the start of Klopp's reign - it felt like night one, where we saw it all make sense. Dortmund were a phenomenal side. They went 2-0 up playing some of the best football I'd seen at Anfield. But after that game we felt like we'd seen the template of Klopp's football. I'd say it's in my top five nights at Anfield and it felt like the start of the adventure.\"\n\nMurray: \"When we talk about defining games for Klopp, this is one of the ones that instantly comes to mind. This is probably top three. It was pivotal in what Klopp's Liverpool turned into.\"\n\nLiverpool had only qualified for the Champions League once - going out in the group stage - in the six seasons prior to reaching the 2018 final in Kiev.\n\nBut they only just sealed that spot in Europe's top competition with a victory over Middlesbrough on the final day of the season, finishing one point above fifth-placed Arsenal and 17 points behind champions Chelsea.\n\n\"I'm really looking forward to next season. I think we have created a wonderful base,\" said Klopp afterwards.\n\nBBC Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer correctly predicted: \"They'll be bigger and better next season.\"\n\nMurray: \"It was crucial in terms of the players they wanted to attract. You've got that extra level to persuade players to come. It was a huge step to get back into the Champions League.\"\n\nGibbons: \"Fans were hoping for steady progress - we knew things wouldn't happen overnight. We knew there were teams with better resources and coming from a better starting position. Jurgen has achieved the things he has done in steps. Achieving this aim was vital for supporters.\"\n\nSalah, Mane and Firmino all start... and score\n\nSadio Mane and Roberto Firmino had already been at Liverpool for one and two seasons respectively when Mohamed Salah arrived from Roma in 2017.\n\nThe attacking trident which Liverpool's recent success has been built on all started on the opening day of the 2017-18 season.\n\nAnd they all found the back of the net.\n\nMane scored their first, before Salah won a penalty which Firmino converted - and Firmino then set up Salah for their third.\n\nThe three of them have scored a sensational 211 goals in less than three seasons (92 for Salah, 65 for Mane and 54 for Firmino). It was a formula that worked from the start - and the Reds have never looked back.\n\nWarnock: \"I remember thinking: 'Salah has missed so many chances, he's not going to score many goals if he carries on finishing like that.' But why was he getting so many chances? The way he was cutting in was something we hadn't really seen from someone in that position.\n\n\"Liverpool at this point weren't spending silly money on players. This was a long-term vision that they had - to fit players into the system. Eyebrows were raised at all three when they were signed, but you have to pat Klopp and sporting director Michael Edwards on the back for seeing the players and fitting them into a vision. They are now the best three in world football for their link-up play, and also in the way they press and close teams down.\"\n\nGibbons: \"I remember coming out of the ground and all the talk was about the defence. It's amazing to think that was the birth of this front three. We weren't quite sure about Salah - no-one came out thinking this forward line is going to be amazing.\"\n\nHaving failed to prise defender Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in the summer of 2017, Klopp eventually got his man when the Dutchman joined for £75m, a world-record fee for a defender at the time. Their attempts to sign him months earlier failed when they annoyed the Saints with an alleged illegal approach.\n\nIf anybody wondered if he would be worth the wait - and the money - they were probably slightly more convinced after his debut, when his 84th-minute header won the Merseyside derby in the FA Cup.\n\nHe had an instant rapport with the Anfield faithful from that moment he slid in front of them to celebrate.\n\nBut his real impact that season was at the back. By the time he made his first Premier League appearance for the Reds, they had conceded 28 goals in their 23 league matches. They let in 10 in the 14 he played.\n\nWarnock: \"At Southampton he had everything going for him but I don't think we realised how good a one-on-one defender he was and the stature he would bring into the Liverpool changing room. When you walk out against him you think: 'Gosh, how am I going to win a header against him? How am I going to go past him?' Liverpool hadn't had that. The big thing for me was whether he could handle the price tag. He was always going to take time to get up to speed - but when he did, wow, what a signing.\"\n\nGibbons: \"That goal almost paid the fee on its own. Because we'd waited so long there had been this build-up - he probably could have retired after that game!\"\n\nSome teams struggle to come back from Champions League final defeats. Borussia Dortmund have won one German Cup since losing in 2013, Atletico Madrid have won nothing since losing in 2014 and 2016, and Mauricio Pochettino ended up being sacked as Tottenham Hotspur struggled to recover from 2019.\n\nBut Liverpool made one crucial change after losing 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kiev in 2018, when Loris Karius made two of the worst mistakes any goalkeeper has made in a Champions League final.\n\nHis confidence was shot in pre-season and so the Reds turned to Roma's Alisson for a world record £66.8m, despite the Brazilian conceding seven goals over two legs against Liverpool in the semi-finals.\n\nThat signing changed everything as the Reds went on to win the Champions League the following year and the Premier League this season. Alisson has only conceded 51 goals in 81 games.\n\nGibbons: \"When we came back for pre-season Karius actually played the first few games but that must have just been to get the price down for Alisson. He looked absolutely shot and it was sad to see. You couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He didn't look like he could cope with the pressure and it was clear we had to do something. It had clearly affected him so much. It was very obvious quite soon that this was the end for Karius.\"\n\nWarnock: \"A lot of people thought it was a strange buy. Alisson had only really played one season at Roma so the homework they had done must have been big - to be able to go to your board and say he is the next piece of the jigsaw and he's going to bring us success, so please give me £66.8m. How do you swing that fee on that basis? But the manager had earned that trust and respect, and that enabled him to go out and spend that money.\n\n\"Klopp had put all his trust in Karius and believed he was going to be a world-class keeper. He made world-class saves but he always had that concentration issue. One day Klopp just knew that wasn't good enough if he wanted to take Liverpool to the next step. I think he knew he needed to put a bit of loyalty aside, be ruthless and say: 'You're not good enough to get us to the next level.' He put his money into Alisson and he has been quite sensational.\"\n\nWhile Liverpool broke world records for Alisson and Van Dijk, one of the key components of their triumphs has been their full-backs, who cost a combined £8m.\n\nIt took a while for Andy Robertson and hometown hero Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is still only 21, to turn into the assist machines they are today.\n\nThe first game they both set up a goal in was a fairly nondescript win over rock-bottom Fulham. Alexander-Arnold teed up Salah's opener and Robertson crossed for Xherdan Shaqiri's goal.\n\nBefore that match they had a combined nine Premier League assists (seven for Robertson and two for Alexander-Arnold), but from that point on - including that Fulham game - they have racked up a joint 40 since (23 for Alexander-Arnold and 17 for Robertson).\n\nGibbons: \"Both of them really resonate with the fans. At the end of last season we presented an award for the player who most represents the values of the club and that went to Robertson, which says a lot given all the great players we have.\n\n\"Trent is the player young boys and girls can look at and see that he's fulfilled a dream. He's such a good role model and so humble. Those two are the heartbeat and soul of the team. They don't take any nonsense. They are phenomenal footballers.\"\n\nWarnock: \"The quality they both possess is frightening. They don't panic when they know the next cross can be to a goalscoring situation. There is a calmness about them.\"\n\nLiverpool looked down and out after losing 3-0 at the Nou Camp in last season's Champions League semi-final first leg.\n\nBut the second leg produced one of Anfield's greatest nights as the Reds scored four goals without conceding to reach the final.\n\nAlexander-Arnold's quick corner for Divock Origi's winner while Barca's defence slept will probably be discussed in Merseyside pubs 50 years from now.\n\nAnd without that, there would not have been the next match on our list.\n\nGibbons: \"We do like to keep the faith but I turned up that night thinking there was no real chance. It was the most incredible thing we'd ever seen. As soon as we got that first goal we thought: 'Maybe.' Then it started to feel like it was written and you were watching the most amazing piece of theatre. We've seen some brilliant nights at Anfield but that is right at the top for me.\"\n\nWarnock: \"It was all about the emotion and the energy. I was on the front row of the Kop and I'd never heard a roar like it when that first goal went in. People were turning around and looking at each other and thinking: 'Could we?' I've never felt a feeling like that in my life, and I grew up standing on the Kop as a kid. It sends shivers down my spine even now thinking about it.\n\n\"I walked out after that game and there was just a stunned silence, and I've never witnessed that before. People were sitting in the pub I went into in shock. No-one could believe what had just happened. No-one had believed it was possible.\"\n\nIt will almost be forgotten now but it actually took Klopp nearly four years to win his first trophy with Liverpool.\n\nHe had lost his previous six finals with Borussia Dortmund and the Reds. And they had just finished second in the Premier League to Manchester City with 97 points, the highest tally any team had achieved when not winning the title.\n\nBut they found a way to win the Champions League final against their English rivals Spurs, despite not playing particularly well. Salah gave them a second-minute lead after Moussa Sissoko's handball and cult hero Origi added a late goal to seal the result.\n\n\"It was an intense season with the most beautiful finish I could have imagined,\" Klopp said.\n\nMurray: \"It was a great narrative - the fact they had to knock and knock and knock until they finally got through. We know in sport it's not always like Hollywood - it doesn't always turn out right in the end. With Klopp's Liverpool I genuinely believed this would be the start of trophies coming. They won the Champions League and they deserve to be a multiple trophy-winning team.\"\n\nGibbons: \"We can talk about the mentality of the players but if they hadn't won that night I don't think this season would have happened in quite the same way. I think doubts might have started to creep in. Against Real Madrid the previous season we weren't expected to win. But it would have been worse if we'd lost to Spurs and it might have been a blow too many for this project.\"\n\nLiverpool go eight clear and never look back\n\nLiverpool ended up missing out on the Premier League title in 2018-19 because of a 2-1 defeat by Manchester City on 3 January 2019.\n\nBut their redemption came in November this season at Anfield. A win for Pep Guardiola's side would have reduced the gap to three points, but instead the Reds won 3-1 - with 21 key seconds that could have decided the title race.\n\nLiverpool went nine points above City - and eight above second-placed Leicester - and never looked back, with an 18-game winning run and 422-day unbeaten streak ending with the shock 3-0 reverse at Watford. By that point the Reds were in total control.\n\nThey won the league without playing, thanks to Manchester City failing to beat Chelsea, and are on course for a record points tally.\n\nGibbons: \"We knew the head to heads were going to be important even at this early stage. You couldn't rely on anyone else to take points off City - you had to do it yourself.\"\n\nMurray: \"It was a symbolic win. What happened the previous season, particularly at Etihad Stadium, was the difference between it going one way or the other. For Liverpool to continue the start they had made and to win like that - and to win well - opened up the gap and Liverpool never let go.\"\n\nNow have your say\n\nSo which of these 10 moments do you think shaped Klopp's reign the most? Pick them in your order below, with the most important first.", "Residents have described the \"mayhem\" as tens of thousands of sun-worshippers descended on Bournemouth beach \"with no idea of social distancing\".\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council declared a major incident after services were \"completely overstretched\" as huge numbers of visitors crowded on to the beach on Thursday.\n\nPat Munday, 73, described how cars were double-parking and blocking driveways, preventing emergency vehicles from getting through, while people were using the gardens of her apartment block as a toilet on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\n\"It was just mayhem, people just want to have a good time but they just don't give a monkey's about others,\" she said. \"It's a shame, it's such a beautiful part of the country but people just need some control, people have lost all sense of respect - when they urinate in your garden, it's the pits.\"\n\nVic Williams, 75, said: \"There was no idea of social distancing, when we left at 14:00 the crowds were still arriving, there wasn't any two metres...because the restaurants are closed, there's nowhere else for people to go.\"\n\nHe added: \"The litter afterwards was unbelievable, they just walk away from the beach and leave their rubbish. There were tents left, BBQs - it costs us ratepayers a fortune.\"", "Customers have been flocking to supermarkets for toilet roll amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Victoria\n\nSupermarkets in Australia have reintroduced limits on purchasing toilet roll amid a rise in panic-buying.\n\nOn Friday, Coles imposed a one-pack limit on toilet roll and paper towels nationwide, while Woolworths has a two-pack limit on toilet roll.\n\nThe rush was triggered by a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state of Victoria.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said there was no reason to panic-buy.\n\nLimits were previously imposed in March, when Australian shoppers anticipating a lockdown emptied supermarket shelves. Police were called to one store in Sydney after customers fought over toilet roll.\n\nVictoria's tally of new Covid-19 cases has been in double digits for over a week. On Thursday, 33 new cases were confirmed.\n\nImages and video posted to social media in recent days show people picking up multiple packs of toilet roll, leaving shelves nearly empty.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brooke Simmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 latest curbs began in Victoria on Wednesday when supermarkets announced a return to limited toilet roll sales.\n\nColes has also imposed limits on hand sanitiser and food staples like pasta and eggs in the state.\n\nWoolworths reported a big rise in toilet roll demand in Victoria, but said other states are also panic-buying again. Customers at supermarkets in New South Wales and South Australia have reported empty shelves.\n\n\"We've regrettably started to see elevated demand for toilet roll move outside Victoria in the past 24 hours,\" said Woolworths' managing director of supermarkets Claire Peters.\n\n\"While the demand is not at the same level as Victoria, we're taking preventative action now to get ahead of any excessive buying this weekend.\"\n\nThe supermarket chain has ordered an extra 650,000 packs of toilet roll - a third more than normal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia has reported 7,500 coronavirus cases in total and 104 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday there was no need for customers to start panic-buying again.\n\n\"I'm sure [panic-buying] will pass, as it did last time. There's no need for it, and I think today it's important to reassure people the outbreak doesn't mean there's a problem. The response to that outbreak is strong, which means that Australians can have confidence,\" he said.\n\nMr Morrison and the country's chief medical officer said the virus remains under control, and plans to reopen Australia's economy will go ahead.", "The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Intu, has warned that it is likely to call in administrators.\n\nThe firm, which owns the Trafford Centre, the Lakeside complex, and Braehead, said it had not reached an agreement in financial restructuring talks with its lenders.\n\nIts centres are expected to stay open if it falls into administration, at least in the short term.\n\nIntu has already warned that longer term some of its centres may close.\n\nThe company is the UK's biggest shopping centre group, with 17 centres in the UK and three in Spain.\n\nShould Intu fall into administration, the shopping centres are likely to remain open while the administrators decide what course of action they want to take.\n\nOptions will include trying to sell the centres on to other potential buyers.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman said he expected that most of Intu's shopping centres \"will live to fight another day\".\n\n\"Possibly not all, but most,\" he said. \"There are some very good and important centres in Intu's portfolio.\"\n\nOne of Intu's shopping centres is in Milton Keynes\n\nIntu had been struggling even before the coronavirus outbreak, and about 132,000 jobs in the company and in its wider supply chain will be in question should the firm fall into administration.\n\nRetail expert Kate Hardcastle said one area of concern was Intu's £4.5bn debt, given the declining value of its shopping centres.\n\nThey \"just aren't worth the value they once were\", she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nWhile the coronavirus crisis forced the closure of all non-essential shops, retailers had already been under pressure from a host of factors including changes in shopping habits as people move online.\n\nBig shopping centre landlords such as Intu rely on big retailers for their revenues - but in recent years retailers have been asking landlords for rent reductions due to the pressures they are under, Ms Hardcastle said.\n\nMr Hyman said that retailers were already under pressure before the coronavirus pandemic, and had too much floor space.\n\nThe pandemic had then speeded up a shift to online shopping.\n\n\"What would have taken five years to evolve - we're seeing that happen now,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been forced to shop online. When the dust settles, some of that spend will come back to physical stores - but not all of it will.\"\n\nIntu's centres were partially shut during the coronavirus lockdown, with only essential shops remaining open. The company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nIn its update to investors on Friday, Intu said it had failed to reach agreement in discussions with lenders on so-called \"standstill\" terms, under which it would look to defer interest payments on its large and complex debts.\n\nIt was also seeking agreements from its wide range of creditors, from big banks to hedge funds, for them not to take action if it breached certain terms on its loans.\n\nIntu has already lined up administrators KPMG as a \"contingency\".", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nOn 1 May 1990, Liverpool's players paraded the top-flight league-winners' trophy around a packed and joyous Anfield.\n\nThey would not win the title again for another 30 years but the relative drought was not due to a lack of trying.\n\nTransfers were made, goals scored and games won, but it was never quite enough until this remarkable record-breaking season.\n\nNow that their wait is over, BBC Sport looks back at the players, managers, money and more that Liverpool have put in to the pursuit of number 19.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nLiverpool have played 1,149 games since the start of the 1990-91 season. That is 103,410 minutes (not including injury time) spent on the pitch in pursuit of that 19th title.\n\nThey have won 595 of those matches (which is a win percentage of around 52%), scored 1,968 goals (for an overall goal difference of +822) and taken 2,075 points.\n\nHowever, all but 28 of those wins, 70 of those goals and 86 of those points were ultimately amassed in a vain attempt at league glory.\n\nThe highest number of points they have claimed from a single opponent over the three decades is the 108 points they have taken off Tottenham from 60 encounters between the two.\n\nThey have won 105 points against Merseyside rivals Everton, while West Ham have been plundered for 101.\n\nThey have a 100% win record against Brighton, Cardiff, Huddersfield and Notts County, although the most number of times they have faced any of those sides is the five games they have played against the Seagulls.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the sides that have done the most consistent damage to Liverpool's title aspirations since 1990-91 are Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal - all multiple title winners during the Reds' barren three decades.\n\nGallingly for Liverpool, they have just a 29.3% win percentage against fierce rivals United, who have beaten them 28 times in their 58 games since 1990-91. United also have comfortably the best goal difference against them too, with it currently standing at +8 in the Red Devils' favour.\n\nBirmingham (21.4% win percentage against) and Wimbledon (26.3%) have both been thorns in the Reds' side.\n\nThere is only one team against whom Liverpool have played in the top flight and failed to take a single point in the past 30 seasons - Blackpool, who beat them home and away in their one Premier League campaign in 2010-11.\n\nOf course, no Liverpool season of the last 30 has matched 2019-20 for efficiency. In fact, no league campaign in English history is comparable to Liverpool's current one.\n\nAs an indication of just why this season is the one that has ended their title drought, compare their 2019-20 stats with their average over the previous 29 seasons…\n\nLiverpool this season vs season average from previous 29\n\nSince the start of the 1990-91 season, 239 players have represented Liverpool in the top flight.\n\nTheir quest for a 19th title began with a 3-1 win at Sheffield United on 25 August 1990, the goals scored by John Barnes, Ray Houghton and Ian Rush. This was one of eight straight victories as part of a 14-game unbeaten run at the start of that season.\n\nAlmost 30 years later, the job would finally be completed without the need to step on to the field as Manchester City failed to beat Chelsea, finally ending a title race which in truth had been over for months.\n\nOf those 239 players, academy product Jamie Carragher has made the most league appearances in a Liverpool shirt in the past 30 years, playing in 508 games for the club.\n\nThere are some familiar names in the top 10 appearance-makers in that time, but only one member of the current squad makes the list - captain Jordan Henderson, courtesy of his 266 matches.\n\nAt the opposite end of the scale is a group of former players who contributed just one appearance to the cause - the likes of Daniele Padelli, David Raven, Jon Newby, Patrice Luzi, Istvan Kozma and Rafael Camacho.\n\nThe goalscorers list is also topped by a home-grown talent in Robbie Fowler, who scored 128 league goals for the club over two spells.\n\nThere is a much healthier modern presence, with current first-choice front three Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah all making the top 10.\n\nOne player deserving of special recognition is Steven Gerrard, an individual intrinsically linked with Liverpool's long pursuit of their 19th title, for both positive and negative reasons.\n\nThe midfielder and captain is a presence on both appearance and goals list, and has also contributed the most assists of any Liverpool player in the past 30 years (70).\n\nHe was the driving force behind two of the major trophies the club have lifted since 1990 - the 2004-05 Champions League and 2005-06 FA Cup. Both thrilling 3-3 draws, both won on penalties, both with Gerrard as the game's key man.\n\nIt is also impossible to think about a Liverpool title challenge without it evoking two images of the Merseyside-born England international - the first of him in in the middle of a huddle of Reds players, demanding that they \"don't let it slip\" and the second of him looking absolutely devastated at Anfield having done just that against Chelsea.\n\nGerrard will never forget how Liverpool agonisingly allowed the 2013-14 title to elude them, but the club have at least now provided a positive moment to supersede it.\n\nKenny Dalglish delivered Liverpool their 16th, 17th and 18th titles and began the defence of the latter as the Reds' manager. He would leave before that attempted defence was complete, shocking the club by resigning on 22 February 1991, with them three points clear at the top of the table.\n\nA combination of caretaker boss Ronnie Moran and permanent successor Graeme Souness were unable to retain the top-flight trophy, which instead went to Arsenal.\n\nIn total, Liverpool have had nine permanent managers since the start of the 1990-91 season.\n\nThis includes a rare joint-manager tenure at the start of the 1998-99 season between Roy Evans, who had been in sole charge but to diminishing returns for four seasons, and Gerard Houllier, who would continue on his own after Evans resigned just four months into the shared arrangement.\n\nExcluding Souness, who was only in charge for the final five games of 1990-91, four managers have taken Liverpool to within one place of league glory during the past 30 years - Houllier (2001-02), Rafael Benitez (2008-09), Brendan Rodgers (2013-14) and Jurgen Klopp (2018-19).\n\nAll but Roy Hodgson (who didn't last a season in the job) and Rodgers (who came agonisingly close) won a trophy with the club.\n\nIn Klopp, though, they have finally found a successor to King Kenny's crown. The German is the only Reds manager since Dalglish left (including the Scot himself during his second spell) with a win percentage over 60.\n\nRosenthal to Minamino - how the Reds spent £1.47bn\n\nLiverpool's first bit of transfer business following their 1989-90 title win was to make Ronny Rosenthal's loan move from Standard Liege permanent for a fee of around £1m.\n\nThe Israeli striker, a cult figure at Anfield, would be the first of 218 signings the club would make between their 18th and 19th league triumphs, concluding with the £7.25m capture of Takumi Minamino in the last January window.\n\nInevitably, there has been the good, the bad and the ugly.\n\nFor every Luis Suarez or Virgil van Dijk, there is a Torben Piechnik, a Bruno Cheyrou and a Sean Dundee.\n\nAnd then there are the big-money disasters, more often than not failing forwards, like Andy Carroll (£35m, six goals in 44 league games), Christian Benteke (£32.5m, nine in 29) or Mario Balotelli (£16m, one in 16).\n\nTheir most prolific period for signings was between 2005 and 2008, when the club brought in 40 players in just three seasons under Benitez.\n\nThis included a number who served them well (Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt, Lucas Leiva and Fernando Torres), some not so well (Mark Gonzalez and Jermaine Pennant) and a few many won't remember (Gabriel Paletta and Sebastian Leto anyone?).\n\nInevitably, the bills have added up over the past 30 years and according to figures from Transfermarkt, the club have spent an estimated £1.47bn on players between their 18th and 19th titles.\n\nIt is important to note the Reds have also recouped a sizeable amount of money through player sales, reportedly £936.6m over those 30 years.\n\nArguably, the best players that came into the side between 1990 and 2020 are the ones they got for nothing; academy graduates Robbie Fowler, Gerrard, Carragher, Michael Owen and Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, though, are the likes of Van Dijk, Alisson and Naby Keita - the top three biggest deals the club have made in that time, with all three playing a prominent role in bringing Liverpool their 19th title.\n\nMore often than not in modern football, you get what you pay for.\n\nPlayers come and go, but the constant at any club is its fans.\n\nThe Liverpool supporters have had to wait longer than they imagined for this 19th title and have suffered some agonising near misses.\n\nThey will also be denied the true experience of celebrating their side's charge towards the title this season with the last nine games being played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut prior to this they have continued to show up at Anfield in vast numbers, season upon season.\n\nThe difficulty in obtaining season-ticket numbers at the club means gauging an accurate tally of fans to have visited the ground since that celebration at the end of 1989-90 is impossible.\n\nBut according to figures from Transfermarkt, the number of visits by supporters to Anfield over the past 30 years is 24,698,942.\n\nAnd finally, it's time to get a bit shirty...\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.", "Here are five things you need to know this Friday evening about the coronavirus outbreak. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nBoris Johnson has warned that spikes in cases of coronavirus cases abroad should act as a warning to Britons who flout social distancing rules. The PM said crowded scenes on Bournemouth beach on Thursday suggested people needed to understand that too much mingling could set the UK back. Ministers have also warned that UK beaches could be closed if infections rise.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales's first minister has warned that lockdown restrictions will not be eased if large parties and fights at beaches continue in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident was declared in Bournemouth on Thursday as people flocked to the coast\n\nMr Johnson's warning comes as Liverpool's mayor, Joe Anderson, and Merseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden expressed dismay at scenes of thousands of football fans gathering at Anfield stadium after Liverpool became Premier League champions on Thursday. The city would have to wait and see whether the gathering resulted in a spike of cases, Mr Anderson added.\n\nTackling shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers in England was a job of \"crisis management\" during and immediately after the peak of coronavirus cases, the business leader brought in by the government to sort out the issue has told the BBC. Speaking to BBC health editor Hugh Pym, Lord Paul Deighton, one of the masterminds of the London 2012 Olympics, said supplies were now stable and had been secured for the rest of the year with 28 billion items on order.\n\nCoronavirus patients in hospital in England are dying at a slower rate now than they were at the peak of the epidemic, analysis by University of Oxford researchers has found. The proportion of coronavirus patients dying each day in England fell from 6% to 1.5% between April and June, they said. Improvements in treatments, changes in the patient population and seasonal effects could all be playing a role.\n\nWith cinemas still closed, could a virtual screening be the best way to get your movie fix? If so, tonight, Fortnite players are stowing away their guns and kicking back for a screening of three of Christopher Nolan's biggest films - The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Prestige. But why would anyone want to watch a film inside a video game? It's about being \"able to watch things together with people\", says Darshan Shankar, the founder of Bigscreen VR - a company that lets users watch films in cinemas created within virtual reality.\n\n...you can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nAnd with all the concern about large gatherings causing spikes in cases, we examine how local lockdowns might work.\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.", "Temple Court said it had been \"completely overwhelmed\" by Covid-19\n\nA care home at the centre of a police investigation after the deaths of 15 residents during the coronavirus pandemic has been rated inadequate.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) identified \"serious failings which led to people suffering harm\" at Temple Court care home in Kettering.\n\nThe home was closed in May amid serious concerns from the CQC after a major coronavirus outbreak.\n\nTemple Court said it had been \"completely overwhelmed\" by Covid-19.\n\n\"We are astonished the CQC report has chosen to disregard the reason why standards at Temple Court deteriorated - the home was completely overwhelmed due to the Covid-19 epidemic,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"An influx of residents from the NHS in late March led to an outbreak of Covid-19 which affected existing residents and a large proportion of staff, including the manager and entire senior team.\n\n\"This left the home disproportionately reliant on the use of available agency staff, with very little opportunity to adequately train them on our policies and procedures.\"\n\nInspectors who visited Temple Court on 12 and 13 May found the care home had not informed the CQC about serious incidents without delay, including when people died or suffered injuries.\n\nThe CQC found residents' health had deteriorated through a lack of oversight at the home and an insufficient understanding of residents' needs.\n\nDeanna Westwood, CQC head of inspection for adult social care, said: \"Our inspection of Temple Court identified serious failings which led to people suffering harm.\"\n\nShe said the situation at the home was \"unacceptable\" and added the service was not currently in use and no new residents would be admitted \"unless we are fully assured that they can be cared for safely\".\n\nThe CQC report said people had been malnourished and dehydrated because of poor management of their diets.\n\nIt said the home admitted 15 people when it did not have resources to meet their needs, while several people had to go to hospital with dehydration.\n\nOther failings included observations not always being completed, staff not always seeking medical care when it was needed, infection prevention and control - including relating to catheter care - not being well managed, and insufficient measures to protect people from falls.\n\nAll of the home's 21 residents were moved out by the end of the second day of the inspection.\n\nThat decision was made by the Nene Clinical Commissioning Group and Northamptonshire County Council.\n\nEvidence of unexplained injuries found by the CQC inspectors were being looked into by the county council as part of an investigation under section 42 of the Care Act, which would happen in cases when there were allegations of abuse or neglect.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it was working with the county council to investigate the home.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Intu, has called in administrators.\n\nThe firm, which owns the Trafford Centre, the Lakeside complex, and Braehead, said earlier it had not reached an agreement in financial restructuring talks with its lenders.\n\nIts centres will stay open under administrators KPMG.\n\nThe company said shares listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges had been suspended.\n\nThe significance of Intu's collapse \"cannot be understated,\" said Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown is speeding up a trend towards buying more consumer goods online, he said. He estimates 50% of workers normally can't receive parcels at work.\n\nBut with many people spending most of their time at home, and car journeys to shopping centres discouraged, many of those people are now ordering via websites.\n\nHow landlords should react is a difficult question and there won't be a simple solution that will work for every mall, he says.\n\nShoppers in Nottingham said they hope the shops will remain open\n\nParticularly hard-hit will be shops at large office developments like Canary Wharf if more people are working from home.\n\n\"It's going to be a really, really tough challenge. There's no getting away from the fact we have too much retail space.\"\n\nWhile more retailers and shopping centres are likely to close, landlords can offer shorter, flexible leases, he said, to attract retailers with new ideas.\n\nThe firm said it had appointed three administrators at the KPMG accountancy firm and that \"the appointment is expected to become effective shortly\".\n\nThe company was one of the UK's biggest shopping centre groups, with 17 centres in the UK.\n\nIn Nottingham, where it owns the Victoria Centre, shoppers said they hoped stores would remain open.\n\nOne worker at the local Boots, who didn't give her name, said she didn't know yet whether her shop will be affected. \"I think we'll all be worried,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIntu had been struggling even before the coronavirus outbreak with about £4.6bn worth of debt.\n\nAlthough the company's gone into administration, its shopping centres haven't.\n\nThey are separate companies owned by a myriad of banks and lenders.\n\nAnd they've now got the keys. Shoppers aren't likely to notice any real difference in the short term. But buyers will be sought.\n\nThe jewel in the crown is Manchester's Trafford Centre, followed by Lakeside.\n\nBut Intu's less-popular malls will prove more difficult to sell, especially given the turmoil in retail right now.\n\nIntu is a property business which basically put all its eggs in one basket, buying more malls as shopping habits changed, and it ended up with way too much debt.\n\nIntu's spectacular collapse also highlights the pressures retail landlords are now under given the big slump in rental income from their tenants.\n\nAccording to its annual report, published in March, its debts were worth 68% of its assets, a jump from 53% a year earlier.\n\nIt told investors earlier this month that it expected rent collected for 2020 to drop to £310m from £492m a year earlier.\n\nAccording to Property Week, landlords collected just 18% of commercial rents for the three months to 24 June.\n\nAs rent payments dried up and property values fell, its prospects declined.\n\nThe company employs 2,500 people and its wider supply chain supports about 130,000 jobs, which will now be in doubt.\n\nIntu's centres were partially shut during the coronavirus lockdown, with only essential shops remaining open.\n\nThe company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nInvestors in the company's shares will be nursing heavy losses.\n\nIts shares traded as cheaply as 1.2 pence each early on Friday, valuing the company at £16m. It was worth as much as £13bn in 2006.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 June and 26 June. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nCapital interest: \"A perfect view of the Edinburgh skyline with the sun above the castle\", says Scott Wilkinson.\n\nPeak viewing: Ben Ledi at sunset taken from Cambusbarron, from Sandy Gillone\n\nQuite a mouthful: A puffin with a catch of sand eels at the Bullers of Buchan, from Bill McLean.\n\nNicely Dun: Zbigniew Ziembinski captured this wonderful image of a \"beautiful sunset\" at Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven.\n\nBridging the divide: \"I love the contrast between the oranges and inky blues\", says Gillian Brown at South Queensferry.\n\nRock star: This heron looks magnificent at Crovie, as spotted by Adam Sneddon.\n\nA bolt from the blue: \"Impressive display off the coast of Ardrossan\", says Bobby Hughes.\n\nMirror mirror: Inesa Strielciunaite took this cracking picture at Loch Oich.\n\nFunnel vision: \"The iconic paddle steamer Waverley had both of her funnels refitted at Dales Marine, Greenock\", says Roy Tait. \"Following a successful public appeal last year she has undergone the marine equivalent of open heart surgery to replace her two boilers\".\n\nGo Firth and conquer: Neil Robertson took this super shot from the Caley Thistle stadium of the Moray Firth.\n\nCatching some sun: \"We are a group of open water swimmers called Barassie Sea Swim Sessions\", says Lynda Hardman. \"Safety first, social distancing adhered to\".\n\n\"Just me, my camera, and nature\": \"I visited the beautiful wild beach in Stevenston, next to Saltcoats\", says Konrad Slowick. \"No people\".\n\nGlasglow: \"Truly stunning sunset overlooking Glasgow and the Campsies\", says Sally Clegg. \"Could watch for ages - mesmerising!\"\n\nDouble delight: This scene at a field near Fullarton woods, Troon, was captured by Colin McMillan.\n\nFeed me now: Callum Edwards was working on a bush in Balmedie and heard some noise. Stuck his hand in blindly with phone - and this was the result.\n\nSunrise going swimmingly: \"Olivia McIntosh was one of four swimmers out braving the cold waters of The Firth of Forth\", says Graham Paton. \"This was taken early at Portobello beach. The sunrise was breathtaking, as you can see\".\n\nAs haar as the eye can see: Queensferry Crossing disappears into the distance, as seen by Cairn Rae.\n\nThistle do nicely: Mangela Coia sent this wonderful close-up.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Sunrise on midsummer morning over fields at Sanquhar Farm just outside Forres from the Dava Way\", says Derek Sinclair.\n\nBaby steps: \"Came across this very young mouse who obviously was on its first excursion from its nest\", says Bill Brown in Perth. \"Managed to make it from the pavement to cover with a few rests\".\n\nLess is Morlich: Kerrie Tolmie found the normally popular Loch Morlich near Aviemore looking very quiet.\n\n(F)lockdown curls: \"Curly, a black-faced ram, taken just outside of my hometown of Hawick\", says Stewart Beattie.\n\nFlower power: \"Baby blue tit perched on a foxglove\", from Jayne Elder in Limekilns in Fife.\n\nPoppy day: A colourful field on the east coast near Dunbar, from Dave Cullen.\n\nDrawing a crowd? \"This was taken beside Craiglockhart woods\", says Jules Goodlet-Rowley. \"We have been enjoying bird artwork for months\".\n\nMe and my shadow: \"Dan out for a late evening walk near Markinch, Fife\", says Allan Copland. \"This young German Shepherd’s personality is as big as his shadow\".\n\nWindow shopping: This fox was spotted looking for dinner in Burnside, Glasgow, by Billy Wright. \"He/she is a regular visitor. If we happen not to notice, it has now taken to letting us know that it is there by coming right up to the window\".\n\nRising to the challenge: Phil Astley captured this beautiful scene at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, looking over the Ythan Estuary towards Collieston.\n\nMaking a splash: 11-year-old Olivia having fun in Dalkeith, courtesy of uncle Tom Bielawski.\n\nCapping off an unforgettable time: \"Unfortunately, no nursery graduation ceremony for my five-year-old son Taylan\", says Katie Watson in Kilmarnock. \"But we made do with our home-made graduation cap\".\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than two thirds of black, Asian and minority ethnic pharmacists have not had workplace risk assessments for coronavirus, a survey suggests.\n\nOf the 380 hospital and community-based pharmacists surveyed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the UK Black Pharmacists Association, 236 were from a BAME background.\n\nOf those, 166 (70%) said they had not been approached by their employer to have a risk assessment.\n\nAnd it called on employers to take urgent action to ensure ethnic minority pharmacists are risk assessed.\n\nNHS England said it had written to hospital trusts, clinical commissioning groups and community pharmacists asking all employers to carry out risk assessments for at-risk staff within the next two weeks.\n\nThe RPS-UKBPA survey also found that 78% of black pharmacists and pharmacy students felt they were at risk of coronavirus and wanted changes to be made to the way they work.\n\nSandra Gidley, president of the RPS, said it was essential that pharmacists were properly risk assessed.\n\n\"Those at high risk can be supported to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission, while still providing a vital service to the NHS and the public.\n\n\"Lessons are to be learned from this pandemic, especially with the risk of a second wave, and we now need action so our workforce is protected.\"\n\nSome 43% of the pharmacist workforce across the UK is from a BAME background, according to the General Pharmaceutical Council, which regulates pharmacists.\n\nBoth the RPS and the UKBPA have already called for individual risk assessments to be mandatory for BAME staff. They have also written to the government asking for better support for BAME pharmacists.\n\nUKBPA President Elsy Gomez Campos said pharmacists needed to feel safe at work.\n\n\"This is the time to look after each other and to look after everyone. Our profession must rise to the challenge and respond to a call to risk assess pharmacy staff. In a month's time, the survey results must be very different from what we see today.\"\n\nAt the end of April, NHS England recommended that ethnic minority healthcare workers should be risk assessed for the virus. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have issued similar guidance.\n\nA number of reviews into deaths from Covid-19, including by Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics, have now concluded that people from ethnic minority backgrounds are disproportionately dying from the virus.\n\nAmong the reasons for this are existing health inequalities, public-facing occupations and structural racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were at least 3,876 deaths of BAME individuals in hospitals in England up to 9 June. This means that BAME people represented 15.5% of all coronavirus deaths up to this point.\n\nResearch from the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that deaths of black Africans from the virus are 3.7 times higher than might be expected by geography and age, while the risk for Pakistanis is 2.9 times higher and for black Caribbean people it is 1.8 times higher.\n\nNHS England's letter to hospitals, CCGs and community pharmacists on 24 June states: \"All employers need to make significant progress in deploying risk assessments within the next two weeks and complete them - at least for all staff in at-risk groups - within four weeks.\"\n\nIt is also asking organisations to publish information on the number of staff who have been risk-assessed, including how many assessments have been completed for BAME staff, and are urging employers to make clear what additional mitigation is in place in settings where infection rates are highest.", "Artwork: OneWeb had launched 74 spacecraft before it collapsed\n\nThe UK government looks set to put money behind a rescue package for the ailing satellite company OneWeb.\n\nThe London start-up had been trying to build a network of spacecraft to deliver broadband connections but was forced to seek bankruptcy protection in March because of insufficient funds.\n\nIt's understood Boris Johnson's government could now put about £500m into the project, in part because it believes OneWeb can also provide a satellite navigation service.\n\nThis has become an important issue since the UK lost its membership of the European Galileo sat-nav system after exiting the EU.\n\nThe OneWeb service would be backup for the US-based Global Positioning System (GPS) in case it is attacked or fails.\n\nIf GPS were to go down motorists, businesses and the military would be left without a precise navigation signal.\n\nThe prime minister has agreed to put up taxpayer money for the purchase, as part of a larger private sector consortium bid, the BBC understands.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on the reported negotiations to buy a stake in OneWeb.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said the UK was continuing to develop a sovereign space programme through the national space strategy.\n\n\"Work on that is continuing on multiple fronts. This includes developing plans for our own national capabilities in satellite navigation, positioning and timing,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We continue to work and have regular conversations with the space industry about this.\"\n\nUK-based OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where half its operations and all of its manufacturing are located, after failing to secure new funding.\n\nBefore its collapse, OneWeb had launched 74 spacecraft in what was planned to be a broadband internet constellation of 650. The start-up has a goal, though, for thousands more.\n\nOneWeb has plans for thousands more satellites\n\nAs part of any deal, the government would expect the building of future satellites to be brought to the UK.\n\nThe American bankruptcy court is now running a bidding process for OneWeb's assets, such as the radio frequencies it owns.\n\nThe Japanese tech investor Softbank and aerospace giant Airbus are among the largest shareholders.\n\nThey will have to choose whether to go with a UK government-backed rescue package or another offer.\n\nAirbus issued a statement on Friday, saying: \"The reported support of the UK government for a bid for OneWeb looks positive to support (the) UK's ambition to continue to be a leading player in space. As an original investor, and the manufacturer, in OneWeb, Airbus is pleased that a way forward looks likely.\n\nIt added: \"Airbus and the wider UK space ecosystem have the skills to build future capability and then drive export opportunities. We would look forward to supporting OneWeb in the next phase of their business and growing the UK contribution to this market-changing business.\"\n\nIf this comes off, it would be a bold move by the government - a statement that it is prepared to spend big in space.\n\nThe question remains, though, whether it would be the right move.\n\nThere is excitement currently about constellations of hundreds - if not thousands - of low-orbiting satellites and how they could be used to deliver broadband internet to places where connections are poor or simply non-existent.\n\nBut the business case is still on trial. Witness OneWeb's present difficulties; and although rival SpaceX continues to launch more of its Starlink spacecraft month after month, the Californian firm is a long way from earning meaningful revenues.\n\nSo, there are those in the UK space sector who believe the government will be taking an enormous gamble if it seeks to put a positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) service on the back of OneWeb.\n\nAfter all, this would be critical national infrastructure. What would happen were OneWeb to fail again?\n\nA better solution, the doubters argue, would be to use satellites operated by established British telecommunications companies.\n\nIn the flurry of lobbying that's been going on, the government has been presented with low-cost ideas to use a mix of high and low-orbiting satellites to provide what would, at first, be a regional satellite-navigation service, but one that could eventually be built out into a global system.\n\nPreviously, the UK aimed to build its own global navigation satellite system, at a cost estimated by independent experts of between £3bn and £5bn.\n\nThe EU's Galileo system went live in 2016, as an alternative to using GPS or the Russian GLONASS system.\n\nThe UK and EU previously argued over the level of access the UK should have to the Galileo satellite-navigation system after Brexit.\n\nThen-Prime Minister Theresa May said in December 2018 that the UK expected to work with its Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners - the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - in developing a new system.\n\nThe Americans are understood to like the OneWeb solution because it provides something very different to the existing architectures for satellite navigation.\n\nFor the UK, it also presents the possibility of obtaining capability at significantly lower cost than had originally been envisaged for an independent system.", "The US Treasury department did not check death records before mailing out stimulus cheques\n\nThe US Treasury mistakenly sent more than $1.4bn (£1.1bn) of its pandemic rescue funds to dead people, government inspectors have found.\n\nThe finding was one of several \"challenges\" uncovered in the official review of federal coronavirus aid.\n\nSince March, Congress has pumped some $2.6tn into the American economy in an effort to shield it from virus slowdown.\n\nBut the rush to deliver the money has contributed to errors, inspectors said.\n\nFor example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the Treasury Department, which was in charge of mailing stimulus cheques to American families, did not check death records, even though some of the tax officials working on the programme said they raised concerns about the risk of erroneous mailings.\n\nThe report also warned that the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses - a low-cost loan fund that accounts for 26% of US pandemic spending - was at \"significant risk\" of fraud, faulting the Small Business Administration for not cooperating with requests for information about the loans and its plans for oversight.\n\n\"Because of the number of loans approved, the speed with which they were processed, and the limited safeguards, there is a significant risk that some fraudulent or inflated applications were approved,\" the inspectors said.\n\nIt said changes to respond to those risks were \"essential\".\n\nThe report comes as lawmakers in Washington debate whether or not additional aid is necessary.\n\nWhile Democrats and many economists - including the head of America's central bank - have recommended further relief, pointing to high unemployment, many Republicans have been hesitant to approve more money.\n\n\"We should be very, very careful in evaluating what's necessary before we go forward,\" Republican Senator Pat Toomey said at a recent hearing.\n\nWhite House officials have said additional stimulus is likely, but that it makes sense to see how the efforts so far are working. Critics say federal programmes have resisted oversight efforts, however.\n\nIn April, President Donald Trump removed the official in charge of overseeing coronavirus spending.\n\nCongresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, said the audit had revealed \"mishandling and negligence\" and \"mismanagement of taxpayer funds\".\n\n\"If today's report makes one thing clear, it is the need for transparency and accountability,\" she said. \"Administration officials must answer that call.\"\n\nHow much has the US spent on coronavirus?\n\nCongress has approved about $2.6tn in pandemic spending since March - a package estimated at about 14% of the country's output.\n\nAbout 11%, or more than $280bn, was intended to be spent on direct payments of up to $1,200 for individuals earning less than $75,000 and $500 for children.\n\nThe US has sent 160.4 million pandemic payments worth a total of $269bn so far, according to the report.\n\nThe single largest chunk of the rescue funding - about 26% - was for small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.\n\nThe US has distributed more than $500bn in loans to 4.6 million businesses so far.\n\nCritics have said the distribution of those funds has been bungled by unclear rules and lack of oversight, claims supported by the GAO report.\n\n\"Consistent with the urgency of responding to serious and widespread health issues and economic disruptions, agencies have given priority to moving swiftly where possible to distribute funds and implement new programs,\" it said.\n\n\"As trade-offs were made, however, agencies have made only limited progress so far in achieving transparency and accountability goals.\"", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says \"everything is possible\" for his side if they stay \"humble\" after completing the club's first title win in 30 years.\n\nThe Reds were crowned Premier League champions after Manchester City's defeat at Chelsea on Thursday.\n\nThe title triumph is the Anfield club's 19th overall but first since 1990.\n\nSpeaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan, the German said it meant \"absolutely everything\" to help deliver a first Premier League title to Liverpool fans.\n\n\"As long as we stay humble and we're still ready to write stories we want to tell our grandchildren, everything is possible for us,\" he added.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nThe German became Liverpool manager in October 2015 and led them to Champions League victory last season, as well as a second-placed finish in the league. They subsequently won the Club World Cup in December.\n\n\"Without knowing it at the time, the most important thing I said to the players was that we have to create our own stories and own history,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"When I came in, I had to tell them not to compare themselves with anyone any more, some of the fantastic people who played for this club and won everything in the past.\n\n\"We needed to get the opportunity from our supporters to find our own way, and this is only possible because people never lost patience with us in any moment.\"\n\n\"We got rid of the heavy backpack. I took it off that day and never got it back.\"\n\nHis first reaction to winning the title\n\n\"Last night I was absolutely overwhelmed and didn't understand anything, what happened with my body, what happened with my emotions.\n\n\"I realised it was obviously really big, I knew that before but I don't think you can be prepared for a situation like this. I was not.\n\n\"Maybe you can, but I wasn't and so it hit me full, in my face, and when I've had similar situations you know that it's nice but it's intense as well.\n\n\"I don't feel the pressure too much before it happens - but when it happens the amount of relief shows how big the pressure was before.\n\n\"I was just not able to speak. Usually it's a good moment to have a speech to the players but I was just not able to do it - I was completely overwhelmed, I was crying too much last night.\"\n\nHis relationships with his players\n\n\"I have a very good relationship with all my teams but the mix of skill sets that these boys bring in here, plus the personality they bring, is absolutely exceptional and only this combination of things makes it possible.\n\n\"They are really a bunch of top boys and I am really happy to be part of this moment.\n\n\"They are all individuals and different and that's good, but they have no real selfish characteristics as well.\"\n\n\"It means absolutely everything to me. It's the only reason why we play football.\n\n\"This city is a very emotional city that went through a lot of hard times, like the club had to go through, and having these good moments is essential. Having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city so it helps everything.\n\n\"At this moment in time, in the biggest crisis our generation has probably ever had, it's so important that we don't forget that there is something we can really look forward to.\"\n\nKlopp told a news conference he \"doesn't want a statue, that's not my motivation\" and responded to a question about a lifetime contract by saying he will \"be here for a while\".\n\nOn comparisons with Liverpool managerial legends, he told BBC Sport: \"I don't see it that way. It's not too important. But if people want to see it like this, I'm not the guy to tell them to stop doing that.\n\n\"But they are really icons. What Bill and Bob did is just incredible and in very difficult times - people had nothing and they lifted and built this city. Kenny was player-manager - it's unbelievable, I don't think there is any story that can compare with that, just incredible.\n\n\"Since we use our history in the right manner, since we don't compare any more, since we are just happy about it, build on it, since then we can do what we do now.\"\n\n\"The history is no burden any more. It is the basis for what we are doing.\n\n\"Last year we had 97 points so we were really close - it's not like it's been up and down with us. Here's the second year now where obviously we are pretty good.\n\n\"Winning all the time, that's really difficult because the other teams are too good for that. They have a good chance to improve of course as well - we have to be better, they have to, we will, they will and then we will see who is best.\n\n\"We have to bring in new things, other teams will defend us differently, we have to adapt but that is normal in life and in football. But the consistency, if we can keep it that would be a massive achievement already.\"\n\n\"If I want to dance, I'll dance. I don't do it for the boys.\n\n\"We were in a good mood, so it happened not for the first time at an evening event. The boys know that I like a dance from time to time.\n\n\"Last night was a good moment in my life so I expressed that on the dance floor as well.\"\n• None An exclusive preview of the latest must-see show:", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nJurgen Klopp described guiding Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years as \"more than I ever thought possible\".\n\nThe Reds were confirmed as Premier League champions without kicking a ball on Thursday as Manchester City's 2-1 defeat at Chelsea meant they could no longer be caught.\n\nLiverpool are 23 points clear with seven games remaining.\n\n\"It's the best thing I can imagine and more than I could have ever dreamed of. It's unbelievable. Much more than I ever thought would be possible.\"\n\nThe German, who was wearing a Liverpool shirt during his interview and was visibly emotional, added: \"Becoming champions with this club is absolutely incredible.\n\n\"It is an incredible achievement from my players... and a pure joy for me to coach them.\"\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nKlopp arrived at Anfield in October 2015 following the sacking of Brendan Rodgers and with the club 10th in the Premier League.\n\nHe led Liverpool to a sixth European Cup last season and has now ended an even longer wait to become champions of England.\n\n\"I felt from day one when he came in the door he changed everything,\" said Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson.\n\n\"We followed him and believed him. It's been an amazing journey. I'm hoping there is more - we just stay hungry, keep wanting more and following him.\n\n\"The biggest thing is no matter what, we all follow him, believe in him, and he's taken us to this point. This wouldn't be possible without him.\"\n\nLiverpool narrowly missed out on the title in 2014 when a defeat by Chelsea at Anfield towards the end of the season allowed Manchester City to clinch the Premier League trophy instead.\n\nLast season they recorded the third-highest points tally in the division's history (97) only to be beaten to top spot by a solitary point, with Pep Guardiola's side sealing the title on the final day.\n\nHowever, an incredibly dominant campaign this time around, in which the Reds have won 28 of their 31 fixtures, meant any end-of-season drama never looked likely.\n\nA 4-0 win against Crystal Palace meant a draw or Chelsea win in their game against Manchester City would cement the championship for the Reds and when the final whistle went at Stamford Bridge there were scenes of jubilation outside Anfield, while a group of Liverpool players gathered to watch the game.\n\n\"It shows the character in the squad to get so close last time and to go again,\" Liverpool midfielder James Milner told Match of the Day. \"We have proven we are fuelled by disappointment and learning.\n\n\"I am sure the hunger will stay and we want to keep being successful. It is absolutely massive - to get over the line is huge.\"\n\nIn winning the league after 31 games, Liverpool have recorded the earliest Premier League victory by matches played, yet football's 100-day suspension because of coronavirus means it is the latest success by date.\n\n\"We had to wait 13 weeks,\" Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson said. \"It was 13 long weeks with uncertainty, but a lot of our fans had to wait 30 years so it was a short time compared to what they've had.\n\n\"I hope they enjoy their night. We will enjoy ours.\"\n\n'The highlight has been the camaraderie in the team'\n\nThe title is Liverpool's 19th and their first since the 1989-90 season, when they won the First Division under Kenny Dalglish.\n\n\"I'm very pleased for everybody connected with the football club,\" Dalglish told Sky Sports. \"Jurgen has done a fantastic job. The highlight has been the camaraderie within the team and the way everyone has helped the team. Last night's game was a huge example of that.\n\n\"They played with tempo and never gave Crystal Palace time on the ball. It's the whole feeling within the club. You do not win anything without a great dressing room, and they have that.\"\n\nLiverpool's principal owner John W Henry saluted his team's \"season for the ages\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"It has been an incredible year of magnificent achievement culminating tonight in capturing the Premier League title.\n\n\"The totality of this accomplishment has brought respite and joy to so many in a year filled with so much tragedy.\n\n\"Liverpool has made the beautiful game more beautiful than ever.\"\n\nLiverpool won the Champions League last season under Klopp and can now beat City's Premier League record of 100 points in a campaign if they are victorious in five of their remaining seven matches.\n\n\"Liverpool have played an incredible season. Well deserved,\" Guardiola, whose side won the title in the previous two seasons, told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Two seasons ago we were 100 points and they finished more than 25 points behind. Last season they didn't recover the distance and this season they went the distance.\n\n\"We have to learn from this season and improve for the next one.\"\n• None He's joined by his former boss Sean Dyche\n• None The top 10 Premier League matches of all time: Gary, Alan and Ian discuss the best matches ever", "A man has been shot dead by police after a stabbing attack at a hotel in Glasgow city centre.\n\nSix people are being treated in hospital for their injuries, including a 42-year-old police officer who was said to be \"critical but stable\".\n\nSources had suggested two other people died at the hotel, which is currently housing asylum seekers. In fact it appears only the suspect was killed.\n\nPolice said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nA police spokesman said the situation was \"contained\" and there was no danger to the general public.\n\nHe added that they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident, which was first reported at 12:50. He added that officers were on the scene within two minutes of the incident.\n\nOne witness, who gave his name as John, said he came down from the third floor of the hotel to see the reception covered in blood.\n\nHe said he initially saw one person who had been stabbed.\n\n\"I went down to the entrance and shouted at him and told him to stay calm and I will call for help,\" he said.\n\nHe then saw another man, who was \"fighting for his life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glasgow stabbing eyewitness: \"There was blood all over the steps\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said reports of the incident were \"truly dreadful\" and she was being \"updated as the situation becomes clearer\".\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are with everyone involved. The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"deeply saddened by the terrible incident in Glasgow\".\n\nHe said: \"Officers were on the scene within two minutes, and armed officers shortly afterwards, and the incident was quickly contained.\"\n\nThe assistant chief constable added: \"The individual who was shot by armed police has died.\n\n\"Six other people are in hospital for treatment to their injuries including a police officer, who is in a critical but stable condition.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the families of those who were injured, including our officer.\n\n\"The incident is not being treated as a terrorism and our investigation is continuing into the circumstances.\"\n\nAnother witness, Craig Milroy, saw the aftermath of the incident from an office building nearby and said he had seen four people taken away in ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a man lying on the ground, of African descent, with no shoes on. He was on the ground with someone holding his side - I don't know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Milroy said the man was one of the four taken away by medics and believed him to be a victim of an attack.\n\nHe added: \"After that we saw commotion, ambulances further up and we saw armed police all running into the hotel next to the Society Room.\n\n\"We were still standing outside, after that the police all came down, the riot police and triage team told us to go back in and lock the door.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If it is safe to do so please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Glasgow stabbings: What we know", "Antibody tests are already under way in many other countries\n\nVolunteers are being sought from NHS staff and other public service workers for a study into the effectiveness of Covid-19 antibody home testing kits.\n\nA number of the rapid response kits are to be studied, including one from a consortium including Oxford University.\n\nThe test to see if someone has already had coronavirus has been described by the prime minister as a game changer to get people back to work.\n\nPublic Health England said it would find 2,500 recruits through employers.\n\nExperts have questioned the usefulness of the tests because little has been known about whether antibodies protect people from the virus but the government said the study would help its understanding of Covid-19.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"No reliable home test has yet been found, and we do not know whether antibodies indicate immunity from reinfection or transmission.\n\n\"This research is part of our ongoing surveillance work to increase our understanding of how to tackle this virus.\"\n\nHealthcare workers have already been taking part in a study involving antibody testing\n\nCommercial tests, which ask the user to send a blood sample off to a lab, have been suspended in the UK and people have been warned not to buy unapproved tests.\n\nIn March, the government bought 3.5 million antibody home tests but scientists at Oxford University found they were unreliable.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has since launched a separate study of 10,000 healthcare workers which involves antibody blood tests to learn more about immunity to the virus.\n\nThe Rapid Test Consortium, involving Oxford University and four UK manufacturers - BBI Solutions, Abingdon Health, CIGA Healthcare and Omega Diagnostics - has claimed its device, which uses a finger prick of blood to produce results in 10 minutes, is highly accurate.\n\nSir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, who has been overseeing the government's antibody testing validation and strategy, said: \"We've really set the gold standard in what you need to expect from these tests and I suspect a lot of people will be really interested in what we have produced in the last couple of months.\"\n\nPHE has been planning to recruit 2,500 volunteers to see how effective and easy tests would be to use, with initial results expected in late summer.\n\nSir John Bell has been overseeing the government's antibody testing validation and strategy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken says \"division is the last thing we need\" Image caption: Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken says \"division is the last thing we need\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council was asked about a suggestion that Glasgow was a \"powder keg\" - and that the incident could lead to further disorder in the city.\n\nEarlier this month there were violent scenes in the city when far right supporters turned up at a rally in support of refugees.\n\nSusan Aitken told Reporting Scotland: \"I would absolutely urge anyone not to politicise this, not to use this to divide the city.\"\n\nMs Aitken said Glasgow had faced tragedy in the past - and would come through it by supporting each other and not allowing communities to be divided.\n\n\"There has been a lot of speculation this afternoon which hasn't been helpful which doesn't help. It's not fair to the victims, it's not fair to the victims' families and it doesn't help the city,\" she said.\n\n\"Glasgow needs to pull together, we need to have each others' backs and support our communities through this. Division is the last thing we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title is over after Manchester City lost 2-1 at Chelsea to confirm the Reds as Premier League champions.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side needed one victory to seal the league but City's failure to win means they cannot be caught.\n\nIt is Liverpool's 19th top-flight title and their first since 1989-90.\n\nDespite being urged to \"stay home\" by the city's metro mayor because of coronavirus, thousands of fans gathered at Anfield to celebrate.\n\nMany of the supporters who congregated at the club's ground wore face masks and some lit flares.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nA number of Reds players, including goalkeeper Alisson, defender Virgil van Dijk and midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, celebrated together after watching the Chelsea-City game.\n\nKlopp, wearing a Liverpool shirt and clearly emotional, told Sky Sports: \"I have no words, it's unbelievable.\n\n\"It's much more than I ever thought would be possible. Becoming champion with this club is absolutely incredible.\n\n\"I haven't waited 30 years - I have been here for four and a half years - but it is quite an achievement, especially with the three-month break because nobody knew if we could go on.\n\n\"I know it is difficult for people in this moment but we could not hold back. We will enjoy this with our supporters when we can.\"\n\nAs the global pandemic disrupted life in England and led to the suspension of the Premier League for three months, Liverpool supporters endured a nervous wait to see how the season would end, with some early suggestions it might have been declared null and void, thus wiping their remarkable efforts from the record books.\n\nThe Premier League's return this month enabled them to cap their stunning success.\n\nHowever, because of the measures put in place in response to the virus, Liverpool will not be able to celebrate their long-awaited success with their supporters immediately, at least not in the traditional sense.\n\nAs with Wednesday's impressive 4-0 win over Crystal Palace, when they next play at Anfield - against Aston Villa on Sunday 5 July, and for their two other remaining home games - it will be behind closed doors.\n\nIt also seems unlikely they will be able to take part in any of the usual public events in Liverpool, such as an open-top bus parade around the city.\n\nBy a quirk of fate, though, the next time they take to the field will be at the side they have beaten to this season's title and who pipped them so narrowly last campaign, Manchester City.\n\nFollowing their defeat at Chelsea, City boss Pep Guardiola congratulated Liverpool on their title success.\n\nWinning the title was always the main aim for a club which endured such a long wait to be crowned champions of England again, having earned that honour 11 times between 1973 and 1990.\n\nThings could get better yet, with City's 100-point total for a season one of numerous records Liverpool can still break.\n\nKlopp's side have produced one of the most memorable campaigns in Premier League history, amassing 86 points with 28 victories, two draws and a single defeat from 31 games.\n\nSuch has been their dominance, at one stage they led the table by 25 points - a record gap between a side in first and second in the English top flight.\n\nAlso still a possibility are the most wins in a season (the record is 32), most home wins (18), most away wins (16) and biggest winning margin (19 points).\n\nTheir title win this season is the earliest on record, at least with regard to games remaining, with the Reds having seven to play.\n\nThat it is not the earliest title win by date is only because of the halting of football in England between March and May as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLiverpool's triumph represents a huge moment for their fans, who grew accustomed to success in the 1970s and 1980s, including a run between the 1972-73 and 1990-91 seasons in which they failed to finish first or second in the league only once.\n\nThey have not been without silverware in the past 30 years, winning three FA Cups, four League Cups, a Uefa Cup, the Champions League twice - the latest coming last season under Klopp - as well as three Super Cups and one Club World Cup.\n\nHowever, since Kenny Dalglish led them to the First Division championship, they have had to endure three decades without league success, during which their record tally of titles was surpassed by rivals Manchester United, who have 20 to their name.\n\nIt was during this period that United boss Sir Alex Ferguson famously revelled in having \"knocked Liverpool off their perch\".\n\nLiverpool have come close during that time to restoring themselves to the top of the English game, finishing second in the Premier League four times.\n\nGerard Houllier (2001-02) and Rafael Benitez (2008-09) both took them close.\n\nFamously, in the 2013-14 season, Brendan Rodgers' side looked as though they were going to take the crown but a late-season slump - synonymous with a Steven Gerrard slip that enabled Chelsea to score and win at Anfield - saw them fall agonisingly short.\n\nLast season, they racked up a stunning 97 points, losing only one game all campaign, but had the misfortune of coming up against an even better Manchester City side, who beat them to the title by a point. No side had ever earned so many points without winning the league.\n\nThe appointment of Klopp has been pivotal to Liverpool's rise in recent seasons to this moment of success.\n\nThe German arrived at Anfield in October 2015 following the sacking of Rodgers and with the club 10th in the Premier League.\n\nKlopp arrived with a record of success, having led Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles and the 2013 Champions League final, and with a reputation for fast-paced, high-pressing attacking play, which he described as \"heavy metal football\".\n\nHis four full seasons to date have yielded finishing positions of fourth, fourth, second and now first.\n\nIntelligent dealing in the transfer market has also been key to his success, with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane signed during his reign. Along with Roberto Firmino, who arrived shortly before Klopp, the trio have scored a sensational 211 goals in less than three seasons (92 for Salah, 65 for Mane and 54 for Firmino).\n\nThe additions of world-class goalkeeper Alisson and centre-back Virgil van Dijk were also crucial.\n\nKlopp has also improved players who were at the club before he arrived, including midfielder Jordan Henderson - his captain - and young full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nKlopp is the only Liverpool manager since Dalglish left (including the Scot himself during a second spell from January 2011 to May 2012) with a win percentage over 60.\n\nDalglish delivered Liverpool their 16th, 17th and 18th league titles and now, after 30 years, they have found a fitting successor to provide them with their 19th.\n\n\"The last two years and since Jurgen's come in has been very positive,\" Dalglish told BT Sport. \"He's been fantastic and epitomises everything Liverpool football club stands for. Whatever they got, they have deserved it.\n\n\"Onwards and upwards. We have a lot more happy days to look forward to as long as Jurgen is here.\"\n• None He's joined by his former boss Sean Dyche\n• None The top 10 Premier League matches of all time: Gary, Alan and Ian discuss the best matches ever", "Coronavirus patients in hospital in England are dying at a slower rate now than they were at the peak of the epidemic, analysis suggests.\n\nUniversity of Oxford researchers found the proportion of coronavirus patients dying each day in England fell from 6% to 1.5% between April and June.\n\nImprovements in treatments, changes in the patient population and seasonal effects could all play a role.\n\nThe data emerged as the government prepares to ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nAround the height of the outbreak, on 8 April, there were 15,468 people in hospital in England with coronavirus of whom 899 died (6%).\n\nBy 21 June there were 2,698 hospitalised coronavirus patients, 30 of whom died (1%), according to the most recent data compiled University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.\n\nHospital case fatality is a measure used since the beginning of the outbreak, providing consistent figures and enabling researchers to look for trends.\n\nWhile both the number of people in hospital and the number of hospitalised people dying are falling, deaths are falling at a faster rate.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 is halving every 29 days, while deaths are halving every 16 days.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, who carried out the analysis, said the pattern of falling death rates in hospitals was also being seen in other countries, including Italy,\n\n\"We should be investigating what's changed,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a radically different disease we're looking at if the death rate is 1% rather than 6%\".\n\nHe said that translated to a difference of 500 deaths a day in April when the disease was at its height.\n\n\"This is an encouraging trend but one that needs more work to understand the cause,\" his co-author Jason Oke said.\n\nAlthough the researchers were unable to determine exactly what was behind the trend, they put forward a number of reasons.\n\nOne is that, as more is understood about the disease, healthcare staff have been better able to treat it using existing drugs, even without any major breakthrough in new treatments.\n\nFor example, doctors are now primed to expect patients with blood clotting and overactive immune responses, whereas in the early days they were looking to treat the symptoms of what was seen as primarily a respiratory disease.\n\nAnd in critical care patients, the common steroid dexamethasone is now being used to dampen down the out-of-control immune reactions that can cause organ damage.\n\nThis is likely to be a key factor, but is unlikely to completely explain the falling death rate, according to Prof Heneghan.\n\nIt may also be down to changes in the types of patients admitted to hospital.\n\nAs strain on the NHS has eased, the researchers say it is possible that there is room to admit patients who would not have met the stricter threshold for hospital care at the height of the epidemic. And these patients may be slightly less vulnerable and therefore less likely to die.\n\nMore sombrely, it's also possible that the virus, having torn through the most vulnerable populations, has left behind people who were at lower risk to start with.\n\nA further possibility is that there could be a group of patients in hospital for long periods, not being discharged but also not succumbing to the virus.\n\nSummer might also be playing a protective role: there are fewer other illnesses in circulation to compromise people's immune systems, and more sunlight means more Vitamin D.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo Met Police officers have been suspended after \"inappropriate photos\" were taken at the crime scene of a double murder.\n\nThe unnamed officers were arrested by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on 22 June and have since been bailed.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found earlier this month at Fryent Gardens in Wembley.\n\nCommander Paul Brogden said he was \"horrified\" by the allegations.\n\nHe added senior officers from the Met and the IOPC visited the sisters' family to inform them of the serious allegations.\n\n\"This deeply disturbing information will no doubt have created additional trauma for a family who are already grieving the devastating loss of two loved ones,\" Commander Brogden said.\n\n\"I am horrified and disgusted by the nature of these allegations; a sentiment which will be shared by colleagues throughout the organisation.\n\n\"If true, these actions are morally reprehensible and anyone involved will be robustly dealt with.\"\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nA 36-year-old man arrested in south London on suspicion of murder was released with no further action.\n\nDetectives believe the sisters were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nIn a statement the Met said two officers from the North East Command unit had both been suspended from duty.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nThe force said its directorate of professional standards was told last week about allegations that \"non-official and inappropriate photographs\" had been taken at the crime scene.\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nSince their bodies were found forensic officers have been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\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.", "David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong died in the attack\n\nThree men killed in a knife attack in a park in Reading each died of a single stab wound, post-mortem tests have revealed.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were fatally wounded in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter terrorism police said three other people who were also stabbed have since been released from hospital.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nA statement released through Thames Valley Police said: \"Following the terrorist attack in Reading on Saturday 20 June, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) is now in a position to confirm the post-mortem examination results of the three men who were killed.\n\n\"David Wails, aged 49, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, aged 39, and James Furlong, aged 36, each died of a single stab wound.\"\n\nA virtual vigil is to be held for the men on Saturday, exactly a week on from the attacks.\n\nReading Council is inviting people to light a candle on their doorstep or in their window at 19:00 BST.\n\nThe vigil will be broadcast live on the council's Facebook page when the mayor will say a few words before the lighting of a remembrance candle.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said: \"There is an overwhelming sense of grief within the Reading community about last Saturday's tragic events.\n\n\"The council and public are united in their desire to mourn the victims and appropriately remember them.\"\n\nThe authority has also set up a website offering support in the aftermath of the attacks and an online book of condolence.\n\nA fund has also been established to support the families of those who died and people affected by the tragedy.\n\nA permanent memorial to the victims is also planned.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses recalled seeing a lone attacker armed with a knife who shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree others who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool fans let off flares outside the Liver Building\n\nFootball fans who gathered in Liverpool for a second night after their team netted the Premier League title have been asked to leave by police.\n\nA dispersal order was issued around the city centre after groups came out again on Friday to celebrate Liverpool's first title win in 30 years.\n\nPolice and politicians urged Liverpool fans to stay at home due to Covid-19, which was \"still a real risk\".\n\nMerseyside Police said the order will be in place until Sunday.\n\nThe force said a Section 34 Dispersal Order was issued \"following large gatherings in the area this evening\".\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither.\n\n\"Tonight we have seen masses of people flock to the Pier Head area heightening the risk of spreading Covid-19,\" it said.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures\n\nPeople took to social media to comment on how people were behaving, about flares being launched at the Liver Building and fireworks being set off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures to \"protect yourselves and each other\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson tweeted a photo of crowds gathered at the Mersey Ferry terminal\n\nAs celebrations got under way again, 24 hours after the club's title triumph was confirmed, the mayor tweeted a photo of a large crowd gathered next to the city's Mersey Ferry terminal.\n\nHe wrote: \"Clearly too many people intoxicated and causing anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"I urge you leave the city centre now it is not safe.\"\n\nHe went on to say \"councils simply do not have the power\" to move people on or prevent them from gathering.\n\n\"If you know someone who is there, please message them and ask them to come home,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're not saying this to be party poopers but hundreds of people have already died in our region because of coronavirus,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Until it's safe for us to come together, please celebrate at home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Anderson, who warned that such scenes would happen, said it was \"disappointing\" so many had ignored advice.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said fans should only celebrate with \"members of your household and in your social bubble\".\n\n\"As we all know, Merseyside has been disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and we must all do what we can to prevent further cases and deaths,\" he said.\n\nOfficial figures show Liverpool registered 544 coronavirus-related deaths up to 12 June and 1,677 cases up to 25 June.\n\nAnnouncing that the city's civic buildings would be lit red for a week to celebrate the club's achievement, a council spokesman urged \"ecstatic fans to try and maintain social distancing guidance to prevent the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Tony Reeves added that it was \"vital we don't throw away the months of hard work for a weekend of celebration\".\n\nIn April, Mr Anderson said he feared restarting the Premier League would lead to a \"farcical\" situation with fans congregating outside Anfield.\n\nThe club said at the time that they were \"disappointed\" by the mayor's comments, while supporters group Spirit of Shankly called on him to retract his statement, adding that there was \"no evidence to support the mayor's perception that supporters will break any lockdown regulations\".\n\nBoth Liverpool FC and Spirit of Shankly have been approached for comment.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground\n\nSpeaking to BBC, Mr Anderson said he had \"warned that I was concerned about the numbers that would turn up, not just outside Anfield but in other parts of the city centre\".\n\n\"In the euphoria... people have decided to ignore advice, but it's gone, it's happened.\n\n\"We'll have to see whether there's a spike in coronavirus as a result of this.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"disappointing, in the same way it was to see the scenes on Bournemouth beach\".\n\n\"But if Chelsea or Manchester City had won the league, we would have seen the same scenes outside Stamford Bridge or the Etihad.\n\nThe city's council has already begun investigating the impact of the club's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on 11 March, which saw more than 3,000 away fans travel to the game, even though Spain was in partial lockdown at the time.\n\nIn May, the scientist leading the UK's coronavirus tracking project, Professor Tim Spector, said allowing the game to happen had \"caused increased suffering and death\", while the family of Reds fan Richard Mawson, who died with Covid-19 after attending the game, have called for an inquiry.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe mother of two sisters murdered in a park said her grief had \"been taken to another place\" after two officers were suspended amid allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death at a park in Wembley earlier this month.\n\nMina Smallman has complained about the Met's initial response - saying she had to organise a search for her daughters.\n\nNo-one has been charged with the murders.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Smallman, the former Archdeacon of Southend, said the pictures \"dehumanised\" her children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They were nothing to them and what's worse, they sent them on to members of the public,\" she said.\n\nSenior officers from the Met and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) personally visited the family to explain what had happened after they were made aware of the alleged photographs.\n\nMrs Smallman said she was told the photos showed the girls' faces and she fears the images will appear on the internet.\n\n\"This has taken our grief to another place,\" she said.\n\n\"If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become, those police officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on.\n\n\"It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nNicole Smallman's body was found by her boyfriend after she was reported missing\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nYesterday evening, the Met said two officers had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and suspended from duty.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"disgusted\" with the allegations against the officers.\n\nMrs Smallman said she had coordinated a search operation on weekend her daughters died and it was Nicole's boyfriend, Adam, who found the sisters' bodies and the murder weapon.\n\nShe says the police were \"making assumptions\" when they didn't immediately respond when the sisters were first reported missing.\n\n\"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and thought they knew who she was.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nDetectives believe they were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nForensic officers have since been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\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 Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare, which has provided health insurance to millions of Americans.\n\nGovernment lawyers said the act became invalid when the previous Republican-led Congress axed parts of it.\n\nDemocratic challenger Joe Biden attacked the move, saying Mr Trump had put millions of lives at risk during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHealth care will be a key battleground in the November presidential election.\n\nSome 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage if the court overturns the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was introduced by Donald Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.\n\nThe act's popular provisions include banning insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26. Millions of low-income Americans were able to obtain insurance due to the act.\n\nMr Trump says the scheme costs too much and has promised a different plan to replace it, preserving some popular elements of the existing law but covering fewer people.\n\nUnder the act, millions of people in the United States must purchase health insurance or face a tax penalty.\n\nBut in 2017, Congress removed a key plank of the policy, eliminating the federal fine for those who did not sign up, known as the \"individual mandate\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is \"Obamacare\", and why are Republicans against it?\n\nIn its filing to the Supreme Court late on Thursday, the justice department argued \"the individual mandate is not severable from the rest of the act\".\n\nAs a result, it said, \"the mandate is now unconstitutional as a result of Congress's elimination... of the penalty for non-compliance\".\n\nMr Trump cannot rely on Congress to complete the dismantling of Obamacare because the Democrats took control of the lower house in 2019.\n\nMr Biden, who wants to rally the public behind an expanded Affordable Care Act, said some coronavirus survivors could lose their comprehensive healthcare coverage if the act was overturned.\n\n\"They would live their lives caught in a vice between Donald Trump's twin legacies: his failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus, and his heartless crusade to take healthcare protections away from American families,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Obamacare was \"an unlawful failure\".\n\n\"It limits choice, forces Americans to purchase unaffordable plans, and restricts patients with high-risk preexisting conditions from accessing the doctors and hospitals they need.\"\n\nThe US has been badly hit by the pandemic, recording 2.4m confirmed coronavirus infections and 122,370 deaths - more than any other country.\n\nBut the true number of infections is likely to be 10 times higher than the reported figure, according to the latest estimate by health officials.\n\nThe Supreme Court is unlikely to hear the case before voters go to the polls in November, US media report.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown: Litter and brawling on hottest day of the year\n\nRevellers who dumped beer and cider cans in Cardiff have been criticised for leaving the area in a mess.\n\nPhotographs of workers clearing Roald Dahl Plass, known as The Basin, in Cardiff Bay were posted on Twitter.\n\nVisit Cardiff Bay tweeted \"littering is not acceptable\" while others blasted people for leaving it behind.\n\nA city council spokesman said he appreciated people wanted to spend more time outside as lockdown eased, but urged them to take rubbish home.\n\nThere have also been concern from locals after mass gatherings and littering at places including Ogmore-by-Sea and on Swansea's beaches.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mrtimncorrigan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Cardiff Bay rubbish, a council spokesman said: \"What isn't acceptable is for residents to leave their litter in parks and open spaces, ruining them for everyone else, and expecting someone else to clear up the mess they've left behind.\n\n\"The pandemic is not over and the council is using the resources available to us to ensure we can deliver the best possible services for the residents of Cardiff.\n\n\"People need to take responsibility for their own waste. If the litter bin is full, please take your litter home with you to dispose of correctly.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, the council also called littering \"a zero tolerance offence\" that can bring a £100 fine.\n\nIt said its enforcement team was aware of the situation and larger bins are due to be placed at Cardiff Bay next week to encourage people to dispose of rubbish properly.\n\nBottles and takeaway wrappers were left after people enjoyed the sunshine\n\nIn Wales, it is illegal to gather in large groups and people are advised not to travel outside of their local area because of the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing measures also remain in place.\n\nBut people gathered at a number of locations on Thursday, including Ogmore-by-Sea, Vale of Glamorgan, where there were reports of a large brawl and people had to clean up the rubbish left behind.\n\nCardiff council asked local people not to put more pressure on already-stretched workers\n\nPeople who live near the beaches of Rotherslade, Langland and Caswell in Swansea said they had been forced to pick up \"huge amounts\" of litter every morning following almost-nightly parties over the last week.\n\nEve Haynes, who lives at Rotherslade Beach, near Mumbles, said fireworks were lit from the road and aimed at the beach on Thursday night.\n\n\"They came straight past us and they erupted over people and around people that were on the beach. There were children, there were young people and there were families, and it was just really quite scary,\" she said.\n\nNatasha Jenkins has helped pick up litter on Langland Bay every morning this week and said: \"24 hours after we had cleaned the beach, it looked even worse the next morning\".\n\nResidents have become increasingly concerned about gatherings at Langland Bay\n\nChris Knight, who lives in the area, said the situation with raves at Langland Bay were getting so bad, he was concerned violence could erupt.\n\n\"The police need to do more. It's so disappointing. There's a lack of education but also a lack of consequence. If they get away with it they'll keep doing it,\" he said.\n\nPolice in Swansea have already issued three dispersal orders in two weeks to tackle anti-social behaviour.\n\nSouth Wales Police said: \"Extra patrols will be taking place in the Langland Bay area and we would like to remind people that Covid-19 legislation remains in place and anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.\"", "Tesco says that customers have been buying more food during fewer shopping trips amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket said that while the number of trips made by shoppers fell by nearly a third in the 13 weeks to 30 May, the amount being bought rose 64%.\n\nIn a trading update, Tesco said group sales had risen 8% to £13.4bn in the period, but warned coronavirus-related costs were set to hit £840m this year.\n\nTesco's boss said it had been \"a very challenging period for everyone\".\n\nLike many of its rivals, Tesco was forced to overhaul its strategy in-store and online amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nTesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: \"In just five weeks, we doubled our online capacity to help support our most vulnerable customers and transformed our stores with extensive social distancing measures so that everyone who was able to shop in store could do so safely.\"\n\nThe supermarket says that it saw a substantial increase in costs as a result. They stemmed from offering 12 weeks' paid leave to 26,000 vulnerable workers and recruiting 47,000 temporary staff to cover sickness and meet demand.\n\nAcross its UK & Ireland business, sales rose by 9.2% in the three months to 30 May. Online sales mainly drove the increase, jumping by 48.5% in the quarter.\n\nAs more customers turned to online shopping, the firm ramped up online delivery slots and is now fulfilling more than 1.3 million online order per week.\n\nIn UK stores, food sales also increased by about 12% as customers \"focused more on the purchase of their essential items\".\n\nMr Lewis said that coronavirus-related costs had been \"only partly off-set\" by the sales boost and business rates relief.\n\nTesco said it had benefitted from rates relief worth about £532m under the measures offered to shops in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that customers stocking up during fewer trips \"wasn't a surprise\".\n\n\"Entering busy shops is something we're less inclined to do than a few short months ago. This change in habits has tangible benefits for Tesco, because its bigger stores and range of products are likely behind the higher number of customers switching to Tesco from discounters like Aldi.\"\n\nIn response to increasing pressure from budget retailers, Tesco introduced an \"Aldi price match\" promise in March. On Friday it said it would extend the offer to nearly 500 Tesco products.\n\nTesco warned that its bank was expected to make a loss this year, as a result of the expected downturn in the economy following the coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nIt said it had increased its provision for potential bad debts, and now expected Tesco Bank to report of loss of between £175m and £200m in the current financial year.\n\nNeil Shah, director of research at Edison Group said that Tesco had \"clearly benefited from their revised strategy, helping them restore confidence in the group\".\n\nBut he urged some caution: \"Investors should keep a close eye on the company, since the group operates in a crowded market with retailers Aldi and Lidl continuing to gain market share and current results might not be replicated when the UK is lifted from lockdown.\"\n\nThe trading update came ahead of the company's annual general meeting, where it is expected to face a shareholder revolt over its pay rules and plan to hand the outgoing boss a £6.4m pay deal.\n\nIts executives saw pay boosted last year after online supermarket Ocado was removed from a calculator used to set bonuses.\n\nDave Lewis would have missed out on free shares worth about £1.6m if Ocado had stayed on a list used to compare rivals' success. Ocado's sharp share price rise meant Tesco would have underperformed in a benchmark comparing performance.\n\nTesco said at the time that Ocado was no longer relevant as it was now a technology business.", "HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) and sister ship HMS Prince of Wales each cost more than £3bn\n\nAmbitious plans for the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers - each of which cost more than £3bn - will not be met without proper funding, the government spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Audit Office highlighted concerns over missing key elements such as aircraft and support ships.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it expects to meet its target of declaring an \"initial operating capability\" for the carriers by December 2020.\n\nBut the NAO called the target \"tight\".\n\nThe MoD is yet to commit the funding required for enough Lightning II fighter jets to sustain the carriers over their expected 50-year operating life, the NAO said in its report.\n\nIt also said the Navy had just one supply ship able to keep the carriers stocked with food and ammunition while on operations.\n\nAnd it further warned the carriers' new Crowsnest airborne radar system - which forms a crucial part of its defences - was running 18 months late, further diminishing its capabilities during its first two years.\n\nAircraft carriers are often seen as a symbol and tool of global reach and military power.\n\nBut few countries can afford to build and operate them.\n\nIt's not just the Royal Navy that's staked its future on the two enormous Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers - it's the whole of UK defence.\n\nThe carriers need a small armada of ships for protection, refuelling and supplies. They need aircraft for logistics, airborne early warning and to carry out strikes.\n\nNone of this is cheap, but no one at the MoD appears to be entirely sure of the costs overall.\n\nRemember the carriers have been built to last 50 years.\n\nWhat is clear is that all the elements of Carrier Strike will take a significant bite out of the defence budget at a time when it's already under strain.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee which follows the work of the NAO, said the Navy was in danger of being left with a \"hollowed-out\" capability unless the issues were addressed.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence has lofty ambitions for the carriers but hasn't put its money where its mouth is,\" Ms Hillier added.\n\n\"Worryingly, it still doesn't know the full cost of supporting and operating Carrier Strike.\"\n\nA MoD spokesman said: \"Carrier Strike is a complex challenge, which relies on a mix of capabilities and platforms.\n\n\"We remain committed to investing in this capability, which demonstrates the UK's global role.\n\n\"Despite the disruptions of Covid-19, the Carrier Strike group is on track for its first operational deployment.\"", "If you try to call the Trencreek Holiday Park in Newquay, Cornwall this week, you're likely to find the line engaged.\n\nThe holiday park is one of many UK accommodation providers that have seen a surge in bookings over the past 48 hours, since Boris Johnson gave the go ahead for summer holidays from 4 July onwards.\n\n\"Literally, as soon as he announced yes to campsites, the phone has not stopped ringing,\" says Julliette Hautot, who runs the business with her husband.\n\nHotels, bed and breakfasts (B&B), camping grounds and rental owners say they've been inundated with enquiries from holidaymakers hoping to lock in a \"staycation\" for July or August.\n\n\"The calls have been bonkers [and] then there's the emails and Facebook Messenger pinging,\" says Ms Hautot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flying is a very different experience in the age of coronavirus\n\nIt's been a similar story for Somerset B&B owner Melanie Cable-Alexander.\n\n\"We had a phone call within a minute of the Prime Minister's speech\", she says.\n\n\"We've had people writing to us, asking what the plan is, but we don't know what the guidelines are and that's all very confusing.\"\n\nMs Cable-Alexander plans to limit the number of guests in her B&B Ellesmere House in Castle Cary and leave breakfasts outside room doors, instead of inviting guests to share the meal at a communal table.\n\nShared breakfasts are off the menu at Ellesmere House in Castle Cary, Somerset\n\nThe government has said B&Bs and campsites can open up from 4 July, as long as shared facilities are kept clean.\n\nThat news led to campsite booking website coolcamping.com recording one of its largest ever surges in traffic, plus a 750% increase in bookings compared to this time last year.\n\n\"On Tuesday afternoon and evening we had a booking every 30 seconds,\" says the company's founder Jonathan Knight.\n\n\"It's a huge relief for campsite operators across the country, who were concerned there might not be any season at all.\"\n\nTo maximise space between holidaymakers, one of their campsites, Wardley Hill in Norfolk, has reduced the number of pitches on offer this year.\n\nCenter Parcs has announced its opening its five villages in England on 13 July, but swimming pools and water parks at the camps will remain closed until at least 27 July.\n\nThe company also plans to reduce the number of guests at any one time, to help maintain social distancing.\n\nAfter months with hardly any interest, hotel bookings have also shot up this week, with hotel chain Best Western reporting that bookings are up 700% since Monday 22 June.\n\n\"It's crazy and exciting,\" spokesperson Andrew Denton tells the BBC.\n\n\"On the website itself, traffic is back up above 2019 levels - the world hadn't even heard of the coronavirus then, so it must be pent-up demand.\n\n\"There's a buzz in the office, it's just a fantastic feeling after so many dark days.\"\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality, which represents hotels and other accommodation providers, says its members are reporting a very welcome increase in bookings since the government announced it was easing lockdown restrictions on holiday accommodations.\n\n\"This is a good first step in getting the sector back up and running and a welcome indication that consumer confidence is high,\" said chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\nHowever, the surge in bookings has sparked a wave of scams, according to UK Finance, trade group for the banking industry.\n\nThe banking industry is warning holidaymakers to beware of fake caravan and villa holiday websites\n\nIn a report published 19 June, the body highlighted in particular fake caravan and motorhome listings online, as well as criminals impersonating airlines and travel agencies.\n\nUK Finance says customers should ask to see caravans and motorhomes over a live video call before booking, since they can't view them in person.\n\nThe group says customers searching for a UK holiday should pause and think before parting with their money online.\n\n\"Always be wary of any requests to pay by bank transfer when buying goods or services online and instead use the secure payment options recommended by reputable websites,\" advises UK Finance's Katy Worobec.\n\nUK Finance has also seen fake websites of villas and apartments offering unusually cheap deals.\n\n\"If something is advertised at a rock-bottom price, ask yourself why,\" said Ms Worobec.\n\nBest Western's Mr Denton said he could sense the excitement in a WhatsApp group for the firm's 300 UK hotel owners.\n\n\"It just went crazy. People are saying 'summer's back on',\" he says.\n\nScotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cornwall and Norfolk are the most searched for destinations, according to the company, while searches for city breaks and shopping trips in London and Manchester are down.\n\nLuxury hotel and spa provider Harbour Hotels has seen a similar trend. The group, which owns 15 hotels in England, says web traffic over the past few days is up 210% and bookings over the last few days have been particularly strong at coastal locations.\n\nAirbnb hosts also report city dwellers are looking for an escape to the outdoors after lockdown.\n\nCaroline Howell's cottage in the Cotswolds has been booked by Londoners \"dying to get out\"\n\nCaroline Howell, who rents out a cottage in Chedworth in the Cotswolds, has had six enquiries in the past 48 hours, mostly from \"people fatigued with city life and dying to get out\".\n\n\"Bookings for the summer were basically non-existent during lockdown, with everybody unsure as to how the situation would unfold,\" she says.\n\n\"A lot of my existing bookings were from Americans on a road trip of a lifetime. They have all cancelled. New bookings this week are not from abroad, but quick domestic getaways.\"\n\nAirbnb owner Hannah Grace Lodge says customers are swapping their holiday abroad for a week on the coast in the UK\n\nIt's been a similar experience for Hannah Grace Lodge, who runs an Airbnb property in Margate.\n\nShe had lots of cancellations for her property, not just for dates during lockdown, but also further into the summer, due to the ongoing uncertainty about coronavirus lockdown measures, but now the property is fully booked for the rest of the summer.\n\nHannah says her customers are booking much longer stays, whereas last year the demand was for short breaks: \"Our guests have messaged about how they are swapping their holiday abroad for a week or two on the coast in the UK.\"", "Close to 20,000 new cases are being recorded daily in the WHO's European region\n\nEurope has seen an increase in weekly cases of Covid-19 for the first time in months as restrictions are eased, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nIn 11 places, which include Armenia, Sweden, Moldova and North Macedonia, accelerated transmission has led to \"very significant resurgence\", said Regional Director Dr Hans Henri Kluge.\n\nHis warnings about the risk of resurgence had become reality, he said.\n\nIf left unchecked, he warned health systems would be \"pushed to the brink\".\n\nMore than 2.6 million cases of Covid-19 and 195,000 deaths have been reported in the WHO's European region, which is expansive, covering 54 countries and seven territories across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.\n\nAlmost 20,000 new cases and more than 700 new deaths are being recorded daily.\n\n\"For weeks, I have spoken about the risk of resurgence as countries adjust measures,\" Dr Kluge told a virtual news conference on Thursday.\n\n\"In several countries across Europe, this risk has now become a reality - 30 countries have seen increases in new cumulative cases over the past two weeks.\n\n\"In 11 of these countries, accelerated transmission has led to very significant resurgence that if left unchecked will push health systems to the brink once again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries across Europe have started reopening their borders\n\nThe 11 countries and territories were later identified by the WHO as Armenia, Sweden, Moldova, North Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Kosovo.\n\nDr Kluge said countries such as Poland, Germany, Spain and Israel had responded quickly to dangerous outbreaks associated with schools, coal mines, and food production settings, and brought them under control through rapid interventions.\n\nDespite warning about resurgences, he said the WHO anticipated that the situation would calm down further in the majority of countries over the summer.\n\n\"But we have indeed to prepare for the fall, when Covid-19 may meet seasonal influenza, pneumonia, other diseases as well, because ultimately the virus is still actively circulating in our communities and there is no effective treatment, no effective vaccine, yet.\"\n\nIn a separate development on Thursday, Germany and France pledged their support to the WHO after holding talks with its director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Geneva.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn said his country planned to give more than €500m ($560; £451m) in money and equipment to the agency this year.\n\nThe German and French health ministers expressed their support for the WHO in Geneva\n\nHe stressed that global pandemics needed a global co-ordinated response, adding: \"Isolated national answers to international problems are doomed to fail.\"\n\nFrance's health minister, Olivier Veran, promised €50m in direct funding for the WHO and another €90m for its research centre in Lyon.\n\n\"I truly believe the world needs, more than ever, a multilateral organisation. I believe the world cannot get rid of partners,\" he said.\n\nEuropean leaders have been keen to show public support to the WHO after the US called the agency a \"puppet of China\" and said it would cut funding and leave.", "PC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nConstable David Whyte has been named as the police officer seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a Glasgow hotel.\n\nThe 42-year-old is being treated in hospital and his condition has been described as \"critical but stable\".\n\nHe was one of six people injured in the attack at the hotel, which was housing asylum seekers. The suspect was shot dead by police.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he offered his \"personal support to all those affected\" by the incident.\n\nIn a statement published on Police Scotland's Twitter account, Mr Livingstone also paid tribute to the officers who dealt with the \"terrible incident\" that \"shocked the whole country\".\n\n\"Officers have once again run into danger to protect their fellow citizens,\" he said.\n\n\"Their professionalism as police officers was outstanding. I pay tribute to their bravery, selflessness and commitment to protect the public.\"\n\nWith coronavirus lockdown restrictions still in place, he went on to urge people not to gather in crowds in the city this weekend.\n\n\"In the context of the current health emergency, and to respect those injured today and the people of Glasgow, I ask everyone to exercise personal responsibility,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis plea was supported by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who earlier said it had been \"the toughest of days for Glasgow\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone involved,\" she said. \"The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that one of the injured being treated in Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 17-year-old from Sierra Leone.\n\nThe young man is said to have sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. He is said to be fit enough to communicate and is continuing to receive treatment.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Park Inn hotel in West George Street had been used as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA police spokesman said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nA formal investigation has started into the police response to the stabbing attack. The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) will be involved in examining the action of officers.\n\nThis is normal procedure for a death involving the police.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said West George Street would remain closed around the hotel as investigations continued.\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton has spoken of his concerns for the injured officer.\n\n\"We are hoping he pulls through from this,\" he said. \"We are making sure we are giving his family the appropriate support.\"\n\nMr Hamilton said that officers were met with \"a pretty difficult scene\" at the Park Inn hotel.\n\n\"This will be a closed-down scene for some time yet,\" he added.\n\n\"We will try to get things moving as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of inquiries and investigations to be done.\"\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Justin Bieber has denied the allegations made against him\n\nJustin Bieber is suing two women for defamation after they accused him of sexual assault.\n\nLast week, two Twitter accounts tweeted claims about incidents alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015.\n\nBieber denied the claims and vowed to speak to Twitter to urge the social media giant to take legal action.\n\nThe singer, 26, filed a $20 million (£16.2m) lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday which describes the allegations as \"fabricated lies\".\n\nAn account from a woman known only as Danielle claimed she was assaulted by Bieber at a hotel in Austin, Texas on 9 March 2014.\n\nShe claims that after a surprise performance in front of a crowd at a bar, Bieber invited her and two friends to a Four Seasons hotel.\n\nDanielle then claims she was taken to a private room in the hotel and assaulted.\n\nHer tweets have been deleted however screenshots have been shared on social media.\n\nResponding to the claims, Bieber shared screenshots from articles from the day the alleged assault took place, which show him with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez.\n\nHe says they did not stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Bieber shared a screenshot of a tweet which claimed he was spotted at restaurant inside a Four Seasons Hotel on 10 March, the day after the alleged assault.\n\n\"Even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel,\" the lawsuit said.\n\nAnother woman who identified herself as Kadi alleged on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel in May 2015.\n\nThe lawsuit says her accusation is false and that she had fabricated her allegation \"out of her desire for fame and attention\".\n\nIt claimed that the women were \"trying to capitalize on the climate of fear permeating the entertainment industry, Hollywood and corporate America, whereby it is open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, unsupported, and provably false) about anyone without consequence\".", "Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill\n\nPolice officers have been attacked while attempting to disperse crowds at an illegal party for a second night.\n\nThe Met Police said objects were thrown at officers at an \"unlicensed music event\" in Notting Hill, west London, in the early hours of Friday.\n\nA witness said there were \"about 150-200 people\" present with violence breaking out from about midnight.\n\nCommissioner Cressida Dick revealed that \"140-odd\" officers had been hurt at protests in the last three weeks.\n\nIt comes after \"horrendous\" scenes of violence at a street party on Wednesday.\n\nMalcolm, who has lived in the Notting Hill area for 10 years, told the BBC scores of people had gathered at the corner of Portobello Road and Blenheim Crescent from about 21:00 BST.\n\n\"After midnight it seemed to switch into more violent behaviour,\" he said.\n\nHe added it had been \"pretty terrible round here\" for the last few nights with \"anti-social behaviour, alcohol, drugs and a huge amount of violence and disruption\".\n\nThe Met said most people had dispersed from the area by 02:00 and there were no confirmed reports of serious injuries.\n\nDame Cressida said the force had been on the lookout for unlicensed music events across the capital on Thursday evening and had \"closed down several before they even got going\".\n\nShe condemned the \"utterly unacceptable\" behaviour, adding that: \"These events are unlawful. They shouldn't be happening and we have a duty to go and close them down and to disperse them.\"\n\nKensington and Chelsea Police tweeted that objects had been thrown at officers breaking up the crowd at the event near Colville Gardens.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the violence seen in some areas was \"appalling\" and officers \"have my full backing in tackling criminality and enforcing the law\".\n\nPolice were also called to a large \"unlicensed music event\" on Streatham Common\n\nElsewhere there was a large gathering on Streatham Common, with Lambeth Police tweeting that officers had \"engaged with a large number of those in attendance and the crowd has now almost entirely dispersed\".\n\nAnother event was shut down in Mitcham, according to the force.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Scotland Yard said it was undertaking an \"enhanced policing operation\" across the capital to ensure there was an \"effective and prompt response to any reports or disorder\".\n\nCommander Bas Javid said the move was \"in direct response to concerns expressed by our communities, many of whom were scared and shocked by the events taking place outside their homes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage on social media appears to show police officers being chased in Brixton on Wednesday\n\nExtra police officers in protective gear were dispatched following \"appalling scenes\" of violence at a street party in Brixton on Wednesday.\n\nScotland Yard said it was targeting further unlicensed music events and block parties around the city after 22 officers were injured on the Angell Town estate.\n\nFootage on social media showed police vehicles smashed and officers pelted with bottles during clashes with a large crowd, with Downing Street condemning the scenes as \"appalling\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials said they had \"no choice\" but to \"instigate an emergency response\"\n\nSun-seekers have been urged to stay away from a beach as thousands flocked to the Dorset coast and a major incident was declared in Bournemouth.\n\nBournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council said Bournemouth Beach was \"stretched to the absolute hilt\" on the second day of a UK heatwave.\n\nDorset Police said there were reports of gridlocked roads, fights and overnight camping.\n\nPeople were urged to \"act responsibly\" as temperatures hit the mid-20s.\n\nTraffic built up early on coast-bound roads - including Durdle Door - and people travelled to Bournemouth from as far as Birmingham.\n\nBy Thursday evening the Sandbanks peninsula was \"heavily congested\", the council said, repeating its warning for people to \"please stay away\".\n\nThe ferry service in Sandbanks tweeted: \"Again we're struggling to get traffic off the ferry at Poole, for now we hope to carry half loads of vehicles from Studland, but depends on the gridlock in Sandbanks tonight.\"\n\nA local resident took a photo of the lengthy queue for the Mudeford ferry as beach-goers left for the day.\n\nThe queue for Mudeford ferry at 16:30 BST\n\nThe council said declaring a major incident meant a \"multi-agency emergency response has now been activated to co-ordinate resources across the area to tackle the issues\".\n\nEngland's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, tweeted in response to Thursday's beach scenes with a warning Covid-19 \"will rise again\" unless people followed social distancing guidelines.\n\nCouncil leader Vikki Slade said they were \"absolutely appalled at the scenes witnessed on our beaches\".\n\n\"The irresponsible behaviour and actions of so many people is just shocking and our services are stretched to the absolute hilt trying to keep everyone safe. We have had no choice now but to declare a major incident and initiate an emergency response,\" she added.\n\nThe council said it issued a record 558 parking fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's getting a bit hectic down here now' - Bournemouth visitors give their views\n\nIt said 33 tonnes of waste was cleaned up along the coastline on Thursday morning, along with eight tonnes collected between the piers on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood said he had asked the government to dispatch additional officers to Dorset if needed to deal with traffic and antisocial behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad to see a number of people being selfish and also acting dangerously,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellwood said it was \"not practical\" to close Dorset's beaches altogether but suggested signs warning about overcrowding could be put up at railway stations and on approaching motorways.\n\nHe added the government needed to be \"dynamic\" in its response to beach crowding, otherwise the lockdown would have \"been for nothing\".\n\n\"I'm sorry to see the departure of the No 10 briefings because they would have been perfect for today - for a key figure in No 10 to clarify what is actually happening in Bournemouth and to clarify that message nationally - to say 'please for the moment stay away from all our seafronts',\" he said.\n\nExtra police officers have been brought in and security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced \"widespread abuse and intimidation\" as they emptied overflowing bins.\n\nPeople have travelled to Bournemouth from as a far away as Birmingham\n\nThe Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital confirmed they had declared a \"major incident standby\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the hospital trusts said this was due to \"the impact of extremely crowded beaches, traffic gridlock on roads... the number of incidents of public disorder and risks from fire and to public health.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sam de Reya, of Dorset Police, said people should stay away from beaches in these \"unprecedented times\".\n\n\"Clearly we are still in a public health crisis and such a significant volume of people heading to one area places a further strain on emergency services resources,\" she said.\n\nServices have been stretched to \"the absolute hilt\" , the council warned\n\nRubbish was left strewn across Bournemouth Beach after Wednesday's influx of visitors\n\nPhotographs showed beaches and beauty spots heaving with people on Wednesday, which was the UK's hottest day of the year so far.\n\nDavid Morley, who lives in Sandbanks, said: \"What we saw was a complete breakdown of normal decent behaviour and law and order - it's completely swamping the system.\"\n\nThe chain ferry linking Sandbanks and Studland was unable to carry vehicles late into Wednesday evening because of the gridlock on surrounding roads. There were also reports of illegal overnight camping on Bournemouth beach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth on the second day of the UK heatwave\n\nElsewhere along the coast, police at Hove Lawns seafront put a dispersal order in place after a large gathering.\n\nFrom Bournemouth pier there are thousands of people as far as the eye can see. Some in the sea on inflatables, others sitting on the sand, there are significant [numbers of] gazebos - there is one group of about 50 people.\n\nOne man told me he camped in a tent overnight, a lot of people have come from Birmingham - a six-hour round trip. People were telling me they wanted to get \"out and about\" after lockdown.\n\nIt's incredibly hard to keep social distancing - people are passing each other certainly at less than 2m.\n\nOne woman from Birmingham admitted she felt uncomfortable, but said: \"You've got to understand, after three months lockdown in the city centre, even seeing the sea is worth it.\"\n\nThe car park at Durdle Door was approaching capacity by mid-morning\n\nDorset councillor Laura Miller said she was verbally abused and spat at as she directed traffic at Durdle Door on Wednesday.\n\nRoads to the beauty spot were closed after people failed to use the pre-booking parking system.\n\n\"Our local industry is dependent on tourism - we're not saying 'don't come', but come here in a safe and managed way. When it's too busy, no-one is having fun,\" she said.\n\nThe car park was approaching capacity again by mid-morning on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councillor Laura Miller tells BBC 5 live about the abuse she faced when volunteering at Durdle Door beach\n\nCurrent government guidelines state households can drive any distance in England to parks and beaches.\n\nEarlier this month, both Dorset councils called on the government to impose travel restrictions, raising concerns that visitor numbers could increase Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nSome visitors appeared to have camped overnight in Bournemouth against coronavirus restrictions\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey, saying she shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake.\n\nThe shadow education secretary - who was beaten to the party leadership by Sir Keir - later said she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.\n\nBut Sir Keir said his \"first priority\" was tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"The sharing of that article was wrong… because the article contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and I have therefore stood Rebecca Long-Bailey down from the shadow cabinet.\n\n\"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism and rebuilding trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority for me.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Labour leader added: \"Anti-Semitism takes many different forms and it is important that we all are vigilant against it.\"\n\nIn the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nShe said: \"The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.\"\n\nThe Independent article also quoted the Israeli police denying Ms Peake's claim saying: \"There is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Ms Peake tweeted that she had been \"inaccurate in my assumption of American police training and its sources\".\n\nShe added: \"I find racism and anti-Semitism abhorrent and I in no way wished, nor intended, to add fodder to any views of the contrary.\"\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 are political consequences to Keir Starmer's sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nOn becoming leader, Sir Keir said he wanted to bring unity to the party where previously there have been factional fighting.\n\nHis decision may re-open divisions, with one former shadow minister on the party's left telling me that this was \"a dangerous moment for the party\" - with the new leader 'purging' those with whom he disagreed.\n\nOthers in the party note that Sir Keir has done quite a lot in a short space of time to install people close to him in key positions.\n\nLeadership sources, though, insist the sacking was not part of some grand plan.\n\nThey say Mrs Long-Bailey had to go because she repeatedly refused to remove her retweet of Maxine Peake's article when asked to do so.\n\nAnd for Sir Keir, this is all about tackling the toxic perception of anti-Semitism in the Labour party ahead of a potentially damning report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nHis allies say he promised actions not words to the Jewish community and he is following through.\n\nHe wants to make sure that under his leadership he sends out a signal that those who are accused of anti-Semitism have no place at his top table.\n\nThe new shadow education secretary won't be announced today.\n\nThose formerly close to Jeremy Corbyn say that the appointee must come from the left of the party if Labour's leader is concerned about maintaining unity.\n\nBut he is proving that he won't duck difficult decisions.\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement - which has led calls for a crackdown on anti-Semitism in Labour's ranks - welcomed Sir Keir's decision to sack Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nNational chairman Mike Katz said: \"We have consistently maintained that the pervasive culture of anti-Semitism, bullying and intimidation can only be tackled by strong and decisive leadership.\n\n\"The culture of any organisation is determined by the values and behaviours of those who lead them.\"\n\nAnd the Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie Van der Zyl called Mrs Long-Bailey's initial response \"pathetic\" and thanked the Labour leader for his \"swift action\".\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the left of the party have criticised the decision.\n\nFormer shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who supported her leadership bid, said: \"Throughout discussion of anti-Semitism it's always been said criticism of practices of Israeli state is not anti-Semitic.\n\n\"I don't believe therefore that this article is or Rebecca Long-Bailey should've been sacked. I stand in solidarity with her.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey, whose union supported Mrs Long-Bailey in her leadership bid, said her sacking was \"an unnecessary overreaction to a confected row\".\n\n\"Unity is too important to be risked like this,\" he said.\n\nThe row erupted when Mrs Long-Bailey tweeted \"Maxine Peake is an absolute diamond\" with a link to the article on the Independent website.\n\nThe Salford and Eccles MP said she had retweeted the article because of Ms Peake's \"significant achievements and because the thrust of her argument is to stay in the Labour Party\" but she did not endorse \"all aspects of it\".\n\nAfter she was sacked, Mrs Long-Bailey said she had issued a clarification of her retweet of the article \"agreed in advance by the Labour Party Leader's Office\".\n\nShe added that she was \"subsequently instructed to take both this agreed clarification and my original retweet of Maxine Peake's interview down\".\n\n\"I could not do this in good conscience without the issuing of a press statement of clarification.\n\n\"I had asked to discuss these matters with Keir before agreeing what further action to take, but sadly he had already made his decision.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey was a contender in the this year's Labour leadership race along with Lisa Nandy and, eventual winner, Sir Keir Starmer\n\nMrs Long-Bailey became a Labour MP in 2015. She was a supporter of former leader Jeremy Corbyn and was quickly promoted to his frontbench team, serving as shadow chief secretary of the Treasury and later shadow business secretary.\n\nFollowing Labour's defeat in the 2019 election, Mrs Long-Bailey entered the leadership contest to replace Mr Corbyn and was supported by many on the left of the party.\n\nShe came second in the contest securing 26.6% of the vote, while Sir Keir won 56.2%.\n• None Starmer warns of up to three million job losses", "Within half an hour of the Manchester City result, about 2,000 fans had gathered at Anfield\n\nThousands of Liverpool fans gathered at Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier League title.\n\nSupporters set off flares and fireworks after Chelsea's 2-1 win against Manchester City gave the Reds their first league title in 30 years.\n\nWithin half an hour of the result about 2,000 fans had gathered outside the club's stadium, with some celebrating outside the famous Kop stand.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground.\n\nMerseyside Police closed roads around Anfield at 23:00 BST and advised motorists to avoid the area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said \"a large number of people chose to gather outside the stadium\" but said it was mostly \"good natured\".\n\nHe praised the \"overwhelming majority\" of fans that \"recognised now is not the time to gather together to celebrate, and chose to mark the event safely\".\n\nThousands of Liverpool fans celebrated into the night\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Liverpool players found out they were champions\n\nIt is Liverpool's 19th top-flight title and their first since 1989-90, when Sir Kenny Dalglish led them to victory.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side needed one victory to seal the league but City's failure to win means they cannot be caught.\n\nA number of Reds players, including goalkeeper Alisson, defender Virgil van Dijk and midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, celebrated together after watching the Chelsea-City game.\n\n\"Remember this moment son\" - two Liverpool fans celebrate with a replica Premier League trophy\n\nThousands more fans gathered outside the club's famous Kop stand throughout the night, with some climbing on walls, bins and the roof of a merchandise stand.\n\nSupporters danced, set off flares and waved flags while singing the name of Liverpool players including Mo Salah and captain Jordan Henderson.\n\nMany fans were seen hugging and one man stood with his arm around a cardboard cut-out of manager Jurgen Klopp.\n\nAs well as gathering at Anfield, fans also filled Liverpool city centre where they joined together to sing the club's famous anthem You'll Never Walk 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 BBC North West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 of the fans that congregated wore face masks and cars also gathered outside Anfield, with some beeping horns as they passed.\n\nSix-year-old Anthony Nesbitt went to the ground with his father Anthony and mother Marilyn, as well as a cardboard cut-out of Liverpool star Sadio Mane.\n\n\"This is amazing, especially for them. We've been waiting 30 years for it,\" Ms Nesbitt said.\n\nAn emotional Charlie Cooper, 48, who watched it at his home in Halewood, said he remembered the last time Liverpool won the league.\n\n\"To finally do it is a relief more than anything,\" he told the BBC's Nick Garnett.\n\nAnother ecstatic fan David Taylor, 65, added: \"It is amazing. We've done it now.\"\n\nHe said he was \"more delighted\" for the younger generation, like his granddaughter who had never seen the club lift a league title.\n\nOne fan climbed on to the statue of Bill Shankly outside Anfield\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowds\n\nEarlier on Thursday, fans were urged by the city's metro mayor Steve Rotheram to be the \"best 'stay at home' fans in the world\" to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAs fans began gathering in the city, Liverpool City Council told them to \"have a great party\" but maintain social distancing as they celebrated.\n\nThe club's CEO Peter Moore tweeted a picture of Liverpool fan Sean Cox, who sustained serious brain injuries in an attack by Roma supporters outside Anfield in 2018.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LeBron 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\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he \"stands by\" his decision to sack shadow minister Rebecca Long-Bailey after a meeting with left-wing Labour MPs.\n\nThe Labour leader said the virtual meeting was \"constructive\" but his mind was \"made up\" on the matter.\n\nThe MPs had urged him to reinstate Mrs Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey was sacked after sharing a story Sir Keir said contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nDuring the Zoom meeting, Sir Keir spoke to more than 20 MPs in the Socialist Campaign Group, who have expressed concern about Mrs Long-Bailey's removal as shadow education secretary on Thursday.\n\nIts membership includes former leader Jeremy Corbyn and other prominent left-wingers such as Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon, although the list of MPs that took part has not been released.\n\nCampaign Group MPs who took part said they wanted reassurance that those who criticised the Israeli government would not be suspended.\n\nThe meeting had happened \"in a mutually respectful manner\" and there had been a \"significant disagreement\", the MPs said in a statement.\n\nThey received assurances that no further disciplinary action against Mrs Long-Bailey was being sought but Sir Keir rejected calls for her reinstatement.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We engaged in, for about an hour, a discussion but my mind is made up on this. I took my decision yesterday and put out my statement yesterday.\"\n\nMaxine Peake is known for legal drama Silk, Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies and Channel 4 show Shameless\n\nHe sacked Mrs Long-Bailey, MP for Salford and Eccles, from his frontbench team on Thursday after she tweeted that actress and Labour supporter Maxine Peake was \"an absolute diamond\", adding a link to an interview with her on the Independent website.\n\nIn the article Ms Peake suggested US police learned violent tactics from Israeli secret services - a claim she subsequently described as \"inaccurate\".\n\nAfter her sacking, Mrs Long-Bailey said she did not agree with all aspects of the article and it had not been her \"intention to endorse every part\" of it.\n\nJewish groups and some MPs welcomed Sir Keir's decision but Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the party's left said it had been an overreaction.\n\nAt Friday's meeting with Sir Keir, Socialist Campaign Group members said there was \"a need\" for MPs and others within Labour to speak out against the Israeli government ahead of moves to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says he was told there was \"some\" understanding of Sir Keir's position, with a damning report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on anti-Semitism in the party expected soon, and that he had to be seen to be acting decisively.\n\nLabour has struggled with allegations of anti-Semitism since 2016.\n\nIt became a constant backdrop to the tenure of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Keir stood as his successor on a platform of being tough on anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nIn demonstrating firm leadership, Sir Keir Starmer has inevitably highlighted his party's divisions.\n\nThe sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey brought plaudits from MPs who had been close to ex-party leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and from the Jewish labour movement.\n\nBut it attracted denunciation from those who had most strongly supported Jeremy Corbyn\n\nSome don't believe Maxine Peake's assertion - that the American police had learned the technique that killed George Floyd from the Israeli security services - was anti-Semitic. But in any case Mrs Long-Bailey hadn't specifically endorsed this and Peake had admitted she'd been wrong.\n\nSo they will question whether Sir Keir was looking for an excuse to marginalise the left.\n\nMomentum has begun a petition against the sacking and is urging members to win back power within the party.\n\nSir Keir's allies say the sacking of Mrs Long-Bailey should be taken at face value - she had refused to take down her retweet of Peake's views.\n\nAnd that when he promised Jewish community groups \"actions not words\" on anti-Semitism, he had to deliver.\n\nThe removal of Mrs Long-Bailey was not part of a grand plan, they said, and it was \"nonsense\" that he was simply seeking an excuse to fire her.", "When Jurgen Klopp walked into Anfield for his first day as Liverpool manager on 8 October 2015, there was one keynote message from his public address.\n\n\"We must turn from doubters to believers,\" said the charismatic German as he sat in front of the cameras and lights of the world's media.\n\nLess than five years on, no-one doubts Klopp or his players. After a remarkable rise from 10th place on his arrival to European champions for the sixth time, they have now returned to their domestic perch as Premier League champions, too.\n\nLiverpool and their manager were forced to wait an extra three months for their coronation as the season was halted by the global coronavirus pandemic but the silverware is reward for his revitalisation of the club and its support.\n\nKlopp's public persona is the big man with the tactile approach and the booming laugh. The animated presence in the technical area, celebrating with players and fans. So much more goes on behind the public image - so much more that gives the lie to those who nonsensically claimed Klopp's greatest coaching quality in his early days was as a cheerleader.\n\nBehind the scenes, away from the public gaze, his meticulous approach, as well as his intellect for football's modern methods and matters outside the game, make him the towering figure in Liverpool's spectacular revival.\n\nThe notion that he simply strolls around Melwood smiling and hugging people may sustain those who wish to pour cold water on his brilliant successes, or downplay his tactical shrewdness. The reality could not be more different.\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nKlopp believes the training ground is where the difference is made. This is where the drills are run through, where tactical ideas are tried and tested. Bolt onto this some spectacular recruitment and you have the 2019-20 Premier League champions.\n\nEvery session is meticulously planned with his staff before training. Klopp will then address his players to outline their work in depth. He is not just Liverpool's manager, he is Liverpool's coach. Every aspect of every day is plotted and analysed in minute detail.\n\nIn preparing for games, he insatiably gathers information before condensing it into the essential and most urgent details. Inside Anfield this is regarded as a key skill that helps drive one of his best qualities - the ability to take big decisions quickly, without prevarication, and getting those decisions right.\n• None Klopp - the Black Forest boy who 'became a hero'\n\nKlopp himself is the exact model of planning and efficiency he expects of others. He insists on punctuality, on everything operating like clockwork. If a meeting is planned for 10am, 10am it is. His and Liverpool's success is the result of a fiercely driven individual. The hard work of the manager and all those behind him. As he says: \"I live 100% for the boys, with the boys.\"\n\nThere are no gimmicks. No \"Hollywood\" moment was transformative in the story leading to Liverpool's coronation as Premier League champions. Klopp is the leader, strategist and inspiration. But of course there is also a team behind him.\n\nWhen the German arrived at Anfield it was inevitable that he would be joined by two of his closest, most trusted allies - Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz.\n\nBuvac and Krawietz had been central to Klopp's management team at Mainz and Borussia Dortmund. The trio came as a package wherever he went. Within that structure, the taciturn Bosnian-Serb Buvac was known as \"The Brain\" for his awareness of tactical detail while German Krawietz was \"The Eye\" for his acute analytical skills.\n\nBut when Buvac's 17-year association with Klopp ended suddenly in April 2018, it led to a new dynamic in Liverpool's coaching set-up - and new levels of success.\n\nKlopp, of course, is the leader in all respects, while Krawietz is now joined by Pep Ljinders.\n\nThe 37-year-old Dutchman had already made a huge impression at Liverpool, having worked at the club as an under-16s coach before being appointed first-team development coach in 2015.\n\nThree years later, Ljinders left to take over as manager of NEC Nijmegen in the Netherlands. It proved to be a short stint and when he left, Klopp had no hesitation in bringing him back for the start of the 2018-19 season to fill the gap vacated by Buvac.\n\nBoth Krawietz and Lijnders are assistant managers. No hierarchy exists and both serve crucial, differing roles within Klopp's team. Krawietz runs a team of four analysts, focusing on all aspects of previous and forthcoming games - a role so integral it shapes training sessions and team selection. He is on the training ground every day.\n\nAn example of how the Klopp-Krawietz partnership works is seen in messages exchanged by the pair during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nThey had homed in on the increasing influence of set-pieces, both defensive and attacking, and a decision was made to be more innovative, especially as Liverpool were now armed with the height of Virgil van Dijk and the delivery of Trent Alexander-Arnold. The facts speak for themselves.\n\nIn 2017-18, Liverpool scored 13 goals and conceded 12 from set-pieces. Increased focus and innovation following the World Cup saw them score 29 and concede only eight in the subsequent campaign.\n\nSuch enlightened attention to detail even included the arrival of a dedicated throw-in coach, the Dane Thomas Gronnemark, after the tournament, an appointment designed to eradicate errors and maximise the many re-starts from this position during games.\n\nHowever, Liverpool and Krawietz are not slaves to specifics. He and Klopp still want room for free thinking and spontaneity at set-pieces. What greater example than Trent Alexander-Arnold's quickly taken corner that caught Barcelona cold in last season's Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield?\n\nDuring a normal week at Melwood, Krawietz will usually present Klopp with 90 minutes of analytical detail which will be whittled down over the course of two meetings to a 25-30 minute presentation which the manager will deliver the day before the game.\n\nThe main aim of the session is that Liverpool's players are made aware of their opponents' strengths. But they also leave the room with greater confidence in their own ability to do damage.\n\nKlopp, as ever, takes the final decisions. but the analysis provided by Krawietz has always been crucial. As is the more visible presence of the lively, tactically sharp Lijnders.\n\nHe is a vocal, traditional assistant who takes many training sessions along with Klopp. He is also the buffer between other non-football departments at Liverpool, shaping operational management and drawing up schedules to ensure players get enough rest, deciding when to train and maximising performance.\n\nKlopp's confidence in himself and those around him is such that he says: \"I know I'm good at a couple of things and really good at a few things and that's enough. My confidence is big enough that I can really let people grow next to me. That's no problem. I need experts around me.\"\n\nIt is a three-pronged approach that brought almost perfection at various stages over the past two seasons and, to use the words of Brian Clough about Peter Taylor, the goods at the back of the store are almost as essential to the overall package as what is in the shop window.\n\nOn the pitch, Klopp has earned his reputation alongside the other coaching greats now in the Premier League, such as Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti at Everton and Jose Mourinho at Tottenham.\n\nHe has also, almost without fail, made players better, whether they were signed by him or already at Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson, signed by Kenny Dalglish in June 2011, had his doubters almost up to the time he lifted the Champions League in Madrid last May. Klopp never wavered. Now, Henderson's form and reputation has never been higher.\n\nRoberto Firmino is another he inherited. His signing from Hoffenheim in June 2015 initially raised doubts over Liverpool's \"transfer committee\", the group that used to lead buying strategy and was responsible for far more failures than successes.\n\nIn a previous time, there was justifiable cause to question a muddled transfer policy, especially after the £75m sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona in summer 2014. The prime example was the folly of subsequently spending £16m on Mario Balotelli from AC Milan, shortly after then-manager Brendan Rodgers had insisted publicly: \"I can categorically tell you he will not be coming to Liverpool.\"\n\nFirmino has now moved into the category of world class under Klopp's tutelage. Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and goalkeeper Alisson - who all had quality on arrival - have become even better for Klopp's work.\n\nMane told BBC Sport: \"He is close to his players and he gives us responsibility on the pitch, which is really important for each player. At the same time he is very friendly with us. That is one of his big strengths.\"\n\nSince Klopp's arrival, Liverpool's transfer business has become the template for efficiency. This January, before any rivals had made their moves, a £7.5m deal for Red Bull Salzburg's Takumi Minamino was signed, sealed and delivered for the first day of the month. The same was true of the £75m move for Van Dijk from Southampton. Deal announced on 27 December 2017. Deal signed 1 January 2018.\n\nAnd this is down, in large part, to what those behind the scenes at Anfield describe as Liverpool's \"Holy Trinity\". The relationship between Klopp, sporting director Michael Edwards and Mike Gordon, the man with the second biggest equity stake in the club and who could be described as the \"managing owner\".\n\nGordon has the complete trust of principal owner John W Henry and chairman Tom Werner. While Henry may be the figurehead, Gordon is the most influential owner in many ways because he makes the crucial decisions along with Klopp and Edwards - whether it is a signing, contract renewals or extensions, even down to the recruitment of academy coaches.\n\nGordon has the final sign-off on major projects, such as the £60m extension of the Anfield Road Stand to take capacity above 60,000, and the new £50m training facility at Kirkby. But he is not simply the man who signs the cheques. Anfield insiders acknowledge his sharp football brain as well as business acumen.\n\nHe sees his role as empowering Klopp and Edwards to ensure the football operation flourishes. He has total trust and confidence in their judgement. The three are in constant touch daily, WhatsApp messages fly between all parties.\n\nEdwards joined the club as head of analytics in 2011 and was appointed as sporting director in November 2016. In terms of public profile, he remains secretive and elusive, out of the public eye. He believes that helps him do his work under the radar to deliver what Klopp and Liverpool need.\n\nInside Melwood, the story is very different. Edwards is respected and admired, operating an open-door policy and having his own trusted staff such as head of scouting and recruitment Dave Fallows, chief scout Barry Hunter, and Ian Graham, Julian Ward and Dave Woodfine.\n\nWhen Klopp signed a new contract in December, tying him to the club until summer 2024, he said: \"I must highlight the role of our sporting director Michael Edwards in this journey so far. His input and collaboration has been just as important as anyone else's in getting us into a position to compete for the game's top titles.\"\n\nEdwards has his team. Klopp has his. Gordon empowers and discusses before signing off, and therein lies the method behind Liverpool's brilliant resurgence.\n\nOne of the classic examples of how this triangle of power works came when, in Hong Kong on a pre-season tour in summer 2017, midfielder Philippe Coutinho effectively told the club that overnight he had become unhappy and wanted to move to Barcelona, who had just sold Neymar to Paris St-Germain.\n\nCoutinho, despite his obvious brilliance, was actually regarded by some as a player Liverpool had come to rely on too much. When he did not perform, as in the 2016 Europa League final loss to Sevilla in Basel, the overall team suffered.\n\nWhen the Brazilian duly made his move in January 2018, plans were in place to conclude two of the most important signings in the club's recent history, following up the long-planned pursuit of Van Dijk with the £66.8m arrival of Brazil goalkeeper Alisson from Roma in July 2018.\n\nCoutinho was not replaced, but acquisitions were made in other areas that pushed Liverpool to their current level.\n\nIn February 2017, Liverpool had drawn up their list of transfer targets that included the likes of Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt and Christian Pulisic, who was coming to prominence at Borussia Dortmund and is now with Chelsea. The name of Roma's Mohamed Salah lurked elsewhere on Liverpool's radar.\n\nSalah was the deal that was done, with Klopp very happy to give much of the credit to the forceful opinions of Edwards that this was a potentially game-changing signing.\n\nThis cool, analytical, collegiate system is now the envy of Europe's elite clubs and central to the plans that have brought the title back to Anfield after 30 years.\n\nKlopp has not simply built for the present. He is taking care of the future.\n\nIn his first days at Liverpool in October 2015, he was pictured gazing out over the Melwood training grounds with academy director Alex Inglethorpe. This wasn't just a new manager doing the rounds. He was seeing what he had to work with.\n\nKlopp is willing to spend big but not with waste, and the development of youngsters such as teenagers Curtis Jones and Neco Williams in FA Cup wins over Everton and Shrewsbury Town - when Klopp entrusted his under-23s while he and the seniors took a winter break - is confirmation of this strategy.\n\nHe is a firm believer in looking first from within. Liverpool will make the high-profile signings and are in a healthy position to do so, but Klopp knows he has golden reserves. The development of Jones and Williams, and his trust in them, means Liverpool arguably have another £50m that can be spent elsewhere.\n\nNot that Klopp is a romantic. All decisions are based on hard-headed business reality and if the game-changer is there, Liverpool will be in the hunt. Klopp is frugal but strategic. It is an all-encompassing policy that has renewed Liverpool to the point where they are, in the eyes of many, Europe's finest side with a team and club built in Klopp's image.\n\nFormer Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre, who sat at Klopp's right hand when he was introduced at Anfield, says: \"Is Jurgen right for Liverpool? The answer is absolutely.\n\n\"Everything is natural. Nothing is made up. He doesn't do anything for effect. He is naturally engaging. He raises the energy level in a room when he walks in.\n\n\"He is big and imposing. He is a hugger. All these things he does because it is natural to him. He doesn't think 'I'm going to hug the staff and the players'. He does it because he cares for these people. That is who Jurgen Klopp is. He just fits perfectly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth after people flocked to the coast\n\nPeople must follow social distancing guidance while enjoying the sun, or Covid-19 cases \"will rise again\", the UK's chief medical adviser has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty's remarks on social media came after a major incident was declared in Bournemouth when thousands of people flocked to the Dorset coast.\n\n\"Naturally people will want to enjoy the sun but we need to do so in a way that is safe for all,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's coronavirus death toll is now 43,320, a rise of 149 since Wednesday.\n\nThe latest figures, released by the Department for Health and Social Care, showed 307,980 people have tested positive across the UK.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government has the power to shut down beaches if necessary.\n\nSpeaking on talkRADIO, Mr Hancock said he was reluctant to use it \"because people have had a pretty tough lockdown\" but he added: \"If we see a spike in the number of cases we will take action.\"\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said Bournemouth Beach was \"stretched to the absolute hilt\" on Thursday, while Dorset Police said there were reports of gridlocked roads, fights and overnight camping.\n\nCouncil leader Vikki Slade said they were \"absolutely appalled at the scenes witnessed on our beaches\".\n\nAnd in Glasgow, police cleared hundreds of people from Kelvingrove Park, prompting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to say that, while she understood the desire to enjoy the hot weather, people should \"follow the rules\".\n\nOn Twitter, Prof Whitty said: \"Covid-19 has gone down due to the efforts of everyone but is still in general circulation.\n\n\"If we do not follow social distancing guidance then cases will rise again.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said that six weeks ago, when the PM announced the first steps out of lockdown, the number of newly diagnosed infections was around 4,000 a day.\n\n\"Those numbers have fallen four-fold since, with under 1,000 being recorded on average over the past week,\" he added.\n\n\"Government experts believe with the testing and tracing system in place the virus can continue be suppressed - but only if the public plays its part.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty is the UK's chief medical adviser and England's chief medical officer\n\nSince May, people in England have been able to meet in groups of up to six people in outdoor spaces such as parks or private gardens - provided they observe social distancing and remain two metres apart.\n\nThe government has since announced a further easing of lockdown restrictions in England - to come into effect from 4 July.\n\nThis includes the introduction of a new \"1m plus\" rule - meaning that if a distance of 2m is not possible then 1m will be acceptable if certain precautions are taken, such as the use of face coverings.\n\nThe announcements at the prime minister's Downing Street briefing this week on the reopening of pubs and other venues in England in early July and the new \"1m plus\" rule made all the headlines.\n\nBut the note of caution struck by the senior official advisers, Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance was all too obvious.\n\nThere were repeated comments that the easing of lockdown restrictions was not risk free and that the virus would be circulating right through the winter.\n\nProf Whitty said it was \"really critical\" that people took social distancing rules seriously otherwise chains of virus transmission would be re-established.\n\nHe clearly feels the rules are not being taken seriously on the beach in Bournemouth and has felt the need to repeat his warning.\n\nThis further underlines the concerns felt by health leaders that people will drop their guard and create mass gatherings in the hot weather and holiday season which will allow the spread of the virus to pick up again.\n\nOn Thursday, for the second consecutive day, the UK recorded its hottest temperature of the year so far, with highs of 33.3C (92F) at Heathrow Airport.\n\nBoth Wales and Scotland also individually recorded their hottest days of the year.\n\nIn Wales, the temperature reached 30.7C at Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth, beating the previous high of 30C from Wednesday. And in Scotland, a high of 30C was recorded in Prestwick.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a high of 25.5C was recorded in Aldegrove.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop after Thursday with thunderstorms forecast for Friday.\n\nThousands of people flocked to the Dorset coast on both Wednesday and Thursday\n\nAn amber level three heat-health alert, issued by the Met Office, was extended on Thursday to take in Yorkshire and the east and south of England as well as the West and East Midlands.\n\nThat means people should drink plenty of fluids, avoid consuming excess alcohol and \"look out for\" young children, babies and those with underlying health conditions, the Met Office said.\n\nFurther along the south coast, Brighton beach was also busy\n\nCommenting on the crowded scenes in his constituency, Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood said he had asked the government to dispatch additional officers to Dorset if needed to deal with traffic and antisocial behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad to see a number of people being selfish and also acting dangerously,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellwood said it was \"not practical\" to close Dorset's beaches altogether but suggested signs warning about overcrowding could be put up at railway stations and on approaching motorways.\n\nHe added the government needed to be \"dynamic\" in its response to beach crowding, otherwise the lockdown would have \"been for nothing\".", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe Met Police Commissioner said she is \"dumbfounded\" by allegations that two of her officers shared \"inappropriate\" photographs of a double murder scene.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found earlier this month at Fryent Gardens in Wembley.\n\nThe officers have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and suspended from duty.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said she was appalled and disgusted non-official photos had been taken and shared.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding that the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"I don't know all the details but if it is as it appears to be then it is shocking.\n\n\"It is disgusting and the whole of the Met would condemn what has happened here.\n\n\"If those officers' actions have added to the families' unimaginable distress, then I apologise from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nThe sisters' family previously told of the \"devastating impact\" of their loss after their loved ones' bodies were found next to each other shortly after 13:00 BST on 7 June.\n\nThe IOPC is separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nAsked if she accepted criticism that there may have been an element of institutional racism in the police response to the double murder, Dame Cressida said: \"This is a horrible, horrible double murder of two beautiful young women.\n\n\"My heart goes out to their family. It is just appalling.\n\n\"We have an enormous investigation, very well resourced and using all the expertise not just in London but all across the country and beyond.\"\n\nPolice previously released pictures of senior social worker Ms Henry, from Brent in north-west London, and photographer Ms Smallman dancing with fairy lights before they were murdered.\n\nTheir last contact with friends and family was about 01:05, police 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.", "Paul Waterson from the Scottish Licensed Trade Association says pub owners are \"shocked and dismayed\" about today's announcement.\n\n\"We all expected that we would have a date for opening our beer gardens,\" he explains.\n\nHe adds: \"To be told today that not only we're not getting an opening date, but that we're not getting a review of it until 2 July has been a bit of a shock.\"\n\nHe says many businesses have spent a lot of money to get their outdoor areas ready for today.\n\nSandy Elrick, who runs the Bennachie Lodge in Aberdeenshire, says he is \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"We were all ready to go, we had done everything that was asked of us, we were ready to just push the button and go\", he tells Drivetime.\n\nHe says there was no indication pubs would not be able to open their beer gardens and he had been expected opening next would would be the worst case scenario.", "The Bank of England will pump an extra £100bn into the UK economy to help fight the \"unprecedented\" coronavirus-induced downturn.\n\nBank policymakers voted 8-1 to increase the size of its bond-buying programme.\n\nHowever, they said there was growing evidence that the hit to the economy would be \"less severe\" than initially feared.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) also kept interest rates at a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe move comes just days after Bank governor Andrew Bailey said policymakers were ready to take action after the economy suffered its biggest monthly contraction on record.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April, while official jobs data showed the number of workers on UK payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May.\n\nThe Bank said more recent indicators suggested the economy was starting to bounce back.\n\nMinutes from the MPC's June meeting said: \"Payments data are consistent with a recovery in consumer spending in May and June, and housing activity has started to pick up recently.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Bailey warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain. He said: \"We don't want to get too carried away by this. Let's be clear, we're still living in very unusual times.\"\n\nThe minutes added: \"While recent demand and output data had not been quite as negative as expected, other indicators suggested greater risks around the potential for longer-lasting damage to the economy from the pandemic.\"\n\nBack in May, policymakers warned the economy was heading for its sharpest recession on record.\n\nScenarios drawn up by the Bank suggested the economy could shrink by 25% in the three months to June.\n\nHowever, the MPC said more recent evidence suggested the contraction would be less severe.\n\nThe extra monetary stimulus - known as quantitative easing (QE) - will raise the total size of the Bank's asset purchase programme to £745bn.\n\nPolicymakers said the injection would help to support financial markets and underpin the recovery.\n\nHowever, Andy Haldane, the Bank's chief economist, voted against the increase.\n\nHe said the recovery was happening \"sooner and materially faster\" than the Bank expected in May.\n\nPolicymakers said the jobs market was likely to remain weak for some time, with a risk of \"higher and more persistent unemployment\".\n\nMillions of workers have already seen their pay packets shrink as a result of lower pay for furloughed employees. A survey by the Bank said other companies had postponed or cancelled pay rises this year.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Even with the relaxation of some Covid-related restrictions on economic activity, a degree of precautionary behaviour by households and businesses is likely to persist. The economy, and especially the labour market, will therefore take some time to recover towards its previous path.\"\n\nMr Bailey also addressed the recent fall in UK inflation in an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), fell to 0.5% in May, from 0.8% in April - well below the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nMr Bailey said weak inflation had been by driven by falling oil and energy prices, as well as a global drop in economic activity.\n\nThe Bank expects inflation to return to target within two years.\n\nSamuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics expects the Bank to increase QE again later this year.\n\n\"Unemployment looks set to rise sharply in the second half of this year and to fall back slowly thereafter,\" he said.\n\n\"The resulting prolonged weakness in domestically generated inflation likely will necessitate the MPC doing more to stimulate the economy in the winter.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has increased its support for the economy, despite it assessing that the outlook is not quite as awful as its scenario last month. The economy is on course for a hit in the second quarter of about 20% compared with the final three months of 2019. That's still historic, and off the scale, but not quite as extreme as the 27% it predicted in May.\n\nThe extra £100bn of purchases of government bonds also has the air of an insurance policy.\n\nMost of the MPC were concerned about a couple of factors, A less awful outlook does not mean the recovery will be quick. This is for two reasons stretching beyond economics.\n\nThere is a fear that the \"prevalence of the virus\" in the UK will mean that Britons will continue to socially distance, voluntarily, holding back the recovery more than other nations (Germany would be an example).\n\nRelated to that was the idea that more QE now could mitigate the economic impact of \"higher rates of Covid-19 infection going forward\" - a second wave.\n\nSo the news is still bad, but less awful. But risks beyond the purely economic led to more billions being injected into the economy.", "Pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London have apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nBoth organisations have apologised and Lloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\", after consulting with its staff on how this money can best be used.\n\nLloyd's and Greene King's moves were first reported by the Telegraph in the UK.\n\nLloyd's, which was founded in 1688, insured slave ships. It is often lauded as the world's leading insurance market, focusing on specialist areas, such as marine, energy and political risk.\n\nIn a statement, Lloyd's said: \"There are some aspects of our history that we are not proud of.\n\n\"In particular, we are sorry for the role played by the Lloyd's market in the 18th and 19th-Century slave trade.\"\n\n\"This was an appalling and shameful period of English history, as well as our own, and we condemn the indefensible wrongdoing that occurred during this period.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nLloyd's said it would provide financial support to charities and organisations promoting opportunity and inclusion for BAME groups.\n\nIt has also launched a number of new initiatives aimed at developing black and minority ethnic talent within the organisation.\n\n\"In recent years, Lloyd's has driven ahead with a series of positive programmes designed to improve culture across the market. We have made progress, but not enough.\"\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nWhile she welcomed the commitment by Lloyd's, she added: \"The offer of investment in BAME charities and organisations needs further scrutiny - how much will be invested and who will receive the money?\n\n\"This is a history which is specific to the black community and directing forms of reparative justice towards descendent groups must be the priority.\"\n\nWhile companies may have been reluctant to speak out in the past, the international outcry and huge demonstrations following Mr Floyd's death has made speaking up a \"business imperative\".\n\nDwayna Haley, a senior vice president at Porter Novelli, a communications firm that has advised companies such as McDonald's and Pepsi, previously told the BBC: \"What is driving this is the understanding that if we don't cater to the people that we serve, we could lose market share,\" she says. \"It is a strategic business move.\"\n\nBrewer and pub chain Greene King was originally founded in 1799 by Benjamin Greene, who owned highly-profitable plantations.\n\nHis son Edward took over control of the brewery in 1836 and it was renamed Greene King in 1887 after merging with a local brewery.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nBenjamin Greene was one of thousands who received payment. Details of the sums are listed in a database held by the University College London (UCL).\n\nNick Mackenzie, Greene King's chief executive officer, said: \"It is inexcusable that one of our founders profited from slavery and argued against its abolition in the 1800s. While that is a part of our history, we are now focused on the present and the future.\"\n\nTo address the issue, the pub chain will \"make a substantial investment to benefit the BAME community and support our race diversity in the business\".\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and HSBC were among a number of banks found by the Telegraph to be linked to the slave trade.\n\nFounded in Edinburgh in 1727, it also found evidence that suggested other partners of its predecessors may have been part-owners of \"ships involved in slave trading voyages during the 18th and early 19th Centuries\".\n\nThe UK government owns a 62% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland today\n\n\"As an organisation with a history stretching back more than 300 years, these important and painful issues have a place in our history. We recognise our responsibility to engage with that\", RBS said in a statement.\n\nThe bank, currently majority-owned by the UK government, added that it had \"looked into its past links with slavery very extensively and thoroughly\", and would look at \"what more we can do as a bank\", including making financial contributions to BAME groups.\n\nA Lloyds Banking Group spokesperson said: \"A lot has changed during the 300-year history of our brands and while we have much within our heritage to be proud of, we can't be proud of it all. Like any institution that is so interwoven with our country's history, we must acknowledge and learn from our past.\"\n\nThey added that the firm would \"deliver better results for our colleagues and customers. This is our aim. We can do more, we can do better and we will do it together.\"\n\n\"The history of Barclays, like other institutions, is being examined following recent events. We can't change what's gone before us, only how we go forward,\" a Barclays spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are committed as a bank to do more to further foster our culture of inclusiveness, equality and diversity, for our colleagues, and the customers and clients we serve.\"\n\nHSBC did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.", "A new leader and the end of Brexit as an election issue will not be enough for Labour to win back power, a review of the party's 2019 defeat has warned.\n\nThe Labour Together project says the party has a \"mountain to climb\" after slumping to its lowest number of seats since 1935 in December's poll.\n\nIt says the historic defeat had been a \"long time coming\" and deep-seated changes were needed.\n\nLabour will have been out of power for 14 years by the next election in 2024.\n\nThe Conservatives won December's election with a majority of 80, while Labour lost 59 seats and saw its vote share fall by eight points.\n\nLabour's defeat led to the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. He was replaced in April by Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Labour Together report, which was largely compiled before the coronavirus pandemic, warned that \"disunity and division within our party over time has badly damaged our electoral fortunes\".\n\nAnd the commissioners of the review agreed it would \"be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes\".\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a network of activists from all Labour traditions, surveyed 11,000 members, held in-depth interviews with former MPs and party candidates, and spoke to polling experts and academics.\n\nIt identified a manifesto viewed as \"undeliverable\" by many voters, concerns about Mr Corbyn's leadership and the party's position on Brexit as the \"interlinked and indivisible\" factors behind the 2019 defeat.\n\nBut it says the party's problems run far deeper and its failure to properly analyse previous defeats \"sowed the seeds for our failure in 2019\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said Labour \"won the argument\" at last year's election but blamed media bias for the party's defeat and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit.\n\nThe report paints a portrait of a party riven by \"factionalism\", \"internal arguments\" and \"division\".\n\nBut it issues a stark warning to those who believe that a change in both the party leadership and in the political landscape will necessarily bring Labour much closer to power.\n\nThe report says: \"It would be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes.\"\n\nAnd this is perhaps the true value of the report for the new leadership - it serves as both a reality check for activists and an opportunity for the new regime to argue that a break for the past is necessary.\n\nIt declares that Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" - and the authors are clearly thinking of K2 rather than a Scottish munro.\n\nThe Labour Together review was headed by MP Lucy Powell - who ran Ed Miliband's unsuccessful 2015 election campaign, leading the party to win more seats than Mr Corbyn in 2019, but with a slightly lower vote share.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Labour needed to address a long-standing \"disconnect\" with working-class voters to win again.\n\nThe \"red wall\" of seats in the party's traditional strongholds, she said, had \"been crumbling for twenty years\".\n\nShe said there was \"no sign yet that long-term decline is in any way abating,\" adding it could put a number of Labour MPs in formerly safe seats at risk in future.\n\nMr Miliband, who has returned to the shadow cabinet under Sir Keir and was a member of the Labour Together panel, said winning the next election would be a \"Herculean task\".\n\nWriting for the Guardian, he said the party's \"new core vote\" of younger graduates in big cities are \"not enough on their own to win us the election\".\n\nBut he said the party needed to maintain a commitment for \"economic transformation,\" adding this was desired by both Leave and Remain voters.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would stand down after the 2019 election loss\n\nThe report said responsibility for the defeat did not rest \"wholly with one side or part of our movement\".\n\nBut it said Mr Corbyn's low poll ratings going into the election could not \"easily be disentangled from the handling of issues like Brexit, party disunity and anti-Semitism\".\n\nMomentum, the campaign group formed out of Mr Corbyn's successful 2015 leadership bid, called the report a \"much needed contribution\" to the debate over Labour's future election strategy.\n\nA spokesperson said the party needed to \"professionalise the party machine,\" and better engage party members through \"community organising\".\n\nThey added the group was happy to offer its \"expertise\" in digital campaigning to help the party reach more voters online.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the report included:\n\nIn its recommendations, the report warned Labour could \"could fall further, unless it faces up to the disconnect between the party and the public and is realistic about the scale of the political and organisational task ahead\".\n\nIt said the party needed to \"build a winning coalition of voters which spans generations, geographies and outlooks\", while holding onto Labour's existing supporters and \"inspiring more younger voters\".", "A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.\n\nThe app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.\n\nThe BBC can also reveal that the project's two lead managers - NHSX's Matthew Gould and Geraint Lewis - are stepping back.\n\nAnd Simon Thompson - a former Apple executive - is joining to manage it.\n\nMr Thompson is currently chief product officer at the online grocer Ocado. He has been appointed to Baroness Dido Harding's Test and Trace team, where he will have other duties in addition to the app.\n\nMr Gould and Mr Lewis had always expected to move back to their other duties this month, however they had intended for the app to have had its national rollout by now.\n\nLord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.\n\nBut he insisted that the trial \"has gone very well indeed\".\n\nHe was responding to questions at the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment,\" Lord Bethell said in answer to a question about the app.\n\nHe admitted that was \"an expectation of management answer, saying I can't give you a date\".\n\nLord Bethell said it was still the government's intention to launch it at some point.\n\nLord Bethell has just poured a bucket of icy water over the project that was supposed to be at the heart of the government's test-and-trace strategy.\n\nAt the beginning of May, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people had a duty to download the app, which was expected to be rolled out nationally by the end of the month.\n\nPlenty of people warned at an early stage that telling people via an app notification to go into quarantine might not work.\n\nNow it seems the Isle of Wight trial has confirmed that most prefer the more human touch of a phone call.\n\nThe team behind the app have an updated version ready to go which they feel addresses many of the concerns. But it looks as though ministers and the Test-and-Trace supremo Baroness Harding have decided to put the whole idea in the deep freeze. Don't bet on it coming back in the winter.\n\nHe also added that the trial on the Isle of Wight had shown that some people preferred humans to do the contact tracing.\n\n\"There is a danger of it being too technological and relying too much on text and emails, and alienating or freaking out people - because you're peddling quite alarming news through quite casual communication,\" he said.\n\nSince the launch of the trial phase six weeks ago, there have been few official updates about any expected timeline, and reports that ministers are considering switching systems.\n\nLord Bethell said that because the disease's prevalence was currently relatively low, \"we're not feeling under great time pressure, and therefore we're focusing on getting the right app\".\n\nHe added: \"I won't hide from you that there are technical challenges with getting the app right, and we are really keen to make sure that we get all aspects of it correct.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that the public were highly concerned about the app, which he said was one reason an app had not been \"rushed\" out.\n\n\"If we didn't quite get it right the first time round, we might poison the pool and close down a really important option for the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The clashes involving demonstrators and police took place on Wednesday teatime\n\nNicola Sturgeon has condemned \"racist thugs\" as she described disorder in Glasgow city centre as \"disgraceful\".\n\nSix men have been arrested by police after two separate protest groups gathered in George Square.\n\nNational Defence League supporters went to the square saying they wanted to \"make and stand\" and \"protect the Cenotaph\".\n\nShortly afterwards activists from No Evictions Glasgow arrived for their planned demonstration.\n\nThey chanted \"refugees are welcome here\" before leaving the square.\n\nImages on social media showed some protestors clashing with police.\n\nBoth the first minister and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish justice secretary, used social media to condemn the scenes.\n\nThe first minister tweeted: \"Disgraceful scenes in Glasgow tonight. Racist thugs shame Scotland.\n\n\"If they break the law, they should face the full force of it. And all of us should unite to say that welcoming refugees and asylum seekers is part of who we are.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the incident by Police Scotland.\n\n\"Let's not mince our words, this has nothing to do with statues and everything to do with racist thuggery,\" he said.\n\n\"Police have made a number of arrests already and will continue to take all necessary action against those responsible.\"\n\nAhead of the protests, Ch Supt Mark Hargreaves urged people not to attend the events but follow government coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nAfterwards, he said Police Scotland had an \"appropriate\" presence to ensure public safety.\n\n\"So far, six men have been arrested for minor public order offences and reports will be submitted to the procurator fiscal,\" he added.\n\n\"The majority of protesters have now left George Square and officers remain in the area for public reassurance.\n\n\"A review will be undertaken and should any further criminality be identified appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nFour of the protestors who were arrested said they were in the square to protect the statues, while the other two men said they were attending the protest calling for better housing for asylum seekers.\n\nMeanwhile, No Evictions Glasgow accused \"far-right groups\" of trying to \"hi-jack\" their peaceful protest.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their protest was about conditions facing people in the asylum system in Glasgow - not the cenotaph.\n\nThe group from Glasgow No Evictions were guided away from George Square by police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A car driving the PM away from Prime Minister's Questions has been involved in a bump on leaving Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson's convoy was involved in a minor collision outside Parliament when a protester ran towards the cars.\n\nThis forced the lead car in the convoy to brake suddenly causing the escorting vehicle to collide with the saloon car carrying Mr Johnson.\n\nA large dent was seen in the prime minister's Jaguar as the convoy drove off towards Downing Street.\n\nNo 10 confirmed Mr Johnson was in the car and said there are no reports of any injuries.\n\nAsked later about the incident, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Mr Johnson was \"wholly unscathed\".\n\nThe car carrying the prime minister left Parliament Square with a large dent\n\nThe demonstrator had been protesting about Turkey's action against Kurdish rebels.\n\nThe police said a man was later arrested at the scene for offences under the Public Order Act and for obstructing the highway.\n\nThe prime minister was in Parliament on Wednesday, for the weekly Prime Minister's Question session.", "Matthew Wain admitted making threats to staff at City Hospital in Birmingham\n\nA YouTuber who filmed himself phoning a \"truly despicable\" bomb threat to a hospital dealing with Covid-19 patients has been jailed for 12 weeks.\n\nMatthew Wain, 31, said he hoped NHS staff at Birmingham City Hospital - where he had recently received treatment - \"die of coronavirus\".\n\nWain had admitted posting the \"grossly offensive\" footage on 29 March.\n\nBirmingham Magistrates' Court heard he was angry at a supposed lack of treatment at the start of lockdown.\n\nWain, of Hatfield Road, Birmingham, told an emergency department worker: \"Not being funny... after what I had done to me yesterday I would bomb the place, to be honest.\n\n\"After the way they spoke to me I hope they all die of the coronavirus because they would deserve it.\"\n\nThe 10-minute video containing the phone call was played to the court, as Wain laughed in the dock.\n\nIn the footage, which had 81,000 views, Wain introduced himself as a YouTuber and levelled various allegations against staff, made a racist remark, and asked to speak to the nurse in charge.\n\nDuring the rant, he said: \"This is going to go viral and it's getting put in the papers.\"\n\nWain has a previous conviction for a 2017 malicious communications offence involving gay bars in Norfolk, for which he was given a community order.\n\nDescribing the Covid-19-related comment on the video, District Judge Briony Clarke said: \"That's truly despicable, Mr Wain.\n\n\"There was the use of threats and you're fortunate you weren't charged with something more serious.\n\n\"Whilst we were sat here horrified at the contents of it, there were points when you were laughing.\"\n\nWain was also ordered to pay costs of £135 and a £122 surcharge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils who have fallen behind during school closures are expected to be offered focused tuition as part of the government's catch-up plans.\n\nEngland's schools will receive funding for support through a national tutoring programme to run for up to three years.\n\nThe scheme will use proven tutoring organisations and charities, using volunteer and paid tutors.\n\nHead teachers support the plans but want to be able to use the service to supplement their own catch-up work.\n\nA pilot tutoring project, led by several social mobility groups including the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation and Impetus, is looking at how best pupils affected by school closures can be supported.\n\nIt is expected that this will be rolled into a national tutoring service, but it is not known how many pupils will be supported or how much is being invested.\n\nThe scheme is likely to offer primary pupils support in maths and English in six-week blocks, while secondary pupils would be offered targeted help in specific subjects from specialist graduates and post-graduates.\n\nSummer activity schemes and emotional support are also set to be offered in the run up to schools re-opening in September.\n\nThe government said it was drawing up proposals for an extended catch-up last week, adding that they would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are believed to have fared worst during closures.\n\nNana, 17, from Enfield north London is aiming for a place at Cambridge to study human, social and political science.\n\nSince lockdown began, her tutor with the Access Project has been sending her sample exam questions which she does to time and sends back for feedback.\n\nWeekly face-to-face sessions with a graduate volunteer who works in finance in the City of London, have been keeping her on track.\n\nNana will apply for Cambridge next term\n\nAt first they focused on reading and discussing excerpts from key historical or political texts.\n\nNana's mum is a cleaner and her dad is a nursing assistant, and the idea that she could apply to one of the best universities in the world didn't occur to her until her mentor at the education charity, The Access Project suggested it at the start of Year 12.\n\n\"She said: 'You have the potential, you might as well try,'\" Nana remembers.\n\n\"I didn't know about the collegiate system, that you had to do an admissions test or an interview or how important the personal statement was,\" she says.\n\nThe Access Project has helped her get to grips with all that and drilled into her the importance of wider reading in order to get top grades in her A-levels in history, sociology and English literature.\n\nNow similar schemes could be rolled out to help other young people fulfil their potential at this difficult time.\n\nBoris Johnson said his Education Secretary Gavin Williamson would be setting out plans soon.\n\nThe government has been under intense pressure over its back to school policy.\n\nConcerns had been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return, as now planned, in September.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, agrees there is evidence that high quality one-to-one tuition is beneficial but suspects \"the devil will be in the detail\".\n\n\"It is enormously frustrating that we haven't had the opportunity to discuss these points with the government ahead of an announcement and that we once again find ourselves having to guess what they will say.\"\n\nThe move comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the summer break.\n\nHowever, pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have been prioritised and are attending in many schools for at least part of the week.\n\nAnd pupils facing GCSEs and A-Levels next year are being invited into schools in smaller groups for time with their teachers over the next few weeks.\n\nBut this can be anything from a half hour catch-up appointment to a few hours' learning each week.\n\nThe Prime Minister has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer has called for a national recovery plan, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing.\n\nClasses have been divided into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils, depending on classroom size, which means only a fraction of children can be on site at any one time.\n\nSchools in Wales are re-opening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time,\n\nIn Scotland, schools are preparing to re-open on 11 August, and in Northern Ireland ministers are aiming to start bringing pupils back on 17 August.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock could be seen slapping a colleague on the back\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has been spotted slapping a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite social distancing measures in place to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMr Hancock's moment of apparent forgetfulness happened as he arrived to Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe and other ministers have repeatedly urged the importance of people keeping two metres away from one another.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"so sorry for a human mistake on my part\".\n\n\"Like all of us, I instinctively wanted to reach out to a friend I'd just seen - in this case, for the first time in many weeks. I realised my mistake and corrected myself,\" the health secretary said.\n\nHe said it shows how hard social distancing can be, but added it is \"so important that we all keep trying to do our bit\".\n\nIn a clip which quickly garnered thousands of views after it was posted on Twitter, the health secretary can be seen putting his arm across a colleague's shoulder as he enters the Commons.\n\nA third MP then comes and stands beside both of them, before the man in the middle steps back.\n\nMr Hancock then steps across to fill the gap to speak to the third MP, before moving back again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Hortop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Hancock announced he had tested positive for coronavirus in March - shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed his own positive test.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson had to spend several days in intensive care, Mr Hancock had mild symptoms.\n\nScientists have said it is likely that people who have already had the virus will have some immunity to it, but that everyone must still stick to social distancing rules.\n\nThe World Health Organization said in May that there was \"currently no evidence\" that people who have recovered from the virus are protected from a second infection.\n\nMr Hancock's back-slapped colleague stepped away when a third MP joined them\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after the slip-up, Mr Hancock defended why the government has not yet reduced social distancing from two metres to one metre - something many businesses have said will be crucial to their recovery as they reopen.\n\n\"It's the sort of thing of course we want to lift and we need to do that in a way that is careful and safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"The scientists are reviewing it, along with the economists, and we will take forward the further measures on this when it's possible and safe to do so.\"\n\nThe health secretary stepped over yellow-and-black tape - in place to help people to maintain social distancing - to greet another colleague\n\nA review into the two-metre rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 said on Monday.\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest a one-metre distance sufficiently reduces the spread of the virus.\n\nBut the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre away from others carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.", "An undated photo of the Trump siblings, from left to right: Robert, Elizabeth, Fred, Donald and Maryanne\n\nUS President Donald Trump's niece is set to publish an unflattering tell-all memoir about him. So who is she and why has she come forward now?\n\nOn 28 July, Mary Trump is due to release Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Simon & Schuster announced on Monday.\n\nThe book will hit the shelves just weeks before the Republican National Convention, when her uncle will accept the party's nomination for his re-election bid in November.\n\nThe memoir will reportedly reveal how she supplied the New York Times with confidential documents to print a sprawling investigation into Mr Trump's personal finances.\n\nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning exclusive alleged the president had been involved in \"fraudulent\" tax schemes and received more than $400m (£316m) in today's money from his father's real estate empire.\n\nAn Amazon blurb for the book says the author will set out how her uncle \"became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric\".\n\n\"She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr and Donald,\" it continues.\n\nThe blurb says the author will draw on her insights as a \"firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions\".\n\nThe memoir will also accuse the president of having \"dismissed and derided\" his father once he began to suffer from Alzheimer's.\n\nDonald Trump as a boy (far left) with siblings Fred, Elizabeth, Maryanne and Robert\n\nMary Trump, 55, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the president's older brother, who died in 1981 at the age of 42.\n\nHe struggled with alcoholism for much of his life and his premature death was caused by a heart attack linked to his drinking.\n\nPresident Trump has cited his brother's personal problems as spurring his administration's push for tackling the scourge of opioid addiction.\n\nIn an interview last year with the Washington Post, Mr Trump said he regretted pressuring his older brother to join the family real estate business as he pursued dreams of becoming a pilot.\n\nMary Trump has largely avoided the limelight since her uncle became president, though she has been critical of him in the past.\n\nThe bad blood between them goes back at least 20 years to a lawsuit filed by her and her brother against their uncle and his siblings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump spoke in 2017 about his brother's battle with alcoholism\n\nIn 2000, Mary Trump and Fred Trump III sued to dispute the money left to them by the estate of Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr.\n\nThey said the 1991 will was \"procured by fraud and undue influence\" on the part of Donald Trump and his siblings, as the family patriarch suffered dementia, according to the New York Daily News.\n\nMary Trump told the city tabloid that her aunt and uncles \"should be ashamed of themselves\" over the legal battle.\n\n\"Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money,\" she told the newspaper at the time.\n\nMary Trump and her brother filed another lawsuit after their medical insurance provided by the Trump company was cancelled in apparent retaliation for the first legal action.\n\nThe case was eventually settled and details were not released, reports say.\n\nDonald and his father, Fred, in 1988 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City\n\nAccording to People magazine, public records show she was born Mary Lea Trump in May 1965 and lives on Long Island, New York.\n\nForbes magazine reports she earned a bachelor's in English Literature from Tufts University in Massachusetts and a master's in the same subject from Columbia University in New York.\n\nShe also did a PhD in clinical psychology at Adelphi University in New York.\n\nAccording to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Mary Trump is a certified professional life coach.\n\nIn 2012, she reportedly founded a New-York based company, the Trump Coaching Group.\n\nIts website says: \"Are you depressed and feeling low? Finding the true meaning of your life? If yes then our life coaches can bring you out from such dwindling situations.\"\n\nAccording to tweets attributed to her, Mary Trump appears to have been feeling low on the day of her uncle's 2016 election.\n\nAn account bearing her name has a post that says: \"This is one of the worst nights of my life.\"\n\nAnother tweet called the president's defeated rival, Hillary Clinton, \"an extraordinary human being and public servant\".\n\nThe Twitter account's bio contains the Black Lives Matter hashtag, a gay pride flag and the pronouns she/her/hers.", "A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of trying to make homemade bombs containing shrapnel.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, was arrested on Friday after concerns were raised by social services.\n\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with one count of preparation of a terrorist act.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is thought to be the youngest person ever accused of planning a terrorist attack in the UK.\n\nThe defendant did not enter a plea and was remanded in youth detention.\n\nHe is next due to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday 22 June.\n\nThe court was told the boy had converted to Islam.\n\nIt is alleged he researched how to make explosives, constructed a series of devices with the aim of making them explosive devices containing shrapnel, and had recorded a video saying he wanted to be a martyr.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors and nurses in Russia have told the BBC about working with limited protective equipment Image caption: Doctors and nurses in Russia have told the BBC about working with limited protective equipment\n\nOn the face of it this was a stark announcement by the head of Russia’s healthcare watchdog. Alla Samoylova told an online seminar that 489 medical workers had died as a result of coronavirus, which would represent more than 6% of all Covid-19 deaths here.\n\nRoszdravdadzor later clarified that the figure referred to an unofficial but widely followed tally kept by medical professionals themselves, not official statistics. But we now know that the watchdog keeps a close eye on those numbers, and gives them credence.\n\nIn fact, the \"memorial list\", as it’s called, currently records 505 deaths, including healthcare workers from Ukraine and Belarus.\n\nThe last official count from the health ministry came three weeks ago and reported that 101 people had died.\n\nWhat looks like an abnormally high percentage of medics’ deaths probably partly reflects issues with overall fatality figures. Excess mortality statistics for Moscow in May show three times more deaths than the number so far officially attributed to coronavirus.\n\nThere has long been concern about the provision of protective gear (PPE) for hospital and ambulance staff. Doctors and nurses have described to us having to work with infected patients in regular, gauze masks, and hospital \"red zones\" that were not fully isolated. Most said the situation had later improved.", "One of two gravestones at the site has been smashed in two\n\nThe headstone of an African man who was enslaved in the 18th Century has been smashed in two.\n\nThe Grade II* listed grave of Scipio Africanus is in St Mary's Churchyard in Bristol.\n\nA local councillor said he believed it was a \"retaliation attack\" for the recent toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the city.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it was investigating after receiving a report of criminal damage.\n\nThe force said it believed the damage occurred between 12:00 BST on Tuesday and 08:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScipio Africanus was an African servant of the 7th Earl of Suffolk.\n\nAn inscription on the brightly painted gravestone - which is one of two at the site in Henbury - says he died in the city in 1720 aged 18.\n\nA message was scrawled on the ground nearby\n\nA message left in chalk on the flagstones near the grave said: \"Now look at what you made me do.\n\n\"Put Colston's statue back or things will really heat up.\"\n\nConservative councillor Mark Weston, who represents Henbury on Bristol City Council, said he was \"deeply saddened by what is happening\".\n\n\"We have seen war memorials defaced and statues vandalised and I have to wonder where this will end,\" he said.\n\nBristol's elected mayor Marvin Rees appealed for people not to go down the route of \"tit-for-tat\" attacks.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook Live Q&A, he said the \"iconic piece of Bristol's history\" had been \"smashed in two\".\n\n\"The opportunity is to showcase to the country and the world we are a city that has the ability to live with difference,\" he said.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nHistorians believe Scipio Africanus may have been born into the household of 7th Earl of Suffolk, Charles Howard, and was the son of an enslaved West African woman, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHe was named by his \"owners\" after the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.\n\nThe Colston statue was torn down and dumped in Bristol's harbour during anti-racism protests earlier this month.\n\nIt has since been pulled from the water and is expected to be given a new home in a city museum.\n\nThere have been several other protests calling for statues and monuments celebrating controversial figures in the UK to be taken down or amended.\n\nThis includes governors at Oxford's Oriel College voting on Wednesday to remove a statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes, and a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan being removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands last week.", "Dame Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, was Britain's wartime Forces' Sweetheart, and remained one of the country's most potent symbols of resilience and hope.\n\nWith songs such as We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover, she inspired both troops abroad and civilians at home during World War Two.\n\nAs Britain's cities came under attack, her wistful songs, with their messages of yearning and optimism, were heard in millions of British homes.\n\nAnd 75 years later, the country turned to her once again as it faced another stern test.\n\nShe was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 in the London suburb of East Ham, the daughter of a plumber.\n\nShe discovered her talent for singing at an early age and was performing in local clubs when she was seven. By the time she was 11, she had abandoned school for a full-time career as a dancer and singer in a touring music hall revue.\n\nShe had also adopted a new stage name, Vera Lynn, borrowing her grandmother's maiden name.\n\nShe regularly broadcast with Britain's biggest bands in the 1930s\n\nShe was a soloist by the age of 16, fronting a number of bands. Lynn was self-effacing, unlike many of the singing stars of the day, and her gentle persona quickly endeared her to audiences.\n\nHer broadcasting debut came in 1935, singing with the Joe Loss Orchestra, which led to regular radio appearances and widened her circle of fans.\n\nBut in 1939, war intervened. As families gathered around the wireless to listen to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's announcement that Britain was at war with Germany, Lynn remembered thinking: \"Oh well, bang goes my career.\"\n\nBut when she volunteered for war work, she was told the best thing she could do was to keep on being an entertainer.\n\nThis was reinforced when, in a 1939 poll by the Daily Express, she was voted by servicemen as their favourite entertainer, and gained her Forces' Sweetheart nickname.\n\nIn the same year, she first sang We'll Meet Again, the song that more than any other came to be associated with World War Two.\n\nShe thought it was vital to bring a touch of home to the troops\n\nIts underlying message of hope - that scattered families would eventually be reunited after the conflict - struck a chord with troops abroad and their relatives at home.\n\nHer down-to-earth style quickly established her as the public's favourite antidote to the misery of the blackout and the Blitz.\n\nWith appearances at the London Palladium and Holborn Empire, Vera Lynn proved a national tonic in the anxious days at the beginning of the war.\n\nIn 1941 she married musician Harry Lewis. \"I don't think I thought much of him at first,\" she later said. \"He wooed me with chewing gum.\" But the union lasted six decades until his death. Lewis also became her manager.\n\nShe was given her own radio programme and, thanks to the BBC's shortwave transmitters, could be heard across the world.\n\nLynn spent the war years entertaining the troops, performing in hospitals and army camps, and travelling as far as India and Burma. She stayed in tents and grass huts, and \"went goodness knows how long without a bath\".\n\nOf her journeys to such threatening territory, she explained: \"It was so important to get entertainment to the boys.\"\n\nBing Crosby was one of many stars who appeared on her BBC TV shows\n\nVera Lynn's success continued well into peacetime and, in 1952, she became the first British artist to have a number one hit in America with the song Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart.\n\nAnd two years later, she had her only British number one single with My Son, My Son.\n\nShe never retired and was always happy to move in new directions, notably with a cover of Abba's Thank You For The Music. However, it was plain that the public, including those born long after the war, wanted to hear her perform her classic songs.\n\nIn 2009, at the age of 92, Lynn became the oldest living artist to top the British album chart, outselling both the Arctic Monkeys and the Beatles, with whom she shared the top 10.\n\nThe singer had a realistic approach to her fame. \"I don't live in the past,\" she once said, \"even though I have never been allowed to forget it.\"\n\nShe appeared on stage during the 60th anniversary commemorations for VE Day in 2005\n\nIn 1976 Lynn was made a dame and in 2000 she was named as the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th Century.\n\nAs well as making frequent appearances at veterans' reunions, Lynn was a tireless charity worker for hundreds of organisations. In 1992 she founded the Dame Vera Lynn School for Parents and Handicapped Children.\n\nShe performed in front of thousands of people outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in 1995, and put in an appearance at the next anniversary concert 10 years later.\n\nIn a 2005 speech, she remarked: \"We should always remember, we should never forget, and we should teach the children to remember.\"\n\nThis photo was released on Dame Vera's 103rd birthday in March\n\nBy the time the 75th anniversary of VE Day approached, the impression made by Dame Vera's songs and contribution was shown to be as deep as ever. The UK was facing another crisis - and a virus, rather than a foreign army, was the foe this time.\n\nIn a televised address in April, the Queen evoked Dame Vera's wartime message, assuring families and friends who were separated during the coronavirus pandemic: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nJust two weeks earlier, Dame Vera herself had sent a message on her 103rd birthday, calling on the British public to find \"moments of joy\" during these \"hard times\".\n\nThen in May, We'll Meet Again was used during the finale of the BBC's coverage of the VE Day anniversary. Dame Vera appeared in a virtual duet with Katherine Jenkins, while key workers also joined in with the song.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThat led an album that had been released for her 100th birthday - featuring contributions from younger singers including Alfie Boe, Alexander Armstrong and Cynthia Erivo - to re-enter the UK top 40.\n\nAfter a lifetime of service to her country, Dame Vera was still held as the embodiment of the best of the British spirit.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he does not think the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review its use.\n\nThe RFU said many people were not aware of the song's links with slavery.\n\nBut the PM said people should focus less on symbols and more on the substance of racism.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think there should be \"any sort of prohibition\" on singing the song.\n\nHe added: \"Frankly I think what people need to do is focus less on the symbols of discrimination... all these issues that people are now raising to do with statues and songs and so on - I can see why they're very emotive, I understand that.\n\n\"But what I want to focus on is the substance of the issue.\"\n\nHe added that he \"certainly didn't think there should be any sort of prohibition on singing [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]\".\n\n\"Nobody, as far as I'm concerned, seems to know the words,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Before we start complaining about Swing Low, Sweet Chariot I'd like to know what the rest of the words are.\"\n\nFormer rugby league and union wing Martin Offiah, who was playing during the song's first known use at Twickenham in 1987, has welcomed the RFU review but does not want it banned either.\n\nOffiah told Radio 5 live: \"The song is not really what the issue is here - the issue is about diversity and inclusion.\n\n\"I think this is the first step as we progress towards change.\"\n\nThe song is believed to have been sung at rugby clubs since the 1960s but came to prominence at Twickenham in 1987, when Offiah played in the Middlesex Sevens tournament.\n\nIt is thought Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was written in the mid-19th century by Wallace Willis, who was a black slave.\n\n\"It's definitely an emotional piece of music, very emotive, it stirs up feelings and that's probably something to do with its history,\" Offiah said.\n\n\"That history is probably not that well known by a lot of people in the UK. I champion the RFU reviewing it, I wouldn't support the banning of such a song. When you do try to ban things like that it just makes the song more divisive.\n\n\"If this review leads to the RFU putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the RFU and addressing those issues, that's what we actually want.\"\n\nFormer England captain Maxine Edwards believes the RFU has bigger issues to face than fans' use of the song.\n\nEdwards said: \"I think it is interesting that the RFU has decided to review this song and have discussions about its appropriateness, as part of their bigger process of reviewing their approach to the representation of people of BAME backgrounds within their organisational structure at all levels and taking part in their sport.\n\n\"I would, however, ask why this is the first thing that they have on their list to review as part of this review process?\n\n\"It is complicated, but it is really by no means the biggest issue that the RFU needs to address.\"\n\nEngland's Maro Itoje, who spoke about rugby and race on the Rugby Union Weekly podcast, recently said the song had a \"complicated\" background .\n\nLast week World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi - the only black person on the RFU council - said that the death of George Floyd in the United States had led to \"powerful conversations\".\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has promised to increase diversity in the organisation, saying: \"We have undertaken some very good initiatives at the grassroots level to encourage more diverse participation. However, that in itself is not enough.\n\n\"We need to do more to achieve diversity across all areas of the game, including administration.\"\n• Football Daily: When will the Champions League restart?", "The boy is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been charged with plotting an \"Islamist\" terror attack, police have said.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, who cannot be named, faces one count of preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nHampshire Police, which arrested the boy on 12 June, said it believed the investigation was \"isolated\". The boy was later re-arrested by counter-terror police.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grace Millane's family have donated hundreds of care packages to hospitals in her memory\n\nThe family of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane have described plans to outlaw the \"rough sex gone wrong\" defence as \"fantastic news\".\n\nMiss Millane, from Essex, was killed in New Zealand in December 2018.\n\nHer killer said she died accidentally after asking to be strangled during sex, but his defence was rejected and he was convicted of her murder.\n\nMinister Alex Chalk said it would be made clear in the Domestic Abuse Bill the defence was not acceptable.\n\nThe new legislation is due to come into force in England and Wales later this year.\n\nA man from New Zealand was convicted last November of murdering Miss Millane, from Wickford.\n\nHer cousin said it was \"horrendous\" to have to listen to his lies during the court case.\n\nHannah O'Callaghan said: \"It felt like Grace was on trial, yet not able to defend herself.\"\n\nGrace's cousin Hannah O'Callaghan (left) and mother Gillian Millane (right) have donated thousands of handbags to refuges in her memory\n\nShe said of the planned new law: \"It won't change things for us but hopefully it will stop any other family having to go through this.\n\n\"Men must not be allowed to use this defence as an excuse to kill women, knowing they can get a lesser sentence.\n\n\"Families won't have to sit and listen to only one side of the story while the victim is re-victimised and does not get the chance to tell their side.\"\n\nMiss Millane's death provoked an outpouring of anger, partly because of her killer's attempts to explain her death. Personal details about the 22-year-old's sex life were discussed in court and reported around the world.\n\nGrace Millane's murder provoked an outpouring of anger, partly because of her killer's attempts to explain her death\n\nThe case led to increased concerns about the defence and a campaign group formed to put pressure on ministers to ban it.\n\nFiona Mackenzie, founder of the We Can't Consent To This campaign, said she was \"extremely thrilled\" by the announcement and was waiting to see the proposals.\n\nMs Millane's family said they wanted to create a positive legacy from her death. They have set up an initiative called Love Grace x to help domestic abuse victims.\n\nThey have donated thousands of handbags packed with toiletries to refuges across the world, and have also been making care packages for patients, nurses, doctors and carers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGrace Millane's family have been making care packages for patients, nurses, doctors and carers battling coronavirus\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Press — We Can't Consent To This The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A giant teddy bear has been cheering up people up on a Cornish street for 50 days of lockdown.\n\nEach day 'Paws' was given a different theme and accompanied by a motivational message written on his whiteboard on Paul's Row in Truro.\n\nThe family behind the idea say they decided to put him outside at the start of lockdown to make people smile on their daily walk and soon realised people wanted to see more of him.\n\nHe even has his own Facebook page .\n\nQuote Message: \"We just put the bear out one morning and had loads of people say they loved it so we did it again and then 50 days later here we are. We have had lots of letters and cards to say how grateful people are and people changed their walk routes to visit Paws daily.\" from Lauren Turner \"We just put the bear out one morning and had loads of people say they loved it so we did it again and then 50 days later here we are. We have had lots of letters and cards to say how grateful people are and people changed their walk routes to visit Paws daily.\"", "In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.\n\nThe Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused.\n\nHowever, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nThe government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point.\n\nInstead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she judges it to be fit for purpose, which she does not believe is the case at present. It is possible this may never happen.\n\nGermany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called \"centralised\" approach to a \"decentralised\" one.\n\nThe NHS has been testing both systems against each other, over the course of the past month.\n\nThe centralised version trialled on the Isle of Wight worked well at assessing the distance between two users, but was poor at recognising Apple's iPhones.\n\nSpecifically, the software registered about 75% of nearby Android handsets but only 4% of iPhones.\n\nBy contrast, the Apple-Google model logged 99% of both Android mobiles and iPhones. But its distance calculations were weaker.\n\nIn some instances, it could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested the original plan might have worked had it not been for Apple's restrictions on third-party apps' use of Bluetooth.\n\nMr Hancock said he would not recommend use of a contact-tracing app \"unless I'm confident in it\"\n\n\"Apple software prevents iPhones being used effectively for contact tracing unless you're using Apple's own technology,\" he said.\n\n\"Our app won't work because Apple won't change that system... and their app can't measure distance well enough to a standard that we are satisfied with.\n\n\"What matters is what works. Because what works will save lives.\"\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"What we've done in really rigorously testing both our own Covid-19 app and the Google-Apple version is demonstrate that none of them are working sufficiently well enough to be actually reliable to determine whether any of us should self-isolate for two weeks [and] that's true across the world.\"\n\nIn response, Google noted that it and Apple had developed an application programming interface - a set of functions and procedures for others to build on - rather than a fully-fledged app.\n\n\"We have developed an Exposure Notification API with Apple based on consultation with public health experts around the world, including in the UK, to ensure that our efforts are useful to authorities as they build their own apps to limit the spread of Covid-19, while ensuring privacy and security are central to the design,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe latest developments come a day after the BBC revealed that a former Apple executive, Simon Thompson, was taking charge of the late-running project as part of Baroness Harding's team.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.\n\nThey work by logging when two people have been in close proximity to each other for a substantial period of time.\n\nIf one of the users is later diagnosed as having the disease, an alert can be sent to others they have recently been close to, telling them that they should also get tested and/or self-isolate.\n\nThe UK's previous \"centralised\" design carried out the contact-matches on a remote server.\n\nThe Apple-Google model carries the process out on the handsets themselves, making it more difficult for the authorities or potentially hackers to de-anonymise the records and use them for other means.\n\nOne advantage of the switch - if deployed - is that the NHS Covid-19 app would be able to overcome a limitation of iPhones and carry out Bluetooth \"handshakes\" when the software is running in the background.\n\nAnother is that it should be easier to make the app compatible with other countries' counterparts, which are based on the same system - including the Republic of Ireland and Germany.\n\nEarlier in the week, the European Commission said that France - which had adopted a centralised app - would face challenges in this regard.\n\n\"This is a welcome, if a heavily and unnecessarily delayed, move,\" commented Dr Michael Veale from the DP3T group, which promotes the decentralised model.\n\n\"The Google-Apple system in a way is home-grown: originating with research at a large consortium of universities led by Switzerland and including UCL in the UK.\"\n\nHe added that developers should be able to adapt code already being used by Germany and Switzerland if required.\n\nIf Baroness Harding decides the Apple-Google tech is never good enough to roll out, then another alternative might be a system based on wearable tech.\n\nSingapore recently ordered 300,000 dongles to test as an alternative. Rather than uploading data over the internet, users will physically hand them over if they test positive for the virus, allowing recent contacts to be flagged.\n\nBaroness Harding's team is monitoring it and other innovations, but for now intends to focus on manual contact tracing carried out by humans.\n\nWhile the government is still set to launch an app of some kind across England, health is a devolved issue.\n\nAs a consequence, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have still to commit to the initiative.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the UK government to gather the information we need on data integration, technical information and overall timescales before making any decisions on whether or not to support its use,\" a spokesman for the Scottish government told the BBC.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Executive added: \"People in Northern Ireland already have access to a symptom checker and advice app called Covid-19 NI, which more than 50,000 have downloaded and use regularly. This helps people to improve access to information, particularly when they have been advised to self-isolate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n• None What is contact tracing and how does it work? Video, 00:03:37What is contact tracing and how does it work?", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nOriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.\n\nThe governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the statue of the colonialist.\n\nCampaigners have called for the statue to be taken down - saying it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nThe removal is not expected to be immediate - as the college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaigners said the announcement was \"hopeful\", but warned they would remain cautious until the college had actually carried out the removal.\n\nIn a statement, campaigners said that until the \"Rhodes statue ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\" - and will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision, tweeting: \"I hope they can find a good home for him where we can discuss him rather than (appear to) venerate him.\"\n\nHowever, former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted that \"Rhodes's generosity allowed thousands of young people to enjoy an education they could not otherwise have had\".\n\n\"Why would anyone give to an institution that treats its benefactors this way?\" he asked.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\n\"I want to be really clear that racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities,\" she told a Higher Education Policy Institute event.\n\nMs Donelan said she was opposed to the renaming of buildings named after the 19th Century statesman, William Gladstone, or the removal of the Rhodes statue.\n\nProtesters on the streets of Oxford have called for the statue to be taken down, saying that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nBut last week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Companies that benefited from slavery must go further than apologising, the chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission has said.\n\nMany British and European firms and their predecessors \"drank from the well of Caribbean slavery\", said Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles in a Reuters interview.\n\nThe comments came as several financial institutions apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nHe called on British firms to fund development projects in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Unfortunately, one cannot go back and remake the history but you can make atonement: it is not enough to make your apology as a public spectacle, it is not enough to present it as public relations exercise,\" said Prof. Beckles, who is vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies.\n\nThe historian added that British institutions should sit down with Caribbean nations to fund development projects. Alternatively, they could consider a type of \"Marshall Plan\" - a reference to the US aid given to Europe after World War Two.\n\n\"All the institutions that created this mess really have to come and help in practical ways to clean it up,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England and the Church of England have apologised for the role that some of their senior figures played in the slave trade. The Daily Telegraph, which first reported the news, said the Church called its links a \"source of shame\".\n\nThe Bank said it would ensure that images of former governors who were involved in the slave trade are not displayed in its buildings.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nIn 2006, the Church voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.\n\nIts missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts (SPG), inherited three sugar estates in the Caribbean.\n\nThe plantation was run for the Church by professional planters, but its profits went to the missionary group. Slaves working on the estate were branded on their chests with the word \"society\".\n\nAnd now, the Telegraph has reported that nearly 100 clergymen also benefitted individually from slavery.\n\n\"While we recognise the leading role clergy and active members of the Church of England played in securing the abolition of slavery, it is a source of shame that others within the Church actively perpetrated slavery and profited from it,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nA database compiled by University College London shows that at least 11 former Bank governors and 16 early directors either benefitted from those payments or had links to the slave trade.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that the 18th and 19th Century slave trade was an unacceptable part of English history,\" a Bank spokeswoman said.\n\n\"As an institution, the Bank of England was never itself directly involved in the slave trade, but is aware of some inexcusable connections involving former governors and directors and apologises for them.\"\n\nShe said the Bank had started a \"thorough review\" of its image collection to ensure no pictures of anyone involved in the slave trade remained on display.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\nVideos showed Mr Floyd, who was unarmed and in handcuffs, dying after a white policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nOn Wednesday, pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London also apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean, while the maritime insurance business, which centred around Lloyd's, thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.", "The UK's biggest building society has tripled the minimum deposit it will ask for from first-time buyers.\n\nThe Nationwide will lower its ceiling for mortgage lending to new customers in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the change, from Thursday, was due to \"these unprecedented times and an uncertain mortgage market\".\n\nFirst-time buyers are likely to be the most significantly affected because they often have smaller amounts saved to get on the property ladder.\n\nNationwide has reduced the proportion of a home's value that is willing to lend from 95% to 85%.\n\nSo for example, if a property costs £100,000, a new buyer would now need a £15,000 deposit rather than a £5,000 deposit.\n\nNationwide made the move in case house prices fall and buyers go into negative equity - that is when the debt is greater than the value of the property.\n\nBut it was also to cut the risk of customers not being able to make repayments if they lose their jobs.\n\n\"Our priority at this time must be to help members keep their homes. As such, we need to ensure our members can afford their repayments, while doing what we can to protect them from falling into negative equity,\" said Henry Jordan, Nationwide director of mortgages.\n\nAfter the elation over the re-opening of the housing market, Nationwide's move to limit how much we can borrow will bring everyone down to earth.\n\nIf there is a downward lurch in house prices, recent buyers with big loans will be in serious danger of slipping into negative equity.\n\nAnyone who has been there in previous recessions will tell you it is stressful experience, and not just because of the usual worry about meeting the monthly payments.\n\nYou can feel trapped, because if you sell you make a loss. Plus, there is virtually no prospect of getting another loan to move up the ladder.\n\nOf course, people who are priced out the market will welcome cheaper property, if that is what happens.\n\nBut Nationwide is saying that it is time to \"protect\" us from risking too much to get a dream home.\n\nDavid Hollingworth, associate director of communications at L&C Mortgages, said that Nationwide was following many other major UK mortgage lenders.\n\n\"The market has been changing quickly,\" he said. When the lockdown started, many institutions dramatically dropped the percentage of a property's price they were willing to lend: this is known as the loan-to-value ratio.\n\nAs the housing market has reopened, those maximum loan-to-value ceilings have been rising again, but not up to Nationwide's previous level of 95%.\n\nIn a sense, Nationwide is now \"running with the rest of the pack\", Mr Hollingworth said.\n\nSome lenders, such as HSBC, still have mortgages with a 90% loan-to-value ratio.\n\nHowever, there is more demand for that type of mortgage than many banks have the capacity to deal with at the moment, he said.\n\nEmma Harvey, mortgages director at MoneySuperMarket, said: \"It's getting harder to borrow money to buy a house, as providers look to limit risk in these uncertain times, and Nationwide is the latest example of this.\n\n\"In addition, there are also fewer mortgage products out there to choose from. For example, whilst 90% [loan-to-value] mortgages were commonplace at the start of 2020, only a handful of lenders are still offering these, and even then only with restrictions.\"\n\nMs Harvey said that it has always been a good idea to have as large a deposit as you can save.\n\n\"If you're looking to get on the housing market, you should review your finances, look for areas of savings and be realistic about when you will be in a position to purchase a property.\n\n\"But with the Bank of England base rate so low, there are some great deals out there at the moment for people with a healthy deposit,\" she added.", "Around the world, major countries are unveiling new contact-tracing apps as they emerge from lockdown.\n\nGermany has just launched a decentralised app based on the Apple and Google platform. Switzerland, Ireland and Austria are testing theirs. And Japan is said to be unveiling something similar, with the help of Microsoft, later this week.\n\nSo the inhabitants of an island just off the south coast of England could be forgiven for asking - has everybody forgotten about us?\n\nSix weeks ago, a trial of the NHS contact-tracing app was launched on the Isle of Wight with great fanfare. Islanders were urged to download it, almost as a patriotic duty - with the prospect that successful testing would lead to a national rollout, at least across England, a couple of weeks later.\n\nThe NHS team was quick to claim early success with over 55,000 downloads, something like 60% of the people whose mobile phones were capable of downloading it.\n\nAs the weeks went by islanders were assured that much was being learned, even if this early version of the app was quite limited - it sends rather vague messages to people who might have been in contact with someone who has reported symptoms.\n\nThen everything went quiet.\n\nThere was no information about the data that had been gathered - how many alerts had been sent out, how people had reacted.\n\nA new version of the app with more questions about symptoms and with test requests and results integrated into the process was due to have been launched last Tuesday, but the date came and went without any update.\n\nMeanwhile, both ministers and Baroness Dido Harding, who is running the wider Test and Trace programme, have stonewalled questions about the app.\n\n\"App? What app? Oh that thing that we were so excited about back in April…,\" characterises a typical response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThe best thing they can say about it is that it will be the cherry on the cake of contact tracing, rather than the cake itself. As for a timetable, they are no longer willing to provide one.\n\nThis has left the people of the Isle of Wight somewhat baffled.\n\nAmong them is a man who has spent a career building commercial apps and knows a bit about the complexities of a launch.\n\nIn late May, Steve Clark, who now runs a tech consultancy from the Isle of Wight, blogged some suggestions for making the NHS app more engaging.\n\nMr Clark suggested the app needed to do more to ensure that people kept it active on their phones\n\nHe told me that a large proportion of the population had been enthusiastic about getting involved in the trial.\n\n\"We were excited and proud,\" he says, \"to be doing our bit for the effort, and to be involved with testing what we assumed was going to be a major plank of getting on top of the virus, and keeping on top of it, as we come out of lockdown.\"\n\nBut he says that enthusiasm has waned because people just don't know what is going on.\n\nHe puts that down, partly, to one of the key problems with a lack of \"hand-holding\" in the app to guide people through it, coupled with the fact that there is no incentive to look at it every day.\n\nSteve still has the NHS app on his phone, but says it seems that others have deleted it.\n\n\"Just as you're trying to get something that would roll out nationally, you've actually got people on the trial wanting to remove it - and I think that was substantially because there was no support framework and feedback loop.\"\n\nAnother islander, who did not want to be named, told the BBC their concern was about what the alerts from the app meant: \"Currently wishing I hadn't downloaded it. It lacks information - not knowing where this mysterious contact is, or was, and even if they have had a test.\"\n\nThe irony is that the team behind the NHS app believe that version two, which should have been out on the island by now, will deal with many of these issues. But they seem to be as much in the dark as anyone else as to when it will be rolled out.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely says there is some evidence from the trial that it may have helped suppress the virus.\n\n\"I look forward to the island getting an update from the Trace and Test leadership team very soon, so that we know what is happening with the app,\" he says.\n\nAnd the fact that others are rolling out apps while the NHS project seems becalmed, might not be quite as embarrassing as it seems.\n\nAll the signs are that every country is finding it a struggle to prove that Bluetooth contact-tracing apps, whether centralised or decentralised, can really be effective.\n\nA poll in Germany found only 42% of people saying they would download the Covid-Warn app, while 46% said they would not.\n\nMeanwhile, Singapore appears to have decided that a wearable device is more likely to prove an effective method of contact tracing than its TraceTogether app, which has suffered from low uptake and technical glitches.\n\nNevertheless the UK, which a couple of months ago appeared to be a pioneer in this technology, now looks like an also-ran.\n\n\"Where the Isle of Wight goes, Britain follows,\" said the Health Secretary Matt Hancock when he announced the trial.\n\nBut, so far, people on the island could be excused for thinking the app is taking them on the road to nowhere.", "A child who died at Sheffield Children's Hospital on Monday tested positive for Covid-19\n\nA 13-day-old baby with no known underlying health conditions has died with Covid-19, NHS England has said.\n\nThe baby is thought to be the youngest to die with the disease in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirmed a child died on Monday after being admitted in a critical condition.\n\nThe hospital, which has not confirmed the child's age, said the victim tested positive for Covid, but the cause of death was yet to be determined.\n\nEarlier it was announced a further 62 people aged between 13 days and 96 years, who tested positive for coronavirus, had died in hospitals in England.\n\nThe 13-day-old baby was the only person under 20 years of age recorded as dying.\n\nIn a statement, Sheffield Children's Hospital, said: \"Sadly on Monday June 15, a child passed away... having been brought in to the hospital in a critical condition. Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\n\"The cause of death is not yet known. Tests have confirmed that the child had Covid-19, but it isn't yet clear if it was a contributing factor.\"\n\nPreviously, the youngest person to have died with the virus in the UK with no pre-existing health problems was Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was 13 and from Brixton in south London.\n\nIn May, a six-week-old child who did have underlying health conditions died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five years before air travel is back to normal says minister\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has predicted air travel to and from Scotland will take at least five years to return to pre-coronavirus levels. A limited number of flights have continued during lockdown and he said the Scottish Government expects \"a slow recovery of some air services\" over the summer. This will start with domestic services and be followed by international routes, he said. In a written answer to Scottish Conservative MSP Dean Lockhart about the speed routes can be re-established, Mr Matheson said: \"Realistically, it will take at least five years for services to recover to pre-Covid-19 levels.\"", "\"Initially I didn't know how to feel, but it only took about five or ten minutes' worth of research to realise that no, you definitely couldn't work in any capacity.\"\n\nSteve (not his real name) is 27 and works in manufacturing in County Durham. His employer told him that he had been furloughed but he later received a message from his boss asking him to log on and work.\n\nUnder the furlough scheme, which was brought in to minimise unemployment due to the coronavirus crisis, the government pays 80% of staff salaries up to £2,500 a month. But once an employee has been furloughed, they cannot do any work that would help their employer make money.\n\nNevertheless, HM Revenue and Customs has told the BBC that it has received more than 3,000 reports of furlough fraud since April.\n\nAfter Steve learned that he was not allowed work while on furlough, he felt uncomfortable and refused to log on. He lost his job in May.\n\n\"I'm disappointed and angry that there are companies out there that want to exploit the furlough scheme,\" he said.\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK workforce is now being supported by the furlough scheme and the cost so far has reached £19.6bn.\n\nAn employer applies online, giving their employees' names, National Insurance numbers and dates of employment.\n\nBut the system has been found to be open to abuse. One survey found that more than a third of furloughed employees have been asked by bosses to carry out work while receiving funds under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme.\n\nA third of furloughed employees were asked to carry on doing their usual job, while 29% were told to undertake more administrative tasks, according to the survey by Crossland Employment Solicitors.\n\nHMRC is now preparing to tackle fraudulent and erroneous claims.\n\nHMRC chief executive Jim Harra said that while the scheme had saved nearly nine million jobs, it was a “magnet for fraudsters”.\n\nEarlier this month, its chief executive Jim Harra told the Commons Public Accounts Committee that the scheme was \"a magnet for fraudsters\". He said tipoffs were taken \"very seriously\".\n\nThere is no automatic trigger that would tell HMRC someone was being asked to work while on furlough, or if the money had not reached the right account.\n\nBut if an employee reported their employer to HMRC, it would be straightforward for the department to cross-check the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system. An employee could also produce evidence that shows they had been asked to work.\n\nLucy (not her real name) is in her mid-20s and works in housing in London. She was placed on furlough in March but says she was then asked to work using her personal email account and phone number.\n\nLucy told the BBC she is still working up to 20 hours a week, even though she knows what she is doing is wrong.\n\n\"My livelihood depends on this,\" she said. \"I feel a huge amount of anxiety.\"\n\n\"The whole team is still working. They've told us if we want to stop we can, but I know that if I did, it would look bad - that I wouldn't look committed.\n\n\"Also, I want my company to survive this.\"\n\n\"On the one hand, I want to work to feel normal while the world falls apart, but it feels like a moral conundrum. I am confused and upset and wondering what is the right thing to do.\"\n\nWhere employers are found to have inadvertently broken the rules, they could be made to return the cash. But if HMRC can prove they intended to do it, the employer could face up to 10 years in prison.\n\nToby Duthie, a forensic accountant and partner at Forensic Risk Alliance, said that while the government had needed to act quickly to cover wages, the speed at which the furlough scheme was introduced meant there was a lot of uncertainty and a lack of clarity for employers.\n\n\"This is also open season for people who want to abuse the system,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHMRC has stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud - such as inviting colleagues back to do some work before their starting date. And during its first round of investigations, around one third of cases did not warrant further investigation.\n\nIt said: \"We believe the vast majority of companies will have used the system correctly.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "The Queen and Dame Vera, pictured in 1992, were both key UK figures during World War Two\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney are among those who have paid respects to Dame Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103.\n\nForces' Sweetheart Dame Vera, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, was best known for her wartime anthem We'll Meet Again.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen will send private condolences to the singer's family.\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones said during a BBC One special on Thursday evening: \"We as a family are very sad that my mother is no longer with us and this programme is a tribute to her wonderful life and her fantastic career.\n\n\"She touched so many people's lives and we are very, very proud of her.\"\n\nSir Paul tweeted after the programme to describe Dame Vera as \"strong and inspiring\".\n\n\"I am so sad to hear of her passing but at the same time so glad to have met her and experienced first-hand her warm, fun-loving personality. Her voice will sing in my heart forever,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nClarence House shared images of the singer meeting Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall and receiving her honour at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Queen previously echoed Dame Vera's famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nShe told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said Dame Vera's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nDame Vera's family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nWW2 veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the coronavirus lockdown, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently.\n\n\"She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard, who performed with her on the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995, said she was \"a great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon\".\n\nHe recalled his \"best, and favourite, memory\" of sharing a stage with her in front of Buckingham Palace that year.\n\n\"We walked to the stage through a crowd of survivors of that war, and they were reaching out to touch and get a smile from Vera,\" he remembered.\n\n\"I heard the words... 'God bless you' ... 'Thank you' ... 'We love you' for their very own Forces' Sweetheart! A great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon.\n\nKatherine Jenkins, whose virtual duet was seen on the recent 75th VE Day anniversary, said Dame Vera's voice \"brought comfort to millions\".\n\n\"It was she who chose the sentiments of her songs - she knew instinctively what people needed to hear, how to rally the morale and her spirit and strength created the soundtrack of a generation,\" she added.\n\nMichael Ball said she was \"an inspiration to us all\", adding: \"We shall never see her like again.\"\n\nHe wrote that \"her talent was so very rare and special\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Michael Ball OBE 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\nAlfie Boe, one of the younger generation of singers who appeared on an album released for Dame Vera's 100th birthday in 2017, said: \"It was a real pleasure to sing with her - an honour I will treasure forever.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alfie Boe OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAled Jones, who also appeared on that album, echoed those sentiments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Aled Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and singer Sheridan Smith, who performed Dame Vera's anthem We'll Meet Again for the 75th anniversary of D-Day last year, told BBC Radio 5 Live her music is \"so relevant today, just as it was back then\".\n\n\"She boosted morale with her music and brought the nation together though music, and it's been very relevant recently. A lot of people have been using it again at this strange time,\" Smith said. \"She'll never be forgotten. Her music lives on.\"\n\nDame Vera was able to \"move everybody in the country\", Lesley Garrett said\n\nLesley Garrett told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that Dame Vera was \"still able to stir us\" until late in life.\n\n\"She had the ability to communicate to an extraordinary degree, and there was nobody who she didn't touch,\" she said.\n\n\"She had the ability to move everybody in the country - royalty, politicians, you name it, she was an inspiration to them.\"\n\nLyricist Sir Tim Rice also paid tribute, saying: \"Dame Vera Lynn was one of the greatest ever British popular singers, not just because of her immaculate voice, warm, sincere, instantly recognisable and musically flawless.\n\n\"She will be remembered just as affectionately for her vital work in the Second World War and for her own Charitable Foundations in the 75 years since. A link with more certain times has been irrevocably broken.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said she \"demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 will repeat a special edition of The People's Songs about We'll Meet Again at 21:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Leaders of social services in England have said there will be \"catastrophic consequences\" without immediate investment in the sector.\n\nCouncils could run out of cash and care providers could \"go to the wall\", a report by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) warns.\n\nIt says increased costs due to Covid-19 have exacerbated an existing crisis.\n\nThe government has given councils an extra £3.2bn to tackle the pandemic and £600m for care.\n\nThe ADASS report warns that increased spending due to coronavirus - for example, on personal protective equipment (PPE), staffing costs and sickness cover - means some private care providers may go out of business.\n\nIt has previously estimated that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\nNow the organisation is calling for a two-year ring-fenced funding settlement for adult social care and as well as reform of the sector, including better pay and conditions for care workers.\n\nJames Bullion, ADASS president, said the findings represent \"a wake-up call that requires a clear response\".\n\n\"Urgent action is needed to plug the financial black hole that has been blown in local government finances, to properly recognise and reward colleagues working in social care, stabilise providers of care and most importantly safeguard and ultimately enhance the care and support available to those of us who need it,\" he said.\n\n\"Without such action, local authorities will run out of money, care providers will go to the wall, many of us will not get the care and support we need, and the economy will take a further hit as more of us are forced to give up work to fill the caring gaps.\"\n\nLocal authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government to support their work during the pandemic, and there is a £600m infection-control fund for care homes.\n\nThis month, the Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.", "Schools have been preparing for the return of children\n\nSocial distancing of 1m (just over 3ft) as opposed to 2m (6ft) is \"safe and appropriate\" for children and young people at school, the Northern Ireland Executive has agreed.\n\nThe measure will allow \"full classes to attend\" school.\n\nThat is according to guidance being sent by Education Minister Peter Weir to school principals.\n\nMr Weir also said he has moved the target for full reopening from 17 August to 24 August.\n\nThe guidance outlined how schools may operate when they fully reopen and is due to be published on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's The View on Thursday night, First Minister Arlene Foster said the executive's objective \"is to get everybody back to school in September, I think that's what parents want\".\n\nShe said they would work with schools \"to find extra space, whether that's the assembly hall, the dining hall, or indeed as I've said, other facilities beside the schools\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said: \"This was all discussed today with the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer; we would never step outside that, we will make sure that we can get the maximum number of children into school, but all that has to be safe for the children, safe for the staff.\"\n\nIn the letter, Mr Weir said the guidance had undergone \"extensive review by the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Chief Medical Officer (CMO)\".\n\nHe said that the guidance has a \"day one focus\" and that it concentrates on \"social distancing and hygiene considerations within schools settings\".\n\nThe letter said: \"The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed that the current social distancing guidance of 2m must continue to be followed between all adults within the education sector, but that a distance of 1m is safe and appropriate between children and young people.\n\n\"Using 'protective bubbles' has been supported by the Department of Health and PHA, and flexing their use to 1m will allow full classes to attend.\n\n\"The 1m guidance between children is to be followed as far as possible within the confines of the physical capacity of each classroom and the 2m rule for staff adhered to fully.\"\n\nMr Weir also said that the term will now start for Primary Seven, Year 12 and Year 14 pupils on 24 August.\n\nChildren will not have to sit 2m apart, under the fresh guidance\n\n\"To facilitate these arrangements, schools will be opening in week commencing 17 August for preparation purposes,\" he said.\n\nMr Weir added that the guidance \"will be subject to ongoing review\" depending on scientific and medical advice over Covid-19.\n\nHowever, a primary school principal in Belfast has said the advice is \"impossible\" to implement and had left him \"totally confused\".\n\n\"I'm sitting here with a piece of paper in front of me trying to work out how I could possibly place desks in a primary classroom,\" Paul Bell, from Botanic Primary School, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\n\"A lot of my classrooms are 56m square... I have no idea who has done the mathematics to indicate in any way that you can put a full classroom of 30 pupils in and still have 2m from the teacher.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm quite happy to assist a programme whereby we will get the children back into school as quickly as possible, quite happy to talk about bringing children back in August, quite happy to have all of these conversations - but it's impossible to have conversations where advice is issued which is totally impossible to implement.\"\n\nMr Weir, also speaking on the programme, said that protective bubbles and reduced social distancing will \"mean that for many schools you'll be able to get every pupil in\".\n\n\"For others, it will be at least a large percentage of their pupils in each day and we will work with schools where they cannot get everybody in to see if there's any additional action that can be taken.\n\n\"I think if there's a willingness to do this, I don't think it's a mathematical impossibility.\n\n\"I think a reduction from two (metres) to one (metre) is a massive game changer in terms of education. This is a very positive step forward.\"\n\nA previous draft document seen by BBC News NI stated that post-primary pupils would attend school every other week and that primary school children would likely be in school for at least 40% of the week.\n\nThe change in social distancing guidelines would allow more children to attend throughout the week.\n\nA draft plan of the new guidance previously suggested a range of measures for the full reopening of schools, including that the beginning and end of school days could be staggered to avoid all children arriving and leaving at once.\n\nThe 'Education Restart' guidance has been drawn up by Department of Education (DE) officials, principals and teaching unions.\n\nIt will provide detailed guidance to schools and principals about how the school day would operate.\n\nSome of the measures in it are understood to include:\n\nThere is also expected to be guidance on hygiene measures, cleaning, and the circumstances in which Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) can be used in schools.\n\nHowever, while the guidance is detailed, a lot of decisions on how schools will operate when the new term begins are still going to be left up to principals and teachers.", "Dame Vera recorded the song several times, with the most famous version coming from the 1943 film of the same name\n\nWe'll Meet Again became Dame Vera Lynn's signature song. It was also one of the first singles to use a synth, was accused of being too \"slushy\" for the troops, and has featured in Dr Strangelove and Stranger Things.\n\nNo song captured the heartbreak and optimism of Britain at war better than We'll Meet Again.\n\nRecorded in 1939 by Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, its lyrics provided comfort to all those who were apart from their loved ones.\n\n\"We'll met again, don't know where, don't know when / But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.\"\n\nThe song has since been quoted by the Queen and covered by Johnny Cash. It even entered the UK chart earlier this year, offering a message of hope during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"Its lyric seemed to me to be a perfect example of what you might call the 'greetings card song,'\" Dame Vera wrote in her 1975 autobiography Vocal Refrain.\n\n\"A very basic human message of the sort that people want to say to each other but find embarrassing actually to put into words.\"\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 Music Video Vault This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe singer was only 22 when she first recorded the song. It was in the first year of the conflict - during the so-called \"phoney war\", when troops were conscripted but very little fighting took place - that Lynn found the song while shopping around music publishing companies in London's Denmark Street for new material.\n\nOne of the leading lights at the time was Hughie Charles, who had turned down the opportunity to open the batting for Lancashire County Cricket Club to seek his fortune as a composer.\n\nHaving appraised Lynn as \"a very nice kid\", he encouraged her to record two patriotic songs he'd written with Ross Parker in anticipation of the coming hostilities - the strident, optimistic There'll Always Be An England and the more wistful We'll Meet Again.\n\nShe first performed We'll Meet Again in the summer with Bert Ambrose and his orchestra. \"Looking back on the reviews, I notice the newspapers picked up on it right away,\" she told The Guardian in 1995.\n\n\"It was the perfect song to sign off with, and I started to use it more and more.\"\n\nWith a melody loosely based on Anton Rubinstein's Melody in F, it was the singer's performance that touched people's hearts - her characteristically low tone and emotional delivery chiming with the prevailing mood of the times.\n\nA polyphonic synthesizer was first heard at the 1939 New York World's Fair\n\nHer first recording of the song took place later that year, accompanied by Arthur Young on a new instrument called the Hammond Novachord, the world's first commercially-available polyphonic synthesizer.\n\nThe \"instrument that reproduces the tone of a dozen instruments\" had only made its debut at the New York World Fair that April, making Lynn's single one of the first pop records (perhaps the very first) to feature a synth.\n\nHowever it was a later recording, backed by a full orchestra, that became more famous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again\n\nBy that time, she had become a fixture on forces' radio with her programme Sincerely Yours.\n\nMore than 20% of the British public tuned in to the show every Sunday night, as Lynn performed songs of hope amid hardship and read out letters from people separated by the war.\n\n\"Although we did the programme from a studio, I always tried to imagine myself singing and talking from my own home,\" said the singer. \"Addressing myself not to an audience in the conventional sense, but to scattered individuals - an intimate conversation, but to a couple of million people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Vera Lynn speaks to the troops in 'Sincerely Yours'\n\nEach episode closed with a rendition of We'll Meet Again. \"Keep smiling through / Just like you always do,\" she urged listeners. But not everyone was happy.\n\nFollowing a series of British military defeats in northern Africa, a small but vocal campaign argued that \"radio crooners\" and \"sloppy sentimental rubbish\" were affecting the forces' morale.\n\n\"If our Armed Forces really like this sort of thing, it should be the duty of the BBC to hide the fact from the world,\" wrote a typical correspondent to the Daily Telegraph in 1942. Instead, he argued, the troops should be listening to \"something more virile\".\n\nIn response, the BBC formed a Dance Music Policy Committee, known colloquially as the \"anti-slush\" committee, to review the music it was broadcasting.\n\n\"We have recently adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country,\" said one ruling from 1942.\n\nAmong the victims were Bing Crosby's standard I'll Be Home For Christmas, which the committee felt would make troops homesick and despondent. Similarly, The Mills Brothers' Paper Doll was banned as \"we did not think it desirable to broadcast the song's theme of feminine faithlessness\".\n\nThe star was not swayed by the arguments, writing a column in the Sunday Dispatch saying the forces personnel and their \"wives and sweethearts\" valued the sentiment of her weekly radio show.\n\n\"During my two series of Sincerely Yours, I received letters from the boys in the forces at the rate of 1,000 a week. By the end, I received 18,000 and they have been coming ever since,\" she wrote.\n\n\"As I saw it,\" she later reflected, a song like We'll Meet Again \"was reminding the boys of what they were really fighting for, the precious, personal things rather than the ideologies and theories.\"\n\nAs the \"anti-slush\" debate raged, one of the star's \"middle-aged listeners\" wrote to the Radio Times, voicing his support for Lynn in particular.\n\n\"The words of her songs may have been so much sentimental twaddle. But she treated them with as much tenderness as though they were precious old folk, as though they meant something, something that she believed in and assumed that her audience believed in too,\" he wrote.\n\n\"By some magic she contrived to persuade you that neither she nor anybody else had ever sung or heard the songs before, that she had only just discovered their peculiar delights… and was generously passing them on.\"\n\nSadly, the BBC bowed to pressure and cancelled Lynn's show, but her popularity persisted.\n\nIn 1943, she starred in a film loosely based on her own life, in which a beautiful young dancer discovers a gift for singing, and turns her talents to entertaining the British Army in Europe.\n\nTitled We'll Meet Again, the finale featured a re-recording of the title track, which became the best-known version of the song.\n\nSoon afterwards, Sincerely Yours was reinstated by the BBC, and Lynn continued to travel the world, performing to \"the boys\" in uniform.\n\nDame Vera appeared with Petula Clark and Bruce Forsyth on the 60th anniversary of the end World War Two in 2005\n\nBut while the bittersweet lyrics of We'll Meet Again were perfectly suited to the uncertainty of war, the song endured and adapted after 1945.\n\nIt has been covered by Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Rod Stewart and Sammy Davis Jr. It was referenced by Pink Floyd in their song Vera, and used to haunting effect in the closing scenes of Stanley Kubrick's apocalyptic satire Dr Strangelove.\n\nDuring the Cold War, it was chosen by the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service as one of the tracks that would be played to comfort and reassure survivors of a nuclear Armageddon.\n\nMore recently, it has featured in TV shows like Stranger Things and The Simpsons, and films including Hellboy and Trainspotting 2; while it also provides an eerie backdrop to the Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Paris.\n\nAs the coronavirus hit the UK earlier this year, the song's message of cheerful resilience was invoked by the Queen who, in a rare televised address, told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again.\"\n\nHer message helped the song enter the singles chart for the first time in its 81-year history (the original recording pre-dated the charts, although Charles and Parker's sheet music was a best-seller in the 1940s).\n\nIn all that time, Dame Vera said she \"never tired of singing\" it.\n\n\"I had no idea that that particular song would become the tune people most associated with the war era,\" she wrote in her autobiography. \"Or that my voice would become the one that most reminded people of the hope for the future that we needed to have at that time.\n\n\"I'm told that schoolchildren today still learn the words to We'll Meet Again. That thrills me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks\n\nUnregulated social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube may present a health risk to the UK because they are spreading conspiracy theories about coronavirus.\n\nThat's the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, which finds people who get their news from social media sources are more likely to break lockdown rules.\n\nThe research team from Kings College London suggests social media news sites may need to do more to regulate misleading content.\n\n\"One wonders how long this state of affairs can be allowed to persist while social media platforms continue to provide a worldwide distribution mechanism for medical misinformation,\" the report concludes.\n\nThe study analysed surveys conducted across Britain in April and May this year.\n\nFacebook said it had removed \"hundreds of thousands\" of coronavirus posts that could have led to harm, while putting warning labels on \"90 million pieces of misinformation\" globally in March and April.\n\nPeople were asked if they believed a number of conspiracy theories relating to Covid-19: that the virus was made in a laboratory, that death and infection figures were being manipulated by the authorities, that symptoms were linked to 5G radiation or that there was no hard evidence the virus even exists.\n\nNone of these theories has any basis in verifiable fact.\n\nThose who believed such conspiracies were significantly more likely to get their news from unregulated social media. For example, 56% of people who believe that there's no hard evidence coronavirus exists get a lot of their information from Facebook, compared with 20% of those who reject the conspiracy theory.\n\nSixty percent of those who believe there is a link between 5G and Covid-19 get a fair amount or great deal of their information on the virus from YouTube. Only 14% of those who reject the theory are regular YouTube users.\n\nThere were dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment during the pandemic\n\nAnd 45% of people who believe Covid-19 deaths are being exaggerated by the authorities get a lot of their news on the virus from Facebook, more than twice the 19% of non-believers who say the same.\n\n\"There was a strong positive relationship between use of social media platforms as sources of knowledge about Covid-19 and holding one or more conspiracy beliefs,\" the study finds. \"YouTube had the strongest association with conspiracy beliefs, followed by Facebook.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who starts viral misinformation... and who spreads it?\n\nThe research also found that people who have left home with possible Covid-19 symptoms were more than twice or three times as likely than those who haven't to get information about the virus from Facebook or YouTube.\n\nPeople that admitted having had family or friends visit them at home were also much more likely to get their information about coronavirus from social media than those who have stuck by the rules.\n\nThe researchers conclude that there is a strong link between belief in conspiracy theories about the virus and risky behaviour during restrictions imposed to prevent its spread.\n\n\"Conspiracy beliefs act to inhibit health-protective behaviours,\" the study concludes, and \"social media act as a vector for such beliefs.\"\n\nThe report notes that when misinformation about Covid-19 was propagated by conspiracy theorist David Icke on the local London Live TV station, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom intervened.\n\nLondon Live was sanctioned for content which \"had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers\".\n\nYouTube and Facebook also deleted Mr Icke's official channels from their platforms and social networks insist they have made efforts to bring fake news about the coronavirus under control.\n\nThe study will be seized upon by those who believe social media companies like Facebook and YouTube owners Google should do more to control the publication of false information.\n\nA Facebook spokesman said: \"We have removed hundreds of thousands of Covid-19-related misinformation that could lead to imminent harm including posts about false cures, claims that social distancing measures do not work, and that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\n\"During March and April, we put warning labels on about 90 million pieces of Covid-19-related misinformation globally, which prevented people viewing the original content 95% of the time.\n\n\"We have also directed more than 3.5 million visits to official Covid-19 information and lockdown measures from the NHS and the government's website, directly from Facebook and Instagram.\"", "New details of the helicopter crash which killed NBA star Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, have been revealed.\n\nPilot Ara Zobayan told air traffic controllers he was climbing, when in fact he was descending, shortly before the crash.\n\nIt's believed he was disorientated due to thick fog.\n\nThese new details are from 1,700 pages of reports released by the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been investigating the accident.\n\nThe NTSB states that \"no conclusions about how or why the crash occurred should be drawn from the information\".\n\nIt says analysis of the new documents and probable cause will be issued \"at a later date\".\n\nUS reports state that in Ara Zobayan's last radio transmission, he said he was climbing to 4,000ft to get above the clouds.\n\nInstead, the helicopter plunged into a hillside in the city of Calabasas, California, killing all nine people inside.\n\nThe newly released documents include text messages shared between Ara, Kobe's drivers and other people involved in Kobe's flight.\n\nThey discussed conditions before the flight, with Ara saying: \"Weather looking OK\" at 7:30am on the day of the accident.\n\nHe also messaged to say that conditions \"should be OK\" for the planned 9am departure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Site where basketball legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash\n\nThe crash took place on Sunday, 26 January and resulted in a huge outpouring of tributes from people across the USA and worldwide.\n\nKobe, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game's history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LA County Sheriffs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has had his permission to officiate revoked\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has had his permission to officiate as a priest revoked.\n\nThe Church of England said new evidence linking Lord Carey, 84, to a review into allegations of abuse against the late John Smyth, had emerged.\n\nThere are no claims of abuse against him, and in a statement he said he was \"dismayed\" by the revocation.\n\nMr Smyth was accused of attacking boys whom he had met at a Dorset Christian camp in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe independent inquiry was launched into the Church's handling of allegations against Mr Smyth, a barrister who died aged 77 last year.\n\nPermission to Officiate (PTO) is required for any Church of England priest to preach or minister.\n\nIn a statement Lord Carey said: \"I am bewildered and dismayed to receive the news a short time ago that due to 'concerns' being raised during the review of John Smyth QC I have had my PTO revoked.\n\n\"I have been given no information on the nature of these 'concerns' and have no memory of meeting Mr Smyth.\"\n\nIn 2017 a damning independent report found he had \"colluded [with the convicted abuser Peter Ball] rather than seeking to help those harmed\".\n\nHe resigned from his post as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford and as a result his PTO was automatically revoked.\n\nBall was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s\n\nHe was later granted a PTO by the diocese in 2018, allowing him to preach at the church where he worships, conditional on no further concerns coming to light.\n\nA spokesman for the diocese said: \"A planned independent review into the Church of England's handling of allegations against the late John Smyth QC is currently under way.\n\n\"In the course of that review, new information has come to light regarding Lord Carey, which has been passed to the National Safeguarding Team for immediate attention as per the agreed terms of reference set for the review.\"\n\nLord Carey's PTO has been withdrawn while the matter is being investigated and he is unauthorised to \"undertake any form of ministry in the Diocese until further notice.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"However, for the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make clear that the new information received relates only to the review currently underway, and that there has not been an allegation of abuse made against Lord Carey.\"", "It's deadline day for anyone deciding whether to accept their university offers.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service - UCAS - said earlier this week that more than 65,000 applicants have yet to make up their minds.\n\nBeing in the middle of a pandemic means those choices are more complicated than usual.\n\nWhile university is still an exciting idea for some, others feel unsure about the prospect of a first year affected by online learning and social distancing.\n\nAbigail Coe, who is still planning to go to Manchester Metropolitan University, says she feels worried.\n\n\"Covid-19 has changed my expectations of what the university experience will be. We won't get freshers or nightlife, the social aspect seems almost non-existent.\n\nFor 17-year-old Abigail, university was actually a back-up plan. She had wanted to get a journalism apprenticeship and start working once she left school.\n\nBut the coronavirus outbreak meant some media companies, like lots of others, have stopped recruiting.\n\n\"The lack of job opportunities has pushed me into studying in the autumn,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"So the pandemic has changed my whole future.\"\n\nAbigail feels the \"freedom of adulthood\" she would have had at university has been taken away.\n\n\"I fear I'll be stuck at home in my first term doing lectures online.\n\n\"I was really looking forward to joining societies and clubs like hockey, but how can a Zoom call give you that experience?\"\n\nHomam's looking forward to becoming a medic\n\nCovid-19 has altered 20-year-old Homam Naser Al Din's university choice. He had received an offer from Keele University, which he was keen to take, but it required an IELTS English test.\n\n\"Unfortunately the test was cancelled due to the pandemic which meant that I had to firm my offer with Hull York Medical School instead,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nHe says his main concern is about the practical side of studying medicine.\n\n\"My friends and I are quite worried about the hands-on experience and activities required in a medical degree, especially if the two metre restrictions are still in place.\"\n\nBut he has had emails from the university about what the start term will look like.\n\n\"I know there will be a mixture of online learning and activities in smaller groups. We just have to get on and deal with whatever may happen.\"\n\nMolly Scales, from Glasgow, has decided to decline all her offers and also thinks the experience will be diminished because of the pandemic.\n\nThis also means the 17-year-old can reapply for her top choice university, from which she was rejected.\n\n\"I personally find face-to-face learning much more useful than online teaching,\" she says.\n\nBut, she continues: \"Deferring has made me rather anxious, especially as one university admitted that competition for places may be fiercer next year.\"\n\nProfessor Wyn Morgan, Vice-President for Education at the University of Sheffield, says some people deferring or rejecting offers means there might be more places than usual this year.\n\n\"There are more places available at some of the world's best universities, giving school leavers a unique opportunity.\n\n\"In contrast, 2021 will be an incredibly competitive time to enter university, so applicants wanting to defer should think carefully before they do so.\"\n\n18-year-old Catherine Prior is feeling more positive. If she gets the grades she needs, she plans to go ahead and study biological natural sciences at Cambridge.\n\n\"I am trying to keep in mind that although the first term or so may be disrupted we will still have second and third year to make up for the lost time. Many uni students I have talked to have said it's better in the later years anyway because you actually have friends,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nSome students have complained about a lack of clarity from universities over issues like how accommodation will work.\n\nHowever Catherine, from Essex, says she feels relatively well supported.\n\n\"I have had emails with positive encouragement that the university experience will be as normal as they can make it, and that they want lectures to start as soon as they can but they are limited by the government guidelines.\n\n\"We have been told that face-to-face teaching should still go ahead, just in a socially distant form.\n\n\"I am still holding out hope because there is some time until October and the situation is changing so quickly.\n\n\"I don't yet know what is happening with accommodation but I completely empathise with the university that it is hard to know what is the appropriate action, and it all depends on if there is a second wave.\"\n\nIt's not just people about to go to university in the UK who are taking difficult decisions.\n\nIsobel Roberts, a first-year civil engineering student at Bristol University, was looking forward to heading to Sydney for a year.\n\nBut because of the pandemic, the Australian border is closed to international students.\n\nIsobel was offered the chance to do classes online from the UK but has turned it down.\n\n\"Some of the courses may have to be taken in real-time, meaning I would be studying in the middle of the night, which is completely unfeasible in the long term,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nCourteney Sheppard, a senior customer experience manager at UCAS, has some advice for young people still making up their minds about their offers.\n\n\"When you have as much information as you need to make the right decision for you, log into Track and choose your firm and insurance choices before 6pm UK time.\n\n\"It's important to remember the reasons you chose to go to university before coronavirus, as they'll still be valid in the future.\"\n\n\"Take some time to talk things through with those people whose opinions you value the most. That could be your teachers, parents or friends.\n\n\"You can also speak to an expert UCAS adviser on the phone, on social media, and speak to current students through our website.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Xenon1T detector was installed at Italy's Gran Sasso lab from 2016 to 2018\n\nAn experiment searching for signs of elusive dark matter has detected an unexplained signal.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon1T experiment have detected more activity within their detector than they would otherwise expect.\n\nThis \"excess of events\" could point to the existence of hypothesised particles called axions, some of which are candidates for dark matter.\n\nDark matter comprises 85% of matter in the cosmos, but its nature is unknown.\n\nWhatever it is, it does not reflect or emit detectable light, hence the name.\n\nThere are three potential explanations for the new signal from the Xenon1T experiment. Two require new physics to explain, while one of them is consistent with the existence of solar axion particles.\n\nThe findings, which have not been peer reviewed, were published on the Arxiv pre-print server.\n\nSo far, scientists have only observed indirect evidence of dark matter. A definitive, direct detection of dark matter particles has yet to be made.\n\nThere are several theories to account for what that particle might be like. The most favoured one has been the WIMP, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.\n\nPhysicists working on the Xenon series of experiments have spent more than a decade hunting for signs of these WIMPs. But the search has been fruitless.\n\nBut Xenon1T, the most recent iteration was also sensitive to other candidate particles.\n\nThe experiment was operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy, from 2016 to 2018.\n\nIts detector was filled with 3.2 tonnes of ultra-pure liquefied xenon, two tonnes of which served as a \"target\" for interactions between the xenon atoms and other particles that were passing through.\n\nWhen a particle crosses the target, it can generate tiny flashes of light and free electrons from a xenon atom.\n\nMost of these interactions - also known as events - are with particles we already know about, such as muons, cosmic rays and neutrinos. This constitutes what scientists refer to as the background signal.\n\nIndirect evidence for dark matter: the titanic collision of two galaxy clusters separates dark matter (blue) from ordinary matter (pink)\n\nA potential signal from an undiscovered particle needs to be strong enough to rise above this background noise.\n\nScientists carefully estimated the number of background events in Xenon1T. They expected to see roughly 232, but the experiment instead saw 285 - an excess of 53 events.\n\nOne explanation could be a new, previously unconsidered source of background contamination, caused by the presence of tiny amounts of tritium in the Xenon1T detector.\n\nIt could also be due to neutrinos, trillions of which pass through your body, unhindered, every second. One explanation could be that the magnetic moment (a property of all particles) of neutrinos is larger than its value in the Standard Model, which categorises the elementary particles in physics.\n\nThis would be a strong hint that some other new physics is needed to explain it.\n\nHowever, the excess is most consistent with a signal from axions, a very light as-yet undetected class of particle. In fact, the excess of events has an energy spectrum similar to that expected from axions produced in the Sun.\n\nWhile these solar axions are not dark matter candidates, axions produced in the early Universe could be a source of dark matter.\n\nIn statistical terms, the solar axion hypothesis has a significance of 3.5 sigma.\n\nWhile this significance is fairly high, it is not large enough to conclude that axions exist. Five sigma is generally the accepted threshold for a discovery.\n\nThe significance of both the tritium and neutrino magnetic moment hypotheses corresponds to 3.2 sigma, meaning that they are also consistent with the data.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon collaboration are currently upgrading to a different iteration called Xenon-nT. With better data from this future version, they are confident they will soon find out whether the excess is a statistical fluke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting.", "The Principality Stadium, in Cardiff, was transformed into a field hospital to treat coronavirus patients\n\nOnly one of the field hospitals set up to help ease demand during the coronavirus pandemic has treated any patients, despite costing £166m.\n\nBuildings, including sports stadiums and theatres, were rapidly turned into 17 hospitals at the peak of the crisis.\n\nBut only the Dragon's Heart Hospital in Cardiff has received any patients.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething defended the decision saying in hindsight he would have \"made different choices at the time\".\n\n\"If we had needed extra capacity, in much greater numbers, and I had not acted as I did, I think the public would have rightly said, 'Why on earth didn't that man in charge do something about it?',\" he said.\n\nIn a bid to ease pressure on hospitals, 17 field hospitals were rapidly built to provide 6,000 additional beds, doubling the Welsh NHS's capacity at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nIt took just eight weeks to build those field hospitals, and two additional community step-down facilities for non-coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameras got a first look inside the field hospital at the Principality Stadium\n\nSince the Dragon's Heart Hospital at the Principality Stadium opened in April, 46 patients have been treated at the home of the Welsh Rugby Team, which is now empty and on standby in case of a second wave.\n\nNo-one has been admitted to the other 16 locations around the country, including the 1,000-bed facility at Swansea Bay Studios and Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Conwy.\n\nA pre-recorded message from Prince Charles was played on a big screen during the opening ceremony at the Dragon's Heart field hospital\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government had set up the hospitals after seeing how parts of the health service in Italy had been overwhelmed.\n\nA review is due later this month to decide how many field hospitals will be retained or repurposed.\n\nA health economist from Swansea University said that, in hindsight, spending £166m on 46 patients was \"not a good use of limited resources\".\n\nProf Ceri Phillips said: \"Elective operations were cancelled, the level of demand was reduced, out-patients was reorganised so people weren't coming into hospital.\"\n\nMr Gething said it was possible \"fewer field hospitals\" would be needed in the coming months.\n\n\"It's also possible we can make more use of the current capacity we have as we restart more normal NHS activity,\" he added.\n\nRoy Thomas gave one of his buildings at Bay Studios to be used as a field hospital\n\nThe owner of Swansea Bay Studios, Roy Thomas, signed a lease allowing the Welsh NHS to use the largest building on his site free of charge for a year to help tackle the virus.\n\nBut Mr Thomas said the complex needed financial support to survive.\n\nHe said: \"I see myself in next 12 months serving two masters.\n\n\"One is the health authority, to maintain whatever requirement they have 12 months in the future. and the other is to attempt to play my part in maintaining the filming industry for Neath Port Talbot, Swansea and west Wales.\"\n\nSwansea Bay UHB's Chief Operating Officer, Chris White, said it was fortunate the beds at the two field hospitals had not been needed at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nBut while cases have fallen, Mr White said it was important the field hospitals were \"ready in case we need them\".\n\nWales' field hospitals doubled the capacity for the Welsh NHS during the pandemic\n\nVenue Cymru in Llandudno also faces financial challenges after giving over its building to create 350 extra beds for the Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nThe theatre and conference centre, which is owned by Conwy council, has a three-month contract to act as field hospital until 6 July.\n\nThe deal, which is based on it having no financial impact on the local authority, will then be extended by agreement on a month-by-month basis.\n\nBut Venue Cymru said it would need financial help to restart shows after the pandemic.\n\nMark Wilkinson, from Betsi Cadwaladr health board, said the focus was now on how to \"resume services which had been put on hold to manage the initial wave of Covid-19 patients\".\n\nBangor University agreed to a three-month minimum lease with the Welsh Government for the use of the Canolfan Brailsford sport centre at Bangor University, to be reviewed on a monthly basis after that.\n\nThe Welsh Government review into field hospitals will look at how many extra beds the Welsh NHS might need if the transmission rate of coronavirus begins to rise towards a second peak.\n\nIt will also examine whether the field hospitals can be used to help the resumption of medical services that were suspended while the NHS focussed on treating Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Dragon's Heart Hospital is the second biggest field hospital in the UK behind London's Nightingale hospital\n\nThe health board has said the Dragon's Heart Hospital site would be \"retained until the autumn and will be available to admit coronavirus patients should a surge in capacity be required\".\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union, who own the stadium, have said the contract for it to remain as a field hospital has been extended until early autumn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A sports centre in Bangor was turned into a field hospital - in just 16 days\n\nThere are three field hospitals, Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry, Canolfan Brailsford sports hall at Bangor University and Venue Cymru in Llandudno.\n\nThe three \"Rainbow hospitals\" are \"available and ready\" to accept patients but the health board said the focus is now to \"resume services that were put on hold to manage the initial wave of Covid-19 patients\".\n\nParc y Scarlets in Llanelli is currently home to a makeshift hospital\n\nThere are nine field hospitals here: Bluestone Wales resort in Pembrokeshire; the leisure centres in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Llanelli and Plas Crug (Aberystwyth); two at the Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli, one in the stadium and the other in the training 'barn'; the Selwyn Samuel Centre in Llanelli and Ysgol Penweddig in Aberystwyth.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it was \"exploring many different options\" for the next 12 months including \"different uses of our facilities\" as part of national discussions.\n\nThe WRU training facility at The Vale Resort, was turned into a field hospital to provide 290 extra beds\n\nBridgend Industrial Estate is the only remaining field hospital in the region after it was announced the 290-bed hospital at the WRU's Centre of Excellence at Hensol was being decommissioned this week.\n\nThe health board is also operating \"community step-down facilities\" Abergarw Manor in Bridgend and Marsh House in Merthyr Tydfil for non Covid-19 patients to move out of hospitals.\n\nCwm Taf health board said field hospitals were \"essential to their planning\" so that extra capacity is in place \"should we need it to respond to the challenge of Covid-19\".\n\nThe training base normally used by the Ospreys rugby squad was transformed into a hospital\n\nThere are two field hospitals in the area, one at Llandarcy Academy of Sport (where the Ospreys rugby team usually train) and one at Swansea Bay Studios.\n\nSwansea Bay UHB's Chief Operating Officer Chris White said: \"Flexibility is an important factor in the management of the situation as we move into the next stages.\"\n\nThe new Grange Hospital as seen from the air last autumn - it could take its first patients a year early\n\nThere are no official field hospitals here, although the health board has said the new Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran is \"ready if we need to use it.\"", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed for several years\n\nCampaigners have said protests will continue while the controversial statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes remains at Oxford's Oriel College, after governors voted on Wednesday to remove it.\n\nThe college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations before it can be taken down.\n\nSizwe Mpofu-Walsh, a founder of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, said they felt \"greatly vindicated\" by the vote.\n\nBut he said it was crucial the college followed through on its plan.\n\nRhodes played a key role in the expansion of the British Empire in Southern Africa, including South Africa and Zimbabwe, previously known as Rhodesia.\n\nCritics accuse the campaign of trying to \"rewrite history\", while campaigners for the statue's removal say it is a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nResponding to Wednesday's vote, Rhodes Must Fall said that until the statue \"ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\n\"We have been down this route before, where Oriel College has committed to taking a certain action, but has not followed through,\" a statement read, referring to a commitment to engage in a \"six-month-long democratic listening exercise\" in 2015.\n\n\"Therefore, while we remain hopeful, our optimism is cautious. While the governing body of Oriel College have 'expressed their wish' to take down the statue, we continue to demand their commitment.\"\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, master of St Cross College and former National Lottery Heritage Fund chief, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\".\n\nIt will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nCecil Rhodes was an imperialist, businessman and politician.\n\nBorn in Hertfordshire in 1853, he first went to Africa aged 17 where he gradually became the dominant force in the diamond mining trade.\n\nHe was a strong advocate for colonial power in Africa and played a dominant role in southern Africa in the late 19th Century, driving the annexation of vast swathes of land.\n\nHe believed he was part of \"the first race in the world\", writing to a friend that \"the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race\".\n\nSome see him as one of the people who helped prepare the way for South Africa's apartheid by working to alter laws on voting and land ownership.\n\nRhodes, who studied at Oriel College, left money to the college on his death in 1902. The Rhodes scholarships, created via his will, allow 83 students to come to Oxford each year.\n\nHe said in life that he wanted to cheat the constraints of mortality by leaving a legacy.\n\nRead more about him here.\n\nFormer Oxford student and campaigner Mr Mpofu-Walsh said those who pushed for the removal of the Rhodes statue \"feel greatly vindicated that their position has been given a much fairer hearing this time around\".\n\nBut he said it was \"crucially important, even at this moment of celebration\" to make sure Oriel College removed the statue.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the objective of the college's commission was \"quite vague\" but he hoped it would focus on how the college can become more representative.\n\nWhen asked about the Rhodes scholarships, Mr Mpofu-Walsh said: \"We need to be very careful here about suggesting that Rhodes could atone for his legacy through a handful of scholarships for people from Africa. The legacy of Rhodes extends wide and deep.\n\n\"Any number of scholarships cannot account for the full scale of the horror that many of those people have felt.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision.\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\nEarlier on Wednesday, the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said: \"Racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities.\"\n\nBut she said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\nLast week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told BBC News.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Pentre has been struck by flooding following rain on Wednesday\n\nFlooding has been reported after thunderstorm forecasts warned of potential power cuts and damage to buildings.\n\nResidents in Pentre, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, have taken to social media saying they have been hit by the downpours.\n\nThe community has already suffered flooding this year, described as \"horrific\" by residents.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning is in place until the end of Wednesday for 20 of Wales' 22 counties.\n\nAnother thunderstorm alert is in place for Thursday for all south Wales counties, pushing west into Carmarthenshire and north of Brecon in Powys, between midday and 21:00 BST.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning for rain in place from 03:00 BST until 12:00 BST on Thursday for all counties except Pembrokeshire, Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff.\n\nRhondda Senedd member Leanne Wood appealed on Twitter for people to come forward if they had towels or sandbags.\n\nResident Bethan Clare Hughes declared on Twitter: \"Pentre, Rhondda Valleys is being flooded again for the 3rd time this year!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is several streets in Pentre that have been flooded before.\n\n\"People are disgusted and horrified it has happened a second or third time in some of their houses.\n\n\"After a short, sharp burst of rain at around half-past six people described torrents of water coming down a hill and coming into people's houses.\"\n\n\"Fire engines were at the scene.\n\n\"In some cases people have not got their houses together from the last time.\"\n\nIt is the third time some homes in Pentre have been flooded this year\n\nOne Queen Street resident told BBC Wales he was angry at watching his home being flooded again: \"I would like to see some of these councillors to live in these houses and go through what we've done.\n\n\"I haven't been in this house since February. I've had to go around the corner and live with my daughter.\"\n\nThis Pentre resident says he has not been able to return to his home since flooding earlier this year - and now it has happened again\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said the area had been \"badly flooded again\" and he would be returning to the area to help after attending Parliament.\n\nAnd Pontypridd Member of the Senedd Mick Antoniw said 200 homes had been affected by the rain.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said flooding had been from surface water, rather than rivers.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with those affected. We've sent officers to Pentre to offer support and to check our assets in the area,\" said the environment body.\n\nAll of Wales was covered by Wednesday's Met Office alert for thunderstorms, with the exception of Anglesey, the Llŷn peninsula of Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe Met Office said there could be \"torrential downpours\" in some places", "A factory in Wrexham which produces food ranges for supermarkets across the UK has confirmed 38 staff have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt makes prepared foods for UK supermarket chains including Aldi, Asda and Sainsbury’s.\n\nThe company said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory but was a \"reflection\" of an increase in the number of cases across the Wrexham area.\n\nIt said: “The site has 38 staff absent due to testing positive for Covid-19, this is across our direct and agency workforce which totals 1,500.\n\n\"We are very thankful that none of our colleagues are seriously ill or hospitalised from this virus.\n\n“Following notification of a positive Covid case we have worked with Public Health Wales and had already implemented a track-and-trace process to highlight any close contacts.\n\n\"These colleagues are required to isolate for a 14-day period of isolation. Any member of staff who has tested positive for Covid-19 is asked to isolate for at least seven days.\n\n“The safety of our colleagues remains our priority and our focus is remaining Covid-19 secure as a site.\n\n“We are aware through discussions with Public Health Wales that the Wrexham area is seeing significantly high numbers of positive cases. It is concerning but not surprising that we are seeing a number of our staff affected by this local trend.\n\n\"Similarly, we are experiencing a high number of staff required to isolate. A large proportion of our teams are from the same household/family and interact outside of work as well as being work colleagues.\"\n\nIt follows news that more than 50 staff at the 2 Sisters chicken processing plant in Llangefni, Anglesey, have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nRowan Foods management said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory Image caption: Rowan Foods management said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory", "The Republic of Ireland has won a seat on the United Nations Security Council for 2021/22.\n\nIt secured the 128 votes needed in the 191-nation General Assembly in New York to win a two year non-permanent seat.\n\nNorway has also secured a seat after a vote by the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe 15-member council has five permanent members - the US, UK, France, Russia and China - and 10 non-permanent seats, filled on a rotating basis.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minster) Leo Varadkar said Ireland's return to the council \"is a recognition of our work on the world stage over many decades\".\n\nThe UN Security Council sits in the UN's headquarters in New York\n\nHe said Ireland \"will use our presence to advance the causes we've championed, peace and security, conflict resolution, reconciliation, climate action, sustainable development, and gender equality\".\n\nIreland has previously won a non-permanent seat on the Security Council in 1962, 1981 and 2001.\n\nThe UN Security Council is composed of 15 members.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins welcomed the result of the vote, saying that Ireland ran a campaign which did not avoid urgent global issues.\n\nMr Higgins said that the campaign engaged with issues \"such as peace-building and peacekeeping, the elimination of global poverty, the strengthening of multilateralism, and reform of the United Nations\".", "The founder of the pub chain Oakman Inns has vowed to reopen all of its sites on 4 July even if the government has not relaxed restrictions.\n\n\"We cannot wait for the government to make a decision,\" Peter Borg-Neal wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe government has said pubs would not be able to reopen until July at the earliest under lockdown measures.\n\nBut it has not yet given a definitive date for reopening pubs, despite pressure from the industry.\n\nMr Borg-Neal's vow came as the British pubs' trade body demanded a definitive date so that staff could prepare.\n\nBut some health experts fear that opening venues such as pubs or restaurants too early could increase the number of coronavirus cases, especially as outbreaks reoccur in countries such as China.\n\n\"To open without proper forward planning would also be wrong,\" Mr Borg-Neal wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe later told the BBC: \"I'm not trying to be some reckless rebel.\n\n\"We need to plan ahead, get staff off furlough, remove furniture, install hand-washing stations, change layouts in pubs,\" he said. \"You can't just give us a couple of days' notice and expect us to open safely.\"\n\nHe added: \"We would not open unless we thought it was 100%-safe to do so.\"\n\nOakman Inns told the BBC that it had not yet received a response from the government following the announcement.\n\n\"If they wanted to stop us, they could threaten a licensing review, in which they would need to show that we have broken licensing laws. I do intend to seek legal advice on this,\" Mr Borg-Neal said.\n\n\"In a conflict situation we might not open all of our pubs immediately, I could just open one or two to see what they do.\"\n\nOn 21 March, the government brought in regulations requiring pubs, cafes and restaurants to stop serving customers food and drink for consumption on the premises.\n\nMr Borg-Neal said he would have no choice but to open regardless in July, whether the regulations were still in force or not.\n\n\"We can hang around and definitely go bust, or open and see if they destroy us,\" he said.\n\nOakman Inns and Restaurants has 25 pubs spread over the south of England and the Midlands, with plans to open three more.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nOn Thursday, the British Beer and Pub Association set out demands in a letter calling for a definitive opening date from the government by Friday.\n\n\"Without this certainty by the end of this week, many businesses in the sector will be forced to cut costs to ensure their survival through the extended period of financial uncertainty,\" it said.\n\n\"This could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses and permanent pub closures.\"\n\nIt said that pubs and beer businesses are \"burning through £100m every month in cash while they remain closed\".\n\n\"These costs... could tip many pubs over the edge unless they are given clarity and confidence on when exactly they can reopen,\" it said.\n\nOther pub bosses also joined in the call for clarity.\n\nMark Davies, chief executive of the Hawthorn Leisure chain, said: \"Our pubs are part of the social fabric of their communities, but there's so much our partners need to do to get ready for reopening, from bringing staff off furlough, to adopting new health and hygiene protocols and implementing social distance measures, not to mention getting beer into their pubs from suppliers.\n\n\"If we're to stand any chance of getting the Great British pub open by 4 July, it's imperative that the government provides clear guidance by Friday at the absolute latest.\"", "Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nThe singer was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to troops on the front line in countries including India and Egypt.\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nInformation on a memorial will be announced at a later date.\n\nSix weeks ago, ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day and during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Dame Vera said simple acts of bravery and sacrifice still define our nation.\n\nA week later, she became the oldest artist to get a top 40 album in the UK, beating her own record when her greatest hits album re-entered the charts at number 30.\n\nDame Vera, who had sold more than a million records by the age of 22, was also remembered for singing The White Cliffs Of Dover, There'll Always Be An England, I'll Be Seeing You, Wishing and If Only I Had Wings.\n\nThe Queen echoed her famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April, telling the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the monarch will send a private message of condolence to Dame Vera's family.\n\nThe late singer's daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, said she was proud of the difference her mother made through her charity work.\n\nShe said the Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity, which her mother founded to help young children with cerebral palsy, \"always held a very special place in her heart\".\n\nBorn in London's East Ham in 1917, Dame Vera's singing talent was discovered at a young age and by age 11 she had left school to pursue a full-time career as a dancer and singer.\n\nIn 1939, in a poll by the Daily Express, she was voted by servicemen as their favourite entertainer - gaining her the Forces' Sweetheart nickname.\n\nPaying tribute, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the singer's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\n\"Her voice will live on to lift the hearts of generations to come,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC One will air a tribute programme at 19:30 on Thursday, the broadcaster confirmed.\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nWW2 veteran Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in April, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently. She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nIn 1940, at the height of the London Blitz, Vera Lynn would set off to the BBC's underground studios at the Criterion Theatre in central London.\n\nThe 15-minute show was called Starlight and was broadcast at 2:30am to soldiers around the world.\n\nAt the time, the BBC was being criticised in Parliament for broadcasting slushy, sentimental songs. A number of MPs felt there needed to be more upbeat songs to boost morale.\n\nHer popularity even surprised the BBC, this was after all a little overseas show broadcast in the middle of the night.\n\nVera Lynn sang the songs that resonated emotionally with people who were separated from their loved ones and she sang them directly to you.\n\nIt was warm, intimate, heartfelt and personal, and that's why Vera Lynn became the \"Forces' Sweetheart\".\n\nSinger Katherine Jenkins, who performed Dame Vera's wartime classics for the VE Day anniversary last month, said: \"I simply cannot find the words to explain just how much I adored this wonderful lady.\n\n\"Her voice brought comfort to millions in their darkest hours, her songs filled the nation's hearts with hope, and her emotive performances, whether home or abroad, then or now, helped to get us through.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard said Dame Vera was \"a great singer\" and \"a genuine icon\".\n\nIn a photo tribute on Twitter, Clarence House posted pictures of Dame Vera meeting the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.\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 Royal British Legion described her as \"an unforgettable British icon\" and a \"symbol of hope to the Armed Forces community past and present\".\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said she was a \"hero\" who captured the \"sense of longing felt by so many during our darkest hour\", while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said she \"lifted our nation and its Armed Forces in their moment of maximum peril\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again", "Dame Vera Lynn, the singer who held a special place in the hearts of the British for keeping up morale during World War Two, has died.\n\nThese photographs tell the story of her life.\n\nVera Welch was born on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London. Neither of her parents were involved in showbusiness - her father Bertram was a plumber and mother Annie a dressmaker.\n\nBut by the age of seven, the talented Vera was singing in working men's clubs - an audience she described as \"great\" - and soon became the family's main breadwinner.\n\nWhen she turned 11, Vera took her grandmother's maiden name of Lynn as a stage name. She had no formal singing lessons as a child - and just one as an adult.\n\nShe said: \"I thought I could extend my range but when the teacher heard me sing she said, 'I cannot train that voice, it's not a natural voice.' So I said: 'Well thank you very much madam', and left.\"\n\nVera's talent was spotted aged 15 while singing at Poplar Baths by local band leader Howard Baker. He signed her up on the spot. In 1936, when she was 19, she had her first solo record - called Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire.\n\nBy the age of 22 she had sold more than a million records, bought her parents a house and herself a car.\n\nHowever, it was during World War Two that her reputation was made. She frequently sang to the troops at morale-boosting concerts, becoming known as The Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nOne of her most famous songs, We'll Meet Again was released in 1939 and as war progressed it increasingly resonated with the British public. As Vera said: \"It's a good song as it goes with anyone anywhere saying goodbye to someone.\"\n\nA large part of her wartime appeal came from her BBC radio programme Sincerely Yours, which ran in 1941 and 42 in the form of \"a letter to the men of the Forces… in words and music\". One feature was announcing the arrival of babies back home - but that had to be cancelled because producers were so overwhelmed with news of new arrivals.\n\nShe had a wholesome appeal that made her a favourite with families as well as the troops. Not everyone thought she was good for morale, however - one retired soldier complained in a letter to The Daily Telegraph that such \"sickly and maudlin programmes are largely responsible for the half-hearted attitude of so many people towards the war\".\n\nBut her popularity was such that she was voted the British Expeditionary Forces' favourite singer, beating Bing Crosby - with whom she's pictured - and Judy Garland.\n\nShe travelled the world to entertain troops, including to Myanmar (then Burma), India and Egypt. She later recalled staying in grass huts and using a bucket of water for a shower.\n\nIn 1941 Vera married Harry Lewis. They had one daughter, Virginia, and lived together in Ditchling, East Sussex, for 58 years until his death in 1999.\n\nFollowing the defeat of Nazi Germany, the BBC Variety Department broadcast a victory programme on VE Day in May 1945. Vera (far left) was joined by entertainers and returned British Prisoners of War. Her popularity survived the war years and after peace came she toured all over the Commonwealth, appeared in a Las Vegas cabaret, and performed for the British Royal Family.\n\nHer sentimental tone went out of fashion at the BBC after the war, but she returned to the airwaves and remained a fixture throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the very first official UK singles chart in 1952, she occupied three of the top 12 places.\n\nShe's pictured here making the acquaintance of glam rock band Slade in 1973, when they gathered round a piano at the Melody Maker Awards. In 2017 she released her latest album, and holds the record for being the oldest living artist to achieve a top 20 UK album.\n\nDame Vera helped mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in a ceremony on 10 August 2010. Her daughter said fan letters continued to arrive from all over the world, sometimes simply addressed to \"Vera Lynn, UK\".\n\nDuring the build-up to her 100th birthday in 2017, Dame Vera said she found it \"humbling\" that people still enjoyed her songs.\n\nThe Queen wrote to her: \"You cheered and uplifted us all in the war and after the war, and I am sure that this evening the blue birds of Dover will be flying over to wish you a happy anniversary.\"\n\nDame Vera's portrait was projected on to the White Cliffs of Dover to celebrate her 100th birthday. She said it was \"an unprecedented honour to have it marked in such a beautiful way\".", "As the Premier League returned after its enforced 100-day hiatus, some things stayed the same but others were symbolic of the new world those who play the game and those who watch it must now occupy.\n\nThe eyes of the world were trained on the vast empty spaces of a stadium situated just off the M6 in Birmingham as a sliver of normality returned with the resumption of a season halted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Aston Villa, old arguments resurfaced within 45 minutes as a gross failure of goalline technology served huge injustice on visitors Sheffield United. Referee Michael Oliver's watch failed to activate as Aston Villa goalkeeper Orjan Nyland tumbled well behind his line clutching Oliver Norwood's free-kick.\n\nIt gave a layer of controversy to a game that held a strange fascination as \"Project Restart\" finally came to fruition.\n\nThe stadium may have been shrouded in silence as this fixture took place behind closed doors but there was true volume, power and emotion behind the statement made by players and officials at kick-off.\n\nAt the blast of referee Michael Oliver's whistle, the players took the knee with perfect choreography for 10 seconds in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nIt was the enduring image of a few hours that offered us a glimpse into how it will be for the foreseeable future. It was preceded by a minute's silence for those who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nThis was a very different experience and environment - but we are living in a very different world to the one the Premier League left behind when Aston Villa lost 4-0 at Leicester City on 9 March.\n\nAs you pulled off the M6 and headed towards Villa Park, you could see old haunts and gathering places were not the usual seething mass of claret and blue. The Holte hostelry, tucked in a corner near the stadium's famous Holte End, was locked and silent, just a few lights on inside.\n\nInstead of the usual hubbub there was calm, although that was shattered by a huge thunder and lightning storm just after the Sheffield United team coach pulled into the car park behind the Witton Lane Stand.\n\nAs Villa Park's floodlights took full effect, it provided a spectacular backdrop to the big relaunch, as the media went through high security checks, including hi-tech temperature testing before being allowed in.\n\nJust below the media area, the sound of thumping music emerged from the dressing rooms as the players tried to create their own atmosphere.\n\nZones were divided into green, amber and red with strict sanitisation and a one-way walking system in operation - all superbly efficient and well-organised by Aston Villa, the first club off the block in this context.\n\nAmong the empty seats, there was a poignant sight - an Aston Villa steward's jacket placed in memory of manager Dean Smith's father Ron, who used to perform that role and who died aged 79 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nAs players warmed up and those of us on the margins looked on, Villa at least tried to inject some atmosphere with a heavy metal soundtrack over the public address system before the players filed out separately.\n\nIt was somewhat incongruous as Villa's announcer revved up the team announcements, brashly welcoming back John McGinn after his long injury absence, the stadium itself festooned with flags, banners (one from as far away as Prague) and coverings to at least add a dash of colour to an anaesthetised occasion.\n\nI have attended one behind closed doors game before, when England drew 0-0 with Croatia in Rijeka in October 2018 but there was arguably an even greater sense of dislocation here. As had to happen, even those of us fortunate enough to be inside were socially distanced, taking the now customary precautions of wearing masks.\n\nThe countdown to kick-off clock and the faces of fans watching at home flickering on the big screens were all eye-catching attempts to fire up the adrenalin but the sight of the teams filing out separately, no handshakes and only the odd elbow bump on the sidelines, brought this new reality into sharp relief.\n\nThe game itself was not a classic and it would be delusional to talk it up, ignoring the fact this this will be an unsatisfactory experience for many traditionalists. Football needs fans but for now this is the Premier League as it has to be.\n\nThere was no holding back from the players, either physically or in terms of verbal encouragement, although those expecting a blizzard of after-the-watershed bad language would have been disappointed.\n\nThe shouts were mainly of encouragement, with Blades manager Chris Wilder the more vocal and visible manager, spending far more time out on the touchline with assistant Alan Knill than his Villa counterpart Smith.\n\nThere were cries of pain as Jack Grealish felt the full force of a couple of challenges, while Villa took advantage of the new rules by using four second-half substitutes.\n\nSo much was new. So much felt strange. Let's say it - it all seemed very odd at times.\n\nWhat must also be said is that every precaution and step is necessary in the current climate when sport is not the top priority in this pandemic, but the Premier League needed to get going again.\n\nThe tepid nature of the game will undoubtedly raise eyebrows among those who are not in favour of football without fans but it should also be said this game could have played out exactly the same in front of a packed Villa Park.\n\nMuscle memory still kicks in with the players and make no mistake they were committed - as proved by loud shouts and groans of frustration from players of both sides when Oliver blew the final whistle on this game after six minutes of stoppage time.\n\nThere was almost a sense of relief among all of us inside Villa Park that this, with all its surreal and unaccustomed elements, was out of the way - although the Blades will nurse that sense of sporting injustice.\n\nIt was not a thriller at the Villa but it was a start and that is something many have been waiting 100 days for.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City's Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on the opening night of the Premier League's return.\n\nPlayers and staff from Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Manchester City and Arsenal knelt as their matches began.\n\nMatch officials also took part, on a night players' names on shirts were replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\n\"It shows we're going in the right direction,\" Sterling told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Little by little we're seeing change. It was natural, it was organic. We saw the teams do it in the earlier kick-off and thought it was something we had to do as well.\"\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n\nThe Premier League was returning after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd players and officials showed their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nA joint statement issued by Villa and Sheffield United shortly after their match began said they \"were proud to stand in solidarity\" with the actions of their players and coaching staff in \"expressing our collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement\".\n\nBoth clubs said they hoped they had sent \"a strong message of unity\" and amplified \"the many messages of support from Premier League players and the wider football family\".\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola added: \"White people should say sorry for the way we have treated black people for 400 years. I am ashamed of what we have done to black people around the world.\n\n\"It is not only in the USA where it has happened. The problem is everywhere.\n\n\"Maybe for our generation it is too late but for the following generations, they can understand the only race is ourselves. We are human beings. It doesn't matter the colour of our skin.\"\n\nColin Kaepernick started kneeling symbolically during the pre-game national anthem in the NFL in 2016, in protest at police violence against African-Americans in the United States.\n\nFormer Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison said the moment players took a knee in the opening game of the restart was \"special\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"That touched my heart. I didn't expect that. It was magnificent. Credit to both sets of players and staff.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright said Premier League players wearing 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts shows the league wants to be on the right side of history.\n\n\"What the Premier League have done, is to give them the power,\" said Wright, who was sent racist abuse on social media last month.\n\nResearch by UK Sport and Sport England last year found that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people accounted for just 5.2% of board members across the 130 sport organisations they fund, including the Football Association.\n\nAccording to the 2011 Census, about 13% of the population of England and Wales is from a BAME background.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's David Luiz was sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secured a comfortable victory behind closed doors on the first night of the Premier League's return.\n\nLuiz, who came on as a first-half substitute, failed to clear the ball just before half-time and Raheem Sterling fired in City's opener.\n\nThe defender was then sent off after pulling back Riyad Mahrez in the second half to give away a penalty, which Kevin de Bruyne coolly slotted in for City's second.\n\nSubstitute Phil Foden netted a third for the defending champions, capitalising on a rebound from Sergio Aguero's strike.\n\nThere was concern for City late on as Eric Garcia needed several minutes of treatment on the pitch after a nasty collision with goalkeeper Ederson, and was carried off on a stretcher.\n\nArsenal were second best throughout as manager Mikel Arteta left Alexandre Lacazette on the bench and Mesut Ozil was kept out of the extended 20-man squad.\n\nThere were bursts of energy from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiah going forward in the first half but it was City who were more dangerous.\n\nDe Bruyne, Sterling and David Silva were all denied by Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno, who produced an impressive display, but it seemed inevitable City would move ahead when Luiz's mistake gifted Sterling a chance from close range.\n\nVictory for Pep Guardiola's side means league leaders Liverpool remain six points away from winning the title - writing off any potential celebrations in Sunday's Merseyside derby.\n\nOn an evening in which thousands tuned in to watch a new-look Premier League on their TV screens, players from both clubs used their platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.\n\nAll players and staff took a knee immediately before kick-off, mirroring the actions of those at Villa Park in the earlier match, and the words 'Black Lives Matter' replaced players' names on the back of their shirts.\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n• None 'It's my fault' - Luiz on Arsenal defeat\n\nAfter being left out of the starting line-up by Arteta, Luiz was handed his chance when he was brought on in the 23rd minute as Arsenal suffered their second injury of the match.\n\nPablo Mari, making just his second Premier League start for the club, followed Granit Xhaka, who was taken off on a stretcher early on.\n\nBut Luiz, prone to questionable decision-making, only confirmed his manager's decision to leave him out initially had been for the best.\n\nFailure to clear the ball properly led to Sterling's opener - the ball bouncing off Luiz's knee from De Bruyne's pass, landing straight into the path of the City forward.\n\nAnd Luiz completed a dreadful night four minutes into the second half when he tugged Mahrez's shirt with no intention to play the ball, giving away a penalty and receiving a red card.\n\nDe Bruyne reminds us of his quality\n\nSome things were different on the league's return.\n\nFans were absent, players wore face masks in the dugout, there was enhanced crowd noise for television viewers and managers did post-match press conferences via Zoom.\n\nBut some things remained the same. De Bruyne was the best player on the pitch.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder, widely regarded as one of the best in the business, reminded those watching at home of his quality with several intricate passes in the first half.\n\nHe forced the first save of the match from Leno with a curling free-kick in the first three minutes and two of his defence-splitting passes again tested the keeper's reactions half an hour later.\n\nIt was ironic one of his poorer passes would lead to Sterling's opener - helped by Luiz's poor control - but De Bruyne stamped his mark on the game even further by scoring City's second from the spot.\n\nHe needed only 69 minutes to whet the appetite of those who feared football would not be the same on its return.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We are really concerned [about Eric Garcia]. He responded quite well but we have to wait. He is conscious which is a good sign. We will make another test.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a lot of energy. Everybody wanted the ball. It was not quiet. We had chances. It was important to score before half time. I am happy with the performance of the team.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Everything went wrong from the first minute. Every possible accident that could have happened hopefully happened today.\n\n\"[David Luiz] is someone that is very honest and straight forward. My opinion on David Luiz hasn't changed. It won't change because he had a difficult performance tonight.\n\nOn leaving Mesut Ozil out of the squad: \"It was a tactical reason.\"\n\nSterling hits 50 - the best of the stats\n• None Manchester City have won their past seven matches against Arsenal in all competitions, extending their best ever winning run against the Gunners.\n• None Arsenal have lost by three or more goals both home and away in a league season versus an opponent (Man City in 2019-20) for the first time since 1969-70, against Chelsea.\n• None Arsenal are winless in their past 26 Premier League away games against fellow 'big six' opposition (D10 L16), with their last such victory coming at Etihad Stadium in January 2015 (2-0).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other player this season (25 - nine goals and 16 assists) - it's also his best goal involvement tally in a single top-flight campaign in England.\n• None Raheem Sterling became the first player to score a goal in the month of June in the English top-flight since Walter Rickett, for Sheffield United against Stoke on 14 June, 1947.\n• None Sterling also scored in his 50th home club game in all competitions - he's never been on the losing side in those fixtures for Liverpool and Manchester City (W47 D3).\n• None David Luiz became the first player to be sent off, concede a penalty and commit an error leading to an opposition goal in a Premier League match since Carl Jenkinson for West Ham against Bournemouth in August 2015.\n• None He has conceded four penalties in the Premier League this season - the joint-most in a single campaign in the competition's history (also Jose Fonte 2016-17, Gary Caldwell 2011-12, Ibrahima Sonko 2007-08, Claus Lundekvam 1999-00, Ken Monkou 1993-94 and Luc Nijholt 1993-94).\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Arsenal 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Eric García went off injured after Manchester City had used all subs.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. 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. Neomi Bennett: \"I was just sitting in a car, minding my own business...it scared the life out of me\"\n\nA nurse pulled over by police who drove in front of her in a \"hard stop\" operation, says she was targeted because of her race.\n\nPolice officers stopped Neomi Bennett in 2019 because, they said, her front windows were tinted too dark.\n\nShe was convicted of obstructing a police officer, but prosecutors later decided not to challenge her appeal.\n\nMs Bennett, who was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to nursing, is now taking legal action.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was \"assessing a complaint in relation to this incident\".\n\nMs Bennett said the officers carried out a hard stop, meaning they pulled a car up in front of her to box her in, on the evening of 4 April 2019, and she refused to get out of the vehicle.\n\nShe said the manner in which she was pulled over \"scared the life out of\" her and, had they taken a different approach, she she might have got out of her car, but instead opted to stay inside.\n\nAt first Ms Bennett, from Wandsworth in south-west London, thought it was \"some kind of hijack\" because she could only see an officer in plain clothing.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I believe I was racially profiled and certainly don't think this would have happened if I were white.\"\n\nThe nurse, who invented the Neo-slip device to help patients with deep vein thrombosis, said she was \"locked up\" even though nothing illegal was found in her car and she was a \"stone's throw away\" from her home and family.\n\nMs Bennett was left \"traumatised\" by her encounter with police\n\nHer lawyer Ann Tayo told BBC News the arrest left Ms Bennett traumatised, and her encounter with the police was a \"genuine case of a woman being bewildered\" before officers made \"all manner of allegations\".\n\nShe added this was an example of what a \"disproportionate number of black British citizens\" have to go through.\n\nMs Bennett was eventually convicted of obstructing a police officer and said the criminal record meant she lost out on some opportunities.\n\nThe 47-year-old said: \"When the police approached me, I think my experience as a black person is very different to that of a white person and the fear it invokes is tremendous.\n\n\"I can't even describe the fear that I experienced on that night.\"\n\nMs Bennett said she has since appealed against and overturned her conviction, but added that many people in her community had experienced similar encounters with police.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met said: \"The South West Basic Command Unit Professional Standards (SWBCU) team is currently assessing a complaint in relation to this incident.\n\n\"Due to the complaint, we cannot go into any more detail at this time, however, Sally Benatar, SWBCU Commander, has recently been in contact with Neomi Bennett and has put her in touch with the local Independent Advisory Group chair to discuss her experiences with police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shopping centres like Friars Walk in Newport have been closed since March\n\nNon-essential retailers in Wales will be told they can reopen from Monday, the first minister is expected to announce.\n\nMark Drakeford will set out further changes to the lockdown laws at a press conference on Friday.\n\nBusinesses will be expected to ensure two-metre social distancing is observed.\n\nOther small changes may be announced, but the advice to stay local is likely to remain in place.\n\nShops in England have been trading since the start of the week.\n\nBut after that prompted queues outside retailers, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he does not want to see large crowds outside reopened retailers.\n\nThe Welsh Government is expected to keep its cautious approach, and says its priority continues to be \"keep Wales safe\".\n\nEarlier the Scottish Government announced that retailers there could reopen on 29 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the daily Welsh Government press conference Mr Gething said he did not want to see a repeat \"of crowds bunched together outside shops in complete breach of what social-distancing guidance is supposed to deliver\".\n\nEarlier in the week Mr Drakeford said reopening retail was one of a \"package\" of measures being looked at.\n\nHe said he was keen for the economy to reopen in Wales, but public health must come first \"as that is the best way for our economy\".\n\nCurrently people in Wales are only allowed to travel locally - with five miles given as a guide.\n\nThat is not expected to change on Friday. The rule has been criticised by Conservative politicians who say it unfairly harms people in rural areas.\n\nReopening shops is a move that has been heavily trailed by ministers and they are keen to stress that caution remains their watchword.\n\nThe approach from the Welsh Government has been to announce one big thing in each review and then monitor its effect on the reproduction rate of the virus.\n\nRecently though, they have started putting sectors \"on notice\" for reopening - shops next week, followed by schools the week after.\n\nPerhaps this time there will be something for the tourism sector to look forward to?\n\nRetailers have been given time to prepare to reopen\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed to the public in Wales since lockdown began in late March.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies claimed the Welsh Government had \"listened\" to its calls to begin to reopen the Welsh economy.\n\n\"But while we welcome this announcement, it frankly beggars belief as to why travel restrictions are not being lifted too,\" he said.\n\n\"Many retailers need custom from a wide area to survive and will go to the wall if they are forced to rely on local trade alone.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the announcement did \"not come as a surprise\".\n\n\"Many people will be glad to see yet another element of easing restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"However, we need to know not only which restrictions are being eased in the here and now but also which restrictions are expected to be lifted in the weeks and months ahead.\"", "Huawei poses challenges to national security and has engaged in unacceptable acts, Google's former boss Eric Schmidt has told the BBC.\n\nBut he says the West should respond by competing with China and its technologies, rather than disengaging.\n\nThe UK is currently reviewing whether to continue letting Huawei help build its 5G mobile networks amid growing pressure to exclude the Chinese firm.\n\n\"There's no question that Huawei has engaged in some practices that are not acceptable in national security,\" Mr Schmidt told a BBC Radio 4 documentary.\n\nHe said it was possible to think of the company as a means of \"signals intelligence\" - a reference to spy agencies like the UK's GCHQ or NSA in the US.\n\n\"There's no question that information from Huawei routers has ultimately ended up in hands that would appear to be the state,\" Mr Schmidt added.\n\n\"However that happened, we're sure it happened.\"\n\nHuawei has consistently denied accusations that it is an arm of the Chinese state, or passes on customer data to the authorities.\n\n\"The allegations made by Eric Schmidt, who now works for the US government, are simply not true and as with similar assertions in the past, are not backed by evidence,\" Victor Zhang, Huawei's UK chief told the BBC.\n\n\"Huawei is independent from any government, including the Chinese government.\n\n\"Where we do agree, and something we've always said, is that applying standards globally ensures innovation, fosters competition and benefits everyone.\"\n\nEric Schmidt says the real issue with Huawei lies in the challenge to US leadership it represents: a Chinese company operating on a global stage that is building a better product than its competitors.\n\n\"It's extremely important that we have choices,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The answer to Huawei... is to compete by having a product and product line that is as good.\"\n\nThe US has banned Huawei from using US chip technologies but is allowing American firms to work with the firm on 5G standards\n\nEric Schmidt spent a decade and a half as chief executive and then executive chairman of Google and its parent company Alphabet.\n\nHe acknowledges that over a long career in Silicon Valley, he had underestimated China's ability to innovate.\n\n\"I have carried the prejudices about China in my years working with them,\" he said.\n\n\"That they're very good at copying things, that they're very good at organising things, that they throw large numbers of people at it. But they're not going to do anything new. They're very, very good at stealing, if you will, our stuff. Those prejudices need to be thrown out.\n\n\"The Chinese are just as good, and maybe better, in key areas of research and innovation as the West.\n\n\"They're putting more money into it. They are putting it in a different way, it is state-directed in a way that is different from the West. We need to get our act together to compete.\"\n\nHe denies the Chinese model of state-directed investment in technology is intrinsically more successful than a free-market model. However, he believes the West needs to make the most of its strengths by:\n\n\"Most people would prefer to live and work in the West than work in China,\" he says.\n\nOne of the problems in the US and particularly in Silicon Valley, Mr Schmidt believes, is a historical blindness to the role of the government in supporting research.\n\n\"Everything you see in Silicon Valley to the first order came from initial federal science grants of one kind or another.\"\n\nLast year he chaired a US National Security Commission looking at artificial intelligence.\n\nChina's advances in this field are a major concern.\n\n\"I would say they are a few years behind,\" he says.\n\n\"Not five years, and not 10 years. And there's evidence of China closing the gap in the next few years.\n\n\"So the question is: what happens then? Well obviously, artificial intelligence has military and national security applications.\"\n\nChina's work on quantum computing, he adds, is on a par with that of the West, and could even be ahead.\n\nMr Schmidt joined Google in 2001 and gave up his final post as an advisor to the firm in February\n\nMr Schmidt views the decoupling of the technology sectors in China and the US as \"undesirable\", believing it will lead to two distinct systems.\n\n\"Once you diverge these global platforms, you don't get them back,\" he says.\n\n\"We benefit from having a common platform of interchange... and I worry that by building these platforms separate, the countries will understand each other less.\n\n\"China's going to dominate whether we couple or decouple. They have the resources, they have the money, they have the technology.\n\n\"The question is do they operate on global platforms or do they operate on their own platforms? The more segregated the platforms are, the more dangerous it is.\n\n\"It is in the West's interest that every technology platform has Western values in them.\"\n\nMr Schmidt is cautious about picking national champions and supporting them. But he says there are weaknesses in the West's own capacity, particularly in not having foundries that manufacture semiconductor chips. He says it would be better for China to use chips from Western companies rather than build its own.\n\nThe rise of nationalism and protectionism around the world is of \"great concern\", he concludes, pointing to the fact that more than half of the start-ups in Silicon Valley have been founded by foreign-born nationals.\n\nFaced with a challenge from China, he draws on his own Silicon Valley experience.\n\n\"The best strategy is to think of it as a competition not unlike the tech companies, where there's brutal competition,\" he said.\n\n\"[It will be] as rough as it could be - largely unregulated between the various players - where we seek to win.\"\n\nThe New Tech Cold War will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 BST on Friday and again on Tuesday at 16:00 BST.", "Anita Pointer (far left) said the family was devastated by the death of Bonnie (second left)\n\nShe and her sisters rose to fame as the Grammy award-winning Pointer Sisters, who were best known for the hits Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited.\n\n\"Our family is devastated,\" her sister Anita told the Associated Press on Monday.\n\n\"On behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.\"\n\nBonnie and her sister June Pointer originally performed as a duet and were later joined by their sisters Anita and Ruth.\n\nThe Pointer Sisters became popular in the 1970s and won the first of their three Grammy Awards for the song Fairytale in 1975.\n\nBonnie left the group to pursue a solo career two years later but the Pointer Sisters' success continued into the 1980s and they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.\n\nEarlier this year, Anita and Bonnie Pointer released a single in memory of their sister June, who died in 2006.\n\nTheir sister Ruth is the only sibling still performing in the Pointer Sisters, joined by her daughter and granddaughter.", "Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from coronavirus in Europe, a study estimates.\n\nThe team at Imperial College London said the \"death toll would have been huge\" without lockdown.\n\nBut they warned that only a small proportion of people had been infected and we were still only \"at the beginning of the pandemic\".\n\nAnother study argued global lockdowns had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe Imperial study assessed the impact of restrictions in 11 European countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK - up to the beginning of May.\n\nBy that time, around 130,000 people had died from coronavirus in those countries.\n\nThe researchers used disease modelling to predict how many deaths there would have been if lockdown had not happened. And the work comes from the same group that guided the UK's decision to go into lockdown.\n\nThey estimated 3.2 million people would have died by 4 May if not for measures such as closing businesses and telling people to stay at home.\n\nThat meant lockdown saved around 3.1 million lives, including 470,000 in the UK, 690,000 in France and 630,000 in Italy, the report in the journal Nature shows.\n\n\"Lockdown averted millions of deaths, those deaths would have been a tragedy,\" said Dr Seth Flaxman, from Imperial.\n\nTheir equations made several assumptions, which will affect the figures.\n\nThey assume nobody would have changed their behaviour in response to the Covid threat without a lockdown - and that hospitals would not be overwhelmed resulting in a surge in deaths, which nearly happened in some countries.\n\nThe study also does not take into account the health consequences of lockdowns that may take years to fully uncover.\n\nThe model also predicted that the outbreak would be nearly over by now without lockdown, as so many people would have been infected.\n\nMore than seven in 10 people in the UK would have had Covid, leading to herd immunity and the virus no longer spreading.\n\nInstead, the researchers estimate that up to 15 million people across Europe had been infected by the beginning of May.\n\nThe researchers say at most, 4% of the population in those countries had been infected.\n\n\"Claims this is all over can be firmly rejected. We are only at the beginning of this pandemic,\" said Dr Flaxman.\n\nAnd it means that as lockdowns start to lift, there is the risk the virus could start to spread again.\n\n\"There is a very real risk if mobility goes back up there could be a second wave coming reasonably soon, in the next month or two,\" said Dr Samir Bhatt.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate study by University of California, Berkeley, analysed the impact of lockdowns in China, South Korea, Iran, France and the US.\n\nTheir report, also in Nature, says lockdown prevented 530 million infections in those countries.\n\nJust before lockdowns were introduced, they said cases were doubling every two days.\n\nDr Solomon Hsiang, one of the researchers, said coronavirus had been a \"real human tragedy\" but the global action to stop the spread of the virus had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sweden has kept pubs, restaurants and shops open throughout the Covid 19 pandemic.\n\nThe more open approach is attracting growing numbers of British and European tourists, who’ve broken national guidelines advising against non-essential global travel in search of a beer or even a haircut.\n\nThe BBC spoke to Oana Marcu, 34, from London, who’s been in Stockholm since March, British actor Lewis Sycamore, 25, who’s just arrived to visit his Swedish girlfriend, and Peter Clark, 32, a British barber in the Swedish capital who’s found it uncomfortable serving tourists escaping lockdowns in their own countries.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown started on 23 March. A further 55 people had died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597. But there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, because of a reporting lag over the weekend. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, speaking at No 10's daily briefing, also said the R rate is \"below one in all regions\".\n\nThe boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, has said the new rules requiring all people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days are a \"political stunt\". Those arriving by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - must give an address where they will be in quarantine. Rule breakers will be fined. Read more about how travellers have been impacted by the new rules.\n\nBP is to cut 10,000 jobs following a global slump in demand for oil because of the coronavirus crisis. The oil giant had paused redundancies during the peak of the pandemic - but told staff on Monday that around 15% will leave by the end of the year. It has not said how many jobs will be lost in the UK. It is thought the figure could be close to 2,000.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that Scotland's coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June after a second day with no recorded deaths. The first minister said the continuing \"steady decline\" in the death rate was \"obviously very encouraging\". It comes as New Zealand lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the decline in the death rate is encouraging\n\nA five-year old schoolboy who had both of his legs amputated has raised more than £222,000 for the hospital that saved his life. Tony Hudgell, who has new prosthetic legs and crutches, aims to walk every day in June to reach his 10km challenge. He said he had hoped to raise £500 for charity after being inspired by Captain Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities.\n\nTony was inspired to take on the 10km challenge after watching Captain Tom Moore\n\n... you can check the rules on visiting friends or family, and having picnics and barbecues, with our updated guide.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest in our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The well had a small amount of water in it for the man to drink\n\nA British man who fell into a well on the Indonesian island of Bali has been rescued after six days.\n\nJacob Roberts, 29, broke his leg after falling into the 4m-deep well in Pecatu village while being chased by a dog, said AFP quoting local authorities.\n\nThe well was dry but his leg meant he was unable to get out. Witnesses say there was a small amount of water in the well which likely kept him alive.\n\nMr Roberts' cries for help were eventually heard by a local resident.\n\nThe resident had been looking for cattle feed near the area, which was in an isolated part of the village, said news outlet the Bali Sun. He alerted the local authorities.\n\nHe had to be lifted out of the well by three men in protective suits\n\n\"He looked thin and injured,\" South Kuta police chief Yusak Agustinus Sooai said of Mr Roberts' condition when he was found on Saturday.\n\nLocal search and rescue chief Gede Darmada said Mr Roberts was lifted out of the well in a stretcher by three men, according to the local search and rescue agency, Basarnas Bali.\n\nMr Roberts was lifted out on a stretcher...\n\nand was taken out of the village to a nearby hospital\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Basarnas said that Mr Roberts was taken to the BIMC Nusa Dua hospital.\n\nPecatu village is near the popular southern Bali tourist hotspot of Nusa Dua.\n\nIt wasn't clear whether Mr Roberts was a resident or a tourist in Bali.\n\nBali has been on lockdown for months due to the virus outbreak, though several places have now began cautiously re-opening.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of protesters have turned out to anti-racism demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nDespite pleas from the first minister, police and MSPs to find safer ways to express their support, large numbers gathered on Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park.\n\nHowever, most were wearing face coverings and all attendees were asked to observe social distancing.\n\nMarches and rallies were planned following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old black man died in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nHis death has sparked days of demonstrations and unrest in the US and around the world.\n\nThousands gathered on Glasgow Green to hear speakers and show their support\n\nEvents were planned in Scotland despite ongoing lockdown restrictions and a ban on mass gatherings.\n\nThe first minister said that in different circumstances she might have joined the demonstrations but that the coronavirus outbreak meant it was \"simply not safe\" and would \"pose a risk to life\".\n\nThere were no new reported deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland on Sunday, although the figures at a weekend are often low because of delayed reporting.\n\nDespite the progress made in containing the virus, mass gatherings remain banned under the lockdown.\n\nPeople appeared to try to stay in household groups and observe social distancing in Edinburgh\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said during the Scottish government's daily briefing that the large numbers taking part were worrying and that he had spoken to Chief Constable Iain Livingston a short time before.\n\nHe said: \"He tells me that good social distancing has been put in place. But even with that in place, even with people wearing face coverings, mass outdoor gatherings like this could present risk to public health.\n\n\"And we do know there is a lot of evidence of the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 can have on the minority ethnic community.\n\n\"So the very people whose lives we say matter are the very lives that those people could be putting at risk. So yes, it does give me a great deal of concern.\"\n\nThe Black Lives Matter protest started at Glasgow Green at midday after it was moved from George Square to allow easier physical distancing.\n\nAn hour later, supporters started arriving at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park where organisers asked those attending to wear PPE and to observe social distancing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Philip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA socially-distanced poster protest has been taking place across Aberdeen throughout the day. Protesters booked limited \"slots\" to display signs, posters, artwork, notes and poems demanding justice for the victims of police brutality.\n\nPeople in Inverness tied messages and artwork to Ness Bridge in the city centre in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nA protest had been planned, but organisers cancelled it because of concerns social distancing could not be safely maintained due to the numbers of people intending to take part.\n\nPeople in the Highlands have been leaving messages of support on Ness Bridge in Inverness\n\nFourteen police officers were injured during protests in London on Saturday\n\nProtests went ahead south of the border on Saturday despite officials advising against mass gatherings due to the pandemic.\n\nOn Saturday, 14 Met Police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London.\n\nThousands of people gathered in cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester, and Sheffield which were largely peaceful. However, there were disturbances near Downing Street later in the day.\n\nThe first minister urged people to join digital protests, including one organised by the STUC on Sunday evening.\n\nThe event will host speakers including Kadijartu Johnson - a nurse and the sister of Sheku Bayoh, who died after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy in 2015. A public inquiry is due to be held into the circumstances of his death\n\nMs Johnson agreed to speak at the virtual anti-racism protest which falls on the fifth anniversary of Mr Bayoh's burial, after making a joint statement discouraging the physical demonstrations.\n\nAlongside Mr Yousaf and other politicians and anti-racism campaigners, she urged people not to attend the rallies, and to find alternative and safe ways of protesting.\n\nMost people at the Glasgow Green event were wearing face coverings\n\nThe joint statement warned that progress on easing lockdown in Scotland is \"fragile\" and said: \"Like so many we want to stand in unity with millions across our planet to show solidarity with those protesting against racial injustice in the USA but also to support those challenging racial injustice and discrimination in Scotland.\n\n\"The rules in place are there to protect people's health and ultimately people's lives.\n\n\"Therefore, as long-term anti-racist campaigners we are still urging people to protest but to use the many other methods available at this time, including digital protests.\"", "Bethan Roper was killed when she leaned out of the window of a train between Bristol and Bath.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown on 23 March, latest government figures show.\n\nA further 55 people died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597.\n\nThis included no new deaths announced in both Scotland and Northern Ireland for the second consecutive day.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe number of new UK cases on Monday - 1,205 - is also the lowest number since the start of lockdown.\n\nOn the day lockdown began, 23 March, there was a rise of 74 deaths.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to pass the milestone of 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths being announced is encouraging news.\n\nBut they come with a big caveat - there are always delays recording fatalities over the weekend.\n\nLast Monday there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but other days last week topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, it does show that progress is being made. Two Mondays ago there were more than 120 deaths and in the week before that there were 160.\n\nDuring the peak of the virus there were more than 1,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.\n\nAnother difficulty facing the government is that, even with the extra testing in place, not all infections appear to be getting picked up.\n\nMonday's data shows there were 1,205 new infections diagnosed, but surveillance suggests the true figure may be five times higher.\n\nSome of these will be asymptomatic cases - people who do not show symptoms - but the concern remains that some people are simply not coming forward.\n\nIdentifying these will be crucial to keep on top of the virus.\n\nThere were no new deaths reported from London hospitals for the second day in a row. However, NHS England said it was aware of a \"small number\" of people who had died over the weekend and they would be included in figures in the next few days.\n\nIn Wales, three more deaths were announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that the R number - the rate at which the virus reproduces - remained below one in every region of the country but said that while the figure was the lowest since lockdown, 55 deaths was \"55 too many\".\n\n\"So, there are encouraging trends on all of these critical measures, coronavirus is in retreat across the land, our plan is working and these downward trends mean we can proceed with our plans. But we do so putting caution and safety first,\" he said.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the government to proceed with caution but said \"many now fear that the prime minister is starting to throw caution to the wind\".\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing Mr Hancock said data was \"pointing in the right direction\" and showed \"we are winning the battle with this disease but have further to go\".\n\nHe said the government was ready to take action in response to local outbreaks of the virus if the R number was seen to rise.\n\n\"This will mean, for instance, action in particular hospitals or particular care homes to make sure there is control of those outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock also announced the launch of a national Covid-19 social care support taskforce, led by David Pearson, a former chief of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.\n\nAll staff and residents at 6,000 care homes for adults with disabilities in England will receive coronavirus tests, Mr Hancock said, following on from his claim on Sunday that the government had hit its target of testing staff and residents homes for the over-65s.\n\nThe final batches were delivered to 9,000 homes last week.\n\nThe health secretary also denied there was a trade-off between the economy and health, amid reports the government is considering further easing measures, and said a \"second spike would be hugely damaging to the economy\".\n\nOn average, a total of about 1,600 people a day die of all causes in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths being reported is to what extent those deaths are in addition to that average figure, or whether they form part of it.\n\nMany of the victims are old and frail people with underlying health conditions, who therefore are at the highest risk of dying.\n\nExperts predict there will be significant overlap between the coronavirus deaths and those that would normally be expected to die.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests those deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.", "Many countries have been easing lockdown restrictions. In England, dental practices are allowed to open again from today – but with new guidelines in place. Here are the experiences of two dentists in different parts of the world.\n\nDr Sarveen Mann owns a small practice in London, which is preparing to reopen on 15 June, and told BBC Outside Source: \"It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster. We donated our PPE and our oxygen cylinder to the frontline so now we have to have it all back in place. There’s panic within the profession to get PPE.\"\n\nDr Jeff Cooper says getting PPE is a problem Image caption: Dr Jeff Cooper says getting PPE is a problem\n\nDr Jeff Cooper is a dentist in Wisconsin, US, whose practice reopened some weeks ago.\n\n“We don’t have people in waiting rooms, they wait in cars and we call them in when necessary. We’ve got a real problem getting protective equipment, and masks are the worst. Our suppliers are rationing things out.”\n\nWhat’s the reaction from patients been? “People have been very good, but those on reception have caught some flak from patients irate about having to wear a mask. “My choice is to tell them, ‘You’d be better served elsewhere’.”", "A preliminary post-mortem examination on Simeon Francis did not find a cause of death\n\nAn investigation has begun into the death of a man in police custody in Devon, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSimeon Francis, 35, who was black, died in a cell in Torquay police station on 20 May after being arrested in Exeter, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nA preliminary post-mortem examination did not find a cause of death, it said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the independent inquiry.\n\nMr Francis was arrested at about 00:45 BST on 20 May in Cowley Bridge Road in Exeter. He was transported by van to Torquay before being booked into custody at about 03:00, the IOPC said.\n\nMr Francis was found unresponsive in a cell at Torquay police station\n\nPolice said paramedics were called after he was found \"seriously unwell\" in his cell in the afternoon. The IOPC said an ambulance crew pronounced him dead at about 18:00.\n\nThe investigation followed a mandatory referral from the Devon and Cornwall force, which officers announced the day after the death.\n\nRegional IOPC director Catrin Evans said: \"Our thoughts are with Mr Francis's family and friends following his death.\"\n\nShe said investigators were gathering evidence and statements from officers and \"analysing a considerable amount of CCTV footage from the custody suite\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at the level of care provided during the period of detention, including the frequency and adequacy of checks carried out.\"\n\nFurther tests were also to be carried out on Mr Francis's body, she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Huawei is launching a newspaper and internet campaign to mark 20 years of business in the UK.\n\nIn an open letter to the public, the Chinese telecoms company says it is \"as committed as ever\" to provide \"the best equipment\" to the UK's 5G mobile and full-fibre broadband providers.\n\nIt comes amid a new security review that could lead the UK government to ban use of Huawei's 5G network kit.\n\nHuawei's local boss said he expects the UK to act in the nation's interests.\n\nThe initiative follows a report in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, which said London-headquartered bank HSBC fears it could face reprisals in China, if the UK acts against Huawei.\n\nThe Sunday Times also reported that China's ambassador to the UK had recently told business leaders that Beijing viewed the matter as \"a litmus test of whether Britain is a true and faithful partner\".\n\nVictor Zhang, vice president of Huawei and head of its UK operations, told the BBC the advertising campaign was about giving people the facts amid all the \"noise\" surrounding the company.\n\nHe said he hoped the UK would take an \"evidence and fact-based approach\" and warned of huge economic impact if greater connectivity was delayed by the company's exclusion, potentially running into the tens of billions of pounds of lost productivity benefits.\n\n\"We need to work closely to address the issue, but we need to take action to accelerate the broadband deployment,\" he said. \"We don't have time to delay this.\"\n\nHuawei's first significant global breakthrough came in the UK in 2005, when it signed a deal to upgrade BT's copper broadband service, five years after having entered the market.\n\nTwo of the UK's mobile operators now need to remove Huawei equipment from their networks in order to meet the 35% cap imposed by the government\n\nAnd 15 years later, the UK government's decision to allow Huawei a role in the country's 5G mobile networks represented another crucial victory.\n\nIn January, ministers announced that Huawei's market share would be capped at 35%, and it would be excluded from sensitive locations, as well as the so-called \"core\" of the network, which is likened to the brains of the system.\n\nIt appeared that the Chinese tech giant had avoided the outright ban that the US had been pressing for, on the grounds that the firm poses a national security risk.\n\nBut a backbench rebellion by Conservative MPs in March and then the coronavirus crisis have heightened political pressure for the UK to be less dependent on China.\n\nAnd Washington's campaign has also not relented since January's decision, despite Huawei's repeated denials that it would ever compromise its clients.\n\nIn May, the US placed significant new sanctions on the company, which limits its access to American computer chip technology.\n\n\"We think this decision will heavily impact on the global supply chain of the semiconductor industry,\" Mr Zhang told the BBC. \"We need to work out a solution.\"\n\nHuawei spells out the benefits it presents the UK in the ad pegged to its 20th anniversary\n\nMr Zhang said that it was still too early for the company to draw any conclusion about the impact, and promised to share details of its own review when complete.\n\nHowever, the sanctions prompted the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to carry out its own review.\n\nNCSC is expected to report in the coming weeks, and may say it has lost confidence it can manage the risks associated with Huawei being involved in 5G.\n\nThat could open the way for the government to shift its position to further reducing, or even eventually eliminating Huawei's role.\n\nThat could be costly to mobile operators, leading to higher bills for customers. It could also mean their rollout of 5G in the UK is slower.\n\nThe advertising campaign also highlights Huawei's support of British universities and other institutions, which might also be affected, were the company to be blocked.\n\n\"We believe the UK will definitely review this based on the facts and the evidence, because the UK will take its own interests very seriously,\" Mr Zhang said.\n\nThe founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday to have told staff in 2018 that the company was in a battle with the US and they should \"surge forward, killing as you go, to blaze us a trail of blood\".\n\nAsked about the language, Mr Zhang said it reflected a sense that Huawei was under intense attack from the United States.\n\n\"We are very vulnerable and we know America tried to attack Huawei with so called security reasons which are actually totally wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"It is simply because of trade and protectionism.\"", "The statue of Edward Colston in Bristol \"is a constant reminder of his inhumanity\", says poet Miles Chambers\n\nThis article was first published in February 2018\n\nBristol's fame and wealth were built on the slave trade and few slave traders were more infamous or wealthy than Edward Colston. Almost 300 years since his death, his past is set to be formally acknowledged by the city for the first time. But does this go far enough?\n\nColston made his fortune through human suffering. Between 1672 and 1689, ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.\n\nHowever, in the city he called home, his memory has been honoured for centuries. On his death in 1721, he bequeathed his wealth to charities and his legacy can still be seen on Bristol's streets, memorials and buildings.\n\nHis statue, which stands on Colston Avenue in the city centre, makes no mention of his notorious past. But this could be about to change.\n\nThe city council is proposing to put a plaque on the statue which will recognise and acknowledge the people Colston and others in the city enslaved.\n\nIt's a move that has been a long time coming, says Ros Martin, one of the driving forces behind the Countering Colston campaign group.\n\n\"The plaque is good but we need it to be part of an ongoing examination of historical narrative and a change of attitudes and culture.\n\n\"What we want goes beyond tokenism - we want institutions and organisations in the city to examine their history and acknowledge their individual roles in the slave trade and beyond.\"\n\nThe statue of the slave trader and philanthropist was erected in 1895\n\nThe drive to reconsider Bristol's attitude to Colston has long been gathering momentum.\n\nFor years Massive Attack refused to play at hometown venue Colston Hall, which last year agreed to drop the slave trader's name.\n\nNot before time, says Miles Chambers, the city's poet laureate.\n\n\"Some people don't get that black people still feel the full impact of slavery today.\n\n\"We can look at the descendants of the slaves and economically they are still worse off; psychologically they are still worse off; mentally they still feel collectively as inferior; more African-Caribbean males are disproportionately in prison and in the judicial system; they do worse at schools; economically are paid less and are working less.\n\n\"The pattern continues and even though many people say slavery is over, because of those legacies we still feel enslaved.\n\n\"A name change or statue move is not going to rectify racism or eradicate the slave mentality that still exists, but it will help to say to black people: 'You are equal to us, you are British, you are valuable and you mean as much to us as any other citizen.'\"\n\nCaptains were instructed to buy as many slaves as the ship could \"conveniently carry\"\n\nIn 1680 Colston became a member of the Royal African Company which at the time had a monopoly on the slave trade. By 1689 he had risen to become its deputy governor.\n\nSlaves bought in West Africa were branded with the company initials RAC, then herded on to ships and plunged into a nightmarish voyage.\n\nClosely shackled together, hundreds of enslaved people lay in their own filth; disease, suicide and murder claimed between 10 and 20 per cent of them during the six to eight week voyage to the Americas.\n\nHuman suffering on this scale made Colston rich and a grateful Bristol honoured his benevolence; naming dozens of buildings, institutions, charities, schools, sports clubs, pubs, societies and roads after him.\n\nHis charity is commemorated during processions and church services. School children have paid homage to him at services. His statue stands in the city centre, inscribed as a \"memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of the city\".\n\nFor hundreds of years, he has been unquestionably venerated.\n\n\"Colston may have helped more people than he abused but the people he abused and their descendants say this is unacceptable and although they are a minority, something needs to be done about it,\" says Mr Chambers.\n\n\"We are still seeing the effects of slavery in this city, there is still money from slavery in this city and so we can't ignore it.\"\n\nRos Martin says tourists wonder why so many buildings and roads are named after Colston\n\nThere have been questions about Colston and his profile in Bristol since the 1920s but they remained largely ignored until 1999 when Prof Madge Dresser, at the University of West England, spoke about Colston and his involvement in the slave trade.\n\nThe next morning, \"Slave Trader\" was scrawled across his statue.\n\nThe graffiti was scrubbed off and the city went back to turning a blind eye until two years ago, when Countering Colston ignited the debate once again.\n\nIt has staged protests outside many events linked to Colston and called for the city to remember, among other things, the \"full, true history of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and exploitation\".\n\n\"When you come to Bristol you go around the streets and, for anyone outside coming in, they must think 'Who is this man?' and 'Why are so many buildings, roads and schools named after him?',\" says Ms Martin.\n\n\"I think it's very disingenuous, very disrespecting of the memory of African ancestors who contributed to the wealth of the city through enslaved labour. They suffered and there is not enough recognition in any way.\n\n\"[Countering Colston] would like to see permanent public art works as a memorial to the victims of the city's human trafficking into enslavement.\n\n\"I would like all those institutions that played a role in this business of transatlantic inhumanity to provide public exhibitions of their involvement and a monument to those who suffered in their institution.\"\n\nAs head girl, Jane Ghosh's had to lay a wreath on Colston's tomb on Commemoration Day\n\nCountering Colston's work is beginning to make its mark.\n\nAfter Colston Hall announced it was severing any connection with the slave trader, others swiftly followed.\n\nFor the first time in centuries, a controversial church service in his name was dropped last year; the custodians of St Stephen's citing a \"growing concern\" about a man who made his money from buying and selling people.\n\nHowever, for some the campaign is simply going too far.\n\n\"We all knew what he'd done but it wasn't spoken about,\" says Jane Ghosh, a former head girl of Colston Girls school. Founded in 1891 with an endowment left in his will, the school has steadfastly refused to drop his name.\n\nDuring her school days, Ms Ghosh took part in many Charter Day ceremonies to commemorate the school's founder. As head girl, she joined the procession through the city to placed a wreath on his tomb, while Colston buns - created by and named after the merchant - were handed out during the service.\n\n\"I'm not an apologist [for slavery] but I am a realist,\" she continues.\n\n\"So many families, so many buildings in Bristol are connected to the slave trade and one of the reasons I get a bit cross is because I think, 'Why are we picking on Colston?'\n\n\"So many people were a mixture of good and bad - as we all are - and he seems to be singled out and I don't know why.\"\n\nFrancis Greenacre standing outside Colston Almshouses - built in 1796 with Colston's money to provide homes for the poor\n\nBetween 1698 and 1807 just over 2,100 Bristol ships set sail on slaving voyages with many of the earliest voyages funded by ordinary people who provided cash or goods to be bartered for captured slaves.\n\nThat Colston's name has not disappeared with time is testament to his membership of an influential and selective group of Bristol businessmen.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers helped set up and run many of the institutions and charities that still bear his name.\n\nFormer museum curator and society member Francis Greenacre says the achievements of a man who did so much for charity have now been overshadowed by the debate about his name.\n\n\"His status was extraordinary... the extent of his charity was vast in Bristol and enormous in London, as it was throughout the country.\"\n\nHis wealth also founded schools and almshouses for the poor and he entrusted the society to carry on his work.\n\nToday, the Merchant Venturers run nine schools in Bristol, are involved in social enterprise, charities looking after the elderly, scholarships and trusts.\n\nHowever, controversial ceremonies are still reported to exist including a Silent Toast to Colston during the Grateful Society's annual dinner.\n\nStanding outside Colston Tower, Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley says she is \"uncomfortable\" that a slave trader's name is \"celebrated\"\n\nCampaigners accuse the society of continuing to \"celebrate a slave trader\". Mr Greenacre says the society is commemorating Colston's charity work, rather than his slaving past.\n\n\"That word [celebrate] comes from Countering Colston - it is in no sense what is being done,\" he says.\n\n\"We are not celebrating the slave trade; that is a perception which is in effect deeply offensive.\"\n\nHowever, he acknowledges that times have changed and society must change as well, referring to the council's decision to acknowledge Colston's past.\n\n\"Someone walking past his statue, which makes no reference to the slave trade; if they are a descendant of enslaved Africans they may feel genuinely offended; indeed some feel not just hurt but real anguish and that ought to be addressed.\"\n\nColston's statue is a \"memorial [to] one of the most virtuous and wise sons of the city\"\n\nFor some, the amendment to Colston's statue is not enough.\n\n\"I would really like it if the statue was put in the museum,\" says Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, a presenter for community station Ujima Radio, which focuses on Bristol's African-Caribbean population.\n\n\"People can still see that this is a man who did a lot for Bristol, but we should put [a statue] in the city centre of a black Bristolian who has changed Bristol and done something good for Bristol.\"\n\nOthers think saving Colston's legacy is not even as simple as moving a statue or changing the name of buildings, roads and schools.\n\nWhen he heard the concert venue would be dropping the name, history graduate Max Barton set up a petition against the move which attracted 5,000 signatures.\n\nHe said it was \"time to educate and not eliminate\" people about the slave trader and his history.\n\nMax Barton says some people in Bristol see Colston as a figurehead of the city\n\n\"White, working-class Bristolians have grown up with Colston as a kind of father of Bristol,\" he says.\n\n\"They see him as a figurehead, they see him as this person who was a great charitable philanthropist - wiping out that history would alienate this group.\n\n\"Countering Colston has a list of places associated with Colston on their website - a hit list as far as I'm concerned... they want to eliminate him from history and that will alienate people.\"\n\nBristol is not alone in trying to come to terms with its past. From Oxford to Charlottesville, from Sydney to Cape Town, cities are facing the same question - how do you remember history without celebrating brutality?\n\nHistorian Dr Edson Burton is reluctant to see Colston's name disappear but believes Bristol is similar to many cities in being \"built on a romanticised myth\".\n\nHe says now we are in a position to question \"the great figures that we have venerated in the past\", we should not be surprised to \"find that they are not up to the mark for our modern standards\".\n\nDr Edson Burton standing outside Bristol Cathedral, which has a huge stained glass window dedicated to Colston\n\n\"I see that there are a number of institutions willing to look their history in the eye and acknowledge that there is a question about the legacy and foundation on which they were built.\n\n\"I think that is a monumental step - my concern is that it is not sufficient enough.\"\n\nHe is one of many in the city searching for a solution.\n\nAt the vanguard of change, in more ways than one, is Colston Primary School, which announced last year it would be changing its name.\n\nKate Swainson Price said the decision to change the school's name is not about eradicating history\n\nChair of governors Kate Swainson Price said the decision was not about pandering to political correctness.\n\n\"For me, the decision to change our school name is about a recontextualisation of history rather than eradication, obliteration or whitewashing.\n\n\"It's making history, not erasing history. Facts don't change but attitudes and values do, as do societies.\"\n\nThe school is now at the centre of plans to design the new plaque on Colston's statue, which will recognise and acknowledge the people he and others in the city enslaved.\n\nThe children will be joining Countering Colston members, Prof Dresser and the city council to help put Colston's legacy into context.\n\nMs Swainson Price said it was \"amazing and appropriate\" for the children to \"to help review and redress the balance about how we remember and acknowledge Bristol's historical figures\" and \"importantly, the slaves themselves\".\n\nThe current plaque makes no mention of the thousands of people he enslaved\n\nThe man in charge of the project, the council's historic environment officer Pete Insole, said the people who were exploited by Colston are \"invisible\" in Bristol.\n\nHe is helping to co-ordinate events during the summer about the city's links to the slave trade, which will culminate in the unveiling of the plaque.\n\n\"Slave traders are the most commemorated people in the city; we can't change the past but we can change the present and the future,\" he added.\n\nBut for Ms Martin this is only the beginning: \"We have created debate... It's not just Bristol, it's a global narrative, it's about colonisation and decolonisation.\n\n\"Across Europe and across America the debate is very alive. We are questioning people and we are challenging society.\n\n\"You are only here for a short time on Earth and I like to think we are bequeathing something better than we have inherited.\"\n\nIn 1750 Bristol ships transported 8,000 of the 20,000 slaves sent to the Americas\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\nLearner drivers have been left without clear guidance about when they will be able to take their tests, driving instructors have said.\n\nThey say there has been \"no communication\" from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).\n\nSteve Britton, a driving instructor from Bridgend, said instructors were \"frustrated\".\n\nThe DVSA said it was keeping the situation under \"constant review\" in line with guidance.\n\nEla Owen, 17, of Llanrwst in Conwy, had her test cancelled in March and rearranged for 28 July.\n\nShe said she was \"disappointed\" when the first test was cancelled and there remains \"uncertainty\" around whether she will be able to sit the rearranged test.\n\n\"We don't live in a city so there's not as many buses or trains to get to places, so needing a car in a rural area is quite important to have that independence,\" she said.\n\nEla Owen says having a car is important for independence in rural areas\n\nHer driving instructor, Rhydian Hughes, said pupils with tests coming up were \"frustrated\" and \"anxious\", adding: \"I can't tell them when they can start having lessons.\"\n\nHe said some instructors were thinking about installing a plastic screen between them and their pupils.\n\nBut Mr Hughes added: \"I don't find that practical... although as a driving instructor I do have dual controls, at some situation or at times you might need to grab hold of the steering wheel.\"\n\nRhydian Hughes says he would not consider installing a plastic screen in his car\n\nThe DVSA, which is responsible for driving tests and approving driving instructors, has suspended tests until 20 June at the earliest, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe latest figures available show that between July and September 2019, 32,340 driving tests took place in Wales.\n\nInstructor Steve Britton said the backlog could be \"four, five even six months\" and he found it difficult to see how to make lessons safe.\n\n\"I've got a visor and masks but no information from anybody about how it's going to be used,\" he said.\n\nAaron Farmer, 18, who is one of Mr Britton's students, said he was waiting for his cancelled test to be rearranged.\n\nHe said his frustration had been increasing as lockdown measures have been easing.\n\nMr Farmer, who has not driven a car for two months, said: \"It would probably take me a good few weeks again to get back into it and a lot of hours behind the wheel.\"\n\nInstructor Steve Britton says he cannot see how you can make lessons safe\n\nThe Driving Instructors Association said it was concerned at a lack of information available for instructors and students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Throughout this crisis there has been a disappointing lack of communication from the regulator.\n\n\"We've excused some of that in the earlier phase of this crisis as we are dealing with an unprecedented pandemic and every government agency is on the back foot to some degree in terms of issuing guidance.\n\n\"However, we are at a point now where guidance in crucial.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the regulator knows now that they are not in a position to resume testing at the end of this month, then communicate that to trainers and their pupils now.\"\n\nIn a statement the DVSA said: \"We understand how challenging the current situation is for the industry but our top priority is to stop the spread of coronavirus and keep everyone safe.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with driving instructor associations on how and when we can resume driving tests and lessons in Wales and other parts of the UK.\n\n\"We're keeping the situation under constant review, in line with UK and Welsh government guidance, and will provide further information as soon as we can.\"", "Muslim leaders have called for mosques to remain closed until congregational prayers can be held\n\nA senior Imam has advised mosques not to open until they can hold congregational prayers, despite government plans for places of worship.\n\nThe government is expected to announce that churches, mosques and synagogues in England can open their doors for private prayer from 15 June.\n\nBut as mosques are primarily for congregational prayers Muslim leaders have warned the plans lack clarity.\n\nImam Qari Asim said opening them would \"cause more challenges\".\n\nFull services and weddings will still be banned under the measures, which the prime minister is expected to outline to his cabinet on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland already allows private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nImam Asim, chairman of the Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), has called on mosques not to reopen until it is safe to do so and they are able to hold congregational prayers.\n\nHe said: \"The fundamental difference between mosques and some other places of worship is that mosques are first and foremost used for congregational prayers.\n\n\"Individual prayers can be performed anywhere, primarily at homes. Accordingly, opening the mosques on 15 June will cause more challenges for mosques and imams as the expectation from the community will be to resume collective worship.\"\n\nHarun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said communities needed \"unambiguous guidance\" so they could ensure the safety of everyone.\n\nHe said: \"Mosques are provisioned primarily for congregational worship, so there is currently significant uncertainty and concern from mosque leaders on how the new regulations can actually be implemented.\"\n\nMr Khan added that the MCB, an umbrella group of Muslim associations, had been consulting with communities across the country and it was clear proactive planning about reopening mosques had been taking place.\n\nMINAB has also called on the government to allow small groups to meet for the five daily prayers in mosques, so long as social-distancing and other measures are respected.\n\nThe group has prepared guidelines for mosques to start putting in place ahead of their eventual reopening, with particular concern about the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities.\n\nGroup worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the first, measured step in restoring church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that not every Catholic church would be open on 15 June.\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\" and said faith communities had shown \"enormous patience and forbearance\" since the lockdown came into effect.\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions meaning many could be vulnerable to the virus and because practices such as singing could enable the virus to spread more freely\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Sedars and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public was ready to re-engage in retail therapy, then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.", "People arriving in the UK will have to isolate for 14 days or face penalties\n\nThe travel industry has condemned the government's quarantine rules, warning the mandatory two-week isolation will deter visitors and put jobs at risk.\n\nFrom 8 June all passengers arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has added to the criticism, warning fewer flights will restrict imports and exports.\n\nThe boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr O'Leary said most countries in Europe have a lower rate of coronavirus than the UK.\n\nAt a time when \"Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are removing visitor restrictions, the UK is imposing them,\" he said.\n\nSwissport chief Jason Holt questioned why the rules were being put in place now.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said: \"If it's so important and it's so relevant to the virus, and we all want the country to be safe, why wasn't this done in March? That's why everybody's quite confused on this.\"\n\nMore than 200 travel companies have written to the government asking for the new rules to be scrapped, while some MPs have also raised concerns.\n\nThe boss of tour operator Red Savannah said the government had failed to listen to the concerns of the travel industry.\n\n\"We are none the wiser as to the science behind the rationale for quarantine,\" said George Morgan-Grenville.\n\n\"It is the wrong policy that is going to cause untold misery for hundreds of thousands of people who will now very likely be made redundant.\"\n\nBut the government says the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach'' to protect public health.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel told Parliament imported coronavirus cases now ''pose a more significant threat''.\n\n\"We are past the peak but we are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad,\" she said.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has warned the quarantine rules will have knock on effects for freight, and that will hamper the recovery of some businesses.\n\nSpeaking to a committee of senior MPs, Stephen Phipson, the head of the manufacturers' association Make UK, said \"passenger aircraft are really important for freight. The belly of the aircraft carries freight. Heathrow is the largest port in the country.\"\n\n\"For import and export in manufacturing that passenger freight traffic is vital\", he said.\n\nHe described the quarantine rules as \"disappointing from that point of view\".\n\nFrom Sunday, all passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the quarantine rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they are not at home.\n\nA spokesman for the trade body Airlines UK said the government needed to clarify whether people from some countries with low infection rates would be exempt from quarantine rules, under a so-called air bridge.\n\n\"If the government leave it too late we run the risk of the summer season being over and losing out to other countries who are starting to open up their borders now,\" he said.\n\nSwissport, which handles airport ground services and cargo, earned more than €3bn (£2.8bn) in revenue in 2019 but the coronavirus crisis has reduced revenue by 95%, according to Mr Holt.\n\nThe company has furloughed most of its 6,000 UK staff.\n\nMr Holt said they would remain on the Job Retention Scheme until the government's future travel policies became clear.\n\nHe said Swissport had lobbied the government to avoid introducing quarantine, but the company was now hoping the rules will only be in place for short time.\n\n\"We're really hoping no more than three weeks,\" he said. If it goes beyond that it could do \"irredeemable damage to the sector\".", "The Duke of York has been requested by the US authorities to testify about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt was first reported in the Sun that the US Department of Justice had made a formal request to speak to Prince Andrew as part of its Epstein inquiry.\n\nHe has been heavily criticised for his friendship with the US financier.\n\nThe duke has previously said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year following a widely-criticised BBC interview about his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the BBC had confirmed the reports that the US authorities had submitted a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the Home Office - although this has not been confirmed by the US Department of Justice or the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nOur correspondent said the duke's legal team was bitterly unhappy about the leaking of the request, with a source describing it as \"an extraordinary breach of confidentiality\".\n\nA full statement is expected later with details about Prince Andrew's cooperation with US legal authorities.\n\nMLA requests by other states are used to obtain assistance in an investigation or prosecution of criminal offences, generally when cooperation cannot be obtained by law enforcement agencies.\n\nAccording to Home Office guidance, it is \"usual policy\" that the existence of a request is neither confirmed or denied.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, despite the financier having been convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nHe was criticised in January by the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation into Epstein - Geoffrey Berman - who said the prince had provided \"zero co-operation\" to the investigators.", "The economic downturn in the US triggered by the pandemic has been officially declared a recession.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Tuesday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.\n\nIt said activity and employment hit a \"clear\" and \"well-defined\" peak in February, before falling.\n\nThe ruling puts a formal end to what had been more than a decade of economic expansion - the longest in US history.\n\nMeanwhile, US markets continued their rebound on Monday, as investors remained optimistic that the downturn will be short-lived.\n\nA recession was expected after the US economy contracted 5% in the first three months of the year.\n\nEmployers also reported cutting roughly 22 million jobs in March and April, as restrictions on activity intended to help control the virus forced many businesses to close.\n\nSome economists are hopeful that the job losses have now stopped, and a rebound has begun. In May, US employers added 2.5 million jobs, as states started reopening.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organisation, said it viewed the scale of the decline that started in February as more significant than its duration.\n\n\"The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions,\" it said.\n\nThe bureau typically defines a recession as an economic contraction that lasts \"more than a few months\".\n\nIt has declared 12 recessions since 1948, the longest of which was the Great Recession, which lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009.\n\nUS financial markets, which tumbled in February amid signs of the economic collapse, have been on the upswing since March, due to investor hopes that economic damage will be limited, thanks to emergency relief from Congress and the central bank.\n\nOn Monday, the Nasdaq index closed at 9,924.7, gaining 1.1% to top its pre-pandemic record.\n\nEmployees screened by healthcare workers before entering the New York Stock Exchange, which partially reopened in late May\n\nThe S&P 500 rose 1.2% to close at 3.232.3 - returning to where it started the year - while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.7% to 27,572.4. The two indexes are now less than 10% lower than their pre-pandemic peaks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has celebrated the rebound.\n\n\"Big day for Stock Market. Smart money, and the World, know that we are heading in the right direction. Jobs are coming back FAST. Next year will be our greatest ever,\" he wrote on Twitter on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nMany economists have warned that the economic pain is likely to linger, even if the worst has passed.\n\nThe World Bank on Monday said it expected the global economy to shrink by 5.2% this year, in the deepest recession since World War Two.\n\nIt said it expected the US economy to contract by 6.1% and the Euro area to shrink by 9.1%.\n\nWhile global growth of 4.2% is expected to return next year, the bank warned that the outlook is \"highly uncertain and downside risks are predominant, including the possibility of a more protracted pandemic, financial upheaval and retreat from global trade and supply linkages\".", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters have been found dead in a London park where they had earlier celebrated a birthday, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered at 13:00 BST on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThe women had been celebrating Bibaa's birthday with a group of about 10 people on Friday evening, police said.\n\nTheir deaths are being treated as suspicious, the Met Police said.\n\nPolice said the group of partygoers had gradually dispersed until only the pair remained.\n\nThe sisters were both reported as missing to police late on Saturday when they did not return home, before they were discovered on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"We are in the very early stages of the investigation and are working hard to find out what led to these two women losing their lives.\n\n\"I need to hear from anyone who was in Fryent Country Park on the evening of Friday, 5 June, or early into Saturday, 6 June.\n\n\"The area the group were in would be a well-known spot to sit and look over London. If you were in that area of the park and noticed the group, or saw anything else suspicious, please contact us immediately.\"\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 first minister gave his thanks to children and young people in Wales\n\nMore lockdown restrictions could be lifted in Wales in weeks if the number of coronavirus cases continues to fall, the first minister has said.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said he could not make \"any promises\" about reopening pubs and restaurants.\n\nHe said they were on the list of items which could change when restrictions are next overhauled.\n\nThe next lockdown announcement in Wales is expected on 19 June, a day after ministers have to review the rules.\n\nMr Drakeford said cases are falling from a high of about 400 a day at the start to around 50 new cases a day.\n\nThree more people in Wales were announced on Monday to have died from coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Drakeford said that because the number of new cases is falling, \"the risk of meeting someone with the disease and being infected by it is falling as well\".\n\nHe said that if, at the end of next week, the number of people carrying the disease in Wales is still dropping, \"we will have some headroom to go on in that careful and cautious way of lifting the restrictions in Wales\".\n\nDriving to beauty spots has been banned in Wales\n\nEngland's pubs and restaurants may re-open earlier than planned after warnings of huge job losses.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he could not make \"any promises\" about re-opening the sector in Wales.\n\nHe said he would be meeting officials to consider the \"long list\" of potential changes for the next review this week.\n\n\"We reduce that list to a short list of the most possible ideas which we then look at greater detail next week,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"There are many many other requests that are being made of us,\" he added.\n\nLockdown restrictions are reveiwed in Wales every three weeks\n\nRestrictions were recently loosened to allow people to travel locally and meet individuals from another household.\n\nLockdown in Wales is controlled by the Welsh government in Cardiff, and in England by the UK government in London.\n\nWhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed timescales for when rules can be eased in England, such as non-essential retail on 15 June, Mr Drakeford has been reluctant to do so.\n\nMaking any changes would depend on the number of new cases continuing to fall, he said.\n\n\"We will have to select the careful measures we can offer to people in Wales while remaining safe from the risk that coronavirus could accelerate away from us again.\"\n\nFacemasks will become compulsory on English public transport from 15 June\n\nIn England, face coverings will become compulsory on public transport from 15 June - there have been calls in Wales for the Welsh government to follow suit.\n\nThe World Health Organization has changed its advice, saying masks should now be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nSo far, the Welsh government has not recommended their use, although it has not discouraged people from using them either.\n\nMr Drakeford said his government was still \"working on the detail\" on whether to make the wearing of face masks in public mandatory.\n\n\"The way we do things in Wales is to prepare first and to announce second, not to announce and then work out what the announcement might have meant,\" he said.\n\nHe said further details would be given by the Health Minister Vaughan Gething on Tuesday.\n\nMark Drakeford said he could give no promises on the return of pubs\n\nThe press conference also heard that health boards are training more staff to work in critical care, in case there is a second coronavirus peak in the autumn.\n\nMr Drakeford said normally there were 150 critical care beds available in Wales, but at the height of the pandemic \"there were three times that number\" and more staff were needed.\n\nHe said \"everything was being done to prevent a second peak\" but measures had to be put in place in case it did happen.\n\nAs well as training more staff in critical care, Mr Drakeford said a review was under way looking at the use of field hospitals.\n\n\"In the first wave we managed not to use all our field hospital capacity. Does that mean we have to shut it down? No,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"We still need to preserve that extra capacity to make sure that it is available to us should we need it in the autumn\".", "Republic Records represents artists like Drake, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd\n\nRepublic Records, one of the most powerful record labels in the US, will stop using the word \"urban\" to describe music of black origin.\n\nThe company, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, says it will no longer use the term to describe \"departments, employee titles and music genres\".\n\n\"We encourage the rest of the music industry to follow suit,\" it added.\n\nThe term is often considered to be a generalisation that marginalises music by black artists.\n\n\"'Urban' is a lazy, inaccurate generalisation of several culturally rich art forms,\" radio presenter DJ Semtex told the magazine Music Business UK in 2018.\n\n\"I despise the word,\" he added. \"I know artists that do hip-hop, grime, or rap. I don't know anyone that does urban music.\n\n\"The connotation of the word doesn't hold a positive weight,\" agreed Sam Taylor, a senior vice president at Kobalt Music, in an interview with Billboard in 2018.\n\n\"It's downgrading R&B, soul and hip-hop's incredible impact on music.\"\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 republicrecords 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 term dates back to the mid-1970s, when black New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker coined the phrase \"urban contemporary\" as a label for the eclectic mix of songs that he played - which covered everything from James Brown to Doris Day.\n\nAt the time, the label didn't carry negative connotations but, after being shortened to \"urban\" it started being used as a catch-all for music created by black musicians - effectively lumping them into one category, regardless of genre.\n\nRepublic Records reflected the growing discomfort around the term in a statement announcing it would remove the word from its company vocabulary.\n\n\"'Urban' is rooted in the historical evolution of terms that sought to define black music,\" it said.\n\n\"As with a lot of our history, the original connotation of the term urban was not deemed negative. However, over time the meaning and connotations of 'urban' have shifted and it developed into a generalisation of black people in many sectors of the music industry, including employees and music by black artists.\n\n\"While this change will not and does not affect any of our staff structurally, it will remove the use of this antiquated term.\n\n\"We encourage the rest of the music industry to consider following suit as it is important to shape the future of what we want it to look like, as to not adhere to the outdated structures of the past.\"\n\nThe label, whose roster also includes The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Taylor Swift, also announced the formation of an \"action committee\" to address social justice issues.\n\nManagement company Milk & Honey, whose songwriters have contributed to hits by Drake & Rick Ross, The Chainsmokers, Dua Lipa and Selena Gomez also declared it would \"formally eliminate the term 'urban' at our company\".\n\nIn a statement posted to social media, it said: \"We will no longer be using the term as we believe it's an important step forward, and an outdated word, which has no place in 2020 onwards.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by milkhoneyla 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 move comes in the wake of widespread protests in the US and UK over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis two weeks ago,\n\nA white police officer was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes, while the 46-year-old repeated several times, \"I can't breathe\". He was later pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nHis death prompted hundreds of thousands to take to the streets demanding racial justice.\n\nThe music industry responded by pausing work for a day last week, with Universal Music - Republic Records' parent company - establishing a \"task force to accelerate our efforts in areas such as inclusion and social justice\".\n\nHowever, others have said the industry needs widespread systemic change, rather than \"window dressing\".\n\n\"Why is it that black music generates millions and millions of dollars a year and yet none of the companies have a meaningful number of employees of colour, let alone in the executive suite?\" asked senior music industry lawyer Ronald E. Sweeney in an open letter published on Sunday.\n\nSweeney, who has represented the likes of James Brown, P Diddy and Public Enemy, drew up a 12-point plan to address what he called \"the elephant in the room\", including equal pay and the creation of a three-year programme to train people from minority backgrounds for executive roles.\n\n\"[This] is what meaningful and real change looks like,\" he wrote. \"So, let's see what you do.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some people who stayed at the YHA Hostel have moved to more permanent accommodation\n\nWales' housing minister says she is \"absolutely determined\" homeless people will not have to go back on to the streets after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCouncils are being asked to find permanent homes for hundreds of rough sleepers who moved into emergency accommodation during lockdown.\n\nRooms in hotels, student accommodation and hostels were bought up at the start of the pandemic to provide 800 places.\n\nBut Julie James said that was not \"OK for the longer term\".\n\nAnother £20m will now go towards building homes and converting empty properties.\n\nShe said it would ensure \"that everybody housed stays housed\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined that no one will have to go back on to the streets,\" Ms James added.\n\nShe said she was worried about a small number of people who were deemed to have \"no recourse to public funds\" because of their unsettled immigration applications.\n\nSara John said she felt more secure at the YHA Hostel in Cardiff\n\nThey include asylum seekers who have been given temporary housing under the Welsh Government's health powers to protect them from Covid-19.\n\nMs James said there were \"tens\" of them in Wales and she urged the UK government to change its rules so they can continue to get help.\n\nThe Home Office said that was \"inaccurate.\"\n\nA spokesman said: \"Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation, and we continue to provide accommodation and support to those whose claims have been rejected and are unable to return home.\n\n\"We will review this situation by the end of June.\"\n\nIn Cardiff, the council has taken over two hotels to temporarily house homeless people.\n\nOfficers say only a handful of people have remained out on the streets during the pandemic.\n\nSara John, 35, is staying at a YHA hostel with her partner after previously staying at other hostels and spending time on the streets.\n\nShe said coronavirus was \"scary because you don't know if you're going to have the virus or not\".\n\nThe YHA hostel in Cardiff has 89 beds for homeless people\n\n\"There are things you hear but, obviously, I've been out every day and I'm still here,\" she said.\n\nThe YHA hostel, which has 89 beds, makes her feel more secure \"because you can lock away and you've got staff here if you need them\".\n\nManager Gareth Edwards said some people had moved on to more permanent accommodation.\n\n\"We are dealing with 200 and something people at the moment so there's probably going to be a bottleneck of people trying to get into private rented accommodation or supported accommodation in some way,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that's going to be the challenge for us now is to try and identify what people's needs are and where is going to be the best place to place them.\"\n\nShelter Cymru director John Puzey said: \"We now have a unique opportunity before us to ensure that homeless people currently in temporary accommodation are supported into homes that they can begin to restart their lives from.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's housing spokeswoman, Delyth Jewell MS, said eradicating homelessness had always been \"a question of political will\".\n\nShe said: \"The fact that the Welsh Government has now made a commitment to eradicate homelessness for good is extremely welcome, although many lives could have been saved had they acted sooner.\"\n\nTory MS David Melding said councils should follow a Newport scheme where private landlords were guaranteed six months' rent if they took in homeless tenants.\n\n\"It does seem that the Newport scheme has worked very well, and may be a very constructive way forward that uses the resources of the private sector, which are so extensive in providing rental accommodation,\" he said.\n\nFunding announced by Ms James would help people into stable housing \"so they don't fall back and then end up in the streets again\", Mr Melding said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Routine dental appointments may not happen until next year\n\nDental health in Wales faces an \"impending disaster\" unless surgeries reopen, a dentist has warned in a letter to the first minister.\n\nCardiff dentist Dr Charlie Stephanakis said his plea on behalf of about 500 Welsh colleagues reflected mounting concerns for patients.\n\nDentists in England can reopen from Monday, but in Wales a phased approach will begin in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said reinstating services needed to be \"gradual\".\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed since the start of lockdown, but in that time dentists in Wales have seen 11,500 people in practices for urgent care and provided 140,000 consultations over the phone or using video services.\n\nFrom July patients will be able to be assessed for urgent care at their practices, but those requiring invasive procedures such as high-speed drilling will still be referred to specialist 'Urgent Dental Care' centres.\n\nUnder the phased guidelines set out by Wales' chief dental officer, Colette Bridgman, routine assessments and care will only be reinstated between January and March 2021.\n\nBut in his open letter to Mark Drakeford, Dr Stephanakis said without action \"we are facing the long-term degradation of the oral health of the population of Wales\".\n\nThe dentist said keeping surgeries closed following the coronavirus lockdown in Wales had led to several issues, including:\n\nHe has called for urgent meetings with the Welsh Government to seek a way forward.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents the health sector, said there was a \"great, growing demand\" for swifter action before 2021.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We share dentists' concerns and recognise routine care cannot be postponed indefinitely.\n\n\"We have published our plan for the reinstatement of services but this needs to be a cautious and gradual approach, taking into consideration the risk of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) on Covid-19 transmission.\n\n\"There is a need to balance the oral health needs of patients against the need to protect patients, dental teams and communities in Wales from coronavirus.\"\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. Nicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June\n\nNicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that Scotland's coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June after a second day with no recorded deaths.\n\nThe first minister said the continuing \"steady decline\" in the death rate was \"obviously very encouraging\".\n\nHowever, she warned it was \"highly likely\" that more deaths would be registered in the coming days.\n\nAnd she confirmed that \"shielding\" of those most at risk from the virus would continue until the end of July.\n\nShe said changes were likely to be made to allow people in this category to exercise outdoors, but that shielding must continue due to the \"very significant threat\" of the virus.\n\nSunday marked the first time since the early days of the pandemic that no new deaths of people confirmed to have the virus were recorded in Scotland.\n\nAfter reporting that there had not been any further deaths on Monday, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I can't tell you how much I've longed to report such a development.\"\n\nHowever, she warned that because fewer deaths tend to be registered at weekend, it was \"highly likely\" that more would be reported in the coming days.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"optimistic\" that if progress continued to be made, Scotland could move into the next phase of the government's \"route map\" towards lifting lockdown on 18 June.\n\nThat is the next formal review point for the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe second phase could allow people to meet up with another household indoors, as long as physical distancing is maintained. It may also involve re-opening more shops and businesses, as well as the resumption of professional sport.\n\nThe first minister said any changes might not include every element of the second phase, but that the Scottish government would also look to \"accelerate things from later phases\" if possible.\n\nShe said ministers \"want to get the economy back to as much normality as possible\", but that \"we have to do it safely so we don't set everybody back again by allowing the virus to run out of control\".\n\nShe added: \"We are making significant progress against this virus, but it is at a very sensitive and critical juncture.\n\n\"We need a safe foundation to lift restrictions more meaningfully in the weeks to come.\"\n\nThe first minister said people \"should still be staying home most of the time and meeting fewer people than you normally would\".\n\nWhile \"very encouraging progress\" was being made, she said that \"sticking with this for a bit longer really does matter\".\n\nShe said: \"These painful but necessary sacrifices have brought us to where we are today, with this virus in retreat. It is in retreat, but it is not gone.\n\n\"This is such a critical junction in our battle against this virus. We will either keep beating it back, or give it a chance to roar back with a vengeance.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.", "The publication of a controversial opinion piece sparked anger inside the newsroom\n\nThe New York Times' opinion editor has resigned amid outrage over a piece by a Republican senator calling for military forces to be sent to cities where anti-racism protests had turned violent.\n\nJames Bennet stepped down after Senator Tom Cotton's article \"Send in the Troops\" caused revolt in the newsroom.\n\nIt backed Donald Trump's threat to use troops to quell unrest.\n\nThe newspaper had initially stood by the publication but then said the article \"did not meet\" its standards.\n\nThe change in position came after an outcry from both the public and staff over the piece, published on the newspaper's website last Wednesday. Some journalists did not come into work on Thursday in protest.\n\nMr Bennet, who has been the opinion editor since 2016, later admitted that he had not read the piece before its publication. The Arkansas senator's article called for \"an overwhelming show of force\" against groups he described as \"rioters\".\n\nIts publication happened as hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the US in recent weeks against racism and police brutality. There have been violent incidents in some cities.\n\nThe demonstrations were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody last month. Video showed him pinned to the floor, with a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMore than 800 employees signed a letter denouncing the article's publication, saying it contained misinformation.\n\n\"As a black woman, as a journalist, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,\" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter.\n\nIn a note to staff on Sunday, New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger said: \"Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years.\"\n\nThe note said Mr Bennet had resigned after he agreed that \"it would take a new team to lead the department through a time of considerable change\". There was no mention of Mr Cotton's piece.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nThe New York Times initially defended the article, saying the editorial page needed to reflect diverse viewpoints. But in a lengthy editor's note added to the text on Friday, it said the piece \"fell short of our standards and should not have been published\".\n\nIt said \"the editing process was rushed and flawed\", adding: \"The published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of 'cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa'; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned.\"\n\nThe newspaper also said the senator's statement that police officers \"bore the brunt\" of the violence seen in some cities was an \"overstatement that should have been challenged\". The headline, which had not been written by Mr Cotton, \"was incendiary and should not have been used,\" the note added.\n\nMr Sulzberger's email announced that Jim Dao, who oversees op-eds as a deputy in the opinion section, will be moved to another role, while Katie Kingsbury will become acting opinion editorial page editor.\n\nOn Saturday, Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned after publishing a headline that equated property damage to the deaths of black people, which prompted public condemnation from many of the newspaper's staff.\n\nMr Wischnowski apologised for what he described as a \"horribly wrong\" decision to use the headline \"Buildings Matter Too\" on an article about civil unrest in the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I did a little dance': Smiling Ardern confirming New Zealand is free of Covid-19 in early June\n\nNew Zealand has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country.\n\nAt midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system.\n\nUnder new rules, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings, but borders remain closed to foreigners.\n\nNew Zealand has reported no new Covid-19 cases for more than two weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters she did \"a little dance\" when she was told the country no longer had any active virus cases.\n\n\"While we're in a safer, stronger position, there's still no easy path back to pre-Covid life, but the determination and focus we have had on our health response will now be vested in our economic rebuild,\" Ms Ardern said.\n\n\"While the job is not done, there is no denying this is a milestone. So can I finish with a very simple, 'Thank you, New Zealand'.\"\n\nNew Zealand first went into lockdown on 25 March, setting up a new four-stage alert system and going in at level four, where most businesses were shut, schools closed and people told to stay at home.\n\nAfter more than five weeks, it moved to level three in April, allowing takeaway food shops and some non-essential businesses to re-open.\n\nAs the number of community cases continued to decline, the country moved into level two in mid-May.\n\nThe move to level one comes ahead of time - the government had originally planned to make the move on 22 June, but it was brought forward after no new cases were reported for 17 days.\n\nLife has (almost) returned to normal in New Zealand\n\nUnder the new rules, all schools and workplaces can open. Weddings, funerals and public transport can resume without any restrictions. Social distancing is no longer required but will be encouraged.\n\nThe country's borders remain closed to foreign travellers, and rules remain in place requiring New Zealanders arriving from abroad to go through a 14-day period of isolation or quarantine.\n\nMs Ardern warned that the country would \"certainly see cases again\", adding that \"elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort\".\n\nNew Zealand has recorded 1,154 confirmed cases and 22 deaths from Covid-19 since the virus arrived in late February, but has been widely praised for its handling of the crisis.\n\nFor many, the latest announcement is a cause for celebration - but not without caution. Auckland-based lorry driver Patrick Weston told the BBC: \"Everyone is so happy we're finally through this, but we're still nervous.\n\n\"I think the main thing people are worried about is the economy - so many people out of work, so many people looking for work at the same time.\n\n\"[On Tuesday] all restrictions are lifted and we can carry on as normal. Sporting events, music events can all take place with no restriction of numbers. We're still being encouraged to social distance of course, so we hope people will be sensible.\n\n\"We're happy, but nervous about the future.\"\n\nDo you live in New Zealand? What are your thoughts on the lifting of lockdown restrictions? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Mr Hunn received 107 birthday cards after an appeal by his Norwich care home\n\nA war veteran who celebrated his 100th birthday in lockdown has said he is \"so thankful\" after being sent more than 100 cards following an appeal.\n\nEddie Hunn, who lives in Norwich, was unable to share his milestone on Sunday with family and friends amid government guidelines on social distancing.\n\nBut the centenarian received 107 cards after staff at his Chiswick House care home organised a campaign.\n\nSam Bailey, of Black Swan Care, said Mr Hunn was a \"true Norfolk boy\".\n\nBorn in Dereham in 1920, he grew up in Wells-next-the-Sea.\n\nHe joined the Territorial Army in 1938 as a driver mechanic before he saw action in Singapore, and spent three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Railway.\n\nMr Hunn moved to Great Yarmouth and ran a guest house after the war. He lost his wife of 69 years, Doris, in 2014.\n\nThe veteran, who has written a book on his experiences, arrived at Chiswick House last year.\n\nAs well as the cards, Mr Hunn received a telegram from the Queen\n\nBlack Swan Care said it was grateful for \"overwhelming support from our local community to give Eddie the best 100th birthday possible\".\n\nAs well as the cards, Mr Hunn received a telegram from the Queen and an email from the High Commission of the Republic of Singapore.\n\nEddie was able to see his family from a distance as he marked his birthday\n\nMr Hunn's family stood on the opposite side of the care home's car park\n\nMr Hunn said he was \"so thankful to everyone involved\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The Post Office prosecuted postmasters over missing money despite having evidence its own computer system could be to blame.\n\nHundreds were accused after the Horizon system showed cash shortfalls at their branches.\n\nBut a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed managers knew problems with Horizon could make money disappear.\n\nThe Post Office says its new leadership has made changes and is working closely with postmasters to provide support.\n\nPostmasters up and down the country were held responsible for missing money because they supposedly had sole control of their Horizon accounts.\n\nIt led to many being fired, going bankrupt or even sent to prison.\n\nThe Horizon system is designed to record the transactions carried out in a post office branch\n\nBut senior Post Office managers were told back in 2011 that computer technicians also had access to the system and could change postmasters' data.\n\nAn Ernst and Young audit report, which was sent to Post Office directors, says it \"has again identified weaknesses\" in the Horizon system.\n\nIt warns that some IT staff have \"unrestricted access\" to postmasters' Horizon accounts which \"may lead to the processing of unauthorised or erroneous transactions\".\n\nPanorama first reported that postmasters' accounts could be accessed without their knowledge in 2015.\n\nIn 2015 whistleblower Richard Roll told Panorama he accessed Horizon data remotely to maintain the system\n\nBut the Post Office strenuously denied this type of remote access was possible and complained to the BBC.\n\nIt then became a central issue in a civil court case brought by 550 postmasters in 2017. The Post Office agreed to pay £58m to settle the case last year.\n\nDuring the trial, the Post Office admitted remote access without the postmaster's knowledge was possible.\n\nManagers claimed they had made an honest mistake when dealing with Panorama because they had not been aware that remote access to Horizon was possible.\n\nBut the programme showed its evidence to Rachel Reeves MP, who had been leading an inquiry into the Post Office and Horizon for the business select committee.\n\nUntil April 2020, Rachel Reeves MP was chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee.\n\nShe said the 2011 audit report suggested the Post Office had known about remote access all along.\n\n\"It is very serious that the Post Office were sitting on information that told them, and could have told the courts, and their sub postmasters, that other people could access their systems.\"\n\nThousands of pages of internal Post Office documents were disclosed in the civil trial and Panorama spent months investigating previously unseen evidence.\n\nThe investigation reveals how Post Office managers ignored reports of multiple faults with the Horizon computer system.\n\nError logs of the Horizon system show that computer bugs could cause losses\n\nEvidence from the system was still used by the Post Office to secure convictions against postmasters like Seema Misra.\n\nShe was pregnant when she was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2010 for stealing £74,000 from her branch in West Byfleet.\n\nAt her trial, the Post Office argued computer errors could not be responsible for the missing money.\n\nBut Panorama has seen internal Post Office emails which show its legal department was told about Horizon errors shortly before her trial.\n\nMetadata shows that the Post Office legal team printed a memo about problems with Horizon\n\nOne email from the Post Office Security Team to the Criminal Law Team is about a bug in the Horizon computer system that makes money \"simply disappear\". In one case, £30,611 went missing.\n\nThe security team tell the legal team they are worried the bug may have \"repercussions in any future prosecution cases\".\n\nAn attachment to the email says that \"any branch encountering the problem will have corrupted accounts\".\n\nThe document was printed out by the Post Office legal department just three days before Seema Misra's trial, but it was never disclosed to her defence.\n\nSandip Patel QC believes Panorama's evidence suggests there has been a miscarriage of justice\n\nBarrister Sandip Patel QC told Panorama the new evidence suggested there had been a miscarriage of justice.\n\n\"Quite clearly the Post Office had material which they should have disclosed, which they did not, and in my view resulted in the wrongful conviction of Mrs Misra.\n\n\"There should be a thorough examination of all the evidence, in respect of any person who might have committed misconduct in the course of these prosecutions by the Post Office.\"\n\nSeema Misra is one of 47 postmasters whose cases have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).\n\nThe CCRC has also called for a review of whether organisations like the Post Office should be allowed to launch their own prosecutions.\n\nPostmaster Seema Misra now hopes to have her conviction overturned at the Court of the Appeal.\n\nMore convictions could be challenged, as the Post Office is now reviewing 900 prosecutions that may have relied on Horizon evidence.\n\nThe Post Office says it has always accepted its legal obligations, has taken advice throughout and is now conducting a further review about disclosure.\n\nIt says it deeply regrets not doing more to investigate the risk that computer bugs may have been responsible for some of the shortfalls that occurred.\n\n\"It is for this reason that Post Office's new CEO, Nick Read, is making his number one priority the wholesale reform of Post Office's relationship with its postmasters.\"\n\nThe organisation has now launched a new scheme \"to consider the cases of all postmasters who experienced shortfalls which they believe were caused by bugs in historical versions of Horizon.\"\n\nThe Post Office also says it will have a changed culture and greater transparency.\n\nPanorama, Scandal at the Post Office is on BBC One at 19:30 BST on Monday 8 June, or watch later on iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio 4 have also broadcast a 10-part series, The Great Post Office Trial.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" after the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.\n\nThe world champion saluted anti-racism protesters for tearing down a monument to the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston at a demonstration on Sunday.\n\nHamilton said governments around the world should \"implement the peaceful removal of these racist symbols\".\n\nHe has made a series of statements amid global anti-racism protests.\n• None Hamilton 'overcome with rage' at events in US\n\nThese have occurred in a number of countries following the death of George Floyd in the US last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died in police custody in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nHamilton said last week that he was \"completely overcome with rage\" at events following Floyd's death.\n\nAnd on Monday he said the Colston statue should not be recovered after demonstrators threw it into a river.\n\n\"If those people hadn't taken down that statue, honouring a racist slave trader, it would never have been removed,\" he said on Instagram.\n\n\"There's talks of it going into a museum. That man's statue should stay in the river just like the 20,000 African souls who died on the journey here and thrown into the sea, with no burial or memorial. He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated!\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter shortly afterwards, Hamilton made a pointed reference to US President Donald Trump's response to the protests that have swept America.\n\nThe 35-year-old posted a picture of the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\" painted on the road leading to the White House and wrote: \"And don't you forget it.\"", "A further 77 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus - the lowest daily increase since the lockdown began.\n\nNo new coronavirus deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland.\n\nExperts say the number of deaths recorded over weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nAnd earlier, a scientist advising the government said there was still \"an awful long way to go\" before the pandemic would end in the UK.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said there was a risk the disease will \"come back very fast\" if the UK \"relaxed its guard\".\n\nAnd he said he wished the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nA total of 40,542 people have now died after testing positive for the virus the UK.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to reach 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe last time Scotland recorded no new deaths was on 20 March - three days before the lockdown was announced.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman gave a \"note of caution\" about reading too much into Sunday's figures.\n\nShe said: \"It is still very likely that further Covid-19 deaths will be reported in the days ahead.\"\n\nNHS England announced another 72 deaths and Wales announced five.\n\nThe daily figure only includes those who have tested positive for the virus, and other figures show the death toll could be higher.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.\n\nIt has been just over three months since the UK recorded its first coronavirus death on 2 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock rejected the comments by Prof Edmunds, who sits on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe insisted: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that there were more than 100 members of Sage, and said the government had been guided by the balance of scientific opinion from the group.\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it has now reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nMr Hancock said coronavirus test kits have been offered to every care home in England and have delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does the ease in restrictions mean for people in Northern Ireland?\n\nAll non-essential retailers can reopen in Northern Ireland from Friday, Stormont's economy minister has said.\n\nPressure had been building on Stormont ministers to name a date, as only large retailers and shops in retail parks could open from today.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all high street shops resumed business on Monday.\n\nDiane Dodds said the executive will discuss when shopping centres can reopen later this week.\n\nMinisters met earlier and agreed to the further changes for retailers, and are due to hold a special meeting on Thursday assessing long-term strategies for helping NI to slowly return to normality.\n\nMrs Dodds described the announcement on shops as a \"major step forward\" for the economy, but that it was time to accelerate the pace of recovery.\n\n\"It was agreed that as long as retailers can adhere to the necessary safety measures, and there is no increase in the spread of the virus by Thursday, then these shops can reopen,\" she added.\n\n\"All retailers must be able to implement measures that minimise the risk to their staff and to the people who visit their stores.\"\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\nChief Executive of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, Simon Hamilton, described the announcement as a \"huge step in the right direction\".\n\n\"Reopening will allow more retailers to start trading again after what has been a dark and difficult period for the sector.\"\n\nIt is understood ministers also discussed whether face coverings on public transport should be mandatory at their meeting on Monday, but no decision was taken.\n\nIt comes as no new Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland for the second day in a row.\n\nThe Department of Health's death toll remains at 537.\n\nIts daily figures are mostly comprised of hospital deaths and where a patient had previously tested positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures on the department's dashboard show six new confirmed positive cases of the virus, bringing that total to 4,802.\n\nBy 29 May, government statistics agency Nisra had recorded 757 deaths, as it records all fatalities where Covid-19 was mentioned on a death certificate.\n\nSpeaking at the Stormont daily press conference on Monday, First Minister Arlene Foster said she \"regrets\" that the executive has not been able to allow people to visit family indoors yet.\n\nThe measure was included in step one of the Pathway to Recovery blueprint, but Mrs Foster said the science still did not permit ministers to ease this restriction.\n\n\"I hope we can move on it sooner rather than later because I know people have been waiting a long time to hear us say those words,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\nShe added that the executive is looking at the \"social bubble\" approach, advocated by New Zealand, which allows people to have a small, exclusive group of friends and family they can interact with while in lockdown.\n\nThe executive will meet on Thursday to discuss that possibility, as well as recovery from the pandemic across all sectors, said Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\n\"If you have headroom and space to move, we as an executive have to get our priorities right,\" she said.\n\n\"Working our way out of lockdown was always going to be more complicated, but we're trying to get the balance right between family time, the economy and all those other areas.\"\n\nFrom Monday, restrictions for some visitors entering Northern Ireland come into force, with anyone entering from outside the Common Travel Area having to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe Common Travel Area covers the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.\n\nLeaving isolation prematurely could result in a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nThe executive has warned that people's behaviour over the next few weeks will determine whether lockdown-easing steps continue, are halted, or are reversed, depending on how the R value is affected.\n\nThe R-number, or reproduction number, is the average number of people that one coronavirus-infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\nSmall outdoor weddings will be allowed in Northern Ireland from Monday, ministers have agreed\n\nThe Department of Health said it estimated the R-number in Northern Ireland is currently between 0.7 and 0.9, enabling ministers to move ahead with lifting restrictions.\n\nIt will publish the R-number every Thursday.\n\nThe executive's five-step Pathway to Recovery does not include a timetable for each of the phases, but aspects of different steps will likely take effect at the same time.\n\nMinisters have stressed that people and businesses must still adhere to physical distancing rules, by staying 2m (6ft) apart.", "The pilots' union Balpa has accused British Airways of undermining talks over proposed job losses by threatening to dismiss and re-hire its members under new contracts.\n\nThe airline proposes to make 12,000 staff redundant, as it struggles with the impact of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 pilot roles at risk.\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible.\n\nIt insisted no final decision had been made.\n\nBalpa has been meeting with the company, unlike some unions, including Unite and GMB, which BA says have refused to enter talks.\n\nBut Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said on Saturday night that those talks now hung \"by a thread\".\n\n\"Balpa reps have been in consultation with BA over its proposed 1,130 pilot job losses and we've been doing that constructively and in good faith,\" Mr Strutton said in a statement.\n\n\"Then, on Wednesday evening, a letter from BA added another 125 job losses and also for the first time threatened all 4,300 BA pilots with dismissal and reengagement if we did not reach agreement on changes to terms and conditions.\n\n\"I'm appalled at the cavalier attitude shown by BA towards the Balpa reps and to its pilots.\n\n\"This has seriously undermined our talks which now hang by a thread.\"\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of BA's parent company IAG, emphasized this week in a letter to Parliament that no decision had been made in relation to actual redundancies.\n\n\"There are some who believe the company is exaggerating the scale of the challenge,\" Mr Walsh said in the letter. \"Nothing could be further from the truth. The situation is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible, as the airline industry faced the deepest structural change in its history. It called on Unite and the GMB to consult with it on its proposals as Balpa was doing.\n\nSeparately, BA, Easyjet and Ryanair have made inroads towards a legal challenge to the government's plan to impose two weeks' quarantine on travellers entering, or returning to, the UK.\n\nThe three have written a letter to Procurator General Sir Jonathan Jones, the government's most senior legal official.\n\nIn it, they argue the rules for incoming travellers will be more stringent than those for people who are actually diagnosed as having coronavirus - and point out that the rules are governed by different legislation for residents of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe proposals have been roundly criticised across the travel industry. The Home Office has said it believes the measures will help stop the spread of the virus.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad.\n\n\"These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.\n\n\"We recognise it is a difficult time for the travel industry, and the government continues to work with industry partners to ensure these measures remain effective and necessary.\"\n\nThe boss of Getlink - formerly Groupe Eurotunnel - has also written to the government, criticising the plan for its burden of paperwork, for instance the efforts that would be needed to keep track of workers who cross the channel frequently.\n\n\"The exemption to quarantine for staff who cross the Channel many times a day, within the concession, turns out to be an administrative burden for each crossing that will require much time to set up and deliver,\" wrote Getlink's chief executive Jacques Gounon.\n\nHe also complained to Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the speed of the new rules.\n\n\"Limited consultation by the Home Office and departmental intransigence have led to a situation that puts a serious risk on the efficiency of operations at the Channel Tunnel, a vital link in the Great British supply chain,\" he wrote.", "Scotland's private sector recorded one of the deepest slumps in business activity in the UK last month as lockdown restrictions continued to disrupt the economy, according to a report.\n\nThe RBS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for May suggested an improvement in manufacturing and services output from April's record low.\n\nHowever, Scotland saw the smallest rebound in output of any area in the UK.\n\nIn terms of overall activity, only Northern Ireland fared worse out of 12 monitored areas of the UK.\n\nThe report comes after a warning last week from the Scottish government's chief economist that Scotland's economy may not return to pre-pandemic levels until the start of 2023.\n\nOfficial figures showed that, in the first half of May, almost a fifth of businesses were temporarily closed.\n\nThe RBS business activity index, which measures manufacturing and service sector output, posted 21.1 for Scotland in May, up from April's low of 10.7.\n\nThe figure for Northern Ireland last month was 18.9, while the highest reading was 33.4 for the East of England.\n\nAny figure below 50 suggests contraction. The further below the 50 level, the faster the decline signalled.\n\nThe volume of new work received by private sector firms in Scotland continued to plummet in May.\n\nAnecdotal evidence from the survey linked the fall to temporary business closures and weak client demand amid continued lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe pace of contraction was slower than in April, but still the second-fastest since data collection for the survey began in January 1998.\n\nAt the sector level, the drop in order book volumes was sharper in services.\n\nPrivate sector firms in Scotland reduced workforce numbers again, extending the current sequence of job cuts to four months.\n\nPanellists reported that weak client demand had led them to cut staffing levels. The rate of job shedding was the second-quickest on record, despite easing from April.\n\nEmployment also fell at the UK level, with the rate of decline stronger than that seen in Scotland.\n\nScottish firms signalled renewed optimism for the year ahead, with panellists linking that to looser lockdown restrictions and hopes of an economic recovery.\n\nThat said, sentiment remained among the lowest on record, with only Northern Ireland registering a weaker outlook.\n\nMalcolm Buchanan, chairman of RBS's Scotland Board, said: \"Overall, conditions in the Scottish economy remain extremely challenging, with reductions in activity, new business and backlogs all outpacing those seen at the UK level.\n\n\"Although data indicates that the downturn has bottomed out, the pandemic has dealt an unprecedented blow to the economy.\"", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of York's lawyers have rejected claims by US prosecutors that he has not co-operated with the inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he has offered to help.\n\nIn a statement, Prince Andrew's legal team said he offered help on \"at least three occasions\".\n\nThe lawyers suggested the US Department of Justice was seeking publicity rather than accepting the offer of help.\n\nHowever, the US prosecutors hit back within hours.\n\nGeoffrey Berman, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Prince Andrew had \"yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate\" with the investigation into sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates,.\n\nHowever, he said, the prince \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\nHe added: \"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further, but a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nThe duke stepped away from royal duties last year following his widely-criticised comments in a BBC interview about his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\" with their investigations.\n\nBut in late January, Mr Berman claimed that the prince had provided \"zero co-operation\", and in March he said Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Prince Andrew's legal team said: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the US Department of Justice\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, it was revealed the DoJ had made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nThe duke's lawyers, Clare Montgomery QC and Stephen Ferguson, said they had previously chosen not to make any comment about their dealings with the DoJ but had now released a \"clarifying\" statement \"in view of misleading media briefings\".\n\nWronged. That's the word that sums up this icily angry statement from Prince Andrew's lawyers.\n\nThey kept their silence as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S Berman, paraded on the steps of Epstein's former New York City mansion and flung about what they say are lies about the duke.\n\nThey believed the US Department of Justice when it told them that confidentiality would be respected; then they saw it flouted.\n\nThe lawyers heard the Department of Justice when it said Prince Andrew was not, and never had been, a target of the investigation; and then a well-placed leak told the world that the US was trying to drag the duke to court.\n\nIn the cool language of lawyers, they are mightily upset on behalf of their client; perhaps, they ask, the department is seeking publicity rather than the assistance proffered? The leaks have presented they say an \"entirely misleading\" version of the relationship between them and the US authorities.\n\nUp until this point the duke has only been spoken for by so-called friends dripping poison into the ears of friendly journalists. But this is different. The lawyers think their client has been wronged, and they are not shy of telling the world about it.\n\nThe prince's lawyers added that the first time US authorities requested the duke's help was on 2 January. They were advised the duke \"is not and has never been a target of their criminal investigations into Epstein\" and they wanted his \"confidential, voluntary co-operation\".\n\nThe statement added that they were given \"an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential\".\n\nIt was a \"matter of regret\" that the DoJ had breached its own rules of confidentiality, the lawyers said, \"as they are designed to encourage witness cooperation\".\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen,\" they said.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke also said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n• None Duke asked by US to testify in Epstein sex case", "There are estimated to be 700,000 young carers in England.\n\nTwelve-year-old Finlay cares for his mum, while 15-year-old Danielle helps her mum look after her siblings while her step-dad works long hours.\n\nThey describe how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe young carers are supported by a group in Salford run by the charities: Gaddum, The Lowry and the Who Cares Campaign.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths (55) since before lockdown on 23 March.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths is encouraging news.\n\nBut it comes with a big caveat - the deaths cover the weekend and there are always delays recording fatalities on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nThis time last week there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but then later in the week they topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, the figures do show the progress being made.\n\nTwo weeks ago there were more than 120 deaths and the week before that 160. During the peak, more than 1,000 deaths a day were seen.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.", "Catl already has a contract to supply batteries to Tesla\n\nA Chinese car battery-maker says it is ready to manufacture a product capable of powering a vehicle for 1.2 million miles (two million kilometres) across the course of a 16-year lifespan.\n\nBy contrast, most automakers only offer warranties ranging from 60,000 to 150,000 miles over a three to eight-year period on their cars' batteries.\n\nContemporary Amperex Technology has not revealed who it intends to supply.\n\nBut it was previously reported that the battery was co-developed with Tesla.\n\nThe latest news was revealed in an interview Catl's chairman gave to the Bloomberg news agency.\n\n\"If someone places an order, we are ready to produce,\" it quoted Zeng Yuqun as saying.\n\nHe added that it was set, however, to cost a 10% premium over the batteries it already supplies.\n\nThe company signed a two-year deal to supply batteries for Tesla's Model 3 cars in February. Its other clients include BMW, Daimler, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo.\n\nCatl has grown into being the world's top-selling car battery-maker since being established in 2011\n\nThe European market for EVs and plug-in hybrids grew by 72% in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2019, representing 7% of all delivered new cars, according to research firm Canalys.\n\nBy contrast, the pandemic weighed on the wider market, which as a whole saw deliveries down by 26% for the quarter.\n\nThe firm said that Catl's claim was \"significant but difficult to verify\".\n\n\"It is likely to be used as a differentiator by some car-makers when there is a significant difference from one vehicle to another - dramatically affecting resale value,\" said Canalys's chief automotive analyst Chris Jones.\n\nHe added that this and other factors - including the wider availability of charging points and longer driving ranges - should help tempt more motorists to make the switch to an electric car.\n\nIn February, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC that the UK might ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars as soon as 2032, to help meet the UK's zero-carbon emission targets.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the government is considering offering drivers up to £6,000 to swap their existing cars for electric models next month as part of efforts to boost the UK's electric car manufacturing industry.\n\nThe Nissan Leaf and Mini Electric are made locally, and Property Week has reported that Tesla is also considering opening its own \"gigafactory\" car battery plant in England.\n\nHowever, Catl's own European efforts are currently focused on Germany, where it is building a factory in the eastern town of Erfurt, which is scheduled to start producing lithium-ion car batteries in 2021.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nRules requiring the majority of people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days have come into effect. Whether it's by plane, ferry or train, arrivals - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they'll stay and face fines if they don't comply. The government says the quarantine is essential to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections, but the measures are hugely unpopular across the beleaguered travel industry. There are some exceptions, so check out the rules in full. Our experts have also answered a list of your questions. And if we can't easily go abroad, what are the chances of taking a holiday within the UK?\n\nDental practices in England are allowed to reopen from today, but the British Dental Association says social distancing measures and a shortage of protective equipment will slow the resumption of services. It estimates that only about a third of the normal number of patients can be treated. Read more.\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown is being eased further from today. Vulnerable people who were advised to shield can now go outdoors, some large retailers can reopen and outdoor weddings with up to 10 guests can take place. Read more about the rules on weddings across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It’s quite beautiful\" - couples’ joy as weddings return to NI\n\nLearner drivers have been left without clear guidance about when they'll be able to take their tests, instructors have told the BBC. They say there's been no communication from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. The DVSA says it's keeping the situation under constant review. Tests are currently suspended until at least 20 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThroughout the pandemic we've brought you stories of people going to great lengths to help those most in need. Carer Caroline Sinfield is one of those. She volunteered to move in with Shannon, who has Down's Syndrome, when a combination of coronavirus and other factors left her isolated and very vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why this doctor's phone is her coronavirus helpline\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest developments via our live page.\n\nDespite the best efforts of staff, the virus has swept through many care homes in England. One man in charge of a home describes the reality of trying to stop it.\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.", "Tensions between Minneapolis' black community and the police did not start with the death of George Floyd. They have been years in the making.\n\nOn a hot Thursday morning in the Longfellow neighbourhood of Minneapolis, a 28-year-old father named Nuwman stood outside the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct drinking a large coffee as smoke wafted past from the smouldering ruins of nearby buildings.\n\nIt was day three of protests over the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, after a white police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Floyd begged for his life before falling unconscious and dying in the street, in full view of witnesses and a rolling mobile phone camera. Four officers, including Chauvin, were fired from the department for their involvement.\n\nThe previous night, tensions ignited, and for the first time the city saw looting, arson and violence. At least one man died in a shooting at a pawn shop.\n\n\"This is everyday. Everyday that these police officers have enforced their protocol has led up to this,\" said Nuwman, his voice rising with emotion over the din of protesters and sirens. \"This is not just a singular moment. This is a cataclysm. A combination of all the things that happened before.\"\n\nThat night, protesters stormed the precinct as police cruisers flew out of the rear parking lot, abandoning it to demonstrators who quickly moved from room to room lighting blazes.\n\nThe following afternoon, a Friday, saw the arrest of Chauvin by Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Chauvin has been charged with murder.\n\nThis is not the first instance of a controversial, police-involved killing in the region. In 2016, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer in a neighbourhood just 15 minutes away from the current epicentre of protest.\n\nIn 2017, a Minneapolis officer was charged with the shooting death of Justine Damond after she called to report a possible sexual assault. In 2015, protests erupted over the shooting death of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old man who was being pursued by Minneapolis officers.\n\nAll three deaths sparked protest movements and yielded mixed results in terms of prosecution. Yanez was tried and acquitted. Mohamed Noor, Damond's shooter, was sentenced to 12.5 years. No charges were brought in Clark's case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?\n\nFor some, Floyd's death was the continuation of those stories.\n\n\"WE SHOULD HAVE BURNT THE CITY DOWN FOR PHILANDO CASTILE,\" one person posted on social media.\n\nBut in some ways, the pictures beamed around the world this week tell a story that's unique.\n\nDemonstrations are occurring in the midst of a historic, global pandemic. The sheer amount of property damage and arson has been staggering. The swiftness with which officers were fired, and the speed in which Chauvin was arrested and charged surprised many.\n\nBut Minneapolis - while a prosperous city that celebrates liberal policies and politicians - has struggled for years with socioeconomic inequality and segregation. It's a phenomenon that's been dubbed the \"Minnesota paradox\".\n\nThe Twin Cities, as Minneapolis and St Paul are known, are still overwhelmingly white - about one-quarter of the population is non-white - and its neighbourhoods are still highly segregated. Most people of colour live on the cities' north sides.\n\nThey were shaped by racist red-lining policies dating to the early 20th Century, when black families were not allowed to buy homes in certain neighbourhoods. In the 1960s, the state built a major highway that cut through and destroyed a thriving black community known as Rondo in St Paul.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why we want Americans to talk more openly about race'\n\nAccording to a 2018 study, the rate of black homeownership in the Twin Cities is among the lowest in the nation.\n\nEven before the pandemic caused massive layoffs, 10% of black residents were unemployed compared to 4% of whites. That disparity ranks as one of the nation's worst.\n\nIn 2016, the average white household in the Twin Cities made about $76,000 a year, while the average black household earned just $32,000. Thirty-two percent of black Twin Citians fell below the poverty line, while only 6.5% of whites did.\n\nRacial disparities persist in the way the community is policed.\n\nAfter Philando Castile was killed, data released about police traffic stops in the area showed that 44% of stops were black drivers, though the population was only 7% black.\n\nProtests spread to other cities including New York City\n\nAccording to the Minneapolis police department's own data, in 2018 55% of drivers stopped for \"equipment violations\" were black.\n\nAs Covid-19 ravages the area, these disparities are sure to worsen, as thousands lose their jobs, and their homes to evictions and foreclosures.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, residents of both St Paul and Minneapolis headed into the streets carrying brooms and pails, and slowly began to literally pick up the pieces of the town.\n\nFollowing the announcement that former officer Chauvin had been jailed and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, protesters at Minneapolis City Hall let up a cheer.\n\nBut it was quickly replaced by a new demand: \"One down, three to go.\"", "Lyra McKee was shot dead as she observed rioting in Londonderry\n\nA gun found by police during searches in Londonderry is believed to be similar to the one used in the New IRA murder of Lyra McKee.\n\nThe weapon is being forensically examined to establish if it was the gun used.\n\nPolice have said a bomb also discovered during the searches was fully primed for an imminent attack.\n\nMs McKee, a 29-year-old journalist, was shot during trouble in the city's Creggan area in April 2019.\n\nThe gun, along with the bomb, was found during planned police searches in Derry on Friday and Saturday in the Ballymagroarty area of the city.\n\nSearch operations took place over two days, and covered 38 acres.\n\nDerry City and Strabane district commander Ch Supt Emma Bond said the gun was the same type and calibre used to murder Ms McKee and that extensive forensic examinations would be taking place in the coming days and weeks.\n\nShe said:\"Whilst we regard this as an encouraging line of enquiry, I will repeat that we cannot definitively say at this time whether or not this is the murder weapon,\" she said.\n\n\"That determination will be guided by the forensics.\"\n\nCh Supt Bond added: \"We were able to locate and safely remove a command-wire initiated bomb, a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.\n\n\"A strong line of enquiry is that these munitions belong to the New IRA.\n\n\"They have now been seized and will be subject to rigorous forensic examination in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"The fact that these items were left close to a populated area, and particularly on land where children are known to play, yet again underlines the total lack of regard these violent terrorist criminals have for their own communities,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are so singularly focused on murdering police officers that they do not care if others - men, women, children, families - are caught up in their evil plots.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne described the find as a \"major breakthrough,\" adding it was a \"reminder that a small number of people with no community support or mandate are still determined to wreak havoc, destroy lives and devastate families\".\n\nA children's den was located near to where the weaponry was found\n\nEarlier in the year Paul McIntyre, 52, from Kinnego Park in Derry was charged with Ms McKee's murder, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking on the first anniversary of her death, Det Supt Jason Murphy said there were up to 17 suspects in the investigation.", "The Duke of York has \"sought to falsely portray himself\" as eager to cooperate with an inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said.\n\nUS attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew \"has repeatedly declined our request\" to schedule an interview.\n\nThe duke's lawyers previously rejected claims he had not co-operated, saying he offered to help three times.\n\nHe will not be extradited, the US government's chief lawyer has said.\n\nUS Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: \"I don't think it's a question of handing him over. I think it's just a question of having him provide some evidence.\"\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year after an interview he gave to the BBC about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nMr Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has criticised the duke in the past. In January he accused him of providing \"zero co-operation\" and in March he said Prince Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nOn Monday, the duke's lawyers responded for the first time and hit back at the claims as \"inaccurate\".\n\nMr Berman then issued a statement, deepening the row. He said: \"Today, Prince Andrew yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate with an ongoing federal criminal investigation into sex trafficking and related offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.\"\n\nHe said the duke \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\n\"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nIn the BBC interview last year, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further. But a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nEarlier, the legal team said: \"As the public record indicates the DoJ has been actively investigating Mr Epstein and other targets for more than 16 years, yet the first time they requested the duke's help was on 2 January 2020.\n\n\"Importantly, the DoJ advised us that the duke is not and has never been a 'target' of their criminal investigations into Epstein and that they sought his confidential, voluntary co-operation.\"\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who represents some of Epstein's victims, told BBC Breakfast she thinks Prince Andrew has \"very little credibility\".\n\n\"I have a lot of suspicion about what he is saying through his representatives,\" she said, adding that she did not feel the same way towards Mr Berman.\n\nShe added that the victims are in pain and \"deserve the truth\".\n\n\"Questioning the motives of the prosecutors, I just think that's meaningless in this situation,\" she said.\n\n\"Let him step up to the bar of justice, take the oath and just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers said they had asked US prosecutors to confirm the cooperation would remain confidential, adding: \"We were given an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential.\"\n\nThey added: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the DoJ.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of York said he would testify under oath\n\nThe legal team added: \"It is a matter of regret that the DoJ has seen fit to breach its own rules of confidentiality, not least as they are designed to encourage witness co-operation.\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen. Further, those same breaches of confidentiality by the DoJ have given the global media - and, therefore, the worldwide audience - an entirely misleading account of our discussions with them.\"\n\nThe DoJ has made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nThe duke emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Charity Commission has ruled that Prince Andrew's trust, which supported his charitable work, was in breach of rules over payments of more than £355,000 to a former trustee.\n\nThe duke's charitable body allowed the former trustee, who was an employee of Prince Andrew's household, to work as a director for a fee for three of its subsidiary companies - in breach of charity law.\n\nThe duke's household was then reimbursed £355,297 for a proportion of this employee's time by the subsidiaries, the Charity Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"Trustees cannot be paid to act as directors of a subsidiary company, unless there is authority from the charity's governing document or the payments are authorised by the Commission or the court, none of which were in place at the charity,\" the statement read.\n\nHis household has since paid back the money to the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust (PACT).\n\nThe trust has also notified the commission of its intention to wind up, with the remaining funds being distributed to other charities.\n\nA statement from the current trustees said former trustees who were in post at the time had \"inadvertently breached charity law\".\n\n\"The current trustees of PACT are grateful to the Charity Commission for its support in bringing this matter to a satisfactory conclusion with the payment of funds by HRH The Duke of York's office to the Trust,\" the statement said.", "Thousands have lined the streets of London, from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square, in an anti-racism protest following the death of George Floyd.\n\nProtesters appeared to be ignoring warnings from both the police commissioner and Health Secretary Matt Hancock not to congregate and risk spreading coronavirus.\n\nFree masks, gloves and hand gel were being handed out by some volunteers.\n\nThis video shows six minutes and 30 seconds of footage condensed into 75 seconds.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Protestors are calling for the statue of the British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nCampaigners protesting against the statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes say Oxford University has \"failed to address its institutional racism\".\n\nThe \"Rhodes Must Fall\" campaign, among other student groups, is demanding the university removes the statue.\n\nProtesters will demonstrate in front of the figure in the city's high street as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nOxford University and Oriel College has been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nCalls to remove the Rhodes statue at Oriel College have reignited after the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th Century slave trader, was toppled in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nCampaigners have long argued Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy and is steeped in colonialism and racism.\n\nOriel College decided not to remove the statue in High Street in 2016 and said the figure \"was a reminder of the complexity of history and of the legacies of colonialism\".\n\nIn an open letter to the university's vice-chancellor, campaigners said \"none of the demands of the movement have been met...and concerns continue to be dismissed by senior members of the university\" four years since the previous protests.\n\n\"Many colleges and university institutions who have benefited from slavery and imperialism have made no attempts at reparation,\" they added.\n\nFemi Nylander, Rhodes Must Fall campaigner, said promises made to black students by the university \"around the curriculum, access and representation have never materialised\".\n\nThe letter to vice-chancellor Professor Louise Richardson outlines five steps campaigners \"hope the university will agree to, in order to make upholding anti-racist values a reality\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rhodes Must Fall Ox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Rhodes Must Fall Ox\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign began in South Africa, where a Rhodes statue was removed, and was adopted in Oxford by campaigners who argued his views were incompatible with an \"inclusive culture\" at the university.\n\nRhodes was a student at Oxford and a member of Oriel College in the 1870s. He left money to the college on his death in 1902.\n\nA scholarship programme in his name has been awarded to more than 8,000 overseas students.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston\n\nThe name Edward Colston looms large over Bristol, with streets and buildings named after the 17th Century merchant and slave trader.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in the city toppled a statue of Colston and dumped it in Bristol Harbour. The BBC's Jack Grey witnessed the statue's fall.\n\nThousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UK sparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.\n\nA group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.\n\nColston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.\n\nThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895\n\nThere was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.\n\nThe canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.\n\nOnce the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.\n\nThirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.\n\nThere was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.\n\nIt was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.\n\nThe statue was taken from Colston Avenue and dumped into Bristol Harbour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BP has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs following a global slump in demand for oil because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe oil giant had paused redundancies during the peak of the pandemic but told staff on Monday that around 15% will leave by the end of the year.\n\nBP has not said how many jobs will be lost in the UK but it is thought the figure could be close to 2,000.\n\nChief executive Bernard Looney blamed a drop in the oil price for the cuts.\n\nIn an email to staff, he said: \"The oil price has plunged well below the level we need to turn a profit.\n\n\"We are spending much, much more than we make - I am talking millions of dollars, every day.\"\n\nCountries across the globe have ordered people to stay indoors and not travel, which has caused a slump in demand for oil. As a result, the cost of oil fell to less than $20 a barrel at the peak of the crisis, less than a third of the $66 it cost at the start of the year. It has since partly recovered to around $42 a barrel.\n\nThat has taken a toll on the industry, sparking warnings that 30,000 UK jobs could be lost as a result of the crisis.\n\nBP employs around 15,000 people in the UK. The firm's office-based workers are expected to bear the brunt of the redundancies, which will not affect any of its retail staff.\n\n\"It was always part of the plan to make BP a leaner, faster-moving and lower carbon company,\" Mr Looney - who took over as the boss of BP in February - said in his email to staff on Monday.\n\n\"Then the COVID-19 pandemic took hold,\" he said. \"You are already aware that, beyond the clear human tragedy, there has been widespread economic fallout, along with consequences for our industry and our company.\"\n\nDeirdre Michie, the chief executive of industry group Oil and Gas UK (OGUK), said the planned redundancies highlighted the \"very real and personal\" impact of the coronavirus pandemic on jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"There is a serious risk the UK loses the skills it needs not only to meet existing energy demands from domestic resources, but also to meet the UK's climate ambitions,\" she said.\n\nThe message from BP's chief executive, Bernard Looney, is that the numbers don't add up.\n\nThe oil price has recovered a bit but the business is still losing money hand over fist.\n\nOn top of that, Big Oil is trying to execute a big swerve towards renewables.\n\nNone of the above is of any comfort to the thousands who will be pushed out of BP's doors in a matter of months.\n\nThis is a sign of how precarious the job market is becoming as the crisis caused by the virus takes hold.\n\nThe pain will be felt most in the senior ranks but, whatever the pay grade, each loss will be hard to bear.\n\nIn April, BP said it planned to pay a $0.11 per share dividend to shareholders and in an announcement on Monday, the company said it would still make that payment later this month.\n\nEnergy expert Professor David Elmes from Warwick Business School said other firms would question how much they can hand out to shareholders as a result of the crisis.\n\n\"The job losses at BP are symptomatic of the wider challenges facing the industry,\" he said. \"Coronavirus has reduced oil demand and the price per barrel has plummeted, but that has happened in a wider context of short-term and long-term decline.\"\n\n\"All firms in the sector will all be looking at how they can cut costs, shift their activities to the lowest cost field, trim investment, and thinking hard about what dividend they can pay.\"", "England and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has backed protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".\n\nThousands of people have taken part in Black Lives Matter marches in the UK, despite government warnings to avoid mass gatherings because of the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is the most important thing at this moment in time because this is something that is happening for years and years,\" Sterling, 25, said.\n\nLarge protests have been held in London, Bristol, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh following the death of American George Floyd.\n\nFloyd, 46, died while being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis. The four officers involved have since been charged over the death, which sparked days of protests in the US and demonstrations across the world.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, Sterling said: \"Just like the pandemic, we want to find a solution to stop it.\n\n\"At the same time, this is what all these protesters are doing. They are trying to find a solution and a way to stop the injustice they are seeing and they are fighting for their cause.\n\n\"As long as they are doing it peacefully and safely and not hurting anybody and not breaking into any stores, they continue to protest in this peaceful way.\"\n• None Watch the full Sterling interview on Newsnight on BBC Two on Monday at 22:45 BST\n\nMany sports people have spoken out in protest over Floyd's death, with Sterling's England team-mate Jadon Sancho making on-pitch statements in Germany's Bundesliga.\n\nSterling, whose City side return to Premier League action on 17 June, has previously spoken of racist abuse he has suffered and the media's portrayal of black players.\n\nAsked whether speaking out makes his job as a footballer harder, he said: \"First and foremost, I don't really think about my job when things like this happen. I think about what is right.\n\n\"And at this moment in time, there's only so much people can take. There's only so much communities and other backgrounds can take - especially black people.\n\n\"It's been going on for hundreds of years and people are tired and people are ready for change.\n\n\"I keep saying this word. I see a lot of people on social [media] supporting the cause. But this is something that needs more than just talking.\n\n\"We need to actually implement change and highlight the places that do need changes.\n\n\"But this is something that I myself will continue to do, and spark these debates and get people in my industry looking at themselves and thinking what they can do to give people an equal chance in this country.\n\n\"Hopefully other industries can do that, and everyday society and the system as well.\"\n\nSpeak out if you feel the need - Archer\n\nEngland pace bowler Jofra Archer says the events of the past week show \"so many people around the world are behind equality\".\n\nThe 25-year-old was subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand in 2019.\n\n\"No longer will people just sit around quietly and let unjust things happen,\" Archer wrote in his Daily Mail column.\n\n\"As an individual, I've always been one for speaking out, especially if something bothers you. My personal view is that you should never keep things bottled up, because racism is not OK.\n\n\"If you feel the need to speak out, you should do so. I accept that others might choose not to make it public and deal with things in their own way, but it is why I acted when I was verbally abused in New Zealand last year.\"\n\nThe spectator responsible - a man from Auckland - was banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years after admitting the abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPlaying in empty stadiums is going to become the new norm for footballers, so it's probably best they start to get used to it.\n\nThat may have been the reasoning behind several Premier League teams holding training sessions at their grounds this week, with some even playing full friendlies to give their players a taste of what is to come.\n\nThe Premier League is set to resume behind closed doors from 17 June after being suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Old Trafford, Harry Maguire captained a 'home' Manchester United team against an 'away' side led by Bruno Fernandes.\n\nIt marked the first time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men had played on home soil since their 2-0 win over derby rivals Manchester City on 8 March - their final match before lockdown.\n\nIt had been even longer since Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba had done so, last featuring for United on 26 December and 15 January respectively before long injury lay-offs.\n\nThey both donned the red home kit as Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined Fernandes in the away team for the match refereed by fitness coach Charlie Owen.\n\nUnited - currently fifth in the Premier League - will restart their season away at Tottenham on 19 June before welcoming Sheffield United to Old Trafford on 24 June.\n\nRather than an inter-squad match, Arsenal went one step further and welcomed Championship strugglers Charlton to Emirates Stadium.\n\nMikel Arteta's Gunners ran out 6-0 winners over the Addicks, with Eddie Nketiah scoring a second-half hat-trick in addition to strikes from Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Joe Willock.\n\nNinth-place Arsenal travel to Manchester City on 17 June to kick off their return to action.\n\nFrank Lampard took his Chelsea players to Stamford Bridge for a change from their Cobham training base, holding an in-house game on Saturday.\n\nLampard and his coaching staff officiated the match, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek scoring for the Blues in blue.\n\nChelsea are three points above United in fourth and resume their campaign at Aston Villa.\n\nTalking of Villa, they reportedly held a behind-closed-doors friendly against West Brom, who are second in the Championship, at Villa Park.\n\nJack Grealish and Keinan Davis scored for the hosts as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with the Baggies, for whom Kamil Grosicki and Filip Krovinovic found the back of the net.\n\nNewcastle also took a trip home to St James' Park for an inter-squad friendly which finished in a 1-1 draw.\n\nJoelinton gave his side - wearing the Magpies' orange strip - the lead before Nabil Bentaleb equalised for those wearing the black and white kit with a stunning strike from outside the box.\n\nEarlier in the week, Premier League leaders Liverpool held a series of short 11v11 matches at Anfield, while Norwich and West Ham also returned to Carrow Road and London Stadium respectively.", "St Alban on the Moors Church is in the Splott area of Cardiff\n\nA Catholic archbishop has said he was \"shocked and upset\" that a priest felt \"pressured\" into holding a wedding during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nArchbishop of Cardiff George Stack said he felt sympathy for the priest, who had to deal with a \"very difficult pastoral situation\".\n\nThe marriage on 12 May, conducted by Father Sebastian Jones at the church in the Splott area, broke lockdown rules.\n\nCardiff Council said the wedding was not legal because notice wasn't given.\n\nGwent Police also confirmed officers were called to complaints about a disturbance that night at an address in Newport at about 22:00 BST where a \"wedding party\" was reportedly going on.\n\nThe force is continuing to investigate and will take action if rules on gatherings and social distancing have been broken.\n\nMeanwhile, the archbishop is sending guidance to other churches in the diocese that such weddings must not happen again during the lockdown.\n\nHe has spoken to Father Jones who, according to the archbishop, was \"presented with a crisis situation\", and went ahead with the ceremony at St Alban on the Moors Church.\n\nArchbishop of Cardiff, George Stack, has been looking into what happened on 12 May\n\nHe said Father Jones used his \"pastoral judgement\" that going ahead with the wedding was the right thing to do in the circumstances.\n\n\"The issue really is should this have taken place when the churches were in lockdown and all that signifies,\" the archbishop said.\n\n\"The answer of course is no, on one level, but the priest felt pressured by a very difficult pastoral situation.\"\n\nHe added: \"When you're presented with a crisis situation, in a way you're under a lot of pressure internally and externally.\"\n\nAsked about media reports that the church will launch an investigation, the Archbishop said that was a \"very strong\" and \"dramatic\" word, as it was clear what had happened.\n\n\"It shouldn't have happened in strict accordance with the law, but when you're dealing with a kind of turmoil-ridden situation, it's very difficult to resolve,\" he said, adding it was \"not the right time\" to talk about discipline.\n\nA Cardiff council spokesman said: \"For a wedding to be legal, notice of the wedding must be given at least 28 days in advance.\n\n\"New notices of marriage are not currently being accepted due to Covid-19 and notice has not been given for this wedding.\"\n\nGwent Police Insp Martin Cawley said: \"We are now aware of the individuals who reside at or on the property and we will take appropriate and proportionate action if officers determine that a breach has occurred.\n\n\"Officers from my neighbourhood policing team are continuing to look into the matter as new information becomes available.\"\n• None 'Lockdown has bonded us - now we're getting married'", "The partner of Papua New Guinea sports star Debbie Kaore has been charged with grievous bodily harm over footage appearing to show him attacking her.\n\nThe graphic video, which reportedly showed the rugby player being hit with a hot iron and headbutted, was posted on social media on Friday.\n\nIt sparked outrage and calls for action against domestic abuse in the country.\n\nPrime Minister James Marape put out a statement urging the country's men not to beat up their wives.\n\nAccording to a UN report, more than two-thirds of women in Papua New Guinea have experienced domestic violence.\n\n\"I am putting this out here 'cause this has gone too far,\" Ms Kaore, 30, posted on social media. \"I can only hope that there won't be another victim after me.\"\n\nShe is also a champion boxer - she won gold for Papua New Guinea at the Pacific Games in 2015. She recently switched to rugby sevens and she represented the country at the HSBC World Series last year.\n\nMs Kaore lodged a complaint with police after being attacked and releasing the images.\n\nHer partner, 33-year-old army lieutenant Murray Oa with whom she has a two-year-old child, was arrested and charged.\n\n\"I'm still traumatised by what happened... I know there's a lot of women, Papua New Guinea women out there, who go through the same thing,\" Ms Kaore told Australian broadcaster ABC.\n\n\"They need to be strong, they need to get and report if it's wrong. Do what is right for you. Your life matters.\"\n\nDebbie Kaore, second from the right, is a rugby star and champion boxer\n\nIn his response, Prime Minister Marape said: \"I am a Tari man who learnt not to beat up my wife. My brother or son, you can do it too.\"", "A bill introducing \"no-fault\" divorces in England and Wales has been backed by MPs.\n\nIt passed its first hurdle in the Commons by 231 votes to 16 against, following a debate.\n\nCurrently, in order to start divorce proceedings immediately, one spouse has to allege adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion has taken place.\n\nUnder the proposed law, they will only have to state that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.\n\nThe Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill - which has been passed by the House of Lords - also removes the possibility of contesting the decision to divorce.\n\nAt the moment, someone wishing to obtain a divorce without the consent of their spouse must live apart from them for five years.\n\nDivorce proceedings will still be challengeable on certain grounds including fraud and coercion. Currently fewer than 2% of divorce cases are contested.\n\nThe bill also introduces a new option, allowing couples to jointly apply for a divorce, where the decision to separate is a mutual one.\n\nAnd it replaces the terms \"decree nisi\" and \"decree absolute\" with \"conditional order\" and \"final order\". \"Petitioners\" will also become \"applicants\".\n\nUnder the proposals, there must be a minimum six-month period between the lodging of a petition to the divorce being made final.\n\nOpening the debate, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the bill will seek to make separation \"less traumatic\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"No-one sets out thinking that their marriage is going to end, no-one wants their marriage to break down, none of us are therefore indifferent when a couple's lifelong commitment has sadly deteriorated.\n\n\"It is a very sad circumstance but the law, I believe, should reduce conflict when it arises.\n\n\"Where divorce is inevitable, this bill seeks to make the legal process less painful.\"\n\nConservative MP Jonathan Gullis said he had to put the blame on his partner during his own divorce, saying: \"I would have preferred to have had a no-fault divorce.\n\nBut, raising concerns about the bill, the DUP's Jim Shannon said: \"More funding must be allocated to counselling services to provide trained help for those in marriage difficulties and to prioritise saving a marriage.\"\n\nMr Buckland replied: \"It is, I think, the sad experience that by the time a decision to issue a divorce petition has been made then matters have sadly gone beyond that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy says his party welcomed the bill as it offers a \"common-sense approach\" and respects the institution of marriage and civil partnerships.\n\nHe said the new law \"will promote conciliations and compromise\" and it will reduce legal costs which can reach \"eye-watering sums quite unnecessarily\".\n\nTini Owens was refused a divorce by the courts\n\nThe bill cleared its first hurdle - its second reading - in the House of Commons; despite some Conservatives expressing opposition.\n\nIn a letter to the Telegraph, MPs including Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir John Hayes and Fiona Bruce urged the government to focus on helping couples reconcile instead of \"undermining the commitment of marriage\".\n\nThey said the bill was badly-timed, arguing that many \"otherwise durable\" marriages were under \"intense Covid-related strain\".\n\nThe move to change divorce laws was partly prompted by the case of Tini Owens - a woman from Worcestershire who wanted to divorce her husband of 40 years.\n\nHowever, because her husband contested the split, the law stated she could only obtain a divorce by living apart from him for five years.\n\nMrs Owens said she was \"desperately unhappy\" in the marriage but Mr Owens disagreed and said the couple still had a \"few years\" to enjoy.\n\nIn 2018, her case was heard and rejected by Supreme Court justices - one of whom said, they had ruled against Mrs Owens with \"no enthusiasm whatsoever\" and that it was up to Parliament to change the law.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"We will always uphold the institution of marriage. But when divorce cannot be avoided, the law must not create conflict between couples that so often harms the children involved.\n\n\"Our reforms remove the needless 'blame game', while ensuring there is a minimum six-month time frame to allow for reflection and the opportunity to turn back.\"", "Rachel Adedeji has appeared in more than 200 episodes of Hollyoaks\n\nHollyoaks has launched an investigation after Rachel Adedeji alleged she witnessed racism on the soap.\n\nThe actress said a senior producer referred to black cast members using a racial slur and claimed black actresses were told to change their hair.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Hollyoaks' producers said they were \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the issues that had come to light.\n\nThey said they have \"zero tolerance on racism\" but \"have further work to do\".\n\nOn Saturday, Adedeji tweeted several claims about her experiences on the Channel 4 soap, which is produced by Lime Pictures.\n\nThe actress said she was told \"You're all the same\" by a make-up artist, and said black actresses on the show were \"forced to drastically change their hair\" after being told viewers wouldn't be able to tell them apart.\n\nAdedeji, has appeared in more than 200 episodes of the show, but said in her four years on the soap she had only worked with one black director.\n\n\"Working at Hollyoaks is mostly positive, but the experiences I have encountered are a constant reminder of how difficult it is being a black woman in the industry,\" Adedeji said. \"I am no longer standing for it.\"\n\nAdedeji's co-star Kéllé Bryan said the show was launching a series of podcasts about racism\n\nIn their statement on Tuesday, Lime Pictures said: \"We must stamp out implicit bias which means calling out racism wherever and whenever we see it.\n\n\"We will continue to add to our action plan as we continue and broaden our dialogue with cast and staff.\"\n\nThe action plan includes the following measures:\n\nFormer Hollyoaks star Amanda Clapham supported Adedeji on Twitter, saying she witnessed \"micro-aggressions\" towards BAME staff on the show.\n\nClapham alleged one male black cast member was \"disproportionately told off\" for talking and messing around during filming, when a whole group of actors had been involved.\n\nAndrea Ali, who plays Celeste Faroe, supported Adedeji but praised the soap's efforts on representation.\n\n\"I am beyond blessed to be a part of a team as diverse and as inclusive as Hollyoaks,\" Ali said.\n\n\"Celeste Faroe is a powerhouse and that representation of black women is not only one that I am proud of, but one that matters.\"\n\nLast week, Hollyoaks announced it would address the Black Lives Matter movement by recording a series of special podcasts about racism.\n\nAt the time, actress Kéllé Bryan said: \"We've been busy behind the scenes having lots of highly important conversations and we'll be kick-starting with a podcast all about racism - how we tackle it, how we face it and, most importantly, how we overcome it.\"\n\nBut in her statement, Adedeji said: \"Putting out a podcast and asking your black cast members to teach you how to tackle these issues is the bare minimum. Do better.\"\n\nOn Monday's Loose Women, Bryan addressed the backlash she'd received from the podcast announcement, but said there was no bad blood between herself and Adedeji.\n\n\"Myself and Rachel have spoken and we have shared our feelings... I'm supporting her and she's reached out to me also. We'll just work through this, hopefully, internally.\n\n\"She meant no harm in her post in terms of me personally.\"\n\nHollyoaks is set to resume production in Liverpool this week, with the cast expected back on set in July.\n\nAdedeji first shot to fame as an X Factor finalist in 2009, finishing in ninth place. She joined Hollyoaks in 2016.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hydroxychloroquine received global attention after being taken by Donald Trump\n\nA malaria drug that has been tested as a treatment for coronavirus does not save lives, one of the world's largest trials shows.\n\nHydroxychloroquine received global attention after being promoted by Donald Trump, and then controversy after studies on it were retracted.\n\nThe drug has now been pulled from the UK's Recovery trial, which is run by the University of Oxford.\n\nThe findings have been passed on to the World Health Organization.\n\nBack at the start of the pandemic, laboratory studies had suggested the malaria drug could affect the virus. Small-scale studies in China and France then hinted it might help patients.\n\nThere was a huge amount of hope, as the medicine is cheap and has been safely used to treat malaria and conditions such as lupus and arthritis.\n\nHowever, the evidence supporting its use for coronavirus has been weak.\n\nThat is why the data from the Recovery trial is crucial. It is the first to test the drug in large numbers of people in a thorough clinical trial.\n\nMore than 11,000 patients with Covid-19 are taking part, with 1,542 patients given hydroxychloroquine.\n\nDue to mounting controversy about the drug, the UK's drugs regulator last night asked the Oxford researchers to review their data.\n\nThe results showed 25.7% of people taking hydroxychloroquine had died after 28 days. This compared with 23.5% who were given standard hospital treatment.\n\n\"This is not a treatment for Covid,\" said Prof Martin Landray, part of the Recovery trial. The trial immediately stopped using the drug.\n\nThe findings come in the wake of deep concern in academic publishing that led to an article being retracted in the Lancet - one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.\n\nIt had published a study involving nearly 15,000 patients, from hundreds of hospitals, given hydroxycholoroquine or the similar drug chloroquine.\n\nIt concluded the drug was not beneficial and increased the risk of irregular heart rhythms and death. That publication led to the WHO suspending its trials of the anti-malaria drug.\n\nThe data had been collected from hospitals by the little-known healthcare firm Surgisphere.\n\nConcerns were raised about the data and then some of the study's authors said they could no longer stand by their publication as Surgisphere would not allow an independent review.\n\nThen the New England Journal of Medicine retracted another paper that had data based on Surgisphere.\n\nProf Peter Horby, from the University of Oxford which runs the Recovery trial, said: \"Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have received a lot of attention and have been used very widely to treat Covid patients despite the absence of any good evidence.\n\n\"Although it is disappointing that this treatment has been shown to be ineffective, it does allow us to focus care and research on more promising drugs.\"", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "Dyfed-Powys Police said many of those it stopped were from England and thought lockdown restrictions were the same in Wales\n\nPolice turned away more than 1,000 cars from one beauty spot in just two days for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said many people officers spoke to in the Brecon Beacons were from England who said they did not know about Wales' different rules.\n\nThe force's commissioner has said the UK government \"hasn't been all that clear\" on the differences.\n\nSupt Steve Davies said fines were issued if people had \"clearly flouted the rules\".\n\nThe force said many of those stopped at the weekend claimed they thought the rules in Wales were the same as in England and came from as far afield as London and the Midlands.\n\nPolice said they were kept busy due to the volume of people trying to drive to the area around Ystradfellte, Powys, known as \"waterfall country\".\n\nThe force, which covers some of Wales' most rural areas, also said 72% of people reported for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions in Powys since 27 March had been from outside the force area.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn, Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio Wales that the \"majority\" of people had listened to advice to stay local.\n\nBut he concluded the number of people breaking the rules was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"We have people travelling from Cardiff and the valleys into the force area. We also are getting people coming across the border,\" he said.\n\n\"In the first instance the police are trying to educate those coming across the border because the message from the central government hasn't been all that clear.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said it had been \"absolutely clear\" that people should check and follow local guidance when travelling between different parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our analysis shows that this message has been received clearly and is helping to tackle coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn says he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales\n\nMr Llywelyn added he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales because it is often \"impossible\" for officers to do anything other than issue a fine.\n\nSupt Davies added: \"Our officers have worked hard to engage with the public at every opportunity throughout these unprecedented times by explaining what we are doing and why, and encouraging people to make the best choices to protect public health in Wales.\n\n\"But where people have clearly flouted the rules we have dealt with them appropriately and issued fines.\"\n\nHe said officers would continue to conduct stop checks throughout Powys and across the force area this weekend.\n\nWales' three national parks and all National Trust sites remain closed to the public during the lockdown, although the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority has said parts of the park will open from Monday.", "Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.\n\nThe tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use future gains on his Reddit stock to \"serve the black community.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said he was doing it \"as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'\"\n\nIt follows days of US protests against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis champion Serena Williams, said he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\n\"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now,\" he said in a video. \"To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ohanian founded social media website Reddit 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman.\n\nHe stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.\n\nReddit promoted its first female board member, Porter Gale, last year.\n\nBut the website has come under fire for hosting forums that promote racist content. The company has banned groups like r/blackpeoplehate and alt-right r/MillionDollarExtreme. It has also \"quarantined\" a pro-Trump forum, r/TheDonald, ensuring that its content does not appear in website searches or recommendations.\n\nEarlier this week, several popular Reddit forums switched their access rights to private, or banned new posts entirely, to protest against the company's hate speech policies. Ex-chief executive Ellen K Pao also lambasted her former employer in a tweet, saying: \"You don't get to say [Black Lives Matter] when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long.\"", "The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been asked to review evidence into the death of a railway worker who was reportedly spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) concluded last week Belly Mujinga's death was not linked to the incident and closed the case.\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition in support of Ms Mujinga.\n\nBTP said it requested the review in light of the \"wider public interest\".\n\nMs Mujinga , 47, died with Covid-19 on 5 April, a few weeks after an incident at London's Victoria station.\n\nBTP interviewed a 57-year-old man but said \"there was insufficient evidence to support a prosecution based upon the allegation that the man spat deliberately on Mrs Mujinga or said that he had the virus\".\n\nThe man also gave a negative antibody test, showing he had never had the illness, and the force subsequently decided not to refer the case to the CPS.\n\nBelly Mujinga leaves behind a husband and an 11-year-old daughter\n\nIn a new statement on Friday, BTP said it had invited the CPS to conduct an independent review of the available evidence, and whether there were any further lines of inquiry.\n\nBTP said it understood the depth of feeling over the case and that there were further questions over how it was decided there was insufficient proof of a crime to justify a prosecution.\n\n\"We can assure the public that we have comprehensively reviewed all the available evidence and have not identified any offences or behaviour that meets the threshold for prosecution,\" it said.\n\nBritish Transport Police said last week it decided not to take the case further\n\nThe petition seeks justice for the family of Ms Mujinga, and her husband Lusamba thanked those who have signed it, saying they had been on a \"rollercoaster of emotions\".\n\nThe public reaction to the case being closed took the family by surprise, he said, adding it had come amid anger over the killing of George Floyd in the US.\n\nHe said: \"On Wednesday, thousands of people protested in London to cry it loud that black lives matter.\n\n\"It mattered to me, to our daughter, our friends and family, to Belly's colleagues, and now it matters to many thousands of you out there.\"\n\nAngie Doll, managing director of Southern Railway and Gatwick Express, said: \"Our hearts go out to Belly's family who we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to.\n\n\"While the conclusion of the BTP investigation found no evidence of spitting, any loss of one of our dedicated colleagues from coronavirus is one too many.\n\n\"Our absolute focus remains on keeping all of our colleagues safe, and we continue to follow all government health advice to protect them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deaths due to dementia have been higher than average during the coronavirus pandemic, Office for National Statistics analysis has found.\n\nThe ONS figures suggest almost a third of deaths above the expected level for this time of year were not registered as being related to coronavirus,\n\nBetween 7 March and 1 May, recorded deaths were more than 50% higher than the five-year average.\n\nOlder age groups had the most elevated risk of dying from non-Covid-19 causes.\n\nOf the deaths above the average level for this time of year, 12,900 (27.8%) did not involve coronavirus.\n\nDeaths from asthma and diabetes also increased between 7 March - the first week in which a death involving Covid-19 was recorded - and 24 April.\n\nThis, coupled with the fact these deaths were increasingly happening outside hospital, could suggest the rise was down to a delay in care for these conditions, the ONS said.\n\nBut it could also be down to changes in how deaths are recorded.\n\nThere is not yet enough evidence to suggest the increase in non-Covid death registrations, could be linked to \"reduced hospital capacity and increases in deaths caused by stress-related conditions,\" according to the ONS.\n\nThis kind of analysis may not be possible for several months.\n\nDeaths from coronary heart disease also increased from around mid-March.\n\nA previous ONS publication suggested these deaths were lower than average in April, but the picture has changed now more data is available.\n\nHowever, fewer people died of seasonal flu during the winter 2019-2020 than in the previous five years.\n\nThe increase in deaths unrelated to coronavirus mainly affected older age groups, and the effect increased with age.\n\nDeaths of younger people, especially people aged between 10 and 39, were lower than the five-year average between mid-March and the beginning of May.\n\nThe ONS cautioned that deaths in these age-groups often require a coroner's inquest to determine the cause meaning registration may happen several months after the date of death.\n\nThat includes deaths from suicide, injury and violence.\n\nThe biggest increase in \"excess deaths\" - those above the five-year average - were in London and the West Midlands.\n\nThe ONS stopped short of drawing a causal link, but pointed out that these are the regions with the highest proportion of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. These regions also had larger increases in non-Covid deaths.\n\nBut it also pointed out that some of these non-Covid deaths, particularly outside hospital, might be down a lack of testing in these settings. So some of them could be unidentified coronavirus cases.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "World War II veterans whose D-Day anniversary trip to the new British Normandy Memorial was cancelled are being brought new footage of the site to mark the day.\n\nMore than 70 veterans, many in their mid-90s, were meant to make the trip for the 76th anniversary on Saturday.\n\nDue to the coronavirus outbreak, the Normandy Memorial Trust is showing them the latest construction work instead.\n\nThe memorial was meant to be officially opened on 4 September.\n\nThat ceremony will now take place in spring or early summer 2021 instead.\n\nLord Peter Ricketts, chairman of trustees at the Normandy Memorial Trust, said: \"We at the trust know how much the veterans and their families were looking forward to visiting the site around the time of the D-Day anniversary to see the memorial taking shape.\n\n\"We share their frustration that the unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic have made that impossible. But the good news is that we are pressing on with real determination to complete the construction, despite all the obstacles.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the dedication of everyone involved in this.\"\n\nAn artist's view of how the memorial will look\n\nThe new content showing the construction work is being released on the trust's website on Saturday.\n\n\"You will get a sense from these new pictures of how moving and impressive the memorial will be once it is finished in the autumn,\" added Lord Ricketts.\n\nIn the footage, people can watch letter carvers inscribing the words of Winston Churchill's speech, including the famous words \"we shall fight on the beaches\".\n\nThe stone columns of the memorial are engraved with the names of 22,442 men and women under British command who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.\n\nThere was a two-month pause in construction of the memorial due to the pandemic, but it has now restarted. Work has included the planting of hundreds of young trees, as well as 12 semi-mature oak trees at the memorial entrance.\n\nThe French memorial - recognising the sacrifice of Normandy's civilian population - has had its foundations installed and the first stone laid.\n\nAs the UK government is not providing funding for the maintenance of the memorial. the trust is also launching a support programme. The Normandy Memorial Guardian programme will see supporters recruited to look after the site in the years ahead.", "The star's sixth album was originally due out in April, but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nLady Gaga's new album, Chromatica, has entered the UK charts at number one, after outselling the rest of the top 10 combined.\n\nThe record, which sees Gaga return to the rocket-powered pop of her debut, sold 53,000 copies, the biggest opening week of the year so far.\n\nIt is also the star's fastest-selling album since 2013's Artpop.\n\nThe album follows Gaga's performance in A Star Is Born, for which she won an Oscar for best song in 2019.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCritics have called the record a return to form, after the country-leaning acoustics of her fifth album Joanne and the misfiring experiments of her Artpop project.\n\n\"Song for song, it's her best yet,\" wrote Variety magazine, adding: \"She sounds like she knows exactly who she is, what she wants to say and how she wants to say it.\"\n\n\"Her pop renaissance couldn't come at a better time,\" agreed Rolling Stone, while The Independent praised the star's \"anthems of self-doubt, self-reflection, self-destruction and self-reclamation\".\n\nGaga, who has suffered with chronic illness and depression, said the record was intended to be an antidote to hard times.\n\n\"I'm making a dance record again and this dance floor… it's mine, I earned it, and all that stuff that I went through,\" she told Zane Lowe in a recent interview.\n\n\"The beginning of the album really symbolises, for me, what I would call the beginning of my journey to healing,\" she added, \"and what I would hope would be an inspiration for people that are in need of healing through happiness, through dance.\"\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, Chromatica was the week's most popular album in every format - physical, streaming and downloads - as well as the year's fastest-seller on vinyl, with 8,500 copies sold.\n\nThree of the tracks also made it into the singles chart, led by the Ariana Grande duet Rain On Me at number two.\n\nSour Candy, a collaboration with K-pop band Blackpink, debuted at 17; while Alice, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, was at 29.\n\nGaga is also expected to top the US Billboard charts next week, with projected sales of 250,000.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Cardiff council has published a detailed plan of how it plans to run the city after lockdown.\n\nThe leader, Councillor Huw Thomas, said they want to \"restart, recover and renew Wales’ capital\" and make it one of the safety cities in the UK.\n\n\"I’m determined that when lockdown restrictions are lifted, our city will reopen in a way that is safe for everyone; in a way that does everything it can to safeguard thousands of jobs; and in a way which is both welcoming and confident about the future of Cardiff,\" he said.\n\nAmong the measures being considered are:\n\nWelcome Points: They will explain to visitors how the city centre works, from reaching particular destinations to where you can wash your hands\n\nOne-way pedestrian movement: Pedestrians within the city centre will need to follow signed routes to ensure social distancing\n\nQueues: There will be a queuing system outside each retail unit /shopping centre/arcade as they will only be able accept a certain number of customers\n\nSpill-out areas: The council says it recognises that businesses in the hospitality sector could be seriously affected by the need to follow social distancing. It proposes to open up spill-out areas, including the grounds inside and around the main walls of Cardiff Castle, the northern end of Churchill Way, the Hayes and Mill Lane\n\nCar Parking: Many city centre car parks will need to operate at a reduced capacity to ensure social distancing. The council is working on a network of park and ride and cycle facilities to ease traffic\n\nAccessing the city centre: An integrated transport plan will help people access the city centre via car, public transport, walking or cycling. It could see the city centre put into event mode, with road closures similar to those on rugby international days\n\nSecurity and aggressive begging: Police have offered support to manage pedestrians and any social-distancing issues. A long-term strategy to help the homeless after lockdown is lifted is being developed\n\nThe plans will go to Cardiff council’s cabinet for discussion on Thursday, 11 June.\n\nThe proposed one-way system around The Hayes Image caption: The proposed one-way system around The Hayes", "Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an image of how their daughter Madeleine, who went missing aged three, might have looked in 2012\n\nThe disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 was a shocking family tragedy. A perfect holiday became the most awful event imaginable. And 13 years on, still no answers.\n\nFor all the years that she has been missing, her parents - and a small group of British police officers who took over the case in 2011 - have not given up hope of finally discovering what happened.\n\nNow, with a potentially astonishing new lead on a known sex offender from Germany, the question is whether they are, finally, close to the truth after so many false turns.\n\nOn 3 May 2007 Madeleine was on holiday with her siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in an apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents were eating dinner with friends a short walk from the apartment - and when Mrs McCann went back to check on the three sleeping children, she discovered Madeleine was gone.\n\nThrough the night, local police and volunteers began to search. As the hours ticked by, more and more people gave up their holidays and time to find the little girl.\n\nBut within days, the first of a series of major wrong turns arguably hampered the investigation.\n\nHe became the centre of an erroneous police inquiry - and enormous attention from the British press.\n\nBut he had nothing to do with the disappearance - and 11 British newspapers eventually paid him £600,000 in libel damages after wrecking his life.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz\n\nAnd a month after Madeleine's disappearance, the Portuguese investigation was stalling.\n\nThere was an appeal for information on an unknown figure seen carrying a child - but a police chief admitted potentially vital forensic evidence had not been secured in the apartment.\n\nThe chance of finding fingerprints, DNA or fibres linking the scene to an abductor were lost.\n\nBy July, the local Portuguese police were at a dead end. They asked the UK to help - and a team of experienced search detectives and sniffer dogs were flown in.\n\nThe British team went back to basics with an agonisingly meticulous search, the gold standard for murder inquiries in the UK.\n\nThey did not find any leads - and in September 2007, with Madeleine's parents still in turmoil, the local police suddenly named them as suspects. There was no evidence to support that supposition, and that line of inquiry was later abandoned.\n\nNaming the parents as suspects felt to many observers at the time as a desperate clutching at straws by an investigation on the rocks. And 14 months after Madeleine McCann disappeared, the Portuguese authorities shelved its inquiry as unsolved.\n\nThe McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were convinced their daughter had been abducted.\n\nThe UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, experts in the trafficking of children into sexual abuse, became involved and in the following years tried to keep interest alive with artist's images of what Madeleine would now look like as she grew up.\n\nIn 2011, the McCanns lobbied then Prime Minister David Cameron to do more, and a senior Scotland Yard team were asked to review thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nThat decision may prove the crucial turning point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ended up with a list of 600 people they needed to find out more about and ultimately 41 potential suspects.\n\nBehind the scenes a tantalising lead began to emerge.\n\nStranger kidnaps of children are rare. They tend to involve calculating abusers who have thought carefully about how they will do it. People who have a plan and know the area where they will strike.\n\nDetectives reasoned that if Madeleine was kidnapped, the culprit could be German or Dutch - the two other predominant nationalities in the resort, along with British and Portuguese.\n\nIn 2013 the German equivalent of BBC TV's Crimewatch launched an appeal asking for any information about two German-speaking men at Praia da Luz.\n\nThat TV appeal led to a tip-off to German federal detectives, although it is not clear what it was or whether an individual was named.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nThen, around the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, the German Federal Police received more information that did identify a man who set alarm bells ringing, someone whose name had been known to Scotland Yard.\n\nAccording to the German Federal Police, the man is a sex offender - they have called him a \"predator\" - who has been convicted of offences against girls and is currently in prison.\n\nHe is also known to be a burglar, with experience of breaking into apartments.\n\nBetween 1995 and 2007 he was living a transient lifestyle in the Algarve and odd-jobbing in catering. At the same time, he is believed to have burgled holiday apartments and hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThey now know that this man was close to the McCann holiday apartment at the critical time on the night she disappeared in 2007, and he received a half-hour phone call from an unknown person.\n\nHe had been using two vehicles, a VW camper van and a Jaguar, with the British-made car having been re-registered to another person the day after Madeleine disappeared.\n\nHe has also been connected to two properties, one of which German police have described as a hideaway for stolen goods. Both homes are small, villas on quiet country lanes.\n\nOne is a 10 minute drive from Praia da Luz. The other lies just over a mile away - and is, in turn, just a mile from grassy land where British police carried out an extensive search in 2014.\n\nWho is the suspect? Neither German investigators nor Scotland Yard will confirm that name, but German media have identified him as Christian B.\n\nDid this man take Madeleine McCann? Was a dangerous sexual offender effectively hiding in plain sight in the middle of a peaceful holiday town? It would not be the first time - almost everywhere in the world there are stories of predatory offenders locating themselves in resorts.\n\nAt the moment, we just don't know. But one thing is certain in the minds of the German police who may unlock this tragedy. They believe Madeleine McCann is dead.\n\nAnd while her disappearance has always been a missing person inquiry in the UK - in Germany, this is now a hunt for the final clues that could catch a murderer.", "Mr Seely said he talked to the journalist for about 35 minutes \"at a sensible distance\".\n\nA Conservative MP has admitted he failed to follow lockdown guidance when he reportedly attended a barbecue.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely went to an evening gathering at a journalist's home in Seaview on 22 May, according to the Guardian newspaper.\n\nMr Seely said he and his girlfriend met the man for a work-related discussion and ate \"half a sausage\", but did not enter the house or have a drink.\n\nThe local Green Party said \"islanders will rightly be furious\".\n\nMr Seely apologised, saying he should have left when he saw others were there.\n\nGreen Party spokesperson Vix Lowthion said islanders would be \"furious\"\n\nCalling for the MP to consider standing down, Green Party spokesperson Vix Lowthion said: \"Thousands of his constituents have not seen their own grandchildren, parents and friends.\n\n\"Islanders will rightly be furious to read that our MP broke lockdown rules through going to a BBQ with journalists at their second home on the island on bank holiday weekend.\"\n\nAt the time people could only meet one other person from another household at a distance in a public place.\n\nMr Seely, who is leading efforts to promote the trial of the Covid-19 contact-tracing app on the island, said the journalist had wanted to discuss the project with him.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"When I arrived, I saw another couple of people there, which I was not expecting. I thought about leaving, but felt that was perhaps over-reacting.\n\n\"I apologise because, on balance, I called this wrong. It would have been better to have spoken to this person without any others nearby.\"\n\nThe MP said he talked to the journalist for about 35 minutes \"at a sensible distance\".\n\nHe added his girlfriend had accompanied him because it was \"after normal working hours\".\n\nAsked later on Isle of Wight Radio whether the event was a barbecue, he replied: \"I think I probably had half a sausage... but did not treat it as a social event because I was there for work.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on an individual and reiterated current guidance was \"for everyone\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nCurrent rules, after lockdown was further eased on 28 May, allow groups of up to six people from different households to meet in private gardens.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clothing retailer Gap has reported a loss close to $1bn due to store closures because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe company was $932m (£740m) in the red for the three months to May, compared with a profit of $227m in the same period last year.\n\nIt comes as Gap wrote off the value of the goods it holds by more than a quarter of a billion dollars.\n\nThe firm's shares were down by more than 8% in after-hours trade.\n\nWith net sales falling 43% in the period, Gap's chief executive Sonia Syngal said they continued to reflect “material declines in May as a result of closures” but added that online demand was improving.\n\nRetailers of non-essential goods, especially clothing, have been hit hard by restrictions aimed to help slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\nShops have been shut across much of the world as retailers were forced to limit their businesses to online operations.\n\nSan Francisco-based Gap, which operates almost 2,800 stores in North America, said that more than half of its company-operated stores in the US have now reopened.\n\nSeparately, Gap is is being sued by America's largest shopping mall operator for refusing to pay rent for stores temporarily closed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSimon Property Group said in a lawsuit filed this week that the clothing retailer owes three months of rent, totalling $65.9m.\n\nGap has more than 390 stores at Indianapolis-based Simon's malls, including its namesake brand, Old Navy and Banana Republic.\n\nSimon Property Group temporarily closed all of its properties in March after major retailers at its malls, such as Gap, Macy's and Nodstrom's, shut their stores.\n\nLarge retailers, including Gap and sports shoe seller Foot Locker, have said they wouldn't pay rent for stores that were forced to close due to the pandemic.\n\nGap did not directly mention the lawsuit during Thursday's earnings conference call but chief financial officer Katrina O'Connell said \"We're just knee-deep in landlords today.\"\n\n\"It's very hard to say how long it will take, but I do know that one of our primary objectives is to use this opportunity to partner with our landlords to come up with a better profitability for the company.\"\n• None What shape will the coronavirus recession be?", "Sending all children back to school - and freeing parents to go back to work - could trigger a second wave of coronavirus, warn researchers.\n\nUCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine team said testing and tracing contacts of those with the virus might help prevent this.\n\nBut the current test and trace system would need to be more effective.\n\nThe study is the first to assess the extent of contact tracing that will be needed to prevent a second wave.\n\nIt used computer models to see how the virus might spread as pupils returned to the classroom and their parents were freed from childcare and able return to work or other activities.\n\nThe academics investigated the impact of the \"phased return\" strategy in England.\n\nThey analysed what happens when Reception, Year 1 and Year Six go back at the start of June; followed by all primary school pupils in July; secondary pupils in Year 10 and 12 having some contact in July and all secondary schools going back in September.\n\nThe study showed the combined effect on pupils and parents would be enough to cause a second wave without an effective test and trace programme.\n\nThis would happen around December 2020 and would be twice as big as the first peak, unless the government took other actions such as re-imposing lockdown.\n\nThe success of the scheme is dependent on how well the testing and the contact tracing goes.\n\nThe model suggested a second wave would be prevented if:\n\nModelling is not a crystal ball and there is always uncertainty around any predictions. However, researchers are concerned England is not achieving those figures.\n\nAbout 1,700 people are testing positive every day in hospitals, care homes and the wider community, while figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are 5,600 new infections a day in the community alone - and one Public Health England report suggests 17,000 infections per day.\n\nThere is still no official data on the number of contacts being traced, but a report by the Times (paywall) suggests it is less than 40%.\n\n\"Our concern from the data at the moment is test-trace-isolate is not reaching the coverage we think is the minimum,\" Prof Chris Bonell, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\n\"There is clearly a risk of a second pandemic wave… I'm worried. The R [rate of virus spread] is a bit below one [the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again], but the incidence is high so it's precarious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, from UCL, said it would have been better to wait until test and trace was fully up and running before lifting lockdown.\n\n\"Cases are not coming down as much as we wanted. I would caution against reopening schools when we are doing a lot of other interventions and we don't know the impact of them.\n\n\"Everything depends on control of transmission, there is the threat of a second pandemic wave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, researchers at the University of Warwick have also published modelling on the impact of reopening schools. It looked only at the impact of children mixing, not the society-wide effect of schools opening.\n\nIt found that halving the size of classes or focusing on getting younger children into school was less likely to push the R number above 1, the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again.\n\nSecondary schools were deemed more risky, as older children come into contact with more people.\n\n\"If we reopen all schools it could push R above 1 in some regions,\" Dr Ed Hill said.\n\nBut he added: \"Decisions surrounding reopening of schools are a difficult trade-off between the epidemiological consequences and the needs of the children in terms of educational development.\"", "Tommy Robinson (pictured in London in May) posted a video online in which he said he was spat at in Barrow\n\nEx-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man he claims spat in his face.\n\nMr Robinson, 37, was detained at a protest rally at Hollywood Retail Park in Barrow, Cumbria, on Thursday.\n\nThree other men from outside the Barrow area were also arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. All four have been released on bail, police said.\n\nThe rally was about an investigation into allegations of \"sexual grooming\".\n\nCumbria Police said a one-year investigation had failed to find evidence of a grooming gang.\n\nMr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was also questioned on suspicion of a public order offence, along with a 43-year-old man from the West Midlands area, a 47-year-old man from the North Wales area and a 28-year-old man from the Bedfordshire area.\n\nIn a video filmed by Mr Robinson and shared online, he said he was speaking to people at the shopping park when a man spat in his face.\n\nThe video shows Mr Robinson telling police he \"acted in self-defence\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.", "The exercise in 2018 revealed concerns over protective gear and contract tracing\n\nAn exercise simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group, showed a \"clear gap\" in preparedness, the BBC has learned.\n\nA report into \"Exercise Iris\" revealed frontline staff \"unease\" over personal protective equipment and \"the need for substantive progress\".\n\nThe exercise simulated an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.\n\nThe Scottish government says its findings were shared with attendees.\n\nMiddle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) is a coronavirus like SARS-Cov-2 but has different characteristics.\n\nLike the novel coronavirus, MERS-CoV causes a respiratory disease and key symptoms include fever and a cough. However, transmission rates are believed to be far lower and fatality rates are much higher.\n\nBBC News has learned an exercise was undertaken simulating an outbreak of the disease in 2018 and requested the findings under the Freedom of Information Act in April. The Scottish Government has now published a report of its findings.\n\nThe outcomes were shared with the expert committee that advises the UK government on pandemics, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) in June 2019.\n\n\"Exercise Iris\" was a tabletop exercise which took place at a hotel in Stirling on 12 March 2018 and involved health boards, Health Protection Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS 24, the telephone advice service.\n\nExercise discussions revealed concerns around the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and underlined \"the need for substantive progress on PPE use within Scotland\", according to the report.\n\n\"Issues around PPE are not unique to a MERS-CoV outbreak\", it said.\n\nThe report conclusions also note an \"unease\" amongst frontline staff over the lack of clarity on PPE availability, training and testing.\n\n\"This is a clear gap in Scotland's preparedness for MERS-CoV and other outbreaks and needs to be addressed as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe report also warns of the demands of contact tracing.\n\nOne scenario in the exercise features \"escalating resource requirements for contact tracing and follow up\". As a result, health boards were asked to consider the impact of extensive contact tracing.\n\n\"It feels like a lost opportunity\", says Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of public health at Edinburgh University and a member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group.\n\n\"On the positive side it's good that these exercises were conducted, because it meant that they were thinking beyond flu, they were thinking about coronaviruses.\n\n\"But on the negative side it's surprising, it seems that SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) members were unaware or at least didn't discuss this exercise in their thinking in January or February, which would have been crucial in making steps to actually prepare for an eventual outbreak\".\n\n\"It's the whole purpose of these exercises, to learn from them\", she added.\n\nA report detailing the findings of an exercise simulating pandemic influenza called \"Exercise Cygnus\", which was run in England in October 2016, was also not published.\n\nThe report into the MERS coronavirus exercise says Public Health England held a previous exercise in 2016 \"which identified a series of actions for improvement\".\n\nAt two meetings, in June and December 2018, Nervtag asked for the report into the exercise to be circulated within the group.\n\nMinutes of a meeting from June 2019, when the report was shared, say \"most of the recommendations have now been implemented or are in the process of being implemented\" by Health Protection Scotland's resilience group.\n\nThe Scottish government said the report was shared with all attendees.\n\n\"The output from this exercise has been considered in line with wider work on health protection preparedness carried out through the Scottish Health Protection Network\", it said.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said: \"As the public would expect, we regularly test our preparedness for emergencies - allowing us to rapidly respond to this unprecedented crisis.\"", "Luxury carmaker Bentley has said it will cut 1,000 jobs in the UK, about a quarter of its workforce.\n\nThe company, which makes its cars in Crewe, has offered all staff the chance to take voluntary redundancy.\n\nThe move comes as the car industry faces a sharp drop in sales due to coronavirus. Bentley has also struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nBentley's boss, Adrian Hallmark, said the virus was not the cause of the cuts, but a \"hastener\".\n\nCar sales have been severely hit by the closure of car manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms due to the virus.\n\nIn a statement, Bentley which turns 101 on 10 July, said it was launching a restructuring programme which would \"redefine Bentley for the next 100 years\". The plan had been due to be announced in March, but was deferred due to the pandemic.\n\nWhile the substance of the new strategy remained the same, the company said the effects on the short-term financial outlook for the company meant that it had to \"significantly reduce the size of the organisation through a voluntary release programme\".\n\nIt said it was looking for as many as 1,000 people to accept voluntary redundancy, but it \"cannot rule out future compulsory redundancies\".\n\n\"Losing colleagues is not something we are treating lightly but this is a necessary step that we have to take to safeguard the jobs of the vast majority who will remain, and deliver a sustainable business model for the future through our Beyond100 strategy,\" said Mr Hallmark.\n\nThat strategy aims to make Bentley the \"leader in sustainable luxury mobility for the next 100 years\", with an \"accelerated journey towards electrification with every model\".\n\nLast month, Mr Hallmark said that a quarter of the company's workers had been furloughed due to the lockdown while another quarter were working from home.\n\nThe carmaker has since restarted production at its Crewe factory, but with only around half the usual number of staff.\n\nBentley, which is owned by Volkswagen, has struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nIt is in the middle of a turnaround plan which began in 2018. Last year, it increased its worldwide sales by 5% to 11,000 cars and it reported a record performance in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nBut now with \"considerable forecast reduction to future revenues\" due to coronavirus it has carried out a review of its cost and investment structure and \"as the last resort... the people cost and structure\".\n\nThe SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in the UK last month - down 89% year-on-year - the worst May performance since 1952.", "Hundreds of people have attended three all-night events in London and it's understood more are planned.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's Investigations Unit was tipped off about raves being advertised on a private Instagram page.\n\nPolice say they attended two of the gatherings but no arrests were made.\n\nThe organisers dispute the events are raves and claim it is a community of people exercising to house music.\n\nThey say the events are not for profit and they will be implementing safety measures such as PPE for staff and taking the temperature of those attending before they are allowed in.\n\nEven with these steps in place, such events are currently not allowed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nMr Sharma said he would like to offer \"huge thanks\" to those who have expressed their well wishes over the last 24 hours as well as the Parliamentary authorities.\n\nHe became unwell in the Commons on Wednesday, where he was seen mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nHe was then tested for the virus and went home to self-isolate.\n\nEarlier, the government had faced questions about whether the prime minister and chancellor would have to self-isolate, after Mr Sharma met them in Downing Street a day before falling ill.\n\nMr Sharma's condition also reignited concern over the scrapping of virtual Parliament this week, and the return of MPs to Westminster.\n\nAnnouncing the result of his negative test, Mr Sharma sent his \"grateful thanks\" to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\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 Reading West MP was in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" took place after the debate.\n\nA day earlier, Mr Sharma had a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 said the meeting had been \"socially distanced\".\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, after Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped online voting procedures brought in at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nMeasures to allow MPs who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said these measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nReacting to the news of Mr Sharma's negative test, Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper said it was \"good news\" but it \"should still be a wake-up call for Rees-Mogg\".\n\nShe said the government should lead by example by supporting people to work from home where they can and \"stop needlessly risking health of MPs and staff\".\n\nLabour MP Barry Sheerman said he was \"very relieved\" that Mr Sharma tested negative, but that \"doesn't mean that the reintroduction of physical presence voting is not stupid\".\n\nThe PCS union, representing about 800 of Parliament's clerks, security guards and kitchen staff, has written to the prime minister to say the decision to end virtual voting was endangering the workers.\n\n\"We believe Parliament has opened too soon and the lives of PCS members, and those of our sister unions, are being put at risk unnecessarily,\" general secretary Mark Serwotka said.\n\nEarlier, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\" and return to Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday.\n\nThe MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "What salons will look like post-lockdown\n\nHair and beauty salons have been preparing to reopen with social distancing and personal protective equipment. They have been shut in the UK since 23 March as part of the lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The government said they would be able to reopen from 4 July at the earliest but has given no fixed date. Video caption: Coronavirus: What salons will look like post-lockdown Coronavirus: What salons will look like post-lockdown Katie Godfrey, a salon owner in Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire, said: \"We've got four nail bars, which are normally full but we're just going to limit [it] to two. \"The team have to wear visors and the clients are going to have to wear a mask. We're going to also take people's temperatures.\" The Department for Business said: \"The government has set up task forces to work with industry representatives to develop safe ways for businesses such as hairdressers to open at the earliest point at which it is safe to do so.\"", "What do different countries say about masks?\n\nWe've already reported that from 15 June, people in England will be required to wear face coverings on public transport. There's a bit of controversy, because the British Medical Association (which represents doctors in the UK) says the rule should be extended so it's compulsory to wear masks in all public places where social distancing isn't possible. That is the new guidance from the World Health Organization, which has changed its stance on fabric face masks. But what are the rules right now in other countries? In the US, legislation around masks is decided on a state-level - or even at a county-level in some cases. New York state, for example, requires people to wear masks in any public place where social distancing isn't possible. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone wear masks when out in public. Things are a bit more straightforward in Germany, where mask-wearing has been mandatory on public transport and while shopping since 22 April. France brought in a rule on May 10, making face masks compulsory while out in public, ahead of the start of their lockdown easing a day later. And in Ireland, while people are advised to wear masks while out in public, it isn't actually mandatory. Meanwhile, wearing masks in crowded places was far from uncommon in parts of Asia even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, especially if people were ill.", "Following the death of George Floyd while under arrest, protests have consumed America and onlookers have wondered how one of the most powerful countries in the world could descend into such chaos.\n\nDespite being defined by race, American society does not spend much time analysing the history of our racial divisions, and America prefers to believe in the inevitable progression towards racial equality.\n\nThe election of Barack Obama in 2008 fed into this narrative of progress, but Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was seen as a step backwards, coming after a campaign with a slogan that championed America's divisive past as a form of progress.\n\nFloyd's death now appears to be the tipping point for an exhausted, racially divided nation still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic cost that followed.\n\nFloyd's cries of \"I can't breathe\" echoed the cries of Eric Garner, who was choked by police on a New York City sidewalk in 2014.\n\nFloyd's words reminded Americans of the oppressive past we work to forget regardless of whether it is six years ago, 60 years ago, the 1860s, or 1619 when some of the first slaves arrived in America.\n\nTo a large extent, America's neglect of the past and belief in progress have left many Americans unaware of the severity and scope of our racial tensions, and as a result many Americans lack the words to articulate our current turmoil. Recently, I have used the word ethnocide meaning \"the destruction of culture while keeping the people\" to describe America's past and present racial tensions, and this language also helps articulate the uniqueness of America's race problem.\n\nIn 1941, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and distinguished lawyer, immigrated to the United States as he fled the Nazis. While in America he implored the American government to stop the Nazis from killing his people, and as his words fell on deaf ears, he realized he needed to create a new word to describe the unique horror befalling his people. In 1944, Lemkin coined the words genocide and ethnocide.\n\nLemkin intended for the words to be interchangeable but over time they diverged. Genocide became the destruction of a people and their culture, and this word radically changed the world for the better. Ethnocide became the destruction of culture while keeping the people, and has been ignored for decades. Recently, ethnocide has been used to describe the plight of indigenous people against colonisation, but regarding America, ethnocide also pertains to the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of the nation.\n\nFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, European colonisers destroyed the culture of African people, but kept their bodies in order to create the chattel slavery system that became the economic and social foundation of the United States. Colonisers prevented Africans from speaking their languages and practising their religions. Tribal and familial bonds were broken, and African people could no longer identify as Igbo, Yoruba, and Malian. Instead de-cultured names such as nigger, negro, coloured, and black were stamped upon African people.\n\nAdditionally, Europeans identified themselves as white, and in the United States the one-drop rule was created to sustain that division. One drop of black or African blood meant that a person could not be white. In America, whiteness became a zero-sum identity that was maintained by systemic racial division. Interracial marriage was still illegal in much of America until the Loving vs Virginia decision in 1967.\n\nFrom colonisation to the formation of the United States, America has created countless laws and policies to sustain the racial division between blacks and whites forged by ethnocide. These American norms, extending to housing, education, employment, healthcare, law enforcement and environmental protections including clean drinking water, have disproportionately harmed African Americans and other communities of colour in order to sustain racial division and white dominance.\n\nGeorge Floyd's murder represents a continuation of the systemic criminalisation and oppression of black life in America that has always been the American norm dating back to Jim Crow, segregation (which means apartheid), and slavery.\n\nWhen the Confederacy, the collection of American slave-holding states in the South, seceded from the United States, they launched the Civil War to defend the immoral institution of slavery. After losing the Civil War, these states were readmitted back into the United States. To this day, many Americans, and especially America hate groups, still celebrate Confederate soldiers and politicians as heroes, and there are monuments and memorials dedicated to them across America.\n\nDespite the American South losing the Civil War in 1865, American President Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate soldiers, and soon thereafter Confederate politicians won elected office in the newly-reunited America. The influence of former slave owners and Confederates contributed to erasing the rights that African Americans won in the 1860s including citizenship and the right to vote.\n\nThe political campaign to remove African American rights was called the Redeemers movement, and it was led by former slave-owners and Confederates, who wanted to redeem the South by returning it to the norms of chattel slavery. The Redeemers and \"Make America Great Again\" derive from America's oppressive, ethnocidal school of thought.\n\nThe Redeemers were also assisted by American terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) that were made up of former Confederate soldiers. The KKK, and many other white supremacist groups, terrorised and lynched black Americans, and they also prevented them from voting to help ensure that Redeemer candidates won elected office. The terrorists became the government.\n\nProtesters attacked by police dogs during demonstrations against segregation in Alabama in 1963\n\nBy the start of the 20th Century, the Redeemers had succeeded in undoing the racial equality progress of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, and now Jim Crow segregation became the norm of the American South. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy vs Ferguson made \"separate but equal\" the new law of the land, and America again became a legal apartheid state.\n\nAccording to the Equal Justice Initiative's 2017 report Lynching in America, over 4,400 lynchings of African Americans occurred from 1877-1950. That is more than a lynching a week for 74 years.\n\nDuring Jim Crow, America could not legally deny black people their humanity, but they could deny them the services that are afforded to human beings. Black people were denied education, housing, employment, and were expected to \"know their place\" as a perpetually subjugated people. Large prisons were erected on former plantations; black people were arrested for minor crimes and given long prison sentences doing manual labour on the same land their ancestors were forced to work as enslaved people.\n\nAs a result of Jim Crow, millions of African Americans fled the neo-slavery and terror of the South during the Great Migration, and racial tensions spread as other American cities did not welcome these domestic refugees. This is the same journey as the Underground Railroad, where prior to the Civil War enslaved African Americans escaped the South and sought refuge in Canada and the Northern parts of America.\n\nThe civil rights movement of the 1960s effectively ended Jim Crow, and African Americans began reclaiming the rights, specifically voting rights and freedom of movement, they had previously won in the 1860s, but it is a long road to dismantle systemic and legalised racism and segregation.\n\nObama's election in 2008 was a monumental event in American society, but it did not magically erase the systemic racism woven into America's social fabric and the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement to national attention.\n\nTrayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman as he walked home in his own neighbourhood because Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman pled self-defence and a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Trayvon was one of countless African Americans killed by America's ethnocidal society that sanctions terror from both the government and civilians.\n\nThe unjust killing of black people by the police and racist vigilantes remained the norm during Obama's presidency, but now the black community could record and document these crimes on video, and had a president who would defend them. Obama famously said: \"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.\"\n\nThe emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other protests under Obama occurred because black Americans were confident that the White House would listen to their cries of \"I can't breathe\" and make American society finally equitable and just. Under Trump those cries have fallen on deaf ears and tensions have escalated.\n\nAmerica has much work to do to fix our racial tensions because our divisions and inequality are forged in our ethnocidal roots. We need to reform the policing of a nation nearly the size of a continent with over 300 million people, but we also need to make our education, healthcare, and housing systems, and every facet of our democracy more equitable.\n\nAdditionally, truth and reconciliation commissions, a national apology, reparations, holding evildoers accountable, and other processes nations have used to heal after a genocide, the linguistic sibling of ethnocide, will help America change course and forge equality and justice.\n\nAlso, America has rarely criminalised white supremacist hate and terror and instead has spent centuries normalising white terrorist groups, celebrating them as heroes, and letting them decide if their actions are evil or not. This is why the Confederacy is still celebrated today. Europe did not allow fascists and Nazis to determine if their actions were good or not, but America has always given this luxury to racist slave-owners and their generational apologists and offspring. This must change.\n\nRwanda, Germany, and South Africa have reckoned with their troubled past to make a better future, but America has long preferred to ignore the past, and proclaim the inevitability of progress.\n\nAmerica today must define and confront the Original Sin of slavery, ethnocide, and the cultural destruction it has inflicted upon all Americans, past and present. Otherwise we will fail to make a better future, and will continue our regression.\n\nBarrett is a writer, journalist and filmmaker focusing on race, culture and politics", "The Met Office recently announced an upgrade to its existing supercomputer (pictured). But even more money for computing would be welcome, says Prof Palmer\n\nA top climate scientist has called for more investment in climate computing to explain the UK’s recent topsy turvy weather.\n\nProf Tim Palmer from Oxford University said there were still too many unknowns in climate forecasting.\n\nAnd in the month the SpaceX launch grabbed headlines, he said just one of the firm's billions could transform climate modelling.\n\nAnd long-term trends in rising temperatures aren’t in doubt.\n\nBut Prof Palmer says many puzzles remain unsolved: take the recent weird weather in the UK, with the wettest February on record followed by the sunniest Spring.\n\nMeteorologists were astounded by this unprecedented weather somersault – and especially by the amazing amount that May sunshine exceeded the previous record.\n\nThis year’s figure was 13% higher than the previous record – that’s like the winner of the 100 metres leaving opponents over 11 metres behind.\n\nSome place the blame on climate change, but the Met Office says, as yet, there’s no strong evidence for that.\n\nProf Palmer told BBC News: “It would be really valuable for us to have more knowledge of how climate change is affecting weather patterns like this.\n\n“Was climate change implicated in the recent weird weather? We don’t know.”\n\nThe Met Office declared February 2020 as the wettest February on record\n\nHe agrees that space observations have massively improved our understanding of the climate.\n\nBut he complains: “It is very frustrating to see space get quite so much attention when we can’t be sure what will happen to the climate on Earth.\n\n“If only we could secure one of their billions for computer modelling that would be a big help.”\n\nSo what do we know so far about recent British weather weirdness?\n\nWell, here’s what’s clear: the strong jetstream to the south-west of England through the winter locked in place the succession of Atlantic storms that drenched the UK.\n\nThe Met Office successfully predicted the wet winter in its seasonal forecast, but failed to predict the sudden leap to a dry spring when the jetstream was looped over the UK, holding the sunny weather in place.\n\nIn a global climate chicken-and-egg debate there’s the question of why the jetstream behaved this way.\n\nSome scientists believe it’s being affected by conditions in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere on the planet, because of greenhouse gases. But this is disputed.\n\nProf Palmer said the jetstream appeared to be influenced by a climate phenomenon known as the Indian dipole – an irregular oscillating current in the Indian Ocean. This was also blamed for the wildfires in Australia.\n\nBut what’s influencing the Indian dipole? Or is it completely natural?\n\nScientists know ocean currents on the other side of the world can influence our weather – but did water round the Chagos Archipelago really prompt a “barbecue spring“ in grateful lockdown Britain?\n\n“There are very strange things going on in the tropics,” Prof Palmer added. “The question is, ‘is it natural?’ and we’re not yet sure.”\n\nScientists are now planning to re-run UK climate models over recent years and remove the heating element of CO2 emissions from the mathematical puzzle. That should offer a better understanding of British weather at least.\n\nProf Palmer admits it’s surprising this exercise wasn’t done sooner. But of all the uses of extra cash for climate research, he thinks the most useful spending on climate research might be to unlock the secret of clouds – one of the most intractable climate mysteries.\n\nIf warmer weather leads to more low-level clouds, that will bounce out radiation and cool the Earth. If it leads to more high-level clouds, that will trap in heat.\n\nIn fact, Prof Palmer said, one recent cloud modelling exercise suggested that if we’re unlucky, global temperatures may rise by 5C after CO2 levels are doubled – a level utterly inhospitable to humans. The conclusion was previously ruled out under different analysis.\n\n“We need to understand these processes better,” he says.\n\n“Normally in science you learn about the system under study by doing laboratory experiments. With Earth’s climate, there is no lab experiment you can do.\n\n“The climate model is the only tool we have to understand what future is in store for humanity as a result of climate change.\n\n“Space observations tell us what is happening now, but climate models tell us about what will happen next year, next decade, next century.”", "Eight homes were swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in June in the Norwegian town of Alta.\n\nAs drones flew overhead to capture the damage - land continued to collapse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA trade deal with the EU based on the UK's \"very reasonable\" demands is still possible, cabinet minister Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after the two sides admitted little progress had been made in the latest round.\n\nHe said he \"very much\" hoped a no-deal outcome to the talks could be avoided if the two sides worked together.\n\nHe was speaking after EU negotiator Michel Barnier accused the UK of \"backtracking\" on its commitments.\n\nThe French official said differences remain in four key areas - fisheries, competition rules, governance and police cooperation.\n\nGuidelines for these issues were included in the political declaration, agreed by the UK and EU last year, which set out objectives for a future relationship.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Barnier said: \"My responsibility is to speak to truth and, to tell the truth, this week there have been no significant areas of progress.\"\n\nMatt Hancock said he hoped 'no deal' could be avoided\n\nHe added: \"In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack under commitments undertaken in the political declaration, including on fisheries. We cannot and will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration.\"\n\nThis week's discussions - held online - were seen as the last chance to make progress ahead of a summit between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, expected to take place later this month.\n\nThe UK has until the end of June to ask for the \"transition period\" - during which the country stays in the single market and customs union - to be extended into next year. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"We have always been open to the possibility of an extension of one or two years - as is possible under the exit agreement. And our door remains open.\"\n\nAsked about the prospect of a no-deal exit from EU rules at the UK's daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said: \"I very much hope that we avoid that because our position is very reasonable\n\n\"It's that any agreement we reach must reflect the fact that the UK is an independent sovereign state.\n\n\"And we're working very hard and will accelerate the work to make progress in talks by the end of the year so that we can put into place the vision that has already been agreed between the UK and the EU which is based within the political declaration.\"\n\n\"Plus ça change,\" you could say.\n\nRound four of EU/UK trade negotiations after Brexit comes to an end. Cue yet another dismally downbeat assessment from the EU and the UK's chief negotiators.\n\nBut I don't belong to the growing \"No deal is becoming the most likely outcome\" school of thought.\n\nOn the contrary, both sides insisting loudly that their position will not waver (on all issues linked to national sovereignty for the UK; on all issues linked to the single market for the EU) is also a way of trying to reassure audiences back home that their interests will be protected, while privately considering what compromises they're prepared to make.\n\nSift carefully through the rhetoric of EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nAmong his words of disappointment at the lack of progress, plus accusations that the UK is constantly \"backtracking\" on commitments, you'll find clear indications of wiggle-room in Brussels: a possible softening of EU demands on state aid rules and fishing quotas and an admission from Mr Barnier, that, if a deal were close this autumn, there would almost certainly be a \"dense\" period of last-minute negotiations.\n\nNo compromise clues from the UK yet, though.\n\nIt's not too late. But concessions will be needed from both sides for even a very narrow deal to be agreed by the UK-imposed deadline of the end of this year.\n\nA senior UK negotiating official told the BBC their side was prepared to accept some tariffs if they were needed to reach a deal with the EU.\n\nThe UK was \"committed\" to sticking to the political declaration, but the document had been designed to set out only the \"parameters\" of discussions, they added, and was not a treaty.\n\nUK chief negotiator David Frost said: \"We continue to discuss the full range of issues, including the most difficult ones. Progress remains limited but our talks have been positive in tone.\n\n\"We are now at an important moment for these talks. We are close to reaching the limits of what we can achieve through the format of remote formal rounds.\"\n\nUK officials told the BBC they would prefer to move to face-to-face talks but acknowledged that might not be possible just yet.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January. The transition period lasts until 31 December and keeps the UK bound to most EU rules.\n\nThe sides currently have until then to reach a free trade deal, needed if they want to do business without tariffs, quotas or other barriers in future.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first minister Arlene Foster said she was \"concerned\" about the current state of the talks.\n\n\"For both our sakes I hope that we get to a situation where we get a deal because that's what we need in Northern Ireland,\" she told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast.\n\n\"We need to make sure that both sides understand that it is to both sides' benefit and that's something that I think the European Union often didn't get in the negotiations from 2016 onwards.\"\n\nBusinesses - hit by the coronavirus pandemic - have raised concerns over a possible \"cliff-edge\" break to the UK's remaining access to the EU single market at the end of the year with no replacement deal.\n\nThe CBI business group called progress in the talks \"worryingly slow\", adding that this was causing \"deep concern to firms when resilience has rarely been more fragile\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have attended three all-night raves in London even though social distancing rules and government regulations clearly prohibit such events taking place.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's Investigations Unit was tipped off about raves being advertised on a private Instagram page.\n\nPolice say they attended two of the gatherings but no arrests were made.\n\nThe organisers say the raves are a community of people exercising to house music and social-distancing took place.\n\nIt is understood more raves are planned.\n\nPosing as a raver, a researcher asked to follow the page.\n\nOnce their request was accepted, they were invited to a secret WhatsApp group and received updates on when the next rave would be.\n\nTickets cost £15 each and once payment has been made by bank transfer, the organisers send a picture which contains the secret location for the event.\n\nAt least three raves were held last month at a former business premises in Leytonstone.\n\nThe BBC has seen video footage from some of these events. They show a large number of people inside the venue which can hold up to 300 people.\n\nThe organisers say between 70 and 100 people attended each rave, but claim only about half that number were inside at one time so people could keep apart.\n\nBut in the footage the BBC has seen, ravers are partying close together.\n\nUnder the latest guidelines for England brought in to target coronavirus, groups of up to six people from different households can meet outside as long as they remain 2m apart.\n\nA text message from organisers, seen by the BBC, admitting the event is illegal\n\nThe BBC has also seen a text message from the organisers - Kanni Events Ltd registered in Leytonstone - in which they admit the events are not legal.\n\nIn April, the same people behind the raves co-hosted a virtual event to raise money for PPE for NHS and key workers. The online poster included the government slogan: \"Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives.\"\n\nThe BBC has discovered more events are planned.\n\nJohn Cryer, the MP for Leyton and Wanstead, said organisers were putting lives at risk.\n\n\"It doesn't get much lower than this. I've just written to a constituent whose husband died of coronavirus. I wonder if the people organising the raves might appreciate reality if the lives of their own relatives were in danger,\" he said.\n\nThe organisers dispute the events are raves.\n\nThey say the events are not for profit and they will be implementing safety measures such as PPE for staff and taking the temperature of those attending before they are allowed in.\n\nEven with these steps in place, such events are currently not allowed.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says after attending two of the raves, extra patrols were organised to ensure no further events took place.\n\nWaltham Forest Council said the venue was being illegally squatted and had now been closed down.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, police were called after hundreds of revellers held a street party in Harlesden in north-west London. And last weekend a number of people were arrested after police broke up another large street party in Clapton in east London.\n• None What are the social-distancing rules?", "The Covent Garden venue has been closed since 17 March\n\nThe BBC is to broadcast the Royal Opera House's first post-lockdown performance across TV and radio later this month.\n\nThe concert, which will take place without a live audience, is scheduled for 13 June, hosted by the venue's director of music Antonio Pappano.\n\nIt will feature a dance premiere by Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, as well as music by Britten, Handel and Butterworth.\n\nRadio 3 will air the show on 15 June, with TV highlights later in the month.\n\nLike all cultural venues around the UK, the Opera House closed in March, when the government banned gatherings to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSince then, the venue's income has dropped by 60%, chief executive Alex Beard told the BBC.\n\n\"With no box office income and limited reserves we, like theatres and performing arts organisations across the country, face unprecedented financial stress,\" he said.\n\n\"We need all our creativity and resolve to get through this, alongside a catalysing and vital investment from Government. Together we can ensure that a generation of talent is not lost to history, and the UK's creative sector can continue to play its full role in our cultural lives.\"\n\nThe venue's re-opening performance will also be free to watch on YouTube and Facebook, with subsequent concerts on 20 and 27 June available to view live and on demand for £4.99.\n\nThe BBC's coverage was announced by director general Tony Hall as part of a raft of cultural commissions.\n\nPeter Capaldi will play Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Radio 3 drama marking the 250th anniversary of the German composer's birth, while BBC Four will present a \"major new series\" about his life.\n\nA performance of his opera Fidelio, filmed at the Royal Opera House before it closed its doors, will also be broadcast.\n\nThe musical family of royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will feature in a new BBC One film, culminating in a lockdown concert from their home; while BBC Four will profile conductor Bernard Haitink to mark his 90th birthday earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Growing up in a very musical family\n\nAnd with the summer music season on hold, a number of performances will be made available on iPlayer from opera houses that have had to shut their doors during the lockdown.\n\nAmong them will be The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne, The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage of Figaro from Garsington, and a performance of Opera North's La Traviata filmed from backstage.\n\nLord Hall said the BBC would also expand its Culture In Quarantine programme, with \"unique projects focused on museums and galleries\" and the release of archived concerts from the BBC's vaults.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Children's will launch a major Shakespeare project in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with readings and lessons from actors including Niamh Cusack and Jamie Wilkes on the educational website BBC Bitesize.\n\n\"While the weeks ahead may see many forms of retail opening again, culture will effectively remain in quarantine for some time,\" Lord Hall said in a blog post.\n\n\"Many theatres have had to face up to the fact they are unlikely to be able to produce new work until the second half of 2021. For some the consequences will be devastating.\n\n\"It has left me more convinced than ever that the BBC has an essential role to play as ringmaster and champion for the arts in this country.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Demonstrators outside of the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC\n\nThe US mass protests are raising eyebrows around the world, but China is watching with particular interest.\n\nAs anti-racism protests sweep across the US, Beijing has seized upon them to hit back at Washington for supporting last year's Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations.\n\nChinese state media have given extensive coverage to the protests, highlighting the chaotic scenes and alleged police brutality in America to claim that China enjoys greater social stability.\n\nSpeaking to an international audience, Chinese diplomats are attempting to portray Beijing as a responsible global leader, standing in solidarity with other countries in condemning the racial disparity and injustice in the US.\n\nChina's state news agency Xinhua described the US civil unrest as \"Pelosi's beautiful landscape\" - a reference to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comment last summer that the Hong Kong protests were \"a beautiful sight to behold\".\n\nState media Global Times' chief editor Hu Xijin wrote that American politicians now can \"enjoy this sight from their own windows\".\n\nBeijing has long condemned American politicians, including Ms Pelosi, for \"glorifying violence\" coming from the Hong Kong demonstrators, who are categorised by China as \"rioters showing signs of terrorism\".\n\nProtests paralysed Hong Kong for most of last year, prompting Beijing to impose a new national security law in the territory in May, only two weeks ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.\n\nAynne Kokas, senior faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, says that both the US and China are contending with a high level of domestic instability triggered by the global coronavirus pandemic and political events.\n\nTens of thousands marched in Hong Kong in Janaury\n\n\"Now is a key moment through which China is able to leverage the lack of stability in the US, in order to more efficiently promote its own national security goals,\" she says.\n\nChinese and Hong Kong officials have also called out the US for applying \"double standards\" in its response to civil unrest.\n\n\"You know there are riots in the United States and we see how local governments reacted,\" said Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam.\n\n\"And then in Hong Kong, when we had similar riots, we saw what position they adopted then.\"\n\nThe officials' view is shared by many Chinese social media users, who dub America \"the double standard nation\".\n\nAllegations of excessive use of police force during the US protests have been put under the spotlight by Chinese state media, to delegitimise Washington's position on upholding freedom and democracy.\n\nIn one example, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on American journalists being pepper sprayed and a freelance photographer partially blinded by a rubber bullet while covering the protests.\n\nGeorgia State University Global Communication Assistant Professor Maria Repnikova says that the scale and intensity of Chinese state media coverage on the US protests is unprecedented.\n\n\"It's powerful, because they are not making it up,\" Prof Repnikova says, but she points out that Chinese state media have cherry-picked the more peaceful pictures of Hong Kong police and the most violent ones from the US.\n\nJournalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests\n\nChina itself has been heavily criticised for cracking down on press freedom, which is rarely mentioned by the government and state media.\n\nOn Weibo, many see America's freedoms and democracy as at risk, as police fired tear gas at peaceful protesters and military was deployed to quell the protests.\n\nMs Kokas says: \"Chinese state media don't have to craft a narrative, they can just talk about the objective events that have happen in Washington DC, that undermines the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.\"\n\nThe US's rhetoric about the democratic rights of Hong Kong now seems \"very hollow\"，she adds, \"when military helicopters are flying over [Washington] DC\".\n\nThe increasingly outspoken Chinese diplomats have seized the chance to spotlight the US's governing failure and promote Beijing as a more responsible global leader.\n\nMs Kokas describes this as a continuation of the country's propaganda strategy on the Covid-19 pandemic - when America fails, China is here to help.\n\nChinese diplomats on Twitter retweeted messages of UN and African Union officials, condemning racial discrimination and police brutality in the US.\n\nThe Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted \"I can't breathe\", with a screencap of the US state department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus' previous criticism over Beijing's handling in Hong Kong.\n\nBut another of Hua's messages denouncing anti-black racism backfired on Twitter, as she included \"all lives matter\", a phrase often used to undermine the \"black lives matter\" movement.\n\nMeanwhile, there are reports that African residents in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have been discriminated against and forced into quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBeijing has not officially apologised for any mishandling, only stating that there were some \"misunderstandings\".\n\nOne Weibo user expresses \"disappointment\", as the person sees \"some Chinese criticise others for racial discrimination, but when it comes to their own anti-black racism, they take it for granted\".\n\nChina is also accused of detaining hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in high-security prison camps in its far western Xinjiang region.\n\nThere's no doubt US protests have sparked heated discussion on Weibo - the topic is one of the most popular on the site this week. Related posts have earned more than 25 billion views.\n\nMany Weibo posts \"congratulate\" the US for the civil unrest and push back at its support for the Hong Kong demonstrations.\n\nOne user writes: \"The US government has been inflaming violence around the world, now the American people have finally woken up. The US government deserves this!\"\n\nAnd Beijing and its state media spread the theory that Washington was fomenting the protests in Hong Kong, calling it a \"black hand\" behind the unrest.\n\nAs US-China relations have soured due to the Hong Kong protests, trade conflicts and the pandemic, anti-America sentiment appears to be on the rise in China.\n\nThousands of Weibo comments describe the US protests as \"karma\" for Washington.\n\nBut some Chinese seem genuinely saddened by the situation.\n\n\"This is trampling on human rights! Democracy in the US came to an end at this exact moment,\" a Weibo user commented under a video showing the CNN reporter getting arrested, receiving thousands of likes.\n\nMany on Weibo also voice support for the civil rights movement. \"Nothing much has changed after generations of fights. I hope this time will yield better results,\" a comment reads.\n\nSome Chinese also reflect on the weaknesses of their country.\n\nOne Weibo user writes about being \"envious of the freedom of expression\" in the US, as anti-government protests are often forcefully cracked down in China.\n\nSome posts urge the state media to cover China's domestic police violence and injustice with the same level of dedication.\n\nBut liberal voices are often met with harsh criticism.\n\nState-affiliated yet liberal leaning newspaper Beijing News published a commentary advocating for empathy and respect for the American people, but it was quickly slammed as taking a \"pro-America\" stance and received tens of thousands of negative comments on Weibo.\n\nSocial media has always been an imperfect window to observe China's public opinion. Its echo chamber effect is exacerbated by the country's information censorship.\n\nProf Repnikova says that the relatively liberal views may become even more marginalised on Chinese social media, as cyber nationalism, a combination of bottom-up sentiments and top-down propaganda tactic, is increasingly dominant on the sites.\n\n\"The more aggressive, nationalistic and vocal voices are taking over the space,\" she says.", "Before the image of George Floyd lying under the knee of a policeman set off shock, anger and protests across the US, the arch of his life crossed crests and troughs.\n\nThere were highs, as when he, as a teenager in Houston, played American football for the 1992 Texas state champion runners-up Yates High School Lions.\n\nThere were lows, as when he was arrested for robbery in 2007 and served five years in prison.\n\nBut mostly, it would seem that Floyd, who was 46 when he died in Minneapolis on 25 May, 2020, was simply trying to live life as any other American, in search of betterment in the face of both personal and societal challenges.\n\nHis death amid a public health crisis and economic calamity that has killed more than 100,000 Americans and left over 40 million unemployed has become the latest totem of the ills that plague the country in 2020.\n\nA native of Houston, Texas, Floyd grew up in the neighbourhood at the heart of the city's black community, the Third Ward, just to the south of the city centre.\n\nBeyoncé grew up there, as did Bayou City's blues music scene. Drake, a Canadian rapper, paid homage to its musical vibrancy, and Floyd himself is thought to have 'spit bars' as part of the hip-hop group in the 1990s in Houston.\n\nBut poverty, racial division and economic inequalities mark its history, too, as with any American city. Marred by segregation in the 20th Century, the Third Ward Floyd left in recent years has seen gang violence and tensions over housing.\n\n\"Anytime I take somebody who's not from there, people actually are like 'man, oh my God, I've never seen poverty like this.\n\n\"It looks like a bomb went off, what happened?'\" Ronnie Lillard, a friend from the neighbourhood tells the BBC.\n\n\"People are still living in shot-gun shacks that were erected in the 1920s. The poverty is thorough... and being from that area, it's hard to escape,\" says Mr Lillard, a rapper who performs under the name Reconcile.\n\nFloyd was well known in the council estate housing project, Cuney Homes, he adds. \"Cuney Homes is known as 'The Bricks' and if you're from there they call you 'a brickboy'. He was a brickboy.\"\n\nGrowing up a gifted athlete standing at six feet six inches, friends who knew Floyd as a teenager described him as a \"gentle giant\" who shone on the field in two sports, basketball as well as American football.\n\n\"I was blown away, cause at 12 years old he was six-foot-two,\" Jonathan Veal, a childhood friend and former teammate, told local media. \"I had never seen anyone that tall before\".\n\nAt John Yates High School, he wore number 88 in the tight end position for the football team, and was later recruited to play basketball at South Florida State College in Avon Park, Florida, where he was a student from 1993 to 1995, according to CNN.\n\nHe returned to Texas for a school year at Texas A&M University, Kingsville, but did not complete his degree.\n\nHis life then took a different turn, with a string of arrests for theft and drug possession culminating in an armed robbery charge in 2007, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nHe became involved in his local ministry, Resurrection Houston, after his release and was intent on making changes in himself and his neighbourhood, says Mr Lillard.\n\n\"While he was embracing his own life change, he was looking around at his community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of Floyd decrying gun violence, believed to be filmed in 2017, has circulated on social media, in which he implored young people to \"come home\".\n\nHis family told the Houston Chronicle he moved to Minnesota in 2018 after being encouraged by friends through a Christian work programme.\n\nChristopher Harris, a friend and former classmate, told US media Mr Floyd \"was looking to start over fresh, a new beginning\".\n\n\"He was happy with the change he was making,\" he added.\n\nThe former athlete found work as a security guard at a local Salvation Army charity, and then took on jobs as a lorry driver and dance club bouncer at Conga Latin Bistro, where he was known as \"Big Floyd.\"\n\nLike many Americans, however, he found himself laid off amid mass business closures resulting from the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nOn the day of his arrest, he was said to have been attempting to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnger over Mr Floyd's death has spurred protests across the US, with some descending into chaos and violence.\n\nOver 1,600 people have been arrested in nearly two dozen cities, and the National Guard deployed in 15 states.\n\nMr Lillard, who described his friend as a \"person of peace\", would have supported people's rights to be heard and for change, but would not have condoned the looting or the violence.\n\n\"He had a heart bent towards forgiveness, but he also was a man of the people, too,\" he said. \"Even before his death, he was aware that people were hurting.\"\n\n\"I think this thing has grown into something more than George Floyd,\" he added, speaking of the protests. \"I think you're watching frustration that America has with America [itself].\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Brazil's confirmed death toll from coronavirus has surged past 34,000 to become the third-highest in the world, according to official figures.\n\nIts death rate has now surpassed Italy and only the US and UK have recorded more fatalities.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has consistently played down the outbreak, although the country has the world's second-highest number of cases.\n\nIn places like Manaus, ordinary people are taking on extraordinary roles in order to help their cities cope.", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "Campaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not providing free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nNormally children only get free meals from school during term-time.\n\nBut eligible pupils received food vouchers over Easter as the country coped with the Covid crisis.\n\nThe Department for Education said the scheme will not continue in the summer holidays but campaigners say children in vulnerable families will go hungry.\n\nThey have written to the Department of Education threatening to bring a judicial review of the decision.\n\nThe letter was sent by the food charity Sustain and the Good Law Project, led by the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham.\n\nKath Dalmeny of Sustain said: \"I have spent hours and hours and hours of my time on Zoom meetings, on phone calls trying to get this issue noticed by all other means. That has not worked and so we must make people take this seriously.\"\n\nBut no legal challenge has yet begun, they do not yet have a court date or the funds to complete a case, and many attempted judicial reviews fail.\n\nThe voucher scheme has cost more than £129m in England already and is worth £15 per week for each eligible child.\n\nOne woman, Daisy, who has two children, said the amount and standard of food they ate would have to be cut without the vouchers. \"Having that fifteen pounds a week is a big deal,\" she told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nMother-of-four Aimee Smith said she relied on the money. When funds have run short in the past, she said: \"I've just had to give them plain pasta, if we haven't had anything else.\"\n\nMinisters are responding to fears that children on free school meals could go hungry\n\nShe said she often went without meals or had a piece of toast to make sure there was enough left for her children. \"That's what we will call a dinner for the night,\" she said. \"Not being able to eat, it's not a nice thought, is it?\"\n\nIn a statement, a Department for Education spokesperson said as schools opened more widely the government expected them to make food parcels available for children who are eligible for free school meals but not yet back in the classroom.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils,\" the spokesperson said. \"The national voucher scheme will not run during the summer holidays.\"\n\nIn Wales, families have been promised free school meals will be provided until schools re-open or until the end of August.", "The government is being urged to ease social distancing for musicians, so more of them can get back performing and recording.\n\nMusicians' Union leader Horace Trubridge told the BBC they could play \"side by side\" to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe 2m rule was \"overkill\" at a \"bleak\" time for his members, he added.\n\nThe government said it welcomed \"creative and innovative\" ideas to help the UK's \"brilliant\" musicians.\n\nCoronavirus means theatres, pubs, clubs and other indoor music venues will be closed for the foreseeable future, while promoters have cancelled all the UK's main festivals.\n\nThe Labour-affiliated Musicians' Union is in talks with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over \"enhanced busking\" - allowing spectators in outdoor spaces to make contactless payments for individual and group performances.\n\n\"They seem to be keen on that,\" Mr Trubridge said, adding that councils could \"relax their bylaws\" to help \"get live music back into the public's consciousness\".\n\nHe argued it was difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but that this was not the case for performers.\n\n\"There's no finesse about the 2m rule at the moment,\" Mr Trubridge said. \"If you're in a line rather than looking at each other, then it seems to be overkill.\"\n\nParks could become venues for \"enhanced busking\", the Musicians' Union says\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of 1m between people from different households, but the UK is sticking to the 2m rule.\n\nMr Trubridge said this distance was particularly unnecessary for string instrumentalists, as opposed to singers, as they could wear masks.\n\nMany musicians had been earning £20,000 a year or less even before coronavirus, and some were missing out on furlough payments and loans, he said, adding: \"I can't see anything really significant happening this year to help them out of this hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: \"These are challenging times for the UK's world-class music industry, and we are providing unprecedented support through substantial financial measures such as the Self-Employed Income Support and Bounce Back loan schemes.\"\n\nThey added: \"We welcome creative and innovative ideas on how we can support our talented musicians.\"", "Before his illness, Alex Brown sits patiently as hospital staff practise fitting a CPAP ventilator\n\nThere has been a surge of interest in becoming a medic during this pandemic, despite the fact that those on the front line run a high risk of catching the virus. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary writes about two colleagues who decided to become doctors later in life and were hit hard when they came down with Covid-19.\n\nThis has been a time when the quiet men and women staffing the NHS and care homes have stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight. They have served their country and cared for their communities, putting their lives at risk in the process.\n\nOne million people answered the call to volunteer to help the NHS in this time of crisis. Thousands have expressed interest in becoming a nurse and many young people have contacted the Bradford Royal Infirmary to ask when our careers outreach sessions will resume.\n\nBecoming a doctor or a nurse or a health care worker has never seemed so important, and it doesn't matter how old you are or what you have been doing - it's rarely too late to follow your heart.\n\nTwo of my colleagues, consultant geriatrician Prof Alex Brown and orthopaedic registrar Ken Linton came to medicine after careers in the military and banking - Alex served as an army captain in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, while Ken was a vice-president of Lehman Brothers investment bank until a few months before it collapsed in 2008. At 61 and 54 they were at higher risk than many of developing serious symptoms if they caught Covid-19, and sure enough they eventually become patients in their own hospital.\n\nAlex Brown in uniform: The comedy MASH drew him towards medicine\n\nFor anyone who thinks that Covid is simply a flu-like illness I now point to Alex as an illustration of how it can bring a tough, stoical, ex-army man to his knees.\n\nAlex was aware of the risk he was taking, being older and male (and a bit overweight), but it didn't stop him. \"You've just got to get on and do what you've got to do,\" he says.\n\nHe also knew that there was no rapid test that would enable us to instantly determine which patients had Covid-19 and which did not. So while we divided the hospital into a \"red\" infectious zone, and a \"green\" zone for non-Covid patients we were never going to get it 100% right. (I wrote 10 days ago about Mark Winterbourne who tested positive after being admitted with what initially appeared to be gallstone problems.)\n\nAnd as Alex points out, \"The level of PPE that we wear is dependent upon what stocks are available.\"\n\nWhen PPE was scarce, Alex Brown organised this delivery of masks\n\nAlex had only missed one day's work in his life, until he caught the virus. After testing positive, he then spent seven days in quarantine in his bedroom, but at this point instead of getting better, he got worse. During a walk in the garden he started shaking and sweating, and his temperature rose to 40C. Four days later his son, who had already recovered from Covid-19, drove him to A&E.\n\nSupplied with new medication Alex went home again, to be looked after by his wife, a GP.\n\n\"It was really hard, I haven't known anything like it. I've been in some of the toughest situations imaginable but nothing like this. You feel so vulnerable. I had terrible fevers and chills - for nights this went on, and my temperature was so high.\"\n\nThis hardened ex-soldier welled up as he told me this.\n\n\"I just couldn't really move - no energy and feeling so terrible. Even now, three weeks on, I can't really climb a flight of stairs without my pulse rate going up, and I want to work. I feel so bad being away from the wards, knowing I can't be there helping my colleagues.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nKen Linton did a PhD in engineering and computer science before going into banking, when he was headhunted by Lehman Brothers and transferred to Wall Street. He was making a fortune and had bought a 37ft boat and a small plane by the time things started to go wrong for the bank in early 2008, and his department was closed.\n\nA few months later the bank collapsed altogether and the economic crash began, but Ken came out of it largely unscathed. The New York Times described him in 2009 as living \"a life of leisure\" and playing jazz trombone, though around this time he was also volunteering in New York hospitals. He contemplated becoming a chef, but instead - already in his mid-40s - he decided on medicine.\n\nAs a lifelong asthmatic, Ken was worried when Covid-19 arrived in the UK this spring. Lots of his colleagues at Bradford Royal Infirmary were getting it, and he too eventually developed the symptoms on 8 May.\n\n\"I went to bed and I was too hot - and I was like really, really too hot. And then I woke up and was absolutely freezing. And then I started being sick,\" he says.\n\n\"I called up A&E and packed a bag for everything you need at hospital - a lot of people forget the essentials. The consultant took my vital signs and I was very short of breath. I had low potassium, and my oxygen saturation was terrible. So they got me up to the ward very quickly.\"\n\nSoon he was on \"about 10 medications\" and oxygen.\n\nKen Linton, already on the mend\n\n\"It's a horrendous disease because every day after that I had a new weird symptom. I had covid toes. My kidneys shut down on the Wednesday morning. I got a dermatological condition - the arteries that supply the skin get blocked. There's a new surprise every day. The day before I went home I got this viral rash on my wrist.\"\n\nHe was in hospital for 10 days. He's now been at home for a week, but like Alex Brown, he can only manage a flight of stairs with difficulty. And he too is desperate to get back to work - in his case, orthopaedic surgery.\n\nIt would be natural for stories like this to make some people think twice about coming to work in a hospital, but the evidence suggests the opposite is happening.\n\nAlex, who is in charge of our trainee doctors and often runs weekend workshops for local comprehensive schools, thinks that the huge amount of exposure the NHS has received - not to mention the clapping for carers - will have \"opened up people's minds\" to the idea of medicine and nursing as a career.\n\nKen, the former Lehman Brothers banker, points out that \"you can't take money with you when you die\" but that as a doctor \"you can make your mark - make a difference\". He has the evidence for it in letters from patients thanking him, and other hospital staff, for taking care of them when they needed it most.", "Almost £7bn has been raised to immunise 300 million children at a virtual global vaccine summit hosted by the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said up to eight million lives would be saved as a result of the funds pledged at the Gavi vaccine summit on Thursday.\n\nThe money will help immunise children against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles over five years.\n\nMr Johnson said the triumph of humanity over disease was the \"greatest shared endeavour of our lifetimes\".\n\nThe summit raised funds for Gavi, a global alliance of public and private sector organisations promoting vaccination among the world's poorest communities.\n\nPledges by more than 50 countries and individuals like billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw the total surpass an initial target of $7.4bn (almost £6bn).\n\nMr Gates donated $1.6bn (£1.3bn) from his foundation and Mr Johnson pledged £1.65bn over the next five years, making the UK the organisation's biggest donor.\n\nThe summit comes as the world continues to struggle to get to grips with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson also used the conference to urge world leaders to renew their \"collective resolve\" to find a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\n\"Just as we have great military alliances like Nato... where countries collaborate on building their collective military defence, so we now need that same spirit of collaboration and collective defence against the common enemy of disease,\" he said.\n\n\"It will require a new international effort to co-operate on the surveillance and the sharing of information - data is king - that can underpin a global alert system, so we can rapidly identify any future outbreak. And it will mean a radical scaling-up of our global capacity to respond.\"\n\nInternational Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan later said she believed the UK was capable of delivering a coronavirus vaccine to those who need it \"at speed\" when one becomes available.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at the virtual global vaccine summit.\n\nLast week, Mr Trump severed ties with the UN's health agency, the World Health Organization, stopping around $400m (£317m) in support, after accusing it and China of mishandling the outbreak.\n\nThere was international criticism of the decision, particularly because it was made in the middle of a global pandemic.\n\nBut at the summit, Mr Trump struck a different tone in what was a very brief and seemingly very off-the-cuff, pre-recorded message.\n\n\"As the coronavirus has shown, there are no borders, it doesn't discriminate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's mean, it's nasty but we're going to take care of it together.... We will work hard, we will work strong... good luck, let's get the answer.\"", "Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, its boss has told the BBC.\n\nTrials of the drug are under way but Pascal Soriot said the firm must start making doses now so that it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective.\n\n\"We are starting to manufacture this vaccine right now - and we have to have it ready to be used by the time we have the results,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca says it will be able supply two billion doses of the vaccine.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Soriot said manufacturing was beginning already because, \"we want to be as fast as possible\".\n\n\"Of course, with this decision comes a risk but it's a financial risk and that financial risk is the vaccine doesn't work,\" he added.\n\n\"Then all the materials, all the vaccines, we've manufactured will be wasted.\"\n\nHe said AstraZeneca would not seek to make a profit from producing the drug during the pandemic.\n\nIf it works, the company will be able to produce two billion doses after signing two new contracts on Thursday, one of which was with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.\n\nAstraZeneca, which is developing the vaccine with scientists at Oxford University, has agreed to supply half of the doses to low and middle-income countries.\n\nOne of the new partnerships is with the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume. The other is a $750m (£595m) deal with two health organisations backed by Bill and Melinda Gates.\n\nThe two charities, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and GAVI vaccines alliance, will help find production facilities to produce and distribute 300 million doses of the vaccine. Delivery is expected to start by the end of the year.\n\nMr Soriot has said he expects to know by August if the AZD1222 vaccine is effective, while CEPI chief executive Richard Hatchett said there is still a possibility the vaccine may not work.\n\nAstraZeneca's licensing agreement with India's SII is to supply one billion doses for low and middle-income countries, with a commitment to provide 400 million before the end of 2020.\n\nMr Soirot said the company was building a number of supply chains across the world \"to support global access at no profit during the pandemic and has so far secured manufacturing capacity for two billion doses of the vaccine\".\n\n\"Having a vaccine is one thing but you need to produce it at scale and I can tell you that It is not an easy thing to do,\" the pharmaceutical boss told Today.\n\nHe has described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\nAstraZeneca has already agreed to supply 300 million doses of the potential vaccine to the US and a further 100 million to the UK, with the first deliveries expected in September.\n\nGovernments around the world have pledged billions of dollars for a Covid-19 vaccine and a number of pharmaceutical firms are in a race to develop and test potential drugs.\n\n\"A vaccine must be seen as a global public good - a people's vaccine, which a growing number of world leaders are calling for,\" United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a video message on Thursday.\n• None The vaccines that work - and the others on the way", "Steve Priest (far right) with his bandmates Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker and Andy Scott in 1974\n\nSteve Priest, the bassist and co-founder of glam rock band Sweet, has died at the age of 72.\n\nHe was known for his playful humour and outrageous costumes when Sweet played hits like Blockbuster and Little Willy on Top of the Pops in the 1970s.\n\nPriest also sang the memorable lines \"there's a girl in the corner that no-one ignores, 'cos she thinks she's the passionate one,\" in Ballroom Blitz.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the band, who shared a statement from his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Sweet\n\nBandmate Andy Scott paid tribute, describing Priest as the best bass player he had ever played with. \"From that moment in the summer of 1970 when we set off on our musical odyssey the world opened up and the roller coaster ride started.\"\n\n\"I am in pieces right now,\" added the guitarist, who is now the sole surviving member of Sweet's classic line-up.\n\n\"His wife Maureen and I have kept in contact and though his health was failing I never envisaged this moment. Never. My thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nPriest was born in Hayes, West London, in 1948, and became a musician after building his own bass guitar in his teens.\n\nAfter playing in bands like The Countdowns and The Army, he formed The Sweet (then known as Sweetshop) in January 1968 with vocalist Brian Connolly, drummer Mick Tucker and guitarist Frank Torpey.\n\nFollowing a few line-up changes and a false start on Parlophone Records, the band signed to RCA in 1971 and teamed up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, whose bubblegum melodies and power-pop riffs propelled them into the charts.\n\nIn total, they scored 13 Top 20 hits in the 1970s, with songs like Teenage Rampage, Hell Raiser, Wig-Wam Bam and the number one single Blockbuster.\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 Official Sweet Channel This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Sweet Channel\n\nAs the band became a regular fixture on Top of the Pops, Priest became the epitome of glam rock androgyny, known for his flamboyant outfits and heavy make-up.\n\n\"The make-up thing, I can't remember what started that,\" he told the Phoenix New Times in 2018. \"Marc Bolan, maybe? Top of the Pops was a stupid show in some ways but it was like, um, you had to outdo everyone else.\"\n\n\"I was the first one to wear hot pants on Top of the Pops,\" he added. \"A year later, Bowie did it and everyone went, 'Wow, David Bowie wore hot pants on Top of the Pops,' and totally forgot the fact that I did it the year before.\"\n\nThe band wore Native American headdresses when they played Wig-Wam Bam in the 70s\n\nBut the bassist landed himself in hot water when he appeared in German military uniform and sporting a Hitler moustache on the 1973 Christmas edition of Top of the Pops (the song they were playing, Blockbuster, was named after an Allied bomb).\n\n\"It's amazing how everyone still talks about the Nazi uniform,\" he said in 2010. \"Good old BBC wardrobe department. People always want to know if I was serious. I mean, a gay Hitler. Hello?!\"\n\nSweet parted ways with Chinn and Chapman in 1974, determined to write their own material. Influenced by The Who, their new sound was harder, and yielded hits like Fox On The Run and Action.\n\nAfter Connolly departed the group in 1978, Priest took over lead vocal duties and Sweet continued as a trio until 1981.\n\nIn recent years, there had been two competing versions of Sweet: Priest had the right to use the band's name in the US, where he lived, while guitarist Andy Scott toured the UK with an alternate line-up.\n\nTheir biggest songs continued to get radio play - while Ballroom Blitz, a song inspired by a Scottish gig where the band were bottled offstage, gaining a new lease of life in the 1990s after featuring in the movie Wayne's World.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Official Sweet Channel This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 2 by Official Sweet Channel\n\nTributes to Priest have poured in since his death was announced, with many sharing their memories on social media.\n\n\"When Sweet were on [TV] you sat there in awe thinking, 'sod the school careers adviser that's the job for me,'\" wrote The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible. \"And they wound your parents up something rotten too, which was a bonus. Steve Priest RIP.\"\n\nDavid Ellefson of Megadeth said that Priest was \"without parallel\".\n\nHe added that Sweet \"gave me one of my earliest memories of great hard rock on the radio as a kid and [1974's] Desolation Boulevard still holds up as one of rock's greatest albums from that period.\"\n\n\"RIP Steve Priest,\" wrote Nancy Wilson of the US rock band Heart. \"A brave glam rocker and man.\"\n\n\"As you might imagine, I am definitely a Sweet fan,\" said Dee Snider, lead singer of Twisted Sister. \"Sad that so many of the original band are now gone.\"\n\nPriest is survived by his wife, Maureen, whom he married in 1981 and their three daughters. No cause of death was given.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wendell Baker was jailed for life in 2013 after attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard\n\nA \"dangerous\" rapist was cleared for release from prison without relatives of his late victim being informed, BBC News has learned.\n\nWendell Baker was given a life sentence in 2013 for attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard.\n\nThe Parole Board announced last month Baker was \"suitable for release\" following a hearing in April.\n\nBut, Mrs Backwell's son said he only learned about the outcome from a newspaper reporter.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has apologised to Mr Backwell for failing to contact him and has asked the Parole Board to reconsider the decision to free Baker, claiming it was \"irrational\" and not in line with the evidence.\n\nHe was convicted in 2013 at a second trial, made possible by changes to \"double jeopardy\" laws, having been acquitted in 1999 when a judge wrongly excluded vital DNA evidence.\n\nHazel Backwell was left too afraid to live alone, following the attack\n\nMrs Backwell died in 2002, five years after Baker had broken into the pensioner's east London house where he beat and raped her and locked her in a cupboard.\n\nSentencing him to life imprisonment, Judge Peter Rook said Baker had carried out a brutal and vicious attack and was a \"dangerous man\" who would remain so for many years.\n\nBut by April, the 63-year-old had served the eight-and-a-half year minimum term of his sentence, including time spent on remand, so a parole panel held a telephone hearing to decide if he could be safely freed.\n\nThe panel took evidence from a probation officer, a forensic psychologist and Baker himself, as well as considering information in a dossier about his case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wendell Baker was jailed after a judge ruled he should be found not guilty at his first trial, in 1999\n\nParole Board guidelines have stated the victim of a crime, or relatives if the victim has died, should be entitled to submit a statement for a parole hearing, setting out how their family had been affected.\n\nBut Mr Backwell was never contacted - until a journalist rang him after the board had announced its decision that Baker was \"suitable\" for release.\n\nHis wife Margaret said it was a \"total mess-up\" and said they felt \"sick and very, very angry\".\n\n\"We knew he was going to be released eventually, and were told in 2013 that we would be notified before he was going to be put up for release,\" she said.\n\n\"So to hear he'd already been put up and released was a total and utter shock.\"\n\nGovernment sources said in 2013 police had failed to pass on Mr Backwell's contact details to the National Probation Service (NPS), which is responsible for keeping victims updated, and although efforts were made to trace him before the parole hearing they were \"not successful\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said Mrs Backwell's family \"should not have found out in this way\" and that the Victims' Code would be updated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTV presenter Kate Garraway has said it is \"a miracle\" her husband is still alive after his \"extraordinary battle\" with the \"evil\" coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Garraway confirmed her partner Derek Draper was put into an induced coma with the virus, nearly 10 weeks ago.\n\nThe broadcaster said it had felt more like 10 years, but that she was \"grateful that he's still here\".\n\nShe confirmed he is now free of the virus but in a critical condition.\n\n\"The fight with the virus has been won, but it's wreaked extraordinary damage to his body and we don't know if he can recover from that,\" she said.\n\n\"It's affected him from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.\"\n\nGarraway is the co-anchor of ITV's Good Morning Britain, as well as a presenter on Smooth Radio, while Draper is an author and former Labour political aide.\n\nShe told the ITV programme she was putting on a brave face for the sake of their two young children, Darcey and Billy, and still enjoyed \"moments of joy\" and silliness with them, as her husband would have wanted.\n\nBut she suffered a big emotional crash two weeks ago, as \"you can't stay like that forever\".\n\n\"I just have to think, I need to make them feel safe, they've lost for the time being - let's pray - their dad and he's their world, so they need to see that their mum is OK,\" said Garraway.\n\n\"The problem is I have huge hope and massive positivity and will never give up on that because Derek is the core of our lives, but at the same time I have absolute uncertainty,\" she added.\n\nTV presenter Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, has been in a coma for nearly 10 weeks\n\nThe TV personality, who has appeared on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Strictly Come Dancing, added: \"And it's not just me by the way, it's his mum and dad and his sisters and everybody who loves him - all his friends, we're all going through that.\"\n\n\"And the doctors don't know because they've never seen this before. One doctor said to me that he's the worst-affected person that he's had to treat, who's lived.\n\n\"They talk about an evil virus, and it is.\"\n\nGarraway stressed she \"didn't want to scare people\", as the damage her husband has sustained is \"incredibly rare\".\n\nHowever, she noted how doctors and nurses - who she described as being \"extraordinary \"- were now starting to see \"completely unforeseen circumstances\" and consequences connected to the virus.\n\n\"This is a war Derek is fighting and tens of thousands of others\", she went on. \"It's an absolute miracle that he's here.\n\n\"I keep saying I know I've had a miracle but if I could just have one more, and he could just make that next step - I know I'm pushing my luck.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nBack at the end of March, she said herself and Draper thought he might be suffering with sinusitis, not coronavirus, because he had no persistent cough or temperature - two of the main official symptoms of the disease. He has no underlying health conditions.\n\nHe soon developed a splitting headache and numbness in his right hand and began struggling to breathe. After consulting ITV's Dr Hilary Jones, Garraway decided to phone for an ambulance.\n\nOnce in hospital he was eventually placed in a coma, at his own request, to give his lungs a rest, as he felt he was suffocating.\n\nHe was only supposed to be in the coma for three to five days.\n\nGarraway revealed before he went under, her husband said: \"'You've saved my life'. I think he thought I persuaded the doctors to put him in the coma. But obviously I hadn't.\n\n\"He said, 'you've saved my life, and I don't just mean now, I mean everything. Being married to you and the children'.\n\n\"Then I said, 'I love you, I love you,' and the doctors said, 'he's gone, he's under,' and that was it - that was the last time I spoke to him.\"\n\nKate Garraway with her husband and children\n\nAt one stage the medics described him as being \"off the scale with infection\", she said.\n\n\"It's incredible what they've done with a disease that nobody knows how to cure,\" added Garraway.\n\nWhile the doctors are still unable to say whether Draper will recover or not - or how soon - the presenter is certain that her family's life must now begin to return to normality.\n\nBilly will return to Year 6 of school next week while Darcey will have some intensive home-schooling with her mother as teacher.\n\n\"It's about really trying to carry on with life when you don't know life is certain,\" Garraway said.\n\n\"And I know that's what a lot of people are going through.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some older people in care homes are being asked to pay more than £100 a week extra in fees to cover the costs of coronavirus.\n\nAge UK said residents who pay their own fees are facing the bills to pay for protective gear and rising staff costs.\n\nIt adds \"insult to injury\" for people who have \"been through the mill\" during the pandemic, the charity said.\n\nThe government said it provided £600m for infection control in care homes and £3.2bn for wider council services.\n\nCare home residents who fund themselves have effectively subsidised the care system for many years, paying far more for their support than those funded by their local authority.\n\nAge UK says on average these residents are charged just over £850 a week, and some are now seeing their fees rise by 15%.\n\nIt is not clear how many care homes have asked self-funding residents to pay more.\n\nThere are 400,000 people estimated to be living in care homes in England, with 167,000 believed to be self-funders and 45,000 part self-funders.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, director of Age UK, said older people and their families have \"been through the mill\" in recent months as outbreaks occurred in one in three care homes.\n\n\"It is adding insult to injury that after going through so much, some residents who pay for their own care are now facing a big extra bill - on top of already expensive fees.\"\n\nShe called for government to meet the extra costs of the pandemic, saying that otherwise there was a risk that some could fold and leave their residents homeless.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many care homes have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of protective equipment to stop the spread of Covid-19 between staff, residents and visitors.\n\nThey have also faced extra costs for agency staff when employees are off sick or isolating.\n\nIn total, the Local Government Association (LGA) and directors of adult social care estimate that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\n\"People living in care homes should not be penalised in this way,\" said councillor Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board.\n\nHe said the way self-funders subsidised the system was already unfair and should be addressed as part of the long-term reform of the social care system.\n\nBut he said councils were helping care home providers with the extra costs \"to the best of their ability\".\n\nTo support their work during the pandemic, local authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government, which also announced a £600m infection control fund for care homes.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.\n\nIt said it would work with local authorities to ensure the funding is distributed fairly and reaches front line services.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic is creating significant challenges for care homes and that extra support is needed to care for residents,\" a spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown\n\nScientists want people to send them their wildlife experiences under the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are keen to hear recordings of dawn choruses, animals in unusual places, and views of the night sky without pollution.\n\nThe Earth Project is a global citizen science study co-ordinated by scientists across UK universities.\n\nIt hopes to showcase how nature has capitalised on reduced human activity during the pandemic.\n\nThe researchers want the public to help them capture a global representation of what we experienced on the ground during lockdown.\n\n\"We are hoping to create a useful shared library of baseline experiences for the public, reminding us in the future of what life and our relationship with nature could be when global public mobility and many pollution-generating activities are reduced,\" explained Phil Manning from the University of Manchester.\n\nThe team acknowledges that \"significant sacrifices\" will have to be made by everyone in order to reduce our impact on the planet's climate system, and to move towards the sustainable use of the Earth's natural resources.\n\nIt is hoped that the positive experiences many people had with nature during lockdown, and the recollection of those experiences, will help build the case for behaviour changes to help shift us towards sustainability.\n\nDuring the lockdown, wildlife reclaiming the streets of towns and cities during lockdown have made headlines around the world. For example, goats that normally keep themselves to themselves in the hills surrounding Llandudno, Wales, ventured into the town's deserted streets.\n\nPeople have also reported that they have been able to hear birdsong more clearly without the constant hum of traffic.\n\nDuring lockdown, people have had more time to connect with the natural world around them\n\nThe submissions will be collated by the Earth Project team, which consists of concerned citizens alongside scientists from multiple UK universities, including Bangor, Belfast, Durham, Manchester and Plymouth.\n\nProf Manning told BBC News that the recordings of birdsong, night skies and nature calls will be made available online for everyone to enjoy and to relive the better moments of life under lockdown.\n\n\"The survey results will help provide an overview of people's observations and thoughts on the environment before, during and after lockdown,\" he observed.\n\n\"The responses will be analysed and summarised and then made available along with the database on our website during the late Summer and Autumn of 2020.\"\n\nHe said that it was hoped that the findings of the survey could encourage behaviour change and help shape policies and strategies that could deliver greener and sustainable lifestyles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The curious goats have been spotted eating flowers and hedges in people's gardens\n\n\"The Earth Project… has the potential to provide a snapshot of what happened to the environment and wildlife when human activity is drastically reduced or simply managed in a more sustainable way,\" Prof Manning said.\n\nAs part of the project's survey, it will ask people whether they are willing to make changes to their behaviour to help improve the world around them.\n\nProf Manning added: \"This information will be evaluated in our inclusive Earth Project think-tank and, hopefully, this could impact future behaviour and guide those who make policy decisions.\n\n\"The Earth Project has the potential to help catalyse humankind to a sustainable future.\"\n\nYou can access the Earth Project -Live website here.", "Swab tests are used to look for the presence of the virus\n\nThe number of people infected with coronavirus in homes in England has fallen to 5,600 a day, from 8,000 last week, statisticians suggest.\n\nThe estimate is based on swab tests of 19,000 people in 9,000 households by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSome scientists have said reaching a low level of cases is key to easing the lockdown further.\n\nTest and trace programmes were introduced in England and Scotland last week to track contacts of new cases.\n\nThe ONS study of adults and children in private households suggests there are 39,000 new infections a week on average in England.\n\nIt estimates that one in 1,000 people had coronavirus in the community between 17 and 30 May, not counting those staying in hospitals or care homes.\n\nThis is down from the previous estimate of one in 400.\n\nThe figures for England are based on a small number of positive swab tests - 21 people in 15 households - so there is some margin for error.\n\nBut because everyone in the household is tested, whether they have symptoms or not, the results are thought to be a more accurate picture of how many people are currently infected by the virus.\n\nThere is a delay between changes in people's behaviour and the number of people infected, so it may take several more weeks of results to work out the real impact of lockdown measures being eased.\n\nThe 'R' number - the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to, on average - is unchanged at between 0.7 and 0.9 in the UK. When it's below 1, the epidemic is shrinking rather than growing.\n\nAt the start of the epidemic, the 'R' number was nearly three.\n\nBased on last week's ONS estimate of 8,000 daily infections, some scientists advising the government warned against relaxing lockdown measures too quickly.\n\nThey said waiting until cases fell further would make the virus easier to control, and give test and trace programmes more chance of succeeding.\n\nOn the basis of this study, \"the number of people in England testing positive has decreased in recent weeks\", the ONS says.\n\n\"The rate of infection continues to decline and is half what it was two weeks ago,\" says Prof Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases, at the University of Nottingham.\n\n\"This is highly compatible with the fall in diagnosed cases. The contact tracing service has more than enough staff to cope with the current level of infection.\n\n\"The main problem is people not getting tested for COVID-19 when they have symptoms,\" he said.\n\nThe results show that only 29% of those who tested positive for coronavirus said they had any symptoms at the time of the test.\n\nThose working outside the home were more likely to test positive for the virus than home-workers, with healthcare workers and social care workers at highest risk of being infected.\n\nAnother type of test - which looks for antibodies, which build up when the body fights infection - was carried out on 885 people in households as part of the same study.\n\nThese suggest that around 7% of people in England have previously had a coronavirus infection at some point.\n\nThis doesn't mean they are protected from the virus in the future, because it is still not clear how long immunity lasts.\n\nBut it does give an indication of what proportion of the population might have had the virus already - whether they knew it or not.", "Crowds of people have gathered in Minneapolis to pay their their respects to George Floyd at the spot where he was killed.\n\nThe BBC's Jane O'Brien talked to people there ahead of a memorial service.\n\nThe ceremony in Minneapolis was a private one. Further tributes will be held at Mr Floyd's birthplace of North Carolina on Saturday, and in his hometown of Houston on Monday.", "\"Unscrupulous\" firms are promising NHS workers big savings through tax dodging schemes that could leave them out of pocket.\n\nThe firms, which operate at the fringes of the law, target key workers drafted in to help with the coronavirus crisis, a BBC Money Box investigation found.\n\nSocial media adverts push workers toward some umbrella companies that take a hefty cut of their salaries.\n\nIn return, these companies hide a portion of their pay from the taxman.\n\nBut Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has said signing up with these firms, which it described as \"unscrupulous\", could leave key workers facing large, unexpected tax bills.\n\nOne advert on Twitter says: \"If you've been drafted in to reinforce the NHS response to the #coronavirus pandemic, we want to assist you.\"\n\nWhen operating legitimately, working through an umbrella company can make it easier to take on jobs for multiple employers at once.\n\nThe worker has their salary paid to the umbrella company, which then pays tax, National Insurance and other deductions on their behalf. After taking a fee, the umbrella company will then pay the worker what is left.\n\nBut one company told Money Box that it was possible to save thousands of pounds a year legally by hiding a large chunk of a worker's salary from the taxman.\n\nPosing as a healthcare worker on a salary of £145 a day, our reporter was told by Dark Blue Professional, a UK-registered umbrella company, that they could take home 78% of their salary, which is more than they would have made through a standard umbrella company.\n\nKay from Dark Blue Professional explained how the scheme works: \"You receive one payment which is a PAYE [pay as you earn] salary payment, that's taxed and you receive a payslip - and the residual balance is then paid as an investment payment.\"\n\n\"You receive your second amount into your account…and because it's done that way there is no tax liability on the second proportion,\" she told us.\n\nAs a result, a healthcare worker earning £725 per week would be able to pocket £60 more than if they used a standard umbrella company.\n\nBut what Kay did not say is that Dark Blue Professional would take £80 a week in fees, four times the industry standard, and that the government would be cheated out of up to half the tax that it should have received.\n\nKay insisted the scheme is tax compliant. But similar types of scheme have been challenged by HMRC in the past, which has left thousands of workers with crippling tax bills.\n\nSome even faced losing their homes, leaving their finances in tatters.\n\nResponding to the findings of Money Box investigation, Judith Freedman - professor of taxation law and policy at Oxford University - said: \"There's a strong likelihood that HMRC will challenge them [the schemes] successfully.\n\n\"Not only could the individual taxpayers be left with a big tax bill and a lot of hassle, but they have already paid relatively large fees to the promoters, so they are much worse off than they would have been doing things in a straightforward way,\" she said.\n\n\"It is distressing that people are trying to sell these schemes with…minimal explanation of the risks. Everything possible needs to be done to stop the firms doing this before ordinary taxpayers get caught up in it.\"\n\nMoney Box also spoke to a broker from Contracting Scout, which actively targets key workers with adverts on Twitter and LinkedIn.\n\n\"Tim\", from Contracting Scout, offered to sign us up with an umbrella company also offering 78% take home pay.\n\nHe explained that the umbrella companies he works with \"are taking advantage of a few tax loopholes\" and admitted that \"the government doesn't like it\".\n\n\"They [the government] do try and legislate against it, but legislation is extremely slow, so once the new legislation moves in there's a hundred different umbrellas that pop up next week with a different type of payment structure which doesn't get captivated by the law.\n\n\"So the goal posts are always moving and the providers are always trying to cater to that,\" he said.\n\nNeither of the two companies responded to the findings of our investigation.\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson told Money Box \"it is shocking that unscrupulous promoters of tax avoidance schemes are targeting returning NHS workers during this difficult time. HMRC published [advice] on 30 March warning returning workers about this very issue.\n\n\"Our advice has always been to steer well clear of such schemes, and to report them to us in confidence for investigation\".\n\nThere are more details of this story on Money Box and you can follow Anna and Money Box on Twitter.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Airlines across the world grounded aircraft after passenger numbers collapsed\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG is considering mounting a legal challenge to quarantine rules which are due to come into effect on Monday.\n\nThe dramatic move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between the airline and the UK government.\n\nIAG boss Willie Walsh told Sky News that airlines had not been consulted on the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK.\n\nHe said he expected other airlines to also mount legal challenges.\n\n\"We think it's irrational, we think it's disproportionate and we are giving consideration to a legal challenge to this legislation, so we're reviewing that with the lawyers later on today,\" Mr Walsh told Sky News.\n\n\"I suspect there are other airlines who are doing so, because it's important to point out there was no consultation with the industry prior to enacting this legislation and we do believe it is an irrational piece of legislation.\"\n\nAirlines and holiday firms have been arguing against a two-week quarantine period for anyone arriving in the UK that will be enforced from 8 June. Travellers to the UK will be required to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nThe government has said that the period is needed to \"keep the transmission rate down and prevent a devastating second wave'' of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, industry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe plans have caused friction between the government and British Airways. On Thursday the airline refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel to discuss the quarantine rules.\n\nBritish Airways is under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, and has said it is currently burning through its cash reserves at a rate of around £1m per hour.\n\nMr Walsh told Sky News that the Bank of England has loaned it £300m, which is the \"maximum amount\" available to it.\n\n\"We have done everything that is within our power to boost the cash balance of British Airways. We're exhausting every single opportunity we can,\" he said.\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism from some MPs over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nThe airline has been under fire for plans to cut 12,000 jobs and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff.\n\nIt announced the redundancies just weeks after putting 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter said travel could be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nThe so-called \"air bridges\" would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate.\n\nIt is understood that the government is working on a list of countries it is hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", and not established policy.", "Quote Message: Nicola Sturgeon made it clear the economic forecast is pretty grim, and any recovery may be more gradual than we anticipated or hoped. She said of course it was difficult, striking a balance between tackling the virus and restarting the economy. But if the government has to re-impose tight constraints, it would not just be bad for people socialising but would be calamitous for the economy, so she said it would be a tough call. She appealed particularly to young people not to gather indoors, telling them they are not immune to the virus. Chief constable Iain Livingstone was also asked what neighbours should do if people hold house parties. He said police would take very robust action and if people spot parties happening, they should contact the police and they will sort it out.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon made it clear the economic forecast is pretty grim, and any recovery may be more gradual than we anticipated or hoped. She said of course it was difficult, striking a balance between tackling the virus and restarting the economy. But if the government has to re-impose tight constraints, it would not just be bad for people socialising but would be calamitous for the economy, so she said it would be a tough call. She appealed particularly to young people not to gather indoors, telling them they are not immune to the virus. Chief constable Iain Livingstone was also asked what neighbours should do if people hold house parties. He said police would take very robust action and if people spot parties happening, they should contact the police and they will sort it out.\"", "The government has been criticised for handing out more than £16bn in cheap loans to well-known firms such as John Lewis and Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nOf that, £1bn was lent to a German chemicals giant, while the UK's biggest airlines have borrowed almost £2bn.\n\nBut senior Labour MP Margaret Hodge has called the loans \"a flagrant abuse of public money\".\n\nIn response, the Treasury said the loan scheme was helping to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\nThe Bank of England's Corporate Covid Financing Facility (CCFF) was set up to help large firms with a big impact on the UK economy through the crisis. It is one of a number of schemes designed to lend money to businesses affected by the pandemic.\n\nThe list of 53 firms that have used the facility includes some household names such as M&S, Asos and Nissan.\n\nAirlines Ryanair and EasyJet each borrowed £600m, while British Airways owner IAG and Wizz Air were lent £300m each.\n\nThat has prompted complaints from environmental campaigners who say the money should have been lent with conditions attached.\n\n\"Airlines have been given exactly what the chancellor, the prime minister, economists and the public said they should not be given - billions in cheap and easy loans to keep them polluting, without any commitments to reduce their emissions or even keep their workers on the payroll,\" said Fiona Nicholls from Greenpeace.\n\nBA plans to make 12,000 staff redundant, Ryanair has said it will cut 3,000 jobs and 4,500 roles could be axed at EasyJet.\n\nThe biggest single loan was handed to German company BASF, which is the world's largest chemicals producer, although it only employs around 850 people in the UK.\n\n\"We should see a lot more public benefit from all this public money,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nAt Friday's Downing Street press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I think it's very important that we hit our goal of net-zero emissions as a country.\"\n\n\"But we also do need an airline industry as we come out of this, so that people can move about.\"\n\nDame Margaret said supporting businesses to protect jobs was the right thing to do.\n\n\"But I have huge doubts on whether splashing billions of pounds of government finance on large corporations represents good value for money for hard-working taxpayers,\" she said.\n\nShe said a lot of companies that had accessed the scheme were based abroad or owned by billionaires. Others, she said, were \"shockingly\" due to hand out dividends this year.\n\nShe called the scheme \"a blatant misuse of the public purse\", adding: \"The taxpayer has been taken for a ride.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"The Corporate Covid Financing Facility is a key part of [coronavirus] support, directly protecting hundreds of thousands of jobs, supporting some of our biggest companies' cashflows and enabling then to support their suppliers.\"", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nMadeleine McCann is \"assumed\" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in 2007.\n\nA 43-year-old German man is being investigated on suspicion of murder, the public prosecutor added.\n\nThe suspect, who has been named in German media as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office in Germany, said in an update on Thursday: \"We are assuming that the girl is dead.\n\n\"With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and he's already serving a long sentence.\"\n\nHe said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe McCann family's spokesman said Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, felt the new development was \"potentially very significant\".\n\nClarence Mitchell, who has represented the family since Madeleine went missing, said that in 13 years he couldn't \"recall an instance when the police had been so specific about an individual.\n\n\"Of all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past, there has never been something as clear cut as that from not just one, but three police forces\", he said.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe man is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nThe suspect has been described as white with short blond hair, and about 6ft (1.8m) tall with a slim build at the time.\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is in charge of the Met investigation - known as Operation Grange - said the suspect, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the caller was a \"key witness\" and should get in touch, while he also appealed to the public for details about the suspect.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nThe joint appeal from the British, German and Portuguese police includes a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said he wanted to thank members of the public who had already got in touch.\n\n\"We are pleased with the information coming in, and it will be assessed and prioritised,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to urge anyone with information to come forward and speak with us.\"\n\nJim Gamble, who served as the senior child protection officer in the UK's first police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, said it was the first time in 13 years \"when I actually dare to hope\".\n\nThe \"circumstantial evidence\" that had been shared by the police made the new suspect a \"really significant person of interest\", he said.\n\nHe said he believed the man \"came to light a number of years ago\" but was only being made public now because it was a \"painstaking\" process which began from \"a point of chaos\" after the initial investigation had been \"bungled\".\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns, from Rothley in Leicestershire, welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the latest developments appeared to be significant and No 10's thoughts were with the McCann family \"who have had to endure so much\".\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the UK inquiry originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter a 10-year anniversary appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, who is the new suspect\n\nThe new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has also been investigated over the disappearance of a German girl, according to German media reports.\n\nThe 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, three, went missing while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nA source told the BBC an investigation into the suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for the McCanns said they would be \"encouraged\" by the response to the latest appeal for information.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since revealing details of the new suspect on Wednesday.\n\nGerman prosecutors have said they are assuming Madeleine is dead and that the suspect is being investigated on suspicion of murder.\n\nA number of German media reports said the suspect had been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl - named only as Inga.\n\nShe went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice have refused to confirm the investigation or comment on a report which says officers searched an area of nearby land belonging to Christian B in February 2016.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal has told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nThe source said German investigators informed their Portuguese counterparts and British officials three years ago that they received a tip-off from a friend of Christian B, after the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a bar in Germany, as they were watching TV news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine going missing.\n\nSince that time, the official said Portuguese police have been making house-to-house enquiries speaking to those that knew him between 1996 and 2007.\n\nChristian B was later extradited from Portugal to Germany on drugs charges.\n\nWhile he was in Germany, he was convicted of the rape of a 72-year-old woman which took place in Praia da Luz in 2005.\n\nThe official added that the investigation linking Christian B to the Madeleine McCann case was now reliant on the help of the public to find clear evidence.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nOn Thursday, German prosecutors said the suspect was \"a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls\" and was \"serving a long sentence\".\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office, said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe suspect is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nClarence Mitchell, a spokesman for Madeleine's family, said her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, are \"trying to maintain as normal a life as possible\" and awaiting updates from police.\n\n\"Two-hundred-and-seventy calls and emails isn't a bad result, given it was 13 years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"They certainly will be encouraged to know the appeal is yielding results already and hopefully within that there will be crucial bits of information the police can act upon.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met's investigation, known as Operation Grange, said he was \"pleased\" with information coming in after receiving more than 270 calls and emails by 16:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared, police said\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "The protest was held in Birmingham's Centenary Square\n\nThousands of demonstrators gathered in Birmingham to protest about the death of George Floyd in US police custody.\n\nMr Floyd, an African-American, died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nThousands of people marched in London on Wednesday after the death sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe Birmingham protest started outside the library but later moved through the city to the police's headquarters.\n\nWest Midlands Police said an estimated 4,000 people took part and there were no arrests.\n\n\"The protesters were loud and passionate, and made their voices clearly heard, but there were no arrests and no disorder,\" a force spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city \"has a proud history of standing up to racism\", the council said\n\nProtest organisers UK Isn't Innocent said Britain had \"a duty to stand in solidarity with the US while exposing the inner workings of racism and police brutality in the UK\".\n\n\"We are tired and we have been tired for too long,\" lead organiser Hannah Ringane said.\n\n\"We have been taught that we won't be treated the same as everyone else, that we will be viewed as aggressors.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death has led to protests around the world\n\nThe demonstration had to be relocated to a larger square due to the number of protesters\n\nCarol Smith, who was among the demonstrators, said: \"My grandchildren were born here, they have to have a different world to the world I have.\n\n\"They have to realise they have a right to be here, and they have a right to equality, just like everyone else who don't look like them.\n\n\"I can't give you the answer to racism. I didn't create it, people who look like me didn't create it.\"\n\n\"Not just for us, but changes for the world. These are the things that are demanded now.\"\n\nCrowds took a knee as the protest moved through the city\n\nAston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings - who was targeted with racist abuse while playing for his country against Bulgaria last year - indicated he would join demonstrators, urging his followers online to \"stand for what's right\".\n\nPeople were originally due to gather in Victoria Square outside the council house, but when it became clear the numbers would be too large it was moved to Centenary Square.\n\nAlthough it was billed as a stand-in demonstration, protesters moved on from the square and marched towards Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police, shouting \"justice now\" and calling for an end to police brutality.\n\nThe demonstration continued into the evening\n\nDemonstrators marched on Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police\n\nIn the past month, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun nine investigations into West Midlands Police connected to alleged excessive use of force on black men and two officers have been suspended.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Tambling, from the force, said she was \"really pleased with the atmosphere\" at the protest in the city.\n\nAlthough some people have begun to leave, many more are continuing to arrive. The atmosphere has been good, with whole families coming to express their solidarity with the demonstrators.\n\nA handful of police liaison officers have kept a respectful distance and the crowds have remained peaceful.\n\nThe younger generation in particular have made banners with clever slogans, while several older onlookers, especially from the Afro-Caribbean community, have been overcome with emotion when they see the size of the crowd.\n\nThe protest moved down Colmore Row after stopping outside West Midlands Police's headquarters\n\nBirmingham City Council said it supported the demonstration, but encouraged protesters to maintain social distancing.\n\n\"The city of Birmingham has a long and proud history of standing up to racism and to prejudice, and that is why today we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Labour councillor and cabinet member for social inclusion John Cotton.\n\nFour Minneapolis police officers have been charged over 46-year-old Mr Floyd 's death, including Derek Chauvin who faces a second-degree murder charge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe UK's human rights watchdog is to investigate racial inequalities \"laid bare\" by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission will examine \"the loss of lives and livelihoods\" of people from different ethnic minorities.\n\nThis week a report found that people from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus.\n\nEqualities Minister Kemi Badenoch has said work is under way to find out the reasons for the greater risk.\n\nHowever, speaking in the House of Commons, she rejected claims from Labour MPs that \"systemic injustice\" in wealth, housing and jobs is the cause of ethnic minorities being more likely to die from coronavirus in England.\n\nShe also told MPs the UK was \"one of the best countries in the world to be a black person\".\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says its inquiry aims to address \"serious issues that have yet to be fully answered\" and will provide evidence-based recommendations.\n\nAnnouncing the investigation, watchdog chair David Isaac said: \"Now is a once in a generation opportunity to tackle long-standing entrenched racial inequalities.\n\n\"Only by taking focused action to tackle race inequality across Britain will we become a fair country in which every individual can reach their full potential.\n\n\"This inquiry is part of our long-term strategic approach to tackle the structural inequalities that the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare.\"\n\nThe EHRC inquiry will be able to compel government departments to provide evidence to the inquiry and its terms of reference will be published in a few weeks, once race equality leaders have been consulted on the proposals.\n\nThis comes after thousands took part in marches protesting about racial inequalities.\n\nThe demonstrations were triggered by the death of George Floyd - an African-American man who died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nOn Tuesday, a Public Health England report found that the impact of coronavirus is \"disproportionate\" for Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities.\n\nIt said if you strip out age and sex, people of Bangladeshi ethnicity have twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity.\n\nPeople of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, Caribbean and other Black ethnicity had between a 10% and 50% higher risk of death when compared to white British people.\n\nMeanwhile, Met Police data revealed that a disproportionate number of ethnic minority groups were fined for alleged breaches of the lockdown in London.\n\nShadow women and equalities Marsha de Cordova welcomed the human rights watchdog's inquiry, saying: \"The coronavirus crisis has shone a light on these inequalities, but the government has consistently failed to take action to save BAME people's lives during this pandemic.\n\n\"Now is the time to take steps to tackle systemic racism, discrimination and injustice in Britain.\"\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is leading the next stage of the government's inquiry into disparities in coronavirus outcomes in England. with the government's racial disparities unit.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The government is committed to levelling up and spreading opportunity around this country. This will be a hugely important part of the economic and social recovery from the pandemic.\"\n\nWork is also under way to find out why an initial report by Public Health Scotland, found no racial disparity in coronavirus deaths in Scotland.", "The app was downloaded more than 55,000 times on the Isle of Wight, according to figures last month\n\nA new NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app should be in place by the end of the month, a minister has said.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi said the app - which was trialled in the Isle of Wight - will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\".\n\nLast week new test and trace systems were launched in England and Scotland - but without the app due to delays.\n\nThe Guardian reported an NHS boss said the wider scheme would be imperfect at first but \"world-class\" by the autumn.\n\nThe paper said the chief operating officer of the test and trace scheme said the scheme should be fully working by September or October.\n\nThe NHS app - which will automatically alert people - began being trialled on the Isle of Wight in early May. The government said then it hoped it would be launched nationwide by the middle of May.\n\nMeanwhile, doctors have urged the government to make face coverings compulsory in all places where social distancing is not possible, not just on public transport.\n\nAll passengers on public transport in England must wear a covering from 15 June, the government said on Thursday.\n\nThe NHS app was originally planned to be part of last week's launch of England's test and trace scheme - but the app roll-out was delayed because more trials were needed.\n\nScotland also launched its tracing scheme last week while Northern Ireland already had a contact tracing programme up and running. Wales began its scheme on Monday.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday, Mr Zahawi said: \"The app, we are working flat out. We want to make sure it actually does everything it needs to do and will be in place this month.\n\n\"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\"\n\nMr Zahawi said: \"We will make sure [the app] will be running as soon as we think it is robust.\"\n\nAsked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he said: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\"\n\nHe said the pilot in the Isle of Wight showed people actually preferred to be contacted by a human being, \"which is why we've recruited 25,000 people who are track-and-tracers who can deal with about 10,000 cases a day\".\n\nContact tracers text, email or call people who test positive with coronavirus and ask who they have had contact with. Any of those contacts who could be at risk of infection are told to isolate for 14 days, even if they are not sick.\n\nThe 25,000 tracers working for England's NHS test and trace team have already started contacting people.\n\nBut some contact tracers have said they have been given very little work so far, with one telling the BBC she had worked 38 hours but had yet to make a single phone call and spent the time watching Netflix.\n\nContact tracing for coronavirus began when the UK identified its first two cases at the end of January.\n\nBut it was stopped in mid-March after England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said it was \"no longer necessary for us to identify every case\".\n\nThen in May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to have a \"world-beating\" tracing system in place from June.\n\nNHS bosses have said such a system is important to avoid a possible second surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHowever, the head of the NHS Confederation said a test, track and trace strategy should have been in place sooner.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said the new test and trace service was up and running and would save lives, adding that more than 25,000 contact tracers were now in place.\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:", "Debenhams has stores in several locations in Wales including its flagship store in Cardiff\n\nDebenhams has written to the Welsh Government asking it to take urgent action to save four of its stores and \"many hundreds of jobs\".\n\nThe retail giant collapsed into administration for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business.\n\nDeals with landlords mean 120 UK stores will reopen when lockdown eases.\n\nThe firm wants Welsh ministers to review rates. Officials said they would respond to the request \"in due course\".\n\nDebenhams has continued to trade online since entering administration again on 9 April.\n\nIt then used another insolvency process called a company voluntary arrangement to obtain rent cuts and allow it to close shops.\n\nThe company warned at the end of April that four of its Welsh stores - Newport, Cardiff, Swansea and Llandudno - were in jeopardy because of the Welsh Government's decision not to extend business rate relief to properties with a rateable value of more than £500,000.\n\nThe department store has a presence across south and north Wales\n\nSince then, Debenhams has struck deals with local councils to defer payment of the rates for those stores until March 2021.\n\nThese stores are due to reopen when the Welsh Government lifts restrictions on non-essential retailers, but the long-term future remains uncertain.\n\nLast week the chairman of Debenhams' parent company, Mark Gifford, wrote to the Welsh Government's Finance Minister Rebecca Evans asking her to give permission for an online tribunal to review the business rates.\n\n\"With your support for holding tribunals online, the administrators would be in a position to reopen all the remaining Welsh stores, saving many hundreds of jobs in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"We urge the Welsh Government to consider this as a matter of urgency, we are ready to reopen all of our Welsh stores when trading restrictions are lifted.\"\n\nAs well at these four at-risk stores, Debenhams also has shops in Carmarthen, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil, Bangor and Wrexham.\n\nHowever, the company has said the Merthyr Tydfil store will not reopen when the lockdown ends, saying it was \"unable to agree appropriate terms with the landlord of the building\".\n\nMr Gifford said because Debenhams has negotiated changes to its lease arrangements, the tribunal review would result in a significant reduction in business rates and lead to earlier payments of those rates to Welsh Government.\n\nThe letter said such tribunals cannot be held at the moment because of social distancing concerns \"or unless the Welsh Government steps in and agrees that tribunals could be held online\".\n\nA Welsh Government official said: \"While we know how important Debenhams stores are to our town centres, this is a business facing its third insolvency process in 12 months.\n\n\"It is simply not credible to suggest our decisions about rate relief will cause Debenhams to fail.\n\n\"Taxpayers are already providing more than £1m in rates relief support to Debenhams across Wales.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victoria's Secret fashion shows were cancelled in 2019 as they were branded as \"sexist\" and \"dated\"\n\nThe UK arm of Victoria's Secret has fallen into administration, putting more than 800 jobs at risk.\n\nThe chain, famous for its fashion shows, has 25 shops in the UK, all of which have been shut since the virus lockdown started in March.\n\nAdministrator Deloitte said there would be no immediate redundancies as it tries to find a buyer for the chain.\n\nRob Harding of Deloitte said it was \"yet another blow to the UK High Street\" amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut the chain had already been hit by changing consumer tastes and weakened spending.\n\nThe UK arm made an operating loss of £170m in the year to February 2019, according to the most recent filings available.\n\nLast year, its annual fashion show was cancelled, with the company blaming poor television ratings.\n\nThe show launched in 1995 and was once a major pop culture event, drawing millions of viewers each year to watch its so-called \"angels\".\n\nIn 2018 it saw its lowest ratings ever, drawing criticism that it was sexist, outdated and lacked diversity.\n\nThe brand's parent company L Brands said it was important to \"evolve\" its marketing strategy at the time.\n\nThe annual Victoria's Secret fashion show launched the careers of several supermodels\n\nThe firm had already furloughed 785 workers in the UK before appointing administrators.\n\nDeloitte described the administration as \"light touch\", meaning the management are allowed to keep running the business.\n\nIt will now attempt to find another buyer for its assets, or re-negotiate rents on its High Street stores in a bid to improve the firm's financial situation.\n\nAll its UK shops will remain shut, but none will, for the moment, be closed permanently.\n\nThe administration process also excludes its online business, which will continue trading.\n\nMr Harding added that this was a \"further example of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the entire retail industry.\"\n\n\"The effect of the lockdowns, combined with broader challenges facing bricks and mortar retailers, has resulted in a funding requirement for this business, resulting in today's administration.\"\n\nSeveral other High Street brands have been struggling in recent weeks due to lockdown measures introduced in March to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBoth fashion firms Cath Kidston and Laura Ashley, for example, have called in administrators since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHowever, Victoria's Secret has arguably been eclipsed in recent years by brands such as Savage X Fenty, the lingerie line by singer, actress and businesswoman Rihanna, whose events showcase a range of body types.\n\nThere was also a furious response to an interview in Vogue with then chief marketing officer Ed Razek. He suggested \"transsexual\" people should not be a part of the fashion show. He later left the company.\n\nQing Wang, professor of marketing at Warwick Business School, said: \"If the UK arm of Victoria's Secret is to be saved, it needs a new start and a major overhaul of its brand and marketing strategy.\n\n\"It needs to be brought up to date to reflect the values of gender equality, sustainability, and diversity that appeal to today's shoppers and compete with the brands that have overtaken it.\n\n\"It has not kept pace with the strong values of millennials and post-millennials, who should now be the company's target customers,\" she added.", "Florence Eshalomi says the frequency of these types of mistakes was 'worrying'\n\nAn MP has revealed she has twice been mistaken for black female colleagues in Parliament in the past six months.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi became an MP for Vauxhall in south-west London following the general election in December.\n\nSince then, other colleagues had been subjected to similar mistakes, she wrote in a letter to her constituents.\n\n\"The frequency is worrying and lends itself to a lazy racist view that all black people look the same\", she continued.\n\nA House of Commons spokesperson said: \"It is clear that racism continues to blight the lives of black people in this country.\n\n\"We are truly sorry that members of our community feel that this extends into parliament, the very place where the rights of all citizens should be championed equally.\"\n\nThe Labour and Co-operative party politician's letter stated: \"On two separate occasions I have been confused for another black female MP.\n\n\"This has also happened to my black female colleagues.\"\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\nSince publishing the letter online, Ms Eshalomi said she and other colleagues had initially planned to write a letter to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle about the issue of misidentification, but said the coronavirus pandemic had delayed them.\n\n\"On the first occasion I was coming through Central Lobby, and an MP ran up to me and just broke into conversation,\" the Labour MP said.\n\n\"Then she stopped herself because she released I wasn't Kate. She thought I was Kate Osamor. She was so embarrassed she just literally ran away again.\n\n\"On the second occasion I was in the chamber... I was one of the last members to speak in the debate that day, and when I stood up to speak the caption had me down as Taiwo Owatemi, the MP for Coventry North West.\"\n\nMarsha de Cordova (left) was mistaken for Dawn Butler (right) on BBC Parliament\n\nMs Eshalomi said the BBC had sent an email and apologised, but said the broadcaster told her it had used the House of Commons' caption.\n\nOn a separate occasion in February, BBC Parliament wrongly captioned Labour MP Marsha de Cordova as Dawn Butler.\n\nIn its story about the mix-up, the London Evening Standard used a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy - wrongly depicting her as Ms de Cordova.\n\nBell Ribeiro-Addy was wrongly captioned as Marsha de Cordova in an Evening Standard story in February\n\nMs Eshalomi said she had experienced such misunderstandings before too.\n\nHaving been elected in 2016 to the London Assembly, Ms Eshalomi said she was mistaken for Kemi Badenoch, who was then a fellow member of the assembly and is now a Conservative MP.\n\nShe said: \"All those women I've referenced are individual politicians in their own right, they're women I look up to.\n\n\"They're women who fought to get elected. So they deserve to be named and not to be confused with other black women.\n\n\"This doesn't happen to some of my white female colleagues, who sometimes have their hair down, sometimes they'll have it back in a ponytail.\n\n\"So why is it, if we as black women change our hair or our appearance, you can't recognise us?\"\n\nThe Commons spokesperson added: \"We are committed to listening, learning and taking action to remove barriers and better reduce inequality for the future.\"", "Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced a two-month extension to the government's ban on evicting renters amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew evictions in England and Wales of tenants in both social and privately-rented accommodation will be suspended until 23 August.\n\n\"No-one will be evicted from their home this summer due to coronavirus,\" Mr Jenrick tweeted.\n\nBut housing charity Shelter said the announcement was \"only a stop-gap\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Jenrick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 extension will run from 25 June, the end of the the three-month period originally announced as part of emergency coronavirus legislation in March.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it would benefit \"millions of renters\". Government support for renters during the pandemic was \"unprecedented\", Mr Jenrick said.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: \"The government has reset the clock on the evictions ban, buying the families who were only weeks away from losing their homes a vital stay of execution.\n\nBut she said: \"The ban hasn't stopped people who've lost their jobs during this pandemic from racking up rent arrears. Even if they have a plan to pay them back, these debts will throw struggling renters straight back into the firing line of an automatic eviction as soon as the ban does lift.\n\n\"It's critical that Robert Jenrick uses this extension wisely to change the law and properly protect renters,\" she added.\n\nDame Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"Simply extending the pause of repossession is a sticking plaster not a cure. People who have fallen behind on rent arrears and those who have been furloughed or lost their jobs will need the security of proper reform to the rules governing evictions.\n\n\"We look forward to working with the government in the coming weeks on changes to make sure they keep their promise, that no renter should lose their home because of coronavirus.\"\n\nRecent research by the District Councils Network suggests more than 486,242 households are spending more than half of their income on private rented housing, which could be at risk when the evictions ban is lifted.\n\nThe network, which represents 187 local authorities in England, says single parents with children, young people and households on low incomes are particularly in danger of being tipped \"over the edge\" into homelessness.\n\nIt called for a permanent boost to housing benefits for those in private rented homes and more funding for councils to fight homelessness, build homes and create jobs.\n\nThe MHCLG said it was working on new rules \"to ensure vulnerable renters can be protected appropriately\" when the halt on evictions ended.\n\nBut the National Residential Landlords Association called for the government \"to set out its plans for the market at the end of this one-time extension.\"\n\nChief executive Ben Beadle said: \"A failure to do so will cause serious damage to the private rented sector as a whole.\"\n\nHe added: \"It will ultimately be tenants who suffer as they will find it increasingly difficult to find affordable housing if landlords do not have the confidence that they will get their properties back swiftly in legitimate circumstances.\"", "Beach-goers had to abandon social distancing when rescue helicopters landed on Durdle Door Beach to pick up injured tombstoners\n\nPre-booked parking spaces, fines for illegal parking and beach marshals are being used to prevent a repeat of last weekend's influx of visitors to the Dorset coast.\n\nThousands have flocked to the Jurassic Coast and Bournemouth beaches since lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nCurrent government guidelines state that households can drive any distance in England to parks and beaches.\n\nThree people were badly hurt jumping from the limestone arch at Durdle Door.\n\n\"Horrendous\" amounts of litter were left as visitors descended on the Jurassic Coast Unesco World Heritage site last week.\n\nFollowing a meeting between Dorset Council, the emergency services and the landowner, a booking system for Durdle Door's car park was announced to \"monitor and limit visitor numbers\".\n\nMarshals will also be on the beach to discourage tombstoning and to prevent littering, while civil enforcement officers will fine drivers illegally parked on roadsides.\n\nIt is hoped cooler temperatures forecast for this weekend will reduce numbers heading for the coast.\n\nThousands of visitors enjoyed Bournemouth in the sunshine earlier this week\n\nDorset Police said Tuesday was one of its busiest days in recent years with 419 emergency calls received, compared to 265 on the same day last year.\n\nPolice and crime commissioner Martyn Underhill said anyone planning a trip should \"search your conscience\".\n\nHe said: \"The problem is the social distancing rule is a guideline from the government, there is no law behind it therefore the police and local authority can't enforce it - that's what's so frustrating about what happened last weekend.\"\n\nBoth Dorset councils had called on the government to impose travel restrictions, raising concerns that visitor numbers could increase Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nWhen asked about the weekend's scenes in Dorset at Thursday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, transport secretary Grant Shapps said: \"When we say 'stay alert' we mean literally stay 2m away from people - don't risk this spreading and the hard work we've all done.\n\n\"There are fewer lifeguards around so if you are in the sea you are putting yourself at more risk. So there are lots of sensible reasons not to go and crowd out beaches and to avoid crowded places.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former government adviser has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking the easing needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nAnd the UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit\" if cases increased.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule reduces to \"one metre plus\".\n\nThis will allow some pubs, restaurants and cafes to reopen while complying with safety guidelines.\n\nNorthern Ireland has also announced it will reduce the distancing rule to 1m with restrictions from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the 2m distancing rule remains in place for the moment.\n\nProf Ferguson, who quit his adviser role after he breached lockdown guidance, told the BBC's Nick Robinson: \"Right now we are experimenting, frankly.\n\n\"I don't disagree with the policy changes announced this week, but I would say we need to monitor their effects very closely and be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers.\"\n\nHe said it will be like playing \"a game of Whack-A-Mole\" - a phrase frequently used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson - with \"targeted\" lockdowns to suppress local outbreaks.\n\n\"I think we just need to look around Europe at the clusters of cases popping up in different contexts to have a good understanding of what we might expect to see here after 4 July,\" Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said.\n\n\"I don't expect to see a uniform, very large growth of cases across the country.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases - outbreaks in some individual facilities like food production plants, but also maybe in social contexts, particular work places and particular schools.\"\n\nHe said he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.\n\nProf Ferguson also said that if there is to be an inquiry into the UK government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, it should not be held until the end of the year.\n\nHe said that would be the \"appropriate\" time to look back as it would be \"highly disruptive\".\n\nAn inquiry would highlight \"how systems can work better and what structural things can be done better\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think inquiries in this context serve much purpose in attributing personal blame on individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the failure to set up testing, I wouldn't lay at any individual's door, but there were clearly some structural failures which led us to being quite so slow.\"\n\nIt comes as some MPs say they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe group, set up by campaign group March for Change, will be led by Layla Moran, who is bidding to be the next Liberal Democrat leader.\n\n\"This isn't about attributing blame, it's about working together across political parties to ensure the right lessons are learned ahead of a potential second wave,\" she said.\n\nConservative MP and group member Dan Poulter said: \"It is vital that we are not complacent during the summer months and use this time wisely to urgently learn lessons and ensure we are better prepared for the potentially dangerous winter months ahead.\"\n\nElsewhere, Bernard Jenkin, Commons Liaison Committee chairman, has said it was \"essential\" that the UK is prepared for a second wave of coronavirus later this year.\n\n\"Medics are right to call for a swift cross-party 'lessons learned' exercise to be completed by October,\" he said in response to an open letter from health profession leaders published in the British Medical Journal.\n\n\"This would not only contribute to UK's readiness for a new Covid peak but would also strengthen public confidence in the government's readiness.\"", "Kate Green has been a Labour MP since 2010\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Kate Green as his new shadow education secretary.\n\nShe replaces Rebecca Long-Bailey, who was sacked this week after sharing a story Sir Keir said contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nSir Keir has said he \"stands by\" his decision to sack her, following criticism.\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" to appoint Ms Green, who has campaigned against educational inequalities.\n\nMs Green, a Labour MP since 2010, said it was a \"privilege\" to have been asked to serve in the role.\n\nShe said the coronavirus pandemic had had a \"devastating impact\" on children's education and that she was looking forward to working with teachers, unions, parents and councils to \"help ensure we get our children back in school as soon as possible\".\n\nPrior to becoming an MP, she was chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group and before that, director of the National Council for One Parent Families (now Gingerbread).\n\nIt is a return to the shadow cabinet for Ms Green, who served as shadow minister for women and equalities under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nShe resigned and went on to chair Owen Smith's failed leadership bid.\n\nSir Keir gave her the role of shadow minister for child poverty strategy in April, before elevating her to education spokeswoman.\n\nLabour MPs including Diane Abbott and former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson have welcomed Ms Green's appointment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Green's swift appointment comes after the sacking of Mrs Long-Bailey, the MP for Salford and Eccles, who retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake.\n\nIn the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, saying that the \"tactics\" US police used in kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck were \"learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services\".\n\nMaxine Peake is known for legal drama Silk, Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies and Channel 4 show Shameless\n\nThe Independent article also quoted the Israeli police denying Ms Peake's claim saying: \"There is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway.\"\n\nMrs Long-Bailey - who was beaten to the party leadership by Sir Keir - later said she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.\n\nLater on Thursday, Ms Peake tweeted that she had been \"inaccurate in my assumption of American police training and its sources\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism\"\n\nAt the time, Sir Keir said the sharing of the article was \"wrong\" because it contained \"anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\" and his \"first priority\" was to \"tackle anti-Semitism\" and rebuild trust with the Jewish community.\n\nSir Keir later defended his decision to sack shadow minister Mrs Long-Bailey after a virtual meeting with some left-wing Labour MPs who had voiced concerns about her removal.\n\nJewish groups and some MPs welcomed Sir Keir's decision but Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the party's left said it had been an overreaction.", "Officials hope an increase in testing in recent weeks will help tackle Delhi's outbreak\n\nThe chief minister of India's capital Delhi has said the speed at which coronavirus has spread has severely challenged its health system.\n\nArvind Kejriwal said a surge in cases in early June had led to a shortage of hospital beds and rising fatalities.\n\nDelhi is now the country's worst-hit area, with about 73,000 recorded cases of Covid-19 and at least 2,500 deaths.\n\nBut Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was \"much better placed than many other nations\" to tackle the virus.\n\nIn a virtual address, he said this was due to a strict nationwide lockdown ordered in March and various measures taken by people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside an ICU in Mumbai during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nMore than 500,000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded across the country. About 15,000 people have died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nBut infections in Delhi - a city of some 20 million people - have been rising much faster than in the rest of country. About of third of the total number of infections there have been reported in the past week alone.\n\nChief Minister Kejriwal said: \"The cases increased more than we would have expected and in the first week of June we witnessed a shortage of [hospital] beds.\n\n\"We were lagging behind in testing in Delhi. And because of the shortage of beds, when some people were not getting beds, the death rate also increased.\"\n\nDelhi authorities have begun mass testing to determine the extent of spread in the capital.\n\n\"The only way to put a lid on infections is early diagnosis and quarantine,\" Dr Sundeep Salvi, a leading researcher in respiratory care, told CBS News.\n\nIn early June - four months after its first recorded Covid-19 infection - India emerged from one of the world's harshest lockdowns. Most businesses were allowed to re-open.\n\nSchools also re-opened in many states, although they remain closed in Delhi.\n\nBut the easing of the lockdown led to a surge in new infections. India now has the world's fourth-highest number of confirmed cases, behind Russia, Brazil and the US.\n\nHowever, with a population of more than 1.3 billion it still has a low rate of infections per capita - fewer than 400 per million people.", "Dates:Coverage: Norwich v Manchester United live on BBC One on Saturday, 27 June (17:30 BST) - as well as Newcastle v Manchester City on Sunday, 28 June (18:30 BST).\n\nSome 114 days after Manchester United won at Derby County in the fifth round on 5 March, the FA Cup resumes on Saturday with the first of four all-Premier League quarter-finals.\n\nNorwich City's game with 12-time winners United at Carrow Road (17:30 BST) - a match you can watch live on BBC One - marks the the return of the competition, which was stopped because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is also showing Newcastle United against holders Manchester City live - one of three ties on Sunday.\n\nSo who is left in the famous competition? Which two of the remaining eight teams are seeking to win it for the first time? When is the semi-final draw and when does the final take place? Will there be replays?\n\nHere, BBC Sport tells you all you need to know as the FA Cup gets ready to return.\n• None 'We got players to kick him on purpose' - the making of Norwich's Cantwell\n• None Quiz: Can you name every FA Cup quarter-finalist this century?\n• None How to follow the FA Cup quarter-finals on the BBC\n\nWhy are the quarter-finals in June?\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals took place on 4 March and the four ties were originally scheduled to be played on 21-22 March.\n\nThey were all postponed after football in England was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe FA announced at the end of May a provisional restart date of 27-28 June, with all of this season's remaining ties to be played behind closed doors.\n\n\"The competition has been an integral part of the English football calendar for nearly 150 years, and we'd like to thank the Premier League executive and clubs for their support in scheduling the remaining matches during this unprecedented time,\" said FA chief executive officer Mark Bullingham.\n\nWhen is the draw and where are the semi-finals and final?\n\nThe draw for the semi-finals will take place during half-time of Sunday's Newcastle v Manchester City quarter-final, which is being shown live on BBC One.\n\nFormer Newcastle striker Alan Shearer, who will be part of the BBC team at St James' Park, will conduct the draw.\n\nDue to social distancing rules, BBC guests and presenter Gary Lineker will be stationed at least two metres apart from one another, and crew members.\n\nFormer England captain Shearer will be the only person handling the balls during the draw, and all balls and equipment prior to the draw will be thoroughly disinfected.\n\nThe semi-finals, which are scheduled to be played at Wembley, will take place across the weekend 18-19 July, with the final on Saturday, 1 August at Wembley - six days after the final day of the Premier League season on 26 July.\n\nThis season's final will be renamed the Heads Up FA Cup final to raise mental health awareness.\n\nThere are no replays at this stage of the competition.\n\nIf games are level after 90 minutes, there will be an additional 30 minutes of extra time.\n\nA penalty shootout will take place to decide a winner if the game is still level at 120 minutes.\n\nSeven-hundred-and-thirty-six teams entered this season's competition, with the FA Cup starting on 9 August 2019 with the extra preliminary round.\n\nTwo non-league sides - Hartlepool United and AFC Fylde - reached the third round, while the last six non-Premier League sides were knocked out of the fifth round.\n\nNorwich City, the lowest ranked club left, and Leicester City are the only two clubs left yet to win the FA Cup, while Arsenal and Manchester United have won it 25 times between them.\n\nPosition - 20th in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 0. Last time reached quarter-finals - 1992. What happened? Norwich City reached the semi-finals for the second time in four seasons after beating Southampton in a replay, before losing to Sunderland 1-0 in a semi-final at Hillsborough.\n\nMore of a hindrance than a help? Bottom of the Premier League table with seven matches left, the Canaries are running out of time to save themselves from a quick return to the Championship. However, they are enjoying their best FA Cup run in 28 years. The last time Norwich and Manchester United met in the competition was in the fourth round in 1994, with the Red Devils winning 2-0 at Carrow Road, going on to win the trophy that season.\n\nKey stat: Norwich are winless in their last seven home FA Cup matches (D3 L4) since a 4-1 win against Burnley back in January 2012.\n\nPostition - fifth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 12 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2019. What happened? Defender Victor Lindelof was shown a red card as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side lost 2-1 to Wolves at Molineux.\n\nA first trophy for Solskjaer? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won the FA Cup twice as a player at United but will the Norwegian enjoy success in the competition as a manager? United have not won a major trophy since 2017 when they secured the League Cup and Europa League in the same season under Jose Mourinho.\n\nKey stat: Manchester United are participating in the FA Cup quarter-final for a sixth consecutive season, although they've only progressed to the semi-final in two of the previous five campaigns.\n\nPosition - eighth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 4 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2014. What happened? The Blades were a League One side when they beat Charlton 2-0 to book a Wembley semi-final against Hull City, which they lost 5-3.\n\nBlades of glory? It's already been an outstanding season for the Blades on their return to the Premier League as they push for a place in Europe. Will it end with a major trophy? Sheffield United and Arsenal last played in the FA Cup back in March 2005 in a fifth-round replay. After a goalless draw, the Gunners won 4-2 on penalties at Bramall Lane.\n\nKey stat: This is Blades boss Chris Wilder's 35th match as a manager in the FA Cup proper but only his second against a Premier League side - Sheffield United lost 1-0 to Leicester City in the fifth round in 2018.\n\nPosition - ninth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 13 times (record). Last time reached quarter-finals - 2017. What happened? Beat non-league Lincoln City 5-0 on their way to winning the competition by overcoming Chelsea in the final, via a semi-final victory over Manchester City.\n\nWill Gunners secure 14th triumph? No club has won the FA Cup more times than Arsenal. The most recent of their 13 successes came in 2017 when Aaron Ramsey hit a late winner against Chelsea to earn Arsene Wenger his seventh FA Cup triumph.\n\nKey stat: Arsenal have progressed from 13 of their past 15 FA Cup quarter-final matches.\n\nPosition - third in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 0. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2018. What happened? Lost 2-1 after extra time at home to Chelsea, who went on to win the competition.\n\nA first FA Cup final for 51 years? This has been an outstanding season for Leicester even though they have yet to win a game since returning to action earlier this month. The Foxes are well placed to qualify for the Champions League while they are two wins from reaching the FA Cup final for the first time since 1969, when they lost 1-0 to Manchester City.\n\nKey stat: Leicester City are looking to reach the FA Cup semi-final for the first time since the 1981-82 campaign - they have been eliminated in four FA Cup quarter-finals since then.\n\nPosition - fourth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 8 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2018. What happened? Beat Leicester 2-1 after extra time on their way to winning the competition with victory over Manchester United in the final.\n\nTrophy for Lampard in his first season? Having eliminated Liverpool in the last round, Chelsea will fancy their chances of ending Frank Lampard's first season in charge with a domestic trophy. Chelsea have lost only two of their past 20 games against Leicester in all competitions (W13 D5 L2), although they are winless in four against the Foxes (D3 L1).\n\nKey stat: This is Chelsea's 18th FA Cup quarter-final in the Premier League era (since 1992-93), more than any other side. They've progressed from six of their past seven, losing the other in 2016 away at Everton.\n\nPosition - 13th in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 6 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2006. What happened? Lost 1-0 at Chelsea, the result ending captain Shearer's hopes of winning a trophy with Newcastle.\n\nThe Magpies are enjoying their best FA Cup run for 14 years and are unbeaten in three of their past four home games against Manchester City. Paraguay forward Miguel Almiron has scored more FA Cup goals than any other Premier League player this season, netting four times from just six shots on target in the competition.\n\nKey stat: Newcastle United have not reached the FA Cup semi-final since 2004-05 under Graeme Souness.\n\nPosition - second in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 6 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2019. What happened? Trailed Swansea 2-0 before scoring three times in 19 minutes - including an 89th minute Sergio Aguero winner - on their way to winning the competition.\n\nDomestic cup double for City? Having secured the Carabao Cup shortly before football was suspended, Manchester City are well placed to wrap a domestic cup double. But how will they cope without prolific scorer Sergio Aguero, who has undergone surgery on a knee injury?\n\nKey stat: Since losing to Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup fifth round in February 2018, Manchester City have won their last nine FA Cup matches by an aggregate score of 35-4.", "Unlicensed street parties have been held across London in recent weeks\n\nPolice are \"building relationships\" with communities after more illegal street parties were held in London, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nMet Commander Bas Javid said the majority of interactions with the police at events had been \"positive\".\n\nSeven people were arrested for offences including firearm and knife possession following unlicensed music events held on Friday.\n\nTwo police officers sustained injuries but did not need hospital treatment.\n\nTwo people were arrested at a party in Newham, one on suspicion of possession of a firearm and another on suspicion of having a \"Rambo-style\" knife. Both remain in police custody.\n\nElsewhere in the capital, officers broke up an event on Harrow Road, Kensal Town, on Friday following complaints from residents.\n\nA group then moved on to nearby Maida Vale and did not disperse until after midnight.\n\nThree were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, breach of Covid-19 health regulations and racially aggravated public disorder towards officers.\n\nTwo other people were arrested at the same event, one for throwing a bar stool at an officer, who was uninjured, and the other for racially abusing an officer.\n\nObjects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill\n\nPolice have been called to illegal street parties across London in the past month.\n\nOn Wednesday, more than 20 police officers were injured during clashes at an illegal street party in Brixton and on Thursday night, officers were pelted with objects while trying to disperse a party in Notting Hill.\n\nMr Javid said officers were \"doing a very good job in some difficult circumstances\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"The first line is engagement and building relationships, and you don't do that by walking into every situation with riot helmets and shields.\n\n\"We need to build relationships, we need to make sure we engage effectively with communities and we're only as good or as effective as our relationship with those communities. \"\n\nMet Commander Bas Javid said it was about the impact the street parties were having on communities\n\nMr Javid added: \"We're not going to arrest our way out of the situations like this, but what I can be clear about is if these situations do descend into chaos and violence and disorder, which is completely unacceptable, we will take a much more thorough and robust position.\n\n\"It's the communities that are very, very upset by this, as much as the police are. This is much more about the impact it's having on those communities that these people live in.\"\n\nThe Met Police said unlicensed music events were organised gatherings which was covered by different legislation to people not socially distancing in parks.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the force had a \"duty\" to stop unlawful music events during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe said the number of police injured was now \"heading up to 140-odd officers\" in the past three weeks, including those hurt during protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the US.\n\nMs Dick said: \"We have seen some large numbers of people completely flouting the health regulations, seeming not to care at all about their own or their families' health and wanting to have large parties.\n\n\"It is hot. Some people have drunk far too much. Some people are just angry and aggressive and some people are plain violent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hailstones were about the same size as a £2 coin\n\nParts of Yorkshire were pelted with hailstones the size of a £2 coin during thunderstorms.\n\nPhotographs posted on social media showed people in Leeds and Sheffield cradling handfuls of the icy precipitation.\n\nThe \"large\" hailstones in the images appeared to be between 3 and 4 cm in size, a Met office meteorologist said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and rain is in place for much of the UK until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nHailstones are formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds.\n\nCraig Snell, a meteorologist with the Met Office, said those seen in winter were \"quite small\", but heat in summer months gives thunderstorms more energy.\n\nThis \"helps keep the hailstones up in the clouds for longer, they get to grow more and then fall from the sky,\" he said.\n\nExperts say hailstones are \"usually\" much smaller\n\nThe thunderstorms follow on from the heatwave on Thursday, when temperatures reached 33.4C (92.1F) at Heathrow Airport in west London.\n\nTemperatures on Friday reached a maximum of 31.2C (88.16F), recorded at Kew Gardens in west London, the Met Office said.\n\nIt warned up to 20mm of rain could fall in an hour in areas covered by the yellow warning, but said the storms were expected to clear towards the north east on Friday evening.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Tatchell helped organise the first Pride in London event\n\nTwelve of the surviving activists from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) have marched in London to celebrate its 50th anniversary.\n\nThey followed the route normally taken by Pride in London, which was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus.\n\nA separate Black Trans Lives Matters protest gathered at Hyde Park and marched through central London to celebrate black transgender people.\n\nSome marchers carried fresh flowers and banners reading \"Fight police brutality, fight racism! Fight imperialism!\" and \"Black trans lives matter\".\n\nMany of the GLF veterans are aged in their 70s and 80s\n\nHuman rights activist Peter Tatchell was joined by former GLF members to walk the Pride route, many of whom were aged in their 70s and 80s.\n\nThe GLF was formed in 1970 and has been credited as being the beginning of the modern LGBT+ movement in the UK.\n\nOrganisers said the march was not open to the wider LGBT+ community in order to comply with social distancing regulations and to protect the veterans, however a small group of people joined in to give their support.\n\nThe demonstration in Hyde Park is linked the Black Lives Matter protest\n\nDemonstrators were asked to decorate face masks with flowers for the Black Trans Lives Matter rally\n\nMr Tatchell, who helped organise the UK's first Pride march in 1972, said: \"Homophobia did not defeat us, so we're not going to let the Covid-19 pandemic stop Pride.\n\n\"We GLF veterans confronted anti-LGBT+ bigots 50 years ago. We faced down police harassment, far-right extremists and homophobic political and religious leaders.\n\n\"We are marching as Pride was planned, with face masks and social distancing.\"\n\nMr Tatchell added: \"We support Black Lives Matter and the just demands of black communities, just as we did in the early 1970s.\n\n\"GLF did not seek equal rights within a flawed, unjust status quo. It campaigned for the transformation of society to end straight supremacism and stood in solidarity with all other oppressed communities.\n\n\"This same agenda of radical social transformation is needed now as the UK faces the quadruple whammy of Covid-19, economic meltdown, endemic racism and climate destruction.\"\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 Hawk jets took to the skies above Scarborough Castle\n\nThe Red Arrows have performed a flypast in Scarborough for Armed Forces Day.\n\nThe Hawk jets took to the skies above the coastal town in North Yorkshire, which had planned to host an event that was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Queen and Prime Minister Boris Johnson led tributes to veterans and serving military personnel.\n\nThe defence secretary praised the forces' \"professionalism, commitment and versatility\" during the pandemic.\n\nNormally events are held across the country but the coronavirus lockdown has cause most celebrations to move online this year.\n\nThe armed forces have been involved in the UK's response to Covid-19, helping to repatriate British citizens from abroad, designing and distributing PPE and constructing hospitals.\n\nThe Hawk jets flew over the Army's Catterick Garrison, RAF Leeming and the town of Scarborough.\n\nThe Red Arrows passed over an Armed Forces Day flag in the castle grounds\n\nAmong the military personnel Mr Johnson spoke to ahead of the celebrations were Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Pynn, who led a team of 20 military medics supporting the London Ambulance Service transporting patients to the NHS Nightingale hospital in London, and Wing Commander Claire Collis who was involved in the repatriation of British citizens from India and Pakistan.\n\n\"Whether you're a regular, a reservist, a civilian contractor, a veteran, or the family and friends who support our military in so many ways, we as a nation salute you,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We know that - day and night, at home and abroad, at sea, on land, in the air and even in space and online - our fantastic armed forces are there for us.\"\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Having had members of my family serve in each of the armed services, I know only too well of the pride service personnel take in their duty.\n\n\"As your commander-in-chief, I send my warmest best wishes to you all, your families, and the entire armed forces community.\"\n\nThe jets left a colourful smoke trail over the coastal town\n\nInstead of the usual parades, military bands will commemorate the day with performances streamed on the armed forces' Facebook and Twitter pages, where behind-the-scenes views of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Red Arrows will also be shown.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"The armed forces community cannot celebrate in person this year, so we are doing our best to show you through social media who our people are, what they do, and how you can show your support.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also issued a statement thanking military personnel \"for the role they play both at home and abroad\".\n\nIt comes as the party launches its Labour Friends of the Armed Forces scheme in a bid to \"open up Labour again to our armed forces, their families and veterans across our country\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has already announced that next year's Armed Forces Day will take place in Scarborough.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal Navy has unveiled a new uniform for its Royal Marines.\n\nIt says its commandos can rely on the uniform \"in the most hostile of environments on Earth\".\n\nIt features new branding, which includes the traditional insignia worn by commandos in World War II, and is part of a drive to change how the \"Green Berets\" operate.\n\nThe new uniforms are not just a rebranding exercise.\n\nAfter spending the past few decades fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside other infantry units, the Royal Marines are returning to their more traditional and specialist roles.\n\nOne that reaffirms their links as a key element of the Royal Navy and as an elite fighting force. It's no accident that the images released makes them look more like Special Forces.\n\nAs well as the new uniform and insignia, they're seen with night vision goggles and using a Diemaco rifle as favoured by the SAS and SBS, rather than the standard issue SA80.\n\nThe Royal Marines are also looking to the past for inspiration. The new-look patches recall the daring commando raids conducted in the Second World War.\n\nIt's how they see their future, alongside skills of conducting amphibious assaults and arctic warfare.\n\nWith the defence budget under constant strain the costs of this transformation will be relatively modest.\n\nThe Royal Navy has a much harder task working out how to pay for new ships, aircraft and submarines.\n\nAnd for the Royal Marines, who pride themselves on innovation, it may help just help secure their future in any discussion about more defence cuts.", "Flowers have been left at West George Street where the attack took place\n\nThe man shot dead by police during a stabbing attack in Glasgow has been named as Badreddin Abadlla Adam. He was from Sudan.\n\nThe 28-year-old's identity is \"based on information the deceased provided to the Home Office earlier this year\", Police Scotland said.\n\nPC David Whyte, 42, was one of six people injured in the attack at the Park Inn Hotel on Friday.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was continuing to investigate the circumstances.\n\nSuspect Mr Adam died after being shot by specialist officers from the force.\n\n\"The police discharge of firearms resulting in a fatality will also continue to be fully investigated by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC),\" the force said.\n\n\"Both of these inquiries, which take place under the direction of the Lord Advocate, are ongoing and it would not be appropriate to speculate either about the events or the outcomes of these investigations.\"\n\nPC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nPC Whyte was critically injured in the attack and described the scene as \"something I will never forget\".\n\nIn a statement from his hospital bed, he said: \"The incident myself and colleagues faced in West George Street was extremely challenging.\"\n\n\"As the first responders on scene, myself and my colleague did what all police officers are trained for to save lives,\" he added.\n\nPolice said the other five casualties remained in hospital, one of them in a critical condition.\n\nThe injured males are aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThey have been described as three asylum seekers who were staying at the hotel at the time of the attack, and two hotel staff.\n\nThe 91-room hotel is understood to have been housing about 100 asylum seekers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to the police and emergency workers who attended the incident.\n\nThe home secretary paid tribute to those in the emergency services who attended the incident\n\nHowever, it has raised questions about the treatment of asylum seekers, with charities and MPs questioning the decision to place people in hotels during the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News, Ms Patel said the matter was constantly under review, but the incident had happened at an exceptional time.\n\n\"Accommodation has been allocated in this particular way because of the Covid-19 crisis, so of course, we constantly review the methods around asylum, the accommodation, the provision, the support. All of which is in line with law.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Glasgow stabbings: What we know\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers have been flocking to supermarkets for toilet roll amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Victoria\n\nSupermarkets in Australia have reintroduced limits on purchasing toilet roll amid a rise in panic-buying.\n\nOn Friday, Coles imposed a one-pack limit on toilet roll and paper towels nationwide, while Woolworths has a two-pack limit on toilet roll.\n\nThe rush was triggered by a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state of Victoria.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said there was no reason to panic-buy.\n\nLimits were previously imposed in March, when Australian shoppers anticipating a lockdown emptied supermarket shelves. Police were called to one store in Sydney after customers fought over toilet roll.\n\nVictoria's tally of new Covid-19 cases has been in double digits for over a week. On Thursday, 33 new cases were confirmed.\n\nImages and video posted to social media in recent days show people picking up multiple packs of toilet roll, leaving shelves nearly empty.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brooke Simmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 latest curbs began in Victoria on Wednesday when supermarkets announced a return to limited toilet roll sales.\n\nColes has also imposed limits on hand sanitiser and food staples like pasta and eggs in the state.\n\nWoolworths reported a big rise in toilet roll demand in Victoria, but said other states are also panic-buying again. Customers at supermarkets in New South Wales and South Australia have reported empty shelves.\n\n\"We've regrettably started to see elevated demand for toilet roll move outside Victoria in the past 24 hours,\" said Woolworths' managing director of supermarkets Claire Peters.\n\n\"While the demand is not at the same level as Victoria, we're taking preventative action now to get ahead of any excessive buying this weekend.\"\n\nThe supermarket chain has ordered an extra 650,000 packs of toilet roll - a third more than normal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia has reported 7,500 coronavirus cases in total and 104 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday there was no need for customers to start panic-buying again.\n\n\"I'm sure [panic-buying] will pass, as it did last time. There's no need for it, and I think today it's important to reassure people the outbreak doesn't mean there's a problem. The response to that outbreak is strong, which means that Australians can have confidence,\" he said.\n\nMr Morrison and the country's chief medical officer said the virus remains under control, and plans to reopen Australia's economy will go ahead.", "Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill on Thursday Image caption: Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill on Thursday\n\nPolice are committed to \"building relationships\" with communities after more illegal street parties were held in London, says the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"We're not going to arrest our way out of situations like this,\" Met Commander Bas Javid told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIt comes as officers broke up an event on Harrow Road, Kensal Town, on Friday night. It followed similar events in Notting Hill and Brixton on preceding nights, which saw police injured in clashes with party-goers.\n\n\"The first line is engagement and building relationships, and you don't do that by walking into every situation with riot helmets and shields,\" said Mr Javid.\n\nBut he stressed that \"if these situations do descend into chaos and violence and disorder... we will take a much more thorough and robust position\".", "Jonathan Edwards has been an MP since 2010\n\nAn MP has accepted a police caution for assault after officers were called to his home last month.\n\nJonathan Edwards, 44, was arrested on 20 May on suspicion of assault.\n\nIn a statement, the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP, since suspended by Plaid Cymru, said he was \"deeply sorry\" and it was \"the biggest regret\" of his life.\n\nHis wife, Emma, has also released a statement, saying she has \"accepted her husband's apology\".\n\nMr Edwards has referred himself to Plaid Cymru's internal disciplinary committee and been suspended from the party.\n\nWhen he was arrested in May, the party suspended the whip from Mr Edwards which meant he was effectively sitting as an independent MP.\n\nAccepting a caution is an admission of guilt and details will be retained in police records.\n\nAlun Ffred Jones, the chairman of Plaid Cymru, said: \"We are aware of the personal statement made by Mr Edwards, who recognises his actions fall below what is expected.\n\n\"Mr Edwards issued the statement with the support of his family and we ask that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nA personal statement released on behalf of Jonathan Edwards said: \"I am deeply sorry. It is by far the biggest regret of my life. I complied fully with the police and acted with the best interests of my wife and children as my primary motive throughout.\"\n\nHe added: \"My priority now is to work with my wife to ensure as stable a future as possible for our family.\"\n\nA statement on behalf of Emma Edwards said: \"I have accepted my husband's apology.\n\n\"Throughout the decade we have been together he has been a loving and caring husband and father.\n\n\"As far as I am concerned the matter is now closed.\"\n\nMr Edwards, an Aberystwyth University graduate, has held the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr seat since 2010. He formerly worked as an official for Plaid Cymru and for Citizen Advice Cymru.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Milton Glaser says the I love New York design \"almost never came into existence\"\n\nMilton Glaser, the influential American graphic designer who created the \"I ♥ NY\" logo, has died aged 91.\n\nMade for a 1977 tourism campaign, the logo rapidly gained recognition across the world and has been described as the most frequently imitated in history.\n\nGlaser later said he was \"flabbergasted by what happened to this little, simple nothing of an idea\".\n\nHe also created a famous poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair and was a co-founder of New York magazine.\n\nThe cause of his death was a stroke, his wife Shirley told the New York Times.\n\nMilton Glaser was given the the National Medal of Arts in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama\n\nGlaser was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1929. He studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a college in Manhattan, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy.\n\nIn 1954, Glaser set up Push Pin Studios with three Cooper Union classmates and helped bring a new visual language to commercial art, seeking inspiration from everything from Art Nouveau to Chinese wash drawing, German woodcuts, and the cartoons of the 1930s.\n\nHis poster of Bob Dylan featured a silhouette of the musician based on a self-portrait by Marcel Duchamp and brightly coloured locks of hair borrowed from Islamic art. The poster was included in Dylan's 1967 album Greatest Hits, which was bought by six million fans, and adorned countless walls.\n\nThe poster for Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Islamic art\n\nIn 1968, Glaser co-founded New York magazine and was its design director for nine years.\n\n\"Around our office, of course, he will forever be one of the small team of men and women that, in the late sixties, yanked New York out of the newspaper morgue and turned it into a great American magazine,\" the magazine's obituary said.\n\nIn 1974, he established his own design firm, Milton Glaser, Inc.\n\nThree years later, he designed the \"I ♥ NY\" logo free of charge to help promote tourism in his home city, amid a crime wave and financial crisis. He came up with the idea while riding in a taxi and scribbled it in red crayon on an envelope, which is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).\n\n\"It is one of those peculiarities of your own life where you don't know the consequences of your own actions,\" he told the New York Times in 2008. \"Who in the world would have thought that this silly little bit of ephemera would become one of the most pervasive images of the 20th Century?\"\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks, Glaser released an amended version of the logo that featured a bruised heart and read \"I ♥ NY MORE THAN EVER\".\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks, the Daily News printed a modified version of the 'I ♥ NY' logo\n\nIn 2004, he was given a lifetime achievement award by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for protesters who target monuments to be imprisoned.\n\nThe measure says anyone who damages a public statue must be prosecuted to the \"fullest extent of the law\".\n\nMr Trump's order also calls for withholding federal funds from local jurisdictions and police departments that fail to stop such \"mob rule\".\n\nA number of US statues have been pulled down since the police killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd.\n\nThe president issued the order on Friday evening hours after he abruptly cancelled a planned trip to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, writing on Twitter that he would stay in Washington DC to \"make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe measure says: \"Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies - such as Marxism - that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.\"\n\nIt accuses the protesters of \"a deep ignorance of our history\".\n\nThe order cites the recent targeting of a San Francisco bust to Ulysses S Grant, who owned a slave before he became Union Army commander and defeated the slave-owning Confederacy during the Civil War, a statue in Madison, Wisconsin, of an abolitionist immigrant who fought for the Union, and a Boston memorial commemorating an African-American regiment that fought in the same conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four numbers that explain impact of George Floyd\n\n\"Individuals and organizations have the right to peacefully advocate for either the removal or the construction of any monument,\" the executive order says.\n\n\"But no individual or group has the right to damage, deface, or remove any monument by use of force.\"\n\nIt cites existing laws providing for up to 10 years in prison for anyone who damages federal property.\n\nThe order warns local jurisdictions that neglect to protect such monuments could face having their federal funding tied to public spaces withheld.\n\nPolice departments that have failed to guard statues from damage or vandalism could also lose such funds, the order warns.\n\nIt also states that anyone who \"damages, defaces, or destroys religious property, including by attacking, removing, or defacing depictions of Jesus or other religious figures or religious art work\" should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\n\nThe measure appears to refer to a recent Twitter post by prominent social justice activist Shaun King who wrote that \"statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down\".\n\nThe tweet added: \"They are a form of white supremacy.\"\n\nA statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled by protesters in St Paul, Minnesota\n\nMonuments linked to the Confederacy have been especially targeted in the US amid the nationwide protests ignited by the death of Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a month ago.\n\nPresident Trump has defended Confederate symbols as a part of American heritage.\n\nStatues of Christopher Columbus, the 15th Century explorer whose voyages on behalf of Spain opened the way for the European colonisation of the Americas, have also been targeted as perceived symbols of imperialism.\n\nSome state and local leaders have themselves taken action to remove Confederate symbols.\n\nEarlier this month, Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee would be taken down from the state capital in Richmond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nHarry Maguire scored deep into extra-time as Manchester United overcame valiant 10-man Norwich to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nThe England defender, who moments earlier had a header brilliantly saved by Tim Krul, reacted sharply to turn in the loose ball at the far post.\n\nThe game turned on the dismissal of Timm Klose in the 89th minute. Norwich were in the ascendancy after equalising and looked favourites to snatch a late winner before the Swiss was shown a straight red for pulling back Odion Ighalo.\n\nThe video assistant referee checked Jon Moss' decision and confirmed it within seconds.\n• None 'We got players to kick him on purpose' - the making of Todd Cantwell\n\nNeither side particularly impressed in attack, although both goals in normal time were of high quality.\n\nThe first was scored by Ighalo, who continued his good run in cup competitions with a flicked effort with the outside of his boot in the 51st minute.\n\nThe second goal was even better. Todd Cantwell, Norwich's best player in attack at Carrow Road, let fly from 25 yards with a low swerving shot that beat the reach of Sergio Romero.\n\nNorwich will now focus on their increasingly difficult task of beating the drop from the Premier League. As for United, this was a patchy display but they remain in contention in two cup competitions and for a top-four spot in the league.\n\nA third semi-final in the past five seasons, but perhaps this match further highlighted United's need to strengthen the squad.\n\nSolksjaer, bar one change, faithfully stuck to the XI that got United to this stage however the attacking display they produced for much of the match was, at best, tepid. Without Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford from the start, they lacked the pace and guile needed to get behind a Norwich defence that was well protected by the defensive midfield work of Alex Tettey.\n\nThe statistics read 'no shots on target' in the opening 45 minutes - six minutes after the break that became one shot on target and one goal. If Solskjaer did give a 2020 update of the 'hairdryer treatment' then it certainly worked.\n\nLeft-back Luke Shaw, one of those players below par in the opening period, drove behind the Canaries backline and fired in a cross that was played by Juan Mata into the path of Ighalo, who produced a clever finish. That was the Nigerian loan signing's fifth goal in just five cup competition matches for United.\n\nBut instead of building on that advantage, United retreated into their shell again allowing Norwich to get back into the game.\n\nThankfully for the visitors, the cup gods were smiling down on them when Klose was sent off and, having a stronger bench to call on, it seemed inevitable United would break Norwich resistance.\n\nKrul did his best to keep them at bay, saving from Paul Pogba, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford - three of United's six substitutes - before remarkably clawing Maguire's header off the line.\n\nBut with two minutes of extra-time remaining, United finally wore their opponents down when Maguire pounced to hooked home.\n\nNorwich, like United, made changes to their XI with Farke bringing back first-team trio Emiliano Buendia, Teemu Pukki and Cantwell into the fold - the latter two who helped Norwich make that brilliant start to the season.\n\nFinn Pukki, who has now not found the net in the past nine matches, struggled again, but his 22-year-old team-mate improved as the game wore on. Cantwell's goal in the 75th minute was a delight - cutting through the ball as his shot found the bottom corner.\n\nIt was just reward for Norwich who controlled play after Ighalo's goal. However, when Klose was sent off the Canaries knew extra time would be spent trying to see the match through to penalties.\n\nNorwich City manager Daniel Farke: \"Football can be cruel sometimes and it can be the cruellest sport in the world.\n\n\"Of course it's a disappointing outcome for us. I think the lads deserved more. They left their heart out on the pitch.\n\n\"Manchester United are totally on the up and more or less on the way to finishing in the Champions League positions, they had all players available.\n\n\"To deliver this performance is good for the confidence, without any doubt. In terms of confidence and mood, it was definitely a big boost.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to BBC Sport: \"It is cup football for you, the game was not the greatest spectacle but I felt we kept the ball OK but did not threaten much or create chances.\n\n\"Delighted to be in the last four and we got a good workout for many of the players. It's nice for Harry Maguire to get the winner.\n\n\"It is great to have the option to rotate. Anthony Martial came on and did brilliant but Odion Ighalo gives me a chance to rotate and he is a proven goalscorer and played his part in both goals. He is a great person to have around the dressing room too.\"\n\nNorwich travel to Arsenal in the league on Wednesday (kick-off 18:00 BST), while Manchester United head to Brighton the day before (20:15).\n• None Manchester United have reached their 30th FA Cup semi-final, more than any other team in the competition.\n• None Manchester United have won 11 of their last 13 away games at Norwich in all competitions (L2), winning each of their last four.\n• None Norwich are winless in their last eight home FA Cup matches (D3 L5) since a 4-1 win against Burnley back in January 2012.\n• None Manchester United boss Solskjaer is the first manager to make six substitutions in a competitive match in English football.\n• None Cantwell's seventh goal of the season ended United's run of 448 minutes without conceding in the FA Cup, last conceding in last season's quarter-final against Wolves.\n• None United striker Ighalo has scored in each of his last three appearances against Norwich City in all competitions, netting home and away for Watford in the 2015-16 Premier League season.\n• None Ighalo has scored in all four of his starts for Man Utd (5 goals), scoring with his first shot in this match, with what was the game's first shot on target.\n• None Norwich City defender Klose received his first red card since being sent off for Wolfsburg against Hannover in the Bundesliga in August 2013.\n• None The 10 games that defined their season\n• None Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 1, Manchester United 2. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Noah had been missing for almost a week\n\nA body believed to be that of the missing Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe was found in a storm drain, police have said.\n\nThe 14-year-old was last seen close to the Shore Road in north Belfast last Sunday evening.\n\nA body was found at 09:45 BST on Saturday in the 1km-long drain. Specialist officers had been searching it since the teenager disappeared.\n\nSupt Muir Clark said he did not believe there was any foul play.\n\nHe added: \"While we have no official identification, we believe it is the missing teenager Noah Donohoe.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Noah's family and we are continuing to provide support to them at this very difficult and heartbreaking time.\n\n\"It is disappointing that I, again, need to comment about people circulating a number of rumours about Noah's disappearance which are completely without foundation.\n\n\"This type of commentary and rumour is distressing for Noah's family and unhelpful.\"\n\nA body believed to be that of missing Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe was found in a storm drain on Saturday morrning\n\nOn Friday, police found Noah's backpack, book and laptop after receiving information from the public.\n\nThe recovered items were a khaki rucksack containing a Lenovo laptop and a copy of the book 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.\n\nPolice have previously said he might have fallen from his bicycle and sustained an injury, causing him to remove his clothing.\n\nFloral tributes left at the gates of St Malachy’s College on Saturday\n\nOn Friday, Supt Clark said it was \"still unclear\" as to why Noah, who was from south Belfast, was in that part of the city.\n\nSpecialist teams, police and community rescue services as well as hundreds of volunteers have been involved in the search for the St Malachy's College schoolboy over the past number of days.\n\nSean McCarry, from Community Search and Rescue, described the outcome as a tragedy.\n\nSpecialist teams, police, and community rescue services were involved in the search for Noah, along with hundreds of volunteers\n\n\"We have to keep going until we find somebody,\" he said, \"and the sadness of this, and I can see it in the faces of our volunteers and I am sure it is the same for the police officers but it is most definitely the same for his family and friends.\"\n\nNorth Belfast MP John Finucane said: \"This is tragic and heartbreaking news for his family and friends and all who knew him, as well as the entire community who were involved in the search for him over recent days.\"\n\nAnyone with information about Noah is urged to contact the PSNI's major incident public portal - a 24-hour online reporting platform.\n\nMeanwhile, police investigating the teenager's disappearance have charged a 26-year-old man with improper use of public electronic communications network in relation to social media posts.\n\nHe is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court next month.", "Micheál Martin will lead his Fianna Fáil party into a historic coalition with Fine Gael and the Greens\n\nIreland's new taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has said the fight against Covid-19 will be his government's first priority.\n\nThe 59-year-old Cork native was elected at a special meeting of the Irish parliament in Dublin.\n\nHe has been the leader of the Fianna Fáil party since 2011.\n\nHe will lead a three-party coalition consisting of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.\n\nMr Martin said that to be elected to serve as taoiseach was \"one of the greatest honours which anyone can receive\".\n\nSpeaking to the Dáil (Irish lower house) as taoiseach for the first time, Mr Martin said the focus would be on the social, economic, and cultural recovery from the coronavirus.\n\nHe said would would begin immediately on preparing an investment-led jobs and recovery initiative.\n\nThese proposals would be brought before the Dáil next month.\n\nIt is the first time in history that former Civil War rivals Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have governed together.\n\nMr Martin is expected to lead the country until December 2022 before handing back over to Leo Varadkar, the Fine Gael leader.\n\nMr Martin has been a member of the Dáil (lower house of Irish parliament) for just over 30 years.\n\nHe served as cabinet minister in several Fianna Fáil governments from 1997 to 2011.\n\nAs health minister in 2004, he became the first national government minister in any part of the world to introduce a workplace smoking ban, which also banned the public from lighting up in pubs.\n\nMr Martin was elected taoiseach by members of the Dáil in a special sitting on Saturday.\n\nThe vote took place at the Convention Centre in Dublin, rather than its traditional home at Leinster House, due to Covid-19 social distancing rules.\n\nTDs gathered at the convention centre in Dublin, due to social distancing requirements\n\nA majority of 93 members of the Dáil voted in favour of him taking the role, while 63 members voted against him.\n\nMr Martin made the trip to the president's official residence, Áras an Uachtaráin to be presented with the seal of office\n\nMr Martin appointed a new cabinet on Saturday evening, dividing the roles between all three parties.\n\nFine Gael leader Leo Varadkar is now the tánaiste (deputy PM) as well as minister for enterprise, trade and employment.\n\nWriting on Twitter on Saturday evening, he said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed to the position, and that his party was \"doing what is right for the country\".\n\nGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan is minister for transport, energy and climate action.\n\nThe rest of the posts were distributed as follows:\n\nMr Varadkar has been caretaker taoiseach since the general election in February.\n\nHigher Education Minister Simon Harris (centre left), remains in the cabinet, having previously served as health minister\n\nNo party came close to winning a majority in the poll which would enable them to govern alone, but coalition talks were then halted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFianna Fáil won the most seats, but the two larger parties needed the support of the Greens to have a working majority in the Irish parliament (the Dáil).\n\nThe party leaders and their negotiating teams reached agreement on a coalition deal earlier this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What challenges lie ahead for the new Irish government?\n\nThere have also been nominations made to the Seanad, the upper house of the Irish legislature.\n\nOf the house's 60 seats, the Taoiseach has made 11 nominations, of which there are four each for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, with two for the Green Party.\n\nThe final nomination goes to Traveller rights activist Eileen Flynn.\n\nMicheál Martin confirmed on Saturday he would be setting up a shared island unit within the Department of the Taoiseach.\n\nThis was criticised on Twitter by Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard, who highlighted that none of the Seanad picks represented Northern Ireland.\n\nIan Marshall, a unionist from County Armagh, previously served in the Seanad from 2018 until 2020, and was supported in his original nomination by Sinn Féin.\n\nMicheál Martin was the only Fianna Fáil leader in the party's history not to have served as taoiseach, but that changed today.\n\nMicheál Martin is expected to be taoiseach (prime minister) for two and a half years\n\nHe will hold the role for 30 months before handing over to Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe two parties, both centrist, Fianna Fáil slightly to the left and Fine Gael to the right, have dominated the politics of the state since its foundation.\n\nAlthough there has been little to separate them policy-wise for decades, their decision to share power in government for the first time is historic.\n\nBut it's also a political necessity for their leaders to keep Sinn Féin, the party that got the most votes in February's general election, away from government.\n\nSinn Féin has accused the two of using the Greens as a \"fig leaf\" to disguise their denial of the electorate's demand for change.\n\nThe three parties have five years to disprove those who claim the new coalition is simply a slightly greener version of business as usual in such areas as housing and dealing with climate change in a radical manner.\n\nA meeting between Mr Martin and Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, is likely in the coming days.\n\nWhile there will be new faces, there will be some old problems to talk about such as Brexit and Covid-19.\n\nNot everyone supported the new taoiseach during Saturday's vote in the Convention Centre.\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accused Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael of conspiring to exclude them from government.\n\nMary Lou McDonald claimed Sinn Féin had been excluded from power\n\nAt February's election, Sinn Féin took 24.5% of first-preference votes, compared to 22% for Fianna Fáil and 21% for Fine Gael.\n\n\"Faced with the prospect of losing their grip on power, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have circled the wagons,\" she said, claiming the new coalition was a \"marriage of convenience\".\n\nFine Gael leader and outgoing taoiseach Leo Varadkar said his party would not make a nomination but instead would support the nomination of Micheál Martin.\n\nLeo Varadkar and Micheál Martin chat before the vote in the Convention Centre\n\nGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan also supported the nomination of Mr Martin for taoiseach, saying the Fianna Fáil leader was \"perfectly qualified to run the country\".\n\nLabour leader Alan Kelly said his party would not support the nomination of either Mr Martin or Ms McDonald.\n\nPeople Before Profit Richard Boyd Barrett did not support Mr Martin's nomination and said the coalition's programme for government was a \"re-hash and reheating of the same failed policies\".", "Liverpool fans let off flares outside the Liver Building\n\nFootball fans who gathered in Liverpool for a second night after their team netted the Premier League title have been asked to leave by police.\n\nA dispersal order was issued around the city centre after groups came out again on Friday to celebrate Liverpool's first title win in 30 years.\n\nPolice and politicians urged Liverpool fans to stay at home due to Covid-19, which was \"still a real risk\".\n\nMerseyside Police said the order will be in place until Sunday.\n\nThe force said a Section 34 Dispersal Order was issued \"following large gatherings in the area this evening\".\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither.\n\n\"Tonight we have seen masses of people flock to the Pier Head area heightening the risk of spreading Covid-19,\" it said.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures\n\nPeople took to social media to comment on how people were behaving, about flares being launched at the Liver Building and fireworks being set off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures to \"protect yourselves and each other\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson tweeted a photo of crowds gathered at the Mersey Ferry terminal\n\nAs celebrations got under way again, 24 hours after the club's title triumph was confirmed, the mayor tweeted a photo of a large crowd gathered next to the city's Mersey Ferry terminal.\n\nHe wrote: \"Clearly too many people intoxicated and causing anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"I urge you leave the city centre now it is not safe.\"\n\nHe went on to say \"councils simply do not have the power\" to move people on or prevent them from gathering.\n\n\"If you know someone who is there, please message them and ask them to come home,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're not saying this to be party poopers but hundreds of people have already died in our region because of coronavirus,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Until it's safe for us to come together, please celebrate at home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Anderson, who warned that such scenes would happen, said it was \"disappointing\" so many had ignored advice.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said fans should only celebrate with \"members of your household and in your social bubble\".\n\n\"As we all know, Merseyside has been disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and we must all do what we can to prevent further cases and deaths,\" he said.\n\nOfficial figures show Liverpool registered 544 coronavirus-related deaths up to 12 June and 1,677 cases up to 25 June.\n\nAnnouncing that the city's civic buildings would be lit red for a week to celebrate the club's achievement, a council spokesman urged \"ecstatic fans to try and maintain social distancing guidance to prevent the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Tony Reeves added that it was \"vital we don't throw away the months of hard work for a weekend of celebration\".\n\nIn April, Mr Anderson said he feared restarting the Premier League would lead to a \"farcical\" situation with fans congregating outside Anfield.\n\nThe club said at the time that they were \"disappointed\" by the mayor's comments, while supporters group Spirit of Shankly called on him to retract his statement, adding that there was \"no evidence to support the mayor's perception that supporters will break any lockdown regulations\".\n\nBoth Liverpool FC and Spirit of Shankly have been approached for comment.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground\n\nSpeaking to BBC, Mr Anderson said he had \"warned that I was concerned about the numbers that would turn up, not just outside Anfield but in other parts of the city centre\".\n\n\"In the euphoria... people have decided to ignore advice, but it's gone, it's happened.\n\n\"We'll have to see whether there's a spike in coronavirus as a result of this.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"disappointing, in the same way it was to see the scenes on Bournemouth beach\".\n\n\"But if Chelsea or Manchester City had won the league, we would have seen the same scenes outside Stamford Bridge or the Etihad.\n\nThe city's council has already begun investigating the impact of the club's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on 11 March, which saw more than 3,000 away fans travel to the game, even though Spain was in partial lockdown at the time.\n\nIn May, the scientist leading the UK's coronavirus tracking project, Professor Tim Spector, said allowing the game to happen had \"caused increased suffering and death\", while the family of Reds fan Richard Mawson, who died with Covid-19 after attending the game, have called for an inquiry.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe mother of two sisters murdered in a park said her grief had \"been taken to another place\" after two officers were suspended amid allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death at a park in Wembley earlier this month.\n\nMina Smallman has complained about the Met's initial response - saying she had to organise a search for her daughters.\n\nNo-one has been charged with the murders.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Smallman, the former Archdeacon of Southend, said the pictures \"dehumanised\" her children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They were nothing to them and what's worse, they sent them on to members of the public,\" she said.\n\nSenior officers from the Met and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) personally visited the family to explain what had happened after they were made aware of the alleged photographs.\n\nMrs Smallman said she was told the photos showed the girls' faces and she fears the images will appear on the internet.\n\n\"This has taken our grief to another place,\" she said.\n\n\"If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become, those police officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on.\n\n\"It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nNicole Smallman's body was found by her boyfriend after she was reported missing\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nYesterday evening, the Met said two officers had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and suspended from duty.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"disgusted\" with the allegations against the officers.\n\nMrs Smallman said she had coordinated a search operation on weekend her daughters died and it was Nicole's boyfriend, Adam, who found the sisters' bodies and the murder weapon.\n\nShe says the police were \"making assumptions\" when they didn't immediately respond when the sisters were first reported missing.\n\n\"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and thought they knew who she was.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nDetectives believe they were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nForensic officers have since been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\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.", "PC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nConstable David Whyte has been named as the police officer seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a Glasgow hotel.\n\nThe 42-year-old is being treated in hospital and his condition has been described as \"critical but stable\".\n\nHe was one of six people injured in the attack at the hotel, which was housing asylum seekers. The suspect was shot dead by police.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he offered his \"personal support to all those affected\" by the incident.\n\nIn a statement published on Police Scotland's Twitter account, Mr Livingstone also paid tribute to the officers who dealt with the \"terrible incident\" that \"shocked the whole country\".\n\n\"Officers have once again run into danger to protect their fellow citizens,\" he said.\n\n\"Their professionalism as police officers was outstanding. I pay tribute to their bravery, selflessness and commitment to protect the public.\"\n\nWith coronavirus lockdown restrictions still in place, he went on to urge people not to gather in crowds in the city this weekend.\n\n\"In the context of the current health emergency, and to respect those injured today and the people of Glasgow, I ask everyone to exercise personal responsibility,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis plea was supported by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who earlier said it had been \"the toughest of days for Glasgow\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone involved,\" she said. \"The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that one of the injured being treated in Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 17-year-old from Sierra Leone.\n\nThe young man is said to have sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. He is said to be fit enough to communicate and is continuing to receive treatment.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Park Inn hotel in West George Street had been used as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA police spokesman said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nA formal investigation has started into the police response to the stabbing attack. The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) will be involved in examining the action of officers.\n\nThis is normal procedure for a death involving the police.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said West George Street would remain closed around the hotel as investigations continued.\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton has spoken of his concerns for the injured officer.\n\n\"We are hoping he pulls through from this,\" he said. \"We are making sure we are giving his family the appropriate support.\"\n\nMr Hamilton said that officers were met with \"a pretty difficult scene\" at the Park Inn hotel.\n\n\"This will be a closed-down scene for some time yet,\" he added.\n\n\"We will try to get things moving as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of inquiries and investigations to be done.\"\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Fire crews extinguished a small blaze at the Liver Building after a firework was set off\n\nLiverpool FC has condemned the conduct of some fans who gathered in the city to celebrate the Premier League title win as \"wholly unacceptable\".\n\nThirty-four people were injured - three seriously - as thousands of people turned up on the city's waterfront despite restrictions on gatherings.\n\nFirefighters also extinguished a small fire at the landmark Liver Building.\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said the events \"brought Liverpool Football Club and the city of Liverpool into disrepute\".\n\nSome fans lit flares at the Pier Head waterfront\n\nThree people remain in a serious condition in hospital, the North West Ambulance Service said.\n\nAnother 24 people were also treated in hospital, while seven others were treated at the scene.\n\nA 19-year-old man from Scarisbrick, Lancashire, has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the fire at the Liver Building, thought to have been started by a firework.\n\nThe blaze caused at least £10,000 worth of damage, police said.\n\nFifteen people have been arrested for violent disorder and police officers were \"subjected to a number of violent confrontations\", Merseyside Police Chief Constable Andy Cooke said on Twitter.\n\n\"Last night, children and families were present alongside others and heavy-handed police intervention was therefore not appropriate at the time,\" he said.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jon Roy said missiles were thrown at police, including at two officers who were trying to help the victim of an assault and make an arrest.\n\n\"Both those officers came under attack from bottles being thrown at them and were injured as a result,\" he added.\n\nIn the early hours, after most fans had left, a group of about 100 people also committed \"acts of disorder and then threw glasses and bottles at the police when they tried to intervene,\" he said.\n\nA joint statement from Liverpool FC, the city's council and Merseyside Police said: \"Our city is still in a public health crisis and this behaviour is wholly unacceptable.\n\n\"The potential danger of a second peak of Covid-19 still exists and we need to work together to make sure we don't undo everything that has been achieved as a region during lockdown.\n\n\"When it is safe to do so, we will all work together to arrange a victory parade when everyone can come together to celebrate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Merseyside This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Anderson told BBC Radio Merseyside he was \"frustrated and angry and upset\".\n\nHe said: \"People were urinating in doorways of the Cunard building because people gathered there with cases and cases of beer.\n\n\"About 95% of fans have behaved remarkably well, brilliantly, and listened to our pleas not to gather together, and yet there are a tiny minority besmirching Liverpool Football Club's name.\"\n\nThe events overnight drew criticism from Liverpool FC and several fans\n\nFriday was the second consecutive night crowds gathered to celebrate the club's first league win in 30 years.\n\n\"On Thursday, when they gathered outside Anfield, you could argue that the passion was there and we had to accept that was inevitable,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"But what we saw yesterday was pre-meditated, planned, thought through, and drink played a major part in that.\n\n\"That's no [longer] acceptable now in this city.\"\n\nBBC Radio Merseyside reporter Philip Munns, who was at the Liver Building on Saturday morning, said there were boxes, broken bottles, cans, empty gas canisters and bags \"all strewn across the area\".\n\nAfter Friday's crowds, Merseyside Police issued a dispersal order for the city centre until Sunday.\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nCrowds also gathered outside Anfield on Friday\n\nMr Anderson said he would talk to police about \"why no action was taken much earlier\".\n\n\"I'm expecting Merseyside Police to come down really heavy now… it's about the safety of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"I am angry that people are not considerate to other people, their families, the NHS and the workers that have to deal with this. Covid has not gone away.\"\n\nHe said reported cases of coronavirus had fallen in the past weeks but crowds were \"putting that at risk\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Hank Azaria, the voice of Indian character Apu, said in January he was stepping down\n\nUS animated comedy series The Simpsons will no longer use white actors for the voices of characters from other ethnic backgrounds, the show's producers say.\n\nThe show, broadcast on Fox Network, has faced years of criticism over white actor Hank Azaria's voiceover of Indian-American character Apu.\n\nMr Azaria said earlier this year that he was stepping down from the role.\n\nThe entertainment industry has come under growing pressure to provide more opportunities for non-white performers.\n\nFriday's announcement comes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, which were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody on 25 May.\n\n\"Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,\" the producers said in a short statement.\n\nIn January, Mr Azaria said he would no longer be performing the voice of Indian convenience store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a role he had played since the character was created in 1990.\n\nHank Azaria said it was important to \"listen to Indian people and their experience\"\n\n\"We all made the decision together... We all agreed on it. We all feel like it's the right thing,\" he said at the time.\n\nThe show had been accused of using the character in a way that reinforced racial stereotypes.\n\nMr Azaria - who provides the voice of other characters, including black police officer Lou and the Mexican-American Bumblebee Man - said he found it \"very upsetting to me personally and professionally\" that anyone felt marginalised because of Apu.\n\nFox Network's statement on Friday did not say whether Apu or other characters would continue to feature in the show.\n\nOther white US actors to announce that they will no longer be providing voiceovers for people of colour include Mike Henry and Kristen Bell.\n\nMr Henry provided the voice of black character Cleveland Brown in the animated series Family Guy for 20 years.\n\n\"I love this character, but persons of colour should play characters of colour,\" he tweeted on Friday.\n\nMs Bell, who provided the voice of Molly, a mixed-race child, in the cartoon series Central Park, said doing so displayed \"a lack of awareness\".\n\n\"Casting a mixed race character [with a] white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience,\" she added.", "Demonstrations were held in cities across the UK\n\nThousands of people gathered across England to mark the first anniversary of the death of a 12-year-old refugee girl who drowned in a river.\n\nShukri Yahye-Abdi, who came to the UK in 2017, died in Bury's River Irwell, in Greater Manchester, on 27 June 2019.\n\nAn ongoing inquest was told in February an unnamed child had confessed to threatening her to \"get in the water\".\n\nThe case has been highlighted by supporters of the Black Lives Movement, including Star Wars actor John Boyega.\n\nShukri Yahye-Abdi came to the UK in 2017\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition calling for \"justice for Shukri\".\n\nThousands of people attended events marking the anniversary of her death, including in Manchester, London, Cardiff and Bristol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #Justice4Shukri This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement were also held in Portsmouth, Oxford, Coventry and Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nFadumo Osman, one of the organisers of the Manchester event, said: \"I myself am a black Muslim female, I can see myself with Shukri. It could have been myself, my sister.\"\n\nShe said organisers wanted to \"put pressure on the institutions involved… to be transparent\".\n\nMs Osman, who came to the UK as a Somali child refugee, said: \"A lot of underprivileged children face difficulty within schools when they first arrive in the country and I hope that something is done institutionally to prevent this happening again.\"\n\nHundreds of people marched through London on Saturday\n\nShukri grew up with her Somali family in a refugee camp in Kenya until 2017, before moving to the UK.\n\nIn February, her mother Zam Zam Ture told the coroner's inquest that Shukri had never liked swimming.\n\nThe inquest heard from witnesses who saw Shukri with other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to their ages, before her death.\n\nThe hearing was told that Child One confessed to her foster carer that she had said \"if you don't get in the water I'm going to kill you\" but added the comment had been made in a \"joking manner\".\n\nThe hearing was adjourned before lockdown restrictions, with the next date yet to be confirmed.\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition over the case\n\nAfter Shukri's death, her school said it would review its anti-bullying policy amid speculation over the circumstances.\n\nIn June 2019, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was treating the circumstances as a \"tragic incident\", adding that it did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.\n\nHowever, the Independent Office of Police Conduct announced an investigation in August into GMP's handling of the case, which was completed in January.\n\nIts conclusions have been shared with Shukri's family and GMP, and will be published following the inquest.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said earlier this month he would \"look into the case\" after he received about 6,000 emails about it.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Bieber has denied the allegations made against him\n\nJustin Bieber is suing two women for defamation after they accused him of sexual assault.\n\nLast week, two Twitter accounts tweeted claims about incidents alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015.\n\nBieber denied the claims and vowed to speak to Twitter to urge the social media giant to take legal action.\n\nThe singer, 26, filed a $20 million (£16.2m) lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday which describes the allegations as \"fabricated lies\".\n\nAn account from a woman known only as Danielle claimed she was assaulted by Bieber at a hotel in Austin, Texas on 9 March 2014.\n\nShe claims that after a surprise performance in front of a crowd at a bar, Bieber invited her and two friends to a Four Seasons hotel.\n\nDanielle then claims she was taken to a private room in the hotel and assaulted.\n\nHer tweets have been deleted however screenshots have been shared on social media.\n\nResponding to the claims, Bieber shared screenshots from articles from the day the alleged assault took place, which show him with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez.\n\nHe says they did not stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Bieber shared a screenshot of a tweet which claimed he was spotted at restaurant inside a Four Seasons Hotel on 10 March, the day after the alleged assault.\n\n\"Even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel,\" the lawsuit said.\n\nAnother woman who identified herself as Kadi alleged on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel in May 2015.\n\nThe lawsuit says her accusation is false and that she had fabricated her allegation \"out of her desire for fame and attention\".\n\nIt claimed that the women were \"trying to capitalize on the climate of fear permeating the entertainment industry, Hollywood and corporate America, whereby it is open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, unsupported, and provably false) about anyone without consequence\".", "Coca-Cola said its decision did not mean it was joining the #StopHateforProfit campaign\n\nCoca-Cola will suspend advertising on social media globally for at least 30 days, as pressure builds on platforms to crack down on hate speech.\n\n\"There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media,\" the drinks maker's chairman and CEO James Quincey said.\n\nHe demanded \"greater accountability and transparency\" from social media firms.\n\nIt came after Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would also ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which accuses Facebook of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation, said the \"small number of small changes\" would not \"make a dent in the problem\".\n\nMore than 90 companies have paused advertising in support of #StopHateforProfit.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell 8.3% on Friday, eliminating $56bn (£45bn) from the company's market value and knocking $7.2bn off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth, Bloomberg reported. As a result of the loss, Louis Vuitton boss Bernard Arnault replaced the Facebook founder as the world's third richest individual.\n\nCoca-Cola told CNBC its advertising suspension did not mean it was joining the campaign, despite being listed as a \"participating business\".\n\nMr Quincey said the company would use the global \"social media platform pause\" to \"reassess our advertising policies to determine whether revisions are needed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nClothes maker Levi Strauss & Co also said it would be pausing advertising on Facebook following Mr Zuckerberg's announcement. Unlike Coca-Cola, it accused the social media firm of not going far enough.\n\n\"We are asking Facebook to commit to decisive change,\" CMO Jen Say said.\n\n\"We want to see meaningful progress towards ending the amplification of misinformation and hate speech and better addressing of political advertisements and content that contributes to voter suppression. While we appreciate that Facebook announced some steps in this direction today - it's simply not enough.\"\n\nThe #StopHateforProfit coalition - which includes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) - said none of the changes would be vetted or verified.\n\n\"We have been down this road before with Facebook. They have made apologies in the past. They have taken meagre steps after each catastrophe where their platform played a part. But this has to end now,\" it added.\n\nThe campaign called on Mr Zuckerberg to take further steps, including establishing permanent civil rights infrastructure within his company; submitting to independent audits of identity-based hate and misinformation; finding and removing public and private groups publishing such content; and creating expert teams to review complaints.", "Khairi Saadallah is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of three men who were stabbed to death in a public park in Reading.\n\nKhairi Saadallah is accused of killing James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on 20 June. The attack in Forbury Gardens was later declared a terrorist incident.\n\nMr Saadallah, 25, has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nHe will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe 25-year-old came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018.\n\nPost-mortem tests revealed David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong each died of a single stab wound\n\nThe three friends each died of a single stab wound, post-mortem examinations have shown.\n\nMr Furlong was head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham. His parents said their son was \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" and \"will live in our hearts forever\".\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett was a US citizen who moved to the UK 15 years ago. His father Robert Ritchie told US TV network CBS the family was \"heartbroken\" and said his son, who was originally from Philadelphia, was \"brilliant and loving\".\n\nAnd scientist Mr Wails was described as \"always happy\" and a person who \"always made people smile\".\n\nThree other people hurt in the attack have since left hospital.\n\nMembers of the victims' families lit candles at a vigil in Reading, which the local council streamed online.\n\nIt began at 19:00 BST, marking a week since the attack.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was among officials at the vigil in Market Place. People who took part in the virtual memorial were encouraged to light a candle and place it on their doorsteps or in their windows.\n\nFamilies of the victims came together to light candles at a vigil in Reading on Saturday\n\nThe vigil took place on a grey and windy day in Reading's centre just yards from where the attack happened in Forbury Gardens last Saturday.\n\nRepresentatives from the police, ambulance, local MPs and family sat on spaced out chairs, facing three lanterns: the three lives lost.\n\nAfter the families each lit the candles for their loved ones, they came together as a group, hugging and holding on to each other.\n\nThe crowd was silent, remembering the three men, David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong - described as honest, loving and outstanding people, whose lives were cut short.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Mr Furlong's family released a statement thanking the police for their \"remarkable bravery\" in response to the attack.\n\nThey also thanked other members of the emergency services, and members of the public \"who did all they could to help and save the lives of those who had been injured that night\".\n\nThe statement added: \"To James' colleagues and pupils at the Holt School: he spoke often of how much he loved where he worked and his passion for developing the students. He cared so much and was very proud of each and every one of you.\n\n\"James was passionate about creating a more loving and caring society. His time with us was cut far too short but the impact he made will live on, long long into the future. His family, his friends and those who have met him - he made us all a better person.\n\n\"We are so proud of him. James was, and always will be, so very much loved by us all.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was among officials at the event\n\nThe family of Mr Ritchie-Bennett also released a statement, which read: \"We LOVED Joe so much and we are in such deep sorrow. We need all the prayers for Joe and the Ritchie and Bennett families.\"\n\nCouncillor David Stevens told the vigil that the attack had left Reading \"feeling a mix of horror, disbelief and immense sadness.\"\n\n\"Just one week ago, friends and families were sat in Forbury Gardens, just a few yards from here, making the most of the warm weather on a summer's evening and enjoying one another's company,\" he said.\n\n\"It was around now, the happiness and tranquillity of the evening was shattered in the cruellest and most horrific way.\"\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, James Puxley, said of the three friends: \"Who knows what they would have achieved in life had they lived to an old age. Doubtless they would have achieved many good things that the community is now deprived of benefiting from.\"\n\nHe also praised members of the public who \"tore off their shirts to make bandages\" to help the victims of the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family members of James Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett lit candles at the vigil\n\nAn online book of condolence has also been opened for people to pay tribute to the three friends, who were members of the LGBT community.\n\nMartin Cooper, chief executive of Reading Pride, said he also had been friends with all three men, and they were \"great supporters\" of the community. He previously described them as \"true gentlemen\" and said each had a \"unique personality\".", "The mother of two sisters who were killed in a Wembley park earlier this month has described the moment she was told their bodies had been found.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death. Two police officers have been suspended after allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nMina Smallman told the BBC's Martin Bashir that the pictures \"dehumanised\" her daughters.", "Restrictions on travel to some European destinations are to be lifted on 6 July, says the UK government\n\nScottish Ministers say they have not yet taken a decision on easing restrictions on holiday travel, despite an announcement from the UK government.\n\nA UK government spokesman said blanket restrictions on travel to some European countries will be relaxed from 6 July.\n\nThe UK government has powers over border controls.\n\nHowever, health protection issues on overseas travel must be supported by Scottish government regulations because health is a devolved matter.\n\nScottish Ministers said they needed to be satisfied arrangements to be put in place were \"right for Scotland and properly supported by Scottish legislation\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had expected four-nation talks to be held before any announcement was made.\n\nUnder the UK government plans, holidaymakers are expected to be allowed to travel to certain European countries without having to spend 14 days in quarantine when they return.\n\nA traffic light system will be operated - with countries classified as green, amber or red depending on virus cases.\n\nThey are thought to include Spain, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Turkey, Germany and Norway.\n\nThe full list of travel corridors with the UK will be published next week.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had expected to be involved in talks on overseas travel\n\nBut the Scottish government said it had expected talks involving Wales and Northern Ireland and UK ministers first.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Scottish ministers have long argued for UK-wide public health measures relating to international travel as part of the wider response to this pandemic - to protect people and ensure that we limit the introduction of new chains of transmission of the virus when our own infection rates are falling.\n\n\"This is a matter for Scottish ministers - who have not yet taken a final decision.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Scottish government had anticipated a four-nations ministerial discussion before the UK government's announcement, and it is disappointing that this has not yet taken place.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said the new rules would give people \"the opportunity for a summer holiday abroad\" while also boosting the UK economy - but stressed the relaxation depended on risks staying low.\n\nHe added that the government \"wouldn't hesitate to put on the brakes\" on overseas travel if the situation changed.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said it was \"good news\" people in Scotland could \"look forward to a summer holiday in Europe\".\n\nHe added: \"But they now need an urgent decision from the Scottish government on whether they will be able to travel from Scottish airports, or have to fly from airports in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"Decisions on quarantine need to be taken without unnecessary delay by the Scottish government so people can plan their hard-earned holidays.\"\n• None UK to open up European holidays from 6 July", "Keturah King admits it was \"really scary\" at times during her pregnancy\n\nNHS England is asking doctors and midwives to provide more checks and support to black, Asian and ethnic-minority (BAME) pregnant women because of their greater risk from coronavirus.\n\nBlack mums-to-be are eight times more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid-19 than white pregnant women.\n\nPregnant Asian women are four times as likely to end up in hospital.\n\nMaternity services remain open and mums-to-be are urged to keep in touch with their midwives to stay safe.\n\nKeturah King recently gave birth to a little boy at Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, north-east London.\n\nShe praised the support she received there but admitted she had concerns about being pregnant during the pandemic.\n\n\"When lockdown started it was just over-70s and vulnerable people on the at-risk list; then they added pregnant women and that's when the worry kicked in,\" she said.\n\n\"When it emerged black people are... more likely to pass away it was really scary and you're thinking, please don't let it hit our doorstep.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPregnant women are no more likely to catch coronavirus than anyone else. The majority who do get it will experience only mild or moderate cold/flu-like symptoms.\n\nAs a precaution, pregnant women have been told to be particularly strict about avoiding social contact to reduce their risk of catching the disease.\n\nJazpreet Rana-Patel, 28, is 33 weeks pregnant. She said: \"I've felt physically fine. I think definitely there have been periods of anxiety just going into the hospital, though.\n\n\"There are probably a multitude of factors contributing to the statistics and in the meantime being able to understand exactly why it's occurring is so important for women and to be aware of the risks, especially when lockdown is easing.\"\n\nResearch shows that just over half of the pregnant women admitted to hospital with Covid-19 are from a BAME background, even though they account for only a quarter of the births in England and Wales.\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: \"Even before this pandemic, women from black, Asian or ethnic-minority backgrounds had poorer pregnancy outcomes, and Covid-19 has sharpened this inequality further.\n\n\"We support the steps the chief midwifery officer has asked maternity units to undertake and we are calling for these actions to be implemented swiftly. \"\n\nEven though some midwifery appointments may be carried out over the phone during the pandemic, that does not mean they are less important, the RCM says.\n\nEngland's most senior midwife, Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, has written to all maternity units in the country calling on them to:\n\nMs Dunkley-Bent said: \"I want to make sure that every pregnant woman in England knows that the NHS is here for them - if you have any doubt whatsoever that something isn't right with you or your baby, contact your midwife immediately.\"", "Technology giant Amazon has banned the police from using its controversial facial recognition software for a year.\n\nIt comes after civil rights advocates raised concerns about potential racial bias in surveillance technology.\n\nThis week IBM also said it would stop offering its facial recognition software for \"mass surveillance or racial profiling\".\n\nThe decisions follow growing pressure on firms to respond to the death in police custody of George Floyd.\n\nAmazon said the suspension of law enforcement use of its Rekognition software was to give US lawmakers the opportunity to enact legislation to regulate how the technology is employed.\n\n\"We've advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,\" Amazon said in a statement.\n\n\"We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested.\"\n\nHowever, the company said that it would still allow organisations that deal with human trafficking to use the technology.\n\nLike other facial recognition products, Amazon's Rekognition can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to very quickly compare a picture from, for example, an officer's phone camera and try to match it with mugshots held on police databases that can hold hundreds of thousands of photos.\n\nFacial recognition technology has been criticised for some time over potential bias, with studies showing that most algorithms are more likely to wrongly identify the faces of black people and other minorities than those of white people.\n\nIn the past Amazon has defended Rekognition against charges of bias, while continuing to offer it to law enforcement agencies.\n\nThe death in police custody of George Floyd, an African American man, reignited those concerns as police tactics and the use of technology for law enforcement have come under intense scrutiny.\n\nEarlier this week IBM said it would no longer offer its facial recognition technology because AI systems used in law enforcement need to be tested \"for bias\".\n\nIn a letter to Congress, IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna said the \"fight against racism is as urgent as ever\", and set out three areas where the company wanted to work with Congress: police reform, responsible use of technology, and broadening skills and educational opportunities.\n\nIn recent months Congress has been weighing possible legislation of the technology as lawmakers, companies and civil liberties activists have called for stronger regulation of surveillance software.\n\nHouse Democrats introduced a police reform bill on Monday that would prohibit federal law enforcement use of real-time facial recognition, but some activists said the measure didn't go far enough.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union said all use of facial recognition on police body camera footage should be banned, and that federal funding should be restricted for local law enforcement agencies that didn't restrict the technology's use in the same way.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nPeople living alone in England will be able to stay at one other household as part of a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced that, from Saturday, single adults can spend the night at another house in a \"support bubble\".\n\nNo 10 said the change aims to help combat loneliness and that people are being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nThe PM also announced a new national \"catch-up programme\" for school pupils in England, after it was confirmed most children will not return to classrooms until September.\n\nMr Johnson told the daily Downing Street briefing the new \"support bubbles\" apply to single adult households or single parents with children under 18.\n\n\"All those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household, meaning they can spend time together inside each others' homes and do not need to stay two metres apart,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I want to stress that support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning you can't switch the household you are in a bubble with or connect with multiple households.\n\n\"And if any member of the support bubble develops symptoms, all members of the bubble will need to follow the normal advice on household isolation.\"\n\nIn addition to the new \"support bubbles\", the PM also confirmed non-essential shops can reopen on 15 June alongside outdoor zoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas.\n\nThe government gave examples for how the new \"support bubbles\" might work for single adults in England:\n\nNo 10 also said that if a person lives alone but their partner has a flatmate, for example, then they can form a bubble but the flatmate cannot then form their own with another household.\n\nIf anyone within a bubble develops coronavirus symptoms, everyone within the bubble must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere were 8.2 million people living alone in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, with just under half aged 65-and-over. There were also 2.9 million single-parent households.\n\nMr Johnson said the new rule is \"not designed for people who don't qualify to start meeting inside because that remains against the law\".\n\nOne part of the bubble has to be a single household, or be a single parent to children aged under 18.\n\nIt does not apply to grandparents who live together, people living in houses of multiple occupancy, such as flat shares, or to couples who already live together.\n\nThose who are shielding cannot be advised to form a bubble, the PM said.\n\nHe added: \"However, I want to say I know how hard it is for those of you who are shielding and we will say more next week about the arrangements that will be in place for you beyond the end of June.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is keen to emphasise the government is moving slowly in easing the lockdown.\n\nThe \"support bubble\" plan is very limited - designed to help the loneliest in England.\n\nIt's the government dipping another very tentative toe into the water when it comes to easing distancing restrictions.\n\nBut just as lockdown is eased further, questions are increasing about the decisions we've seen so far.\n\nComments from Prof Neil Ferguson on lockdown coming too late will be very uncomfortable reading for those in power, even if they can say they were acting on the advice they were getting.\n\nLikewise, England's chief medical officer saying testing could have been ramped up earlier will be seized upon by the government's critics.\n\nThe government doesn't want to talk about its early decisions yet - but many others already are.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked why children will soon be able to go and look at lions in a zoo but may not be able to return to the classroom until September.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had wanted to get the remainder of primary pupils back before the summer holidays.\n\nBut the circulation of coronavirus was \"not quite down far enough to change the social distancing measures that we have in our schools\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he pledged, adding that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson \"will be setting out a lot more next week about the catch-up programme\".\n\nHe defended the approach on schooling by comparing England's policy to other European countries.\n\nAnd he said a return for all pupils in September depended on progress continuing in controlling the virus.\n\nEarlier, Prof Neil Ferguson, a former government science adviser, told MPs deaths in the UK would have halved had the country entered lockdown a week earlier.\n\nAsked about the comments at the government briefing alongside the PM, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said people would have different views on when the lockdown should have been introduced.\n\nHe said there was \"very limited\" information about the virus at that stage and we now know more.\n\nThe PM said: \"It's too early to judge ourselves. We know a lot more about the virus than we did in January, February or even March.\n\n\"You have to proceed with caution, that is what we are doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Lockdown decisions should be assessed 'in fullness of time'\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus on to - remains \"just below one\".\n\n\"The epidemic is shrinking, but not fast,\" he said. \"Numbers are coming down but are not yet very low.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed there have been a further 245 coronavirus deaths across all settings in the UK, taking the UK death toll to 41,128.\n\nThe pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management - that's because, as Prof Witty says, nothing is \"risk free\".\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further.\n\nThat would further reduce the spread of coronavirus - and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost economically, socially, to children's education and also to people's health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nInstead, the fine line being trod by the government and its advisers is to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a whole other question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while reopening society.\n\nWhatever is done, there will be victims.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements, in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.\n• None What are the social distancing rules?\n• None Who can you have in your bubble?", "The League of Gentlemen was a dark, surreal comedy\n\nThe League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh are to remain on the BBC iPlayer despite being removed from Netflix amid objections about the use of blackface.\n\nThe Mighty Boosh's Spirit of Jazz and The League of Gentlemen's Papa Lazarou were both white actors in dark make-up.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said the corporation was \"constantly assessing whether things feel appropriate\".\n\nBoth platforms have removed Little Britain. A BBC spokesman said: \"The change only affects Little Britain.\"\n\nAsked about The League of Gentlemen and Australian comedy Summer Heights High, Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4's Front Row: \"We constantly are looking at what's appropriate and reassessing, and coming to a balance between what we think people want to watch or what reflects the times [when] those pieces were made, and what feels right now.\n\n\"You are constantly assessing whether things feel appropriate for the audiences and the contexts in which we are all broadcasting.\"\n\nElsewhere, 1939 film Gone With The Wind has been removed from HBO Max but will return with a \"discussion of its historical context\".\n\nLord Hall said the context of a film or programme was \"really, really important\".\n\nHe said: \"Using art, film, comedy, whatever, to help put context on the way that people thought, the way they behaved, and make that come to light now, and help us with the issues we're currently dealing with, I think is really important.\n\n\"We all need that context and we need that history.\"\n\nThe League of Gentlemen with Reece Shearsmith as Papa Lazarou (left) in 2002\n\nThere was an outcry on social media about the removal of clips of The Inbetweeners from YouTube - but it turned out to be related to copyright and not offence.\n\nHarry Enfield: \"I definitely think there should still be a conversation about it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, comedian Harry Enfield has defended having used blackface \"several times in the past\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had portrayed his \"hero\", former South African President Nelson Mandela, as a drug dealer, \"which I thought was so wrong that it was right\".\n\nThe point was \"to show how preposterous it was to have this stereotype\" of black people, Enfield explained.\n\nHe said: \"I wouldn't do it now, but I don't think I regret it.\" He added: \"I definitely think there should still be a conversation about it.\"\n\nEnfield said he had played four past prime ministers, and if current Chancellor Rishi Sunak was to get into Number 10, he would \"find it difficult that I would not be able to play him because of the colour of his skin\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nThe first figures from the new NHS Test and Trace programme in England show two-thirds of the 8,000 people who've tested positive for Covid-19 have provided details of who they had been close to. As a result, nearly 27,000 people have been told to self-isolate. The programme has traced 31,000 contacts so far.\n\nTwo-thirds of people who tested positive provided details of their contacts\n\nPupils in England are to be offered extended catch-up sessions over the summer and beyond, to help them get back on track after school shutdowns. Downing Street said the sessions would involve all pupils, not just students from deprived backgrounds who are expected to struggle the most following closures. It comes after the government abandoned plans to bring all students back before the summer holidays.\n\nSocial distancing has put limits on the number of pupils returning to schools\n\nA report containing measures to protect ethnic minority groups from the virus has been drawn up for the government. A review, published last week, confirmed that the virus kills people from ethnic minorities at disproportionately high rates. But a senior academic has told BBC News a second report, containing safeguarding proposals to tackle this, also existed.\n\nYoung people are suffering the worst effects of the lockdown economy, according to the Office of National Statistics, which has calculated the impact on household spending for the first time. It found that people are spending 53% of their income on essentials, with higher amounts for young people, renters and people living in London, who may not be able to take payment holidays.\n\nFaced with a collapse in air travel due to the pandemic and thousands of job losses, British Airways is resorting to selling off part of its art collection. The company owns works by Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin and Bridget Riley, with the latter believed to have the highest valuation of over £1m. At least 10 pieces have been identified for sale, although it is not known which ones.\n\nA work by abstract artist Bridget Riley - thought not this one - is thought to be BA's most valuable\n\n...the rules on meeting up indoors change slightly from Saturday - read up on what the new guidelines are here.\n\nAnd there's more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and you can get the latest updates on our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "European food delivery app Just Eat Takeaway has agreed to buy US rival Grubhub in a $7.3bn (£5.75bn) deal.\n\nIf the takeover is completed it will create the world's biggest food delivery company outside China.\n\nThe combined firm will have more than 70 million active customers who place close to 600 million orders a year.\n\nThe announcement comes after talks between Grubhub and Uber failed as their potential merger faced competition scrutiny.\n\nJust Eat Takeaway's chief executive Jitse Groen highlighted the importance to the deal's success of his long-standing relationship with his counterpart at Grubhub Matt Maloney.\n\n\"Matt and I are the two remaining food delivery veterans in the sector, having started our respective businesses at the turn of the century, albeit on two different continents,\" he said.\n\n\"Both of us have a firm belief that only businesses with high-quality and profitable growth will sustain in our sector.\"\n\nThe deal comes amid a surge in demand for deliveries of takeaway food as people stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEven before Covid-19, taken together Just Eat Takeaway and Grubhub last year reported revenues that totalled $3bn and a profit of $447m.\n\nAnalysts have said consolidation in the food delivery industry is long overdue as companies have to spend huge amounts of money to gain and retain their customers.\n\nThe deal, which still needs shareholder and regulatory approval, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.\n\nChicago-based Grubhub has had on-off takeover talks for some time with larger rival Uber.\n\nBut Uber signalled on Wednesday that it was no longer pursuing a potential tie up with Grubhub.\n\n\"Like ridesharing, the food delivery industry will need consolidation in order to reach its full potential for consumers and restaurants. That doesn't mean we are interested in doing any deal, at any price, with any player,\" said Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen.\n\nJust Eat Takeaway was created by the merger of the UK's Just Eat and Netherlands-based Takeaway.\n\nThe $7.8bn deal was given the go ahead in April this year after an investigation by the UK's competition authority.\n\nGrubhub's shares rose by more than 4% in after hours trade in New York.", "British world heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to a two-fight deal, says promoter Eddie Hearn.\n\nTalks over a historic bout for the undisputed title began in early May.\n\nJoshua, 30, holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, while 31-year-old Fury is the WBC champion.\n\n\"We have a financial deal in place between the two of them for two fights in 2021\" Hearn, who is Joshua's promoter, told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger. It's two British world heavyweight champions fighting for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.\"\n\nFury expressed his delight at the news in a social media post. He said he would fight Joshua in 2021, but would first have to overcome the \"hurdle in the road\", Deontay Wilder, in a third meeting. Fury is contracted to fight the American, from whom he won the WBC title in February.\n\nJoshua, who reclaimed his world titles in December, has to face his mandatory challenger, Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev, when the sport fully resumes after the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nHearn added: \"They do have intermediate fights. There is Dillian Whyte as a mandatory as well, but always the most difficult part of any deal is getting two parties to agree to the financial elements of the deal.\n\n\"The aim for Anthony Joshua is to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. He holds all the belts bar one, which is owned by Tyson Fury. So, if Tyson Fury was to lose to Deontay Wilder - which I can't see happening - then we would go straight into the Deontay Wilder fight for the undisputed championship.\n\n\"But, of course, in an ideal world you've got two Britons there who are heavyweight champions. It will never happen again, it has never happened previously and it's a chance for Britain to gain all the belts in the heavyweight division.\"\n\nIn a statement, Fury's promoter, Frank Warren, said \"no contracts have been signed\".\n\n\"Obviously, we are keen to make the fight that British fans demand and will continue negotiations in order to deliver Tyson his shot at becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,\" he added.\n\n\"Things are going in the right direction and we couldn't be more happy that a potential mega fight is in reach.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Warren added: \"The only way it could not happen is if one of the guys gets beaten.\"\n\nHe added: \"Everyone wants it to happen. For me, this will be the biggest sporting event in this country with these fighters - four belts on the line, two Britons fighting for the world title, both champions. This is just mega. I think it'll be the biggest sporting event in this country since England won the World Cup in 1966.\n\n\"[Fury's] really happy. It's something he's wanted for a long, long time. It's a great fight for both of them and for fans in this country and round the world.\n\n\"It's not going to get any more competitive than this.\"", "The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has calculated , for the first time, the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on household spending.\n\nIt found that a typical household in the UK normally spent an average of £182 a week on activities, such as travel, holidays and meals out, which have been mostly curtailed during the virus outbreak.\n\nMany households have been saving that money or using it to cover any loss of income - but there remains the need for about 53% of income to be spent on essentials, such as food and housing.\n\nFor young people a greater proportion of their income goes on essentials than other groups.\n\nWith little in savings and less chance to cut spending, the under-30s are likely to be hit the hardest if their income drops.", "The news that the full test-and-trace programme might not be up and running until September has led some to think this applies to the NHS contact-tracing app, rather than the wider manual tracing effort.\n\nThe confusion is understandable - after all it's not long ago that ministers talked as if the app was the centrepiece of the programme rather than the \"cherry on top\" as Baroness Harding described it this week.\n\nMy understanding is that the app, which has indeed suffered a number of delays, should still be rolled out nationwide by late June or early July - although there is no guarantee that the timetable won't slip further.\n\nAfter a first trial with an app with very limited capabilities on the Isle of Wight, version two, which features five questions about symptoms instead of two and integrates the testing process, is undergoing testing at a secret location in London.\n\nI understand this version will then be launched as an update for Isle of Wight residents next week.\n\nBut when that local trial becomes a national rollout is not clear.\n\nSomeone close to the project says that at the beginning, the team was told to act like a tech start-up, trying things out and then changing them day by day.\n\nNow, that person says: \"Downing Street's attitude to risk has been dialled right down - they don't want it to be released until it's perfect.\"\n\nBluetooth contact tracing apps are a new idea and many countries around the world are trying them out.\n\nSo far, however, there is no clear evidence that they are effective.\n\nSingapore, which pioneered the idea, struggled to get enough people to download its app, which appeared not to work very well.\n\nNow the government there says it will roll out a wearable contact-tracing device to all its citizens instead.", "The government is preparing to announce changes to the probation system in England and Wales\n\nSome high-risk offenders in England and Wales may not have been monitored as closely as they should have been during the lockdown, a report suggests.\n\nAn internal Ministry of Justice document shows probation staff did not carry out all the planned checks in half of cases, in one four-week period.\n\nThe National Probation Service (NPS) has insisted supervision was adequate.\n\nIt comes as the government is expected to announce the NPS will take over the probation system in England and Wales.\n\nThis would end the involvement of private companies.\n\nSince the coronavirus lockdown, the state-run NPS has scaled back face-to-face supervision of thousands of sex offenders and violent criminals, to prevent infection.\n\nEmergency plans were drawn up for most offenders to be contacted by telephone or visited on their doorstep.\n\nBut, according to the MoJ document seen by BBC News, in the four weeks to May 17, only 51% of high-risk offenders under supervision had all the contact that had been planned for.\n\nThe statistics also show that during the week leading up to May 17, 18% of high-risk prisoners did not have immediate appointments with probation officers on release.\n\nThey should have had a meeting within one \"business day\" of leaving jail.\n\nHowever, the NPS disputed the significance of the figures.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This data is partial, experimental and unreliable.\n\n\"We don't use it in isolation to judge performance and the public shouldn't do either.\n\n\"All our wider evidence in combination shows offenders are receiving the right levels and types of supervision.\"\n\nPrivate firms, known as community rehabilitation companies - which supervise low and medium-risk offenders in England - had planned contact in 61% of cases during the four weeks, according to the data.\n\nUnder government plans, outlined in May 2019, the companies would have lost their offender supervision role to the NPS - but would have been able to bid to run unpaid work schemes, drug misuse programmes and training courses.\n\nBut ministers have halted the process and are believed to have decided that the NPS should deliver rehabilitation services as well as managing the entire caseload of offenders.\n\nHowever, it is thought there will still be opportunities for voluntary groups and charities to operate specialist offending behaviour schemes.", "With the easing of Italy's lockdown, staff at the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro in Naples are disinfecting exhibits ahead of its reopening on Saturday Image caption: With the easing of Italy's lockdown, staff at the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro in Naples are disinfecting exhibits ahead of its reopening on Saturday\n\nAll Thai train services have resumed after a three-month hiatus because of the pandemic. These passengers in the province of Narathiwat were observing social distancing measures Image caption: All Thai train services have resumed after a three-month hiatus because of the pandemic. These passengers in the province of Narathiwat were observing social distancing measures\n\nNepalese police used a water cannon on protesters who gathered near the prime minister's residence in Kathmandu. The demonstrators are demanding a stronger response to the pandemic Image caption: Nepalese police used a water cannon on protesters who gathered near the prime minister's residence in Kathmandu. The demonstrators are demanding a stronger response to the pandemic\n\nWorkers at a Nissan car plant in Barcelona staged another protest after the company announced it was closing the factory with the loss of about 2,800 jobs because of the pandemic Image caption: Workers at a Nissan car plant in Barcelona staged another protest after the company announced it was closing the factory with the loss of about 2,800 jobs because of the pandemic\n\nWith growing unemployment across the US, these volunteers loaded food aid for distribution to hard-hit areas of Boston, Massachusetts Image caption: With growing unemployment across the US, these volunteers loaded food aid for distribution to hard-hit areas of Boston, Massachusetts\n\nA makeshift memorial to health workers who have died from Covid-19 has been set up in St Petersburg, Russia. The Kremlin has denied under-reporting the numbers of deaths from the virus Image caption: A makeshift memorial to health workers who have died from Covid-19 has been set up in St Petersburg, Russia. The Kremlin has denied under-reporting the numbers of deaths from the virus", "NHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall said the 19 field hospitals established in Wales remain \"a contingency\" but discussions were being held with health boards about whether there was \"some other supportive role that could be played by those field hospitals as well\".\n\nHe said there was an exercise underway \"to actually judge what capacity we need to retain\" to deal with any future further coronavirus peak.\n\n\"I think that just having a field hospital staffed across Wales, when they're not required wouldn't make sense,\" he said.\n\nDr Goodall confirmed the temporary hospitals, such as the Dragon's Heart Hospital, inside Cardiff's Principality Stadium, had cost a total of around £160m to establish.\n\n\"That was an investment for preparation, that was an investment under the principles of investing to save lives and to protect the Welsh population, and obviously we will want to make sure that we have some further opportunity to use those going forward,\" he said.\n\n\"But those plans may adapt and change.\"\n\nCardiff's Principality Stadium has been turned into the Dragon's Heart Hospital Image caption: Cardiff's Principality Stadium has been turned into the Dragon's Heart Hospital", "George Alagiah has revealed that his bowel cancer has spread to his lungs.\n\nThe 64-year-old BBC newsreader and journalist told The Times newspaper he was given the news by doctors in April, but only told his editor.\n\nHowever, he added that his condition is not at a \"chronic\" or \"terminal\" stage.\n\nAlagiah was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014, and announced in 2017 that the disease had returned. It has now spread to his lungs, liver and lymph nodes, he said.\n\n\"My doctors have never used the word 'chronic' or 'cure' about my cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"They've never used the word 'terminal' either. I've always said to my oncologist, 'Tell me when I need to sort my affairs out', and he's not told me that, but what he did tell me is that the cancer is now in a third organ. It is in my lungs.\"\n\nHe added: \"I said to my doctor, 'You're going to have to do the worrying for me.' I don't want to fill my mind with worry. I just know that he's a clever guy, doing everything he can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC newsreader George Alagiah on living with coronavirus and cancer\n\nAs a result of the cancer spreading, Alagiah said his chemotherapy has increased.\n\nIn late March, the BBC newsreader revealed he had also contracted a mild case of coronavirus, but felt that dealing with cancer had helped him to get through it.\n\n\"In some ways, I think that those of us living with cancer are stronger because we kind of know what it is like to go into something where the outcomes are uncertain,\" he told his BBC News colleague Sophie Raworth, at the time.\n\nLast month, his debut novel The Burning Land, about corruption and homicide in South Africa, was shortlisted for a Society of Authors award.\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. Footage shared online shows a male officer being pinned to the ground and kicked\n\nThe home secretary and the Police Federation have condemned a video which shows an officer on the ground apparently being kicked.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows an officer struggling with a man in Frampton Park Road in Hackney, north London.\n\nThe footage was branded \"sickening\" by Priti Patel, while the federation said: \"We are not society's punch bags.\"\n\nFour people have since been arrested on suspicion of assault on police.\n\nThey include a 13-year-old boy and three men, aged 20, 32 and 34.\n\nThe officers, a man and a woman, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment, the Met Police said.\n\nA member of the public, who had claimed to have been assaulted, flagged down the police on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"As an officer attempted to speak with those involved, one of the men resisted and a struggle ensued. A number of other people became involved whilst the officer was on the ground.\"\n\nAn officer was filmed while he was pinned to the ground in Frampton Park Road\n\nFootage appears to show the officer trying to restrain a man but they then fall to the ground with the officer pinned underneath.\n\nPassers-by began filming and taking selfies as the officer and the suspect grappled.\n\nThe female officer attempted to keep people away from the scene and also suffered injuries before more officers arrived and the first two arrests were made.\n\nTwo police officers, presumably awaiting backup, are having to fight for control, on a London pavement, surrounded by people, seemingly hostile.\n\nAs is so often the case, phones came out of pockets as the incident developed, so the video doesn't show what happened in the minutes before.\n\nThat is crucial since officers have to justify the force they use.\n\nEven before George Floyd's death, any number of controversial arrests in recent years have demonstrated that a single video posted on social media can transform the public's opinion of an incident, and therefore their views of the police.\n\nThis investigation may be able to rely on the officer's own body-worn video cameras, increasingly vital in establishing the context.\n\nBut more generally, figures show the number of reported assaults on police officers have been rising steadily since 2014.\n\nThis, during a period when police numbers fell because of years of austerity. Fewer officers on the streets means fewer officers to respond, when their colleagues get into difficulty.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: \"Yet again this starkly shows the dangers [officers] face and the bravery they show each and every day keeping Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are not society's punch bags. We have families we want to go home to at the end of every shift, but the dangers are stark and seemingly escalating.\"\n\nSupt Martin Rolston said: \"This incident, which was captured on someone's mobile phone is truly shocking.\n\n\"My officers went to the assistance of a member of the public - who asked for their help - after stating that they had been assaulted.\n\n\"What happened next is a reminder of the risks our officers take whilst going about their duties.\"\n\n\"My thoughts are with the outstanding officers who were subject to this disgusting violent attack.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I utterly condemn the disgraceful attack on two Metropolitan Police officers this afternoon.\n\n\"These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public. We owe them a debt of gratitude.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists angry at Brazil's response to Covid-19 have created 100 graves on Rio's Copacabana beach to remember the more than 40,000 people who have died.\n\nHowever, organisers said supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the event with one man pulling out crosses.\n\nThe president's opposition to lockdowns and his downplaying of the virus have deeply divided the nation.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest number of cases - and the third-highest number of deaths in the world.\n\nOn Thursday, deaths passed 40,000 and cases rose to above 800,000, according to the health ministry.\n\nThe symbolic graves, with black crosses, were dug before dawn opposite the Copacabana Hotel by members of the Rio de Paz group.\n\nOrganiser Antonio Carlos Costa told Reuters news agency: \"The president has not realised that this is one of the most dramatic crises in Brazil's history.\n\n\"Families are mourning thousands of dead, and there is unemployment and hunger.\"\n\nBut he said some supporters of the president had mocked the project.\n\n\"They feel such rage - and I think they're reproducing the behaviour of the person occupying the highest position in the land,\" he said.\n\nOne man went around knocking down the crosses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus\n\nOnly the US has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than Brazil figures from Johns Hopkins University show\n\nBut even as the numbers of deaths and cases continue to rise, the country's two largest cities reopened shopping malls on Thursday.", "Ant and Dec have apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway.\n\nThe duo concealed their real identities with darker make-up and prosthetics in order to pull pranks on famous people.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, they said they were \"sincerely sorry\" and had requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nTheir apology follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, in the US and the UK, over the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour in the Undercover segment of the show,\" they wrote in a statement.\n\n\"We realise that this was wrong and want to say that we are sincerely sorry to everyone that we offended.\"\n\nThey added: \"We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not make these sketches today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe presenting pair dressed up as two fictional Jamaican women, Patty and Bernice, during a segment in 2003, and as two Japanese girls, Suki and Keiko, the year after, adopting fake accents.\n\nIn January, Ant and Dec won their 19th consecutive presenting award, at the National Television Awards.\n\nBut it's not the first time this year that they have had to apologise for causing cultural offence on their primetime weekend show.\n\nIn March, they both wore headbands that featured the Japanese Rising Sun flag - seen by some as a symbol of Japan's imperialist past - during a martial arts inspired performance alongside pop singer Anne Marie.\n\nTheir latest apology arrives just days after the BBC removed the popular comedy Little Britain from streaming sites due to objections resurfacing regarding some of the sketch show's similarly outdated characters.\n\nOn Wednesday, BBC director general Tony Hall said creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams had agreed with the decision.\n\n\"We are constantly looking at what we have in our archive and thinking, is it still appropriate?\" Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4 Front Row.\n\n\"Times move on. Indeed I think David and Matt, who made the programme, felt that times had moved on as well. It was acknowledged by them. So we're constantly keeping this under review, and that's why the decision has been made.\"\n\nHowever, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would not have removed the series, which was originally broadcast between 2003-2008.\n\n\"The BBC have editorial independence, and it wouldn't have been my choice, but that's up to the BBC,\" he told ITV's Robert Peston. \"I'm not going to second-guess them all the time.\"\n\nAsked about the sketches in question last November, Walliams told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz that blacking up was acceptable at the time - but it was \"probably the right thing\" that people don't do it any more.\n\n\"It was acceptable at some point about 15 years ago because lots of other comedians were doing it at the time, and now it's become unacceptable again,\" he said.\n\n\"It was unacceptable, then it was acceptable, then it was unacceptable again, so it's quite interesting how that has shifted. I don't exactly know why, but I think it's good that people express what they want to see and what they don't want to see - it's perfectly reasonable.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having made himself up as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Chemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nGovernment plans for schooling during the pandemic \"lie in tatters\", with England's pupils set to miss six months of lessons, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nCalling for a national task force to tackle the issue, the Labour leader said the consequences for inequality and children's education were stark.\n\nBoris Johnson defended the plan during Prime Minister's Questions, pledging extra support for vulnerable families.\n\nPlans for all primary pupils to go back this term were ditched on Tuesday.\n\nAnd although some secondary students, most of whom have been out of school since the end of March, are expected to be invited back for some face-to-face time with their teachers, their lessons are not expected to resume until September at the earliest.\n\nSpeaking during Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said the government \"fully intends\" to bring all children in England back to school in September \"provided the progress we are making continues\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he said, adding that the education secretary will announce more on a catch-up programme next week.\n\nAt PMQs, Sir Keir said Mr Johnson had announced his plan to reopen primaries on 1 June, without consulting head teachers or having convincing scientific evidence on safety.\n\nAnd he said parents had lost confidence in the government's schools plan.\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"flailing around trying to blame others\" for what had been a completely avoidable \"mess\".\n\nMr Johnson retaliated, during a series of testy exchanges, saying Sir Keir should ask \"his friends in the left-wing trade unions\", meaning the teachers' unions, to help schools prepare.\n\nHe also accused the Labour leader of changing his mind over whether schools should be open.\n\nSir Keir said England was an \"outlier\" compared with other countries in Europe, which had re-opened some of their schools.\n\nAnd his attempts to set up a cross-party task force to tackle the issue had been ignored.\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said the government's decision not to require all primary school pupils in England to return to the classroom before the summer holidays was \"disappointing\".\n\nShe told a House of Lords Committee she was \"saddened\" that people may have become \"more frightened than they actually need to be\".\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield called for a national strategy to return pupils to classes, warning children risked being forgotten as the lockdown lifted.\n\nAnd concerns were raised at the Commons Education Committee about the impact of school closures on children's life chances.\n\nProf Lee Elliot Major, former chief executive of the Sutton Trust education equality charity, said he was \"really worried\" about the eight million children currently out of school.\n\nHe said: \"There is a tsunami of anxiety hitting schools about the one million children who are going to be taking their GCSEs and A-levels next year.\"\n\nAnd there needed to be clarity about how public exams would be handled next year, adding that he preferred a combination of exams and teacher assessment.\n\nSally Collier, chief executive of England's exams watchdog, told the committee contingency plans were being drawn up but gave no details.\n\nReports have suggested Ofqual might be considering delaying exams or using a system involving predictive grades.\n\nMs Collier suggested the government may be re-thinking the content of exams for next year and that schools would need to know at the earliest opportunity what they were going to need to teach next year.\n\nOfqual would be publishing a consultation in the coming weeks on possible measures to ameliorate the impact of educational disruption on next year's exam candidates, she told MPs.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said it was increasingly clear disruption to schooling was going to continue.\n\n\"Looking at the exams system, we could face some of this, a very similar situation, next year, we have got to learn from this year,\" he said.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, of the Runnymede Trust, said there needed to be an urgent look at what could be done for pupils who were not going back to school this summer.\n\nShe said there were lots of venues available out of school, which could be utilised because of Covid-19 restrictions - such as football stadiums, private schools and golf fields.\n\nShe urged ministers to think creatively and urgently about how such facilities could be used, with a view to setting up summer schools to help pupils catch up and support them with pastoral and emotional needs.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, using a blended model, with some continued home-learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Younger women have been hit financially by lockdown\n\nYoung people have been hardest hit by a fall in their income during lockdown as more of their money goes on essentials, official data suggests.\n\nThe youngest and oldest workers are most likely to have lost their jobs or seen income cut owing to the system of state-paid wages.\n\nWith little in savings and less chance to cut spending, the under-30s would be hit hardest by this, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nRenters have found it just as tough.\n\nThe ONS has calculated, for the first time, the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on household spending.\n\nIt found that a typical household in the UK normally spent an average of £182 a week on activities, such as travel, holidays and meals out, that have been mostly ruled out under health guidance during the virus outbreak. This is equivalent to 22% of a usual weekly budget of £831.\n\nMany households have been saving that money instead or using it to cover any loss of income.\n\nThousands of people have lost their jobs and millions have received only 80% of their usual wages as they have been furloughed - in other words, told not to work while the government covers their pay.\n\nThe latest figures show more than 7.5 million people had been furloughed in the UK by the end of May, while another 2.5 million self-employed workers have applied for grants to cover their losses.\n\nWhile many people have saved, there remains the need for about 53% of income to be spent on essentials, such as food, rent, or the mortgage.\n\nSome, but not all of this can be deferred, through so-called payment holidays, particularly credit card bills, gas and electricity charges or mortgage repayments.\n\nHowever, young people, renters and people living in London have found a greater proportion of their income goes on essentials, some of which cannot be deferred, than other groups.\n\nAs a result, they are likely to be hit the hardest if their income drops and they need to find the money for costs such as food and housing.\n\nJared Thomas has seen work fail to pick up\n\nJared Thomas, 26, from south Wales, has seen work dry up as the coronavirus outbreak means financially stretched customers have had little demand for his tree surgery services.\n\n\"Everybody's life has been turned upside down,\" he says.\n\n\"I really don't know when work will pick up. I'd be surprised if it does for the next month or two.\"\n\nHe has claimed the universal credit benefit for the first time, so he can pay the rent.\n\nThe ONS said households renting their home from a landlord spent 61% of their usual weekly budget on essentials, compared with 52% for households which owned their home outright or with a mortgage.\n\nA typical 30-year-old spent 58% of their weekly budget on essentials and normally only 19% on what has been prevented during lockdown, such as drinks in a pub, the ONS said.\n\nOn the other hand, older households of between 65 and 74 years old spent far less of their budget on essentials (43%) and considerably more (29%) on activities that have been unavailable.\n\nIn London, where property prices and rental costs are most expensive, a typical household spent 58% of its weekly budget on essentials such as food and housing costs, the highest of any region or country of the UK.\n\n\"For those who have faced an uphill battle during lockdown, it's a timely reminder of how much difference it can make to have something set aside for emergencies,\" said Sarah Coles, from investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Nobody is pretending it is easy to put money aside when you're starting out in your adult life, but it is worth doing whatever you can afford, as soon as you can afford to do so.\"\n\nAlistair McQueen, head of savings and retirement at insurer Aviva, said: \"While it is true to say that during the coronavirus lockdown 'we are all in it together', the impact on our individual finances is not equal.\"", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters who were found dead in a park where they had been celebrating a birthday had both been stabbed multiple times, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThey had been among a group who had gone to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday on Friday evening. The pair were reported missing the next day.\n\nNo arrests have been made but the Met said they had several lines of inquiry.\n\nThe group had met at about 19:00 BST at a spot in the park about five minutes from the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nPeople gradually left during the evening with Ms Smallman and Ms Henry being the only ones remaining by midnight.\n\nA search began late on Saturday after they failed to return home, before they were both discovered shortly after 13:00 and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said their families were \"devastated by their loss\".\n\nHe added that the group had met in a \"well-known spot to sit and look over London\" and appealed for anyone who noticed them or \"may have seen a person acting suspiciously in the days leading up to the attack\" to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nLabour has urged Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to publish all correspondence relating to his approval of a £1bn property scheme.\n\nThe call came after it emerged the developer of the scheme has since given money to the Conservative Party.\n\nRichard Desmond donated £12,000 to the party two weeks after Mr Jenrick gave planning permission for his company to build 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nThe Conservatives said policies were \"in no way influenced by donations\".\n\nLabour has criticised Mr Jenrick for \"refusing\" to answer an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the matter.\n\nChris Pincher - a junior housing minister - is answering the question instead.\n\nSources close to Mr Jenrick say he will be taking MPs' questions on Monday, at his regular Commons question time.\n\nMr Jenrick granted planning permission on 14 January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs.\n\nIt has emerged that Mr Desmond made a personal donation to the Conservatives on 28 January.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must show the process was \"fair and transparent\" and a local councillor said the donation \"raised questions\" for the minister.\n\nThe property development was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted he did not show any bias\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate whch said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council has since challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nThe £12,000 figure was included in Tuesday's Electoral Commission audit of party donations for the first three months of the year and first reported by the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Jenrick has come under growing political pressure in recent weeks after it emerged he sat at the same table as Mr Desmond, the former owner of the Daily Express, at a Conservative Party fundraiser last November.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Jenrick told the Daily Mail \"the developers did raise their application, but Mr Jenrick informed them that it would not be appropriate for them to discuss the matter with him, or for him to pass comment on it\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must now make clear whether he told officials at his department about the meeting and disclose whether he or members of his team had any other contacts with the developer.\n\nUnless the Housing Secretary published all documents about the application and any correspondence with Mr Desmond in the run-up to the decision, the opposition said \"the public will be entitled to think it's one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy friends, and another rule for everyone else\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\n\"Communities must have confidence that the planning process is fair and transparent, but the unanswered questions around Robert Jenrick's unlawful decision have weakened that trust,\" said Labour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed.\n\n\"It's time for Mr Jenrick to come clean and answer these crucial questions about why he over-ruled his own inspector to grant planning permission for a billionaire Conservative Party donor to build a luxury development.\"\n\nAndrew Wood, who resigned as leader of the Conservative group on Tower Hamlets Council because of his concerns over the property deal, has called for the Cabinet Office to launch an investigation.\n\nHe told the BBC details of Mr Desmond's donation raised \"more questions about what was going on\", adding that although £12,000 was \"not a lot of money,\" it did not look good.\n\n\"The optics are terrible,\" he added.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Desmond's donation was properly declared to the Electoral Commission and fully complied with the law.\n\n\"Government policy is in no way influenced by party donations - they are entirely separate,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"\n\nMr Desmond has, in the past, donated money to both Labour and UKIP.\n\nNorthern & Shell, of which he is the majority shareholder, sold its publishing interests in 2018 and now focuses largely on property development as well as digital ventures and the Health Lottery.\n\nFormer Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has written to the Cabinet Secretary about the matter.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Lord Adonis said he would raise Mr Jenrick's \"failure to answer parliamentary questions about his conduct\" in the House of Lords.", "The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman.\n\nKennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, suggested that the definition should include a reference to systemic oppression.\n\nAn editor then responded, later agreeing to update their definition.\n\nThe decision comes amid international anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nFloyd died after a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nMs Mitchum had encountered people pointing to the dictionary to prove that they were not racist because of the way they felt towards people of colour. She felt the definition needed to reflect broader issues of racial inequality in society.\n\nMs Mitchum told the BBC that she first became aware of the shortcomings of the current definition around four years ago.\n\n\"I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,\" she said. \"There were a lot of things that were racist but it wasn't as blatant.\"\n\nMs Mitchum says the dictionary definition was being used by people attempting to tell her she was wrong.\n\n\"Some troll was messaging me trying to say 'You don't understand what racism truly is,'\" she said.\n\nPeople were copy-and-pasting the definition to her in an attempt to prove racism could only exist if you believe your race to be superior to another.\n\n\"They were saying: 'You're in school [university], so what do you mean? You have privileges as well'. I said it's not about that, it's about the hurdles that I had to jump over because of the colour of my skin and the systems that are in place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muhammad Ali: 'Why is everything white?'\n\nOn 28 May, Ms Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to point out that racism is \"both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. It is a system of advantage based on skin colour\".\n\nTo her surprise, she got a response the next day. After some back-and-forth, Merriam-Webster said the \"issue needed to be addressed sooner rather than later\" and that a revision would be made.\n\nMerriam-Webster's editorial manager Peter Sokolowski told the BBC that the wording of the second definition of racism will be \"even more clear in our next release\".\n\n\"It could be expanded ... to include the term systemic and it will certainly have one or two example sentences, at least,\" he said.\n\nThe people working on the new definition will be consulting the work of experts in black studies, he said, adding that the revision could be done by August.\n\nMs Mitchum said the issue of definition is vital.\n\n\"I think it's very important for people to be on the same page,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Floyd's niece: 'This is not just murder, but a hate crime'", "Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is to cut 5,000 jobs this year to \"arrest the decline\" of the company.\n\nThe company has been losing customers to rivals and, in February, blamed a big loss in 2019 on the energy price cap and falling gas prices.\n\nCentrica also said the coronavirus crisis had shown how the company could be \"agile and responsive\".\n\nNew boss Chris O'Shea said most of the cuts would fall in the UK as the energy giant seeks to slim down its business.\n\nAbout half of the jobs to go will be among the company's leadership, management and corporate staff. This will include half of the senior leadership team of 40 who will leave by the end of August.\n\nCentrica currently has about 27,000 employees, with 20,000 of these based in the UK.\n\nMr O'Shea was officially appointed as Centrica chief executive in April, having previously been the company's finance director. He took over from Iain Conn, who had said last summer that he intended to leave the role.\n\n\"Since becoming chief executive almost three months ago, I've focused on navigating the company through the Covid-19 crisis and identifying what needs to change in Centrica,\" Mr O'Shea said.\n\n\"We've learnt through the crisis that we can be agile and responsive in the most difficult conditions and put our customers at the heart of our decision making.\n\n\"I truly regret that these difficult decisions will have to be made and understand the impact on the colleagues who will leave us. However, the changes we are proposing to make are designed to arrest our decline, allow us to focus on our customers and create a sustainable company.\"\n\nThe GMB union said it would \"fight for every job\".\n\n\"A combination of the [energy price] cap and too little, too late management decisions have left a once proud brand crippled and weak,\" said spokesman Justin Bowden.\n\n\"Slashing thousands more jobs is not the answer. You cannot just cut your way out of a crisis.\"\n\nThe price cap on electricity and gas bills came into effect in January 2019 and was a flagship policy of former Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called \"rip-off\" prices.\n\nA number of energy companies have said the policy has affected their business and profits. Centrica made a loss of £849m in the last calendar year compared with a £987m profit the year before.\n\nThe energy sector has seen a number of smaller suppliers fail, and other companies have been looking to merge.\n\nLast month, Ovo Energy - which bought SSE's retail division earlier in 2020, making it the UK's second biggest domestic gas and electricity supplier - said it was cutting 2,600 jobs.\n\nCentrica also said it would be consulting with staff on \"simplifying\" terms and conditions for employees in the UK.\n\nIt said it had 80 different employee contracts, each with multiple variants, with many of the agreements more than 35 years-old.", "British firms do not have the resilience to cope with a no-deal Brexit after the battering of the coronavirus crisis, according to the outgoing boss of industry body the CBI.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn said a CBI member had likened a no-deal to \"setting the shed on fire\" while the house was in flames.\n\nBrexit trade negotiations have not been going well between the UK and the EU.\n\nA government spokesperson said the UK wanted to reach an agreement with the EU this year.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC that any buffers to cope with the additional cost and planning of an exit from the EU customs union and single market without a deal had been exhausted by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"The resilience of British business is absolutely on the floor,\" she said.\n\n\"Every penny of cash that had been stored up, all the stockpiles prepared have been run down.\n\n\"The firms that I speak to have not a spare moment to plan for a no trade deal Brexit at the end of the year - that is the common sense voice that needs to find its way into these negotiations.\"\n\nThose negotiations are not going well. They broke up last week with the EU's chief negotiator saying that very little progress had been made on key sticking points, including future fishing rights in UK waters, and commitments to maintain a \"level playing field\" over regulation and competition.\n\nThe devastating impact of Covid-19 and the fight for business survival has diverted management attention away from any Brexit contingency planning, according to Dame Carolyn, who worries that a political commitment to abandon the current transitional trading arrangements - come what may - will add to the burden on business at a critical moment.\n\n\"As one member put it to me - just because the house is on fire, it doesn't make it ok to set fire to the garden shed.\n\n\"If we have a political timescale that takes us to a brinksmanship deal in December that will be catastrophic for British business - they will not be ready.\n\n\"Small businesses were not ready last time there was a no-deal Brexit threat - this time they will not have had a moment to prepare for it.\"\n\nDame Carolyn's comments come as the CBI - the UK's most influential business group - confirmed she will be succeeded as director general by Tony Danker in November.\n\nMr Danker is currently chief executive of Be the Business, an organisation set up to improve the efficiency and productivity of UK businesses. A former media executive, he was also a policy adviser to the Treasury.\n\nRelations between business groups and the government have been strained ever since the campaign leading up to the EU referendum of 2016, when business groups, including the CBI, warned of economic damage to the UK economy whose biggest customer is the EU.\n\nDame Carolyn is hopeful that this crisis can help build bridges in the face of a common and deadly health and economic enemy.\n\n\"Government realises it needs business and business understands how much it needs government,\" she said.\n\nShe described the government's intervention to support workers wages during the lockdown as a \"vital way for the economy to hibernate\".\n\nBut the CBI on Thursday urged the government to focus on how the UK emerges from that hibernation.\n\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister, Dame Carolyn called on the government to make employment for young workers the government's top priority, as well as ensuring the UK emerges from the crisis with a focus on investment in environmentally sustainable industries.\n\nDame Carolyn was set to stand down this year anyway, but agreed to extend her term until the end of the year given the ongoing health and economic crisis.\n\nThis is not the swansong she would have wanted. The UK is forecast to experience the worst economic downturn of any major European economy according to figures out yesterday from the OECD.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We've been clear that we want to reach an agreement with the EU this year and we are prepared to work hard to accelerate talks. This was what both sides agreed to in the political declaration.\n\n\"If we don't negotiate a Canada-style FTA [free trade agreement], we'll leave with an Australia-style relationship. Whatever happens we will be leaving the single market and customs union at the end of this year.\n\n\"We have taken unprecedented action to support businesses through this pandemic and to ensure the UK's economic recovery is as strong and as swift as possible. Extending the transition period would simply prolong the negotiations and create more uncertainty for businesses.\"", "Prince Joachim, 28, is the nephew of the Belgian king\n\nA Belgian prince who contracted coronavirus after breaking lockdown rules in Spain has been fined €10,400 ($11,800).\n\nPrince Joachim was issued with the penalty for failing to observe a 14-day quarantine period after arriving in the country.\n\nThe prince, 28, arrived in Spain for an internship on 24 May, but attended a gathering in the southern city of Córdoba two days later.\n\nBelgian prince apologises for lockdown party in a statement after reports about the party emerged in Spanish media late last month. He added that he would \"accept the consequences\".\n\nHe has 15 days to pay the fine, in which case the amount will be reduced by half.\n\nSpain imposed a mandatory two-week quarantine for all international arrivals on 15 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nPrince Joachim is a nephew of Belgium's King Philippe and 10th in line to the throne.\n\nMore than 27,000 people have died of coronavirus in Spain since the outbreak began.", "Concerns about the risks of deploying a go-it-alone UK coronavirus contact-tracing app are causing further delays.\n\nA second version of the smartphone software was due to have begun testing on the Isle of Wight on Tuesday, but the government decided to postpone the trial.\n\nMinisters are considering switching the app over to tech developed by Apple and Google.\n\nBut countries testing that model are experiencing issues of their own.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had originally said the NHS Covid-19 app was to be launched across England - and possibly other parts of the UK - by 1 June.\n\nBut he subsequently said the government had decided it would be better to establish a network of human contact tracers first.\n\nHowever, the BBC has discovered that one of the main reasons the initiative is running behind schedule is that developers are having problems using Bluetooth as a means to estimate distance.\n\nEven so, they still believe they are better placed to tackle the challenge than counterparts overseas who are working under constraints imposed by the two US tech firms.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to prevent a second wave of infections by keeping a log of when two people are in close proximity to each other and for how long.\n\nIf one of the users later tests positive for the disease, the records are used to determine how likely it is they infected the other. If required, an alert is triggered to help prevent the further spread of the virus.\n\nThe UK has adopted what is known as a \"centralised\" approach, meaning that the contact-matching process is carried out on a remote computer server. One benefit is it offers epidemiologists more data to tackle the pandemic. France and India are other countries to have adopted this model.\n\nBy contrast, Apple and Google's \"decentralised\" approach carries out the matches on the handsets themselves, on the grounds this better protects users' privacy.\n\nPoland switched its app from a centralised to decentralised approach on Tuesday. Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Latvia are among others to have adopted the tech giants' design.\n\nBoth systems rely on Bluetooth \"handshakes\" to work.\n\nNumber 10 is concerned that iPhones will not always detect each other because of a restriction Apple has imposed on apps that do not adopt its model.\n\nBut the UK team has devised a workaround and is more concerned about other limitations of using Bluetooth.\n\nSome of these issues were outlined in a study published by Trinity College Dublin last month.\n\nIt highlighted problems with using received Bluetooth signal strength as a means to estimate distance.\n\nThe report highlighted troubling results when Singapore's TraceTogether app was tested.\n\nIreland's police force is among organisations trialling a contact-tracing app ahead of a planned national rollout\n\nAn experiment within a stationary train carriage found that when users moved from a distance of 3.5m (11.5ft) to 4m, signals became stronger rather than weaker because of the way metal objects were reflecting the radio waves.\n\nA trial in a supermarket also found the received signal strength was the same whether two people were walking close together or 2m apart.\n\nFollow-up tests using Apple-Google's tech are currently under way.\n\n\"The work is ongoing, but preliminary results are broadly consistent with previous observations,\" said Dr Brendan Jennings, who has been tasked with assessing the effectiveness of Ireland's Covid-19 app.\n\nThe team behind Switzerland's SwissCovid app is carrying out tests of its own.\n\nIts Bluetooth measurement chief believes the issue can be partly addressed by taking a range of readings over a period of five minutes or more.\n\nBut he added that Apple and Google had placed curbs on what could be achieved.\n\n\"The Google and Apple API [application programming interface] limits the amount of raw information that is actually exposed to the app,\" Prof Mathias Payer told the BBC.\n\n\"For maximum utility, we would get all the different measurements, but this has privacy implications.\"\n\nSwiss MPs have given permission for the country's contact-tracing app to be launched nationwide\n\nApps using Google and Apple's tech do not get to see the actual signal strength but rather one of three values, based on calculations used to normalise the different ways Bluetooth behaves on different handsets,\n\nBy contrast, the UK team can currently obtain the measurements directly.\n\nThose responsible believe a further advantage of their centralised approach is that the data can be processed on the server involved, since it would be too taxing a task to be done on smartphones.\n\nBut part of their challenge is communicating this to Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - and 10 Downing Street itself.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister declined to comment.", "Recently released figures show that more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England.\n\nAn anonymous contact tracer told the BBC they felt training for the new system was inadequate and that there had been \"mass confusion\".\n\nThe government disputed the claims and said the new system is \"helping save lives\".", "Lady Antebellum - now Lady A - with the three Grammys they won in 2010\n\nChart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.\n\nThe Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones.\n\nThe word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War.\n\nThey say they took the name from the architectural style, but are \"deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to \"the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced\" and \"blindspots we didn't even know existed\".\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 originally took their name from the antebellum style of home after taking their first band photos in front of one such house almost 14 years ago, they said.\n\n\"As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us,\" they wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. Causing pain was never our hearts' intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that.\"\n\nThe group are best known for their hit Need You Now, which reached number two in the US, and the top 20 in the UK, in 2010.\n\nBjork's record label has also changed its name\n\nThey said they made the decision after \"personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues\".\n\nThey added: \"We can make no excuse for our lateness to this realisation. What we can do is acknowledge it, turn from it and take action.\"\n\nTheir move comes after British record label One Little Indian, which has released music by Bjork, Sigur Ros and Paul McCartney's side-project The Fireman, changed its name to One Little Independent.\n\nFounder Derek Birkett said he'd made the decision after a fan explained why the name - which uses an outdated term for the indigenous people of the Americas - was \"offensive\".\n\n\"The last few weeks have been a monumental learning curve,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\n\"Following the receipt of an eye-opening letter from a Crass fan that detailed precisely why the logo and label name are offensive, as well as the violent history of the terminology, I felt equally appalled and grateful to them for making me understand what must be changed.\"\n\nHe went on to explain that the label had been founded in the late 1970s, when his friends were inspired by the \"philosophies of the Indigenous People of the Americas\".\n\n\"I was naive enough at the time of founding my label to think that the name and logo was reflective of my respect and appreciation of the culture,\" he said. \"I recognise now that both contribute to racism and should have been addressed a long, long time ago.\"\n\nThe name changes come as the music industry seeks to address its complicated history with race, in the wake of George Floyd's death and Black Lives Matter protests around the world.\n\nThe term \"urban music\" has been scrapped by Republic Records, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, while the Grammys have announced they will stop using \"urban\" to describe music of black origin in their awards categories.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man who repeatedly drove over his stepmother in a drunken rage at a wedding has been jailed for six years.\n\nBen Ashman, 37, went on a rampage in the car park at Bowburn Hall, near Durham, at the end of his stepbrother Connor Ashman's nuptials on 23 August.\n\nHis stepmother Kathryn Ashman suffered injuries including a fractured face and broken ribs when she was run over three times by his 4x4 Vauxhall.\n\nHe admitted five offences when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nJudge Robert Adams said Mrs Ashman's injuries were \"appalling\" and the defendant, of Sunderland Street, Houghton-le-Spring, was \"extremely lucky\" she was not killed.\n\nProsecutor Jolyon Perks said trouble started just after midnight when Ashman's \"intoxicated and upset\" girlfriend complained of the way another man was looking at her.\n\nA fight broke out and spilled into the car park, rousing Mrs Ashman.\n\nClad in her dressing gown, she shouted at Ashman's girlfriend, prompting him to hold his stepmother on the ground by her hair.\n\nHe shouted that he would kill her and \"splat everyone here\", the court heard.\n\nThe drunk couple then got in their car, but guests tried to stop them driving away.\n\nOne woman, Jodie Young, had her arm shut in the door as she tried to grab the keys, while Ashman's brother, Kyle, threw a large rock at the windscreen, shattering it.\n\nBen Ashman went on a rampage in the car park at Bowburn Hall near Durham\n\nAshman drove at speed around the car park aiming at people, including Kyle, with whom he made minimal contact as he braked.\n\nHe then smashed into Ms Young's Nissan Juke, the court heard, which his brother had attempted to hide behind.\n\nAshman then careered into his stepmother, then reversed over her.\n\nHe pulled her along, then drove forward over her again.\n\nThe court heard he had not intended to hit her and had limited visibility due to the shattered windscreen.\n\nAshman fled southbound along the A1(M), stopping after seven miles due to the amount of damage to his car.\n\nLewis Kerr, defending, said his client was suffering \"mental health difficulties\" at the time and is full of \"remorse, sorrow and anguish\".\n\nJudge Adams said there was no indication of animosity between Ashman and his family before the wedding and it was \"truly out of character\".\n\nAshman, who had initially been charged with attempted murder, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, attempted grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, common assault and criminal damage.\n\nHe was also banned from driving for five and a half years.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It is different when you're not getting that face-to-face contact\"\n\nDrug and alcohol addiction referrals have fallen by 57% during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity.\n\nKaleidoscope said the \"significant reduction\" came after it closed non-clinical bases and recovery hubs on 18 March.\n\nThe charity's chief executive said people who cannot access such help get \"exponentially worse\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said services had \"adapted rapidly\" during the pandemic.\n\nKaleidoscope covers the Gwent area, Powys and north Wales, with each region seeing referrals drop.\n\nComparing drug referrals from 18 March to 30 May in 2019, and the same period this year, it said:\n\nThere were similar drops in alcohol referrals.\n\nChief executive Martin Blakebrough said: \"With drugs or alcohol, if you're not coming into services those problems get exponentially worse.\"\n\nIt was not just about drug services but ancillary services like hepatitis C vaccinations, Mr Blakebrough said.\n\n\"We will see an increase in deaths if we're not careful,\" he said.\n\nKaleidoscope and other charities in Wales have changed the way they help people. Changes include video calls, online chats and more phone calls.\n\nCarol Hardy, manager of the Living Room, a charity that helps drug and alcohol addicts in Cardiff, said: \"The figures don't surprise me at all. Being dependent, especially on alcohol and drugs, requires a person to isolate themselves. It's the isolation and loneliness - that's what the addiction wants.\n\n\"It broke my heart when the lockdown came in March because this is going to be very difficult for people and that's what has happened.\n\nRachel Cook from Welshpool has had a drug problem for 20 years.\n\nThe 44-year-old has relapsed four times but has been drug and alcohol-free for a year and a half since getting help four years ago.\n\nShe said she had found not having face-to-face meetings \"very difficult\".\n\n\"It is different when you're not getting that face-to-face contact, you're not getting that cup of tea when you get in the door, when you're not sitting down in the waiting room chatting to other people in recovery,\" she said.\n\nRachel has been volunteering with Kaleidoscope for two years supporting others with their problems.\n\n\"Face-to-face is so important - you can tell so much about somebody by just looking at them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so easy to just say I'm fine, I'm doing okay, when you're just absolutely falling apart.\"\n\nWales's drug and alcohol helpline, Dan 24/7, saw a fall in calls in the first few weeks of lockdown.\n\nIn April 2019, 439 people called. In April this year, 300 rang.\n\nHelpline services manager Luke Ogden said: \"We hear a lot on the news about how services, businesses and places of work have to cease operation, and it may be that people think this is the case with health-related services.\"\n\nHe said help was still available for anyone in Wales.\n\nDan 24/7 said during May it had experienced an increase in calls, with about 120 more than in April.\n\nExperts said the drop in referrals was worrying.\n\nRachel Cook said face-to-face contact was important in helping treat people with addictions\n\nThere were also concerns about the impact of social distancing on services.\n\nRetired clinical psychologist Richard Pates spent 25 years in the drug and alcohol field.\n\nThe former chairman of the Welsh advisory panel on substance misuse said: \"One of the things that good addiction services can offer is that trust and building up a relationship with people.\n\n\"It is very hard to build up a relationship entirely on the phone.\"\n\nSo much relied on non-verbal cues, he said.\n\n\"Those are very difficult to replicate,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge spoke to patients of addiction treatment centre\n\nDavid Nutt of Imperial College London is chairman of charity Drug Science.\n\nHe said: \"The first thing is, to be online, you've got to have access to this kind of equipment, and that's not universal.\n\n\"The second thing is, if you are in shared accommodation, it can be quite embarrassing to be having these kind of conversations with other people sitting around listening to you.\n\n\"Third, we don't know whether online interviews, online therapy, actually works.\"\n\nThere are fears that with less treatment available, and fewer people in treatment, more will go back to old habits.\n\nThat could mean more deaths.\n\nProf Nutt expected people to return to \"street use\".\n\n\"They'll have their dealers coming and they'll be slipping off the methadone back onto the heroin or even worse, the fentanyl,\" he said.\n\n\"We are going to find a lot of them will have turned to alcohol because that's easy to get, and they'll have been dampening down their withdrawal and their anxieties with alcohol.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has invested almost £53m this financial year in drug and alcohol services.\n\nServices had \"adapted rapidly\" during the pandemic, it said, with online consultations and psychological support available.\n\nIt said Wales had become the first UK nation to offer injectable slow-release buprenorphine - a treatment for opioid misuse - to reduce the need for daily supervised visits to pharmacies and clinics.\n\n\"Inpatient detox services are also returning to normal capacity,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Guidance has been developed to support substance misuse services and people working with vulnerable populations.\n\n\"The national helpline Dan 24/7 has continued to provide updates about coronavirus and details of services available.\"", "The statue of Robert Baden-Powell is being removed for \"its protection\"\n\nA statue of the man who founded the Scouts movement is to be removed from Poole Quay amid fears it is on a \"target list for attack\".\n\nFollowing police information, the 12-year-old statue of Robert Baden-Powell is to be \"temporarily\" removed to protect it, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council said.\n\nThe statue will have 24-hour security protection until it can be removed.\n\nProtesters gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue.\n\nBaden-Powell, who died aged 83 in 1941, has been criticised by campaigners who have accused him of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler.\n\nIn a statement, BCP deputy leader Mark Howell said it had made the decision \"quickly\" following the listing of the statue on a website detailing potential targets for attacks.\n\nHe said it would not be removed immediately as its foundations were deeper than first thought, but in the meantime it would be given 24-hour security protection.\n\n\"We know that local people feel proud of Lord Baden-Powell's and the Scout movement's links with Poole, and that some people feel that we would be giving in to the protesters by temporarily removing the statue. However, we feel it is responsible to protect it for future generations to enjoy and respect.\n\nHe insisted any removal would be temporary and it would be returned \"as soon as the threat level subsides\".\n\nThe authority previously said it recognised some aspects of Baden-Powell's life were considered \"less worthy of commemoration\" and it planned to involve all relevant communities and groups in discussions about its future.\n\nFormer Bournemouth East Labour parliamentary candidate Corrie Drew, said: \"We can commemorate the positive work without commemorating the man.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she added: \"A quick look into his history shows that he was very open about his views against homosexuality and that he was a very open supporter of Hitler and of fascism and quite a strong, outspoken racist.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an online petition to \"defend Poole's Lord Baden-Powell statue\" has received more than 15,000 signatures.\n\nSir Robert Syms, Conservative MP for Poole, tweeted that he was \"opposed\" to the permanent removal of the statue.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Tobias Ellwood, Tory MP for Bournemouth East, said: \"Few historical figures comply with 21st C values. Simply expunging past connections from sight won't correct wrongs or help us better learn from our past.\"\n\nThe Tory MP for Bournemouth West, Conor Burns, also tweeted that the removal was \"a huge error of judgment\" and urged authorities to \"put it back\".\n\nThe life-sized statue was installed in 2008 and faces Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, where the Scouts began.\n\nDorset Police confirmed the statue had been identified as a \"potential target\".\n\n\"We appreciate the local council has a difficult decision taking into account the various opposing views held by members of the public,\" the force said.\n\nA spokesman for the Scout Association said it was \"resolute in its commitment to inclusion and diversity and members continually reflect and challenge ourselves in how we live our values\".\n\n\"We look forward to discussing this matter with the council to make an informed decision on what happens next,\" he said.\n\nA group of local residents gathered at the quayside to protest at the planned removal\n\nA group of local residents gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue.\n\nSharon Warne, 53, said controversial statues should have information panels installed explaining the positive and negative points about the figures they depict.\n\n\"He had a bad past but he was the founder of the Scouts which today is a great organisation and it's ridiculous to get rid of him,\" she added.\n\nRover Scout Matthew Trott, 28, who travelled from Cwmbran in Wales, said the proposal to remove the statue was \"necessary to protect it\".\n\n\"I'd rather see the statue placed in a box in a warehouse for the moment rather than at the bottom of the harbour,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in Bristol tore down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it in the city's harbour.\n\nA statue of slaveholder Robert Milligan has also been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands, while in Oxford thousands of people called for the removal of a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nRobert Baden-Powell (centre right) surrounded by the members of the Scouts movement\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All 17 members of the Garg household\n\nMukul Garg wasn’t too worried when his 57-year-old uncle developed a fever on 24 April. Then, within 48 hours, two others in his family of 17 also became ill.\n\nThe symptoms trickled in as expected - temperatures spiked and voices grew hoarse with coughing.\n\nMr Garg initially chalked it up to seasonal flu, unwilling to admit it could be coronavirus.\n\n“Five or six people often fall sick together in this house, let’s not panic,” he told himself.\n\nOver the next few days, five more people in the house showed Covid-19 symptoms. And the pit in his stomach grew.\n\nSoon, the Garg family would become its own coronavirus cluster as 11 of its 17 members tested positive.\n\n“We met nobody from the outside and no-one entered our house. But even then the coronavirus entered our home, and infected one member after the other,” Mr Garg would later write in his blog, which has since attracted hundreds of comments from readers.\n\nThe exhaustive account shows how the multi-generational family, a mainstay of Indian life, poses a unique challenge in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe country's stringent lockdown, which began on 25 March and lasted until this week, focused on keeping people at home, off its busy streets and out of packed public spaces.\n\nBut in India - where 40% of households comprise many generations (often three or even four living together under one roof) - home is a crowded place.\n\nIt’s also vulnerable because research shows that the virus is more likely to spread indoors.\n\n“All families under lockdown become clusters the moment someone is infected, that is almost a given,” says virologist Dr Jacob John.\n\nAnd, as the Gargs discovered, social distancing isn’t possible within large families, especially during a lockdown when you are already cut off from the outside world.\n\nThe Gargs live in a three-storey home in a packed neighbourhood in north-west Delhi.\n\nMr Garg, 33, his wife, 30, and their two children, aged six and two, live on the top floor, along with his parents and grandparents.\n\nOn the two floors below them live his uncles - his father’s brothers - and their families. Members range from a four-month-old baby to a bedridden grandfather of 90.\n\nMr Garg's uncle may have caught the virus from a vegetable vendor\n\nContrary to cramped joint family homes where many people share a room and a bathroom, the Garg home is spacious. Each floor is about 250 square metres, roughly the size of a doubles tennis court, with three bedrooms, en suite bathrooms and a kitchen.\n\nAnd yet, the virus spread quickly, travelling across floors and infecting almost all the adults in the house.\n\nThey identified patient zero - Mr Garg’s uncle - but the family is still not sure how he caught the virus.\n\n“We think it could be from a vegetable vendor or from someone at the grocery store because that was the only time anyone from the family stepped outside,” he says.\n\nBut as the virus spread, fear and shame kept them from getting tested.\n\n“We were 17 of us, but we felt so alone. We worried that if something happened to us, would anyone even come to the funeral because of the stigma associated with coronavirus?”\n\nBut in the first week of May, when his 54-year-old aunt complained of breathlessness, the family rushed her to a hospital. And, Mr Garg says, they knew they all had to get tested.\n\nAll of May was spent fighting the virus.\n\nMr Garg says he would spend hours talking to doctors over the phone, while everyone checked in on each other on WhatsApp daily.\n\n“We also kept changing the position of the members depending on symptoms, so no two people with high fever were in the same room.”\n\nSix of the 11 infected have co-morbidities - diabetes, heart disease and hypertension - which made them more vulnerable.\n\n“Overnight, our home became a Covid-19 healthcare centre with all of us taking turns to play nurse,” Mr Garg says\n\nFamilies are particularly vulnerable to widespread infection in a lockdown\n\nVirologists say large families are like any other cluster, except for the range in ages.\n\n“When you have a range of age groups sharing common spaces, the risk is disproportionately distributed, with the elderly at most risk,” says Dr Partho Sarothi Ray, a virologist.\n\nThis weighed heavily on Mr Garg, who worried about his 90-year-old grandfather.\n\nBut the virus, which continues to confound medical experts around the world, also held surprises for the Gargs.\n\nIt wasn’t unusual that he and his wife, both in their early 30s, were asymptomatic. But it was bewildering that his grandfather was also asymptomatic. And one member of the family, who had no comorbidities, was taken to hospital. The others showed typical symptoms.\n\nMr Garg says he wrote the blog because he wanted to reach out to people worried about seeking help.\n\n“In the beginning, we cared so much about what people would think. And reading the comments, it’s so nice to see people saying it's ok if you get it, it’s not something to be ashamed of.”\n\nIn the second week of May, symptoms began to vanish and the family watched as more and more negative tests rolled in, bringing relief. This was also when Mr Garg's aunt was discharged from hospital after testing negative.\n\nThey finally felt like the worst was over.\n\nBy the end of May - “the month of the disease” as Mr Garg called it - only three people, including him, were still positive.\n\nOn 1 June, they got tested for the third time and the results came back negative.\n\nIndia’s large families can be a source of support and care, but also friction and thorny property disputes. But at times like these they can also come to the rescue.\n\n“Can you imagine an elderly person in quarantine all by themselves with no-one to help? Despite the challenges, joint families benefit from the young taking care of the old,” Dr John says.\n\nCases in India have sprinted past the 250,000-mark, spurring a debate over whether the pandemic could threaten extended families, as young people worry about carrying the infection home to older relatives.\n\n“It's a system that has survived hundreds of years of an onslaught of Western values and colonisation,” says Prof Kiran Lamba Jha, who teaches sociology at Kanpur's CSJM university. “Coronavirus is not going to destroy the joint family.”\n\nBefore the virus struck, the family was thriving. It was almost reminiscent of a 90s Bollywood flick, Mr Garg says.\n\n“As a family, we had never spent so much time together than we did that first one month of the lockdown. It was also the happiest the family had ever been,\" he says, adding that it only made it harder to watch as one person after another fell sick.\n\n“We saw each other at our best and worst but we came out of it stronger,” he says.\n\n“We’re still cautious about reinfection but right now, we’re basking in the glory that we managed to beat this virus and come out on the other side.”", "The coronavirus lockdown may have led more individuals to become radicalised as they spend more time online, a police chief has warned.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's Lucy D'Orsi said the impact of the lockdown on the terrorism threat was not yet known.\n\nShe urged the public to remain alert and vigilant as people return to crowded places closed in March.\n\nThe current UK threat level is \"substantial\" meaning an attack is likely.\n\n\"The reality is that the threat has not gone away,\" Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner D'Orsi told the BBC.\n\nThere are also concerns some of the mechanisms to spot the signs someone has been radicalised will not have been present during the pandemic.\n\nCrowded places have been a prime focus for terrorist attacks in recent years.\n\nAs lockdown eases, she is concerned terrorists will be looking to make an impact.\n\n\"My plea to the public is as lockdown eases and people return to crowded places, we need to remain alert, we need to remain vigilant,\" DAC D'Orsi, who is also national policing lead for protective security, said.\n\nThe threat level comes from individuals supporting far-right as well as jihadist ideologies.\n\nPolice have said their own ability to operate has not been affected by lockdown and they have been able to take advantage of the fact that some people under investigation are staying in one place.\n\nBut they are also aware that people are spending more time online, which carries risks as that has increasingly been a means of radicalisation.\n\nDAC D'Orsi said what that meant in terms of radicalisation was as yet unknown.\n\nSome terrorist groups have adapted their methods and messaging to the new environment, including using the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"They are looking to change the way they deliver their propaganda,\" she said, adding that propaganda often seeks to divide communities.\n\nReferrals to the Prevent anti-radicalisation scheme, designed to spot and counter signs of radicalisation, have gone down during the pandemic.\n\nThat is because many will come from public bodies, including schools, which will have not been operating in the same way.\n\nIt leaves the possibility that a problem has been brewing beneath the surface which may now become visible.\n\nOfficers said one advantage of lockdown has been that people have undertaken an online counter-terrorism training course from home.\n\nSome 70,000 people have used the 'Action Counters Terrorism' interactive course which is designed for members of the public to help them spot and report suspicious behaviour and know what to do in the event of an attack.\n\nOverall half a million participants have responded to the call since the course was launched two years ago.\n\n\"Having more people with a basic level of awareness, and who know what to do if they see suspicious activity, is a real asset to the police,\" DAC D'Orsi said.", "The government is facing calls from Tory backbenchers to drop the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule in England.\n\nMPs, including former cabinet ministers Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Damian Green, say it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nIt follows the announcement of a further easing of restrictions in England, allowing single adults to stay at one other household from Saturday.\n\nNo 10 said the change aimed to help combat loneliness and that people were being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nLatest government figures show a further 151 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, taking the country's death toll to 41,279.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused ministers of \"mismanagement\" over the reopening of schools, saying the government is putting the welfare and education of children at risk.\n\nAs the lockdown continues to be eased in England, there are fears in Westminster and the business community that keeping the 2m rule will significantly impede economic recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nFormer Conservative Party leader Sir Iain warned of dire economic consequences, with public transport running quieter than necessary and pubs, restaurants and cafes unable to stage a proper recovery or even open.\n\nHe has urged ministers to move to a 1m policy - in line with World Health Organization guidance already followed by countries including France, Denmark and Singapore.\n\nSir Iain described the 2m rule as \"the critical component around which everything coming out of lockdown hinges\".\n\n\"Our economy is facing a complete crash: the debts we're racking up on how we're supporting people, the fact no work or very little work is taking place,\" he said.\n\n\"If we don't get the economy moving, we will be unable to afford any of the things that we need to support public services, so getting the balance right is important.\"\n\nThis is a very tricky moment for the prime minister.\n\nMore and more MPs believe that relaxing the 2m rule would be the crucial piece of the jigsaw.\n\nAnd if 1m is deemed safe in Denmark, France, or Hong Kong, then why not here?\n\nFirst off, the disease is shrinking, but it's not disappearing fast.\n\nAnd the government's top medics have said publicly that they don't think the 2m rule should go.\n\nTo change it therefore would be to go against the advice.\n\nScience is as full of dispute as politics, even though the methods and practices are chalk and cheese.\n\nAnd ultimately the decisions about handling the crisis have been made by ministers after receiving the scientists' advice.\n\nBut the decision over 2m is looming and it's one that Boris Johnson can't ignore.\n\nMr Green told the BBC's Newsnight scrapping the 2m guidance was the \"single biggest change\" the government should make in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think that makes a huge difference to many parts of industry, particularly hospitality businesses, restaurants, pubs, and so on,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"We've seen other countries do that, actually move from 2m to 1m, without any damaging effects so far.\"\n\nTory backbenchers made similar points to Chancellor Rishi Sunak - who admitted the rule made things difficult for opening up - behind closed doors on Wednesday night, according to BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley.\n\nGreg Clark, chair of the Science and Technology Committee, who has previously called for the rule to be reconsidered, said: \"The government should have the courage to change it, if the evidence recommends it.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, local government minister Simon Clarke said: \"We all recognise how limiting 2m is. We're not blind to the very severe challenges this causes, not just for schools but for the wider economy.\"\n\nBut he said the \"best available guidance\" supported keeping the rule at the moment, adding: \"We've heard from our scientists about that literally in the last 24 hours.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the rule was being \"kept under constant review\" but added that Boris Johnson \"doesn't feel the incidence of disease is as low as he would like\".\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, told reporters: \"It is a risk-based assessment on when risk reduces and the risks are associated with distance, so risk falls after 2m,\" he said.\n\n\"It is wrong to portray this as a scientific rule that says it is 2m or nothing - that is not what the advice has been and it is not what the advice is now,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England, figures show.\n\nIt comes amid continued debate over schools reopening in England, after it was confirmed most children would not return to classrooms until September.\n\nSir Keir urged the prime minister to act now to ensure that target could be met.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said \"creativity\" was needed to utilise empty buildings, including theatres, museums and libraries, as makeshift classrooms.\n\nMr Johnson said there would be a national \"catch-up programme\" for pupils in England, but warned a September return date for all pupils would depend on whether progress continued to be made in controlling the virus.", "Labour has urged the Conservative Party to repay a £12,000 donation it received from a developer 14 days after Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick approved a £1bn building project.\n\nShadow housing secretary Steve Reed said the decision raised concerns about \"cash for favours\".\n\nAnd the Lib Dems want an investigation into the minister's conduct.\n\nBut the government said Mr Jenrick had acted with propriety and retained the PM's \"full confidence\".\n\nOn 14 January, the housing secretary granted permission for Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on east London's Isle of Dogs.\n\nThe businessman - a former owner of the Daily Express - made a personal donation to the Conservatives two weeks later, on 28 January.\n\nMr Jenrick's approval for the Westferry scheme came the day before the introduction of a new council community levy, which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nIt has also emerged that Mr Desmond and Mr Jenrick sat at the same table at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner last November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour asked an urgent question in the House of Commons on Thursday, but Mr Jenrick did not appear - instead junior housing minister Chris Pincher responded for the government.\n\nMr Pincher said Mr Jenrick had acted properly and with propriety over the 1,500-home project.\n\nHe told MPs he had \"no idea what Mr Desmond asked for at that dinner\" but Mr Jenrick had made it \"absolutely clear\" that \"he could not discuss planning matters, that he would not discuss that planning matter and the issue was closed\".\n\nMinisters \"do not know what donations or funds are being spent by donors on political parties,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Reed told MPs: \"This sequence of events raises grave concerns about cash for favours.\"\n\nHe later said the Conservative Party should return the £12,000 to Mr Desmond and accused Mr Jenrick of avoiding scrutiny by not going to the Commons.\n\n\"Instead of answering questions about his behaviour, Robert Jenrick sent in a junior minister to speak on his behalf while he apparently laid low in the tea room,\" said Mr Reed.\n\n\"This attempt to avoid scrutiny shows contempt for the public who are concerned about the integrity of the planning process.\"\n\nHe said the government should publish all correspondence relating to the case \"so the public can see the true reasons for his decision\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has written to the UK's top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, to demand an investigation into Mr Jenrick's conduct in relation to the planning decision.\n\nHe said that, if the housing secretary was found to have broken the ministerial code, he must resign.\n\nFor the SNP, Alan Brown accused the government of \"defending the indefensible\", telling MPs: \"This is a matter that simply stinks.\"\n\nDefending Mr Jenrick's absence from the Commons chamber, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"It's appropriate for the housing minister to respond to a question on housing and planning matters.\"\n\nThe spokesman said he was \"not aware of any plans\" for an investigation into any alleged breach of the ministerial code.\n\nAnd sources close to Mr Jenrick said he would take questions from MPs during his usual Commons time slot next Monday.\n\nRichard Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nIn approving the Isle of Dogs project, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate.\n\nTower Hamlets Council challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond - a former donor to Labour and UKIP - but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman said that, while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edward Colston's statue was removed early in the morning\n\nA statue of a slave trader that was thrown into a harbour by anti-racism protestors has been retrieved from the water.\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrators tore down the statue of Edward Colston during a protest in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nBristol City Council said it needed to be removed from the water because the city had a \"working harbour\".\n\nThe statue will be taken to a secure location to be hosed down before becoming a museum exhibit.\n\nIt was fished out at about 05:00 BST because the council \"didn't want anybody to get hurt if there was a crowd there or anyone looking\".\n\n\"We've had a diver down there who attached the ropes to crane it out of the water and take it away,\" Ray Barnett, head of collections and archives at Bristol City Council, said.\n\n\"The ropes that were tied around him, the spray paint added to him, is still there so we'll keep him like that.\"\n\nMr Barnett said the statue would be hosed down to remove the mud and ensure \"we preserve him as he was tipped into the dock, while the decision is made how to move on for there\".\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nAvon and Somerset Police elected not to intervene when the statue was toppled, saying officers would have faced a violent confrontation.\n\nThe monument has been a controversial fixture in the city, with repeated calls for it to be removed.\n\nPreviously, Bristol's Mayor Marvin Rees said he \"felt no sense of loss\" at its removal.\n\nOlivette Otele, professor of the History of Slavery at the University of Bristol, said she hoped the statue would \"be studied and analysed and people will learn about this because it's still part of Bristol's history\".\n\n\"All these continents, Europe, America, Africa, Asia, these are intertwined histories. It's completely intertwined and mashed together and you can't really separate them,\" she said.\n\nOther organisations, including schools, that use the Colston name are now looking at changing their names following the protest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nSince the statue of Colston was toppled, calls have been made to remove others around the UK.\n\nThe statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan was removed from its place outside the Museum of London Docklands on Tuesday.\n\nThe University of Liverpool has agreed to rename a building named after former prime minister William Gladstone due to his links to the slave trade.\n\nCampaigners also want the statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College at Oxford taken down, saying the university had \"failed to address its institutional racism\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day when most fines were handed out in the past two weeks was 30 May - when people flocked to beauty spots to enjoy warm weather\n\nMore than 17,000 fines for alleged breaches of coronavirus lockdown laws have been issued in England and Wales.\n\nPeople have been fined by the police for driving with others not from their household, holding house parties, meeting in large groups and camping.\n\nBut the number of fines has fallen as restrictions have eased.\n\nThere were 523 fines in the two weeks from 26 May to 8 June - compared with 1,171 in the previous two weeks and 4,796 in the fortnight before that.\n\nAccording to data from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the day with the highest number of fines in the past two weeks was Saturday 30 May - when 96 fines were issued in England. That weekend, people flocked to popular beaches and beauty spots to enjoy the warmer weather.\n\nSaturday 30 May was also two days before lockdown measures were eased to allow people in England to meet in groups of up to six, and to allow people in Wales to meet one person from a different household.\n\nUp to 8 June, 15,715 fines, or Fixed Penalty Notices, have been handed out in England and 2,282 in Wales.\n\nBut generally far fewer fines have been issued since 13 May, when restrictions began to ease.\n\nThree fines have been given out by London's Metropolitan Police since 25 May, with 1,060 being issued by the force before that.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police is the force which has given out the most fines, with 1,082 handed out since lockdown began.\n\nFines have most often been given to young men aged between 18 and 24, and were more likely to be issued at weekends and during warmer weather.\n\n\"Since measures eased in England, the number of fines issued has seen a sustained fall,\" NPCC chair Martin Hewitt said.\n\nHe added that behind each fine was someone who has \"failed to listen and do the right thing\".\n\n\"A fine is issued following engagement to establish the circumstances, explanation of what the regulations are and why they're in breach of them, and encouragement to stop their activity and return home,\" he said.\n\nThe NPCC has not yet released data about how many fines have been paid.", "Applicants to university have to be told how they will be taught\n\nMore students think they are not getting good value for money from university, suggests an annual survey.\n\nIt found 31% of students thought their courses were poor or very poor value, up from 29% last year.\n\nThe survey, based on 10,000 students across the UK, was gathered in a year disrupted by Covid-19 and lecturers' strikes.\n\n\"Because of strikes and coronavirus there has been a massive gap in my learning,\" it quoted one student.\n\nThe Student Academic Experience Survey, which has been tracking student views since 2006, shows a decline in satisfaction with value for money - down from 41% to 39% - with another 30% thinking it was neither good or bad value.\n\nThe survey is published by the Higher Education Policy Institute - and its director Nick Hillman said the survey showed that with disruption to studies and anxieties about the future jobs market \"many students are worried about their own lives\".\n\nAlison Johns, chief executive of Advance HE, which co-produced the report, said it was a \"continuing and significant concern\" that ethnic minority students reported a less positive university experience than white students.\n\nThe study considers universities across the UK, and found tuition fees - charged in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - were the biggest cause for disquiet.\n\nOnly about a quarter of students felt they had been given enough information on how fees were spent.\n\nThere were also concerns about a lack of contact hours with teaching staff - which was linked to the strikes and the closure of campuses due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn terms of what made a positive difference, students highlighted the importance of the quality of teaching.\n\nThere were also signs that more students felt they were getting useful feedback from staff on work that had been assessed.\n\nThe survey revealed widespread worries about well-being among students, with low levels of positive responses. Only 11% agreed they had \"life satisfaction\" and 15% saw their lives as \"worthwhile\".\n\nA significant majority - 84% - believed universities should be able to contact students' parents or guardians if there were serious concerns about a student's mental health.\n\nMr Hillman said if financial pressures on universities meant cutting services, this suggested that support services for mental health \"should not be at the front of the queue for those cuts\".\n\nThe survey this year looked more closely at the experience of students who got places through the clearing system - where students are matched with empty places after exam results are published.\n\nAbout a fifth of students in the survey had gone through clearing - and only 54% of these said they would choose the same course and university again.\n\nUniversities will be preparing to reopen campuses for the autumn - and applicants will be wondering how courses will be taught, whether online or in-person or a mixture of both.\n\nThe higher education, the Office for Students, has told universities in England the information they must give to those applying - with 18 June the deadline for making a firm choice.\n\nUniversities will have to specify the balance between online and face-to-face teaching, the hours with teaching staff and access to facilities such as libraries.\n\nIf there are parts of a course that are no longer possible, such as placements or field trips, these will have to be highlighted.\n\nAnd there will have to be clarity over how much will be paid in fees and how the course will be assessed.\n\n\"These are exceptionally challenging times for both students and universities, but students must be told clearly how their courses will be taught next year,\" said Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students.", "More must be done to tackle racial discrimination in the UK's armed forces, the most senior military officer has said.\n\nGeneral Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, called on all personnel to see the potential in every recruit and \"refuse to allow intolerance\".\n\nThe message comes after a meeting of the heads of the services on Wednesday.\n\nThere had been \"soul searching\" about events highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, a defence source said.\n\nIn his letter to soldiers, sailors and air force personnel, General Carter said the service chiefs agreed that these events \"have brought the issues of racism and discrimination sharply into focus\".\n\n\"We owe it to our black, Asian and minority ethnic servicemen and women, who will be feeling concerned at the moment, to try to look at this from their perspective, to listen and to continue to make change happen,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former soldier Mark de Kretser: \"People called me Apu from The Simpsons\"\n\nAll the service chiefs at Wednesday's meeting were white men.\n\nGeneral Carter described the armed forces as a rich mix of faiths, colour, gender and creeds and said people were valued for their abilities, \"not for what they look like or where they come from\".\n\nBut he said the armed forces needed to force the pace of change.\n\nBlack, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) personnel make up just over 8% of the total armed forces - with a target to increase that proportion to 10% this year.\n\nFor the past four years the Armed Forces Ombudsman annual report has repeatedly highlighted that BAME personnel are significantly more likely to complain about bullying, harassment and discrimination than their white counterparts.", "Wales' tourism industry is on the \"brink of collapse\", say a group of Welsh tourism leaders demanding a reopening plan from the first minister.\n\nOfficial figures say £6.3bn was spent in Wales due to tourism in 2018 but attractions, shut in lockdown, say they have had \"no reopening information\".\n\nThe Welsh Association of Visitor Attractions claim government \"inaction\" may lead to \"economic disaster\".\n\nWelsh Government said reopening tourism \"is at the forefront of our minds\".\n\nTourism in Wales directly supports about 120,000 jobs - almost 10% of Wales' workforce - and contributes 6% of all Gross Value Added to the Welsh economy.\n\nPeople in Wales can currently meet others from another household outdoors but are advised to travel no more than five miles as a \"rule of thumb\" because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut with most of Wales' attractions and tourism businesses closed since last autumn - through the winter and now the coronavirus lockdown - they want \"urgent clarity\".\n\n\"We now face the real and fragmenting prospect, because of your very restrictive and separate set of pandemic lockdown policies, of a 2020 summer season that may never happen,\" the WAVA statement read.\n\n\"The result would be catastrophic for the tourism industry in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The National Botanic Garden of Wales is one of Wales' top attractions\n\n\"Whilst once being protective, the Welsh Government's policies are now, as we are in the middle of June, causing further damage unless there is urgent change.\"\n\nThe statement says Welsh Government is causing harm because of \"its continued stance of remaining closed for business and travel\" and the borders are \"effectively shut\".\n\nThe group's new plea to Mark Drakeford follows what they claim was an answered letter to the first minister last month and warns \"the Welsh tourism industry is on the brink of collapse' and \"without a clear roadmap to reopening such as those published in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the government is causing harm\".\n\nThe seaside attracts a half of all holiday visitors to Wales\n\nThe letter is signed by more than 60 of Wales' top leisure industry bosses from a range of high profile tourist destinations including Folly Farm, Snowdon Mountain Railway, Zip World, National Showcaves Centre for Wales and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.\n\n\"This is now heading towards its obvious end result of businesses taking measures to limit their losses, even if this will cause long-term damage to the regional economy and local communities,\" the association statement continued.\n\n\"The reality is that many businesses are on the brink of collapse. The impact on direct and indirect jobs will be significant in both the immediate period but also for many years to come as the economic generators will be lost.\"\n\nTourism bosses say Wales' message that \"Wales is shut, don't come and don't plan on coming\" is the \"most incredibly damaging message\".\n\n\"Welsh tourism will be left behind not only in 2020 but for a number of years,\" added the statement.\n\nFolly Farm in Pembrokeshire is one of Wales' most visited tourist attractions\n\n\"We are supportive of the first minister's aim to protect the health of people in Wales however this aim must be in the wider context of the long-term health of individuals and the ability of the Welsh economy to recover.\n\n\"We have a major concern that a narrow focus on immediate matters will cause irreparable damage in the long term (and to future levels of investment) - this is a concern that has been addressed in other parts of the UK and Europe, and we see Wales at odds for no valid reason with these concerns.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government had previously said it \"hopes to be able to say something positive\" for the tourism industry when lockdown restrictions are reviewed in July, with 9 July a possible date for a decision.\n\n\"We don't want the sector to be in any doubt at all that the safe reopening of the tourism economy is at the forefront of our minds,\" said a Welsh Government spokesperson.\n\n\"We hear what businesses are saying and are acutely aware of the challenges they are facing but we have to be guided by the medical and scientific advice to ensure we only lift restrictions when they are safe to do so.\n\n\"It is also crucial the sector knows that together with other nations we are fiercely lobbying for additional financial support from the UK government.\"", "Global stock markets have fallen amid fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases could cause more economic damage.\n\nThe declines came after the US Federal Reserve warned that the American economy faces a long road to recovery.\n\nIn the US on Thursday, the three main share indexes saw their worst day in weeks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 7%.\n\nStock markets in Asia also fell on Friday with benchmark indexes losing ground in Japan, Hong Kong and China.\n\nThe falls followed a weeks-long rally that had helped shares recover some ground from the lows seen in March.\n\nEnergy and travel stocks were among the biggest losers, as global crude oil prices also took a hit.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, European shares also dropped, with the UK's FTSE 100, the Dax in Germany and France's CAC 40 all losing 4% or more.\n\n\"Government, companies and people would be better prepared for a second wave than for the first one,\" said Roland Kaloyan, European equity strategist at Societe Generale.\n\n\"But the problem is there is a limit to governments injecting money.\"\n\nShare prices had gained in recent weeks amid hopes that the economy would rebound as authorities loosened restrictions put in place to try to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nLast week's surprise report showing US employers had restarted hiring in May helped to push the tech-heavy Nasdaq index to new highs.\n\nBut the recovery remains tentative. On Thursday, the US Labor Department reported that another 1.5 million people had filed new unemployment claims last week. More than 30 million continue to collect the benefits, it said.\n\nUS Federal Reserve policymakers said on Wednesday that the unemployment rate could remain above 9% at the end of the year - close to the worst level of the financial crisis,\n\nAt a news conference, Fed chairman Jerome Powell warned that this assessment may prove optimistic, if coronavirus infection and hospitalisation rates rise.\n\nSeveral states that have moved to reopen, including Arizona and South Carolina, have seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent days.\n\n\"It could hurt the recovery, even if you don't have a national level pandemic. Just a series of local ones, of local spikes, could have the effect of undermining people's confidence in travelling, in restaurants and in entertainment,\" he said. \"It would not be a positive development.\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he did not want to see a return of the lockdowns that had kept the world's largest economy frozen for weeks.\n\nBut economists have warned that people will stay at home voluntarily if they are afraid of becoming ill.", "Prof Neil Ferguson modelled the impact of the epidemic for the UK government\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures had been taken.\n\nThe prime minister said it was still too early to make such a judgement.\n\n\"We will have to look back on all of it and learn the lessons that we can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"A lot of these things are still premature. This epidemic has a long way to go.\"\n\nChief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance said important questions about the measures taken \"still needed to be addressed\".\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said looking back at \"how we improve on what we do\" was routine.\n\n\"Part of the problem... at that stage is that we had very limited information about this virus,\" he added.\n\nIn the UK, lockdown began on 23 March.\n\nThe number of people known to have died with coronavirus in the UK stands at 41,128.\n\nProf Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told a committee of MPs: \"Had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half.\n\n\"So whilst I think the measures, given what we knew about this virus then, in terms of its transmission, were warranted... certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen many fewer deaths.\"\n\nProf John Edmunds, another scientist who advises government, recently said the delay to go into lockdown \"cost a lot of lives\" but the data available in March had been quite poor, making it \"very hard\".\n\nProf Ferguson, who resigned as a government adviser last month after allegedly breaching lockdown rules, indicated many lives in care homes could have been saved.\n\n\"We made the rather optimistic assumption that somehow the elderly would be shielded,\" be said.\n\nBut \"that simply failed to happen\".\n\nProf Ferguson said the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) had \"anticipated in theory\" the risk to people living in care homes.\n\nAnd it had been discussed in meetings as early as February.\n\nBut the \"only way you can really protect care homes is to do extensive testing to make sure it doesn't get in\".\n\nAnd more was now understood about how the virus was transmitted,\n\nCare home workers often worked at more than one facility and might be spreading infection between residences, for example.\n\nCoronavirus was growing \"exponentially\" in February and March.\n\nScientists have told BBC News an estimated 100,000 people were being infected every day in England by the time it went into lockdown.\n\nIntroducing measures a week earlier would have significantly cut that figure and in turn saved lives.\n\nWhy this did not happen is one of the major questions about the government's handling of this pandemic.\n\nIt is far easier to look back than to make the decision in the moment.\n\nThere was a lack of information and the scale of the outbreak within the UK was not clear.\n\nBut other scientists were making the case for the UK to go into lockdown weeks before it happened.\n\nDiscussing the timing of the lockdown on BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme, mathematician Kit Yates said there had been an \"overreliance\" on certain models when determining how fast the epidemic had been doubling.\n\n\"Some members of [pandemic modelling group] SPI-M have communicated their concerns to me that some of the modelling groups had more influence over the consensus decisions than others,\" he said.\n\nThis meant \"some opinions or estimates that may have been valid didn't get passed on up the chain\".\n\nOn average, about 1,600 people a day die in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths reported during the epidemic is to what extent those deaths are on top of that figure, or part of it.\n\nMost of the victims have been older or with underlying health conditions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow.\n\nTwo follow-ups to bestselling PS4 releases were among the standout games announcements - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West.\n\nSony's machine will launch alongside Microsoft's rival Xbox Series X before the end of the year.\n\nMiles Morales takes over the lead role from Peter Parker in the latest spin-off for Marvel's crime-fighter\n\n\"While there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed to with this reveal event,\" commented Laura Kate Dale, a freelance games critic.\n\n\"It showed off an hour of games, mixing sequels to popular titles, and new franchises from its biggest first-party studios, for a solid hour.\n\n\"People on Twitter are very split on whether they like or hate the look of the box, but overall Sony spent an hour getting people excited.\"\n\nSo many people remarked that the console looked like a \"wi-fi router\", that the term trended on Twitter shortly after the event.\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\nMore than two dozen new games were shown off in total.\n\nOther highlights included a first look at Sony's racing game Gran Turismo 7 and a brief look at Capcom's zombie horror game Resident Evil 8.\n\nResident Evil 8's reveal was full of dim lighting - and reflections\n\nIt was not always clear during the event which titles were PS5 exclusives and which were not.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 is set to go on sale later this year, seven years after the PS4.\n\nIn addition to being able to deliver improved visuals, the new machine also has a customised hard drive that will make it possible to radically reduce load times.\n\nSony is building a library of launch titles that will only be available on its next-generation machine. This contrasts with Microsoft's approach, which is to initially release new first-party games on both its current and next-gen consoles.\n\nSony opted to stream a pre-recorded video rather than a host a live event because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe video was broadcast at 1080p resolution, much lower than the PS5 is capable of.\n\nThe PS4 outsold the Xbox One globally by more than a 2:1 margin, although the gap was much closer in the US.\n\nIn advance of Thursday night's event, one industry insider said there were two things he was most excited about.\n\n\"The first is the new controller - the adaptive triggers offer deeper and more meaningful feedback for gameplay,\" explained Robert Karp, development director at UK developer Codemasters.\n\n\"The other is the super-fast loading. On PS5, waiting to get into the action is a thing of the past.\"\n\nHorizon: Forbidden West sees Aloy travel westwards across a far-future version of the United States\n\nThe new Spider-Man game acts as a follow-up to 2018's action-adventure game based on the Marvel superhero.\n\nBut this time round the protagonist appears to be the Afro-Latino teenager Miles Morales rather than Peter Parker. The brief trailer showed him fighting and web-slinging through New York, showing off snow and electricity particle effects that would not have been possible in such detail on the PS4.\n\nHours after the announcement, Sony executive Simon Rutter told the Telegraph that it was not, in fact, a wholly new title, but an \"an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game\".\n\n\"There's a substantial Miles Morales component-which is the expansion element-but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nBut that was later disputed by developer Insomniac Games, which called the new title \"the next adventure\" and a \"standalone game\".\n\nThe Spider-Man: Miles Morales teaser showed off a range of lighting and particle effects\n\nSeveral of the other reveals reintroduced familiar characters.\n\nAloy is back in the follow-up to Horizon: Zero Dawn.\n\nIn Forbidden West, the heroine was shown swimming underwater as what appeared to be a robot crocodile passed overhead, and battling against robot dinosaurs.\n\nAssassin Agent 47 returned in Hitman III, IO Interactive's stealth series. It is not due to go on sale until January 2021, however, so will miss out on launching alongside the PS5.\n\nRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart marked a return to Insomniac Games' cartoon-like third-person action franchise.\n\nRatchet and Clank return for the first time since their 2016 PS4 reboot\n\nOddworld: Soulstorm was a surprise, bringing back the former slave turned hero Abe, in a series that dates back to the original PlayStation.\n\nAnd Sackboy also returned for more platforming in A Big Adventure, a follow-up to the earlier Little Big Planet Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Patrick O'Rourke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was also a first look at some new intellectual property, including:\n\n\"What I found particularly great was the push on new IP,\" gaming presenter Shay Thompson told the BBC.\n\n\"Many of the protagonists featured were women or girls, which is a huge deal. That would've been a pipe dream, even 10 years ago.\"\n\nThere was no mention of any virtual reality games, however. Nor was was there any mention of a PlayStation 5 version of The Last of Us 2.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephen Totilo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSony also highlighted new features of the PS5's hardware including 3D Audio and a 4K Blu-ray player. It also said the the new console would be released in a version that lacked a disc drive.\n\nWhile Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles will battle for sales, they both face the challenge of launching at a time when the coronavirus pandemic may not be over.\n\nA new version of the 2009 classic Demons' Souls was also shown\n\nAlthough both firms have said that production is on track for winter 2020 releases, it is unclear what level of demand there will be.\n\n\"Console gaming has proven to be resilient to economic downturns because it continues to offer good per-hour entertainment value,\" Piers Harding-Rolls wrote in a research note for Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Even so, the recession and growing unemployment in key sales territories will undermine adoption - less so at launch [but] more significantly after mid-2021.\"\n\nOne of the more unusual games was Stray, a third-person cat adventure set in a neon-lit cyber-city\n\nA confident introduction to the PlayStation 5 from Sony, letting the games do the talking, with a varied mix of big-name fan favourites and a lot of new titles from smaller studios.\n\nThe event lacked the fevered energy that a live showcase generates, but it managed to settle into a comfortable groove as games like the new Ratchet and Clank allowed us to see what the PS5's solid state drive (SSD) can do to reduce or almost eliminate load times.\n\nRather than a quantum leap, this next generation looks like it might be built around lots of smaller improvements in areas like audio, with 3D sound and improved haptic feedback in the controller.\n\nBeyond better visuals and faster loading times, what does the next generation actually mean when it comes to games though?\n\nOn this evidence more of the same: shooters, racers, third-person adventure titles and sports games. Things we already have, but graphically improved.\n\nPlayStation and Xbox have both struggled to communicate what the next-gen really has to offer.\n\nBut at least fans have now had a glimpse of some games and finally clapped eyes on the PS5's curvy physical case.\n\nIt's enough, perhaps, to whet gamers appetites for what's to come.", "There were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, care chiefs in England say.\n\nAn Association of Directors of Adult Social Services report says a lack of testing in England may have sped up the spread of coronavirus in care settings.\n\nADASS also said the impact of Covid-19 meant many care providers faced financial problems.\n\nThe government said funding was being put in to local care services.\n\nAn extra £3.8 billion has also been provided to councils to fund social care, it added.\n\nThe ADASS report on the impact of the pandemic on care services is based on a survey of 146 out of the 151 directors of social care in English councils.\n\nThey point to the problems caused by the rapid discharge of patients from hospitals into care homes in the first weeks of the pandemic.\n\nMore than half of directors believe people were not tested before being discharged. They also raise concerns about a lack of checks on whether the homes people were going to had enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nJames Bullion, president of ADASS, said: \"Just assuming the homes could cope, and assuming that homes had the PPE to cope, wasn't the right thing to do.\n\n\"And that tells us that social care was an afterthought rather than a forethought of a whole system approach to discharge and that has had terrible consequences.\"\n\nHe said it was right to try to move people out of hospital at that time.\n\nBut he added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we learn the lesson that you can't think about the health service without thinking about social care.\"\n\nWren Hall nursing home in Nottinghamshire has seen 16 of its residents die with Covid-19.\n\nIt saw its first case on March 24, but managers do not know how the virus got into the home.\n\nWren Hall did take people discharged from hospital. Most had been tested, but sometimes that was days before they were transferred.\n\nAnita Astle, the home's managing director says it has been a deeply distressing time, emotionally and financially.\n\n\"The first thing is losing people we cared about and didn't expect to lose. Our staff teams were grieving, but at the same time we were aware that we needed to fill beds for for financial viability and job security.\n\n\"We did feel under pressure to take people from hospital, whether or not they were Covid positive, because we needed to keep the business going.\"\n\nBut she said that, if there is a second wave of coronavirus, care homes would make very different decisions.\n\n\"We won't be taking positive people from hospital. We will be consulting our staff team and families of those we're supporting and we'll create a plan that meets those people's requests and expectations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic most directors said they were concerned about the financial viability of some of the care providers in their area.\n\nNow with the extra costs of PPE, staffing and with care home vacancies resulting from the pandemic, a quarter say they are worried about the ability of most of the companies in their area to survive.\n\nAnd 7% say they are worried about the sustainability of all local care providers.\n\nThey are calling for the government to provide more funding to help stabilise the care system.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Adult social care will continue to get all the support and resources they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn for local authorities to help address pressures on local services, including in in adult social care, and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week.\n\nThe UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year.\n\nBoth sides were due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December.\n\nOn Friday, the UK formally confirmed it will not extend the transition period.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said in a tweet that he had chaired a meeting with the EU Commission's Maros Sefcovic in which he said the \"moment for extension has now passed\".\n\n\"On 1 January 2021 we will take back control and regain our political and economic independence,\" he added.\n\nA UK government spokesman said both sides had also agreed an \"intensified\" schedule of weekly talks throughout the month of July.\n\nThis will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow, he added.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she was \"looking forward\" to the meeting, while UK chief negotiator David Frost said he was \"very pleased\" an \"intensified talks process\" had been agreed.\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 he said the government's policy on not extending the transition period - during which the UK stays in the single market and customs union - \"remains valid\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the Commons the UK will \"under no circumstances\" accept an extension to the transition period.\n\nHe said the EU's Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier had indicated progress can be made on issues including fisheries and state aid. but some EU member states had been a \"little more reluctant\".\n\n\"I think it would be in everyone's interests, EU member states, the Commission, and of course the UK government, if Michel Barnier were able to use the flexibility that he has deployed in the past in order to secure an arrangement that would work in everyone's interests,\" he told MPs.\n\nIt comes after Mr Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at last week's negotiating round.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart Mr Frost said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Michael Gove, Maros Sefcovic said it would be \"extremely useful\" if the UK could provide technical clarifications on customs IT systems at Northern Ireland ports by the end of June.\n\nHe added that he wanted to have \"the specialised committee meetings organised in the course of summer so we can, I would say, bring the momentum into these discussions\".\n\nHe added: \"We can also proceed with important conclusions in early September because time is really pressing and the clock is ticking, and I think we need tangible results in that process.\"\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "An extended catch-up plan for England's schools is to be launched for the summer and beyond, to help pupils get back on track amid school shutdowns.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the plans would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are expected to fare worse during closures.\n\nIt comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the break.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer called for a national recovery plan for schools, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nMr Johnson said at Wednesday's daily briefing that the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return as now planned in September.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the aim remained to have all pupils back in school for the start of the academic year, but gave no details about how ministers intended to achieve this.\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing and separating out existing classes into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils from much larger class sizes.\n\nWhen the spokesman was asked about increasing this capacity, by creating extra classrooms or using village halls for example, he said the government was \"looking at exactly what might be required to get all children back\".\n\nThe Scottish Government, which is bringing pupils back in staggered fashion from August, has said it will be working with local councils to seek out extra community spaces and empty offices to accommodate pupils, where necessary.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran has called for a register to be drawn up in local areas to map out where spaces could be brought into school use.\n\nThere are few details of how the summer catch-up plans will work. A further announcement is expected next week.\n\nIt is not clear whether this catch-up work would be offered in school buildings or elsewhere, or whether teachers would be asked to staff the programme.\n\nThe general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, said the plan was the latest in a long line of eye-catching announcements that would suffer from a lack of input from the teaching profession.\n\nHe said it was not credible to think academic catch up could be achieved over the summer, and warned that the impact of enforced isolation on young people was little understood but likely to be significant.\n\nBut he said support was clearly needed for pupils over the summer, and urged the government to fund a locally co-ordinated offer involving youth groups and charities.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, warned last week that there were just two weeks left to set such summer learning projects up.\n\nAnd the House of Commons Education Committee chairman, Robert Halfon, has called for a Nightingale Hospital style plan to get schools back to capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups, and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June, but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, but with some continued home learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "The Nigel Farage Show had been on air since 2017\n\nNigel Farage is to leave his talk show on LBC radio with \"immediate effect\", the station confirmed on Thursday.\n\nThe station thanked the Brexit Party leader for his \"enormous contribution\".\n\nThe Nigel Farage Show aired five days a week. On Wednesday, he told listeners he would be back as usual on Thursday, but the schedule has now been changed.\n\n\"Nigel Farage's contract with LBC is up very shortly and, following discussions with him, Nigel is stepping down from LBC with immediate effect,\" LBC said.\n\nThe station added: \"We thank Nigel for the enormous contribution he has made to LBC and wish him well.\"\n\nThe Nigel Farage Show had been on air for three years, and offered callers the chance to sound off about political topics.\n\nOn Wednesday's show he signed off with the words: \"I'm back tomorrow at six,\" suggesting his contract situation accelerated in the last 24 hours.\n\nApparently responding to the news, fellow presenter James O'Brien tweeted: \"We got our station back.\"\n\nIn 2018, he launched a podcast called Farage Against The Machine, which caused rock band Rage Against the Machine to send a cease and desist letter telling him to stop using the name. He refused, but LBC cancelled the series.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MEP's last sitting in the European Parliament\n\nAs former Ukip leader, Farage was influential in gathering momentum for the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nThis week the 56-year-old compared Black Lives Matters protestors to the Taliban, for demolishing statues of slaves traders.\n\nHis departure comes after the station's owners Global Radio were criticised by some presenters over its response to the protests, following the death of George Floyd.\n\nA Global spokesperson told the BBC the company had taken \"several steps in recent days\" to improve its inclusivity, \"including the formation of a BAME committee\".\n\nThey added: \"This said, we recognise there is still a lot of work to do. Global is committed to recruiting the highest level of expertise and experience, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or disability.\n\n\"Like a lot of businesses, we are honest enough to say that we are still finding our feet and learning fast.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "What happened to the contact-tracing app?\n\nThe news that the full test-and-trace programme might not be up and running until September has led some to think this applies to the NHS contact-tracing app, rather than the wider manual tracing effort. The confusion is understandable - after all it's not long ago that ministers talked as if the app was the centrepiece of the programme rather than the \"cherry on top\" as it has been described. My understanding is that the app, which has suffered a number of delays, should still be rolled out nationwide by late June or early July - although there is no guarantee over that. After a first trial with an app with very limited capabilities on the Isle of Wight, version two, which features five questions about symptoms instead of two and integrates the testing process,is undergoing testing at a secret location in London.", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nIn the row over the statue of Cecil Rhodes, Oxford University's head has warned against \"hiding our history\".\n\nProtesters want to pull down Oriel College's statue of the 19th century imperialist, saying it is a symbol of racism and imperialism.\n\nBut vice-chancellor Louise Richardson said the views of the past had to be seen in the context of the time.\n\n\"We need to confront our past, we need to learn from it,\" said Prof Richardson.\n\nAfter the removal of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol attention has switched to other statues, including that of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford, commemorating the Victorian imperialist, businessman and funder of scholarships.\n\nThe statue belongs to Oriel College, rather than the university, and Prof Richardson said she did not want to give a \"binary\" view on whether to remove it.\n\nBut she gave no indication of backing protesters wanting to take down the statue, instead warning against trying to hide the past and calling for a recognition that views from the past needed to be judged in their historical context.\n\nOxford's MPs and a number of local councillors have supported calls to remove the Rhodes statue, arguing that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign has called for a \"public and permanent acknowledgement\" of the university's \"role in colonial violence\".\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.\n\nIn the era of Cecil Rhodes, support for imperialism had been the prevailing view, she said.\n\nLouise Richardson says that the views of the past need to be examined in the context of the time\n\nThe vice-chancellor said that growing up in Ireland she had seen Oliver Cromwell as a \"barbarous\" figure - but she had seen his statue in Westminster and had learned more about him.\n\n\"Cromwell to me was like Voldemort is to my children,\" she said, referencing the evil wizard in the Harry Potter novels.\n\n\"But I went about learning more about how he was perceived very differently in Britain.\"\n\nWhen looking at the attitudes and actions of the past, she asked: \"Do we use the ethics of today or do we use the morals and ethics of the time in which they lived?\"\n\nAfter a row about the statue a few years ago, there had been proposals for a plaque to be added to the Rhodes statue adding \"context\" about his life, and Prof Richardson said she regretted that this did not seem to have happened.\n\nBut she said the focus of the university was not on statues from the past, but on the experience of students in the present, adding that the number of black and ethnic minority students had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\n\"I would hate to think that any black student or student of any background would think that Oxford would be an unwelcoming place.\"\n\nProf Richardson was speaking as the university was about it announce its first new college for 30 years.\n\nReuben College is to open next year as a postgraduate college and the vice-chancellor said it will be \"more problem-focused, more entrepreneurial\".\n\nThe college will focus on climate change, artificial intelligence and cellular life. It takes it name from the Reuben family whose foundation has donated £80m to support it.\n\n\"The idea is to find solutions to global problems that transcend national borders,\" said Prof Richardson, adding that the college would have a more \"egalitarian\" approach than the \"traditional formal set-up\".\n\nOxford University has been at forefront of efforts to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 and she said it showed the necessity of \"funding the research infrastructure\".\n\n\"It shows how important it is for a country like Britain to have as many first-rate research universities as possible. We're critical to the economic recovery,\" said Prof Richardson.", "A statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled by protesters in St Paul, Minnesota\n\nStatues of Confederate leaders and the explorer Christopher Columbus have been torn down in the US, as pressure grows on authorities to remove monuments connected to slavery and colonialism.\n\nA statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was toppled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday night.\n\nStatues of Columbus in Boston, Miami and Virginia have been vandalised.\n\nThe movement has been sparked by the death in police custody of African American George Floyd.\n\nHis death in Minneapolis has led to protests in the US and internationally against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMemorials to the Confederacy, a group of southern states that fought to keep black people as slaves in the American Civil War of 1861-65, have been among those targeted.\n\nA number of Confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond have been marked with graffiti during the protests.\n\nRichmond also saw a statue of Italian explorer Columbus pulled down, set alight and thrown into a lake earlier this week,.\n\nA three-metre tall (10ft) bronze statue of Columbus was toppled in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday.\n\nThe Columbus statue in Boston, which stands on a plinth at the heart of town, was beheaded.\n\nA city employee inspects the decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston\n\nMany people in the US celebrate the memory of Columbus, who in school textbooks is credited with discovering \"the New World\", the Americas, in the 15th Century.\n\nBut Native American activists have long objected to honouring Columbus, saying that his expeditions to the Americas led to the colonisation and genocide of their ancestors.\n\nBLM - denoting Black Lives Matter - was sprayed on a Columbus statue in Miami\n\nThe death of Mr Floyd, whose neck was kneeled on by a police officer for nearly nine minutes, has spurred global protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany cities and organisations have taken steps to remove Confederate symbols, which have long stirred controversy because of their association with racism.\n\nVideos show crowds cheering as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was towed away in Richmond\n\nLast week, for example, Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee would be removed from Richmond.\n\nHowever, a judge has since granted a temporary injunction stopping the removal.\n\nStock-car racing organisers Nascar announced on Wednesday it was banning Confederate flags, frequently seen at races.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has meanwhile rejected calls to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, saying they remain part of America's heritage.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Korey O'Brien This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trump renewed threats to take federal action against local protesters occupying public spaces.\n\nIn a pointed exchange on Twitter, Mr Trump demanded that the mayor of Seattle \"take back your city\" from protesters, whom he called anarchists and domestic terrorists.\n\nIn a tweet of her own, Mayor Jenny Durkan responded that Mr Trump could make everyone safe by going back to his White House bunker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA similar backlash against statues of slave owners has been seen in the UK since Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrators tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into a harbour during a protest in the city of Bristol on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edward Colston's statue was removed early in the morning\n\nOn Thursday, Bristol City Council said it had retrieved the statue, which will be taken to a secure location before becoming a museum exhibit.\n\nEarlier this week, a statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nAnd, during a Black Lives Matter protest in London last weekend, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?", "The project at Pembroke Dock will enable technology developers to test marine energy devices\n\nA £60m marine power project has been approved for Pembrokeshire - with 1,800 jobs expected to be generated over the next 15 years.\n\nThe investment at Pembroke Dock is being backed by the private sector and supported by the local authority.\n\nThe project will enable technology developers to test marine energy devices in the Milford Haven Waterway.\n\nPembrokeshire council leader David Simpson said they were ready to \"accelerate working\" on the scheme.\n\nThe business case for the development has been backed by both the Welsh and UK governments.\n\nPembrokeshire council said the project was expected to generate £73.5m a year for the Swansea Bay City Region economy.\n\n\"The impact of Covid-19 has further heightened the importance of Pembroke Dock Marine, so the project's approval is very welcome news for Pembrokeshire's residents and businesses.\n\n\"This project will place Pembrokeshire and the City Region at the heart of a growing global industry, helping further raise the region's profile as a place to do business and invest in.\"\n\nAndy Jones, chief executive of the Port of Milford Haven, said: \"This is an exciting step - not just for Pembrokeshire and the region but also for our economy, our communities and our environment as we work towards net zero decarbonisation targets.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government's deputy minister for the economy, Lee Waters added: \"It also clearly demonstrates our commitment to the development of a Centre of Excellence for marine technology here in Wales.\"\n\nUK government minister for Wales, David TC Davies said: \"As we look to bounce back economically from the coronavirus pandemic, the development of clean energy projects will help to drive a green and resilient economic recovery and create new jobs.\"", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who have lived away from home since the early days of the pandemic to avoid the risk of infecting their families. One says she fears that cases will begin to rise because members of the public, unlike medical staff, seem too eager to \"move on\".\n\nI am so humbled by the personal sacrifices that some of my colleagues have made during the pandemic. Those with young children who have sent them away to their parents to protect them from harm, like evacuees to the countryside during World War Two. Those who have retreated into lives of hermits to reduce the risk of any transmission from their work environments.\n\nHealthcare workers are five or six times more likely to be infected than the general public, so they also have a much greater risk of infecting others. Living as a civilian in a house with a healthcare worker can be bad for your health.\n\nBecky Aird is a specialist respiratory nurse and acting ward sister on our busiest Covid-19 ward. Three months ago, before we had our first patient, she made the tough decision to move out of her parents' home to protect her mother, who has MS.\n\nKirsten Sellick is a junior doctor who moved out of a family home to live in hospital accommodation. I see her on sunny days reading outside the hospital - the car park is her lockdown garden retreat.\n\nAfter lockdown I was offered the chance to move into the hotel to keep my family safe and I took it. That was 30 March. My mum is quite poorly, she's got secondary progressive MS, she's very independent and both she and my dad wanted me to stay at home; they kept thinking of ways we could live together safely but I knew it wouldn't be 100% safe. There was no way to eliminate the risk for my mum. The only option was to eliminate myself.\n\nBecky Aird with her mother and a young relative, pre-lockdown\n\nAt first I thought it was quite cool in the hotel - it was like going on a little holiday - but it quickly wore off. I've got a reasonably small room. I brought a travel fridge with me and it broke within the first week. It's just very lonely, and I mostly read. I haven't seen my friends, just one girl who I dropped a care package off to and she stood at her front door.\n\nI was very upset when one of my friends, Kelly, was admitted to my ward. I was the main nurse in charge and it really shocked me, it was such a big thing to see her fighting for breath and so ill. I was crying when I got back to the hotel - I couldn't stop thinking about her. She asked me to promise her that she wasn't going to die. Thankfully she went on to CPAP [non-invasive ventilation] and started to improve.\n\nWe are still admitting patients on to the Covid ward and I don't see much sign it's stopping. Some people tell us they haven't been social distancing - they've been with relatives, or to other houses. I definitely think it's going to get worse before it gets better, because I think people just think that it's over.\n\nThe sad fact is that there are nurses and doctors and healthcare workers struggling to work in PPE, working really hard for three months in such difficult conditions, and like me, making sacrifices - not seeing family and friends, following all the rules - and then there are people out there that aren't doing that. So that's disheartening.\n\nIt's really sad. It's funny because people did love the NHS and clapped and everything - people really cared. But then it's kind of people want to move on. I don't necessarily agree that we should be called heroes, but I think that that might have all been forgotten about now.\n\nI'm leaving soon, because soon I'll have done three months in the hotel and the bill [paid by the NHS] is mounting up. There's nowhere else I could stay to be isolated so I need to go back home - and that means stopping work on the Covid wards.\n\nI would stay if I could. Don't get me wrong, there have been some horrendous things, but this is what I'm trained for. I have the ability to help, to make a difference and if living in the hotel is the only way to do it, then I'm prepared for that. I don't have children. I don't have a partner. But I'm also really looking forward to being home, to having my own bed, to being with my parents again.\n\nI will miss the Covid ward. The team's fantastic. Everyone's been so pleasant and lovely with each other, I think that's been the best thing. I've actually seen patients get better and clapping them out is my favourite thing ever. I love that.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nMy garden is the hospital car park and my commute is dreamy - it takes me two minutes to get from my bed into work. But it's a bit odd - I don't ever leave the hospital site.\n\nI was living with family and it made more sense not to live with them as I'm high-risk, interacting with patients who are really unwell with coronavirus. The thought of taking it home to family was just too much.\n\nIt is pretty lonely. There are two other doctors but it's difficult not being around family or people you love, and a phone call can only do so much.\n\nI've been in the flat for months now. I had to properly isolate when my flatmate had a positive test, so we couldn't even leave the flat. That was really bad. It's a hospital flat so the window has a padlock on it and only opens less than an inch so my fresh air was leaning against the window trying to breathe in some air.\n\nYou get used to having a garden, a nice kitchen and a home but now I haven't got any of that. I have found a little bit of the car park that I sit in when the sun is out.\n\nIt's been sad work, seeing young people who aren't doing as well as I'd like them to. It's hard to explain to family members - I try to get across that we are doing our best. But it's been heart-breaking speaking to them on the phone.\n\nIt was a lovely moment to see our first patient come off the ventilator and leave the ward. That makes the sacrifice worth it - knowing we can really help people.\n\nI'd love to be done, so that I could go and see my family and my partner, I'd really love to do that but I don't feel like I can yet. I'm hoping that time will come soon.\n\nBecky and Kirsten are the embodiment of the dedication of the NHS front-line workers. This is what they trained for - to care for people and to save lives. However, working on the Covid \"red\" wards has to be one of the toughest jobs, both physically and emotionally, and I worry about the impact on their physical and mental health when they are separated from their usual support networks of loving family and friends.\n\nWe will have to work hard to care for our carers.", "Andrew Goodall said people who have experience problems will be offered help first\n\nMore dental care will be available for patients from 1 July, the chief executive of NHS Wales has confirmed.\n\nAndrew Goodall said people who have experienced problems during lockdown will be offered help first.\n\n\"A wide range of care will be available at most local dental practices for patients who urgently need them,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Goodall said the restoration of services would be \"gradual\" to protect staff and patients.\n\nIt is not expected that routine dentistry will be available until 2021.\n\nRoutine work had stopped during the pandemic because many dental procedures use tools that create spray, leading to a higher risk of transmission of the virus.\n\nRoutine dentistry is not expected to be back up and running until 2021\n\nThe Welsh Government has faced calls to reopen surgeries from dentists themselves, who warned of an impending health \"disaster\".\n\nDr Goodall told the daily Welsh Government press briefing officials are planning to restart services in three phases, with the first phase beginning in July.\n\n\"The group of people who have experienced problems during lockdown will be offered assessment and care first,\" he said.\n\n\"We will progress based on urgency and patient need until the restoration of routine check-ups in the final phase.\"\n\nFurther phases will be \"about restoring activities in different ways\", Mr Goodall said, adding he hoped routine assessments could be restored.\n\nDespite the pandemic, Dr Goodall said dentists had been open when necessary for urgent care, with 11,500 people seen and 140,000 consultations done remotely.\n\nRoutine dental procedures have been cancelled during the pandemic\n\nMeanwhile Dr Goodall reiterated that a \"cautious approach\" will be needed to easing any lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe chief executive responded to a question as to whether so-called \"social bubbles\", introduced in England, would be part of the next lockdown review.\n\nDr Goodall said: \"We'll be approaching the next phase of lockdown review through next week... and the first minister alongside the cabinet will be reviewing any opportunities to see what the next steps are for lockdown restrictions\".\n\nThe next lockdown announcement in Wales is expected on 19 July.", "The development site is opposite Neyland on the Cleddau Estuary between Hobbs Point and the ferry terminal\n\nAn investment company has pulled out of a £100m waterfront development in Pembrokeshire.\n\nConygar's annual report, released on Wednesday, said it had decided to withdraw from the Martello Quays scheme in Pembroke Dock and write off its £4.8m investment.\n\nThe original £8m estimate of constructing the marina had risen to over £17m, which made it \"not viable\".\n\nConygar said it was a \"difficult\" but \"necessary\" decision.\n\nIt included consent for pontoons with up to 260 berths, 450 houses and apartments, a hotel, cinema, gallery, pub and restaurants.\n\nThe report said: \"Having commissioned a detailed feasibility study, the results unfortunately concluded that the cost of constructing the marina would be considerably greater than our first investigation showed.\"\n\nConygar was appointed as the developer by a client group made up of Pembrokeshire council, the Welsh Government, the Crown Estate and Milford Haven Port Authority.\n\nIts contract was dependent on the marina being built by 2022.\n\nConygar said the land-based element at Pembroke Dock was still viable, and \"substantial retailers\" had been attracted which would \"improve the environment and create considerable employment.\"\n\nBut an attempt to separate the land development from the marina was refused which led to the decision to write off the total investment.\n\nA joint statement from Conygar chairman Nigel Hamway and chief executive Robert Ware said: \"This was a difficult decision but we felt that it was necessary given the problems we have faced at this site over the past year.\"\n\nPembroke Dock county councillor Brian Hall said the development would have been a \"huge asset\" for the town, but he understood it was no longer viable for Conygar.\n\nHe said major companies had shown interest in coming, which would have created 600 full and part-time jobs.\n\n\"It would have led to a massive increase in footfall which would help assist the small businesses, as well as major road and sewage improvements,\" he said.\n\nMr Hall remains optimistic that the development will happen one day.\n\n\"We'll just keep plugging away for Pembroke Dock,\" he said.", "Routine dental appointments may not happen until next year\n\nDental health in Wales faces an \"impending disaster\" unless surgeries reopen, a dentist has warned in a letter to the first minister.\n\nCardiff dentist Dr Charlie Stephanakis said his plea on behalf of about 500 Welsh colleagues reflected mounting concerns for patients.\n\nDentists in England can reopen from Monday, but in Wales a phased approach will begin in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said reinstating services needed to be \"gradual\".\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed since the start of lockdown, but in that time dentists in Wales have seen 11,500 people in practices for urgent care and provided 140,000 consultations over the phone or using video services.\n\nFrom July patients will be able to be assessed for urgent care at their practices, but those requiring invasive procedures such as high-speed drilling will still be referred to specialist 'Urgent Dental Care' centres.\n\nUnder the phased guidelines set out by Wales' chief dental officer, Colette Bridgman, routine assessments and care will only be reinstated between January and March 2021.\n\nBut in his open letter to Mark Drakeford, Dr Stephanakis said without action \"we are facing the long-term degradation of the oral health of the population of Wales\".\n\nThe dentist said keeping surgeries closed following the coronavirus lockdown in Wales had led to several issues, including:\n\nHe has called for urgent meetings with the Welsh Government to seek a way forward.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents the health sector, said there was a \"great, growing demand\" for swifter action before 2021.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We share dentists' concerns and recognise routine care cannot be postponed indefinitely.\n\n\"We have published our plan for the reinstatement of services but this needs to be a cautious and gradual approach, taking into consideration the risk of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) on Covid-19 transmission.\n\n\"There is a need to balance the oral health needs of patients against the need to protect patients, dental teams and communities in Wales from coronavirus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is a very tricky moment for the prime minister.\n\nOne minister admitted the government was in a \"rough patch - everyone's a bit angry having been locked up for too long\".\n\nWhether it's the messy patchwork of the return of schools in England, mounting criticisms of the way decisions were taken at the start of the pandemic, or the dawning realisation (perhaps overdue) in Westminster that the economy is in very dire straits despite the balance sheet-busting actions the Treasury has taken.\n\nRecent polls show confidence in the government has slid down.\n\nIt's worth saying some of that is political gravity after a period of pretty astonishing levels of support that could never last.\n\nAnd, of course, we are four years from the next general election.\n\nBut poll after poll suggests the public's mood has soured, and politicians who tell you they don't pay any attention to those surveys may well have two fingers crossed behind their back.\n\nAnd there is really tangible frustration among the government's own MPs that has built over the last few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister described Number 10's approach as \"lurch and retreat\", with Downing Street having \"no strategic sense of where they are going\".\n\nA less diplomatic senior MP had one more robust, and unprintable word to describe the Tories' position.\n\nThere is a growing hope though among government ministers that at least part of the way of turning the page would be to relax the two-metre keep your distance rule.\n\nThe prime minister himself has made it clear that he would like to do that if it's possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nMinisters had promised to review it, and Downing Street is taking a look, involving the government's scientists and crucially too, those charged with handling the economy.\n\nOne minister today seemed confident the rule would be changed, and told me \"very soon\".\n\nAfter all, other countries are asking their citizens to keep apart, but with smaller gaps, as my colleague David Shukman's explained here.\n\nMore and more MPs believe that relaxing the rule would be the crucial piece of the jigsaw.\n\nSchools would find it easier to reopen to many more children, bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants that simply won't be able to function as businesses might have a chance again; using public transport if you only have to be say one metre apart seems a different prospect, and the transformation of workplaces becomes less dramatic.\n\nAnd if one metre is deemed safe in Denmark, France, or Hong Kong, then why not here?\n\nFirst off, the disease is shrinking, but it's not disappearing fast.\n\nThere is still public anxiety about the infection, and that crucial R rate is only just under the danger level of one.\n\nThe risk of relaxing the rule may be small, but it does exist.\n\nAnd the government's top medics have said publicly that they don't think the two-metre rule should go.\n\nTo change it therefore would be to go against the advice - \"the science\" that ministers have so often relied on referring to in difficult moments.\n\nOf course there is no such one thing as \"the science\".\n\nScience is as full of dispute as politics, even though the methods and practices are chalk and cheese.\n\nAnd ultimately the decisions about handling the crisis have been made by ministers after receiving the scientists' advice.\n\nBut the decision over two metres is looming and it's one that Boris Johnson can't ignore.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suffolk Police officers ask for the black couple's details \"because we can\"\n\nAn exchange in which a police officer accused a black woman of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" was \"clumsy\", a deputy chief constable said.\n\nTwo officers had asked a black couple outside their Ipswich home for their details, saying \"because we can\".\n\nWhen the woman complained, an officer said: \"You've just jumped on the bandwagon in the current climate.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable of Suffolk Police, Rachel Kearton, said it would be investigated internally.\n\nThe exchange, filmed on the woman's mobile phone, has been viewed on Twitter more than 1.5m times after it was shared by the couple's daughter, Maja Antoine.\n\nIn the video, the officers appear to want to check a driving licence because the couple had \"paid attention\" to them while they worked on an operation on the same street on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by maja This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said in her tweet: \"My parents were stopped and questioned in their own driveway for 'driving a motor vehicle on the road', and 'because they can'.\n\n\"It's suspicious to walk from your car to your house, while black. The UK is not innocent.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Suffolk, Miss Antoine said her first thought when her mother sent her the footage was \"people need to see that\".\n\n\"Everything we are fighting for is happening where we stand, to the point that it's my parents on their doorstep,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After everything calmed down my main feeling was anger because this shouldn't have been happening.\"\n\nAsked about an official apology due to be given to her parents on Friday, she replied: \"Until we see some sort of change in bias training I don't think I'm really impressed, but the apology was welcomed.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Kearton told BBC Look East she could see the incident was upsetting\n\nFranstine Jones, the former president of the National Black Police Association, said it was \"just not professional\" to ask someone for their details \"because we can\".\n\n\"It leaves me wondering about the mindset of our officers in Suffolk going out on the street doing their policing,\" she said.\n\n\"If they think every interaction with a black person - if they are not happy about the way they are being spoken to, or the way they are being treated, or asking for an explanation - that officer is going to think 'oh here we go, they are just jumping on the bandwagon'.\n\n\"It's really disappointing. It makes me fearful.\"\n\nDCC Kearton said body-worn camera footage and the online video were being examined and the matter investigated by the force's professional standards team.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for us to have a long, hard look at how we conduct ourselves,\" she explained.\n\n\"It isn't always perfect, we do have mistakes and weaknesses, however, we do care for our communities and we do hold very close to our hearts our sense of professionalism and integrity and to do the right thing and respect all of our members of our communities to keep them safe.\n\n\"That is what was at the heart of what the police officers were trying to do, however it appears to have been carried out in a clumsy fashion which will be dealt with by the constabulary and we will do better in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey\n\nThe Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father will be assessed by the police watchdog after the Met was instructed to refer it.\n\nWretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey, north London, in April.\n\nThe force previously said a review had found \"no indication of misconduct\".\n\nBut the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) used its powers to require the force to refer it.\n\nIt will now assess what happened to decide if it needs to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Millard Scott was Tasered by officers after they entered his home in April\n\nThe 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jermaine Scott, shared the 36-second clip on his Twitter account with the caption: \"This is how the police think they can treat a 62 year old black man in Tottenham but this 1 happens to be my dad.\"\n\nHe later spoke about the lack of progression on \"police brutality\" in the UK.\n\nHis 62-year-old father told ITV News he believed he would not have been Tasered if he were white and he was \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThe video shows Mr Scott falling down the stairs after an officer is heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nScotland Yard said officers had gone to the property as part of \"a long-running operation to tackle drugs supply linked to serious violence\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"As officers entered the premises, a man came downstairs and started moving towards an officer suddenly.\n\n\"He was ordered to remain where he was but continued towards officers who, after several warnings, deployed a Taser.\n\n\"The man was not arrested, but was assessed by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. He did not require further medical treatment.\n\n\"Officers from the North Area Command Unit have liaised with the family to discuss any concerns they have about the incident.\n\n\"The incident, including body-worn footage, has been reviewed by the Met's directorate of professional standards and no indication of misconduct has been identified.\"\n\nPolice said a 22-year-old man found in the house was arrested and charged with encouraging another to commit an offence, while a 52-year-old woman was charged with obstructing police after being interviewed under caution at a later date.\n\nThe force said in a further statement that, following examination of the body-worn footage, it believed the incident \"does not meet the criteria for a referral to the IOPC\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development will have a greater focus on leisure such as bars and restaurants than the previous plan\n\nA revised plan for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Milford Haven Waterfront has been submitted to Pembrokeshire County Council.\n\nA mix of shops, bars, cafes, hotels, restaurants, business units, and up to 190 flats and townhouses is planned.\n\nIt will also include up to 70 additional marina berths and replacement boat yards.\n\nThe port received outline planning permission in 2015 and has since been working on the final details.\n\nThe previous plans focused on shopping but \"as a result of market changes\" the development will focus on leisure. Instead of a supermarket they have planned for a large indoor facility which will be open all year round.\n\nArtist's impression of the marina with the floating cabin holiday lets, which should be ready for use later this year\n\nThe Port of Milford Haven claims its project will create over 700 jobs during construction and operation.\n\nWork has already started on site for a new coffee house drive-thru at the waterfront.\n\nFour floating cabins for holiday lets will be ready for use on the marina later this year with terraces overlooking the water.\n\nNeil Jenkins, development director at the Port of Milford Haven, said: \"We have worked hard on fine-tuning the plans over the past couple of years to ensure they are in line with market trends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nRobert Jenrick has defended his decision to approve a controversial planning application by a Conservative donor as the Metropolitan Police said they would not be taking any action.\n\nThe housing secretary told MPs he had acted in \"good faith\" and \"within the rules\" when he backed Richard Desmond's scheme for 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nHe said he had handed relevant documents to No 10's top official.\n\nLabour called for an inquiry to clear up the \"bad smell\" over the decision.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to grant planning permission in January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, and the secretary of state has said what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe application, previously rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nThe housing secretary has been under political pressure after it emerged that Mr Desmond raised the issue with him at a Conservative fundraising dinner in November and, two weeks after planning permission was granted, donated £12,000 to the Conservative Party.\n\nPressed on the issue in the House of Commons, Mr Jenrick said it was \"not unusual\" for the secretary of state to reach a different conclusion from councils or planning inspectors on the most \"contentious\" applications.\n\n\"I took that decision in good faith, with an open mind, and I am confident all the rules were followed in doing so,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said \"all the relevant information\" relating to the decision had been handed to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the UK's most senior civil servant, who opposition parties are demanding hold an inquiry.\n\nRequests for further documentation would be considered where appropriate, he added, bearing in mind the \"legitimate interests\" of the parties involved and the fact the application had yet to be settled.\n\nMr Jenrick rejected claims of impropriety in relation to his contacts with Mr Desmond.\n\nHe said officials were aware he had \"inadvertently\" found himself sitting next to the businessman at the November dinner and he had been clear that he could not discuss the application when Mr Desmond raised it.\n\n\"I discussed and took advice from my officials in the department at all times,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a question from the SNP's Tommy Sheppard, he also revealed that the matter had been looked into by the police following a complaint and he had been told there were \"no criminal matters to investigate\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nThe Met confirmed it received an allegation on 27 May relating to a property development in east London.\n\nIn a statement, it said. \"The details were assessed by officers from the Special Enquiry Team who concluded the information provided did not meet the threshold for a criminal investigation.\n\n\"There will be no further police action at this time.\"\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate which said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council subsequently challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must do more to reassure people about the integrity of the planning process and dispel concerns that it could be \"auctioned off\".\n\n\"The only disinfectant that can clear the bad smell hanging around this decision is honesty,\" said shadow housing secretary Steve Read.\n\n\"Mr Jenrick must immediately publish all correspondence about this case to allow full public scrutiny of what he's been up to.\"", "Three adults, including the two-year-old's mother, were taken to hospital\n\nA two-year-old boy who was shot in the head survived after the bullet missed an artery by just a millimetre, his family have revealed.\n\nThe boy's grandmother Lillian Serunkuma is appealing for information to help police catch the gunman.\n\nThe toddler was one of four people, including his mother, who were shot in Energen Close, Harlesden, on 3 June.\n\nDetectives have arrested five men in connection with the shooting but are yet to charge anyone.\n\nThe two-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and doctors told his family that the bullet missed a crucial artery, which would have resulted in a fatal injury if damaged.\n\nMs Serunkuma, whose 15-year-old son Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes was stabbed to death in 2017, said: \"My grandson is two, he has never hurt anyone. The person who did this doesn't deserve your protection or friendship.\n\n\"The gunman could clearly see that a woman and child were present in the car, and fired towards them without any regard for their safety, seriously hurting them both.\"\n\nLillian Serunkuma's son Quamari was stabbed to death in January 2017\n\nThe attacker is believed to have fired a handgun at a man before shooting into a car carrying the boy, his mother, another teenager, and two other children.\n\nDet Ch Insp Pete Wallis said the boy \"spent more than a week fighting for his life\".\n\nHe is then said to have fled the scene on a motorbike, according to the Met Police.\n\nA 20 year-old-man arrested on suspicion of four counts of attempted murder has been released under investigation, while a 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder has been bailed.\n\nThree other men, aged 29, 23 and 36, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have all been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been jailed for urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nAndrew Banks, 28, of Stansted, Essex, was photographed during Saturday's right-wing protests in London.\n\nHe was sentenced to 14 days in custody, after pleading guilty to outraging public decency at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster attack on 22 March 2017.\n\nHe was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nAndrew Banks had not slept the night before the incident, the court heard\n\nThe image of Banks was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nBanks, a Tottenham Hotspur fan, said he had travelled to central London with other football supporters to \"protect statues\", but admitted he did not know which statues.\n\nHe was said to have drunk 16 pints during Friday night into Saturday morning, and had not been to sleep.\n\nBanks contacted police after being confronted by his father, the court heard.\n\nJailing Banks, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said: \"I accept you were drunk and did not know where you were urinating.\n\n\"Your explanation is you had 16 pints to drink, you hadn't been to bed, and a group of football supporters were coming up to protect the monuments.\n\n\"The irony is rather than protecting the monuments, you almost urinated on one. That was more by luck than judgment.\"\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nHis counsel Stuart Harris said his client was \"ashamed by his action\", and had mental health issues.\n\nThe act was widely condemned at the time by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying in the grounds of Parliament.\n\nMet Police Cdr Bas Javid said: \"Keith Palmer was a brave police officer and the memorial stands testament to his courage.\n\n\"Banks' actions, in stark contrast, were unpleasant and extremely upsetting to PC Palmer's family and colleagues.\n\n\"While I note that Banks did not act with intent, I welcome the sentence handed down by the court for his thoughtless and distasteful behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bong Joon-ho directed last year's Oscar-winning film Parasite, the first non-English language film to win best picture\n\nNext year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Academy Awards were due to take place on 28 February next year but have now been put back until 25 April.\n\nOrganisers have also agreed to extend the eligibility window beyond 31 December 2020 to the end of February.\n\nNext year's British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) have been pushed back to 11 April, keeping in line with the Oscars.\n\nThe pandemic has already halted work on a number of films which were due to be released by the end of the year.\n\n\"This is a much needed boost for those films who may have been stalled in post-production,\" an Academy member told Variety.\n\nThe red carpet is a big draw for Oscar fans\n\nLast week, The Academy pledged to ensure greater inclusivity in its future award ceremonies, to \"level the playing field\".\n\nIt also said there would always be 10 films in the best film category rather than a fluctuating number between five and 10, potentially meaning more diverse film choices in the running.\n\nThis rule won't come into play until 2022, however.\n\nThe ceremony has been pushed back to Sunday 11 April 2021. It was due to take place on 14 February.\n\nThis keeps it in line with the Oscar changes - the Baftas traditionally take place two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards.\n\nAnd like the Oscars, Bafta has also changed its eligibility criteria.\n\nFilms that had an official release date that fell during the lockdown period will now still be eligible if they choose to debut on video on demand services.\n\nMarc Samuelson, chair of Bafta's film committee, said: \"We have pushed back by two months to give all films the best possible chance to be released and considered properly.\"\n\nThe Oscars has only been delayed three times before - due to LA flooding in 1938; after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968; and following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nIt's not yet known if the ceremony will be virtual or in person as it is too early to say.\n\nDavid Rubin, president of the Academy - the body behind the Oscars- and its CEO Dawn Hudson said: \"For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times.\n\n\"They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone's control.\n\n\"This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark an historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.\"\n\nNominations will be announced on March 15, 2021.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently changed its rules so films that debut on streaming or video on demand services are eligible for next year's awards.\n\nThe current rules say films can only enter if they have been shown in a Los Angeles cinema for at least a week.\n\nBut with cinemas shut during the coronavirus crisis, organisers said a \"temporary\" exception was necessary.\n\nMany film releases have been delayed, with others going straight to digital.\n\nThe Oscars is not the only big entertainment event to have been affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe prestigious Tony theatre awards were due to take place earlier this month but were postponed and a new date is yet to be announced.\n\nSome events have been cancelled, including last month's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Paul and Elaine Gait said at the time they felt \"violated\" by Sussex Police\n\nA police force has paid out £200,000 over the arrest of a couple falsely accused of causing chaos at Gatwick Airport with a drone.\n\nArmed officers stormed the home of Paul and Elaine Gait in December 2018, and held them for 36 hours after drones caused the airport to close repeatedly.\n\nThe couple were released without charge, and sued Sussex Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.\n\nThe Gait's legal team said the force had agreed an out-of-court settlement.\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel\n\nSussex Police confirmed it has paid the couple the £55,000 owed in damages, and law firm Howard Kennedy said it has billed the force an additional £145,000 in legal costs.\n\nFlights were cancelled in droves over a three-day period, as police investigated multiple reported drone sightings.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged, and police have said that some reported drone sightings may have been Sussex Police's own craft.\n\nTwelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.\n\nIn a statement released by their legal team on Sunday, the couple said: \"We are delighted to have finally received vindication, it has been a very long fight for justice.\n\n\"It has taken lengthy legal proceedings to obtain resolution from the police and to finally have closure on this distressing time.\"\n\nAnti-drone equipment was used at Gatwick Airport after the drone stopped flights intermittently for days\n\nIn a letter to the couple, Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable David Miller said he was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"unpleasantness\" the couple experienced, and acknowledged it would have been \"traumatic\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, when the police carry out their functions on behalf of the public, sometimes innocent people are arrested as part of necessary police investigations in the public interest.\n\n\"However, we recognise that things could have been done differently and, as a result, Sussex Police have agreed to pay you compensation and legal costs.\"\n\nThe force commissioned a \"thorough independent review\" of the drone incident last year.\n\nIt revealed 96 people \"of interest\" were identified, researched and ruled out during the investigation and the cost of the operation and subsequent investigation was £790,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince William spoke with Leanne whose five-year-old son Kaydyn has cystic fibrosis\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has made a surprise video call to a woman and her young son who have been shielding for the past three months.\n\nWilliam spoke with Leanne and five-year-old Kaydyn, who has cystic fibrosis, at their home in Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nFootage of the call will feature on BBC One's The One Show on Tuesday.\n\nLeanne was shown covering her mouth with her hands in shock as the Duke called from his home in Norfolk.\n\nIt forms part of a film focusing on extremely vulnerable people being advised to remain at home as much as possible, and the challenges they are facing.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge during a previous video call, when he revealed he was a volunteer for a mental health charity's crisis helpline\n\nFrom the start of June, more than 2.2 million extremely vulnerable people shielding from coronavirus were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nSince the advice changed, Leanne and Kaydyn have been outside twice, for country walks.\n\nThe BBC said: \"Initially Kaydyn was frustrated about being forced to stay inside - now he is very nervous about leaving the house.\"\n\nThe film will also look at Shelby Lynch, a 21-year-old from Leeds, who has spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and is on a ventilator 24 hours a day.\n\nIt follows the moment she finally leaves her home for a socially distanced meeting with her boyfriend for the first time in weeks.\n\n\"He had been feeling a little down so it was nice to see his face light up,\" she said.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and volunteers at Conscious Youth during a video call\n\nLast week, the Duke of Cambridge revealed he had been anonymously volunteering on a crisis helpline during lockdown, after being trained by a mental health charity.\n\nWilliam said he had been answering messages at Shout 85258, which offers support via text message to people in personal crisis.\n\nLast month he told fellow volunteers in a video call: \"I'm going to share a little secret with you guys, but I'm actually on the platform volunteering.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess have held video calls with those helping charities in England and Wales. The Duchess has also taken part in video calls with people who are self-isolating or vulnerable.\n\nThe One Show is on BBC One every weekday at 19:00 BST", "Wicks said his online PE lessons had attracted millions of views worldwide\n\nJoe Wicks has said he is scaling back his online PE lessons to three days a week, because he needs \"a little bit of a break\".\n\nThe Body Coach has been leading free fitness classes on weekdays throughout lockdown for children and parents.\n\nDuring Monday's workout he told viewers that from next week he would be moving to a reduced timetable, with sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n\nWith some schools now returning, Wicks said: \"I need a little bit of a rest.\"\n\nHe said he had \"loved every minute\" of the online classes but that this would be the last full week of PE with Joe.\n\n\"I feel very proud that I've been able to bring so many people together during lockdown,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nWicks said his online workouts had attracted almost 70 million views worldwide, which he described as \"truly mind blowing\".\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\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, Wicks spoke about the struggles he had faced growing up and how his life was changed by his father's heroin addiction.\n\nHe said that seeing the impact drugs had on his father meant he was never tempted to try them himself.\n\n\"I was scared of it and I got into exercise and fitness and so his mistake changed my life,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"I just don't regret anything I've gone through or anything I have been through with my mum and dad, I'm just proud of who I am,\" he added.\n\n\"He's had times when he's relapsed but today he is clean and that's the most important thing, but when I was a teenager I found it difficult.\n\n\"I didn't understand, I was angry but now as an adult I understand. I have got more empathy.\"", "More than one million people have fallen through cracks in government schemes designed to support them during the coronavirus crisis, MPs says.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee called on ministers to plug gaps in the schemes to fulfil the government's promise of \"doing whatever it takes\".\n\nFreelancers and recent employees are among those who cannot access support, the MPs say.\n\nThe Treasury said the schemes protected millions of jobs and livelihoods.\n\nBut the committee's interim report, which was unanimously agreed by members, said it was still not enough.\n\n\"The Treasury's interventions have been welcomed by many but rolling out financial support at pace and scale has inevitably resulted in some hard edges in policy design and some critical gaps in provision,\" the committee said.\n\n\"The government must assist these people if it is to completely fulfil its promise to do whatever it takes to protect people from the economic impact of coronavirus.\"\n\nThe MPs said hundreds of thousands of people are suffering financial hardship through no fault of their own, often due to unfortunate timing in starting a new job or their employer's choice of timing in submitting payroll paperwork to the HMRC tax authority.\n\nWhen lockdown first started, the Treasury said it would cover up to 80% of the salaries of workers who were unable to do their job from home. But those who started a new job after the government's 28 February cut-off date are not covered by the scheme.\n\nAlthough this was later extended by three weeks, many have still been left behind, the committee said.\n\nThe committee also said the government is failing to help those who have become self-employed within the last year and those whose companies have annual trading profits of more than £50,000.\n\nAnother group that has fallen through the net is freelancers or those on short-term contracts. The MPs said that in industries such as television and theatre, where short-term contracts are the norm, many workers are not entitled to support under the schemes.\n\nThe report said: \"This cannot be right. The government should give this group access to financial support that equates to 80% of their average monthly income, up to a total of £2,500 per month.\"\n\nThe report comes amid growing unease about the health of the economy, which contracted by a record 20.4% in April. There are warnings of huge job losses once the furlough schemes are wound down. On Sunday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak acknowledged on the Andrew Marr show \"there is going to be hardship ahead\".\n\nTreasury Committee chairman Mel Stride said: \"The chancellor has said that he will do whatever it takes to support people and businesses from the economic impact of the pandemic. Overall, he has acted at impressive scale and pace.\n\n\"However, the committee has identified well over a million people who, through no fault of their own, have lost livelihoods while being locked down and locked out of the main support programmes.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The swift and targeted action we've taken has protected millions of jobs and livelihoods and our interventions have been rightly welcomed by the select committee.\n\n\"Our wide-ranging support package is one of the most comprehensive in the world - with generous income support schemes, billions paid in loans and grants, tax deferrals and more than £6.5 billion injected into the welfare safety net.\n\n\"All our support is targeted to make sure we use public funds responsibly, helping those who need it most as quickly as possible, while minimising fraud risk.\"", "Scottish pupils should get back to \"normal\" schooling \"as quickly as possible\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nScotland's schools are due to re-open from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning.\n\nThere has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nBut the first minister said pupils must be back in the classroom full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".\n\nShe said it was her government's \"firm intention\" that next year's exams would go ahead - and that there were no plans for blended learning to last a year.\n\nThe EIS union said pupils would have to be taught in \"significantly smaller\" groups and that it was unlikely that classrooms could accommodate \"even 50%\" of normal pupil numbers.\n\nScottish councils have been drawing up their proposals for how schools will operate when they return after the summer holidays.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has told parents that only 33% of children would be in school at any time when its autumn term starts on 12 August.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this amount of classroom time was \"not good enough\".\n\n\"We have to start from a point of seeking to maximise the amount of time children will spend in a school environment having face-to-face learning with teachers,\" she said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she did not want the \"blended\" schooling model to continue any longer than necessary\n\nThe first minister said local authorities should be \"creative and innovative\" about how they use \"all the resources at their disposal\", and that the government would work to address any \"genuine issues\" which arise.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said education was of \"absolutely critical importance\" and was \"central to my thinking as we plan and steer our country through the emergence from lockdown\".\n\nShe said: \"It is absolutely not the case that we are planning for blended learning to last a year, or anything like it.\n\n\"On the contrary we don't want blended learning to last a single minute longer than is necessary.\n\n\"We want young people to be back having face-to-face teaching for 100% of the school week as soon as feasible.\"\n\nShe said the government would study data about transmission of coronavirus in schools and evidence from other countries, and would seek to ease restrictions where possible.\n\nShe added: \"One of the things that is inescapable right now is that we don't have a crystal ball that allows us to know with certainty how this pandemic will develop over the months ahead. We know there is a risk of the virus resurging, so we can't stand here and be absolutely clear we won't face renewed risks from the virus come the tail end of this year.\n\n\"But we will be doing everything in our power to keep it suppressed and getting it as close to elimination levels as possible.\n\nOnly a limited number of pupils can be in a classroom to comply with social distancing requirements\n\n\"Our planning assumption is to get back to normal schooling as quickly as possible, and that means firstly maximising the degree of normality by 11 August, and then as we build confidence and an evidence base and get more assurance about the risks in schools and among young people, then we can build on that as fast as possible.\n\n\"I do not want the situation to exist for a minute longer than necessary where children have anything other than a normal school experience.\"\n\nEarlier, Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Scotland that an education recovery group had been working with local authorities to develop plans for the reopening of schools.\n\n\"We agreed to work together to maximise the amount of time that children and young people could spend in schools,\" he added.\n\n\"I've made it clear that I believe that trying to get to 50% of the time being able to be spent by a young person in school should be our objective to maximise that participation.\"\n\nAsked about Edinburgh's plans, which could see pupils in school for just one day a week, Mr Swinney replied: \"I accept that and I don't think that's strong enough.\"\n\nHe said authorities should be looking at how they could use leisure facilities or public buildings to increase the amount of classroom space.\n\nLarry Flanagan of the EIS union said most schools would need to have \"significantly smaller teaching groups to allow for physical distancing\", with other pupils learning from home.\n\nHe said: \"It is unlikely that schools will be able to accommodate even 50% of normal pupil numbers in classrooms at any one time, and certainly significantly fewer than that in smaller classrooms.\n\n\"For the rest of the school week, the expectation is that pupils will continue to learn from home as part of the blended learning approach.\"\n\nMr Flanagan said there were \"clearly challenges\" to creating temporary classrooms, including funding to pay for extra space and teachers needed, adding: \"If we are serious about minimising the damage to children's education, these costs and challenges need to be met.\"", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nPortuguese police say the German evidence against the new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is \"significant\".\n\nA senior police source also told the BBC they were keen to cooperate in the investigation into the disappearance of the British girl in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, who is in prison in Germany.\n\nHe was revealed as the main suspect earlier this month, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help.\n\nThe convicted paedophile is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nA senior Portuguese police source, who has seen the German evidence against Christian B, has told the BBC it is \"very important\" and \"significant\".\n\nThe source also rejected criticism that their procedures were slow, amid reports that the German authorities have privately been critical of their Portuguese counterparts.\n\nAnother source close to the investigation said Portuguese police accepted that Christian B was now a suspect.\n\nAsked whether they had access to his previous convictions for child sexual offences at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, he said it was important not to judge the past with the benefit of hindsight, and that police systems since then had changed.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nSome of those who knew the German suspect during his time in Portugal have criticised the investigation as \"very slow\", telling the BBC that they were only approached by police - either British or Portuguese - in the past year or two.\n\nSeveral people remembered Christian B as angry and untrustworthy, with one neighbour saying he squatted in a nearby house without paying rent, and left it \"ransacked\" in a terrible state when he departed, two years before Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nWhen German police - newcomers to the Madeleine McCann investigation - announced they had evidence that indicated the toddler was dead, it seemed to get a cautious response from their Portuguese and British counterparts.\n\nBritish police stuck to their line that it was a \"missing person inquiry\", and the impression from Portuguese media was that their own tight-lipped authorities were staying open-minded.\n\nThis first-hand confirmation from a senior Portuguese police source that the German evidence is \"very important\" and \"significant\" is a sign of how seriously this new development is being taken there.\n\nThere's been plenty of mutual recrimination between the British and Portuguese forces in the 13 years since Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment.\n\nNow a third country has entered the quest for answers.\n\nAwkward? Maybe. But the German evidence, it seems, is convincing enough for the Portuguese police to signal their support.\n\nAfter living for so long under the pressure of unanswered questions, they won't want to be left out of a development that might promise some answers.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they have evidence that leads them to believe Christian B killed Madeleine, but it wasn't strong enough to take him to court.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe suspect is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in May 2007, when Madeleine went missing while on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, have said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Police have closed Water Lane in Roydon while investigations continue\n\nA man injured in a \"drive-by\" shooting after a party has died.\n\nThe victim, who was shot multiple times outside a property in Roydon, Essex, was one of three people hurt in the gun attack on Saturday.\n\nHe has since died in hospital, Essex Police said. Two women in their 20s who sustained single gunshot wounds were not seriously injured.\n\nDetectives have appealed for any information which could assist their murder investigation to come forward.\n\nAfter the shooting at about 05:00 BST, the suspects fled and drove off in the direction of Harlow, the force said.\n\nDet Insp Greg Wood said the investigation was \"progressing well\" and officers were \"beginning to build up a picture of what happened\".\n\nEssex Police said the car drove off in the direction of Harlow after the shooting\n• None Three injured in 'drive-by' shooting after party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Free visa extensions should be given to all foreign NHS and social care workers, a group of MPs has said.\n\nIt is \"unfair\" that some of the lowest paid workers face charges of thousands of pounds to stay in the country, ministers have been told.\n\nThe Home Office has given a one-year free visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors.\n\nThe government said it was \"incredibly grateful\" to health and care staff working on the frontline against Covid.\n\nBut the cross-party Commons Home Affairs Committee said all staff in the sector should be covered in the scheme.\n\nThe Home Office's visa extension list was initially limited to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics, but in April it was extended to include more NHS staff, such as radiographers and social workers, plus some social care staff.\n\nBut the list does not include jobs such as porters and cleaners.\n\nFor those eligible, the extension covers visas which expire between 31 March and 1 October 2020. The scheme has been extended to about 3,000 key frontline health workers, the government said.\n\nBut the committee said that excluding care workers and lower-paid NHS staff from the extension scheme \"fails to recognise the scale of their contribution to the UK fight against Covid-19\".\n\n\"Many of the excluded NHS employees - who include hospital porters, cleaners and administrative staff - are providing essential services to the NHS and its patients at this most trying time,\" the committee said.\n\n\"They are also more likely to be in lower-paid job roles, meaning that the necessity of paying visa renewal fees is a much greater financial burden.\"\n\nLabour MP, Yvette Cooper, who chairs the committee, said the NHS and social care sector have relied on help during the coronavirus crisis from foreign workers.\n\n\"Excluding the care workers who hold dying residents' hands, the cleaners who scrub the door handles and floors of the Covid wards, or the porters who take patients to intensive care is just wrong,\" Ms Cooper said.\n\nShe said that she will table an amendment with cross-party backing to the government's Immigration Bill.\n\nLast month, the government scrapped the immigration health surcharge for all NHS staff and care workers.\n\nThe Home Office has also extended its bereavement scheme so families of overseas NHS support staff and care workers who have died with coronavirus can stay in the UK permanently.\n\nIn its report, the committee urged the government to make it easier for overseas health and care workers to settle in the UK.\n\n\"We believe that people who have given so much, and in many cases risked their own health, for the nations and people of the UK should be assisted to become permanent members of the society to which they have dedicated themselves,\" the report stated.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are incredibly grateful for all the hard work that health and care workers continue to do in the fight against coronavirus.\n\n\"Right across the immigration system we are supporting NHS and other eligible health and care workers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km.\n\nSolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.\n\nIn the coming years, SolO will go nearer still, closing to within 43 million km of the Sun on occasions.\n\nAs it stands today, only five other missions have dived deeper into the inner Solar System: Mariner 10, Helios 1 & 2, Messenger, and Parker Solar Probe.\n\nEarth orbits 149 million km (93 million miles) on average from the Sun.\n\nSolO is a European Space Agency (Esa) craft that was assembled in the UK by the aerospace company Airbus.\n\nIt has spent the four months since launch undergoing a checkout phase. Engineers have been running the rule over all the probe's systems and commissioning its 10 scientific instruments.\n\nRoutine operations for the full suite of onboard experiments are still a year away, but SolO's magnetometer is up and running and will remain so.\n\nSitting at the end of a long boom at the back of the spacecraft, the MAG senses the magnetic fields embedded in the solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun.\n\nAlready, the instrument is catching the disturbances that result from big explosions on the star called coronal mass ejections - in addition to the everyday waves and turbulence that trace the wind's structure.\n\n\"We switched on, on 24 February - we've already got over 2 billion magnetic field vectors on the ground. We've got a happy, busy science team working away at the data,\" said Prof Tim Horbury, the MAG principal investigator at Imperial College London.\n\nOne of the reasons the British group's instrument got turned on very early was so it could start to characterise the confounding magnetic fields generated by the electronics in the rest of the spacecraft. This signal is small but needs to be subtracted from the Sun measurements to finesse the detail in the data properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThe early start also gave the London team the chance to do some tandem study with the magnetometer instrument on Esa's BepiColombo mission. As chance would have it, this probe was making a return visit to Earth in April on its way to Mercury. The two missions were therefore able to do some multi-point sensing of the solar wind in relatively close proximity to each other.\n\nThe same has been true with the American Parker Solar Probe - but at a much greater separation. This US mission is in the process of making some very deep dives past the Sun (on 7 June it passed just 19 million km from the star).\n\n\"We're now just one of a constellation of spacecraft flying around the Sun,\" Prof Horbury told BBC News.\n\nThe next major event for SolO is a flyby of Venus. This occurs at the end of December and will see the probe track about 500,000 km above the planet's surface.\n\nThe full science phase of the mission is due to start in 2021 when all 10 of SolO's instruments, including its imagers, will begin regular observations.\n\n\"I was so nervous when we launched,\" said Prof Horbury. \"I guess the more you know about a project, the more you know about the things that can go wrong. But Solar Orbiter is out there, it's working and it's going to be a fantastic success.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The owner has five years to stake their claim\n\nWhile many of us have left something on a train - a phone, a wallet, headphones - it's highly unlikely you've wandered onto the platform leaving a bagful of gold behind.\n\nWell, one person in Switzerland has. And the authorities would quite like to find them.\n\nEfforts are being made to track down the owner of more than 3kg of gold that was left in a carriage last October.\n\nThe hoard, worth around £152,000 ($191,000), was found on a train between St Gallen and Lucerne.\n\nThe owner has five years to stake their claim at the prosecutor's office in Lucerne, an official statement said.\n\nThe discovery is only being made public now after efforts to track down the owner were unsuccessful.\n\nIt's unclear how authorities will verify the claims of anyone who comes forward to say the gold is theirs.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began, shoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were here for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\n\"We bought lots of handbags for my wife, because she loves to buy bags from TK Maxx,\" says Paul Sabato, 56.\n\n\"We came today because it was the first day. After three months being closed - we knew there would be good sales and there are.\"\n\nAnd Mr Sabato and his wife Jennifer Sabato, 44, have plans to return.\n\n\"We also bought some shoes and sunglasses. We spent £570 but this would be worth more than £1,000 normally. We're going to drop these bags at home then come back and see what sales there are at Zara.\"\n\n\"We came to buy my daughter some new clothes for work because she starts a new job on Wednesday in the H&M warehouse,\" says Arlene Dela Pena, 53, out shopping with Jessica, 20.\n\n\"I'm not worried about the virus because I work in a hospital and as long as I have my mask and sanitise my hands and keep distant, then I think it will be safe.\"\n\n\"We're here to buy clothes. There are some great bargains,\" says Sophie Quantick, 27.\n\n\"I got this dress for £20. We were here at 9.30. By the time we got to Zara there was a queue. It's like a theme park, you have to have a strategy.\"\n\n\"We wanted to put on makeup and be normal and have a normal shopping experience, even though we have been buying online during the lockdown,\" says Bryony Martin, 29. \"We have a rollercoaster mindset - what's the best shop? Go there first.\"\n\n\"We wanted to buy home stuff like these cushions,\" says Ahmed Khan, 33, accompanied by wife Zainab, 28, and baby Mirha.\n\n\"We moved into our new home in January, then we went to Pakistan for my brother's wedding and when we came back in April all the shops were shut.\n\n\"We came today because it's the first day the shops are open. We were expecting sales and there have been. We could have bought online but it's not the same experience.\"\n\n\"We came to buy summer clothes for the children. We went to Primark first but the queue was never ending so we went to H&M,\" says Erika Stara, 41, standing alongside her children Rebecca and Marco.\n\n\"I wanted to come today and get out and see people, and have some retail therapy.\"\n\n\"The queue and the social distancing mean it feels different here,\" adds Rebecca, 12.\n\n\"I bought nightwear and baby clothes because Primark was open. I'm pregnant and I've been waiting to get some baby stuff,\" says Shantel Brown, 35.\n\n\"Everyone keeps their distance. They've got sanitiser at the entrance. As long as we've got our masks on, we're fine.\"\n\n\"I bought tops, shorts and summer clothes. I came because mum forced me,\" adds her daughter Tee, 16.\n\n\"I came to pick up a new watch strap,\" says Greg Dulson, 68.\n\n\"The strap on my favourite watch broke and I brought it in to the watchmaker's the day before lockdown. They said come back tomorrow but it was closed.\n\n\"So I've been sulking. But now my favourite watch is back. I've had it 10 years.\"\n\n\"I bought a jumpsuit because Primark was open and the weather's getting better again,\" says Katie Kirby, 18.\n\n\"I did go just to get some essentials like pants and socks, but I when I saw the jumpsuit I had to treat myself because the shops haven't been open for so long.\"\n\n\"We do keep our distance in the store. We thought it would be a different shopping experience but once we were in there it was just the same.\"\n\nZac Hopkins, 21, adds: \"I bought a skipping rope so I can do some exercise at home. You can't go to the gym and they're sold out in lots of shops.\"\n\n\"I came to Hugo Boss because I wanted to buy some tracksuits for my two brothers and the shops have been closed for three months,\" says Tom Hunjan, 34.\n\n\"I bought myself one too. They're similar to what I'm wearing, but in white. The shop didn't have them in though so they're ordering them for me and I'll come back in a few days. Why do I like Hugo Boss so much? It's probably just marketing.\n\n\"I also needed some new boxer shorts because yesterday I noticed an inconveniently placed hole.\"\n\nAll photographs by Phil Coomes with reporting by Vivienne Nunis.\n• None Shoppers rush to the High Street as stores reopen", "The state is moving forward with its reopening process Image caption: The state is moving forward with its reopening process\n\nNew York's death toll and total number of people sent to hospital due to Covid-19 have both fallen to the lowest points since the crisis began.\n\nOn Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said this weekend had the fewest deaths on a three-day average since March. The number of positive tests has also continued to decline.\n\nTwenty-five people died of the virus on Sunday and there were just over 1,600 residents requiring hospital treatment for Covid-19 over the weekend.\n\n\"The facts are that new York is on the right track,\" he said, though noted it was unlikely the numbers would hit zero. \"It's coming down to what the doctor certifies as the cause of death, many people who pass away because of Covid have other underlying conditions.\"\n\nThe report comes as parts of the state enter the third phase of reopening; gatherings of up to 25 people will be allowed, up from 10, and many businesses are back open.\n\nBut the governor also called out businesses and residents ignoring social distancing measures, saying the state had received 25,000 complaints of violations.", "US President Donald Trump said he had taken hydroxychloroquine for two weeks\n\nEmergency use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus has been withdrawn by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\n\nThe FDA said that new evidence from clinical trials meant that it was no longer reasonable to believe that the drug would produce an antiviral effect.\n\nPresident Donald Trump later defended promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of Covid-19.\n\nIn March, the FDA granted the emergency use of the drug for some serious cases.\n\nBut on Monday, the agency said clinical studies had suggested that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective in treating the deadly virus and failed to prevent infection among those exposed to it.\n\nResponding to the FDA's decision, Mr Trump said that he had previously taken the drug preventatively with no side effects.\n\n\"I took it and I felt good about taking it,\" he told reporters on Monday, adding: \"I can't complain about it, I took it for two weeks, and I'm here, here we are.\"\n\nThe 74-year-old president said that many people had told him it had saved their lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said in May that he had taken the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine\n\nIn May, Mr Trump revealed that he was taking the drug after some people in the White House tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHis comments about hydroxychloroquine became the subject of widespread speculation online and controversy within the scientific community about the potential benefits and harmful effects of the drug - along with the related drug, chloroquine.\n\nTrials around the world were temporarily derailed when a study published in The Lancet claimed the drug increased fatalities and heart problems in some patients.\n\nThe results prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) and others to halt trials over safety concerns.\n\nHowever, The Lancet subsequently retracted the study when it was found to have serious shortcomings and the WHO has resumed its trials.", "From tiny traders to billion pound behemoths, the lockdown saw businesses across London plunged into a sudden deep freeze.\n\nNow the task of reviving them from hibernation begins.\n\nIt’s not as simple as flinging the doors open and welcoming a shop full of eager customers once again. There are serious questions for shops of all shapes and sizes around how to keep staff and customers safe, but also how viable they genuinely can be in this radically different trading climate.\n\nFor London’s beleaguered smaller high streets, those who survive the thaw may actually see a boost in trade. Bargain offers could whet the appetite, as long as social distancing measures convince shoppers to venture out.\n\nBut with the message to avoid public transport still ringing loud and clear, a walk down the local parade or town centre may seem a much more attractive proposition now than kitting the family in masks and dragging them to the West End for a day out.\n\nThe trick will be balance and flexibility.\n\nThe balance between the shopper experience and safety will be delicate and needs to be attractive enough to entice people in. So queuing systems, protective equipment and distancing has to be managed in a sensible way to maintain confidence and enjoyment.\n\nBut if it all starts to go wrong, those who show the flexibility to adapt and change things up quickly will have a better chance of surviving and even thriving.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will talk online with EU institution leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday\n\nPsssst .. Over here! Lift the tarpaulin and dust down the jargon. Brexit is back on the political menu. Whether you voted for it or not, now is the time to start sitting up and listening again.\n\nIt starts with Monday's online meeting between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU institution leaders (the president of the European Council, Commission and Parliament).\n\nI know you've seen countless \"make or break summits\", so many \"deadlines\" come and go, so many threats of \"no deal\" that came to nought.\n\nSo here is an attempt to try and help navigate what's spin and what you should be looking out for. More insights - including deal-making tips from a professional hostage negotiator - in my podcast here.\n\nFirst off, Brexit has, of course, \"happened\". The UK left the EU at the end of January. But we're not yet living the next chapter. The transition period we're in means that, in practical terms, little has changed. The UK is still a member of the EU's single market and customs union. The UK isn't going it alone, just yet.\n\nThe EU and UK have until the end of this month - according to the Withdrawal Agreement, aka the Brexit divorce deal - to call for an extension to transition. But the UK government has long rejected the idea. On Friday, the EU publicly accepted that UK \"no\" as definitive.\n\nSo, there are six months left to negotiate, sign and seal the parameters of the UK's future relationship with its biggest and closest trade partner.\n\nThat's six months left to compromise.\n\nBecause without compromise - on both sides - there will be no trade deal come the end of this year.\n\nThat is why it's worth keeping a closer eye on things again. The UK government promised a brighter future post-Brexit - a taking back of control over national borders, waters and immigration.\n\nThe next half-a-year is when we find out if it will keep those promises.\n\nWhat compromises, if any, will the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal with the EU and others?\n\nAnd if the UK refuses to compromise, how might having no deal at all with the EU affect our lives?\n\nRight now, EU-UK trade negotiations are at an impasse, because of political priorities both sides of the Channel.\n\nThe government rejects EU demands on competition regulations and fishing because, it says, they fail to respect the UK's post Brexit national sovereignty.\n\nThe UK and EU have so far failed to agree on fishing and competition rules\n\nThe EU insists without agreement on fishing and competition rules, there'll be no deal at all. It wants restrictions on the UK's ability to slash costly environmental or labour regulations for example, in order to prevent UK businesses becoming more competitive than European ones in their own market. This, says the EU, is imperative to protect the \"integrity\" of the single market and what it calls \"the European project\".\n\nBut political rhetoric aside, Boris Johnson and EU leaders want a deal. It makes economic sense. This doesn't mean a deal is certain. But the UK isn't walking away from talks this month either, as it once threatened to do.\n\nInstead, after their meeting on Monday, the prime minister and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to announce a timetable of intensified negotiations this summer, including some face-to-face meetings (Covid-19 permitting) in a declared attempt to break the deadlock.\n\nPrepare for the setting of more deadlines too. Plus dark mutterings from both sides (France's Europe minister was already at it on Thursday) should these deadlines not be met.\n\nThe UK says a deal must become clear before the autumn to give businesses and workers the chance to prepare. Spoiler alert: a deal is extremely unlikely to materialise by then.\n\nThe EU insists 31 October is the latest date a deal can be reached, if it is to be ratified by the end of the year (the UK's other deadline).\n\nSpoiler alert Number 2: the late October date is also quite possibly not going to be met.\n\nThe UK has so far insisted it won't extend the transition period\n\nSo, does this make no-deal now the most probable outcome?\n\nNot necessarily. A deal is there to be done by December if both sides want one and if both are willing to make concessions. A compromise could be found on fishing, if, for example, EU coastal nations give up the dream of keeping the same quotas they had to fish in UK waters when the UK was an EU member. And if the UK accepts it can't have the exact same fishing agreement Brussels has with much smaller Norway.\n\nOn competition rules - aka level playing-field regulations - the EU would need to give up its insistence that the UK mirror the bloc's evolving state aid rules forever in to the future.\n\nThe UK concession could be to sign up to not weakening labour and environmental regulations below the current level.\n\nBut that is a political decision for the UK. The EU recognises that. And it's really not sure which way the government will eventually jump. Much will depend, Brussels thinks, on whatever else is going on for Boris Johnson domestically, come the autumn.\n\nGive up some sovereignty (as trade negotiators say all deals demand, to a greater or lesser extent) and come under fire from Brexit purists, or walk away, declaring that no deal was possible with the EU, and face an outcry from many in the business community and beyond.\n\nIt's at this point in off-the-record chats that my EU contacts love to repeat the phrase they've so often directed at the UK since the 2016 referendum, that \"you can't have your cake and eat it\". Or as the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier likes to say: \"You can't have the best of both worlds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatever the next months may bring, negotiators from both sides privately acknowledge this summer is probably too early for big compromises.\n\nThe theory is that the \"other side\" would simply bank those summer compromises and demand more come the autumn.\n\nAnd if they're almost there but not quite, come November, the whispered wisdom in Brussels is that with all the \"clever lawyers\" in town, as they're described to me, it should be possible to find a way of fudging an extension (though for political face-saving reasons, especially in the UK, not actually calling it an extension) for a limited period beyond the end of the year, if both sides want one, and only if they are very close indeed to sealing the deal.\n\nAfter all my years EU-watching, I cannot imagine the bloc allowing a deal with close neighbour and ally UK to fall through over a deadline, if the UK government too were keen to keep talking.\n\nBut this is not an official topic of discussion in Brussels, never mind London, at this stage.\n\nMeanwhile in Berlin, Paris, Rome and elsewhere, EU leaders are still very much focussed on Covid-19 and its fallout.\n\nYet another reason Brussels predicts the bartering and compromise possibilities will only become clearer come October, with the clock ticking down to the end of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Hutchinson: \"We did what we had to do\"\n\nThe person pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between protest groups in London has said he and his friends \"stopped somebody from being killed\".\n\nPatrick Hutchinson was widely praised after a photo of him helping the man on Saturday went viral.\n\nDescribing the events behind the image, he told the BBC the situation \"wasn't going to end well\" without their help.\n\n\"I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out,\" he said.\n\nA number of peaceful anti-racism protests took place in London and other cities across the UK on Saturday.\n\nBut groups including some far-right activists also congregated in the capital, and more than 100 people were arrested after violence broke out and police were attacked.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Hutchinson's \"instincts in that moment represent the best of us\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added: \"The images are very moving. Nobody should have to face vile racism and abuse.\"\n\nSpeaking about the events leading up to the photo, Mr Hutchinson said he was with his friends when one of them saw an altercation at the top of the stairs by the Southbank Centre, near Waterloo.\n\n\"The guy ended up on the floor and these guys [signalling to his friends] rushed in to stop him from getting trampled,\" said Mr Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather.\n\n\"In doing so, they created a barrier around him, and I was the last one to come in. I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment.\"\n\nHe said people were still trying to hit the man as they were leaving the scene.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking, I was just thinking of a human being on the floor. It wasn't going to end well had we not intervened,\" Mr Hutchinson said. \"I had no other thoughts in my mind apart from getting to safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"We did what we had to do. We stopped somebody from being killed.\"\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world following the death of African American man George Floyd, who died last month as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nFour police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nMr Hutchinson told Channel 4 News in a separate interview that Mr Floyd \"would be alive today\" if the other police officers had intervened - as he and his friends did on Saturday.\n\nPierre Noah was one of those to help Mr Hutchinson during the clash between protesters.\n\nMr Noah, who works as a bodyguard, told the BBC: \"I'm saving two lives right there. I'm saving the man that's just about to get squashed up and beat up. And then I'm saving those young boys to get a life sentence.\"", "As lockdown measures are relaxed across England on Monday, high street shops have reopened with safety measures in place, including plastic screens at the tills and floor markings for social distancing.\n\nSome shoppers took protective precautions to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nA shop worker prepares to serve customers from behind a screen in a sweet shop in York\n\nSome chose to wear face shields, like this florist in York\n\nA customer enters a Brighton gift shop - which has face coverings on display\n\nShoppers get excited as they queue to enter a Primark store in Brighton\n\nIn Southampton, shoppers mill around the high street\n\nCustomers in Loughborough - next to a sign reminding them to stay safe\n\nMonday also marked the day that zoos in England were allowed to open\n\nCustomers follow barriers to safely social distance outside the Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent", "Shopper Adam Marlow said Bicester Village was \"way too overcrowded\"\n\nMore than three thousand people have signed a petition calling for Bicester Village to temporarily close after hundreds of people were pictured at the shopping complex.\n\nPictures on social media appear to show people struggling to maintain social distancing at the designer retail outlet in Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe petition is calling for it to be closed until changes are made.\n\nValue Retail, which runs the complex, has been contacted for comment.\n\nAll shops in England are now allowed to open, but with strict safety measures.\n\nLaura Wicks, who launched the petition, wrote she was \"disgusted to see hundreds of people squashed into the street like Coronavirus never happened\" and called for the complex to keep their staff safe.\n\nBicester Village reopened to the public on Monday\n\nThe complex, which has 160 shops, said on its website visitors are temperature-scanned on arrival and they should keep a two-metre distance apart.\n\nShopper Adam Galbraith said keeping two metres was fine in the shops, but it was not being enforced \"well enough\" outside the shops at the luxury retail outlet.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"It was definitely way too overcrowded to adhere to social distancing.\n\n\"For a complex of that size they should know how many people can be in this place safely and keep two metres distance, and that for me wasn't monitored at all.\n\n\"What would have been better if they had the queues to get into the village outside, and gave customers a two-hour slot to do their shopping.\"\n\nHe added queues outside the shops, which allocated a time to shoppers using an digital queuing app, were less busy.\n\nSome shops at the shopping complex had digital queues\n\nShopper Dr Tesh Amarasinghe said she had her temperature checked with a thermal scanner and social distancing within the stores was \"excellent\", but she said there were difficulties maintaining the two-metre distancing in the outdoor walkways.\n\nThe GP, from Northampton, said: \"It kind of took away the point of distancing in the shop, if you're standing in a queue up to an hour really close [to others].\"", "The production stars Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has criticised a TV listing as \"unacceptable\" and \"abhorrent\" after it described the cast of one of its productions as \"garishly diverse\".\n\nThe piece appeared in a Sunday Times preview ahead of a showing of Macbeth on BBC Four.\n\nIt stated the play was \"less garishly diverse in casting than last Sunday's Romeo and Juliet\".\n\nThe Sunday Times has apologised for what was said to be a production error.\n\nThe 2018 Romeo and Juliet production is a modern-day interpretation of the classic love story.\n\nThe publication said the listing has been removed from its online edition\n\nThe cast includes British Asian actor Bally Gill as Romeo and Glaswegian Karen Fishwick as Juliet, while Mercutio is portrayed as a woman by Charlotte Josephine.\n\nIn a statement the RSC said it was \"shocked and appalled\" at the language.\n\nIt said: \"John Dugdale previewing Polly Findlay's 2018 RSC production of Macbeth, describes it as 'less garishly diverse in casting' than Erica Whyman's production of Romeo and Juliet the previous week.\n\n\"Such deliberate and offensive use of language demonstrates clear prejudice and devalues people, in this case specifically devaluing the work of RSC artists.\"\n\nThe theatre added it aims to reflect the nation's talent in all its diversity \"such that the audiences which we serve are all able to recognise themselves on stage\".\n\nIn a statement a Sunday Times spokesperson said: \"We are sorry that an inappropriate reference appeared in our review of Macbeth. It has been removed from our online edition.\"\n\nRSC productions have been broadcast as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project which aims to bring arts and culture to people's homes during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several rare microbiological contaminants with the potential to cause serious infections were identified\n\nA report has said there were a \"series of problems\" with the design and build of a Glasgow hospital campus - but no clear evidence to link those failures to any \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital opened in 2015, but fears were raised after deaths were linked to infections.\n\nAn independent review concluded that some patients had been \"exposed to risk that could have been lower\".\n\nHowever, it found no \"sound\" evidence that there had been \"avoidable\" deaths.\n\nAnd the review team said the hospital campus now \"has in place the modern safety features and systems that we would expect\".\n\nA public inquiry is also to be held into issues at the Glasgow hospital and the long-delayed Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, which has the same building contractor.\n\nGlasgow's £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has had issues with rare microbiological contaminants since opening, linked to issues with water quality and ventilation systems.\n\nTwo people who died at the hospital were found to have contracted Cryptococcus fungal infection which can be linked to pigeon droppings.\n\nThe 10-year-old boy and 73-year-old woman died at the Govan hospital campus, which is also home to the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC), in January 2019.\n\nA third death, involving a 63-year-old patient who contracted the fungal infection Mucor, was also investigated but no link was found.\n\nMinisters commissioned an independent review to establish whether the design, construction or maintenance of the hospital was having an \"adverse impact on the risk\" of infection.\n\nDr Brian Montgomery and Dr Andrew Fraser wrote in their report that there had been a \"series of problems\" with the project.\n\nThey said: \"Undoubtedly and with hindsight the health board, groups within it and the design and build contractor could have reached different decisions and produced results that would have reduced infection risk.\"\n\nThey said some patients had been \"exposed to risk that could have been lower if the correct design, build and commissioning had taken place\", and that certain elements of the design and build of the facility \"posed challenges\" for infection prevention and control.\n\nHowever, they concluded that they had \"not established a sound evidential basis for asserting that avoidable deaths have resulted from failures in the design, build, commissioning or maintenance\" of the campus.\n\nThe report said that while pigeon droppings were found near an air inlet in the hospital, the patients who were affected by Cryptococcus did not spend much time in areas supplied by that part of the system.\n\nThe authors said the presence of pigeons within the hospital was \"not sufficient to establish a strong association or causative link\" with the infections, and that the idea they were caused by \"contaminated air\" was \"not a sound theory on its own\".\n\nJeane Freeman said patients and families were entitled to seek answers\n\nThe report concluded that patients, staff and visitors can have confidence that the combined hospitals now have \"modern safety features and systems\" and offer \"a setting for high quality healthcare\".\n\nHowever Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said patients and families would be \"understandably concerned and distressed by some of the findings\" of the review.\n\nShe said it was an important step in delivering answers to \"the many questions they are entitled to ask\".\n\n\"The report provides a wealth of information for the forthcoming public inquiry into the construction of the QEUH and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh,\" she said.\n\n\"I would like to thank the review team for their diligence in carrying out this report and the hospital staff for their focus on providing high quality care throughout this challenging time.\"\n\nMs Freeman told MSPs that the inquiry, which will be led by Lord Brodie, was \"on track to be formally launched in early August\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Mile Briggs said the \"explosive report\" was an \"utterly damning verdict on the SNP government which planned, commissioned and built this hospital\".\n\nHe added: \"It very clearly concludes that patients young and old with cancer - the same group from which people died - were placed at increased risk because of the building and design of the hospital.\n\n\"Patients and families want answers and the independent public inquiry which is to now proceed must be able to undertake that work and have full transparency and access to provide answers.\"\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar said there was \"still a lot of work to do to uncover the full truth\" about \"the scale of the scandal and the catastrophic errors which took place\".\n\nDrs Montgomery and Fraser said they had focused their review on \"potentially vulnerable patients and their families and the clinical teams, management and facilities staff who support their care\".\n\nThey said: \"We judge that the hospital was not built, finished and handed over in a manner that took full account of their specific needs.\n\n\"Certain aspects of the design, build, commissioning and maintenance of the QEUH have posed challenges in creating the optimal conditions for infection prevention and control, and have increased the risk of healthcare associated infection.\"\n\nThey said the design of the hospital \"did not effectively reconcile conflicting aims of energy efficiency and meeting guidance standards for air quality\", and said there had been \"difficulties\" with the air and water systems due to \"ambiguity\" about guidance.\n\nThey said the project \"would have benefitted from greater external expertise\" in decision-making at key points, and that the level of independent scrutiny of the commissioning, design and build phases was \"not sufficient\".\n\nAnd the doctors said the effectiveness of infection prevention and control was \"undermined by problems within the leadership team\" and internal relations within the health board's staff.\n\nThe report said the \"series of problems\" with the project had had a \"multitude\" of knock-on effects, including:\n\nThe authors made a total of 63 recommendations for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the hospital and its staff and the Scottish government, saying that \"lessons can be learned that will enhance confidence in future major projects\".\n\nAnd they said research should be carried out about air and water quality in clinical environments and the significance of \"rare microorganisms\" to inform planning in future.", "Crowds filled Trafalgar Square in London - but protests were held in many smaller towns and cities too\n\nA shocking death caught on video in the US sparked protests all over the UK and a national debate over Britain's history.\n\nBut what are some of the issues in the UK which prompted so many to react so strongly to the killing of George Floyd 4,000 miles away?\n\nIt was the \"absolute brutality\" of George Floyd's death and the fact that it was caught on video which mobilised people to come out and protest in the UK, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury, an academic at the University of Manchester and an organiser with the Racial Justice Network.\n\nAnd he says incidents are increasingly being recorded in the UK, such as the footage of Desmond Mombeyarara being Tasered in front of his five-year-old son in Manchester last month. Police are investigating the incident.\n\n\"People are starting to connect the dots with what's going on in the UK,\" says Dr Joseph-Salisbury, citing the video of rapper Wretch 32's father being Tasered at home and the death of Simeon Francis in a Devon police cell. Police are investigating the case of Mr Francis. In the case of Wretch 32's father, police say a review had found no indication of misconduct.\n\nOfficial figures show that police in England and Wales were three times more likely to arrest a black person than a white person and five times more likely to use force in 2018-19.\n\n\"The UK is not innocent\" was one of the protest's rallying cries\n\nBlack people were also more than nine times as likely to be stopped and searched.\n\nDr Joseph-Salisbury says it has sometimes been more difficult to mobilise UK protesters in the past. \"Britain likes to think of itself as being much less racist than the US,' he says.\n\nBut, he says, abuses caught on video were a powerful motivating factor. \"There's something more grassroots and more urgent to what's happening this time.\"\n\nSince 1990, there have been 1,743 people in England and Wales who have died following contact with the police, according to the charity Inquest.\n\nAs a proportion of the population in these countries, black people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody and force or restraint is more than twice as likely to be involved in their deaths.\n\nAnd for Ken Fero, a spokesman for the United Friends and Families Campaign, which represents those whose loved ones have died after contact with the police, there is increasing evidence that this history of deaths in custody is motivating protesters.\n\nThe names of British men who died in custody such as Sean Rigg appeared alongside US victims on placards\n\nNames such as Sean Rigg and Leon Patterson have appeared on placards or been chanted by protesters.\n\n\"With the young people who are protesting at the moment, and it does seem to be young people, there is a stronger sense of history and consciousness than there has been in the past,\" he says.\n\nIt has also been a feature of Black Lives Matter protests in the US to make the names of those who died due to police violence a focus of demonstrations and online activism, with the hashtag #saytheirnames.\n\n\"When ordinary people begin talking about it, tweeting about it, protesting about it, when celebrities start speaking about it, when people who have a voice and who are not politicians, speak out - that is what gives them some hope,\" Mr Fero says of the campaigning families.\n\nProtesters have said both of these \"deadly pandemics\" - racism and coronavirus - must be tackled together, as data has shown black Britons in England and Wales have been nearly twice as likely to die with the disease as white people.\n\nThe government's review into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities told a similar tale of social and economic inequalities with poverty, overcrowded housing, and being employed in lower-paid or key worker roles being put forward as factors for this disparity.\n\nRailway station worker Belly Mujinga has become a symbol of inequality during the pandemic\n\nPeople from black and ethnic minority groups have also been hit harder financially during the crisis, as research has shown they are more likely to be working in shut-down sectors or precarious jobs.\n\nBelly Mujinga, a railway ticket office clerk in London who died with coronavirus after reportedly being spat at, has become a symbol during the protests of these socio-economic divides. \"Black lives do matter. Belly's life mattered,\" placards read.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people have since signed a petition calling for \"justice\" for the 47-year-old, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the British Transport Police closed her case due to insufficient evidence.\n\nAs ethnic minority groups continue to bear the brunt of the labour, health and socio-economic impact of this pandemic, many will be hoping protective measures will be brought in soon.\n\nEven before the UK had a Black Lives Matter movement, it had the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Inspired by similar movements in South Africa, it sought to remove the statue of Oriel College's imperialist benefactor Cecil Rhodes and to reform Oxford University's curriculum to focus less on white Europeans.\n\nOn Sunday, that debate about the symbols of Britain's colonial past moved from academia to the streets, when protesters pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre and threw it into the harbour.\n\nThe action recalled similar forced removals by protesters of Confederate memorials in US states such as North Carolina and Georgia.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was rolled through the streets on the way to the harbour\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, suggests the movement's success in increasing support from white people may have played a part in the removal of the Colston statue.\n\n\"If you look at who tore down the statue, it was predominantly white protesters. They can get away with things that we probably couldn't,\" he says.\n\n\"If you have a majority black protest tearing down a statue like that, I'm not sure what the response is - from the police, let alone the media.\"\n\nWhen Black Lives Matter started in the UK in 2016, Patrick Vernon says it was a youth-led movement that was not taken very seriously by older black people.\n\nThe movement, started in protest at police killings of black people in the US, came to Britain as a coalition of black activists opposing unjust policing and other forms of racism.\n\nOver the next two years, Mr Vernon says, older people changed their minds.\n\nFirst came the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which led to the deaths of 72 people, many of them black and Asian, amid claims of official neglect. Then the Windrush scandal emerged in 2018, with thousands of people from Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean and Africa wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMr Vernon, a campaigner for the Windrush victims, said people lost their homes, their jobs and were deported, having a \"traumatic effect\".\n\n\"It raises that vexed question, are we British? Are we really British? Are we valued? Is our contribution valued in this country? The whole Black Lives Matter thing crystallises that,\" he says.\n\nBlack Lives Matter has become an increasingly multi-generational protest in the UK, some say\n\nThis succession of issues affecting black communities has made people more willing to speak out and demonstrate, Mr Vernon suggests.\n\n\"They are now activists because they are fighting for their rights to stay in this country or for their compensation,\" he says.\n\n\"They want to take action because the current democratic process is not working for people.\"", "Ikea has said it is planning to repay salaries paid by governments around the world under furlough schemes.\n\nIt is set to repay nine governments, including the US and Ireland.\n\nHowever, it does not include the UK as although the furniture chain furloughed 10,000 UK workers it did not claim back their salaries from the government.\n\nOther firms are also refunding furlough pay, with Games Workshop and the Spectator magazine both saying they will repay the UK government.\n\nGovernments across the globe have set up schemes to pay workers who could not do their jobs because of the lockdowns that were designed to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn the UK, furloughed workers are being paid 80% of their pay under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nIkea said it started the lockdown by paying 90% of wages for workers it furloughed.\n\nIn the UK it said: \"We furloughed around 10,000 co-workers in the UK. At such an uncertain time, we had initially anticipated putting a number of co-workers on furlough under the job retention scheme. However, we did not claim for or accept any money under the job retention scheme, and we will not be doing so.\"\n\nNow that stores are re-opening, it says it does not plan to take any more government money from the countries where it had availed itself of government support: \"Although no one knows how things will continue to develop, or what the impact on our business or the economy will be, we are feeling more hopeful and clearer about the decisions we need to take for the future,\" Ikea said in a statement.\n\nThe countries in which it received support are Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and the US, the Financial Times reported.\n\nOn Friday, Games Workshop - the company that makes Warhammer toy soldiers - said it would aim to repay furlough money after sales recovered by more than it had expected.\n\nEarlier this month, the Spectator magazine said the financial hit it had suffered during the coronavirus outbreak was not as bad as feared, and that it would repay the funds it had received under the furlough scheme.", "Retailers selling essentials have been able to stay open with social distancing measures\n\nNon-essential retailers in Wales could be given the green light to reopen at the next lockdown review on Friday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was one of a \"package\" of measures being looked at, including allowing more outdoor activity.\n\nHe said retailers would be \"well-prepared\" if the Welsh Government decides to go ahead.\n\nShoppers have been queueing outside stores in England after lockdown restrictions were eased there.\n\nThe first minister is expected to announce his next steps at the end of the week.\n\nRetailers were advised at the last lockdown review to prepare to reopen safely, but a definitive opening date has not been confirmed.\n\nMr Drakeford said the sector had put in place \"new arrangements\" such as safe ways for shoppers to enter and leave stores, social distancing in shops and protection for workers.\n\nBut he warned a \"stop-start approach, where we do too much, too soon\" would be worse for the economy if a second clampdown was needed.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the Labour Welsh Government of \"dithering\", while Plaid Cymru said businesses needed more clarity.\n\nQueues were seen outside shops in England, like this Primark in Birmingham\n\nMr Drakeford told the daily Welsh Government briefing ministers were looking at a \"package of measures in three main areas\".\n\nAs well as reopening schools on 29 June, he listed \"reopening non-essential retail where businesses are able to comply\" with physical distancing, and \"relaxing further restrictions on more outdoors activity\".\n\nThe first minister said his government is \"looking and learning from the experiences of other countries around the world\".\n\nMany places have reopened cafes outside only, he said, but others have reintroduced restrictions because of cases increasing again.\n\nMr Drakeford said he was keen for the economy to reopen in Wales, but public health must come first \"as that is the best way for our economy\".\n\nCity and town centres in Wales have largely been deserted during lockdown\n\nThe Welsh Government will continue to take a \"cautious\" approach, Mr Drakeford told journalists, lifting restrictions on a \"gradual path\".\n\nBut he said it will not mean a return to a \"pre-pandemic normal\".\n\nMore than 3,000 tests are being done every day, Mr Drakeford said - with capacity for 12,300 a day - but only 30 tests came out positive in the last 24 hours.\n\n\"While the virus has receded and fewer people are becoming ill, coronavirus has not gone away - it continues to be present in Wales and there is still a risk we will face a second wave of illness later in the year,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why we will continue to need to take precautions and measures to prevent the spread of the virus as restrictions are lifted.\"\n\nHe said since ministers started to lift lockdown restrictions seven weeks ago \"the spread of the virus has continued to slow down, thanks to the actions everyone in Wales has taken\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Covid recovery spokesman Darren Millar said the longer lockdown continues, the more difficult it will be to protect jobs.\n\n\"It is time to reopen the Welsh economy,\" he said.\n\n\"As is the case in England, retailers and other businesses across Wales already have their plans in place to open safely while protecting their customers and staff, but the Welsh Government's dithering is holding them back and putting them at risk.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said: \"The safety and well-being of the public must come first, ahead of any further easing of restrictions. \"However, the Welsh Government must provide guidance to Welsh businesses on how they can open up safely.\n\n\"That includes detailed sectoral guidance for specific sectors including the tourism and hospitality sectors that are facing untold economic damage due to this crisis. \"Welsh businesses urgently need more clarity from government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWales' R number - which measures the rate of transmission - is a \"sign of success\" rather than an \"inducement\" to lift an \"awful lot\" of further measures, Mr Drakeford told the press conference.\n\nThe R rate in Wales is thought to be 0.7. The UK government has given the R rate in England as between 0.8 and 1.\n\nWhen asked why the Welsh Government was lifting measures with more caution in Wales when the R rate is lower than England's, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's the way we have done things in Wales that has resulted in the R figure.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said he last spoke to Boris Johnson was two weeks ago last Thursday\n\nDuring the press conference the first minister complained of limited contact with UK ministers.\n\nMark Drakeford said he had last spoken to the prime minister two weeks ago last Thursday.\n\nHe said he had had no discussion with any UK minister, with the exception of Welsh Secretary Simon Hart, since then.\n\nThere was still discussion between officials, but he added: \"In terms of what I have wanted to see, that regular reliable rhythm of meetings with UK ministers, and the stop-start arrangements we've had, I'm afraid we've been in a stop part of that cycle for more than two weeks.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she also last spoke to the prime minister on 28 May, in the same joint call with Mr Drakeford.", "Marcus Rashford has called on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers during the summer, saying that \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn an emotional open letter to MPs drawing on his own experiences of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up, Rashford said his story is \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast about the letter, Rashford, 22, said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling. Whether the outcome changes or doesn't change - that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added that it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nThe Department for Education confirmed the scheme would not run during summer holidays: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school. Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\n\nThe spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\nAround 1.3m children in England are eligible for free school meals and a survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" said Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated that the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned that child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "Police were present as scores of young people made their way to the Carrington area rave\n\nA 20-year-old man has died, a woman has been raped and three people have been stabbed during two illegal \"quarantine raves\" that attracted 6,000 people.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester late on Saturday.\n\nThe man at the country park died of a suspected drug overdose and the stabbings and the attack on an 18-year-old woman took place in Carrington.\n\nPolice said the illegal raves have had tragic consequences.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes condemned them as a clear breach of coronavirus legislation, adding officers \"were met with violence, resulting in items being thrown and a police car being vandalised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nPolice said about 4,000 people were at the Daisy Nook rave in Failsworth, Oldham, where there were no reported crimes.\n\nThere were, however, three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice were able to find the man and give him first aid before paramedics arrived.\n\nTwo other men, aged 25 and 26, were hurt in separate stabbings and a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\n\"We are also investigating the rape of an 18-year-old woman... and we have specialist officers supporting her and her family,\" police said.\n\nThe raves continued through the night\n\nPeople were seen congregating near the rave site\n\nStreams of young people were seen on their way to an area just off Common Lane in Carrington on Saturday evening.\n\nThere was a large police presence at both sites.\n\nImages and footage were also shared on social media showing densely-packed crowds of people dancing and singing at the outdoor raves.\n\nA large sign reading \"Quarantine Rave\" can be seen in background of one video.\n\nAnyone with footage that could help with inquiries has been asked to contact police.\n\nPolice were called to Daisy Nook Country Park after illegal raves were reported\n\nSacha Lord, who is the night-time economy adviser for the region, said those that had attended had put themselves and those they loved at risk.\n\nMr Lord tweeted: \"I've seen some of the footage. You aren't clubbers. Just selfish idiots.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sacha Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 MP for Ashton-Under-Lyne, Angela Rayner, said she had joined Oldham Street Angels at the Daisy Nook site during the rave.\n\nThe group offers support and pastoral care to partygoers and others that need it during the night-time.\n\nMs Rayner tweeted that she had \"just finished my shift at Street Angels in Oldham\" and had been \"dealing with the illegal rave at Daisy Nook liaising with the police\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVolunteers spent Sunday morning clearing away rubbish left scattered across the fields at the Daisy Nook site with help from Oldham Council.\n\nVolunteers helped clear the rubbish left on the grass\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding tweeted his thanks to the \"dozens of volunteers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sean Fielding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Bev Hughes, said the events industry had agreed \"to blacklist any supplier who is involved with illegal raves\".\n\nShe said \"those reckless individuals\" have \"put a needless demand on vital police time,\" and \"themselves and their communities in real danger\".\n\nBut she praised communities helping clean up, saying: \"We have seen the real Greater Manchester this morning.\"\n\nACC Sykes responded to suggestions police had been slow to act or allowed the events to go ahead in a lengthy statement on the force's website.\n\nGreater Manchester Police had seen huge demand including a 60% surge in emergency calls from 17:00 BST on Saturday to 04:00 on Sunday, he said.\n\nHe said said the gatherings were carefully monitored but \"we needed to balance the present public health emergency and our overall demand with ongoing incidents\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nShops across England will welcome back customers today for the first time in almost three months. Non-essential retailers, including clothes and book stores, have to operate with strict rules in place - you can expect staff behind screens, limits on customer numbers and no trying on. Read more here. In Northern Ireland, non-essential shops reopened last week, but there's still no date for Wales and Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's it now like shopping for clothes?\n\nThe vast majority of travellers using public transport in England now have to wear a face covering. More than 3,000 extra staff, including police officers, are being deployed at stations to enforce the new rules. Here they are in detail. The BBC has created a guide on how to make your own face covering from everyday items like T-shirts or bedding.\n\nSome secondary pupils in England due to take exams next year will start returning to school today. Virus safety guidelines only permit a quarter of the chosen year groups, Years 10 and 12, to be on site at a time - see more about how it'll work. It comes as ministers are being urged to work with teachers and councils on a national school recovery plan.\n\nMore than a million people have fallen through cracks in government schemes, including furlough, designed to support them during the crisis, according to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee. They want ministers to plug the gaps for the likes of freelancers and those who recently started a new role. Meanwhile, we meet two women who lost their jobs during the pandemic and have switched to working as fruit and veg pickers instead.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest developments via our live page.\n\nPlus, as the prime minister launches an urgent review into the two-metre social distancing rule, we look at the science..\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been charged after an individual was photographed apparently urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nAndrew Banks, aged 28, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nThe image of a man was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nThe man in the photo was widely condemned by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament by Masood in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anyone travelling on public transport in England must wear a face covering from Monday under a new rule.\n\nMore than 3,000 extra staff including police officers are being deployed at stations to make sure people comply.\n\nPassengers without a covering will be asked to wear one, or will face being refused onboard or fined £100.\n\nPeople with certain health conditions, disabled people and children under the age of 11 will be exempt from the rule.\n\nIn the coming days, hundreds of thousands of free coverings will be handed out at railway stations. The government says masks can be homemade, such as a scarf or bandana.\n\nAs well as on transport, all hospital visitors and outpatients also have to wear masks.\n\nThe UK government changed its advice on face masks to stop the spread of coronavirus earlier this month, as more people used public transport to go back to work. It is now in line with the World Health Organization's advice.\n\nThe new rules apply to England and require anyone travelling by bus, coach, train, tram, Tube, ferry or plane to cover their face while on board.\n\nThey exclude school transport, taxis and private hire vehicles - although Uber has made face coverings compulsory for passengers and drivers.\n\nThe rules apply only while travelling - not while waiting - but the rail industry has asked people to cover their face as they enter a station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The masks should be made of cotton, and even an old pair of socks can be used to cover your face\n\nThe compulsory rules do not apply in Scotland,Wales or Northern Ireland - but their governments recommend that people cover their faces in places where social distancing is difficult, including on public transport.\n\nPassenger numbers are expected to reach about 20% of capacity on the railways by early next month.\n\nAt those levels, social distancing of 2m might still be possible, says BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge - but social distancing will not be possible if passenger numbers increase to around 50% of capacity after the summer as predicted.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said remembering to travel with a face covering should become part of people's daily routine.\n\nHe also urged people against using medical masks, saying they must be kept for clinical settings.\n\nMore than 3,000 extra staff from British Transport Police, Network Rail, train operators and Transport for London are being deployed at major stations and transport hubs.\n\nRail unions have welcomed the face masks rule - but have called for social distancing to still be followed and transport workers to be treated with respect.\n\nTransport operators will be able to refuse travel or issue fines to passengers who break the rules\n\nThe head of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), Manuel Cortes, said: \"This must not be seen as a green light among the wider population to use public transport.\n\n\"It must remain the case that only the key workers who are keeping us safe during the pandemic continue to use public transport.\"\n\nThe government urges people to consider all other forms of transport before public transport.\n\nAll NHS hospital staff (not just medics), visitors and outpatients will also have to wear face coverings in England.\n\nThe government said people should arrive at hospital with a face covering, but if not a face mask will be provided in emergencies.\n\nHowever, the doctors' union the British Medical Association has criticised the government for not properly planning for the rules in hospitals, saying some NHS services have been left \"confused and unprepared\".\n\nThe BMA said it was inappropriate for hospitals to have to supply masks to patients and visitors who arrive without a covering, especially following shortages of some types of personal protective equipment.\n\nThe new face covering rules will \"inevitably lead to an increased demand\", the BMA said.\n\nCommon household items like cotton fabric from old T-shirts or bedding can be used to make a mask\n\nThe government said it has adequate stocks of face masks to meet demand and continues to pursue contracts for additional stock. It said more guidance for hospitals will be published on Monday to allow hospitals to get stocks and plans in place.\n\nAlso on Monday, all non-essential shops can reopen in England for the first time since the lockdown began.\n\nIt comes as a further 36 people died with the coronavirus in the UK, taking the total to 41,698, the UK government announced on Sunday.\n\nThe latest daily figure is the lowest since before lockdown began on 23 March, but there tends to be fewer deaths reported at the weekend, because of a reporting lag.\n\nMeanwhile, France is lifting a number of coronavirus restrictions on Monday. Cafes and restaurants can open, travel to other European countries is allowed.\n\nSeveral other countries in Europe including Belgium, Croatia, Switzerland and Germany are also reopening their borders between EU countries on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAre you travelling on public transport in England today? Share your experiences and pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Plans to reopen shops \"carefully\" are being considered as part of moves to ease lockdown in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakford has said.\n\nBut in Wales all retailers, apart from those deemed essential, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, have been closed since the start of lockdown in March.\n\nThe Welsh Government is due to review lockdown restrictions on Friday.\n\nMr Drakeford said reopening non-essential shops and further relaxing restrictions on outdoors activity are being considered by the Welsh Government.\n\nHe said ministers were “looking and learning from the experiences of other countries around the world”, and did not want things to reopen too soon and then have to close again.\n\nMr Drakeford said that they were making sure businesses were going to be ready to safely open, should the Welsh Government be in \"a position\" to make such an announcement on Friday.\n\n“In many countries where cafes have reopened they are opening outside only because the virus doesn’t survive for as long outdoors as it does indoors,” he said.\n\nBut other countries have reintroduced restrictions “because lockdown has led to cases of increasing”.\n\nMr Drakeford added that it would not mean a return to the pre-pandemic normal.\n\n“While the virus has receded and fewer people are becoming ill, coronavirus has not gone away – it continues to be present in Wales and there is still a risk we will face a second wave of illness later in the year,” he said.", "England striker Marcus Rashford said he would fight on after the government confirmed it would not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nThe Manchester United player wrote an emotional open letter to MPs in which he said \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nBut the Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision.\n\nRashford, 22, responded by tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nRashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn his letter, Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up. He said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSonja from Basingstoke, who has three teenage children, told BBC Radio 5 live Drive she found herself out of work because of the pandemic and does not start her new job until September. She said she was in \"real trouble\" without the vouchers in the meantime.\n\n\"I'm relying on the £60 I get every fortnight from free school meal vouchers to do my food shopping,\" she said.\n\n\"There are lots of us out there that have found ourselves on benefits through no fault of our own. We really are struggling to make ends meet and I'm not sure too many people understand how difficult it is - Marcus obviously does.\"\n\nGary Lineker told BBC Newsnight he was \"very impressed\" with Rashford's efforts.\n\nHe said he understands that \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very, very difficult times\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Rashford said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling - whether the outcome changes or doesn't change, that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\"\n\nA spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low-income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August.\n\nA survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children in the UK have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" added Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "The first jury citations have been issued since the start of lockdown ahead of the return of high court trials next month.\n\nNotices will drop through letterboxes from Monday for potential jurors with court trials due to restart in Glasgow and Edinburgh from July.\n\nA raft of anti-virus measures have been introduced to protect accused, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, staff and judiciary.\n\nLord justice clerk Lady Dorrian said: \"The courts have been working extremely hard to deliver justice in the current coronavirus circumstances.\n\n\"I am satisfied that this work will enable jury trials to take place in a way that ensures the safety and confidence of jurors and all parties, and builds trust in our ability to operate within the strict guidelines set out by Public Health Scotland.\"\n\nTrials will continue to be conducted with 15 jurors under the same legal standards and procedures as before. No new criminal jury trials have gone ahead since mid-March.", "About 6,000 people attended the two raves at Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington at the weekend\n\nTwo illegal \"quarantine raves\" at the weekend were \"almost impossible\" to stop after venues were changed at the last minute, a chief constable said.\n\nAbout 6,000 people went to raves at Daisy Nook Country Park, Failsworth, and Carrington, Greater Manchester.\n\nA 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose at the Daisy Nook rave while a woman was raped and three people stabbed in Carrington.\n\nGreater Manchester Police's Ian Hopkins said some behaviour was \"appalling\".\n\nBoth events late on Saturday were illegal under coronavirus restrictions but Greater Manchester Police restricted its involvement to what they called \"careful monitoring\".\n\nBoth events were illegal under coronavirus restrictions\n\nAn 18-year-old woman was raped and there were three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe chief constable said: \"The location was changed and that made it very difficult [to stop].\n\n\"Once these things start it is almost impossible to stop them given the number of people that were there and the number of officers available.\n\n\"It would have been very serious situation and many people, including my officers, would have been badly injured I believe.\"\n\nHe said that was why officers on the ground made the decision not to try to stop the gatherings.\n\n\"Some of the behaviour was appalling; some of this was not partying - this was people going out of their way to commit crime,\" he added.\n\nA raver at the Daisy Nook park event told BBC 5 Live he went after \"listening to guidelines for three months\".\n\nMatt, who did not give his surname, said: \"I've not been around a group of people in a long time so I thought I might as well this week.\n\n\"I just went for a good time.\"\n\nWhen asked about the Covid-19 pandemic, the 22-year-old said: \"I'm not really scared of the virus but I don't know anyone who has had it so I didn't think of that.\"\n\nVolunteers picked up between 350 to 400 bags of rubbish at site near Daisy Nook Country Park, says Mr Carroll\n\nUnder current government guidelines for England, groups of up to six people from different households can gather outside in parks or private gardens.\n\nPaul Carroll, who lives near the Failsworth site, said: \"Police were passively driving up and down and occasionally moving people on but when you have 4,000 people and 20 to 30 police it was never going to be enforcement.\n\n\"I was still awake at three o'clock in the morning with people sniffing nitrous oxide gas on the garden wall, urinating and taxis coming and going.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nDJ Judge Jules called for nightclubs to be reopened so people can go out in a safe environment.\n\n\"The fact is people are going to go out - let's just get the clubs and the nightlife industry open as soon as its possible because the industry is suffering immensely and the pent up demand is clearly there.\"\n\nKate Green MP for Stretford and Urmston condemned those who attended the two \"unsafe and irresponsible\" illegal raves saying it brought \"huge disruption\" to the local community, some serious injuries and was \"in complete contravention of social distancing rules\".\n• None Man dies, woman raped and three stabbed at 'raves'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed into the North Sea on Monday\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been found dead.\n\nThe F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed shortly after 09:30 BST while on a training mission.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, thought to have crashed 74 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast, was found earlier.\n\nThe cause of the crash is currently unknown.\n\nCol Will Marshall of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath said: \"The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We will not release the name of the pilot until after all next of kin notifications have been completed.\n\n\"This is a tragic loss for the 48th Fighter Wing community, and our deepest condolences go out to the pilot's family and the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\"\n\nThe F15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage this morning from the Yorkshire coast showed fog shrouding the North Sea\n\nThe 48th Fighter Wing shared an image of three jets in flight on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAF Lakenheath This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 October 2015, US pilot Maj Taj Sareen died when his F-18 Hornet jet crashed on farmland near RAF Lakenheath.\n\nAn investigation found the 34-year-old had not reported problems with his aircraft to engineers prior to take-off, because he was concerned it would delay his colleagues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shoppers keep 2m apart as they queue outside shops in Bristol\n\nA review into the 2m social distancing rule, implemented to stop the spread of coronavirus, will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 has said.\n\nBut Health Minister Edward Argar could not say if it would be done by the time pubs and restaurants in England are due to reopen on 4 July.\n\nThe hospitality industry and some MPs have called for the rule to be relaxed.\n\nMr Argar said it was important to find the \"right balance\" between the impact of public health and on the economy.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the industry body UKHospitality, said that with a 2m rule, outlets would be only able to make about 30% of normal revenues, whereas 1m would increase that to 60-75%.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"We very much welcome the government's decision to conduct a review on this because it is a matter of survival or business failure as far as hospitality is concerned.\"\n\nDr Michael Tildesley, an infectious disease scientist at the University of Warwick, said studies were \"unclear\" but that there was \"an increase in risk with going down to one metre\".\n\n\"But I have to stress this is purely based upon public health, and the government has to consider economic factors before taking a decision.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as the number of people who have died after testing positive from coronavirus rose by 38 to 41,739. The number of confirmed cases has increased by 1,056 to 296,857.\n\nMeanwhile shops in England reopened for the first time since the lockdown was introduced, with long queues reported outside Primark shops in London and Birmingham.\n\nRetailers will still have to enforce strict safety measures including implementing one-way systems and abiding by the 2m social distancing rule.\n\nUnder the rule, the UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThis is further than the World Health Organization's recommendation of at least 1m (just over 3ft), and some other countries like France and Denmark. But the government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nHowever, there are widespread concerns about the impact of the rule on the UK economy, which is already suffering from the pandemic.\n\nThe government's review has been broadly welcomed - but some are nervous it is a delaying tactic and that it could take a few weeks before we have a result.\n\nSome prominent Conservatives have been in the Commons urging ministers to come up with an answer by 4 July, when the hospitality industry is due to reopen in England.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said it the most important strategic decisions the government is facing in easing lockdown.\n\nSo far, the government hasn't committed to making its decision in the next three weeks. They are saying they will act as swiftly as possible based on the scientific - but also economic - advice.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nRelaxing the 2m rule could also allow more children to return to school. Hamid Patel, chief executive of the Star Academy Group, has said that with 2m distancing in place, no more than 50% of secondary pupils could attend, and in some schools it would be lower.\n\nOn Sunday, the government announced it would be reviewing the rule, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying there would be \"margin for manoeuvre\" as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the review would look at transmission of coronavirus in different environments, incidence rates and international comparisons.\n\nIt is to be chaired by Simon Case, the No 10 permanent secretary and will take evidence from medical experts, economists as well as considering papers from SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies).\n\nDuring an urgent question in the House of Commons, a number of MPs urged the government to ease the 2m rule.\n\nConservative Tobias Ellwood said moving to a 1m limit would be \"game changing for re-opening our schools and reopening our economy\".\n\nBut another Conservative, Michael Fabricant, warned of the risk of a second spike and said \"nobody would thank us if we have to go back into lockdown\".\n\nShadow health minister Justin Madders urged the government to finish the review promptly saying the government had been \" too slow on PPE, too slow on testing, too slow on social care, we cannot afford for them to be too slow on this as well.\"\n\nMr Argar said the government wanted get the review out \"as swiftly as we can\" to allow businesses to prepare for any changes to guidance. However he added that he would not set a deadline.\n\nSo far all the nations of the UK have maintained the 2m rule.\n\nOn Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was looking at \"ongoing evidence\" but added that she would not be setting a timescale for easing the rule.\n\n\"It's really important that it, or any other single aspect of trying to suppress this virus is not looked at in isolation,\" she said.\n\n\"If you reduce the distance that are other things you have to consider about like face coverings - and also the amount of time it is then safe for people to be in that kind of proximity.\"\n\nHospitality venues could begin reopening from 4 July in England and 3 July in Northern Ireland but no date has been given in Scotland or Wales.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all shops were allowed to open from Friday. No dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford has written an open letter calling on the government to reverse its decision to stop providing free school meal vouchers during the summer. The 22-year-old, who grew up in poverty and has raised £20m to feed people during the pandemic, said it was \"written from the heart\". Some families told the BBC they would be \"left with zero\" if the voucher scheme for England stopped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man Utd's Rashford speaks about mother's sacrifices in his bid to end food poverty\n\nDowning Street said a review into the 2m social distancing rule, amid calls from hospitality companies to reduce it, will be complete \"in the coming weeks\". But the prime minister's spokesman could not confirm it would be ready before pubs and restaurants in England are due to reopen on 4 July. The hospitality industry says it is a \"matter of survival\" but scientists say that a 1m distance carries more risk of the virus spreading.\n\nAfter another weekend of protests, rank-and-file police officers have called on the home secretary to be \"unequivocal\" that demonstrations are not allowed in England and Wales during the pandemic. John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, said the right to protest is important, but \"we are not in normal times\". Meanwhile, police in Manchester said it was \"almost impossible\" to stop thousands of people gathering at illegal raves.\n\nThe Great North Run has been cancelled after organisers said they could not find a way to go ahead in September while complying with social distancing. More than 55,000 runners were due to take part in the 40th annual half-marathon from Newcastle to South Shields. Brendan Foster, the race's founder, said the cancellation was \"devastating\" and it would have been Britain's largest mass-participation event.\n\n...it's now compulsory in England to wear a face covering on public transport and in hospitals - and recommended in the rest of the UK. Find out and about the new rules here and learn to make your own mask here.\n\nThere's more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and you can get the latest updates on our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "A 16-year-old future star of the climbing world has died after falling from a cliff in south-eastern France.\n\nLuce Douady was heading to an unexplored sector of a cliff near Grenoble when she slipped and fell from the approach path, French media report.\n\nHer body has been recovered and an investigation opened, according to Le Dauphiné. The exact circumstances of her death are unclear.\n\nTributes have been paid from the world of professional sports climbing.\n\nThe sport's governing body the International Federation of Sport Climbing called her a \"young, brilliant and talented athlete\".\n\nAfter winning youth events Douady moved on to senior competition.\n\nAged just 15, she made her debut appearance on the IFSC Boulder World Cup circuit, finishing fifth.\n\nBouldering requires competitors to try to climb fixed routes within a time limit. It is one of the disciplines when sports climbing makes its debut at next year's rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US has said it is \"outraged\" after Russia sentenced an ex-US marine to 16 years in a high security prison on spying charges.\n\nPaul Whelan was arrested in Moscow in 2018 with a USB drive which security officers say contained state secrets.\n\nWhelan says he was set up and called the trial a \"sham\", saying that without an interpreter, he could not even understand the proceedings.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for his immediate release.\n\n\"The United States is outraged by the decision of a Russian court today to convict US citizen Paul Whelan after a secret trial, with secret evidence, and without appropriate allowances for defence witnesses,\" he said.\n\nWhelan, 50, was found guilty of receiving classified information at Moscow City Court. His lawyers said he would appeal.\n\nAmid suggestions that Whelan could be used in a prisoner swap for high-profile Russians in US custody, a Kremlin spokesman said Whelan was not a \"political prisoner\".\n\n\"No, it is not possible. He was sentenced by a court decision, and the court decision says it all. He was charged and the charges were then proven in court and accepted by the court,\" Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nPaul Whelan had hand-written a sign for this final court hearing, pressing it to the glass of his cage in court to denounce his trial as a sham. TV cameras were banned from filming on Monday, supposedly as a coronavirus precaution.\n\nSo Whelan raised his voice to shout his innocence to the photographers instead. With two FSB [Russia's Federal Security Service] guards at his side in black balaclavas, he denounced the charges against him as fabricated and \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"They have got this so wrong, and all for political purposes,\" he told the BBC. At past hearings, he has been openly angry and frustrated - talking over the judge and accusing his interrogators of threats and coercion. On Monday, he was calm, even smiling - waving to the three ambassadors who came to court to support him, all in facemasks and gloves and carefully spaced out on the wooden benches like the press.\n\nPaul Whelan had already declared this verdict \"pre-ordained\", but when it came, no-one bothered to translate it. The American was left shrugging, appealing to the judges to tell him his fate \"po angliisky\" - in English. The panel of three ignored him, and swept out of court in their gowns.\n\nPaul Whelan is a citizen of four countries - the US, Canada, the UK and the Irish Republic.\n\nFrom Novi, Michigan, he was born in Canada to British parents and moved to the US as a child.\n\nMilitary records show he joined the US Marine Reserves in 1994, about six years after he had reportedly begun work as a police officer in Michigan.\n\nHe served two tours in Iraq, in 2004 and then 2006, before becoming a security executive. It was while serving in the marines that he made his first trip to Russia, and went on to visit the country many times.\n\nPaul Whelan was arrested in his hotel room in central Moscow in December 2018.\n\nHe says he was getting ready for a wedding when an old friend turned up unexpectedly and gave him a flash drive containing what Whelan's lawyer says his client thought were holiday photographs.\n\nMoments later, security officers burst in and arrested him for receiving state secrets.\n\nAfter Monday's verdict, his family said in a statement it was the Russian legal system which had been \"found guilty of injustice\".\n\n\"The court's decision merely completes the final piece of this broken judicial process. We had hoped that the court might show some independence but, in the end, Russian judges are political, not legal, entities,\" the statement said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Whelan describes the case against him as \"nonsense\"", "Amy Callaghan was found collapsed by her partrner\n\nAmy Callaghan, the MP for East Dunbartonshire, has undergone neurosurgery after suffering a brain haemorrhage.\n\nThe SNP MP collapsed at her home last Wednesday.\n\nA statement from her office said the 28-year-old was in a stable condition and was \"now beginning the process of recovery\".\n\nIt added that Ms Callaghan's collapse was \"related to a previously manageable medical condition\".\n\nShe has previously spoken about being diagnosed with melanoma aged 19, but has been cancer-free for six years.\n\nMs Callaghan is said to be in good spirits and able to communicate well with her family.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted her support for the MP, sending her \"lots of love and strength\".\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 SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said everyone in the party wished the MP a full and speedy recover.\n\nThe UK government's Community Secretary, Robert Jenrick, also sent his best wishes to Ms Callaghan at the beginning of Commons questions to his departmental team.\n\nMs Callaghan was elected to the House of Commons at the 2019 general election.\n\nShe unseated the then Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, with a narrow majority of 149 votes.\n\nHer office said she would now undergo \"a period of required rest and recovery\".\n\n\"It is the privilege of her life to be elected as the Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire,\" a statement said.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that Amy will come back stronger, fitter and more determined than ever to continue in that role and serve, to the best of her ability, the people of her constituency.\"", "Sushant Singh Rajput's death was met with an outpouring of grief\n\nThe death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput on Sunday has sparked fresh discussions about mental health.\n\nThe 34-year-old actor was found dead in his Mumbai home, in what police said appeared to be a case of suicide.\n\nThe news was met with an outpouring of grief by fans and other Bollywood stars with the conversation soon turning to mental health and depression.\n\nActress Deepika Padukone, who has talked openly of battling depression, said it was important to reach out.\n\n\"Talk. Communicate. Express. Seek help,\" she wrote on her Instagram account. \"Remember, you are not alone. We are in this together. And most importantly, there is hope.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC News 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\nAnushka Sharma, who co-starred with Singh in the film PK wrote, \"I'm so sad and upset knowing that we lived in an environment that could not help you through any troubles you may have had.\"\n\nMany others talked about how difficult it was to talk about mental health issues in India, due to a lack of understanding about it and the taboos surrounding the topic.\n\n\"The conversation about mental health in India is miles from where it should be. Many people mourning Sushant's death today snigger and gossip when someone known to them sees a shrink,\" tweeted Rahul Sabharwal, city editor of The Indian Express newspaper.\n\nAnother social media user, Noreen Wozar said, \"Mental health really needs to become more prioritised in Indian households rather than being taboo and the - if you're depressed, \"just get over it\" mentality.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Soumitra Pathare, the director of Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, told the BBC that while it was important to have conversations around depression and suicide, he warned against conflating the two, especially in a country like India.\n\n\"Research data says that in UK and Europe, depression accounts for about 80% of suicides. But data from places like India show that there are many other reasons that someone will take their own life,\" he said, adding that the demography for suicide in the country was also very different.\n\n\"For instance, suicide is the number one cause of death in younger women. Many are impulsive and we have found that domestic violence is a major cause. Similarly, exam pressure among children under 18 is a leading cause, and of course there are economic causes like those that cause farmers to take their own lives in rural India,\" he said.\n\nPopular for his acting in both TV and film, Rajput is perhaps best known for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, where he played the legendary cricketer.\n\nHis funeral will be held later on Monday.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's it now like shopping for clothes?\n\nAfter three months of hibernation, non-essential shops in England will finally be able to re-open on Monday. But it is clear Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on retail well beyond the end of lockdown.\n\nThere's socially distanced shopping, for starters. The new retail rules during this pandemic may take a bit of getting used to. It's one thing queueing for groceries, but we're going to have to be prepared to queue to get into all the other shops, too.\n\nWe're being encouraged to shop alone and to avoid touching things, where possible. You may have to forget trying clothes on as the guidance says fitting rooms should be closed wherever possible.\n\nCoronavirus is going to suck some of the fun out of one of our most popular social activities and not all of us will fancy waiting in line when we can buy what we want online.\n\nShoppers outside a reopened Ikea store: queueing when we shop will now be more common\n\nDuncan Brewer, head of the UK retail and consumer team at consultants Oliver Wyman, says people may also be more careful with their money. \"Consumers have changed their spending habits, and will be increasingly used to going without much of their discretionary shopping.\n\n\"With the inevitable recession coming, it's likely that many will continue to be careful with spending, even if they are comfortable shopping in the first place.\"\n\nThere's clearly a bit of pent-up demand, given the spectacular queues outside Ikea stores when they recently re-opened. But even if queueing becomes part of everyday life for now, it doesn't mean bumper profits for retailers. Social distancing makes it hard for many firms to trade profitably.\n\nFewer shoppers means fewer transactions which may not cover all the costs of running stores, especially when government support measures start to ebb away.\n\n\"When we do start opening up, it certainly won't be profitable, but we've got to start somewhere,\" the retail entrepreneur and businessmen Theo Paphitis told me recently as he prepared to reopen his Robert Dyas, Boux Lingerie and Ryman stores.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Paphitis: ‘Mrs P has been ordering online every day!’\n\nHe believes coronavirus has speeded up our changing shopping habits. Online sales have been rising steadily over the last decade but they've rocketed during the pandemic.\n\nAccording to a survey by Visa, a third of Britons bought items online for the first time during lockdown. And that is likely to be a permanent shift - just look at food shopping. According to the most recent monthly figures from Kantar, nearly one in five households ordered groceries online - 1.6 million more than this time last year.\n\nNon-food retailers have also seen a huge spike in online sales. KPMG estimates online retailing could reach 50% of the total goods we buy by 2025, five years earlier than previously anticipated.\n\n\"The necessity for many retailers to change business models, review their cost base including the amount of physical space they require, has been turbo-charged,\" says Paul Martin, head of retail at KPMG.\n\nNumbers in stores will be limited to comply with social distancing\n\nWith more done online, retailers need fewer shops. This was so long before coronavirus came along, yet the economics of store-based retailing look even more tricky now.\n\nNot all shops will open immediately. It will be a gradual re-opening for some big chains. And some shops will never re-open, although as yet it's difficult to say how many. Debenhams - in administration for the second time - has already said 17 of its stores will remain permanently closed.\n\nOthers have already failed to make it through lockdown - Cath Kidston, Oasis and Warehouse - and there will be more to come.\n\nHigh Street fashion chain Oasis has been one of the retail casualties of the lockdown\n\n\"There will continue to be business failures - but there is also opportunity for the better capitalised and more agile retailers,\" says Lisa Hooker, PWC's head of retail and consumer markets.\n\nRetailers have been able to furlough workers and save huge sums with a year-long business rates holiday, but many costs have continued leaving them with an almighty cash squeeze. Some won't be able to pay their rent for months to come.\n\nAlso, given the problems and debt burdens that many big businesses have, access to the government's bailout loan schemes is proving challenging given the strict credit worthiness tests from lenders. More debt is the last thing some retailers need as any loans will later have to be paid off alongside deferred costs such as VAT.\n\nDebenhams has already said 17 of its department stores will remain permanently closed\n\nFor weaker businesses, coronavirus has brought all their problems to a head.\n\nWatch out for Darwinism in retail over the next 18 months, says Paul Martin. \"Those with an appealing customer proposition and valid business models, that are really fit for purpose with strong balance sheets will survive. Those that have neither will fall by the wayside\"\n\nIf more shops shut, who and what will fill the gaps?\n\n\"There are so many implications for town centres,\" says Ojay McDonald, CEO of the Association of Town and Centre Management.\n\n\"Many businesses in some city locations may be unviable as organisations who use large office spaces may be more supportive of home working, which will mean a big decrease in footfall and spend in these areas.\"\n\nOver the next 12-18 months there will plenty of turmoil on Britain's High Streets\n\nBut equally, there could be a boost to towns and villages, if more people are working from home.\n\n\"Covid-19 has shone a light on the need for many big chains to accelerate store closures but the lockdown has also led us to want to shop locally - so some High Streets will flourish,\" believes Lisa Hooker.\n\nDuncan Brewer also thinks there will be opportunities for new businesses: \"Up to 25% of retail sites could be vacant. This large amount of retail space available will allow new entrants to launch new businesses without all the historic barriers to entry,\"\n\nCoronavirus could help reinvent our High Streets and town centres. But over the next 12-18 months there will plenty of turmoil, too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the EU and UK are “not actually that far apart”\n\nUK and EU leaders have said new momentum is needed in negotiations on their future relationship, after high-level talks on Monday.\n\nThe PM, who met EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen virtually, said there was a \"very good\" chance of getting a trade deal by December.\n\nHe said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\", after the sides agreed to intensify talks next month.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said they \"agreed to deliver the best deal\" for citizens.\n\nThe EU also noted the UK's decision not to extend the transition period, which ends in December.\n\nIn a joint statement issued after Monday's meeting via video conference, the UK and EU \"welcomed the constructive discussions on the future relationship that had taken place\".\n\n\"The parties agreed nevertheless that new momentum was required,\" it said.\n\nThe high-level meeting was via video link\n\nThey have agreed to intensify talks in July, and to find an \"early understanding on the principles\" underlying any deal.\n\nThe UK government has said the talks in July will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow.\n\nMr Johnson said the EU and the UK were \"not that far apart\" with regards to the future relationship, but he added that \"a bit of oomph\" was needed in the talks.\n\nCalling on the EU to \"put a tiger in the tank\", the prime minister said the chances of getting a trade deal by the end of the year were \"very good\", provided both sides focus now and \"get on and do it\".\n\nAsked what the cut-off date would be by which the UK government will give business certainty of what they can expect, Mr Johnson said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\".\n\n\"I certainly don't want to see it going on until the Autumn/Winter as I think perhaps in Brussels they would like. I don't see any point in that so let's get it done.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who joined Mrs von der Leyen on the call along with European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli, said a \"broad and ambitious agreement\" was \"in our mutual interest\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Mr Sassoli tweeted in Latin that \"agreements must be kept\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 David Sassoli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street earlier said Mr Johnson would reiterate that the UK's ambition is for a high quality free trade agreement consistent with others the EU have agreed.\n\nMr Johnson was also due to make clear that the UK is ready to start trading on World Trade Organisation rules from 1 January if a deal cannot be reached.\n\nThis was Boris Johnson's first meeting with EU leaders since trade negotiations started back in March.\n\nSo, did we have an \"aha moment\"? A glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel of deadlocked talks?\n\nWell, not exactly. But this was always going to be a stocktaking moment, rather than high level negotiation.\n\nThe EU was buoyed to hear the prime minister express commitment to finding a deal.\n\nAnd while Brussels privately regards as unrealistic, the UK aim of having the outline of that deal in place by the end of the summer, EU insiders say negotiators will try everything to find agreement as soon as possible.\n\nYou wouldn't expect them to say anything less.\n\nBut notably absent from today's declarations was to what extent each side is willing to compromise.\n\nAnd that, of course, will be key.\n\nWithout some concessions, from both sides, today's high-level declaration of intent to reach an EU-UK deal, is rather empty.\n\nBut a French former Europe minister has said the EU is preparing itself for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are ready either for an agreement or for a no-deal and we are getting prepared more actively to a no-deal considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We believe it is possible to have an agreement - it has to be ready in October so that parliaments on both sides can ratify it.\n\n\"We believe it is possible because we have the political declaration which we negotiated together, signed together and should respect together - so, yes, the framework is here.\"\n\nMonday's virtual meeting comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at the last negotiating round earlier this month.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart David Frost had said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will meet in London on Thursday.\n\nThe French president will travel to London to attend official commemorations of 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "Johan Lundgren said the carrier was following international guidelines\n\nThe boss of EasyJet has said he would feel \"100% safe\" flying on full planes as the airline resumed a limited number of flights after a 10-week hiatus.\n\nJohan Lundgren told the PA news agency the airline had followed international guidelines to step up hygiene ahead of a resumption of services on Monday.\n\nPassengers and crew will wear masks and planes will be deep-cleaned often.\n\nBut passengers will not have to sit 2m apart, despite calls for middle seats to remain empty for social distancing.\n\n\"That was a proposal early on from one of the regulators,\" Mr Lundgren told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"But the recommendations that have come out from international authorities… which are also supported by the different local regulators do not include social distancing measures on board the aircraft.\"\n\nThe idea of keeping middle seats empty has been strongly criticised by some airlines, with Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary calling it \"idiotic\" and warning it would make commercial flights unviable.\n\nBut Easyjet said previously it would follow the practice to encourage more people to fly, and some Asian countries have made it a rule.\n\nEasyJet has not flown passengers since late March after numerous countries brought in travel restrictions to fight coronavirus.\n\nHowever, it is now flying to a limited number of mainly domestic destinations and will offer more routes from 1 July.\n\nMr Lundgren said the airline would offer about 300 flights this week, across 22 European airports. That is a fraction of the usual number, with the carrier having had to cancel around 47,000 flights in April after lockdown began.\n\nHe said not operating a single flight since March had been \"devastating\" and he was not expecting a swift return to normal demand, blaming the UK's new quarantine rules.\n\nThese rules force travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days - something the government argues is key to stopping a second wave of the virus in the UK.\n\nBut last week EasyJet, British Airways and Ryanair filed a formal legal challenge to the rules, arguing they would decimate the tourist industry and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nMr Lungren told the BBC: \"I don't think people will travel to the same extent as if the quarantine was removed - we saw that in other countries where quarantines were put in place in the early phases of the crisis, there were hardly any bookings at all.\"\n\nAirlines have been hit hard by the pandemic as international travel has slowed to a trickle, prompting many to announce job cuts:\n\nHowever, gradually carriers hope to get back in the air as restrictions are eased.\n\nEasyJet plans to reopen half of its 1,022 routes by the end of next month, increasing to 75% during August.\n\nRyanair intends to restore 40% of its flights from 1 July, while British Airways is due to make a \"meaningful return\" to service next month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Ogunbanwo was going for her morning walk when she saw the swastika on her garage\n\nPolice have a released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak in connection with a swastika daubed on a black family's garage door.\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo, from Penygroes, Caernarfon, spotted the vandalism on Saturday morning.\n\nShe decided to leave it as a reminder of why Black Lives Matters protests are happening.\n\nNorth Wales Police is treating the incident as a hate crime and has appealed for witnesses.\n\nCCTV footage shows the man police want to speak to about the vandalism\n\nInspector Jon Aspinall said: \"At a time when racism is headline news, it is unacceptable for members of our community to be targeted in this way.\n\n\"We treat all hate crime extremely seriously, and if anyone can help us identify this person, it would be greatly appreciated.\"\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo found the offensive graffiti on her garage door\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales on Saturday, mother-of-two Mrs Ogunbanwo, who has lived in the area for 13 years, said she believed she and her family was targeted because they are black.\n\nShe said her first thought when she saw the swastika was \"do I need to be scared?\"\n\n\"I thought 'oh no, if somebody is feeling this way, maybe I won't be safe going for a walk',\" she said.\n\nShe decided not to erase the graffiti, and believes it will serve as a reminder of \"the importance of Black Lives Matter\".\n\n\"I'm going to leave that thing up there and let my village see it,\" she said.\n\n\"If we wash it away, it's like it didn't really happen and I want people to remember it\".", "The lecterns emptied, the lights were turned off, the union flags left hanging behind the grand double doors of the Downing Street room that's staged nearly a hundred briefings in the last few torrid months.\n\nThe prime minister's announcements about how England will take a big step out of lockdown came pretty much as billed.\n\nIt promised a new phase, and Boris Johnson and his team hope, a new political era, where they can lift their heads from the intense operational struggles of managing coronavirus, to make the next set of decisions about how the country will cope with the after effects, particularly the economic consequences, of three months of extraordinary lockdown.\n\nAt that last outing in front of the cameras (at least for now) it was abundantly clear that this is not the moment to breathe a huge sigh of relief, not a moment when we can return to our lives carefree, and not a moment when the government can assume the dangers of the disease are going only in one direction.\n\nThe tensions between the political desire to move on and the scientific judgements of what's best to protect life were extremely clear. The government's top scientists and medics used almost every opportunity to urge caution and restraint.\n\nThe relaxation of the two metre rule, in particular, does not mean it's time for everyone to get close, Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty warning of the dangers of a \"distorted\" message that lets the population move on without heeding the precautions.\n\nRemember Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are taking a slower approach to England.\n\nAnd so in the coming days we enter as a country, a strange half world where the intensity of the dangers from the virus have faded, but not disappeared - not normal life, as we know it, back with comforting familiarity, but a new, ever-stranger normal where the public and our politicians must remain on guard.", "President Trump has made a tough immigration stance a key part of his campaign\n\nUS President Donald Trump has extended a pause on some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers until the end of 2020.\n\nHigh-skilled tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and top executives will be affected.\n\nThe White House said the move will create jobs for Americans hurting economically due to the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say the White House is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to tighten up immigration laws.\n\nIn a briefing for reporters, the administration said the freeze, in place through the end of the year, would impact about 525,000 people.\n\nThat includes an estimated 170,000 people blocked by the decision to extend a ban on some new green cards - which grants permanent residence to foreigners. The White House first announced it was halting those visas in April, an order that had been set to expire on Monday.\n\nExisting visa holders are not expected to be affected under the new restrictions announced on Monday.\n\nThe order also applies to H-1B visas, many of which are granted to Indian tech workers. Critics say these visas have allowed Silicon Valley companies to outsource American jobs to lower-paid foreign employees. Last year, there were about 225,000 applications competing for 85,000 spots available through the H1-B visa programme.\n\nThe order will suspend mostH-2B visas for seasonal workers, including those in the hospitality industry, except those in agriculture, the food processing industry and healthcare professionals.\n\nThe order will restrict J-1 short-term exchange visas, a category that includes university students and foreign au pairs who provide childcare. Professors and scholars are not included in the order. There will be a provision to request exemptions.\n\nL visas for managers and other key employees of multinational corporations will also be suspended.\n\nTech firms were among the groups condemning the president's action.\n\nFacebook said the order \"uses the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for limiting immigration\" and warned: \"In reality, the move to keep highly skilled talent out of the US will make our country's recovery even more difficult\".\n\nOn Twitter, Apple boss Tim Cook wrote that he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the new proclamation, while Sundar Pichai, head of Alphabet - the parent company of Google and YouTube - said immigration was critical to the success of his company and the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nAmazon, which received more than 3,000 H-1B visas last year - more than any other firm - called the order \"short-sighted\".\n\nThe Chamber of Commerce, a broader business lobby group, also panned the president's order, while some Canadian business leaders used the moment to tout opportunities outside the US.\n\n\"If this affects your plans, consider coming to Canada instead,\" Tobi Lutke, chief executive of Shopify, wrote on Twitter.\n\nTech companies have been at odds with the president over immigration since his first days in office, clashing with him over travel bans, as well as his crackdown on immigrants brought to the US illegally as children.\n\nBut the president, who is up for re-election in November, has made his tough stance on immigration a touchstone of his campaign. He has said the jobs at tech companies should go to Americans.", "Former chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the UK economy struggles with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he also called for low taxes on business to aid the UK's recovery.\n\nThe conservative think tank, which was co-founded by Margaret Thatcher, said this should be based on \"a dynamic private sector and low taxes\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said there will be no return to \"austerity\".\n\nHowever, Labour has said the government should have offered more generous support during the crisis.\n\nThe report by the Centre for Policy Studies said that a quick economic bounce back from the coronavirus crisis is is unlikely.\n\nBut it said coronavirus emergency spending measures should be stopped, if possible, by April 2021.\n\nIt said that polls suggest the UK is \"not ready\" to return to austerity measures introduced by former chancellor George Osborne, \"necessary though they were\".\n\nInstead, the report calls for tax to shift away from profits and incomes and towards reformed property tax and tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\".\n\nNational insurance should be given a \"significant temporary\" reduction to make it cheaper for employers to take on staff.\n\nMr Javid, who resigned from the Treasury in February, said \"early hopes of a V-shaped recovery\" had \"proved optimistic\".\n\nHe predicted that \"some long-term damage to the economy\" had become \"unavoidable\", with as many as 2.5 million people out of work due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nBut to speed up the rate of people re-entering employment, Mr Javid argued in the After The Virus report, published on Tuesday, that ministers must make it easier for businesses to hire workers.\n\n\"If we want to support and stimulate employment, then axiomatically the best option is to cut the payroll tax - employer's National Insurance,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"Tax employment less, and all other things being equal you will end up with more of it.\"\n\nOther recommendations made in the report include temporarily cutting VAT and bringing forward \"shovel ready\" infrastructure projects, with Mr Javid arguing that the \"only way out of this crisis is growth\".\n\nHe joins fellow former chancellor Alistair Darling in calling for an emergency VAT cut to boost consumer spending, a move undertaken by the Labour peer after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Javid said: \"If we want to secure the strongest possible recovery, it's essential that no stone is left unturned.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, in a report in March on the economic effects of coronavirus, criticised the government for acting too slowly and said it should underwrite a bigger proportion of wages for those who lose their jobs.", "Scottish pupils should get back to \"normal\" schooling \"as quickly as possible\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nScotland's schools are due to re-open from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning.\n\nThere has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nBut the first minister said pupils must be back in the classroom full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".\n\nShe said it was her government's \"firm intention\" that next year's exams would go ahead - and that there were no plans for blended learning to last a year.\n\nThe EIS union said pupils would have to be taught in \"significantly smaller\" groups and that it was unlikely that classrooms could accommodate \"even 50%\" of normal pupil numbers.\n\nScottish councils have been drawing up their proposals for how schools will operate when they return after the summer holidays.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has told parents that only 33% of children would be in school at any time when its autumn term starts on 12 August.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this amount of classroom time was \"not good enough\".\n\n\"We have to start from a point of seeking to maximise the amount of time children will spend in a school environment having face-to-face learning with teachers,\" she said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she did not want the \"blended\" schooling model to continue any longer than necessary\n\nThe first minister said local authorities should be \"creative and innovative\" about how they use \"all the resources at their disposal\", and that the government would work to address any \"genuine issues\" which arise.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said education was of \"absolutely critical importance\" and was \"central to my thinking as we plan and steer our country through the emergence from lockdown\".\n\nShe said: \"It is absolutely not the case that we are planning for blended learning to last a year, or anything like it.\n\n\"On the contrary we don't want blended learning to last a single minute longer than is necessary.\n\n\"We want young people to be back having face-to-face teaching for 100% of the school week as soon as feasible.\"\n\nShe said the government would study data about transmission of coronavirus in schools and evidence from other countries, and would seek to ease restrictions where possible.\n\nShe added: \"One of the things that is inescapable right now is that we don't have a crystal ball that allows us to know with certainty how this pandemic will develop over the months ahead. We know there is a risk of the virus resurging, so we can't stand here and be absolutely clear we won't face renewed risks from the virus come the tail end of this year.\n\n\"But we will be doing everything in our power to keep it suppressed and getting it as close to elimination levels as possible.\n\nOnly a limited number of pupils can be in a classroom to comply with social distancing requirements\n\n\"Our planning assumption is to get back to normal schooling as quickly as possible, and that means firstly maximising the degree of normality by 11 August, and then as we build confidence and an evidence base and get more assurance about the risks in schools and among young people, then we can build on that as fast as possible.\n\n\"I do not want the situation to exist for a minute longer than necessary where children have anything other than a normal school experience.\"\n\nEarlier, Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Scotland that an education recovery group had been working with local authorities to develop plans for the reopening of schools.\n\n\"We agreed to work together to maximise the amount of time that children and young people could spend in schools,\" he added.\n\n\"I've made it clear that I believe that trying to get to 50% of the time being able to be spent by a young person in school should be our objective to maximise that participation.\"\n\nAsked about Edinburgh's plans, which could see pupils in school for just one day a week, Mr Swinney replied: \"I accept that and I don't think that's strong enough.\"\n\nHe said authorities should be looking at how they could use leisure facilities or public buildings to increase the amount of classroom space.\n\nLarry Flanagan of the EIS union said most schools would need to have \"significantly smaller teaching groups to allow for physical distancing\", with other pupils learning from home.\n\nHe said: \"It is unlikely that schools will be able to accommodate even 50% of normal pupil numbers in classrooms at any one time, and certainly significantly fewer than that in smaller classrooms.\n\n\"For the rest of the school week, the expectation is that pupils will continue to learn from home as part of the blended learning approach.\"\n\nMr Flanagan said there were \"clearly challenges\" to creating temporary classrooms, including funding to pay for extra space and teachers needed, adding: \"If we are serious about minimising the damage to children's education, these costs and challenges need to be met.\"", "\"We're almost 90% open with most of our retailers trading. It's a return to almost normality,\" says James Roberts the boss of Grosvenor Shopping centre in Northampton.\n\nBut there's one big question. How many of the 50 or so retailers and food outlets will be paying any rent this week.\n\n\"Hopefully some, but we've only collected 56% in the last quarter,\" he says.\n\nUK landlords should be collecting at least £2.5bn on Wednesday for shop rents.\n\nOn the last rent day in March, no more than half the total rent was handed over and landlords will be lucky to get a quarter of what they're owed today.\n\nMost high street shops, along with pubs and restaurants, have seen sales evaporate and have either been unable or refusing to pay rent.\n\nBill Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\nBusinesses are hoarding cash to survive. But the crisis is starving landlords of much needed income, too.\n\nThe Grosvenor Shopping Centre is the kind of everyday mall you'd find in many of our towns and city centres.\n\nIt's owned by Legal & General which invests in property to fund thousands of pensions.\n\n\"It's not well known, or particularly transparent to people, but most retail properties are effectively owned by the normal person on the street in the UK,\" said Bill Hughes, Legal and General's head of real assets.\n\nRecent research by Estates Gazette, a commercial property weekly, showed that as much as 60% of all UK retail space is owned either directly or indirectly by the public, including pension funds, the public sector and individual shareholders.\n\nIt's been a secure form of income until now.\n\n\"The risk of loss of income is really important. The pension fund owners of the built environment of the UK, they rely upon the income being produced by what hitherto have been seen as being very stable assets. And that is at risk in a way that's never been there to the extent before.\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nLandlords have enjoyed the good times over the decades with long leases and upward-only rent reviews.\n\nAnd rapidly expanding retailers were happy to sign up. But in recent years with sales shifting online, it's become far harder for shops to make a profit.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated this trend. The Government extended its ban on evictions for non-payment of rent until the autumn.\n\nOccupiers are now frantically trying to secure better deals or turning to insolvency proceedings to renegotiate their debts, including owed rent.\n\nMark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, said landlords may have to get used to the fact their properties are worth less\n\nThe traditional business model of how retail property is leased is now well and truly broken.\n\n\"It's a mess, but it's not a mess that we can't tidy up\" said Mark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, a real estate business which advises landlords and retailers.\n\n\"I do feel sorry for them (landlords) . Absolutely. They are entitled to receive income, but I don't believe they're entitled to receive the same income as they were. I think they have to understand the value of their asset. And the value of their asset is what someone is prepared to pay for it. There isn't a queue of retailers coming up behind them,\" he said.\n\nHe believes upward only rent reviews should be abolished along with the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954, the law which still underpins the leasehold system in the UK.\n\n\"It's inflexible. We need something which is much cheaper and quicker to negotiate. We should have a system of rents based on turnover, allowing retailers to pay a rent they can afford. But in order to do that, tenants have to play their part. They have to declare what they are turning over,\" said Mr Burlton.\n\nBill Hughes thinks the Government's new code of practice on rental agreements should ease the tensions.\n\n\"We're having an active conversation with tenants about can they pay, and if they can't pay, we're working hard to restructure things.\n\n\"Because it's in our interest to find a way of helping cash flow to companies that would survive beyond this very difficult, unusual crisis that Covid presents.\"\n\nLegal & General's Bill Hughes thinks the Government should take a careful look at providing some financial support to help bridge the likely shortfall in income otherwise the \"dynamic between landlords and tenants is likely to be challenging and deteriorate\".\n\nThe future prosperity of our high streets and town centres could ultimately be at stake if this crisis doesn't end well.\n\nRegeneration requires private sector investment as well as Government funding.\n\nMr Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\n\"They need a sensible and stable environment within which they can get some sort of return,\" he explains.\n\nMr Burlton says he's receiving phone calls from US private equity and venture capitalists sniffing around for opportunities to snap up some retail assets on the cheap.\n\n\"Ultimately if landlords and tenants can't agree what the actual rent should be, then a number of landlords face the very real prospect of going bust. And then we have to be careful what we wish for because the purchasers of these assets in my opinion will likely have much shorter goals than the landlords they currently have. \"\n\nThe fate of heavily indebted shopping centre owner, Intu, will be decided by Friday. It owns some of the UK's biggest and most popular malls, including the Trafford Centre and the Metrocentre in Gateshead.\n\nIf it can't secure a last minute agreement with its lenders, it will go into administration which could mean the temporary closure of its sites.", "Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead.\n\nMixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch.\n\nBut despite the investment, Microsoft says the platform will close in one month's time.\n\nNinja and other major gamers will no longer be tied to exclusivity deals.\n\nNinja had been signed to Mixer for less than a year.\n\nFrom 22 July, Mixer's website and app will redirect users to Facebook Gaming.\n\nAs part of the deal, Microsoft will work to bring its xCloud games-streaming service to Facebook.\n\n\"This seems quite ruthless, but Microsoft's strategy to reach more gamers is underpinned by its cloud business, not Mixer,\" said Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Clearly Facebook has significant reach globally, to expose users to xCloud.\"\n\nAll games-streamers in Mixer's partner programme will be granted partner status on Facebook Gaming if they wish to move to the platform.\n\n\"Ultimately, the success of partners and streamers on Mixer is dependent on our ability to scale the platform for them as quickly and broadly as possible,\" Mixer said in a statement.\n\n\"It became clear that the time needed to grow our own livestreaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences that Microsoft and Xbox want to deliver for gamers now, so we've decided to close the operations side of Mixer and help the community transition to a new platform.\"\n\nIn a separate blog post, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the transition deal was part of a wider agreement between Xbox and Facebook, with Xbox aiming to introduce gaming features that work on Facebook and Instagram in the future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThose partnered streamers who do choose to move to Facebook Gaming can begin the process by filling out a form, Mixer said that Facebook \"will honour and match all existing Partner agreements as closely as possible\".\n\nFacebook said it was \"proud to invite everyone in the Mixer community to Facebook Gaming\".\n\nThe company promised streamers: \"We'll do everything we can to make the transition as easy as possible for those who decide to make the switch.\"i", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBurnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading \"White Lives Matter Burnley\" that was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.\n\nThe aircraft circled over the stadium just after kick-off in City's 5-0 win.\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments earlier.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\n\n\"It definitely had a massive impact on us to see that in the sky.\n\n\"We are embarrassed that our name was in it, that they tried to attach it to our club - it doesn't belong anywhere near our club.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\n\"Burnley strongly condemns the actions of those responsible for the aircraft and offensive banner,\" the statement added.\n\n\"We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor.\n\n\"We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"The club has a proud record of working with all genders, religions and faiths through its award-winning community scheme, and stands against racism of any kind.\n\n\"We are fully behind the Premier League's Black Lives Matter initiative and, in line with all other Premier League games undertaken since Project Restart, our players and football staff willingly took the knee at kick-off at Manchester City.\"\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nThe stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and makes and flies banners. It has flown banners over football stadiums in the past, including a \"Moyes Out\" one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not \"take sides\" and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nSanjay Bhandari, chair of Kick It Out, English football's anti-racism charity: \"The point of Black Lives Matter is not to diminish the importance of other people's lives. It is to highlight that black people are being denied certain human rights simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"It is about equality. We shall continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for greater equality for all in football.\"\n\nPFA equalities director Iffy Onuora: \"You get that moment of deflation but then there's the positive reaction since. I thought Ben Mee was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"You feel inspired again. These are uncomfortable conversations but in order to progress, you have to have them.\n\n\"In itself, the words themselves aren't offensive, it's the context. It's the rejection of conversations we are having at the moment and that's what it represents.\"\n\nPiara Powar, executive director of anti-discrimination body Fare: \"Set against the BLM message of equal rights, 'White Lives Matter' can only be motivated by racism and a denial of equal rights. It shows exactly why the fight for equality is so important and why the majority of people have supported it.\n\n\"The movement, the issues that are being discussed and the change that will arise is unstoppable. History will judge that this was a moment that led to change.\"\n\nSince the Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards said seeing the banner was \"disheartening\".\n\n\"After how far we've come in these last couple of weeks, it really does hurt me,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I agree everyone should have free speech but when it looked like everything was on the up there's a small fraction who want to ruin it.\"\n\nCity and England forward Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter on the opening night of the top-flight's return.\n\nAsked about the banner, City boss Pep Guardiola said society could not overturn 400 years of racial injustice in one week but added \"we are going to change the situation\".\n\n\"We need time, the racism is still there. We have to fight every day and condemn the bad things,\" he said.", "Intu, owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside shopping centres, is warning its financial troubles could see entire sites shut.\n\nIt has lined up administrators KPMG as a \"contingency\" in case financial restructuring talks with lenders fail.\n\nIntu warns that if that happens it will have to give KPMG funds for certain services, or see the centres shut.\n\nThe company is the biggest shopping centre chain in the UK with 17 UK outlets and three in Spain.\n\nIntu has until Friday to sort out a new financial footing.\n\nThe company said: \"In the event that Intu properties plc is unable to reach a standstill, it is likely it and certain other central entities will fall into administration.\n\n\"If that happened, the various group companies would have to put money into the administrator. If the administrator is not pre-funded then there is a risk that centres may have to close for a period.\"\n\nIntu's group companies provide key services to the sites, from lighting and cleaning to health and safety systems, security and essential maintenance.\n\nIntu had been struggling before coronavirus to fill outlets within some centres sites and had heavy debts. It said in March it was in talks with lenders about new funding.\n\nOn Tuesday, Intu said \"notwithstanding the progress made\" it had appointed KPMG to plan for administration.\n\nSince the coronavirus lockdown Intu's centres have been partially shut, with only essential stores remaining open.\n\nThe company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nThe firm's financial woes include making a loss of £2bn in 2019, failing earlier this year to raise £1bn in new funding, and having debts of £5bn.\n\nThe collapse and contraction of High Street retailers in the face of rising costs and the seemingly ever-increasing online shopping trend had already seen retailers closing outlets, leaving a number of landlords, such as Intu, struggling to fill empty space. Many among the remainder are finding it harder to meet rent payments.\n\nRetail consultant Kate Hardcastle said the writing had been on the wall for such centres for some time. \"Intu's model is heavily dependent on big box retailers paying rent for big retail spaces, and with the rise and rise of online and consumer spending shifting to travel and experience rather than pure retail it was probably on precarious ground.\"\n\nShe added that its shopping centres had become places for \"show-rooming\", where consumers see the products they want, then go home and buy them more cheaply online.\n\nThe company is well down on normal income levels. Intu's latest update on rent collection said it had received only 40% of rental and service charge income for the first quarter of the year. It had moved from quarterly rent collection to more flexible arrangements with shop owners.\n\nIntu has been attempting to sell shopping centres to raise cash and has sold off its outlet in Zaragoza, in Spain.\n\nIntu's possible demise has been a long time foretold. The retail landlord, still better known to some by its former name, Capital Shopping Centres, has always carried a high level of debt relative to its peers, and the gradual drift away from bricks and mortar shops to the internet left it with less margin for error if a downturn came.\n\nBut the company still had an impressive list of blue-chip assets - some of the best malls in the UK, a decent defence, most thought, against the predations of online competitors. Just two and a half years ago it was still riding high. Its FTSE 100 rival Hammerson made a takeover approach at 253p a share, valuing Intu as a whole at £3.4bn. Intu shares are now at 4.5p, giving the whole company a stock market value of £60m.\n\nThat staggering fall has been caused by that steady erosion of sales away to the internet, and then the shattering blow of the coronavirus. Intu is now collecting one-third less rent at some of its flagship malls than it was a year ago. It is in breach of the conditions of agreements it made with the lenders who financed those individual properties. If it cannot reach a peace deal with those lenders, administration beckons.\n\nWhat happens next is difficult to predict. The management may be able to stitch together an agreement with lenders, in which case it will limp along until it is able to refinance. If administration comes, it could be a messy restructuring, with different lenders holding the whip hand on individual properties. As the company itself points out today, the uncertainties that come with administration could even mean that some of Britain's best-known shopping centres have to close, if only temporarily.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 21 April 2020: The BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil\n\nA judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district.\n\nThe far-right president has been criticised for belittling the risk posed by coronavirus.\n\nHe dismissed it as \"a little cold\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nBrazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and Covid-related fatalities in the world after the US.\n\nThere are more than 1.1m confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil and more than 51,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nDespite these high figures, President Bolsonaro has repeatedly appeared in public without a mask while greeting his supporters.\n\nLast week, Jair Bolsonaro was seen leaving the presidential palace without a mask\n\nAt one rally, he was filmed coughing without covering his mouth and on another occasion he was seen sneezing into his hand and shaking the hand of an elderly woman immediately afterwards.\n\nThe requirement to wear masks in the federal district came into force on 30 April.\n\nThe rule was brought in by the governor of the federal district, Ibaneis Rocha, and requires people to cover their nose and mouth in all public spaces, including public transport, shops and commercial and industrial premises.\n\nOn 11 May, the rule was further tightened with those flaunting it facing fines of 2,000 reais ($387; £310) per day.\n\nFederal Judge Renato Borelli's ruling means Mr Bolsonaro is not exempt and that the president and any other public officials who do not comply with the requirement will also incur the 2,000-reais fine.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has argued from the start of the pandemic that measures taken to curb the spread of the virus could be more damaging than the pandemic itself.\n\nOn Monday, he renewed his call for the easing of lockdown measures and the reopening of shops and businesses.\n\nHe said that the way the pandemic had been handled had \"maybe been a bit over the top\".\n\nThe president's insistence that the economy should be prioritised has been deeply divisive and he has clashed with state governors who have introduced restrictions of movement and requirements to wear masks in public.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged young people in England, warns the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nThe commission also says the Covid-19 pandemic will make things worse and will exacerbate youth unemployment.\n\nIn a report, it highlights a 36% decline in people from disadvantaged backgrounds starting apprenticeships, compared with 23% for other groups.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country\".\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission's report was published as the Education Select Committee took evidence about apprenticeships and skills at a session on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe report, Apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling potential, says the introduction of an apprenticeship levy in 2017 has led to a \"collapse in overall apprenticeship starts that hit disadvantaged learners hardest\".\n\nThe apprenticeship levy takes 0.5% of the salary bill from major employers that have an annual pay bill over £3m, with the intention of using the money to improve skills and provide training.\n\nThe report finds that between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the number of apprenticeship starters from disadvantaged backgrounds fell by more than a third (36%), as opposed to 23% for other apprentices.\n\nThe commission's report also says that most of the benefits of apprenticeships are going to those from wealthier backgrounds.\n\nBut it stresses that apprenticeships are \"one of the most effective means of boosting social mobility for workers from poorer backgrounds - if they can get into and through the system\".\n\nLead report author, Alice Battiston from London Economics said: \"There is a severe disadvantage gap throughout the entire apprenticeship training journey, and this has worsened over time.\n\n\"Not only has the proportion of new starters from disadvantaged backgrounds declined over time, but they have also benefited less than their better-off peers from the shift towards higher-level programmes.\"\n\nSteven Cooper, joint deputy chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: \"The apprenticeship levy, introduced in 2017, has disproportionately funded higher-level apprenticeships for learners from more advantaged communities, rather than those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds who would benefit more.\n\n\"It is no longer credible for the government to assume that apprenticeships automatically improve social mobility and leave the system to its own devices,\" he said.\n\n\"Strategic action and direction are needed to target the system better on disadvantaged communities and improve the system's value for money.\"\n\nFollowing the coronavirus pandemic, there are concerns that disadvantaged apprentices are at further risk from an economic decline, with many employed in hard-hit sectors such as hospitality and retail.\n\n\"The pandemic is likely to have made the disadvantage gap worse. There needs to be urgent consideration of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on social mobility outcomes,\" added Ms Battiston.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said apprenticeships would be one of the building blocks of economic recovery after Covid-19.\n\n\"If the government is serious about offering an 'apprenticeship guarantee' it will heed calls from the further education sector for a post-Covid skills funding package, address the barriers to success and support employers to provide the opportunities and decent pay new apprentices need to succeed.\"\n\n\"As this report shows, many disadvantaged apprentices face significant barriers to success already, but with warnings from the FE sector that a shortage of new places and large numbers of apprentice redundancies could be on the horizon, their future may look even bleaker without urgent government action.\"\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We are absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"Apprenticeships are an excellent way to get into a wide range of rewarding careers and they will continue to play a vital role delivering the high-quality skills employers and our economy will need to recover.\n\n\"We are looking at how we can make sure more people and businesses can take advantage of apprenticeships in the future, including supporting employers, especially small and medium sized businesses, to take on new apprentices this year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid to three \"true gentlemen\" stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were regular customers at a pub near Forbury Gardens, where Saturday's attack took place.\n\nLocal residents held silences and laid flowers around the town for the trio.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims, describing the attack as an \"act of cowardice\".\n\nOn Monday, mourners gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where Somewhere Over The Rainbow was played. A tribute on the door said management and staff were \"devastated\".\n\n\"Our friends were the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people in our community that we had the the pleasure of knowing,\" the note said.\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nJamie Wake, a friend of the victims, called the pub a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\n\"We become so used to seeing incidents like this on the television,\" he said.\n\n\"This time, we cannot change the channel. This time, it's on our doorstep.\"\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nMartin Cooper, a friend of the three men who were killed and the chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described them as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\n\"We'd have a lot of banter... it's sad to know he's gone so early,\" he added.\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS.\n\nRobert Ritchie said in a statement: \"I was absolutely blessed and proud to be Joe's father for 39 years and we are heartbroken by what has happened.\"\n\nHis brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\" and they were \"absolutely devastated\" by his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\n\"He was one of those unique people who on one hand could make you properly belly laugh, but, at the same time, he could show you such extraordinary kindness,\" she said.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nOne of Mr Furlong's former pupils, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nJackie James, a former landlady of another pub in Reading and a friend of Mr Ritchie-Bennett and Mr Furlong, said they were \"shining examples of all that is good in this world\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information - and asked any drivers with relevant dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\n\"They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nThe head of counter terrorism policing, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, said he was proud of those who assisted the victims of Saturday's attack, describing them as \"heroes\" who have inspired others to \"step forward and play our part\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "The babies are being kept in an isolation ward, similar to this one in Toluca, central Mexico\n\nNewborn triplets in Mexico have tested positive for coronavirus in an \"unprecedented\" case, according to local health authorities.\n\nMedical experts are investigating whether the disease could have been passed on through the mother's placenta during pregnancy.\n\nTwo of the babies, one boy and one girl, are in a stable condition in a hospital in San Luis Potosí state.\n\nBut the second boy is receiving treatment for a respiratory condition.\n\nA spokesperson for the state's Health Safety Committee said contagion in multiple births had not been detected anywhere globally and so the case would be investigated.\n\nA very small number of newborn babies have been known to pick up the virus after birth, but health officials say they do not believe this is what happened in this case.\n\nState Health Secretary Mónica Liliana Rangel Martínez said: \"It would be impossible for them to have been infected at the moment of birth.\"\n\nHowever, the parents are currently being tested, with authorities saying they may have been asymptomatic.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 185,000 coronavirus cases and 22,584 deaths since the country's first case on 28 February.\n\nThe triplets - born prematurely on 17 June in Mexico - all tested positive for coronavirus on the day of their birth.\n\nCoronavirus in newborns is unusual, but not unheard of. Babies can catch the virus after birth if they have close contact with anyone who is already infected. Coronavirus might also be passed on in the womb from mother to baby via the placenta.\n\nUS researchers from Yale School of Medicine recently reported the first known case of placental infection with coronavirus. When infection does occur, the risk to mother and baby is often low - although some reports suggest it might increase the likelihood of babies being born early.\n\nThere is no evidence that the virus causes miscarriage or affects how your baby develops in pregnancy, but, as a precaution, pregnant women are advised to be strict about avoiding close social contact to reduce their chance of getting coronavirus. If they do become infected, most mums-to-be will have mild or moderate symptoms and recover. Babies may show no signs of the illness at all. If you are caring for a baby, you can reduce their risk of getting the virus by keeping your hands clean with regular hand washing.", "Hairdressers will be allowed to reopen from 4 July - and clearly it's not a moment too soon for thousands of customers desperate for a trim.\n\n\"We've built up a waiting list of more than 2,000 people,\" said Katya Davies, who runs four Myla and Davis hairdressers in south London.\n\nAmid mounting speculation that the lockdown would be eased for large swathes of the service sector, Ms Davies opened her appointment book a couple of weeks ago.\n\nJuly is already looking full, she said, and there's now a big rush to get the salons ready in time. They will open an extra four hours each day to cope with demand.\n\n\"We can't wait to get back to work and we've planned our reopening schedule around the 2m distancing rule. We don't plan to change that, although the switch to 1m-plus will ease the burden a little,\" she said.\n\n\"Our salons will be able to work at around 65% capacity although wearing visors will be quite cumbersome and bring its own problems, especially for the comfort of our workers who will be dealing with clients back-to-back.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson anticipated the huge demand for a haircut when he announced the easing of the lockdown after more than three months\n\nHe said: \"Almost as eagerly awaited as a pint will be a haircut, particularly by me, and so we will reopen hairdressers with appropriate precautions, including the use of visors.\"\n\nThe details of the new guidelines are expected to be announced soon, but are expected to include use of protective screens and an increase in handwashing facilities.\n\n\"We've already had lots of texts and calls from customers excited to be able to return to the saloon,\" said Dale Hollinshead, who runs Hazel & Haydn, in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.\n\n\"It's been a long lockdown for all of us,\" he said. His salon has two floors, which makes social distancing a little easier to deal with, he reckons.\n\n\"We've been busy preparing the salon for opening in the last few weeks and have put plastic screens in place and have floor markings that are ready to go down.\n\n\"We have a range of plastic visors and face masks for staff and will do whatever else the guidelines require to ensure everyone is safe.\"\n\nThe salon will extend opening hours from 8am to 8pm when it reopens on 4 July, and stylists will work shifts in teams to reduce the number of people that customers come into contact with.\n\n\"We're really looking forward to getting back to business,\" Mr Hollinshead said.\n\n\"We're very pleased about the news that we can finally reopen,\" said Belle Cannan, co-founder of Salon Sloane in London's Chelsea. \"We all want to get back to work and our clients are excited to see us.\"\n\nShe had been preparing to reopen based on 2m social distancing, but welcomed the reduction to 1m, saying: \"It means we will be able to work at around 75% capacity rather than 50%.\n\n\"We've remained in contact with clients through lockdown with advice to help them avoid hair disasters. Then a couple of weeks ago we started taking provisional appointments, and the phone's been very active.\"\n\nClients will be offered face-masks while stylists will be wearing lightweight visors. Other changes will see a hand-sanitising station for clients, and the reception will be screened off.\n\nMs Cannan said: \"There are some of our usual touches that have had to go, such as offering tea, coffee or magazines to clients. They will also have to put on their own gowns and hang up their own coats.\"\n\nBut she's confident clients will adjust: \"People having been waiting so long for this that they will be happy with the new normal.\"", "Lindsey Holland does all the cooking for guests at her B&B\n\nThis year, 4 July will hold a different kind of celebration as a range of hospitality and similar firms in England are finally allowed to reopen for business.\n\nBut with government guidance still not clear, how prepared are they?\n\nThe BBC spoke to a pub, a salon and a B&B to find out how ready they are for the next phase of lockdown easing.\n\n\"I'm feeling really anxious about reopening as I just don't know what's coming.\"\n\nShe runs the business on her own and worries that reopening rules may make that impossible.\n\n\"I'm going to be really interested to see how much I'm going to be allowed to achieve by myself, when I have to switch from cooking to cleaning, for instance.\"\n\nMany B&B staples will disappear, not least the buffet breakfast.\n\n\"I've heard that breakfasts may have to be delivered to rooms, which isn't practical for me as a one-person business.\n\n\"I also can't afford to buy room service trays.\"\n\nFree magazines and the help-yourself minibar will also have to go.\n\nLindsey reckons she will be able to open up three quarters of the hotel now the social distancing rule has been lowered from 2m to 1m. At 2m, she would only have been able to run at 50% capacity.\n\nHowever, she says if bookings don't pick up then it may not be worth her while opening the doors at all in July.\n\n\"4 July is just two weeks away and we're only now getting bits of pieces of details of what the rules may be.\n\n\"Even if I do reopen and we have enough bookings, a second wave could mean the end for us.\"\n\n\"We've spent a lot of time during lockdown getting ready for the new normal.\"\n\nSimon Daws has run the Gloucester Old Spot pub in Cheltenham for a decade, but recent times have been his biggest challenge, he says.\n\n\"We've been waiting for news of when we can reopen with different dates being bandied around, which hasn't been helpful.\"\n\nHe says he would have preferred more than a couple of weeks of notice to get the right beer in and get staff back from furlough, but he is still eager to get people back into the pub.\n\nThe pub industry is desperate to reopen and cutting the social distancing rules to 1m will have a major impact, he says.\n\n\"If the distance is 1m then pubs with generous garden areas can make a go of it,\" he says.\n\nHis pub has room for 160 people outside but they've had to change things to prepare for reopening.\n\n\"We don't need plastic screens as people won't come into the pub. Instead we're switching to a continental style of service with our staff taking orders on a handheld device and using disposable menus to reduce the risk to customers,\" he says.\n\nEven then, he's not confident that reopening will be a success.\n\n\"We will be walking a tightrope. We are relying on sunny weather to make the new system work.\"\n\nHe is also worried about rumours that customers will have to book a table and supply the names of everyone on the table.\n\n\"It's just putting more hurdles in our way, which is not good news for an industry that's on its knees.\"\n\nJo Dyer runs Plymouth hairdressing salon Yoke with husband Steve, and will be able to reopen on 4 July. But the last few weeks have been nerve wracking.\n\n\"The guidelines keep changing so we don't know yet what we need to do to open safely - or what kind of protective equipment will be necessary.\"\n\nThe salon plans to reopen with half of its eight stations to ensure clients remain a safe distance from each other.\n\nOpening hours will be extended to cover 08:00-20:00 every day except for Sunday to accommodate as many customers as possible, even with half as many stations and stylists available.\n\nMeanwhile clients will only have contact with one person, with stylists washing hair instead of apprentices.\n\nNow the reopening date has been confirmed, Jo hopes to start booking in appointments - although those wanting hair colouring will have to book in for a skin test first.\n\nThey are waiting to find out what protective equipment they will need.\n\n\"We don't know what grade facemasks we've got to have or what kind of gloves we need, given we're washing our hands constantly in normal times.\n\n\"We have some cloth facemasks but they may not fit in with the guidelines.\"\n\nStaff and customer safety will be paramount, she says, which means throwaway gowns instead of their normal eco-wear.\n\n\"It goes against our ethical principles, but we're going to have to compromise to stay within the rules, it seems,\" Jo says.\n\nWill your business be reopening on 4 July? How will the easing of lockdown affect you? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Two attempts were made to 'restore' the copy of Murillo's painting\n\nAn art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.\n\nThe Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ($1,355; £1,087) for it to be cleaned by a furniture restorer, according to Spain's Europa Press.\n\nBut despite two attempts to fix it, the picture of the Immaculate Conception has been left unrecognisable.\n\nThe incident has drawn comparisons with other recent \"restorations\" in Spain.\n\nIn 2012, an elderly parishioner attempted to restore a prized fresco of Jesus Christ at her local church near Zaragoza. But her paint job led to the painting being dubbed 'Monkey Christ.'\n\nLast year a 16th-Century statue of St George at a church in Navarre also caught public attention after a restoration job, with some comparing its new look to a Playmobil figure.\n\nThe St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt\n\nThere is currently no law in Spain forbidding people from restoring artwork, even if they do so without the necessary skills.\n\nIn a statement, the country's Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators (Acre) condemned the lack of legal protections, and called the recent incident an act of \"vandalism\".\n\n\"This lack of regulation translates into an absence of protection of our heritage,\" said Acre.\n\n\"In recent years, conservation-restoration professionals have been forced to emigrate or leave their professions due to a lack of opportunities,\" it added, warning that the industry was at \"serious risk of disappearing\" in Spain.\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly suggested the restoration was on the original Bartolomé Esteban Murillo artwork rather than a copy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid by the \"heartbroken\" families of three men who were stabbed to death in a park in Reading on Saturday.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett died in the attack.\n\nThe PM sent his \"deepest condolences\" to their families, describing the attack as \"abject cowardice\".\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist who specialised in clean energy, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nHis employer, metals and chemicals firm Johnson Matthey, described him as \"a gentle, thoughtful man with a dry sense of humour\" who was \"proud to use his expertise to make a positive impact on the world\".\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years.\n\nHis father, Robert Ritchie, said the family were \"heartbroken\", while his brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described him as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\n\"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for,\" they said.\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims.\n\n\"To assault defenceless people in a park is not simply an act of wickedness but abject cowardice, and we will never yield to those who seek to destroy our way of life,\" he said.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nFormer pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nMourners also gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where the three men were regular customers.\n\nIt was described as a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\nA tribute on the door called them \"the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people\".\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nMartin Cooper, chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described the three men as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Armed police went to a block of flats in Reading following the stabbings in Forbury Gardens\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "The LIGO-Virgo collaboration runs some of the most exquisite scientific instruments ever built\n\nScientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before.\n\nIt is more massive than collapsed stars, known as \"neutron stars\", but has less mass than black holes.\n\nSuch \"black neutron stars\" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to be rethought.\n\nThe discovery was made by an international team using gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy.\n\nCharlie Hoy, a PhD student from Cardiff University, UK, involved in the study, said the new discovery would transform our understanding.\n\n\"We can't rule out any possibilities,\" he told BBC News. \"We don't know what it is and this is why it is so exciting because it really does change our field.\"\n\nThis event involved an object more massive than known neutron stars but less massive than known black holes. It existed in what has become known as the \"mass gap\"\n\nMr Hoy is part of an international team working for the Ligo-Virgo Scientific Collaboration.\n\nThe international group, which has strong UK involvement backed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, has laser detectors several kilometres long that are able to detect minute ripples in space-time caused by the collision of massive objects in the Universe.\n\nThe collected data can be used to determine the mass of those objects involved.\n\nLast August, the instruments detected the collision of a black hole 23 times the mass of our Sun with an object of 2.6 solar masses.\n\nThat makes the lighter object more massive than the heaviest type of dead star, or neutron star, previously observed - of just over two solar masses. But it was also lighter than the lightest black hole previously observed - of around five solar masses.\n\nAstronomers have been searching for such objects in what they've come to call the \"mass gap\".\n\nWriting in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the research team believes that of all the possibilities, the object is most likely to be a light black hole, but they are not ruling out any other possibilities.\n\nThe labs that detect gravitational waves fire lasers down long tunnels\n\nHaving collided with the large black hole, the object no longer exists. However, there should be further opportunities to learn more about these mass-gap objects from future collisions, according to Prof Stephen Fairhurst, also at Cardiff.\n\n\"It is a challenge for us to determine what this is,\" he told BBC News. \"Is this the lightest black hole ever, or is it the heaviest neutron star ever?\"\n\nIf it is a light black hole then there is no established theory for how such an object could develop. But Prof Fairhurst's colleague, Prof Fabio Antonioni, has proposed that a solar system with three stars could lead to the formation of light black holes. His ideas are receiving increased attention following the new discovery.\n\nIf, however, this new class of object is a heavy neutron star then theories for how they form may also need to be revised, according to Prof Bernard Schutz of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.\n\n\"We don't know a lot about the nuclear physics of neutron stars. So, people who are looking at exotic equations that explain what goes on inside them might be thinking, 'maybe this is evidence that we can get much heavier neutron stars'.\"\n\nA scientific visualisation of a gravitational waves-producing merger where one object is 9.2 times more massive than the other\n\nBoth black holes and neutron stars are thought to form when stars run out of fuel and die. If it is a very large star, it collapses to form a black hole, an object with such strong gravitational force that not even light can escape its grasp.\n\nIf the starting star is below a certain mass, one option is for it to collapse into a dense ball composed entirely of particles called neutrons, which are found inside the heart of atoms.\n\nThe material from which neutron stars are composed is so tightly packed that one teaspoonful would weigh 10 million tonnes.\n\nA neutron star also has powerful gravity pulling it together, but a force between the neutrons, caused by a quantum mechanical effect known as degeneracy pressure, pushes the particles apart, counteracting the gravitational force.\n\nCurrent theories suggest that the gravitational force would overcome the degeneracy pressure if the neutron star were much larger than two solar masses - and cause it to collapse into a black hole.\n\nAccording to Prof Nils Andersson of Southampton University, if the mystery object is a heavy neutron star then the theorists will have to rethink what goes on in these objects.\n\n\"Nuclear physics is not a precise science where we know everything,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know how nuclear forces operate under the extreme conditions you need inside a neutron star. So, every single current theory we currently have of what goes on inside of one has some uncertainty.\"\n\nProf Sheila Rowan, director of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), said the discovery challenges current theoretical models.\n\n\"More cosmic observations and research will need to be undertaken to establish whether this new object is indeed something that has never been observed before or whether it may instead be the lightest black hole ever detected.\"", "Four episodes of 30 Rock in which characters appear in blackface are to be taken down, at the request of creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.\n\nIn a note seen by Vulture and Variety, Fey wrote that the episodes are \"best taken out of circulation\" and apologised \"for pain they have caused\".\n\nThe episodes will be removed from streaming services Amazon Prime and Hulu, as well as purchase platforms.\n\nThey include a live episode with guest star Jon Hamm in series six.\n\nHe appeared in a wig and blackface, part of a spoof of an old US radio and TV show titled Amos 'n' Andy.\n\nTwo episodes of the hit US series featured Jane Krakowski's character Jenna - one from series three, Believe in the Stars, and the other from series five, called Christmas Attack Zone.\n\nThe Believe in the Stars episode (2008) involved Jenna and Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) deciding to swap identities in order to determine whether black men or white women faced more challenges in society.\n\nThe fourth and final episode being pulled by the studio is the East Coast version of season five's Live Show - the first live episode of 30 Rock.\n\nThe show was based on Fey's experience of writing for Saturday Night Live\n\nPurchase platforms the episodes have been removed from include iTunes and Google Play. No re-runs will be shown on TV either.\n\n\"As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing make-up are best taken out of circulation,\" wrote Fey.\n\n\"I understand now that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologise for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness.\n\n\"I thank NBCUniversal for honouring this request.\"\n\nAll of the episodes will be removed by the end of the week, a source told Variety.\n\nNews of their removal comes as many content platforms are re-evaluating their offerings following mass protests against racism and police brutality after the death of George Floyd in police custody.\n\nHBO Max said they would temporarily remove Gone with the Wind, and re-add it with a new introduction putting the film in historical context.\n\nUKTV said they would do something similar with an episode of Fawlty Towers, re-adding The Germans episode with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nLeigh Francis used masks to dress up as exaggerated versions of black celebrities such as Craig David\n\nMeanwhile, Matt Lucas and David Walliams apologised for their use of blackface as two of their series, Little Britain and Come Fly With Me, were removed from circulation.\n\nLeigh Francis also apologised for using masks to dress up as black celebrities such as Trisha Goddard, Craig David and Melanie B on the Channel 4 show Bo Selecta.\n\n30 Rock originally ran from 2006 to 2013. The series, based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Newport during lockdown - the area has seen 160 deaths during the pandemic\n\nDeaths involving coronavirus in Wales have dropped significantly in the most recent week's figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe figure of 57 registered deaths compares to 100 the week before.\n\nEight council areas, including Newport, a \"hotspot\" earlier in the pandemic, recorded no deaths at all.\n\nSo-called \"excess deaths\", which compare all registered deaths to previous years, are also now below the five-year average.\n\nThis is the first time this has been recorded since the pandemic began.\n\nOverall in Wales, the total number of deaths fell in the week ending 12 June to 574.\n\nThat is 14 deaths, or 2.4%, lower than the five-year average for that particular week.\n\nLooking at \"excess deaths\" lets us see how many deaths there are for a particular time of the year and whether the pattern is out of the ordinary.\n\nAcross the pandemic, there have been 2,003 excess deaths in Wales, making up 12.1% of all deaths.\n\nTuesday's figures show there have now been a total of 2,370 deaths of coronavirus in Wales by 12 June.\n\nThese include all confirmed and suspected cases, in hospitals, care homes and people's homes, registered up to 20 June.\n\nOf 18,541 total deaths registered by 12 June, 2,357 - or 12.7% - mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate.\n\nIn Newport, there have been 160 deaths across the pandemic, but there were none in the week to 12 June, and one the week before.\n\nAcross Aneurin Bevan health board, there have been 490 deaths involving coronavirus across the pandemic.\n\nThere were two deaths - both in care homes - in the most recent week.\n\nThe ONS figures are seen as giving a fuller picture of deaths from coronavirus than the daily \"snapshot\" figures from Public Health Wales, which only include confirmed cases, mostly in hospitals.\n\nThere are another 921 deaths for the same period, when deaths in homes, care homes and hospices are counted.", "These £50 devices are being developed in south Wales to test oxygen levels\n\nOxygen levels in suspected coronavirus cases should be monitored in the community to help hospitals cope with a second wave of cases, according to Wales' leading respiratory doctor.\n\nDr Simon Barry said early on in the pandemic it became clear reduced oxygen levels in the blood suggested a patient had Covid-19.\n\nBut flu and pneumonia will be more common in a future winter peak.\n\nThis means more community monitoring would be needed, he said.\n\nDr Barry is leading the implementation of Welsh guidelines to treat the virus, and said work was under way to conduct specific tests before coronavirus patients were admitted to hospital in future.\n\nMost people with coronavirus only have mild symptoms, and sometimes none at all.\n\nBut doctors report low blood oxygen saturation levels among those who are admitted to hospital with coronavirus.\n\nHealthy adults usually have saturation levels of between 94% and 99%, whereas those with Covid-19 can fall below 90% and require oxygen therapy and, in some cases, ventilation in intensive care.\n\nDr Barry, who has treated Covid-19 patients, has also developed a website that delivers the latest treatment guidelines to doctors in all Welsh hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"Early on there was a clear recognition that this disease caused oxygenation failure in people who presented.\n\n\"The ones who got sick (the 20% of patients who get sick) had low oxygen levels and they came into hospital with low oxygen levels.\"\n\nDr Barry has been producing online training videos for doctors\n\nDr Barry said far more patients had been treated with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device than he had anticipated.\n\nThe treatment, which involves a tight-fitting mask that delivers a continuous flow of oxygen, is given while the patient is awake and does not require them to be sedated and placed on a mechanical ventilator.\n\n\"We've learned that actually you can manage patients with quite bad oxygenation failure on the wards, using CPAP, and getting them to lie on their front,\" he said.\n\n\"And we also know that, if you go to ITU [an intensive therapy unit] and you're ventilated, you have very high mortality. It's about 70% if you're actually invasively ventilated.\"\n\nEarly intervention is key in providing the best treatment, and monitoring blood oxygen levels could prove crucial in determining whether someone has coronavirus or another respiratory illness.\n\nDr Barry, who is based at Cardiff and Vale health board, said a winter surge would mean Covid-19 mixing with flu and pneumonia cases.\n\nThat, he said, would mean it would be \"extremely difficult\" to manage patients into \"safe streams\" within hospitals, making community testing necessary.\n\n\"We are looking at a mechanism to be able to do all of these specific tests, point-of-care, in the community. Both in primary care but also using the Welsh ambulance crew, so they will be able to make a specific diagnosis within minutes.\"\n\nThe oximeter is being developed at labs at the University of South Wales\n\nEngineers at the University of South Wales have received Welsh Government funding to create a new oximeter, a £50 portable device which can accurately measure a patient's blood oxygen levels.\n\nProf Nigel Copner, who has led the programme to rapidly develop the oximeter at the laboratory in Treforest, said the devices would be ready \"in weeks\" and Welsh patients would be the first to benefit.\n\n\"Wales obviously has first call, the Welsh Government has funded the project in total. And we have contract manufacturers down in Sony that can manufacture the device and turn it around very quickly.\"\n\nProf Copner said the device had \"no issues\" with pre-existing supply chains, which have been stretched by global demand.\n\n\"We can actually manufacture and build this device very easily in south Wales, and we can turn around high volumes in a matter of weeks,\" he added.\n\nClinicians have also responded in innovative ways during the pandemic.\n\nDr Barry said a pioneering online training platform had helped Welsh doctors to provide the best treatment, as lessons were learned and best practice shared quickly with colleagues.\n\n\"Traditionally in Wales we have seven health boards that do things in seven different ways,\" he said.\n\n\"But if you stood above it and you look down, it's an enormously inefficient and ineffective way to manage cases.\n\n\"We're trying to rise above that by saying 'look, this is the national guideline'. We are getting experts within Wales who are talking about updates and talking about what should be the best practice. And that seems a logical way to proceed.\"", "The daily presentation of slides is no more\n\nThe daily Downing Street press conference on coronavirus has been stopped, the government has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson led the final regular briefing, flanked by chief advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nFrom now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street said.\n\nIt comes as the PM announced an easing of the lockdown in England.\n\nThere have been 92 briefings, and two national addresses by the prime minister.\n\nLeading the final briefing, Mr Johnson thanked Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick for their \"heroic work in presenting information to the public so clearly and so powerfully\".\n\nHe added that there will \"certainly\" be more local outbreaks and \"I don't think, therefore, that you have seen the last of us by any means but they will not be happening as often as they have been\".\n\nHe said all of the information on hospital admissions, death rates and the spread of the virus presented at the daily briefings would still be published on the government website.\n\nBut Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move, saying regular televised briefings should continue while the UK remained in an \"enduring emergency\".\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\nAnd acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said there needed to be the fullest scrutiny of government decisions at what was still \"an incredibly crucial stage\".\n\n\"It's almost like they don't want people asking questions,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe daily briefings started on 16 March, following criticism of a lack of transparency over government plans to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the time, the UK death toll from Covid-19 stood at 55 and the government had yet to introduce lockdown measures.\n\nThe total number of deaths currently stands at 42,927.\n\nMr Johnson led the first briefing, flanked by the government's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, and used it to urge the public to avoid going to pubs and non-essential travel, and work from home if they could.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM led the next four briefings, before handing over to a rotating cast of cabinet ministers, normally accompanied by scientific and medical experts.\n\nThe panel talked through slides on hospital admissions, deaths and the government's efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and then took questions from the media, via video conferencing.\n\nMr Johnson gave a televised address to the nation on the introduction of the lockdown on 23 March, and then limited his appearances at the daily briefings to major announcements.\n\nOn Sunday 24 May, he appeared at the daily briefing to defend his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, following revelations that he had driven 260 miles at the height of the lockdown.\n\nThe Saturday and Sunday briefings were scrapped shortly afterwards, due to low ratings.\n\nAt the end of April, the panel began taking two questions submitted by members of the public.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock led the most daily briefings, with 26 appearances, followed by Mr Johnson on 16.\n\nMatt Hancock holds the record for the most appearances\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab - who filled in for Mr Johnson when he was in hospital with coronavirus - led 12 briefings, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Business Secretary Alok Sharma and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick hosting six each.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak led five briefings - the same number as Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove. Environment Secretary George Eustice, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden appeared a handful of times each.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was the only female minister to take a turn at the podium, with three appearances.\n\nPriti Patel was the only female minister to appear at the podium\n\nIn recent weeks, ministers have increasingly been appearing on their own, without scientific or medical advisers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam last appeared at a briefing on 30 May, while Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, made her first appearance in more than three weeks on Monday.", "The duchesses were impressed by Stuie Delf's fundraising prowess\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has pledged to plant a sunflower in memory of a boy who was cared for by a hospice.\n\nCatherine spoke to Stuart and Carla Delf, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, about their nine-year-old son Fraser, who died in January.\n\nShe congratulated Fraser's 13-year-old brother Stuie, who ran a sponsored 5k every day last month to raise money for the Each hospice in Milton, Cambridge.\n\nThe duchess said the fundraising was \"amazing\".\n\nShe was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall in the video call last week to mark Children's Hospice Week.\n\nStuie Delf said his brother was his best friend\n\nFraser Delf was cared for by Each in Milton\n\nThe Delfs spent seven weeks living in the hospice with Fraser before he died as a result of Coats plus syndrome, a rare condition that affects multiple organs and causes brain abnormalities.\n\nStuie told the duchesses he had been inspired by 100-year-old NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nCamilla said: \"Captain Tom has done a lot for this country, hasn't he? He's inspired so many people. You must be very fit, Stuie.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is patron of the East Anglia Children's Hospices\n\nFraser Delf died as a result of Coats plus syndrome\n\nThe duchesses heard that the hospice where Fraser spent his final weeks had experienced a dramatic drop in fundraising because of coronavirus.\n\nStuie set out to raise £500 to fill the gap but ended up with £18,500 in total.\n\n\"Fraser wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend,\" he said.\n\nAfter the video call, Mr Delf, 42, said: \"[Catherine] said she was going to plant a sunflower in memory of Fraser.\"\n\nThe sunflower has been adopted as the emblem of hospice care.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meira Woosnam has three sons who all go to different schools\n\nSome pupils could face problems going back to school because of inconsistencies in transport provision across Wales, a teachers' union fears.\n\nSchools reopen on 29 June but the Ucac union thinks some children may not be able to go unless there is transport.\n\nSome councils will only run for specific groups of pupils, and many have encouraged children to travel with parents or make their own way in.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it published comprehensive guidance on transport.\n\nUcac has called for children not to be disadvantaged because they do not live close enough to walk to school and their parents cannot drive, or do not own a car.\n\nIt has also highlighted Welsh-medium pupils, who it says often have to travel longer distances, particularly in rural areas.\n\nOne transport provider told BBC Radio Wales school bus drivers were concerned about catching the virus.\n\nChris Owens, managing director of Llandudno-based Alpine Travel, said: \"Our biggest concern is that the Welsh Government hasn't been clear on the use of face coverings.\n\n\"The UK government have made it very clear that they must be used on public transport whereas the Welsh Government haven't been as clear.\n\n\"Yesterday we received guidance that students would not be expected to wear face coverings when using our school coaches which to be frank is very disappointing for the safety of our staff.\"\n\nRebecca Williams, Ucac's deputy general secretary, said: \"I think the potential groups are those who don't own a car, or obviously you have parents who don't drive.\n\n\"Also, I think the Welsh medium sector will need some special consideration because the distances are that much greater.\n\n\"It may just logistically not be possible for parents to take their children there, even if they do drive.\"\n\nShe added: \"Whatever arrangements are put in place, we need to be absolutely confident that we're not discriminating against any group of pupils who would want to return.\n\n\"What we need to ensure is that there isn't too much inconsistency between local authorities. I think the stronger steer that can be given at a national level from Welsh Government, the better.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it published comprehensive guidance on transport\n\nWhile councils across Wales have been issuing guidance regarding school transport, it varies between different authorities:\n\nCardiff council is promoting \"active travel,\" encouraging parents and pupils to \"travel to school safely on foot, by bike or by scooter,\" or by \"other means, where possible\".\n\nBut it added: \"For those eligible for free school transport and who cannot attend school without it, the council is working through plans as part of the council's comprehensive school restart planning.\"\n\nIn Newport though, there will be no mainstream transport provision, while plans are under way to provide it for \"a prioritised group of pupils with complex needs and disabilities who cannot find alternative methods of transport\".\n\nCeredigion council is still working on its plan, but has said any school transport \"should only be used when there is no other viable option available\".\n\nIn Carmarthenshire, school transport \"will only be provided to eligible pupils if absolutely necessary\".\n\nPrimary school teachers have been measuring distances inside classrooms in preparation\n\nSteve Jones, managing director of Llew Jones Coaches in Llanrwst, Conwy, said there had been \"very little\" guidance from the Welsh Government on providing transport.\n\n\"The major issue at the moment is the lack of guidance from the Welsh Government,\" he said.\n\n\"Basically, the councils and the schools have been left to try and work something out between themselves and ourselves.\n\n\"Of course, we're flexible and we'll try our very best to make it work, but some more guidance would've been helpful.\"\n\nThe company usually provides about 20 school buses per day across north Wales. Some of its longer rural routes involve trips of about 40 minutes, with its longest taking an hour each way.\n\nMr Jones said the 2m social distancing rule means a 50-seater coach will now only be able to carry eight pupils. In an eight-seater taxi, only one pupil can be carried.\n\nHe does not plan to lay on extra coaches, because it is expected there will be \"significantly less\" pupils returning to school.\n\nSteve Jones says they will have to carry fewer passengers due to social distancing rules\n\nMeira Woosnam, from Abergele, Conwy, has three boys of different ages, attending different schools.\n\nOne of them is autistic and attends an additional needs unit, usually by school taxi.\n\nHowever, she said: \"He doesn't want to go in the taxi, because he's aware that other people will be using the taxi in between school runs and he doesn't feel comfortable and safe if somebody with COVID-19 has used the taxi before him.\"\n\nAnother son usually travels by school bus, while she usually drives the third to school.\n\nMs Woosnam, who plans to drive them all herself, added: \"If the boys end up having the same days that they need to go into school, I'll have a bit of a logistic nightmare, with trying to get three of them to school at the same time.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"confused and really unsure about what to do for the best as a parent\", when it came to her children returning to school.\n\nMs Woosnam said all of her sons' schools had done an \"amazing\" job in trying to keep her informed, but said there had \"absolutely not\" been enough communication from the Welsh Government to schools.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"We have published comprehensive guidance relating to the safe use of school transport and will continue to work with local authorities and transport providers to address any remaining concerns they may have.\n\n\"We've also recently announced £2m to help support local authorities to achieve active travel schemes around schools.\"", "Facebook has banned users trading in historical artefacts on the site.\n\nIt follows a campaign by academic researchers and an investigation by BBC News, exposing how items looted from Iraq and Syria were sold on Facebook.\n\nOne expert welcomed the move but said for anything to change, Facebook should invest in \"teams of experts to identify and remove networks rather than playing whack-a-mole with individual posts\".\n\nFacebook says all trade in ancient artefacts is banned on its platforms.\n\nThe changes are included in a new set of Facebook Community Standards published on Tuesday.\n\nThey ban content that \"encourages or attempts to buy, sell or trade historical artefacts\" or \"attempts to solicit historical artefacts\".\n\nItems sold in this way can include ancient scrolls, manuscripts, mummified body parts and ancient coins.\n\nThe BBC was shown private Facebook groups offering antiquities for sale in Syria and Iraq\n\nFacebook public policy manager Greg Mandel explained: \"Historical artefacts hold significant personal and cultural value for communities across the globe, but their sale often results in harmful behaviour.\n\n\"That's why we've long had rules preventing the sale of stolen artefacts.\n\n\"To keep these artefacts and our users safe, we've been working to expand our rules, and starting today we now prohibit the exchange, sale or purchase of all historical artefacts on Facebook and Instagram.\"\n\nProf Amr al-Azm, from Shawnee State University in Ohio, hailed the move as an important shift in Facebook's position but said he feared the new standards would prove worthless without adequate efforts to enforce them.\n\nThe social media giant is developing automated systems based on images and key words to identify content which violates the new policy but Prof Al-Azm told the BBC: \"Relying on user reports and Artificial Intelligence is simply not enough.\"\n\nProf Amr al-Azm says it is not enough for Facebook just to ban trading networks - they need to be identified and removed\n\nA BBC News investigation in 2019 found evidence that Roman mosaics still in the ground in Syria were being offered for sale on Facebook.\n\nWe saw groups exchange ideas on how to dig up sites and evidence of \"loot-to-order\" requests. In one case, administrators asked for Islamic-era manuscripts to be made available for purchase in Turkey.\n\nFollowing our investigation, Facebook said it had removed 49 groups - but researchers continue to unearth evidence that trade is still ongoing.\n\n\"Illicit antiquities trade on Facebook appears to have the greatest reach in the Middle East and North Africa where we are currently monitoring over 120 Facebook groups developed solely for looting and trafficking activity,\" said Prof Amr Al-Azm\n\n\"The largest group we identified had roughly 150,000 members this time last year - now it has more than 437,000. \"\n\nPart of the recent increase may be attributable to the effects of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut this was not just a case of the impoverished selling antiquities to make a few dollars, said Prof al-Azm.\n\n\"This is also a black market that funds criminal organisations, warlords, and radical extremists, and it's happening on the same site in the same digital space that you welcome into your home and [use to] share photos of your children.\"\n\nProf al-Azm is critical of Facebook's policy of deleting posts that violate its community standards.\n\nInstead, he said, it should keep a digital archive of images, which might not exist anywhere else.\n\n\"This evidence is vital for ensuring the repatriation of these objects if they appear on the market,\" he argued.\n\nUsually, content that violates Facebook standards is permanently deleted within 90 days but data can be retained if requested by law enforcement, the BBC understands.", "It's the moment we've all been waiting for.\n\nThe government is expected to announce measures that will allow pubs, restaurants, cinemas, galleries and theatres to re-open under relaxed but still constraining rules on the 4th of July.\n\nIt's not quite social Independence Day, but the expected announcement that social distancing measures that require two metres distance in most settings will be relaxed to one metre has been welcomed by the hospitality industry as \"an important staging post\".\n\nIt's \"a helpful moment for the national psyche\", according to Kate Nicholls, head of the trade group UK Hospitality.\n\nBut the champagne is still on ice. And could yet be put back in the economic refrigerator.\n\nPubs in the UK are among hospitality businesses that have been closed for months\n\n\"We are only able to move forward this week because the vast majority of people have taken steps to control the virus,\" a number 10 spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"But the more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing guidelines. We will not hesitate to reverse these steps if it is necessary to stop the virus running out of control.\"\n\nMany establishments are straining at the leash to re-open. Peter Borg-Neal, who runs 28 pubs has already provocatively said he intends to re-open on 4 July whether or not the government gives him the green light.\n\nOthers are less gung ho. Several pubs and restaurants have told me they do not see the point of re-opening even under one metre distancing rules as it will be impossible to police and the business would still lose money.\n\nThat's the supply side of the equation - the other side is demand. Most of us want to go out for a drink or a meal or a film but how many would actually step through the door?\n\nRecent polling by Ipsos Mori found that six out of 10 people would feel uncomfortable returning to a pub or restaurant.\n\nSome operators feel that the government's re-opening guidelines - that are expected to accompany tomorrow's announcement - may be counter-productive.\n• None 67%expect it will be \"months\" before going to a restaurant\n\n\"Single use menus, banning condiments, insisting on mask wearing - you are making people afraid of using a pepper pot. We have to persuade people there is nothing to fear,\" said Jonathan Downey, head of street food venue operator London Union and head of lobbying group Hospitality Union.\n\nThere are other major concerns.\n\nOnce people have had a few drinks, who will police the social distancing measures that are expected in the guidelines, even at one metre.\n\n\"To think that a young bar tender could do that is nuts\" said one pub owner.\n\nAnd what about the legal position? Could a hospitality venue owner be sued if someone contracted the virus and blamed the management for a potentially life-threatening condition?\n\nOn this point there is good and bad news for the industry, according to Kate Nicholls, head of Hospitality UK.\n\nThe bad news for venues is that no insurer will touch that risk with a barge pole.\n\nThe good news is that it will be almost impossible to establish whether the virus was in fact contracted on the premises.\n\nGoing to the pub will be entirely at the pub-goers risk. But not opening hospitality venues will represent a grave risk to the economy and up to 3 million jobs.\n\nEveryone wants the semblance of normality that a further easing of social lockdown measures will bring.\n\nBut as the government has made clear, if things don't go to plan and the virus sees another surge it may be too soon to pull up all those two metre distancing tapes on the floor and call time on this health, social and economic menace.", "As English hotels and other forms of accommodation prepare to reopen on 4 July, there is a \"frenzy\" of appetite for holidays, says one listings site.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis, who run the Independent Cottages website, say traffic in the past week has been 150% up on the same time last year.\n\n\"We're very excited and very busy,\" said Steve, adding that the lifting of restrictions on Tuesday was \"very welcome news\".\n\nBut he added that not all holidaymakers will get the accommodation they want.\n\n\"There will be a shortage of holiday cottages,\" he told the BBC. \"There are forward bookings to be honoured and there will be fewer properties available.\"\n\nIndependent Cottages has more than 1,800 properties on its books, with more than 1,500 of them in England.\n\nUnlike online travel agents, it does not take a percentage on bookings, but charges an annual listing fee and allows property owners to deal directly with holidaymakers.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis say demand for cottages is high\n\nSarah said travel industry guidelines on coronavirus allowed holiday lets to cope with back-to-back bookings.\n\nHowever, some holiday cottage owners were opting to leave two to three days between bookings to allow for thorough cleaning, further constraining the supply of accommodation.\n\n\"There's a lot to clean,\" she said. \"It's all very achievable, but some owners will feel that they want to leave a gap.\"\n\nOne issue that is still unclear is the question of accommodation for stag and hen parties and other mass gatherings.\n\nSuch occasions can bring together as many as 18 to 20 people from different households, all using shared areas.\n\n\"We're being asked about this a lot,\" said Sarah. \"The 2m rule isn't much of an issue in a self-catering cottage. but we don't know how many households are allowed.\"\n\nSelf-catering accommodation is ideal for helping people \"ease back to a new normal\" as lockdown restrictions are lifted, says another holiday provider, holidaycottages.co.uk.\n\nThe firm's chief marketing officer, James Starkey, welcomed the government's announcement, saying it gave would-be holidaymakers \"something to look forward to\".\n\n\"Self-catering accommodation by its very nature allows for natural social distancing, with people visiting holiday properties staying in self-contained units without having to use shared facilities,\" he said.\n\n\"Our owners already adhere to high standards of cleaning, but all have now been provided with additional information on cleaning best practice for before and after a stay.\"\n\nHotels, too, are busy preparing to open their doors to guests on 4 July.\n\nAccor, which operates 270 hotels in the UK, says it will be reopening them gradually. It hopes to have 90% of them back in business by the end of August.\n\nThose booking in will see plenty of changes. Restaurants and bars will be serving food and drink on a \"grab-and-go\" basis, while fridges in the rooms will not contain any mini-bar items.\n\nEvery other room will be unoccupied and rooms will be left empty for 24 hours after a guest checks out.\n\nThomas Dubaere, Accor's chief operating officer for Northern Europe, told the BBC Accor had been able to test its safety measures in other countries which had already eased lockdown.\n\nHe said guests were comfortable with the measures \"as long as we keep good service and a friendly smile\".\n\n\"They still get the service. It's just in a different way for the time being,\" he added.\n\nMr Dubaere welcomed the government's moves to allow hotels to reopen.\n\n\"We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nDomestic tourism will now most likely be operational in some form in all parts of the UK by 15 July - starting with self-catering in Northern Ireland from Friday.\n\nHolidaymakers will still have some concerns, not least the possibility of a local or national spike in coronavirus cases over the summer.\n\nAny new lockdown would mean a return to the refund or rebooking rights currently in place.\n\nThat gets more complicated if you are told, under the test and trace system, to self-isolate. Any refund rights would be subject to the terms and conditions when you book.\n\nThe traditional backstop of insurance (albeit less common among domestic travellers) may not help, unless you bought your policy months ago.\n\nCoronavirus is no longer an unknown event, so anyone buying travel insurance now is unlikely to be covered for any coronavirus-related delays or cancellations.\n\nSelf-catering holiday accommodation will open again on Friday in Northern Ireland, and hotels will follow on 3 July.\n\nA decision will be taken in Wales on 9 July on whether to open up the country to tourists again. If this is given the go-ahead, it's likely to take effect from 13 July.\n\nThe Scottish government has said that hotels and tourist accommodation may be able to reopen from 15 July at the earliest, if its next review of lockdown restrictions on 9 July decides that conditions are favourable.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents hotels and accommodation as well as other areas of the hospitality sector, said it greeted the government's relaxation of the lockdown restrictions in England \"with relief and praise\".\n\n\"The government has given due recognition to how hard hospitality has been hit by this crisis,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"Our sector was one of the first to be seriously affected and we are going to be one of the last to reopen.\" However, she added that government support would remain crucial.\n\n\"Many businesses have been closed for months with no revenue and are now facing substantial rent and PAYE bills,\" she said.\n\n\"We need financial help from the government, otherwise some of these businesses are going to go under right at the point at which they are allowed to open once again.\"\n\nAbta, the travel association, described the latest measures in England as \"a step in the right direction on the road to restarting travel in earnest\".\n\n\"However, the travel sector remains in a perilous state, with redundancies announced each week, and more needs to be done to help the whole sector recover,\" it added.\n\n\"We need a more comprehensive roadmap as soon as possible that includes timeframes for relaxing international travel restrictions too, so businesses and customers can plan ahead.\"\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drinks giant Diageo is giving £4m to Scottish pubs struggling with the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe company, which makes Guinness and whisky, has announced the two-year Raise the Bar programme to help premises bring back customers as lockdown continues to be relaxed.\n\nIt designed the scheme following a global survey of bar owners to identify what they need to reopen after lockdown.\n\nTheir top priorities include hygiene measures, digital support and practical equipment to transform how their outlets will work.\n\nThe programme will provide support to help pay for the physical equipment such as sanitiser dispenser units, medical-grade hand sanitiser and PPE.\n\nPubs and bars will also be helped with online reservations, cashless systems, mobile bars and outdoor equipment.", "It has now been a month since the government last announced how many individuals are being tested every day.\n\nInstead, they are only releasing numbers for the number of tests delivered.\n\nThis matters, because the number of tests data includes people who may have been swabbed twice as well as tests sent in the post but not necessarily returned.\n\nThe result is that the number of tests is far higher than the number of people tested.\n\nFor example, as of 22 May – the last date we had the statistics – the numbers showed that 3.2m tests had been done or sent out, but only 2.1m individuals had actually been tested.\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority has previously criticised the government for their use of testing statistics.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has previously said that the release of the number was “temporarily paused\" because of problems with double counting in the data.", "Stars including Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Carrey and Sharon Stone have paid tribute to the \"wonderfully creative and heroic\" St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher.\n\nSutherland, who starred in several of Schumacher's films, said his \"joy, spirit and talent will live on\".\n\nCarrey, who appeared in Batman Forever, also remembered Schumacher fondly following his death at the age of 80.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Carrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Falling Down filmmaker had been ill with cancer for more than a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kiefer Sutherland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinnie Driver, who appeared in Schumacher's film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, remembered the director as \"the funniest, chicest, most hilarious director I ever worked with\".\n\nShe recalled: \"Once, on set, an actress was complaining about me within earshot; how I was dreadfully over the top (I was) Joel barely looked up from his NYT + said 'Oh Honey, no one ever paid to see under the top.'\"\n\nMatthew McConaughey, who was given his big break by Schumacher in 1996's A Time to Kill, told Variety: \"Joel not only took a chance on me, he fought for me... I don't see how my career could have gone to the wonderful places it has if it wasn't for Joel Schumacher believing in me back then.\"\n\nCorey Feldman, who appeared in The Lost Boys, said the director was \"a beautiful soul\" who had \"sent me supportive messages tight til the end of his life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sharon Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and presenter Padma Lakshmi described him as \"sharp, whip smart, witty and wise\", adding: \"He was kind and always had the best advice.\"\n\nFellow director Kevin Smith tweeted: \"He couldn't have been nicer or more hospitable.\"\n\nStar Trek writer and producer Bryan Fuller wrote: \"I distinctly remember feeling hopeful when I learned he was gay and out and that there may be a place for me yet.\"\n\nVariety wrote that the director \"brought his fashion background\" to directing and captured the feel of an era with his \"stylish films\".\n\nThe New York native first entered the film industry as a costume designer in the 1970s, working alongside luminaries such as Woody Allen.\n\nHe went on to write the 1976 low-budget comedy Car Wash, as well as the screenplay for a film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.\n\nBut his big break came in 1985, with his third feature film St Elmo's Fire, which he co-wrote and directed.\n\nAlongside The Breakfast Club, which came out in the same year, it became one of the seminal films of the Brat Pack era and launched Demi Moore's film career.\n\nHis follow-up, The Lost Boys - about a group of young vampires in small-town California - became a cult favourite, and his 1990 hit Flatliners saw him again team up with Kiefer Sutherland.\n\nSchumacher worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Michael Douglas. He directed Douglas in 1993's Falling Down, which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'Or.\n\nHe took over the reins of the Batman franchise from Tim Burton in 1995, casting Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader and Jim Carrey as the Riddler. The film grossed more than $300m worldwide.\n\nHowever, his second outing - Batman and Robin - starring George Clooney in the lead and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze was critically panned and nearly finished off Clooney's burgeoning film career.\n\nSchumacher was noted for his ability to pick out new talent and he was fundamental in establishing the careers of A-list stars such as Sutherland, Rob Lowe and Colin Farrell. He directed Farrell in 2000's Tigerland, the actor's first leading role, and later in Phone Booth.\n\nSchumacher's style came to the fore in two memorable music videos, Seal's Kiss From a Rose and INXS's Devil Inside.\n\nHis film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, which received three Oscar nominations despite lukewarm reviews, was among his last films.\n\nSchumacher was reportedly the composer's first choice as director, with Lord Lloyd Webber having admired his work with music on The Lost Boys.\n\nMost recently, in 2013, he took the helm on a couple of episodes of the first season of Netflix series House of Cards, before more or less retiring from working life.\n\nHe once said: \"If you love a movie, there are hundreds of people who made it lovable for you. If you don't like it, blame the director. That's what our name's there for.\"", "The recommendations of a review into the Windrush scandal will be implemented in full, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nThe report criticised the Home Office after those who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries were wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMrs Patel also acknowledged that compensation payments to those who had suffered had been \"far too slow\".\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"too slow to right the wrongs\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons Mrs Patel said the Windrush Lessons Learned Review - led by Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary - had been \"damning\" about the conduct of the Home Office and \"unequivocal about the institutional thoughtlessness towards race and the history of the Windrush generation\".\n\nShe said her \"determination to right the wrongs and injustices suffered by the Windrush generation is undiminished\" and promised to make sure that \"more people are compensated in full\".\n\nMs Patel told MPs that so far 12,000 people had been granted documentation by the Windrush Task Force including over 5,900 grants of citizenship.\n\nShe said, as of the end of March, more than £360,000 had been awarded in compensation and that more than £1m had been offered in claims so far.\n\nMartin Forde QC, the barrister who devised the Windrush Compensation Scheme, has told the BBC that there has been one six-figure settlement, an offer of more than £100,000 and a part-payment (or interim) offer of more than £100,000, which could be on track to settle for £250,000.\n\n\"All I can say is apply, apply, apply,\" he said. \"This scheme is worth it.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of being \"slow to act\" and noted that \"just 60 people\" had been compensated so far.\n\n\"We have to see far more in the way of action from this government to get the impression that they take this issue seriously,\" he said.\n\nMrs Patel agreed that the rate of payments had been too slow but added \"I am not apologising for that at all.\"\n\n\"It is right that we treat each individual with the respect and dignity they deserve - these are complicated cases,\" she added.\n\nSNP home affairs spokeswoman Joanna Cherry urged the government to introduce a \"root and branch review\" of the hostile environment policy introduced to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nThe home secretary promised to return to the House of Commons to set out how the government would be implementing the recommendations, before the parliamentary summer break.\n\nOn Monday in honour of Windrush Day, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair the Windrush Working Group.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, which he will co-chair with Mrs Patel, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\n\nBishop Webley, told the BBC: \"This is not another review, action is needed. We cannot afford for this to fail.\n\n\"Too much blood has been spilt by many for this country. So therefore they're not granting us a favour, it's an inherent right.\n\n\"They've fought for it, they've worked hard for it, and we need to help the country build a bright, prosperous future that celebrates difference.\"\n\nOne girl holds a placard at a rally celebrating the contribution of the Windrush generation\n\nThe Windrush generation is named after the ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948. An estimated 500,000 people arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nAlthough they were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 thousands of their children were travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nIn 2012, as part of measures to tackle illegal immigration those without documents were asked for evidence in order to continue working, access services or remain in the UK.\n\nThis led to some being detained or even removed from the UK despite having live in the country for years.\n\nThe Empire Windrush bought workers to the UK in 1948", "Night falls on Dharavi, home to more than 650,000 people\n\nIn one of the world's most congested shanty towns, social distancing is not a luxury people can afford. And density is a friend of the coronavirus.\n\nImagine more than 650,000 people spread over 2.5 grubby sq km, less than a square mile. That's a population larger than Manchester living in an area smaller than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.\n\nEight to 10 people live together in poky 100 sq ft dwellings. About 80% of the residents use community toilets. Homes and factories coexist in single buildings lining the slum's narrow lanes. Most people are informal daily-wage workers who don't cook at home and go out to get their food.\n\nAnd yet Dharavi, a sprawling slum in the heart of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, appears to have brought an outbreak under control - for now.\n\nSince the first case was reported on 1 April, more than 2,000 infections and 80-odd deaths have been reported here. Half of the cases have recovered.\n\nDaily reported infections dropped from a high of 43 a day in May to 19 in third week of June. The average doubling rate had gone up from 18 days in April to 78 in June.\n\nThe scale of the measures put in place - a mix of draconian containment, extensive screening and providing free food to an out-of-work population - has been extraordinary.\n\nMunicipal officials say they have traced, tracked, tested and isolated aggressively to halt the spread of infection. At the heart of this has been the screening effort, involving fever camps, doorstep initiatives and mobile vans. The early door-to-door screening by workers in sweltering personal protective gear was not sustainable when the weather turned hot and muggy.\n\nPeople who are testing positive are being taken away for quarantine\n\nSo the effort pivoted to the fever camps, where more than 360,000 people have been screened for symptoms so far.\n\nAt each camp, a team of half-a-dozen doctors and health workers in protective clothing screen up to 80 residents every day for temperature and blood oxygen levels using infrared thermometers and pulse oximeters.\n\nPeople showing flu-like symptoms are tested for the disease on spot. Those who test positive are moved to local institutional quarantine facilities, a bunch of schools, marriage halls, sports complexes. More than 10,000 people have been put into quarantine so far. If their condition deteriorates, patients are moved to public and three private hospitals in the area.\n\n\"The fever camps have really helped in checking the spread of the infection,\" Dr Amruta Bawaskar, a medical officer working in the slum, told me.\n\n\"People turn up voluntarily now, and want to get tested on any pretext. Sometimes they will inflate their age to qualify for testing for high-risk elderly people. Sometimes they will want to get tested because they sat next to someone who coughed or sneezed. There's a lot of fear and awareness.\"\n\nWith some 11,000 tests done since April, there's a possibility that the slum still has a large population of people who are infected but show no symptoms. But officials believe they have been able to contain the infection at a time when it is picking up speed elsewhere in Mumbai and other hotspot cities.\n\nThe relatively low death toll is possibly explained by the overwhelmingly young population of the slum - most infected people have been in the age group of 21 to 50 years.\n\nAnd to make sure the harsh containment worked, free meals and food rations have been provided to residents trapped at home without work and income.\n\n\"I think we have managed to break the chain of transmission without social distancing because there was no scope for that,\" Kiran Dighavkar, an assistant municipal commissioner in charge of the area, told me.\n\nDharavi is one of the world's most congested slums\n\nIt also helps that Dharavi gets a lot of media attention.\n\nThe slum drew international attention as the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Business school researchers and city planners from around the world have studied its $1bn informal economy and urban dynamics.\n\nPrivate doctors have joined the fever camps. The cash-rich municipality, politicians, and non-profits have provided tens of thousands of free meals and rations. Bollywood actors and businessmen have donated gear, oxygen cylinders, gloves, masks, medicines and ventilators.\n\n\"Mumbai has a history of community action. They have a done a good job in helping officials containing the infection in Dharavi,\" says Dr Armida Fernandez, who's involved with a non-profit working in the slum.\n\nHowever, the economic costs of the draconian containment have been enormous.\n\nThe slum is home to thriving leather, pottery and textile stitching businesses. It has 5,000 small factories which pay taxes and some 15,000 single-room workshops. It is also Mumbai's main hub of plastic recycling.\n\nNot surprisingly Dharavi is a place where migrant low-cost skilled labour has thrived for decades. After the lockdown, an estimated 150,000 of them left the place for their native villages after their workplaces shut and earnings dried up. Residents have pawned their gold, depleted their savings and been pushed into debt.\n\n\"It was a very harsh containment. It killed the economy of Dharavi,\" says Vinod Shetty, a lawyer who runs a non-profit called Acorn India, which works in the slum.\n\n\"People are living hand to mouth. They are not getting work inside our outside the slum.\" In other words, the trade-off between lives and livelihood has been harsh.\n\nThe next challenge, agrees Mr Dighavkar, is to slowly open up the factories so that people can go back to work, and ensure that people continue to wear masks and follow all procedures.\n\nMore than 360,000 residents have been screened\n\nWill there be enough water in a slum where many buy supplies to to make sure that people can wash their hands? Will there be enough jobs left to woo workers back to the factories?\n\nHow long can the slum remain in a lockdown mode to contain future waves of infection? How long can non-profits continue to help as they start to run out of resources in what promises to be a long and weary battle?\n\n\"The war is not yet over. Not until the virus has left for good, anyway,\" Mr Dighavkar says.", "The UK car industry's trade body says one in six jobs are at risk of redundancy without help from the government in restarting production.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said emergency funding, permanent short-time working, business rate holidays, and VAT cuts are needed to stem the flow of job losses.\n\nShowrooms are reopening and production lines are restarting, it said.\n\nBut more than 6,000 jobs have been lost in the automotive sector this month.\n\nIn common with many manufacturers, carmakers have high fixed costs to pay, such as rent, during a period where sales are sharply down.\n\nAnd many workers remain furloughed as companies work out how to operate while allowing for social distancing.\n\n\"A third of our workforce remains furloughed, and we want those staff coming back to work, not into redundancy,\" said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.\n\n\"Government's intervention has been unprecedented,\" he added. \"But the job isn't done yet. Just as we have seen in other countries, we need a package of support to restart; to build demand, volumes and growth, and keep the UK at the forefront of the global automotive industry.\"\n\nThe lobby group estimates the impact of lockdown will cut annual car and light commercial vehicle production by one-third to 920,000 vehicles this year.\n\nAs well as assistance to restart production, the industry is anxious about securing a trade deal with the EU.\n\nMr Hawes told the BBC's Today programme that UK car manufacturers could not afford to pay import tariffs on components arriving in the UK from abroad, as the cost would be more than their profit margin.\n\nHe added: \"It is vitally important that the government achieves its ambition, which is a trade agreement before the end of the year.\"\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but remains in the single market and customs union until 31 December, while the two sides try to hammer out a trade agreement.\n\n\"Certainty that a full, zero-tariff deal will be in place by the end of the transition period will give businesses on both sides chance to prepare, and help drive investment into the new skills, facilities and technologies that will be integral to delivering a zero-carbon future for the UK,\" the lobby group said.\n\nBritish car manufacturing came to a screeching halt in April, down 99.7% against the same month last year.\n\nIt was the lowest output since World War Two. Just 197 premium and luxury sports vehicles rolled off factory lines, with 45 of those sent to UK customers.\n\nSome plants refocused to make 711,495 items of personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe loss of 400,000 cars that would normally have been made is expected to cost the British car industry up to £12.5bn in revenues.\n\nIn April, there were 830 new car engines made at UK plants, 781 of which were exported. This level was down 99.5% on the year before.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker has been speaking about her friend Joe Ritchie-Bennett.", "Galleries, cinemas and museums will be able to reopen from 4 July, the prime minister is expected to announce on Tuesday\n\nCinemas, museums and galleries will be able to reopen in England from 4 July, Boris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday as he outlines a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nVenues closed since the middle of March will be able to welcome visitors as long as safety measures are in place.\n\nThe PM is also due to set out how pubs can safely reopen following a review of the 2m distancing rule.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday the virus was \"in retreat\".\n\nMr Hancock said England was \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions but No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a surge in new infections.\n\nThere were fewer than 1,000 confirmed new cases announced on Monday, the lowest daily figure since the lockdown started on 23 March, while the number of people in hospital with the virus has fallen below 5,000.\n\nThe number of daily virus deaths also fell to 15, the lowest since 15 March. However, the figures often dip on Mondays due to reporting delays.\n\nOffice for National Statistics figures show the number of overall deaths in England and Wales for the week ending 12 June was back below 10,000 for the first time this year, although still not back to normal levels.\n\nThere were 9,976 deaths registered in England and Wales, down from 10,709 the previous week - 6% above the five year average.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister discussed the changes with the Covid-19 strategy committee, attended by the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty.\n\nHe is expected to announce the plans in Parliament at about 12:30 BST.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say the 2m (6ft 6in) social distancing rule will be reduced to 1m (3ft 3in) from 4 July, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThis will enable many pubs, restaurants, hotels and B&Bs to reopen for the first time in more than three months.\n\nCurrent evidence suggests being 1m apart carries between two and 10 times the risk of being 2m apart, scientists advising the government say.\n\nBoris Johnson's words today will represent more than a different notch on a measuring tape, more than another kind of business being able to open its own doors in England, and more than the government moving into the final official phase of its so called roadmap set out weeks ago.\n\nCoronavirus has bestowed grief on tens of thousands of families and is bringing recession to the whole UK.\n\nAnd it has also pushed the capabilities of the Westminster government, arguably, beyond its limits - buffeting ministers' reputations and raising questions about their grip.\n\nNow with the threat to health receding, and the economic danger very real, the political calculus has moved enough to allow the next phase to begin.\n\nMinisters used to boast they were following the science. But that complicated advice was a guide, never a medical diktat.\n\nThe decisions on how and when to react to the pandemic were always for the politicians to take.\n\nThe government's ambition now is to move steadily towards a more recognisable way of life that gives a chance, ministers hope, to give them, not the virus itself, control.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector, and some Conservative MPs, to relax the 2m rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current measures.\n\nLabour said its support would depend on employees having adequate protective equipment, such as face shields, and there being an effective testing and tracing system in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nMinisters have not ruled out customers having to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be tracked down if they come into contact with a person infected with coronavirus.\n\nPeter Borg Neal, chief executive of pub chain Oakman Inns, told Radio 4's Today programme that 1m social distancing was \"still very problematic\" but would allow most pubs to open.\n\n\"We hope to prove very quickly to government that pubs will be a safe environment and they can ease restrictions further in due course,\" he said.\n\nAs part of the government's recovery plan, some arts and entertainment venues are also likely to be able to open their doors from 4 July but only if they follow guidance to ensure they are \"Covid secure\".\n\nThey will be expected to minimise face-to-face contact by requiring customers to pre-book tickets, to stand in spaced queues and to enter and leave through different areas.\n\nScreens could be put up to minimise the risk to staff while ventilation systems will be improved.\n\nGallery directors have said they are \"incredibly excited\" to reopen and hope the public will be hungry for culture after three months.\n\nSimon Martin, director of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, told Today: \"I think many are going to feel quite emotional when they come. But for us we really want our visitors to feel welcome, feel safe and have an enjoyable time. We are working very hard to ensure that although we sanitise the building we don't sanitise the experience.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, said the public health community was \"very anxious\" about the pace of changes, adding that the UK still has a far higher number of cases than other European countries.\n\n\"I don't think we're in the position where we have a fully functioning track and trace [system] to give us the confidence that if we start to see cases rise again we can contain it,\" she told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Today programme that the government will be issuing guidelines to businesses on how to manage safety.\n\n\"The reality is we're all going to have to get used to this new kind of normal as we go forward...where we have to take some self-responsibility to ensure the safety of ourselves, our friends, our family, and the people in our community,\" he said.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule for the hospitality industry.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisers to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it. Schools will be able to follow 1m social distancing measures when they reopen in August.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the relaxation of lockdown measures and Covid-19?\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic said he is \"so sorry\" after becoming the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.\n\nGrigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki all revealed they had coronavirus after playing at Djokovic's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic, 33, played fellow Serb Troicki in the first event in Belgrade.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Djokovic said it had been \"too soon\" to stage the tournament.\n\n\"I am so deeply sorry our tournament has caused harm,\" added Djokovic.\n\nHe said the tournament had been organised with \"a pure heart\", \"good intentions\" and a belief that they had \"met all health protocols\".\n\n\"We were wrong and it was too soon,\" Djokovic said.\n\nThe remaining Adria Tour events in Banja Luka and Sarajevo have now been cancelled Djokovic's brother Djordje, who is a director of the tournament, has confirmed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to all the events that happened in the last few days, we have decided that the most important thing right now is to stabilise the epidemiological situation, as well as for everyone to recover,\" he said.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray said the positive tests were a \"lesson for us\", while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing a \"bone-headed decision\".\n\nA statement on Djokovic's website said: \"Immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade [after the second event] Novak was tested along with all members of the family and the team with whom he was in Belgrade and Zadar. He is not showing any symptoms.\"\n• None Battle of the Brits - follow live coverage as Andy and Jamie Murray feature\n\nThere have been no ATP Tour events since February because of the global pandemic and the Adria Tour, which is not an ATP Tour event, was one of the first competitions to be staged since then.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nBulgaria's Dimitrov played Croatia's Coric on Saturday in the second leg in Zadar, Croatia.\n\nWith Croatia easing lockdown measures, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.\n\nPictures on the tournament's social media site from Friday showed Dimitrov playing basketball with Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic, while he also put his arm around Coric before their match.\n\nZverev, Cilic and Andrey Rublev, who also played in the Adria Tour, have tested negative, but suggested they will all now self-isolate for up to 14 days.\n\nThe ATP Tour season is set to restart on 14 August and the US Open will be held without fans from 31 August to 13 September, despite some players voicing concerns about travelling to New York.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case - Djokovic's statement\n\nThe moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested. My result is positive, just as Jelena's, while the results of our children are negative.\n\nEverything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions. Our tournament was meant to unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region.\n\nThe Tour has been designed to help both established and up and coming tennis players from south-eastern Europe to gain access to some competitive tennis while the various tours are on hold due to Covid-19.\n\nIt was born with a philanthropic idea, to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my heart to see how everybody strongly responded.\n\nWe organised the tournament when the virus had weakened, believing the conditions for hosting the Tour had been met.\n\nUnfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality we are learning to cope and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope it will not complicate anyone's health situation and everyone will be fine.\n\nI will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.\n\nDjokovic has been no stranger to coronavirus conspiracies throughout the pandemic. He revealed during a Facebook live in April that he opposes vaccinations. He said he \"wouldn't want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine\", should that be necessary to travel and compete in tournaments.\n\nHis comments fed into conspiracy theories about mandatory vaccinations that have been circulating on Facebook groups in recent weeks. That includes in one called \"Collective Action Against Bill Gates. We Wont Be Vaccinated!!\" - with over 160,000 members. The group, which promotes conspiracies about Bill Gates, praised Djokovic's comments and used them to justify false claims about vaccinations.\n\nA few days later, a video promoting conspiracy theories about 5G and coronavirus was shared by Djokovic's wife, Jelena. It was labelled by Instagram as false information.", "PC Andrew Harper died after his ankles became lassoed in straps attached to a car\n\nA police officer was killed in \"truly shocking circumstances\" when he was dragged for more than a mile by a car on a country road, a court heard.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum\" after his ankles got caught in a strap trailing behind a vehicle driven by 19-year-old Henry Long in Berkshire in August 2019.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard his uniform was \"ripped and stripped from his body\".\n\nMr Long and passengers Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, both 18, deny murder.\n\nThe prosecution case was opened to a new jury after a trial, which started in March, could not be finished due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nJonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said PC Harper, 28, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was left with the \"most appalling of injuries... and he died there on the road\" after he became entangled in the tow rope.\n\n\"It was a senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty; a young man who was doing no more than his job,\" he told jurors.\n\nHenry Long and his passengers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, (l-r) deny murder\n\nOn the night of 15 August, Peter Wallis called police to report the theft of a quad bike from the drive outside his home in Bradfield Southend.\n\nThe court heard PC Harper was due to finish his shift for Thames Valley Police's roads policing unit, but he and a colleague responded to the call.\n\n\"It was going beyond the call of duty, as it were, and it cost Andrew Harper his life,\" Mr Laidlaw added.\n\nThe court heard the officers came face-to-face with the Seat Toledo in Admoor Lane, which was driven by Mr Long. Mr Bowers was in the front passenger seat and Mr Cole was riding the quad bike, the prosecution said, which was being towed from behind with a strap.\n\nAs the police car edged toward the Seat, Mr Long began to drive around the vehicle as Mr Cole, who had lifted the loop of strapping from the bike's handlebars, dived into the moving car, Mr Laidlaw said.\n\nMr Laidlaw said as Mr Cole had attempted to get into the Seat to escape, PC Harper got out of his vehicle to intercept him.\n\n\"The loop of strapping was now on the ground and being dragged behind the Seat,\" Mr Laidlaw said.\n\n\"PC Harper must have quite unwittingly stepped, with both feet, into the loop made on the road.\"\n\nMr Laidlaw said Mr Long then \"sped off\" and PC Harper was \"lassoed\" around his ankles.\n\nPC Harper's colleague, PC Andrew Shaw, described it \"as if he had lost his footing while water skiing\" with his feet \"being whipped forward and his body being thrown back\".\n\nMr Laidlaw said while none of the defendants could have \"possibly intended that that should happen\" it \"must have been very quickly clear to Henry Long... that the vehicle was now dragging somebody\".\n\nThe court heard the Seat travelled for more than a mile before PC Harper became detached from the strap.\n\nMr Long, from Mortimer, Reading, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but, along with Mr Bowers and Mr Cole, denies murder.\n\nMr Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, Mr Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Mr Long have all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe trial, expected to last five weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has announced pubs and restaurants in England would be allowed to offer table service inside from next month, but they must take contact details of customers.\n\nHe also said hairdressers, hotels, campsites, outdoors gyms, theme parks and libraries were on the list of venues that could reopen from 4 July.\n\nBut the prime minister said nightclubs, soft play areas, indoor gyms and swimming pools “will need to stay closed for now”.", "Emergency services were seen at a stretch of the river in Cookham\n\nPolice are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in the River Thames.\n\nEmergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to a stretch of the river in Cookham, Berkshire, at about 18:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was reported that a man had entered the water.\n\n\"Officers are working to locate the man, who was not seen to get out of the water,\" the force said in a tweet.\n\nPictures from the scene appear to show rescue workers, including fire crew rescue teams, in boats on the river.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TVP Maidenhead This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, South Central Ambulance Service tweeted to say that \"reports of three boys having drowned in this incident are not correct\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - with trips upstairs at her Sutherland home.\n\nHer challenge started on 12 April and took almost 300 trips to complete. She has raised more than £347,000 for the NHS, Highland Hospice and RNLI.\n\nMrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland when she was aged 15 in 1944.\n\nHer stair climbing was inspired by the fundraising efforts of Captain Tom Moore.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "Anthony McHugh spent a total of four weeks in hospital with Covid-19\n\nTens of thousands of people will need to be recalled to hospital after a serious Covid-19 infection to check if they have been left with permanent lung damage, doctors have told the BBC.\n\nExperts are concerned a significant proportion could be left with lung scarring, known as pulmonary fibrosis.\n\nThe condition is irreversible and symptoms can include severe shortness of breath, coughing and fatigue.\n\nNHS England said it was opening specialist rehabilitation centres.\n\nRetired taxi driver Anthony McHugh, 68, was admitted to hospital on 6 March with coronavirus symptoms. His condition deteriorated and he was transferred to intensive care and placed on a ventilator for 13 days.\n\n\"I was feeling breathless, then I just remember being rushed into ICU, and after that it was all just a blank,\" he said.\n\nMr McHugh, from Hertfordshire, spent a total of four weeks in hospital and another two in an NHS rehabilitation unit. He returned home in mid-April but still suffers from breathing difficulties two months later.\n\n\"It's little things like walking up the stairs or watering the flowers outside. I start bending down and I have to stop,\" he said.\n\nCT scans taken while he was in hospital showed a white mist, or \"ground glass\", pattern in both lungs - a characteristic sign of coronavirus\n\nIn serious cases it's thought coronavirus can trigger an exaggerated immune response causing mucus, fluid and other cells to fill the air sacs, or alveoli. When this happens, pneumonia can set in, making it difficult to breathe without assistance.\n\nAn X-ray of Mr McHugh's lungs taken six weeks after he left hospital showed thin white lines, known as reticular shadowing, that could indicate the early signs of scarring or pulmonary fibrosis.\n\n\"With all these cases, we can't say for certain at the moment,\" said Dr Sam Hare, an executive committee member of the British Society of Thoracic Imaging and advisor to the Royal College of Radiologists.\n\n\"But usually with a virus or infection at six weeks, you would expect the scan to have returned to normal. It hasn't and that's the worry.\"\n\nLike other Covid-19 patients who have been discharged from hospital, Mr McHugh will need another scan at 12 weeks to see if the suspected scarring on his lungs has deteriorated.\n\nResearch into the prevalence of lung damage caused by Covid-19 is still at a very early stage.\n\nIt's thought those with a mild form of the disease are unlikely to suffer permanent damage. But those in hospital, and particularly those in intensive care or with a severe infection, are more vulnerable to complications.\n\nIn a study from China, published in March, 66 of 70 patients still had some level of lung damage after being discharged from hospital.\n\nRadiologists in the UK say, based on the early results of follow-up scans, they are concerned about the long term-effects of a serious infection.\n\n\"In the six-week scans we're seeing, so far I would say between 20% and 30% of patients who have been in hospital appear to show some early signs of lung scarring,\" says Dr Hare, who helped draw up NHS radiology protocols to diagnose Covid-19.\n\nOther UK radiologists have told the BBC they were noticing a similar pattern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radiologist Dr Sam Hare uses a plastic cup to demonstrate how Covid-19 can leave lung damage\n\nMore detailed data from two other earlier coronavirus outbreaks, Sars and Mers, found between 20% and 60% of patients experienced some form of health problem consistent with pulmonary fibrosis.\n\nWhereas those earlier outbreaks were contained relatively successfully, the virus that causes Covid-19 has spread across the world, with more than eight million confirmed infections to date.\n\nMore than 100,000 patients have needed hospital care for Covid-19 in England since the pandemic started in February, according to NHS figures.\n\n\"My concern with Covid-19 is because so much of the population has been infected,\" said Dr Hare.\n\n\"I'm worried about the sheer volume of patients that we're going to have to treat, simply because so many more people have had the virus.\"\n\nLung fibrosis cannot be cured because scarring in the lung tissue is permanent. But new drugs can slow down the progression of the disease and even stop it completely if detected in time.\n\n\"We now need to understand how big the problem is and when we should intervene with treatment,\" said Prof Gisli Jenkins, of the National Institute for Health Research, who is running assessment clinics for those discharged from hospital with Covid-19.\n\nProf Jenkins, who is based in Nottingham, said: \"My real concern is that never before in our lifetime have so many people been subject to the same lung injury at the same time.\"\n\nNHS England has said it is planning to open a number of specialist Covid-19 rehabilitation centres to help patients recover from long-term effects, including possible lung damage.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales the plan is to adapt existing services and provide more community rehabilitation.", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth, prosecutors say.\n\nHe is accused of attacking the women between 2014 and 2019. The alleged victims were aged between 25 and 46.\n\nThe 67-year-old is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in more than 2,000 films dating back to the 1970s.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 90 years behind bars. He denies the charges.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, stands accused of raping a 25-year-old woman at a house in West Hollywood, according to a statement from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.\n\nHe allegedly sexually assaulted two women, ages 33 and 46, on separate occasions at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, the district attorney said. He also is accused of raping a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.\n\nA separate case from 2016 was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nMr Jeremy's attorney Stuart Goldfarb told AFP news agency the charges were a \"surprise\". \"He is not a rapist,\" he said.\n\n\"Ron - over the years, because of who he is - has essentially been a paramour to over 4,000 women,\" he said.\n\n\"And to allege that he is a rapist is beyond... I mean, women throw themselves at him.\"\n\nMr Jeremy appeared in court Tuesday, wearing handcuffs and a face mask, but did not enter a plea.\n\nA judge delayed his arraignment until Friday and set his bail at $6.6 million (£5.27 million).\n\nDante Rusciolelli, Mr Jeremy's manager, told US media he was dropping the actor as a client.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos, including for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren and LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.\n\nThe mayor of Oaxaca sad that that one person is known to have died. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged people to stay on their guard in case of further tremors.", "Boris Johnson gave the first of the daily updates on 16 March. It feels like a different era.\n\nThe prime minister had already warned that some people would lose loved ones before their time. It’s unlikely he was anticipating being in ICU himself the following month.\n\nBut now just as the nation \"emerges from hibernation\", government ministers are withdrawing from daily public view, although \"significant announcements\" will still be subject to media scrutiny.\n\nToday, the scientists seemed absolutely determined not to go out on a high.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance stressed infections were not down to zero. The virus has not gone away – and most of the nation is still susceptible to it.\n\nChris Whitty still advised people to stay 2m apart in England, where possible, and reminded us we could be living with the virus until this time next year, so some restrictions may have to return.\n\nAnd this is the political risk for the prime minister. Boris Johnson said today he takes responsibility for his decisions.\n\nWhile he will get plaudits for restarting the economy, if, subsequently, he does \"have to apply the handbrake and reverse\" (and just imagine the screeching noise your car would make if you did that) his handling of the pandemic will come under even greater scrutiny.", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBlackpool Airport has suspended banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium on Monday night.\n\nThe banner was flown over the stadium during Manchester City's 5-0 win over Burnley.\n\nIn a statement, manager Stephen Smith said the airport and Blackpool Council are \"outraged by this incident\".\n\nBurnley say they are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by the banner.\n\nBlackpool Airport says the incident was reported to police and the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nChief superintendent Russ Procter said Lancashire Police had investigated the incident but \"concluded that there are no criminal offences that have been disclosed at this time\".\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said his organisation condemned the incident.\n\nBlackpool airport statement read: \"We stand against racism of any kind and absolutely do not condone the activity, the message was offensive and the action reprehensible. The decision to fly the banner was taken entirely by the banner flying company without the knowledge or approval of the airport or Blackpool Council.\n\n\"Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator's discretion.\n\n\"Following an emergency review this morning, Blackpool Airport will suspend all banner towing operations at the airport with immediate effect and we would suggest that other airports should also consider this approach in light of what has happened at Blackpool.\"\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments before the aircraft circled over the stadium.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We're ashamed, we're embarrassed. It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nIt is understood that the stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and runs a one-stop shop where they make the banners and fly them. They have flown over football stadiums in the past, including a 'Moyes Out' one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not 'take sides' and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nThe Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic; players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.", "Job losses at one of Wales' biggest food companies would have a \"serious impact\" on the local economy, says the leader of Carmarthenshire council.\n\nCastell Howell Foods is considering job losses as the firm said weekly sales were down by 65% and it fears trade is \"unlikely\" to recover until 2021.\n\nThe Carmarthenshire wholesaler and processing company has entered into a period of consultation with employees, citing the drop in hospitality trade during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nCouncil leader Emlyn Dole said: \"It's going to be a huge blow for us, there's no doubt about that. The food, drink and visitor sector is worth about £170m to the Camarthenshire economy, so it's bound to have a serious impact.\n\n\"We've been working side by side with the company for years, and especially during the pandemic... we will continue to support the company, because it's not just the economic impact we're concerned about, but also the personal impact on many families that depend on the company for income.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to look after them.\"\n\nOpposition leader Rob James said he was \"saddened\" to hear about possible job losses.\n\n\"Castell Howell is a significant employer in the county and is essential to our local economy. Our fear is that this announcement may be the first of many as the UK government alters their furloughing scheme and risks a large rise in unemployment.\n\n\"We need a back to work budget from the UK government to protect jobs at a crucial phase of the coronavirus recovery. In the meantime, we will be lobbying on behalf of Castell Howell and the wholesale sector for financial support to weather the storm.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will a socially-distanced bar look like?\n\nFormer Chancellor Sajid Javid says the UK should lower taxes on business, rather than focus on austerity, as it deals with the huge hole in public finances made by the crisis. In a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he backed tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\" and cutting national insurance for employers. It comes as the UK car industry's trade body said one in six jobs were at risk without government help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How are we going to pay for the coronavirus crisis?\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney will explain today how schools will be able to reopen in Scotland after the summer break. Pupils are due to return from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning. There has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nMen who've had coronavirus are being urged to donate plasma from their blood to help with research into treatments. Their plasma could be more useful for saving lives because men are more likely to become seriously ill with the disease, and therefore they produce higher levels of antibodies than women. Read more from our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh on the latest coronavirus treatment breakthroughs.\n\nDonating takes about 45 minutes, as the blood is filtered through a machine to remove the plasma\n\nA UK-led team has launched an initiative to study the impact of the \"anthropause\" - the global, temporary slowdown in human activity due to lockdown - on wildlife. The researchers say it's likely to have had a profound effect on other species and measuring that will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nBio-logging devices could be used to track changes in the behaviour of creatures like whales\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, hundreds of workers have tested positive for coronavirus at meat processing plants and abattoirs in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Why are the outbreaks happening?\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.", "Scotland will not immediately follow England in cutting the 2m social distance rule, the country's first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she would give an update on Wednesday on the country's lockdown easing restrictions.\n\nBut she said there would be no decision on whether or not to reduce the 2m rule until her Scientific Advisory Group has examined the evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be done by 2 July at the latest.\n\nThe first minister was speaking as Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted an array of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"long national hibernation\" was coming to an end as he announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England.\n\nThe 2m social distancing rule will also be eased from that date, although a \"one metre plus\" rule will be introduced.\n\nThe new guidelines in England will see people encouraged to use \"mitigation\" such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face when within 2m of each other, and \"where it is possible to keep 2m apart, people should\".\n\nThe prime minister said it was each nation's own responsibility to make their own lockdown restrictions, but that all parts of the UK were now \"travelling in the same direction\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing in Edinburgh that she would be \"very interested\" to see the scientific evidence upon which the UK government had based its decision.\n\nThe first minister, like Mr Johnson, has been under pressure from the tourism and hospitality sector, as well as many other businesses, to relax the distancing rules to make it easier for them to reopen.\n\nIt would also make it easier for pupils to return to the classroom without the need for part-time \"blended learning\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will outline further details of the lockdown easing plans on Wednesday\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was under no illusions about the potential economic benefits - but stressed that easing the rules also brought a greater risk of the virus spreading.\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government is clear that the advice and evidence we have right now supports physical distancing at 2m in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission.\n\n\"But we have asked in what settings, what circumstances and with what additional mitigation it might be possible to accept the risk of people not keeping to a 2m distance.\n\n\"That advice will be available by the 2nd of July. Until then the position here in Scotland remains the same, we are advising people to maintain 2m physical distancing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw accused Ms Sturgeon of following a \"go-slow\" approach that risked leaving Scotland behind both economically and socially.\n\nHe added: \"It will be very difficult for people here to look on as England, and indeed the rest of Europe, begins a return to normal.\n\n\"It will also be very costly for businesses, industries like tourism and hospitality, and the mental health of the nation.\"\n\nLast Thursday, Scotland formally moved to the second phase of its four-phase plan aimed at ending the three-month lockdown while continuing to suppress the virus that has been linked to the deaths of more than 4,000 people across the country.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the briefing she will announce more details on easing lockdown restrictions tomorrow, which she said was earlier than she had originally planned to do so.\n\nThis acceleration of the plans was possible because of the progress that had been made during what had been the \"most challenging\" three month period in the lifetime of most Scots, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Hospital admissions which at one point were at 200 a day are currently in single figures every day.\n\n\"The number of people in intensive care has fallen by 90% and while it is the case that one person dying from this virus is one too many, we've also seen a very significant and sustained decline in the number of those deaths.\"\n\nThe NHS did not \"come close\" to being overwhelmed, Ms Sturgeon said, crediting the efforts of the Scottish people for the progress made in suppressing the virus.\n\nBut she said the \"sorrow\" over those who have died - about half of them in care homes - would \"live with me forever\".", "The first minister said she does not expect to see Scots going to UK holiday resorts yet\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned Scots against taking holidays in other parts of the UK even as lockdown restrictions are being eased south of the border.\n\nThe first minister said the Scottish government's five-mile advisory limit on travelling for leisure and recreation remained in place for now.\n\nShe also said people should still not plan overnight stays away from home.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she hoped the tourism industry would be \"back up and running\" by next month.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England, when social distancing rules will be eased.\n\nTwo households in England will also be able to meet indoors and stay overnight - with social distancing.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she expected to receive expert guidance on whether it was possible to amend the 2m distance by next Thursday in Scotland.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said she did not expect to see people from Scotland travelling to other parts of the UK on holiday at this time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in Scotland: Scots not yet able to travel within UK for a holiday\n\nShe said: \"We hope we will see that lifted in the coming weeks and see our tourist industry back up and running by the middle of July.\n\n\"At that point, assuming all the evidence is still pointing in the right direction, I will be delighted to encourage people to have staycations in Scotland and in all the beautiful parts of our country.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her advice to everyone was to follow the guidance \"in the part of the UK you are in\".\n\nShe said: \"If there are differences in infection rates in different parts of the UK, and even in different parts of Scotland, then we may see more localised measures to minimise transmission between different areas.\n\n\"My advice is, if you live in Scotland or are visiting Scotland, you should follow the advice of the Scottish government.\n\n\"If you are Scottish and visiting England, you should follow the advice of the UK government for England.\"", "Bio-logging devices are trackers fitted to animals, like this Alpine ibex, that record their movements\n\nResearchers have launched an initiative to track wildlife before, during and after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe UK-led team's aim is to study what they have called the \"anthropause\" - the global-scale, temporary slowdown in human activity, which is likely to have a profound impact on other species.\n\nMeasuring that impact, they say, will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nThey outline the mission in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.\n\nAll over the world, some animals have been tracked throughout lockdown\n\nThey outline \"urgent steps\" to allow scientists to learn as much as possible from the sudden absence of humans in many landscapes - including ensuring that researchers have access and permission to carry out their work, and can gain access to information about human movement, as well as animal-tracking data.\n\nProf Christian Rutz from the University of St Andrews is president of the International Bio-logging Society.\n\nHe pointed out that bio-loggers - small tracking devices fitted to animals in order to record their movements and other behaviour - have been collecting information in habitats all over the world throughout the pandemic.\n\nTracking whales could also reveal the impact that the \"anthropause\" has had on ocean wildlife\n\n\"There is a really valuable research opportunity here, one that's been brought about by the most tragic circumstances, but it's one we think we can't afford to miss,\" he told BBC News.\n\nUsually, studies which try to examine the impact of human presence and activity on wild animals are limited to comparing protected habitats to unprotected areas, or studying landscapes in the wake of a natural disaster.\n\nDisasters like the one in Chernobyl can become tragic \"natural experiments\"\n\n\"But during lockdown we have this replicated around the globe - in different localities and for habitats where some species have been fitted with tracking devices the whole time,\" said Prof Rutz.\n\nThere have been many accounts on social media of wildlife apparently making the most of our absence - moving freely through surprisingly urban settings. In some places though, the lack of human activity appears to have been detrimental - increases in poaching driven by poverty, and the absence of ecotourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"No one's saying that humans should stay in lockdown permanently,\" added Prof Rutz.\n\n\"But what if we see major impacts of our changes in road use, for example? We could use that to make small changes to our transport network that could have major benefits.\"\n\nProf Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth has been part of what might be considered the first anthropause study - a long-term investigation into the changes in the abandoned landscape around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nChernobyl's wolves returned in the wake of the abandonment of the Exclusion Zone\n\n\"Just a few years after the evacuation of the Exclusion Zone, Belarussian and Ukrainian researchers found species associated with humans - like pigeons and rats - were disappearing, but wild animals - wild boar, deer and wolf - were multiplying,\" he said.\n\n\"Still abandoned more than 30 years later, the zone has become an iconic example of accidental rewilding.\"\n\n\"At great economic and human cost, Covid and Chernobyl forced us to push the pause button on our environmental damage,\" Prof Smith continued.\n\n\"Stopping some of those impacts altogether will be hard, but will be helped by what we can learn from these extreme events.\"\n\nProf Rutz and his team pointed out in their paper: \"Scientific knowledge gained during this devastating crisis will allow us to develop innovative strategies for sharing space on this increasingly crowded planet, with benefits for both wildlife and humans.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Tim Cook said it was a \"historic day for the Mac\"\n\nApple has confirmed it will transition its Mac laptop and desktop computers to its own ARM-based processors.\n\nThe move means that Macs will run on the same type of chips as the firm's iPhones and iPads, rather than Intel's.\n\nIntel had faced problems manufacturing its own designs, leading it to issue a public apology to computer-makers.\n\nApple's challenge will be to carry off the transition smoothly and convince third-party developers to update their apps accordingly.\n\n\"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of the year,\" said chief executive Tim Cook, adding that it would likely be two years before its full product line had made the jump.\n\nThe firm said the move would allow it to offer new features and improved performance as well as making it easier for developers to \"write and optimise software for the entire Apple ecosystem\".\n\nThe announcement was made at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).\n\n\"Apple's motivations for doing this include reducing its dependence on Intel, maximizing its silicon investment, boosting performance and giving itself more flexibility and agility when it comes to future products,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Embracing ARM and making its hardware more consistent across the iPhone, iPad and Mac ranges is a strategic necessity, but there will be inevitable bumps along the road.\"\n\nMacOS was shown running on the current iPad Pro chip, but the new computers will have processors of their own\n\nApple said it had already developed native versions of several of its own apps, including Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro. iPhone and iPad apps will also be able to be run on the computers.\n\nApple said that Microsoft was working on an optimised version of Office, and Adobe was developing a version of Photoshop.\n\nOther developers should be able to recompile their apps to get a version running \"in just a matter of days,\" said the company's software chief Craig Federighi. He added that old apps would automatically be translated at point of installation to run, although they would not work as well.\n\nTo mark the significance of the move, MacOS will move to version 11. Since 2001, it had only moved from 10.0 to 10.15.\n\nApple successfully made the switch from IBM-Motorola's PowerPC processors to Intel's x86 family in 2006.\n\nHowever, some software was never updated and cannot easily be run on today's Mac computers. Apple dropped support for running older software under emulation in the 2011 release of its Mac operating system.\n\nMicrosoft already allows Windows 10 to be run on both Intel and ARM-based processors and looks set to continue supporting both chip architectures.\n\nApple has not stated how long it will do the same.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Fogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs a result, some people considering buying one of its laptop or desktop computers may decide to postpone a purchase until its first ARM-based computers go on sale.\n\nThis could hit sales both at Apple and the development studios that make software for the platform.\n\nARM-based chips are based on the designs of the UK-based company, which is headquartered in Cambridge. Other companies then adapt these to add capabilities of their own.\n\nSamsung, Qualcomm and Huawei are among the many other companies to do so.\n\nApple is the fourth-largest PC vendor, according to market research firm Gartner, coming behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.\n\nThe company has said that it has more than 100 million active Mac users. Back in June 2005, when it first announced the move to Intel chips, the figure was about 12.5 million.\n\n\"Apple is approximately 4.5% of the laptop market and 2.6% of the desktop market, so the financial impact to Intel will not be significant,\" commented Gartner's Jon Erensen.\n\n\"However, this transition... could give momentum to Microsoft's current efforts to run Windows on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors.\"\n\nThe new version of MacOS, \"Big Sur\", was shown off with design tweaks\n\nExisting Mac owners will see changes to the next MacOS operating system - called Big Sur - which Apple said marked its biggest redesign to date.\n\nThe best way to describe a processor is the brain of the computer.\n\nHardly surprising then that the processor in your computer is kind of important. Changing it is no small thing - and Apple hasn't decided this lightly.\n\nThe big question though - and the one that if you're reading this you're probably more interested in - is what will this do for Macs in general?\n\nThe prevailing view in Silicon Valley is moving to Apple silicon will make for more powerful Macs.\n\nBringing it in-house could create cheaper processors - so in theory you could have cheaper Macs (that's if Apple wanted to pass on savings to the consumer).\n\nThe first is that Apple still has Intel-based Macs yet to come out. Will people simply wait for Apple's new processor to go live before choosing to buy a new computer?\n\nAnd - considering how well Mac products sell there will be a nervousness about changing a formula that has worked very well for Apple for the last 15 years.\n\nOther announcements at WWDC included the ability to use an iPhone as a substitute for a car key by transmitting an NFC (near-field communication) signal to unlock doors and start the engine.\n\nThis will initially be limited to some new BMWs, but the firm said it intended to expand to other models in 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 2 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the biggest changes to the iPhone's iOS14 operating system will be a shake-up of the home screen.\n\nApps can now be automatically organised into folders containing:\n\nIn addition, the firm is updating its \"widgets\" - blocks that display a stripped-down, small app window - so that they can be placed among the icons for other programs. Examples included weather forecasts, news briefings, and calendar meetings. Android already has something similar.\n\nAnother Android-like new feature is the introduction of App Clips, which allow part of a program to be downloaded quickly. These must be less than 10 megabytes in size and will be able to be triggered via an NFC-transmission or by scanning a QR code.\n\nSuggested uses included the ability to order a drink in a cafe or to pay for a car-parking space.\n\n\"App Clips\" are lightweight apps that can be launched easily, without installing, for immediate functionality\n\nApple is also releasing a new app called Translate that carries out language translations offline, offering an alternative to Google Translate.\n\nIt will support 11 languages to begin with including English, Mandarin, French, German, and Arabic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Wayne Lam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the first time, users will be able to set third-party email and web browser apps as the default in iOS, rather than Apple's own software.\n\nThe UK and Ireland will be among countries given access to an overhauled version of its Maps app, which provides more detailed views of roads and paths than before - as well as new cycling directions and routes for electric cars that pass charging stations.\n\nAnd its MeMoji cartoon-like characters now feature new styling options, including the addition of protective face masks.\n\nApple's tablet operating system iPadOS will also benefit from several enhancements to its Pencil stylus.\n\nThe next version of WatchOS adds sleep-tracking functionality to the firm's smartwatch - which will be based on a user's movements in bed.\n\nIt also adds the ability to determine when the owner is washing their hands, in order to confirm whether they have done so for long enough to help protect against Covid-19.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the wearable will allow third-party \"curated\" watch faces to be shared and installed. The Activity app - which is now renamed Fitness - will track calories used for various dance styles.\n\nApple Watch receives new customisation options - and the ability to share customised watch faces\n\nApple's AirPod Pro earphones will gain spatial audio to recreate a cinema-style surround sound experience. They will also automatically switch between a user's Apple devices as the owner moves from one to another.\n\nAnd the firm's Apple TV set-top box will soon allow compatible third-party video doorbells to live-stream footage of visitors to television screens, while iOS 14 will make it possible to use facial recognition to identify them.\n\nThe company said Homekit-compatible security cameras will now offer facial recognition when viewed on an Apple TV\n\nThis will only work with members of the owner's family and friends, who need to be tagged in advance.\n\nIt has also emerged that Apple TV's YouTube app will play clips in 4K for the first time, ending a stand-off with Google over the video-encoding technology involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTottenham picked up their first victory in eight games to leave West Ham with a battle to stay in the Premier League.\n\nCzech midfielder Tomas Soucek inadvertently converted into his own net following Giovani lo Celso's corner and Harry Kane broke clear to stroke in his 18th goal of the season.\n\nWith seven games remaining, the loss leaves the Hammers outside the relegation zone but only on goal difference with Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich - who lie in the bottom three - all now having a game in hand over David Moyes' side.\n\nThe hosts punished toothless West Ham, who threatened little but saw Jarrod Bowen strike a post as they pushed in vain for an equaliser before Kane struck.\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho will be delighted with a victory that takes them just six points off the Champions League places and with Kane's goal, which was taken with his usual aplomb after he was put clear. It was also a sign of his increasing assurance in only his second match since a hamstring injury on 1 January.\n\nTop four 'still within reach' for Spurs\n\nThis was not a classic but Mourinho's 300th victory in English football will have left him very satisfied as they have now picked up four points from two home games against Manchester United and West Ham United.\n\nIt was solid if not spectacular and he will have taken particular pleasure in Kane's superbly taken second goal, after the manager had to answer suggestions from former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson that the striker would not flourish under him.\n\nSpurs still face an uphill struggle to reach the top four but Mourinho will maintain belief and it is still within their reach.\n\nWest Ham have had two games since the Premier League resumed and both have produced grim results and performances that simply confirmed they will face a fight to stay up.\n\nThis is a sterile side and the question is whether Moyes can summon up the inspiration from somewhere to keep the Hammers up.\n\nWest Ham will feel real injustice about the first Spurs goal, which deflected off Davinson Sanchez on to Soucek, which under the current video assistant referee rules should surely have been disallowed. However, it is clear Moyes and his players now have real problems.\n\n'Who is on VAR? Not very good...' - what the managers said\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho to Sky Sports: \"I am happy with the result, the clean sheet, it means the team is more solid, the players have less doubts. We played against a team with a coach with a lot of experience that organises teams in a very difficult way. I could predict that but they made it difficult for us.\n\n\"Our bench was rich, that helped me. To be honest, I don't think it's fair for West Ham to come here with 24 hours less to prepare than us. At the moment it is not nice.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes to Sky Sports: \"I've only just seen it [the opening goal] and I can't believe they've ruled that as a goal. Any handball is disallowed? That's the rule. Who is on VAR tonight? Not very good eh?\n\n\"Those are the rules, it's not a particularly good rule but I can't believe it. We had a goal disallowed at Sheffield United for the same rule.\n\n\"I thought the team worked really hard, we made it difficult for Tottenham, there were a lot of good things I can take from the game but it's the points we needed.\n\nTottenham travel to Sheffield United on 2 July (kick-off 18:00 BST), while West Ham host Chelsea on 1 July (20:15).\n• None Spurs have won their first Premier League home game since 2 February v Manchester City\n• None West Ham have lost seven consecutive away games in the Premier League for the first time since December 2006\n• None Spurs have completed the league double over West Ham for the first time since 2012-13\n• None Spurs boss Jose Mourinho has never lost against David Moyes in their 14 meetings (W9 D5) in all competitions - this is Mourinho's best record against any manager\n• None West Ham's Mark Noble has received 11 yellow cards against Spurs in the Premier League; the most by a player for a team against a specific opponent in the competition\n• None Harry Kane's strike was his 30th goal in Premier League London derbies (48 appearances), meaning only Teddy Sheringham (32), Frank Lampard (32) and Thierry Henry (43) have netted more often in such matches in the competition's history\n• None Kane has now scored 137 goals in 200 appearances for Spurs in the Premier League - the only player in the competition's history to have scored more after 200 games for a club is Sergio Aguero (138).\n• None Attempt missed. Steven Bergwijn (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso following a fast break.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Michail Antonio tries a through ball, but Jarrod Bowen is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jarrod Bowen with a cross.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, West Ham United 0. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Son Heung-Min with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Felipe Anderson following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell with a cross.\n• None Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Up to 1.4 million Renault and Nissan vehicles sold in Britain could be equipped with illegal defeat devices, according to a lawsuit being launched today.\n\nThey include a petrol-powered version of one of the UK's best-selling family cars, the Nissan Qashqai.\n\nThe law firm behind the case, Harcus Parker, claims that some cars produced up to 15 times the legal level of nitrogen oxides when used on the road.\n\nHarcus Parker says it has seen independent test data which suggests that 1.3 million diesel cars built by Nissan and its French partner Renault may have been fitted with defeat devices.\n\nThese are systems which turn emissions controls on when the vehicle is being tested, but switches them off when it is being used on the road - in order to improve their performance, reliability or both.\n\nBut it also claims that up to 100,000 petrol powered cars may have been affected as well. These are Nissan Qashqais fitted with a 1.2 litre engine.\n\nEmissions from diesel vehicles have come under heavy scrutiny since 2015, following a major scandal involving the German giant Volkswagen.\n\nVolkswagen has paid out more than €30bn (£27bn) in fines, compensation and buyback schemes as a result. It is continuing to fight a number of consumer lawsuits, including one in the UK involving some 90,000 car owners.\n\nThe Nissan Qashqai is made at the company's plant in Sunderland\n\nPetrol cars, however, generally produce lower quantities of nitrogen oxides (NOx) than diesels, and have not previously been shown to have been involved in emissions cheating - although there have been some claims to the contrary.\n\nHarcus Parker claims that the 1.2l Qashqai produces many times the legal level of NOx when used in real world driving conditions.\n\nIt says that tests carried out by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2017 confirmed that this was the case.\n\nThe DfT subsequently asked Nissan if it could modify the design to reduce emissions - but this never happened.\n\n\"For the first time, we have seen evidence that car manufacturers may be cheating emissions tests of petrol, as well as diesel vehicles\", says Damon Parker, senior partner at the law firm.\n\n\"The data suggests to me these vehicles much like some VWs and Mercedes cars, know when they are being tested - and are on their best behaviour then and only then\".\n\nHarcus Parker claims this means customers overpaid for their vehicles, and should be entitled to some £5,000 each in compensation.\n\n\"All Groupe Renault vehicles are, and always have been, type-approved in accordance with the laws and regulations for all the countries in which they are sold and are not fitted with 'defeat devices'\", Renault said in a statement.\n\nNissan said the following in response to the planned lawsuit:\n\n\"Nissan strongly refutes these claims. Nissan has not and does not employ defeat devices in any of the cars that we make, and all Nissan vehicles fully comply with applicable emissions legislation.\"\n\nNissan said the 2017 report showed variances for most brands involved. and that it said that the Nissan vehicle tested complied \"with all required regulatory limits.\"\n\nEmissions Analytics, an independent firm which specialises in emissions testing carried out in 'real world' conditions, agrees that the petrol Qashqai does produce very high levels of NOx.\n\n\"We tested this same engine some time ago\", says founder Nick Molden.\n\n\"We found it produced about 16 times more NOx in real world conditions than the official level\".\n\nNissan, however, insists that \"emissions standards have evolved since 2017, and we have introduced a new range of powertrains to meet them\".", "Asian marriage website, Shaadi.com, has removed a skin tone filter following pressure from users.\n\nHetal Lakhani from Dallas, USA, started an online petition against the option, which led to the company removing it.\n\nShe started it after speaking to another user, who questioned the filter in light of anti-racism protests.\n\nShaadi.com says the filter \"was not serving any purpose\" and was a \"product debris we missed removing\".\n\nWhen users joined the site they were asked to select how dark or light their skin is under the 'skin tone' option.\n\nUsers could search for potential partners by the skin tone they'd selected, but Shaadi.com claims this filter didn't work and searches would show all matches of all skin tones.\n\nThe website is unique to other dating sites because it replaces south Asian tradition of a matchmaker and helps people intending to get married find a spouse.\n\nMeghan Nagpal was using the website to find a potential life partner who would also be of Indian origin.\n\n\"I emailed them (shaadi.com) and one representative said this is a filter required by most parents,\" she tells BBC Asian Network.\n\nShe discussed the complexion filter on a Facebook group, where Hetal is also a member.\n\n\"When Meghan shared this on our group I was really shocked because a company usually has a social responsibility,\" says Hetal.\n\n\"I wanted to tackle this in a way that could make a difference so I started a petition.\n\n\"And it just took off like wildfire. Within 14 hours we had over 1,500 signatures. People were so glad we were raising the issue.\"\n\nThe petition was shared with Shaadi.com by a blogger knows as Miss Roshni who runs an entertainment website, Urban Asian. She challenged the company for their response to Meghan and described the skin tone filter as \"disrespectful\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nShaadi.com claimed it was \"blindspot\" they had missed on their site and the filter was removed overnight.\n\n\"It's just one small step in an ultimate goal of promoting equality within the south Asian community on a global level,\" said Meghan.\n\nHetal added: \"I have my bachelors, I have my masters. But if a skin tone can take that away from me - that would be the worst.\"\n\nColourism in South Asia has come under the spotlight following global anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nIndian film actors have also been criticised\n\n\"Bollywood stars were on one hand endorsing fairness creams but on the other hand were supporting the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Meghan.\n\n\"So a part of me was thinking there is obviously a mindset within the south Asian culture about fair skin being better, and that's spilling over into matrimonial websites.\n\n\"You hear it more when older people in our community are commenting about women rather than men; saying 'she is so fair, she is so beautiful' and I think it's more of an unconscious bias.\"\n\nHetal says a company with international reach should be more responsible.\n\n\"People have their biases. But a company should not inculcate that culture.\"\n\nThe Director of Marketing at Shaadi.com told BBC Asian Network: \"We truly believe that love comes in all shapes and shades.\n\n\"And we are proud to represent a cross-section of India - that's something very few companies in India can boast about.\"\n\nPriya (name has been changed) found her husband on the site after being rejected by others for her skin colour.\n\n\"I am dark-skinned and saw the skin colour question on there (shaadi.com) and answered it the best I could,\" she tells BBC Asian Network.\n\n\"My mother-in-law was dead against our marriage because I was a lot darker than her fair skinned, handsome son. Her generation view beauty in shades, which I have hated my entire life.\n\n\"I can't change my skin tone and it hurts.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The two metre rule on social distancing is to be relaxed to \"one metre plus\" where 2m is not possible from 4 July, the prime minister has said.\n\nIt is part of a series of measures being announced to ease the lockdown in England.", "Elizabeth Hurley and Bill Clinton have paid tribute to Steve Bing, the Hollywood producer and political donor who has died at the age of 55.\n\nActress Hurley, who had a son Damian with Bing in 2002, wrote on Instagram that he was a \"sweet, kind man\" and \"our time together was very happy\".\n\nFormer US President Clinton said he \"loved Steve Bing very much\".\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 Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported that Bing fell to his death from a high-rise building on Monday.\n\nLA police and the LA County coroner said a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene in Culver City.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nHe also hit the headlines in the early 2000s for his 18-month relationship with Hurley.\n\nTheir son Damien, who turned 18 in April, was at the centre of a high-profile paternity case after Bing cast doubt on whether he was the father. That was confirmed after DNA results were revealed at London's High Court in 2002.\n\nDamian Hurley said he was \"immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Hurley said she had reconciled with Bing in recent months. \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"Our time together was very happy and I'm posting these pictures because although we went through some tough times, it's the good, wonderful memories of a sweet, kind man that matter.\n\n\"In the past year we had become close again. We last spoke on our son's 18th birthday. This is devastating news and I thank everyone for their lovely messages.\"\n\nDamian Hurley posted on Instagram: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nBing sued the Daily Mirror in the wake of the court case after the paper dubbed him \"Bing Laden\" and printed his phone number so readers could insult him.\n\nThe paper's apology read: \"Our readers should know that Mr Bing is not the ignominious character that has been depicted in the media. He is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has dedicated himself to helping causes impacting children and their families.\"\n\nBing inherited a $600m (£481m) real estate fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing at the age of 18.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Mr Clinton, having donated at least $10m (£8.03m) to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\nMr Clinton wrote that Bing \"had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in\".\n\nIn another headline-grabbing court case, Bing sued MGM studio boss Kirk Kerkorian in 2002, claiming he enlisted infamous private eye Anthony Pellicano to take dental floss out of his rubbish to get DNA to prove Bing fathered a child with Kerkorian's ex-wife.\n\nA paternity test proved that Bing was indeed the father of tennis player Lisa Bonder's daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to heading a football and could be regarded as an \"industrial disease,\" a coroner has said.\n\nAlan Jarvis played for Everton and Hull City in the 1960s and 1970s, winning three caps for his country.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who was thought to have dementia, died at a nursing home in Mold, Flintshire, in December.\n\nCoroner John Gittins has opened his inquest at Ruthin.\n\nHe said neuropathology had been undertaken and that Mr Jarvis' death and a possible link to heading a football would be explored further at a full hearing.\n\nMr Jarvis, a midfielder, played for Wales against England's 1966 World Cup winning squad, earning his other caps against Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nHis daughter, Sarah Jarvis, of Northop, Flintshire, said his family had arranged to have his brain donated to researchers at the University of Glasgow after his death.\n\nMs Jarvis said Dr Willie Stewart, who is studying the possible link between heading a football and brain damage, examined it in January and passed his report to the coroner.\n\nShe said she believed heading had been to blame for the difficulties her father faced in later life - including the loss of his speech.\n\nMs Jarvis said the family hoped his inquest would increase \"knowledge\" and that, while heading has been banned for children under 12 during training, changes in the adult game might not be necessary.\n\n\"My family loves watching football, so it's nothing I would want to change, it's more awareness,\" she said.\n\n\"The only thing I want to come out of it, is to look after these players.\n\n\"I know they say the football was heavy back then, but now it's lighter and faster, so who's to say there's not still going to be the same amount of people coming through with dementia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Stewart's research featured in the 2018 BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me.\n\nIn 2019, a study he led found former professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims former West Bromwich Albion striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nThere remains, however, no definitive evidence that heading a ball causes dementia.\n\nFootball authorities have said more research is needed, with the FA saying it is \"committed to doing all it can\" to help provide greater understanding of the issue.", "The Queen has been photographed riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle - the first time she has been seen outside since the coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nThe 94-year-old monarch was pictured on a 14-year-old Fell Pony called Balmoral Fern over the weekend.\n\nShe regularly rides in the grounds of Windsor, which is said to be her favourite royal residence.\n\nThe Queen has been isolating there with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, and a small number of staff.\n\nThe last public picture of the Queen was taken as she was driven away from Buckingham Palace to her Berkshire home on 19 March.\n\nOne of her two Dorgis - named Candy and Vulcan - could be seen next to her as they both looked out of the car window.\n\nA Dorgi is a cross between a Corgi and a Dachshund.\n\nThe Queen travelled to Windsor Castle a week earlier than she normally would at this time of year to socially distance herself during the pandemic\n\nThe Queen carried out official duties the day before her planned departure, but held her weekly face-to-face audience with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the phone instead.\n\nThe monarch is a passionate horse lover and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.\n\nWearing a colourful headscarf and smartly dressed in a tweed jacket, jodhpurs, white gloves and boots, the Queen can be seen in the new photographs taken by the Press Association riding during the weekend's sunny weather.\n\nThe Queen has made two rare televised addresses to the nation during the lockdown.\n\nIn the first, she said the UK \"will succeed\" in its fight against the virus and thanked people for following government rules to stay at home.\n\nIt came less than a week after her son, the Prince of Wales, came out of self-isolation, following his coronavirus diagnosis.\n\nIn the second, she gave a poignant address to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, praising Britain's response to the coronavirus epidemic that has filled empty streets with \"love\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire\"\n\nMembers of Royal Family have also been sending messages of thanks and support to key workers and the public during the lockdown.\n\nThe Queen and senior royals - including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - video-called healthcare workers around the world to mark International Nurses Day.\n\nSenior royals spoke to medics on International Nurses Day in May\n\nThe monarch spent her birthday on 21 April in lockdown with Prince Philip.\n\nA number of annual events that mark the occasion had to be cancelled due to the pandemic - including Trooping the Colour, which celebrates the monarch's official birthday in June.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, telephoned and video-called the monarch to deliver their birthday wishes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behnken (L) and Hurley (R) in front row join the ISS's existing crew\n\nUS astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with, and entered, the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nTheir Dragon capsule - supplied and operated by the private SpaceX company - attached to the bow section of the orbiting lab 422km above China.\n\nAfter a wait for leak, pressure and temperature checks, the pair disembarked to join the Russian and American crew already on the ISS.\n\nHurley and Behnken launched from Florida on Saturday.\n\nTheirs is the first crew outing launched from American soil to orbit since the retirement of the US space agency (Nasa) shuttles nine years ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 mission marks the beginning of a new era in which Nasa will be purchasing transport services from the commercial sector. No more will it own and operate the American vehicles that run to and from the station.\n\nThis will be done exclusively by firms such as SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, which is led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nConfirmation of the Dragon's attachment at the ISS came at 14:16 GMT (15:16 BST) on Sunday, 19 hours after leaving the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon rocket also provided by SpaceX.\n\nThe docking was a fully automated process; Hurley and Behnken had no need to get involved - although they had practised some manual flying on approach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the first time in nine years that US astronauts have launched from US soil\n\nThe doors between Dragon and the ISS were opened at 17:02 GMT (18:02 BST). When Hurley and Behnken floated through, they were met by ISS Commander and fellow Nasa astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.\n\n\"We're just happy to be here and Chris is going to put us work. And hopefully we will fit in and not mess too many things up,\" said Doug Hurley as he nursed a bruise picked up on his forehead.\n\nBob Behnken said the pair were well rested and ready for the tasks ahead.\n\n\"We did get probably a good seven hours or so (of sleep),\" he said in a radio link with mission control in Houston, Texas. \"The first night is always a little bit of a challenge, but the Dragon was a slick vehicle, and we had good air flow and so we had an excellent evening. (We're) just excited to be back in low-Earth orbit again.\"\n\nNasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine congratulated the duo on a job well done: \"The whole world saw this mission and we are so, so proud of everything you've done for our country and, in fact, to inspire the world.\"\n\nHurley (far) and Behnken (near) were hands-off for the docking\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Go Nasa, go SpaceX. God speed Bob and Doug\"\n\nSpaceX flew a first demonstration of its new crew vehicle last year, but that had only a dummy aboard. This sortie is the first to carry humans.\n\nHurley's and Behnken's job on the mission is to test all onboard systems and to give their feedback to engineers.\n\nSpaceX and Nasa need a clean crewed demonstration so they can move swiftly to the next phase of the company's $2.6bn (£2.1bn) contract, which will encompass six astronaut \"taxi\" flights, with the first of these likely to occur at the end of August.\n\nHurley's and Behnken's arrival at the ISS means they get to claim a Stars and Stripes flag placed on the platform by the members of the very last space shuttle mission in 2011.\n\nThe Atlantis orbiter's crew left this flag as an incentive to all those that came after them. The flag, which also flew on the very first shuttle flight in 1981, will now be returned to Earth to be given to the mission that next goes beyond Earth orbit.\n\nEarlier, Hurley and Behnken named their Dragon ship in the time-honoured tradition of US spacefarers. They called it \"Endeavour\", in part to celebrate the new course being set by Nasa and its commercial partners, but also to acknowledge the past contribution to American space efforts by Shuttle Endeavour, on which both Hurley and Behnken served in the late 2000s.\n\nIt's somewhat uncertain how long Hurley and Behnken will stay at the ISS, but perhaps as much as four months.\n\nIn that time, they will become members of the current ISS Expedition 63 crew, taking part in the platform's everyday science and maintenance activities.\n\nChris Cassidy joked that because his new crewmates arrived on a Sunday, they had missed the cleaning chores that normally take place on a Saturday. \"We'll catch up next weekend,\" the commander said.\n\nBehnken (far) and Hurley (near) both flew on Shuttle Eandeavour as well\n\nCEO Elon Musk's SpaceX company is the first to offer a commercial crew transport service\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. But it has been suffering an unprecedented fuel crisis due to widespread shortages at petrol stations.\n\nThe government blames international sanctions. But it is just the latest episode of the country’s economic collapse that has caused millions to leave and led to international bodies, such as the UN, calling it one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for a country not in conflict.\n\nThe fuel crisis has been so acute that even funeral homes are struggling to transport bodies to the cemetery.", "Emergency crews were called to Durdle Door at about 16:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTombstoning has continued on Dorset's Jurassic Coast less than 24 hours after three people were seriously hurt jumping 70ft (21m) from a cliff.\n\nThe casualties were taken to hospital after jumping from Durdle Door at about 16:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe coastguard and police have warned against leaping from the \"dangerous\" landmark arch into the sea.\n\nHowever, despite warnings and advice to stay away, police said on Sunday some \"still saw fit\" to attempt it.\n\nDorset Council had closed the roads around the scene for safety reasons but hundreds of people still travelled to the area, police said.\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 Poole Police 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\nA spokesperson for the force said that \"despite national coverage\" of the incident on Saturday \"some still saw fit to repeat the 'tombstoning' that... inconvenienced thousands\".\n\nThe force added that on this occasion no-one suffered any serious injuries.\n\nOn Saturday, one of the casualties had to be pulled from the sea bed, the coastguard said. Another jumped from the arch, which is 200ft (60m) at its highest point, but managed to stagger back to friends before falling \"very unwell\".\n\nBoth were airlifted to the major trauma centre in Southampton.\n\nA third person had serious injuries to their body and was taken by ambulance to Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester.\n\nThe ages and gender of those involved have not been disclosed.\n\nLulworth Coastguard Rescue Team said: \"We understand that four individuals jumped from Durdle Door (some 70ft) yesterday, encouraged by the crowds on the beach.\n\n\"Upsetting scenes like we and many others witnessed yesterday illustrate how very dangerous tombstoning is.\"\n\nTombstoning is the act of jumping into water from a high platform, such as a cliff, bridge or harbour edge in a straight, upright vertical posture, resembling a tombstone.\n\nAlona Lapinska described the incident as \"shocking and devastating\"\n\nDaytripper Alona Lapinska, from London, said she saw several people jump from the arch, while people on the beach \"clapped\" and \"encouraged it\".\n\nDescribing one jumper she said: \"It was really shocking how he landed. He landed on his stomach. He didn't land very well and he disappeared in the water.\n\n\"For about five minutes he disappeared in the water completely. One guy managed to get him out. It was a shocking and devastating picture we saw.\"\n\nJames Weld, who owns Durdle Door, said he hoped the casualties recovered\n\nJames Weld, owner of Durdle Door, which is part of Lulworth Estate, said he hoped the casualties recovered.\n\nHe said: \"It does illustrate, not to put too fine a point on it, the stupidity of some people to climb up on the Door, which is fairly high and quite dangerous...\n\n\"I hope the publicity about those injuries will stop people doing it or make them think about it before they do it.\"\n\nMr Weld added: \"As for trying to prevent it over the years we have put up all sorts of fencing, notices... Most of the fencing gets ripped down, the notices get removed and it's virtually impossible to stop those who are determined to do it...\"\n\nDorset Council said it had closed the roads to Lulworth and Durdle Door on safety grounds.\n\nThe road to West Bexington in West Dorset had also been closed due to \"health and safety issues\".\n\nBut thousands of vehicles were parked in the car parks at Durdle Door on Sunday morning.\n\nMany visitors were tourists and day trippers from London. BBC South reporter Laurence Herdman described seeing a huge number of visitors.\n\nMr Weld said he was not legally allowed to close the beach, and his car parks remained open as closing them would not stop day trippers coming and they would park on the road.\n\nPeople had travelled to the beach on Sunday morning at Durdle Door\n\nThousands of cars were parked at Durdle Door on Sunday morning\n\nDorset Council's corporate director, Jonathan Mair, said: \"We would ask people to please think twice before visiting Dorset's beaches as they are becoming overcrowded, and maintaining social distancing is becoming difficult.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan encouraged people to avoid busy areas and to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nHe said: \"The images circulated from Durdle Door yesterday show that too many people made the decision to go to the beach rather than going elsewhere.\n\n\"The critical incident that occurred in this area demonstrates how important it is to act responsibly and not to overcrowd our beaches.\"\n\nThe area has seen large numbers of visitors during the recent hot weather after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n• None Three seriously hurt 'jumping off cliff into sea'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First Minister Arlene Foster addressed the daily news conference at Stormont Image caption: First Minister Arlene Foster addressed the daily news conference at Stormont\n\nVulnerable people in Northern Ireland who were urged to shield during the coronavirus pandemic may be allowed to go outside again from next week, leaders at Stormont have announced.\n\nAdvice to the 80,000 shielding will change from next Monday if the transmission rate of the virus remains below one.\n\nAs is currently the situation in England, those shielding will be able to go outside with people from their own household, or one person from another household, providing social distancing is observed.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said changes to shielding advice would be a \"reasonable and proportionate first step\".\n\n\"If the rate of transmission continues on a downward trend - and of course we all hope that it does - then, in consultation with our scientific and medical advisers, we will consider further relaxations for those who are shielding,\" she said.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill stressed that the safest place for those shielding was still at home.\n\n\"It is crucially important that you are very strict about maintaining social distancing,\" she said.", "Latest figures show about 44 patients in critical care with coronavirus in hospitals in Wales\n\nA few months ago, NHS England's medical director, Stephen Powis, stated: \"If we can keep deaths below 20,000, we will have done very well in this epidemic.\"\n\nAt the time of writing this article, the figure stands at more than 37,000 people.\n\nAs a palliative care doctor, I have treated a number of people with Covid-19, some of whom have died, and I have also lost colleagues.\n\nWe have written and rewritten a huge amount of guidance and procedures, ranging from how best to manage agitation and breathlessness in Covid-19, to how best to prepare people for the worst and help them discuss treatment options.\n\nWhat makes this time so difficult is that many of the usual rules of societal norm and behaviour have been thrown out of the proverbial window, due to the high risk that transmission of this virus has created.\n\nWe have had many discussions in hospitals, community and hospice settings, about how compassion can be combined with strict visiting rules, for instance. As caring health and social care professionals, it is against our nature to prevent loved-ones from coming in to support their seriously ill relatives.\n\nDr Mark Taubert works at Velindre NHS Trust and also teaches at Cardiff University\n\nPeople have pleaded to be with their dying partner, even offering to find their own personal protective equipment (PPE) and accepting the risk should they contract the virus. Others have been understandably afraid of the very real transmission risks and have stayed away, with a broken heart.\n\nThe grief process can be complex enough in normal times, but we are guaranteed to see huge emotional fallout from this horrendous time in the coming months and years.\n\nSo it is important that we find ways of communicating well and perhaps putting on not just physical PPE in our response to this pandemic, but also to look at ways of seeking \"emotional and cognitive protection\".\n\nSuch preparation and responsiveness is under-prioritised at everyone's peril, because preparing for difficult conversations and understanding grief and its stages can help, in order to support ourselves and those around us.\n\nA coronavirus patient in Milan speaking to a relative on a tablet\n\nOne of the early lessons we took from Italy, where the European part of the pandemic had hit very hard in advance of the UK becoming affected, was the high number of patients who were dying alone in hospitals.\n\nFamily members and loved ones had to stay away, due to the clear risk of contracting coronavirus themselves and causing further spread.\n\nColleagues from Italy warned us to have video messaging software and computers ready, so that families and friends could at the very least be \"with someone\" remotely.\n\nWe did this and were ready, and many patients took heart from the fact that they could see their loved ones from a hospital bed, some even taking part in normal life events like dinner, with family members who had set up the laptop in their home kitchen. It is often not the complex stuff we crave when we are really ill, but the day-to-day basics.\n\nHospitals have been helping patients communicate with relatives who cannot visit them\n\nKnowing what to say when you, as a supporting relative, are zoomed into a hospital room can seem daunting, but we have found that it is the presence that matters most, not the perfect phrase of what best to say to the seriously ill friend or relative.\n\nOnline versus the real world, there are many new challenges. How on earth do you behave in an online-streamed funeral and what should and shouldn't you say. I'd state that similar rules apply for online, as they do for the real-life events.\n\nMany religious organisations have quickly adapted and most funeral homes can now give advice on not only physical but also online attendance. This may go some way to reassure people, but a recent survey suggested many are still afraid of saying the wrong thing.\n\nIn my experience, people's grief is worsened by the absence of people's offers of help, rather than by attempts to say the right or wrong thing.\n\nSo the fundamental thing is to show our readiness to provide a listening ear at any time, and that can be via video-messaging, in person or even by WhatsApp. Know what your friend or relative will respond to best and then send them a message. Less is not necessarily more when it comes to grief.\n\nI see my recent forays into video consultations as an example to illustrate this: For me and my team, some of the previously held notions have been severely challenged: before Covid-19, I would never have dreamed of communicating bad news, such as progression of cancer on a scan, or the death of a loved one, by telephone or video messaging.\n\nBut I have had to adapt. And so have many of my colleagues, patients and those close to them. I have shared the key lessons with students and postgraduate doctors. But some of them are relevant to many aspects of life, where perhaps bad news may have to be shared via video-message. Imagine you need to break the bad news that someone in your family has died.\n\nOr perhaps you want to express your heartfelt condolences to someone via video. How exactly do you get this right? Perhaps there is no perfect way, but there are some tips I can share.\n\nIt is important to be in a quiet, undisturbed room. Consider warning those nearby that you are about to have a serious conversation.\n\nRegarding the bad news, how much does the person suspect already? Have a plan for what to do next, before making the call, for instance if you can, you may wish to tell the person you are talking to that you will be in touch again tomorrow.\n\nA good tip to maintain your \"emotional PPE\", is to take breaks: If I've had multiple difficult phone or video conversations in a short time I take a break in between, as I would with real-life conversations.\n\nSo should you, if you are conveying information of the death of a beloved family member to the wider family and/or community, one by one. Perhaps someone you trust can help you do this, so that you are not the only one.\n\nI've also made the classic error of not taking a toilet break prior to such a difficult call, so do consider the length of time you may be.\n\nIs it OK or even safe for them to talk right now? People pick up their smartphone in all sorts of situations and you may have to state that you will call back when they have stopped their car. Are they alone or is there anyone around who can potentially support later?\n\nThese sorts of conversations are never easy. Neither is grief. Grief for a lost loved one, or the grief of realising that a cancer has spread and that time will be short\n\nI tend to give a warning shot of what may be coming: I nearly always preface that I have some difficult news. I might say something like: \"I am sorry, but there is some news that is not good, and I wanted to let you know about this.\"\n\nIf someone asks me to stop there, I do so, and offer a further phone or video call later on. They are not ready yet, but will probably feel a need to speak later. They need time to prepare.\n\nTell the news: Give a summary of what you know. I do this with compassion, but also go in without too much prelude (apart from a warning shot) or hesitation. People want to know now, in my experience, so it is best not to make them wait, with too many platitudes. I once heard a healthcare professional talk about how great the weather was, before giving the bad news.\n\nWhat I often do is intersperse the news with occasional questions, checking what the person I am talking to already knows, or if they need a break, but then I try to align this with the newest information. I often find that people have already suspected and thought about the different bad news scenarios. \"Yes, doctor, this is what I was fearing all long.\"\n\nDon't use jargon, be as clear as you can be.\n\nIn closing these conversations, I try to bring people back into the now and the next few days. What will you do now? Shall we make a plan together? Are there other people you need to tell? Who is there to support you? I often phone back sooner if there aren't many people to support. I also try to ask the person to summarise a bit about what was talked about. It allows for questions, but we can also sometimes state how hard this all is.\n\nSometimes, the white noise that breaks into our brains after a sentence like: \"Your cancer has spread\" or \"Malcolm has just died\", is so intense, that nothing beyond that is heard or understood. So I never assume that any other points I have tried to cover will be remembered, but a summary at the end can allow the person to come back with questions that are important to them and help clarify things.\n\nIn Corsica, a nurse writes down a family message to be placed in a coffin\n\nIn closing, I often make a point of sharing my own sadness about this situation and it sometimes helps people to know how much we care, and that we are all human. It can be a way to help people verbalise their own feelings, if they are perhaps less used to doing so.\n\n\"Yes, this is all so strange and sad, and I wish we were not in this terrible situation\", can open up an important discussion about regrets and fears.\n\nThese sorts of conversations are never easy. Neither is grief. Grief for a lost loved one, or the grief of realising that a cancer has spread and that time will be short.\n\nOn balance, we all appreciate the ability to have conversations, rather than none at all, so I suspect video and audio conversations are here to stay, even for condolence messages.\n\nTo get the best emotional and cognitive PPE, we need to understand ourselves and we need to understand grief itself, as hard as that may sound.", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "Some children in England have gone back to school for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nMany schools have opened their doors to children in Reception and Years 1 and 6.\n\nOn arrival parents and children were kept 2m apart as they queued to enter school.\n\nParents said goodbye at the door, as children headed inside to see what their socially distant classrooms were like.\n\nAt this school in Mortlake, south-west London, each child was assigned their own desk, which were spaced around the classroom.\n\nSome of the older pupils shared larger desks, but were still seated apart.\n\nAt this school in Watlington, in Oxfordshire, a reduced number of children were allowed into each classroom so they could maintain social distancing.\n\nPupils are told to wash their hands regularly.\n\nAt this school in Bristol a one way system is marked out on the floor.\n\nEven in the playground, the children are told to keep their distance.", "There were fewer chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments during the epidemic\n\nAbout 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, treatment or tests, as a result of disruption to the NHS during the past 10 weeks, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nIt estimates 2.1 million have missed out on screening, while 290,000 people with suspected symptoms have not been referred for hospital tests.\n\nMore than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nCancer services are starting to reopen across the UK.\n\nCancer Research UK's figures are based on data for England and estimated for the whole of the UK.\n\nDuring lockdown, the health service focused on the care and treatment of patients with Covid-19, while other services, such as cancer care, were scaled back.\n\nPeople were still encouraged to seek medical help when they needed it - but there were fewer cancer operations and many chemotherapy and radiotherapy appointments were postponed.\n\nScreening programmes that detect early signs of bowel, breast and cervical cancer were paused in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although not officially stopped in England.\n\nAnd an estimated 2.1 million people who would normally have had routine screening missed out, Cancer Research UK says.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancers\n\nThe charity says urgent referrals, when patients with suspected cancer symptoms are referred to hospitals by their GP, fell by up to 75% in the first four weeks of lockdown, although these figures have since improved.\n\nPatients receiving treatments for cancer also fell, with 6,000 fewer people receiving chemotherapy and 2,800 fewer receiving radiotherapy over the past 10 weeks.\n\nAnd there were only 60% - 12,800 fewer - of the usual number of operations to remove tumours, Cancer Research UK estimates.\n\nChief executive Michelle Mitchell said Covid-19 has placed an \"enormous strain on cancer services\".\n\n\"The NHS has had to make very hard decisions to balance risk,\" she said.\n\n\"And there have been some difficult discussions with patients about their safety and ability to continue treatment during this time,\" she said.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give people with cancer the greatest chances of survival and prevent the pandemic taking even more lives.\"\n\nTo ensure no-one is put at risk from the virus now that cancer care is returning, Cancer Research UK said \"frequent testing of NHS staff and patients, including those without symptoms\" was vital.\n\nIt estimates that up to 37,000 tests for the virus would need to be carried out each day for this purpose if the NHS was back running as normal.\n\nThis is happening at different speeds in the four nations of the UK, with the setting up of safe Covid-free spaces in hospitals key to addressing the backlog of patients.\n\nNHS England said coronavirus \"has turned millions of lives upside down\" but cancer services were now largely \"open, ready and able to receive all patients who need care\".\n\nAnyone concerned about cancer symptoms should contact their GP.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments said cancer screening programmes would resume when safe, based on clinical advice.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there are plans for urgent cancer surgery and treatment to resume, along with routine screening.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support recently warned of a potential \"ticking cancer timebomb\" due to disrupted cancer services. It said urgent action was needed to make sure cancer does not become the forgotten 'C' during the pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to urge the government to set out exactly how it will support the NHS to rapidly rebuild cancer services, including how people will be protected from infection by ensuring there is enough staff, regular testing, plentiful supplies of PPE and... social distancing,\" Sara Bainbridge, head of policy, said.\n\nHave you or a loved one missed cancer screening, treatment or tests in the past 10 weeks? How has the lockdown affected your cancer treatment? 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.", "The coronavirus lockdown has created a \"perfect storm\" for many children isolated with their abusers, ex-home secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he said this will contribute to a \"surge\" in cases.\n\nHe said he will lead a new \"no holds barred\" inquiry into child sex abuse in the UK with the Centre for Social Justice think tank.\n\nThe inquiry will examine organised child sexual exploitation and the abuse of children online.\n\nIt comes as the NSPCC says its helpline for adults has responded to more than 10,000 \"child welfare contacts\", including calls and emails, since the start of the UK's lockdown in March.\n\nMeanwhile, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced last month that the government will publish a paper \"later this year\" on research into group-based child sexual exploitation, which was commissioned by Mr Javid when he was home secretary in 2018.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that something that \"weighed the most heavily on him\" during his time as home secretary in 2018 and 2019 was child sexual abuse and its \"true scale\".\n\nHe said he was \"particularly concerned\" about lockdown because \"children are left to isolate alongside their abuser and they will therefore suffer severe long-term damage and this kind of thing isn't reflected in statistics just yet, but it will be, and I'm very concerned about that\".\n\nThe former chancellor said the investigation into will look at organised child sexual exploitation, including gangs and on-street grooming.\n\nThe second part of the inquiry will examine how child sexual abuse \"happens today\", with a focus on online abuse and live streaming.\n\nOf the gang-based exploitation, Mr Javid said: \"We know that of all these high profile cases when there have been convictions, a disproportionate number of people are from Asian heritage, particularly Pakistani heritage, my own heritage and that both saddens and angers me.\n\n\"People from my heritage, many of them disproportionately responsible for what we've seen and I want to know know why.\"\n\nHe said in the past there had been an \"ignorance\" of this in some authorities.\n\nSajid Javid is leading an inquiry into child sex abuse in the UK\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Mr Javid said: \"The surge in child sexual abuse happening right now won't be reflected in statistics until later this year.\n\n\"As appalling as those numbers will be, however, they'll still only scrape the surface of what's been occurring under our noses for decades.\"\n\nAndy Cook, chief executive of the Centre for Social Justice think tank, said it was \"highly courageous\" of Mr Javid to \"speak out on the issue, which has been difficult to confront and too often neglected\".\n\nAnna Edmundson, the NSPCC's head of policy and public affairs, said children were the \"hidden victims of the crisis\".\n\n\"They have been exposed to increased risks of abuse while having limited access to those who can keep them safe because so much of life has been behind closed doors,\" she said.\n\n\"Abusers have also been grasping an unprecedented opportunity to target children online since tech firms have had to scale back on moderators and young people have been spending more time on the internet, with many feeling increasingly isolated and lonely.\"\n\nShe said the \"true scale\" of abuse will not be known \"until later down the line\" and any concerns can be reported to the NSPCC's helpline.\n\nBarnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said the charity had \"consistently warned\" that the coronavirus lockdown was \"putting children at increased risk of sexual abuse and exploitation\" and so the investigation was \"very welcome\".\n\n\"Few of us can imagine what it feels like for victims trapped in an unsafe home, isolated from support systems, school and friends, and unable to get any respite from their abuser. But this is the experience for many children today and over the last few weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"With both children and abusers spending more time online during the lockdown, they are also at increased risk of being targeted by strangers through social media, apps and gaming.\n\n\"This investigation should shed light on children who have been 'hidden' from professionals during the lockdown, and explore how they can be identified and access the support they need.\"\n\nIn 2018, in his role as home secretary, Mr Javid ordered research into the \"characteristics and contexts\" of gangs abusing children, arguing that ignoring issues such as ethnicity is more likely to fuel the far-right.\n\nHe said he wanted officials researching the causes of gang-based exploitation to leave \"no stone unturned\".\n\nThe review came after grooming gangs were convicted in Huddersfield, Oxford, and Rotherham.\n\nDue to be published later this year, the paper on this review \"will outline the insights gained\" and will \"focus on how agencies can learn lessons from the past to tackle group-based offending and safeguard vulnerable children\".\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, these organisations may be able to help.\n• None Grooming gang petition set to be debated by MPs", "Christo with his artwork The London Mastaba, built on the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 2018\n\nBulgarian-born artist Christo, best known for wrapping buildings and famous landmarks in fabric or plastic, has died at his home in New York, aged 84.\n\nHe passed away of natural causes on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the artist's official Facebook page.\n\nChristo, who always worked with his wife Jeanne-Claude, famously covered the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf in Paris with reams of cloth.\n\nHis artworks \"brought people together\" around the world, the statement says.\n\n\"Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only dreaming up what seemed impossible, but realising it,\" it reads, adding that the couple's art \"lives on in our hearts and memories\".\n\nChristo at the presentation of his installation The Floating Piers in Sulzano, Italy, in 2016\n\nVisitors walking along The Floating Piers, an installation consisting of 100,000 sq m of yellow fabric\n\nA 2016 installation entitled The Floating Piers consisted of 100,000 sq m of bright yellow fabric floating on polyethylene cubes on Lake Iseo, in Sulzano, Italy.\n\nShakespeare told us 'all the world's a stage', Christo showed us all the world's an art gallery. The Bulgarian-born artist wasn't interested in the sterile white walls of the modern museum where objects exist apart from everyday life.\n\nHe wanted to turn everyday life into art, to make people look again and think again about their surroundings. He did this by way of intervention - either by wrapping a building such as the Reichstag in Berlin in blue material, or a section of the Australian coastline in one million square feet of fabric - in both cases turning cold, hard structures into sensuous, fragile sculptures.\n\nHe worked in collaboration with his wife Jeanne-Claude, whom he met in Paris in 1958. They made their first major outdoor work three years later in Germany, covering oil barrels stacked in Cologne harbour with material. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 leaving Christo to continue alone, which he did, with a plan to wrap the L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris next year - a project that will probably still be realised.\n\nIn 2018, a Christo artwork - his first major outdoor piece to appear in the UK - was unveiled at the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. The London Mastaba was a colourful sculpture in the shape of a trapezoid and made from more than 7,500 200-litre barrels stacked together, displayed on a floating platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: How we wrapped the Reichstag\n\nBorn Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 1935, he spent time in Austria and Switzerland before moving to France, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in Paris.\n\nAlong with transforming large-scale landmarks, the couple also created monumental environmental works of art together in natural settings, before Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009, aged 74.\n\nChristo's works were produced with his wife Jeanne-Claude, seen here in 1997\n\nAn unfinished project in Paris entitled L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is planned to be completed and exhibited in September 2021, in accordance with Christo's wishes.\n\n\"We borrow space and create gentle disturbances for a few days,\" Christo once said.\n\nSunday's statement concludes: \"In a 1958 letter Christo wrote, 'Beauty, science and art will always triumph'. We hold those words closely today.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands marched from Trafalgar Square to the US embassy in South London\n\nThousands of people have gathered across central London to protest against the killing of an unarmed black man by police in the US.\n\nThey held up signs saying \"Justice for George Floyd\", who died in police custody while an officer kneeled on his neck to pin him down.\n\nDerek Chauvin has been charged with his murder in Minneapolis. The white police officer has been sacked from his job.\n\nDuring the protests Met Police officers arrested five people.\n\nThe protests have been held at Trafalgar Square and outside the US Embassy in Battersea.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, hundreds marched through Manchester city centre chanting \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nAnd a similar protest also took place in Cardiff.\n\nThe protesters chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"say my name, George Floyd\"\n\nLondon protesters held up placards saying \"racism has no place\", and \"I can't breathe\" - a reference to Mr Floyd's words during his arrest.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were present and were engaging with those in attendance, adding an \"appropriate policing plan is in place\".\n\nPolice arrested five people aged between 17 and 25 outside the US Embassy.\n\nThree of the arrests were for breaching Covid-19 legislation and two were for assaulting police.\n\nThose arrested remain in police custody for questioning.\n\nSome protesters did not appear to follow social distancing guidelines\n\nA white ex-police officer has been charged with Mr Floyd's murder\n\nReverend Sally Hitchiner, associate vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields church on Trafalgar Square, said she could see hundreds gathered for the protest from her workplace.\n\n\"I'm very sympathetic to the issue but also surprised to see the strength of emotion that has gathered people together,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly they're not following lockdown and social distancing, but I think there's a huge amount of passion there and that's overriding their concerns.\n\n\"It's an issue that requires passion but at the same time there's a huge amount of risk in what they're doing.\"\n\nShe said police appeared to be moving the crowd on from the square by early afternoon.\n\nThe protest moved on to the US Embassy in Nine Elms\n\nThe road to the US Embassy was blocked\n\nProtesters made their way to the embassy by marching along roads near the River Thames.\n\nTraffic was stopped in several places and protesters were applauded by onlookers.\n\nThe Met said \"an appropriate policing plan was in place\"\n\nProtesters linked arms by the US Embassy\n\nA large portion of the crowd stopped under a railway bridge outside Battersea Park Station.\n\nFour men climbed on top of a bus stop before getting down on one knee and with their right arms in salute in silence, leading the gathered crowd to do the same.\n\nIt is a stance made famous by Tommie Smith, the US sprinter who famously raised his fist in protest against racial discrimination during his gold medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics.\n\nAmerican football player Colin Kaepernick caused outrage when he held the pose during the US anthem as a protest against racial injustice.\n\nDemonstrators encouraged the crowd into a moment of silence, while holding their right arms in the air\n\nTens of thousands of people have joined nightly protests across the US since the death, with at least 1,600 people arrested in 22 cities as some demonstrations descended into violence.\n\nHundreds of people marched through Peckham in south London on Saturday in protest against police brutality.\n\nIt comes as the US has been rocked by protests over the past five days, many of which turned into violence with cars and buildings set alight and riot police using tear gas and rubber bullets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon urges people to stick to the rules\n\nScotland's coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister relaxed restrictions north of the border on Friday, allowing more people to meet up while outdoors.\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" had complied with recommendations not to travel and to keep gatherings small.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was clear that not everyone had complied, with police dispersing more than 2,000 gatherings.\n\nPolice Scotland said there had been 1,391 \"compliant dispersals\" of groups of people over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with another 650 where groups broke up \"after a police warning\".\n\nAnd with car traffic trebling at some beauty spots, the first minister said she would not hesitate to put restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\nScotland took its first step on the government's \"routemap\" out of lockdown over the weekend, with people from two different households allowed to meet up outdoors in groups of no more than eight.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel within their local area for recreation and exercise, although the government \"strongly recommends\" they do not travel more than five miles.\n\nBeaches at Loch Lomond were busy over the weekend\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wanted to thank \"the vast majority\" of people for sticking to the rules.\n\nBut she said it was clear that not everybody was heeding the advice, with police having to move on hundreds of people for not complying with regulations.\n\nShe said the 797 dispersals carried out by police on Saturday was five times the number seen a week previously, and that traffic volumes had risen sharply.\n\nTraffic around beauty spots like Loch Lomond and Glen Coe was \"about three times higher\" than it was the previous weekend, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"hard to see how that was caused by local residents\".\n\nShe said ministers had \"deliberately allowed some flexibility\" and \"left some room for discretion\" when setting out the new guidelines, because they trusted the majority to follow the rules.\n\nBut she said: \"It's worth being clear that if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, or meeting up in larger groups, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to do that if it is necessary for the collective wellbeing of society.\"\n\nPolice said more than 2,000 gatherings had been broke up in total over the weekend.\n\nA total of 16 fixed penalty notice fines were issued, but there were no arrests related to breaches of coronavirus legislation.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said the \"increase in people out and about following the relaxing of some of the restrictions has seen a rise in crime levels\", with increasing demands on police.\n\nHe added: \"We all want to enjoy our outdoor spaces safely and, whilst our officers will continue to robustly tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, please take reasonable steps to keep yourself safe and act responsibly.\"\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in Scotland continues to fall, with just 27 now in intensive care wards.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that the progress which had been made was \"fragile\".\n\n\"The virus is being suppressed, but it has not gone away and it is still extremely dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"The progress we have made so far is simply not guaranteed and is not irreversible. Cases could increase again, it would not take much for that to happen, and that would result in more loss of life.\n\n\"If all of that happens, then restrictions will have to be re-imposed rather than being further relaxed.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"To the minority that flout all of this, it's not just the virus running out of control you're risking - it's taking flexibility away from people who are abiding by the rules.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's message remains that people should \"stay at home\" as much as possible\n\nMs Sturgeon said the issue had been brought home to her after one of her own friends had been diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Until this weekend, I didn't know anybody personally, within my own family or friends network, who had had this virus in a significant way. That changed this weekend.\n\n\"Why am I telling you that? Because it's still there. Even with these numbers going down, there are still people testing positive for this virus.\n\n\"It's still there - it's ready to pounce, and jump across any bridges we offer it. If we want to stop that, we must, must stick to these guidelines.\n\n\"I'm saying this as a citizen as much as as a first minister - please do that, and together we will continue to make this progress.\"", "Protests have taken a violent turn in Washington DC as demonstrators continue to march against the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nRiot police clashed with crowds gathered near the White House, firing tear gas and other projectiles.\n\nVehicles were set on fire by some demonstrators on Sunday night, the sixth night of protests that have spread across several cities in the US.\n\nRead more: Violence erupts across US on sixth day of protests", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"The small changes... will have a huge impact on people's mental health\"\n\nThe government is taking \"modest\" steps in easing lockdown restrictions, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nHe said he was \"reasonably confident\" the measures would be \"manageable\", but the room for manoeuvre was limited.\n\nFrom Monday in England primary schools will start to reopen and people can meet in groups of up to six.\n\nAnd vulnerable people in England and Wales will be able to go outdoors for the first time in months.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nMr Jenrick's comments come after some scientific advisers voiced concerns about the timing of the changes.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, he confirmed the updated guidance on shielding which will mean that people who have been advised to stay home since the lockdown began will now be able to go outside either with members of their household or to meet someone from another household.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick said people in this group should only do what they are comfortable with, adding that the advice would be tightened again if conditions became \"less favourable\".\n\nSome patients' groups have expressed concern at the pace of the changes, and have called for the evidence behind them to be published.\n\nConfirmation of the changes to the restrictions came as it was announced another 113 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nIt takes the total number of people who have died to 38,489.\n\nOn Saturday, Professor John Edmunds, a member of Sage - the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies which advises the government - said the levels of coronavirus were still \"very high\", adding that it was a \"political decision\" to ease measures.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the decision to ease lockdown.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the government had \"taken evidence from scientists\" and had met the five tests it said were needed to relax restrictions.\n\n\"Because we have made that progress, steadily, slowly, surely - week in, week out - we can very gradually, very carefully, take the steps that we are taking tomorrow,\" Mr Raab said.\n\nFrom Monday, a number of changes will come into effect across England:\n\nIn Wales, people from two different households will be able to meet each other outdoors from Monday.\n\nGroups of four to six people who are not in the same household can meet outdoors in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd in Scotland members of two different households are already allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nA UK cancer charity chief has told the BBC he was concerned about the new guidance allowing those who were previously shielding to go outdoors.\n\n\"It's not helpful to bring changes really quickly that we don't know the evidence behind,\" said Alasdair Rankin, Blood Cancer UK's director of research and policy. \"We'd like to see the evidence the decision is based on and for the government to be really transparent.\"\n\nAnd Phil Anderson, head of policy at the MS Society, said people would \"rightly want to hear a lot more about the scientific evidence showing this will be safe for them\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May, with 205,634 tests available on Saturday.\n\nWidespread testing forms a central part of the government's strategy to control the virus, as it aims to ease blanket lockdown in favour of more targeted measures.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described it as \"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus\".\n\nWhile capacity for testing is over 200,000, a little more than 115,000 tests were carried out in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFor several days, the government has been unable to give figures on the exact number of people who were tested.\n\nThe UK's R value - the number of people each infected person passes the virus on to, on average - is currently between 0.7 and 0.9.\n\nIf it goes above 1.0 the number of cases will increase exponentially, but if it stays below then the disease will eventually peter out.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government would not go ahead with some of the plans to further ease lockdown if R rose above one \"or dangerously close to it\".\n\n\"We're going to be doing this in a cautious and data-driven way in the days and weeks ahead,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere during the briefing, Mr Jenrick said:", "Crowds gathered by the River Wharfe in Ilkley\n\nCrowds of visitors have left mounds of litter including used toilet roll and nappies at Yorkshire beauty spots, angry residents have said.\n\nHundreds of people flocked outdoors to enjoy the weather with concerns social distancing guidance was being flouted.\n\nIn Ilkley, West Yorkshire, toilet roll and dirty nappies were left dumped behind bushes and trees.\n\nCouncillor Anne Hawkesworth said: \"What we've seen has been deplorable. It seems people have just run riot.\"\n\nOn Saturday, groups gathered on the banks of the town's River Wharfe with people jumping off the bridge into the water.\n\nBins have been left overflowing in the town\n\nResident Andrew Dobson, 46, said the area was left an \"eyesore\" with barbecues dumped and the grass scorched.\n\n\"There were people jumping off the bridge, toilet paper behind bushes and trees and dirty nappies.\n\n\"You want people to come to this area - I am very lucky to live here, but when you go down there and see the state of it, just take your stuff home with you.\"\n\nResidents in Burnsall said driveways and pavements had been blocked by an influx of cars\n\nResident Christine Neasham, whose mother recently died in a care home in the town with Covid-19, said she found the crowds extremely distressing.\n\nShe added: \"It could be someone else's parent, grandparent or sibling as a result of this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales, cars have been double parked on the narrow streets and litter dumped by visitors.\n\nResidents have pleaded with people to take their rubbish when they leave\n\nResident Mark Fox said: \"This past week there has been a perfect storm of nonsensical parking and a disrespect to the villagers trying to carry out their normal life.\n\n\"Everyone seems to have landed here and caused complete and utter disruption.\"\n\nPolice, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan said: \"I would say if you are going somewhere and you see a crowd just turn around and go somewhere else.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands flocked to the Jurassic Coast to enjoy the sunny weather at the weekend\n\nCoronavirus guidelines on travel should be changed to \"stay local\", Dorset's two council leaders have urged.\n\nThousands of people flocked to Durdle Door beach on the Jurassic Coast at the weekend and Bournemouth beach was also packed.\n\nDorset and Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) councils warned crowds could lead to a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nCurrent rules state that households can drive any distance in England to destinations such as parks and beaches.\n\nIn a statement, Dorset Council leader Spencer Flower said there had been \"extremely disappointing behaviour\" by members of the public at beaches in the county.\n\nOn Saturday three people were airlifted to hospital after tombstoning from the limestone arch at Durdle Door Beach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people flocked to Bournemouth beach on Sunday\n\nMr Flower said: \"My plea to the government is to review the unrestricted travel guidelines currently in place and require people instead to 'stay local'\".\n\n\"The current guidelines have a disproportionately negative effect on areas like ours which are popular with visitors but do not have the infrastructure to cope right now.\n\n\"I am worried that we will see a second wave of infection here in Dorset as a result of the high number of visitors to the area over recent days.\"\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 bournemouth_official 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\nHis counterpart at BCP Vikki Slade said she had witnessed a number of cases of \"people failing to adhere to social distancing rules and of illegal parking, widespread barbecues and council staff being abused when going about their work\".\n\nShe said local MPS should press for a five-mile travel limit for non-work purposes, or risk fines.\n\nBournemouth's official tourist board posted a picture on social media of a crowded beach, with the words: \"Too many people, too little respect... Have some humanity... Stay away.\"⁠\n\nIt follows Brighton City Council arguing for more powers from government to implement its own lockdown, after huge crowds have filled its parks and beaches.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That is the end of today's live updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.\n\nToday saw some of the lockdown restrictions eased, with people in Wales from two different households now able to meet outdoors, if they stay in their local area and remain two metres apart.\n\nThose who have been \"shielding\" at home can also leave their homes if they wish - but should not go shopping or go to work.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health Wales reported five more deaths, taking the total to 1,347.\n\nHere is a recap of today's coronavirus news stories in Wales:\n• Coronavirus lockdown in Wales: What are the new rules?\n• The shielders told they can venture out\n• Coronavirus safety worries have led to calls for the Welsh Government to delay its ban on single-use plastics\n\nWe will be back tomorrow morning with more live updates from 07:00 BST.", "Dating and hook-up app Grindr says it will remove the \"ethnicity filter\" from the next version of its app, following years of criticism from its users.\n\nThe app currently lets people filter potential matches according to their age, height, weight and ethnicity.\n\nBut critics say the ethnicity filter fuels discrimination and that the app does too little to tackle racism.\n\nAnnouncing the change, Grindr said it had a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech\" on its platform.\n\nGrindr specialises in dating for gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people.\n\nFor years, LGBT people of colour have flagged the ethnicity filter as an issue - but they received no response from Grindr. Many even got blocked by the company.\n\nBut some are angry that it has only happened as a result of white people speaking up on social media. Indeed, the most-shared social media posts written to shame Grindr into action were posted by white gay men.\n\nThere are also LGBT people of colour who are disappointed that this change is happening at all.\n\nSome have told me that they used the ethnicity filter to find people like themselves, perhaps not to date but for shared experiences and cultural understanding.\n\nIn some cases it was needed. In February, at a queer club night for Black and Asian people, one party-goer showed me how black men did not appear on his Grindr until the white men had been filtered out.\n\nGrindr is not the only LGBT dating app to allow filtering by race. The spotlight will now move to others that have yet to take a similar stance.\n\nOn 29 May, Grindr had tweeted \"Demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter\", with a link to further information. This had prompted several users to accuse the company of hypocrisy.\n\nOne message saying \"remove the ethnicity filter\" was retweeted 1,000 times.\n\nGrindr later deleted its own tweet and on 1 June posted a new message explaining its change of position.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grindr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral companies have posted messages of their own featuring the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter following six consecutive days of protests across the United States. The events were sparked by the killing of George Floyd - a black man who died after a white officer continued kneeling on is neck even after he had pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nWhile some Grindr users welcomed the removal of the filter, others said the company had taken too long to implement the change, and had done the \"bare minimum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 J Æ IA-02 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Primark is planning to reopen all of its 153 stores in England on 15 June when lockdown restrictions are lifted, its owner AB Foods has said.\n\nDuring lockdown the clothing chain has built up almost £2bn-worth of stock to sell, double its normal stockholding.\n\nHowever, bargain-hunters will be left disappointed after the firm said there would be no \"special discounting\".\n\n\"The stock will be sold in the normal course of business, albeit at a later date,\" it said.\n\nThe company said it had £1.5bn of stock on hand plus a commitment to suppliers to buy another £400m-worth. It normally holds stock worth £900m.\n\nThe excess stock mainly comprises non-fashion and non-seasonal ranges plus some excess spring-summer goods, it said.\n\nSome of the latter will be held back until spring 2021 while the rest will be sold \"in the normal course of business\".\n\nPrimark's 37 shops in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will re-open in late June pending \"further guidance\".\n\nIt has also pulled forward the opening of a new store in the Trafford Centre, Manchester to 15 June. It was originally planned to open in the third quarter of the year.\n\nThe company has already reopened more than 100 stores across Europe including 32 in Germany, 25 in Spain and 20 in the Netherlands.\n\nIt said it had learned lessons from the openings that would be carried forward to UK openings.\n\n\"Social distancing protocols, hand sanitiser stations, perspex screens at tills and additional cleaning of high frequency touch points in the store are among the measures we are implementing,\" it said.\n\nPrimark has opened stores in Europe, including this shop in Berlin\n\nPersonal protection, including masks and gloves, are being made available to all employees, the company added.\n\n\"These measures are designed to safeguard the health and wellbeing of everyone in store and to instil confidence in the store environment.\"\n\nIt said it has received positive feedback from customers and employees in areas where stores are already open.\n\nIn other retail news, Ted Baker has said it plans to raise £95m to slash debt and to help pay for a transformation plan.\n\nThe announcement came as the fashion chain reported a loss of £79.9m for the year to 25 January 2020, compared to a profit of £30.7m the previous year.\n\nThe fashion brand blamed the loss on £84.6m of non-underlying expenses, including £45.8m of inventory charges after an investigation found that it had overstated the value of its stock.\n\nIn the 14 weeks since January, to 2 May, revenue has slumped 36%, although online sales have jumped by 50%.\n\nTo turn things around the retailer has announced a new strategy it calls \"Ted's Growth Formula\", which will involve \"stabilising the foundations, driving growth, and enhancing operational excellence\".\n\nTed Baker has started to gradually reopen stores, primarily in Europe, and is planning for further re-openings as governments relax lockdown rules.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate - and highest proportion of positive cases in Wales\n\nCoronavirus has exposed \"the stark nature of inequalities\" in the UK, according to the first minister.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales, Mark Drakeford said: \"It is stark, and it is depressing, but it's not surprising.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said some local authority areas in Wales were being worse affected by the virus than others.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate in Wales, according to latest figures.\n\nMr Drakeford said some areas have \"older populations, populations with underlying health conditions, populations who live near each other because of their local geographies\".\n\n\"We have some local authorities in Wales that have all those characteristics and where you would expect, independent of testing variable, there will be a bigger impact of the virus.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has recorded 98.89 deaths per 100,000 compared with 8.22 deaths in Ceredigion and 22.87 in Anglesey.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil has had 98.03 deaths per 100,000 while Cardiff, where the highest number of deaths have been recorded (329) there have been 90.32 deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nFrom Monday, some restrictions are being eased with people from two households allowed to meet and allowed to travel about five miles from home.Asked on the Sunday Supplement programme why the Welsh Government had decided not to relax the rules on non-contact sport, like tennis, Mr Drakeford said that advice suggested the gap between \"where the R number is and where it would begin to get out of control was very narrow\" and so the Welsh Government should \"take one main measure\".\n\n\"We have focussed in Wales on allowing families and friends to get together again in the open air,\" he said.\n\n\"We did that because all of the messages we have had back from people in Wales have been that while we are willing to put up with a huge amount in order to make the great collective effort we've made, the one thing they missed the most is seeing family and friends.\n\n\"In my post bag and in the post bag of my colleagues, the number of people who have written in about tennis is pretty small and the number of people who have written in saying I really miss being abele to sit face to face with, and then they name the person who's closest to them, has grown and grown significantly,\" he added.", "A group of 200 travel companies has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel asking for current quarantine plans for people entering the UK to be scrapped.\n\nIt follows calls last week from MPs and travel bosses to reconsider the rules.\n\nFrom 8 June, people entering the UK from abroad will be told to isolate for 14 days or face a fine.\n\nThe government insists the new rules will help keep the transmission rate of the virus down.\n\nThe letter suggests travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nThe lead author of the letter, George Morgan-Grenville, boss of tour operator Red Savannah, said: \"This is not just a group of company bosses complaining, but employees from bottom to top calling for the quarantine plans to be quashed.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"These cross Government public health measures are designed to keep the transmission rate down, stop new cases being brought in from abroad and help prevent a devastating second wave of coronavirus. All of our decisions have been based on the latest scientific evidence.\n\nThe quarantine hasn't even taken effect, but from the word go, this policy has been under fire on several fronts.\n\nTravel firms face bankruptcy. It could be the final nail in the coffin for some smaller firms.\n\nUK aviation is shedding jobs and if the sector can't rebound to some extent this summer, the economic misery will only be compounded.\n\nSenior figures within the Conservative party, like the former shadow home secretary David Davis, are vehemently opposed.\n\nI'm told that the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, is not a fan either.\n\nBut Number 10 and the Home Office argue that as the prevalence of the virus falls in the UK, the effectiveness of a quarantine, to stop cases being imported, rises.\n\n\"Air bridges\" - where two countries with relatively low infection rates agree to waive the quarantine measures - are possible.\n\nReports in the Portuguese media suggest an air bridge with Portugal is on the cards.\n\nBut when it comes to controlling the virus, the United Kingdom is behind other countries in Europe and so, in negotiations, the ball might not be in the UK's court.\n\nThe quarantine might prove irrelevant in some cases if governments such as those in Greece and Spain, as they have indicated, do not let British tourists in.\n\nOther firms and travel bosses who have signed include hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, hotels The Ritz, The Connaught and Mandarin Oriental, and upmarket travel agent Kuoni.\n\nLast month, in a letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines such as EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Make UK said that while they fully support the government's commitment to public health, they have \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nSome travel firms have come under fire for their treatment of customers owed refunds as flights and holidays were cancelled amid the UK's lockdown.\n\nThe aviation watchdog last month warned airlines that they are legally required to provide refunds to customers who had their flights cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nBy law, plane operators must refund customers within seven days if their flight is cancelled.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it could take action against airlines.\n\nAirlines including Easyjet, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair have all announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days. There is a £100 penalty for anyone found to have not filled in this ''contact locator'' form.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to self-isolate, while governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can also impose penalties.\n\nPassengers will be asked to drive in their own car to their destination, where possible. If they do not provide an address, the government will arrange accommodation.\n\nThey must then not go to work, school, or public areas, or use public transport or taxis. They should also not have any visitors unless they are providing essential support, and should not go out to buy food or other essentials where they can rely on others.\n\nThe Home Office added: \"The list of exemptions has been agreed by all government departments in consultation with their stakeholders which will ensure critical supplies and services can continue and will be kept under review.\n\n\"People coming into the UK will be required to provide contact and travel information, including those who are exempt. We will set out further detail shortly including on how we will take action against those who flout the rules.\"", "Prince Joachim of Belgium is said to have mild coronavirus symptoms\n\nA Belgian prince who contracted coronavirus after attending a party during lockdown in Spain has apologised and \"will accept the consequences\".\n\n\"I deeply regret my actions,\" he said in a statement on Sunday.\n\nPrince Joachim, 28, travelled from Belgium to Spain for an internship on 26 May, but went to a party two days later in the southern city of Córdoba.\n\nSpanish reports suggest the prince, a nephew of Belgium's King Philippe, was among 27 people at the party.\n\n\"I apologise for not respecting all quarantine measures during my trip,\" his statement reads, adding: \"In these difficult times I did not want to offend anyone.\"\n\nCórdoba's lockdown rules permit no more than 15 people at gatherings.\n\nSpanish police have launched an investigation into the party. Those found to have flouted lockdown rules could be fined up to €10,000 (£9,000; $11,100).\n\nEveryone who attended the party is said to be in quarantine. Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Princess Astrid and 10th in line to the Belgian throne, is said to have mild coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nSpain is in the process of emerging from one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. It outlined a four-stage plan on 4 May to start easing the lockdown, which saw children under the age of 14 confined to their homes for six weeks.\n\nThe country said it was moving to a second phase from 1 June for 70% of Spaniards, leaving only major cities under tighter restrictions.\n\nSpain has among the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. As of Sunday, the country had 239,479 infections and 27,127 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Floyd's brother: 'That's not bringing him back'\n\nGeorge Floyd, the African-American man whose death has sparked civil unrest, died from asphyxia (lack of oxygen), a private post-mortem examination found.\n\nHe died due to compression on his neck and back by Minneapolis police officers, medical examiners hired by the Floyd family said.\n\nThe findings differ from an official preliminary examination carried out by the county medical examiner.\n\nIt did not find evidence of \"traumatic asphyxia or strangulation\".\n\nThe official examination also said underlying health conditions played a role in Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBut the two doctors hired by the Floyd family found the death was a homicide, a statement from its legal team said.\n\n\"The cause of death in my opinion is asphyxia, due to compression to the neck - which can interfere with oxygen going to the brain - and compression to the back, which interferes with breathing,\" Dr Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner and one of the pair, said at a news conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nA video showing a white police officer continuing to kneel on George Floyd's neck even after he pleaded he could not breathe sparked outrage when it emerged a week ago.\n\nIt has led to six consecutive days of protests around the United States and a level of civil unrest not seen this widely across the country in decades.\n\nBenjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Floyd family, told Monday's news conference: \"Beyond doubt he would be alive today if not for the pressure applied to his neck by officer Derek Chauvin and the strain on his body by two other officers.\"\n\nHe added: \"The ambulance was his hearse.\"\n\nDr Baden said there was \"no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death\".\n\nA memorial has sprung up in Minneapolis at the spot where George Floyd was arrested by police\n\nThe findings contradict those of a preliminary post-mortem examination that was included in the criminal complaint against Mr Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe medical examiner noted in that report that Mr Floyd had underlying heart conditions and said the combination of these, \"potential intoxicants in his system\" and being restrained by the officers \"likely contributed to his death\".\n\nThe full official death examination is yet to be released by the office of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. It says it is awaiting more results from laboratory studies.\n\nThere have been protests in several European cities, including this one in Barcelona\n\nThe Floyd family and their lawyers say the charge against Mr Chauvin should be increased to first-degree murder. They say the private post-mortem examination proves two other officers filmed kneeling on his back also contributed to his death.\n\nMore than 75 cities have seen protests over what happened to George Floyd, with streets only days ago deserted because of coronavirus full of demonstrators marching shoulder to shoulder.\n\nThe case has reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism. It follows the high-profile cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York and others that have driven the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nOn Sunday, mostly peaceful demonstrations once again gave way to violence in many cities, with clashes erupting between police and protesters.\n\nPolice cars were burned, buildings were torched and shops looted in several places. Dozens of cities imposed curfews but they were defied.\n\nProtesters staged a \"die-in\" in New York City's Times Square on Monday\n\nOn Monday, President Trump told state governors they had been \"weak\" and had to get \"much tougher\", and utilise troops from the National Guard, thousands of whom have already been activated in two dozen states.\n\n\"You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again,\" Mr Trump said in a video conference call, according to US media.\n\nThere have been scenes of violence in Washington DC in recent nights, including near the White House.\n\nDemonstrators lit fire to buildings including a historic church known as the church of the presidents overnight on Sunday.\n\nMany videos shared on social media from across the US appeared to show riot police responding disproportionately to demonstrators. Dozens of attacks targeting journalists have been reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tanker has been driven at protesters in Minneapolis\n\nThe curfew in Washington DC has been extended for another two nights and will start at 19:00 on Monday. A curfew starting at 23:00 had been in effect on Sunday.\n\nNew York City is also imposing a citywide curfew on Monday from 23:00 until 05:00 on Tuesday.\n\n\"The violence and the looting has been bad for the city, the state and this entire national movement, undermining and distracting from this righteous cause,\" said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.", "The air ambulance took the man's wife to hospital\n\nA man has died after being attacked by a herd of cows while walking in the Yorkshire Dales, police have said.\n\nThe man, 82, from Foulridge, Pendle, was out walking with his wife at Ivescar, Ingleton on Saturday at around 13:45 BST.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said emergency services were called but the man died at the scene.\n\nHis wife, aged 78, was badly bruised and taken by air ambulance to Lancaster Royal Infirmary.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neil and his wife Susanne run a towel and bedding stall in Barnsley outdoor market\n\n\"It's been hard financially, but our business can now get cracking,\" says Neil Conway, who runs a towel and bedding stall at Barnsley outdoor market with his wife Susanne.\n\nOpen air markets and car showrooms will be allowed to re-open in England on Monday, with coronavirus-related measures in place.\n\nAs with garden centres (which re-opened in May across the UK), the government says the risk of transmission of Covid-19 \"is lower in these outdoor and more open spaces\".\n\nTo try to keep their customers safe, Neil and Susanne have overhauled how they work.\n\nThe pair have printed new signs to encourage shoppers to keep a two-metre distance, as well as introducing contactless payments and designated payment and \"pick-up\" points for orders.\n\n\"We're hoping we can provide a good example of how things can work, and hopefully others will follow,\" says Susanne.\n\nShe says that it's been a \"funny few months\" not trading during lockdown, having started work at the market when she was 12-years-old.\n\n\"We have wanted to know when we were coming back, and we were questioning if it was ever going to happen.\"\n\n\"But now we're really looking forward to getting started, and helping get the economy back on its feet, safety-first of course,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough their market stall might benefit from lockdown measures gradually being lifted, Neil anticipates it might take some time for trade - and customer confidence - to return.\n\n\"I don't think we'll take a great deal of money at first, but we've got to get into the swing of working again,\" Neil says.\n\nOne trade body says that those who've carried on selling essential items like food during lockdown have shown that trading can be done safely. But they told the BBC they believe only a fraction of outdoor markets will resume straight away.\n\nJoe Harrison, chief executive of the National Market Traders Federation said: \"It will take a lot of time for markets to get back to their full potential, with the correct equipment in place.\"\n\nCar showrooms have also been working to put measures in place to ensure the safety of staff and customers ahead of re-opening, said Sue Robinson, director of the National Franchised Dealers Association.\n\nShe said they include one-way systems, hand sanitising stations, protective screens and more frequent cleaning for each car.\n\nAt Sytner, the UK's largest car dealer, customers will have to test drive cars by themselves. Boss Darren Edwards told the BBC's Today programme customers were unlikely to buy cars they had not driven, and that the firm would do \"due diligence\" to ensure it was safe.\n\nHe said he was hopeful that demand would pick up from current low levels but that the future remained uncertain.\n\n\"Clearly once the government's furlough scheme finishes in October we don't know what that is going to do to the economy and general consumer confidence. That's a bit of an unknown.\"\n\nOther retailers in England have also been pressing ahead with their coronavirus-secure re-opening plans.\n\nIkea, for example, could have stayed open during lockdown. But it chose to shut, and will only re-open in England and Northern Ireland from Monday.\n\nOne store manager told the BBC that \"wardens\" will be working in-store, reminding customers of social distancing guidelines.\n\nOther shops classed as non-essential in England, however, won't be able to re-open until 15 June. No firm dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but each country has plans in place.\n\nThis includes shops selling things like clothes, toys, books and electronics, as well as tailors, auction houses, photography studios, and indoor markets.\n\nTony Symons, owner of Roger's Menswear in Kent, has already been gearing-up to start trading again.\n\nHe says that he has ordered a Perspex screen for the till area, and will introduce shorter openings hours and a cap on the number of customers allowed in his shop at one time.\n\nBut like Neil the market trader, Tony only expects a trickle of trade initially.\n\n\"To be optimistic, I would say customers will come flocking through the door. Unfortunately, I don't think that will be the case.\"\n\nAs an independent retailer without an online sales platform, Tony is relying on customer visits, and hopes that footfall will build up over time.\n\n\"I'd like to think everyone is like me and wants to get out there and do things, but we shall see.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe sun shone in Newcastle on Monday but as Zodiakos passed the post a neck ahead of stablemate Al Ozzdi to win a thrilling opening race shortly after 13:00 BST, there was nothing but an eerie silence.\n\nAfter 76 days without horse racing in Britain, this was how it returned - with a behind-closed-doors victory for a 22-1 chance, ridden by Jimmy Sullivan and trained by Roger Fell, in the Welcome Back British Racing Handicap.\n\nThose involved with the sport were glad to be back, although there was sadness too: December Second - trained by Philip Kirby - died after suffering a fall in the 17:05 race.\n\nThe news cast a shadow over a significant day. Preparations for the all-weather meeting at Gosforth Park had been meticulous as elite sport in England made its return after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe car park at the track was empty, with racegoers, owners, bookmakers and most of the media kept behind a ring of temporary wire fencing encircling the racecourse.\n\nEach of the 10 races were limited to 12 runners and apart from jockeys, the course was only open to a few people: trainers' representatives, stable staff, officials and a small number of media.\n\nThose allowed in had to complete a three-stage screening process, including medical checks before departure and on arrival.\n\nMasks were also required by jockeys and stalls handlers, with the heat adding to feelings of unfamiliarity and discomfort.\n\n\"Riding in the mask, it is very warm and after pulling up I pulled it down a little just to get a few breaths in,\" said Sullivan after his win.\n\n\"It wasn't too bad, though. It's manageable and it's the sort of thing that, in a week, you won't even notice.\"\n\nSocial distancing measures were strictly enforced at the course, with markers on the floor, two-metre warnings on the walls and a one-way system in place.\n• None Horse racing's return: Five viewpoints on the sport's comeback\n• None Patience and unity key to easing restrictions, says Sport Wales boss\n\nWith no bars and restaurants open, it was packed lunches in paper bags for those who needed to be fed.\n\nIn the paddock, the horses still made their way around the parade ring, but jockeys had to follow a set route in and markings showed where they and the trainers' representatives could stand.\n\nRiders also had to use a different weighing room to normal, because of its size, and at the end of the race, only the winner returned to the paddock while all the others had to unsaddle in a dedicated area near the racecourse stables.\n\nWith no on-course bookies and high street shops closed until 15 June, online and telephone betting were the options open for those who wanted to put their money on the day's events.\n\nOne bookmaker said turnover had been 50% higher than anticipated.\n\nWith another meeting at Gosforth Park on Tuesday, plus a card at Kempton as racing builds up to Saturday's 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the pressure was on Newcastle to deliver.\n\n\"It is vital we got this right,\" said Martin Cruddace, chief executive of racecourse owner Arena Racing Company.\n\n\"We are trailblazers for the sport and there is an incredible pressure, but it is a privilege as well and we are delighted it falls on us.\n\n\"It has been an amazing effort by everyone.\"\n\nThe course's efforts earned praise from the British Horseracing Authority's chief regulatory officer Brant Dunshea.\n\n\"We have had a few teething problems with some IT issues which were ironed out,\" he said. \"But the racecourse has done a fantastic job in how it has laid out the course. It is a very well-secured site and we are very impressed with the facilities.\n\n\"It is important we learn from each day. In the current climate, we can't be too careful.\"\n\nThere was, though, pause to reflect on the death of December Second. The BHA, expressing its sadness, said: \"Equine welfare has been an important consideration in our planning to return - for example, there have been limits placed on field sizes as part of the sport's resumption of racing strategy.\n\n\"Racehorses have been able to continue to train and exercise during the lockdown and have been able to maintain their normal level of fitness, looked after by dedicated staff.\n\n\"Their safety has been an important consideration in our planning for return but it is impossible to remove risk altogether.\"\n• None What impact has coronavirus had on racing?\n\n'Just to get playing again is a relief' - snooker returns\n\nAs racing resumed at a near-deserted venue, there was the same eerie feeling in Milton Keynes as snooker returned behind closed doors.\n\nThe Championship League was the first sports event in the UK to be shown on free-to-air TV since the easing of restrictions - with an on-site hotel at the Marshall Arena allowing players to isolate before play.\n\nWorld champion Judd Trump had to isolate for 18 hours after being given a Covid-19 test at 16:00 BST on Sunday. With Trump - along with the tournament's seven other players and 35 staff working at the venue - returning a negative result, play began on Monday.\n\nTrump, who progressed as winner of his group, had to wear a face mask and adhere to social distancing guidelines - with players sitting two metres apart and barred from sharing equipment, such as rests and cue extensions.\n\nThe event was broadcast on ITV4, with presenter Jill Douglas and the pundits all working from home.\n\nWorld number one Trump - and the rest of the snooker circuit - is getting used to a rejigged calendar; the season would normally end in May, at the conclusion of the World Championship, which is now set to start on 31 July.\n\nTrump told BBC Sport: \"In an ideal scenario, I would be on holiday somewhere now with another world crown. But for me, the last month was starting to get quite difficult, being stuck inside all the time.\n\n\"Nothing is ideal and it is changing week on week - but just to be able to get to some kind of normality in playing snooker again is a nice relief.\n\n\"When you are playing out there, it takes your mind of things for a couple of hours and you can forget about anything else that is going on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three men jumped into the sea near Dorset's Durdle Door arch\n\nA paddleboarder who retrieved a stricken man who had jumped 70ft (21m) into the sea said he thought he was going to drown in the rescue.\n\nMike Wiley, 31, found the man unconscious on the seabed after he had tombstoned from Durdle Door arch in Dorset on Saturday.\n\nHe described \"swimming through the pain\" as he hauled the man back to the surface.\n\nThe beach later had to be cleared to allow air ambulances to land.\n\nThousands of people flocked to Durdle Door Beach on the Jurassic Coast on Saturday following the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nMr Wiley, from Southampton, said he had been paddleboarding at the beauty spot when he saw three men jump from the arch over the course of an hour.\n\nHe described frantic attempts by him and other swimmers to find a fourth man who failed to resurface after he leapt into the sea.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Durdle Door on Saturday afternoon\n\n\"He hit the water so hard he didn't even come up to the surface, he went straight down,\" Mr Wiley said.\n\n\"I could see a white body on the seafloor, but it was so deep none of us could get to him. Everyone was in a state of panic.\"\n\nHe said it took five attempts to reach the victim.\n\n\"When I got to him he was just laid on some seaweed and I grabbed his hand and kept swimming to the surface.\n\n\"I thought I was going to let go of him as I didn't think I'd make it to the surface myself. I'd exhaled all the air in my lungs.\n\n\"I swum through the pain and the fact I thought I was going to drown - dragging a body through the water was hard.\"\n\nMike Wiley, 31, pulled the stricken tombstoner to the surface\n\nFour \"incredible ladies\" on the beach then performed CPR to get the man breathing again before medics arrived and he was flown to hospital.\n\n\"I honestly thought he wasn't going to make it - he was down there for about four minutes,\" Mr Wiley said.\n\n\"I'm replaying it over in my head. I can't explain how hard it was.\"\n\nMr Wiley said the man had no protective clothing.\n\n\"People don't know their limitations, they think the water is soft. When you are jumping from that height it's incredibly dangerous. The cold water shock alone will take the breath out of your lungs.\"\n\nIn total three jumpers were seriously hurt and taken to hospital.\n\nWhile helicopters landed on the beach, thousands of people had to crowd together, breaking social distancing rules.\n\nCrowds of people have flocked to the popular beauty spot since lockdown restrictions were eased\n\nA Public Health Dorset spokesperson said: \"People who are or were unable to social distance effectively are advised to self-isolate if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and arrange a test through the online booking system.\n\n\"It is important that good hygiene measures are followed with frequent hand washing.\n\n\"Where social distancing isn't possible people should wear face coverings especially where they will come into contact with people they do not normally meet.\"\n\nDespite the coastguard and police warning people not to leap from the landmark on Saturday, officers said others \"still saw fit\" to attempt it on Sunday.\n\nRoads around the beauty spot, which is part of the privately owned Lulworth Estate, were closed but hundreds of people still travelled to the area, police said.\n\nCrowds still flocked to Durdle Door on Sunday, despite local roads near the landmark being closed\n\nIn a statement, the estate's owner, James Weld, insisted opening the car parks \"did not attract visitors\".\n\n\"These were opening to relieve the pressure on the local road network and the local community, although the publicity surrounding the opening of the car parks undoubtedly added to the visitor numbers,\" he said.\n\n\"It is clear that the restriction of travel should have been limited to local journeys only which would not have resulted in the huge pressures suddenly being foisted on sites such as Durdle Door.\"\n\nHe said staff were \"physically and legally\" unable to prevent people from accessing the coast.\n\nThe estate re-opened its Durdle Door car park on 16 May after restrictions were eased, earlier than other car parks along the coast owned by the National Trust and Dorset Council.\n\nConservative South Dorset MP Richard Drax said he would be discussing issues from the weekend with the council, police and Mr Weld.\n\n\"Personal responsibility is what people are meant to be adopting. Sadly they were not adopting [that],\" he added.\n\nCoastguard crews maintained patrols at the beach on Sunday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Head teacher Debbie Whiting set up a food bank to support families in poverty (photo taken before lockdown)\n\nThe government has told schools to reopen for certain year groups from 1 June. But what does it mean in practical terms for schools - and how are they getting ready? We spoke to one head teacher to find out.\n\n\"It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are green.\"\n\nThat is how Debbie Whiting, head teacher of North Denes Primary School in Norfolk, describes the task in front of her - remodelling her school during a pandemic so that three classes can return next month.\n\n\"The more you look at things, the more there is to think about,\" she says.\n\nClassrooms have been stripped out, new signage put up around the school and year groups divided into small \"bubbles\" to keep pupils away from each other and - it is hoped - minimise the risk of coronavirus spreading.\n\nThe school in Great Yarmouth already knows it will not be ready to reopen for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 classes on 1 June, and is instead working to a deadline of 8 June.\n\nThis summer the school should have been preparing to move into its new £9m buildings, but construction delays mean all focus is now on making the existing school safe for returning pupils.\n\n\"The 1 June date might be convenient for being after half-term but it's not given us anything like the time we need to put things in place,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"It's really difficult. You just keep thinking, have we caught everything?\"\n\nChildren will have to keep their distance from friends and others in their bubble (image from before lockdown)\n\nParents have been asked whether they will send their children back - but only half have responded, making planning difficult. So far, one-third of those who have replied say their children will return.\n\nMrs Whiting estimates she can make her plans work if about 40% of the 180 children return. If they all came back, she would need an extra 12 classrooms at the school.\n\nThe school hopes to make social distancing as natural as possible for children by breaking classes into smaller \"bubbles\" of about seven pupils and two teachers. But without knowing the intentions of the other families, the plans could be useless.\n\nMrs Whiting has left the decision up to parents, but wrote to them recently to warn them \"school will be a very different place\".\n\n\"Until we have those numbers, planning to keep everyone safe in bubbles is really tricky,\" she said.\n\n\"My concern is that they've heard that schools are reopening and on 1 June they just arrive.\"\n\nNo more than eight people will be in each teaching bubble\n\nFor the rest of term, all school life will take place within the bubbles.\n\nIn those groups pupils will learn, eat and play, with each bubble using a nominated classroom and set of toilets to prevent cross-infection.\n\nChildren will not be allowed to take bags to school, and will work in a new exercise book and their teacher will not take them home to mark.\n\nUniform policy will be scrapped as children will need to wear clean clothes every day \"and many will have outgrown it anyway\".\n\n\"If they've got different clothes on every day you'll know that they've actually changed,\" said Mrs Whiting.\n\nThe school has gained experience from teaching the children of key workers over the past weeks, and the numbers have steadily risen from eight pupils to 20.\n\n\"Parents will expect us to social-distance their children, and we intend to do that,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\nThe Year 1 classroom has been decluttered for socially-distanced teaching\n\nThe school day will be re-organised, with staggered starts and a lunchtime finish once children have been given their food.\n\nIn the morning, children in each bubble will arrive at 15-minute intervals, and line up in the playground two metres (6ft 6ins) apart before being led into their classrooms.\n\nOnly one parent will be allowed to drop off and collect each child, with no gathering by the school gates, though Mrs Whiting acknowledges getting several children to school at different times is \"likely to cause problems\" in single-parent households.\n\nBubbles will be kept separate at break times and when they are given lunch, with each being given their own area of the playground to use.\n\nEven before coronavirus, the school was without its kitchen because of building works, and could only use half of its main hall.\n\nNorth Denes Primary serves one of the most deprived boroughs in the country\n\nPupils' movements around the school will be restricted mainly to their bubbles, but the way they use the communal areas will change.\n\nEach year will have a separate entrance to the buildings, and school corridors will operate a one-way system so people can maintain their distance.\n\nDoors will be left propped open and handles cleaned regularly.\n\n\"It's about controlling all movement,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"We also started careful hand washing before the lockdown and the children have been pretty good at that.\"\n\nHand dryers in the toilets have been switched off on official advice, and replaced with paper towels, while the school has ordered pedal bins for every classroom so that PPE - which will be used for first aid or personal care - can be disposed of safely and without contact.\n\nPupils will be forbidden from sharing pens or pencils to stop cross-contamination\n\nClassrooms will also look different, with the need for distancing reducing capacity to about eight desks.\n\nAll rooms have now been decluttered and non-essential items removed, filling the school's storage spaces.\n\nIn the younger age groups' classrooms, soft furnishings, rugs and toys have been removed - anything remaining will have to be washed at the end of each day.\n\nCleaning routines have been stepped up and surfaces will be disinfected regularly.\n\nPupils will be asked to bring their own stationery, and forbidden from sharing.\n\nIn a letter to parents, Mrs Whiting had previously warned \"there is no such thing as social distancing in a school - we can try but we certainly cannot guarantee it\".\n\nThe logistics of preparing the school come on top of the everyday challenges of leading a school in one of the most deprived boroughs in the country.\n\n\"The government line is to get children in school so that they don't fall behind, and in disadvantaged areas that is important,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"But a lot of those who want to return are not those who are in that group.\"\n\nThe Department for Education says it wants children back in schools \"for their education and wellbeing\", and the phased return is based on scientific and medical advice.\n\nFor head teachers, the last few weeks have been \"wearing\", says Mrs Whiting, as they juggle pressures from government, parents who want their children to be kept at home, and those who want them back at school.\n\nUnderpinning all the preparations, her focus has been on keeping the children as safe as possible.\n\n\"This is something I've never ever had to deal with,\" she said. \"And you do wonder what happens if someone gets it and, heaven forbid, there's a fatality?\n\n\"But I can't hold myself responsible for that, because I'm not the one who is asking them to come back.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "There were long queues in Manchester\n\nThousands of shoppers have queued for hours to get into Ikea stores after the furniture giant reopened 19 shops in England and Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThey had been warned that only a limited number of shoppers would be welcomed with only one adult and one child from a household allowed in.\n\nBut Ikea was forced to shut car parks at some stores to help ease pressure.\n\nIn Warrington, people arrived at 05:40 to start queuing for the Ikea store to reopen at 09;00.\n\nThe company praised shoppers for their patience.\n\n\"Where we've seen strong demand we've taken appropriate decisions to open early for browsing and to temporarily close our car parks to help ease pressure and reduce waiting times,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"We're incredibly grateful to the public in playing their part to help keep everyone safe.\"\n\nIn Warrington, a line of more than 1,000 people snaked around the car park with similar scenes at Ikea's Wembley store.\n\nOn Twitter, shoppers complained of \"five-mile queues\" in Croydon, Wembley and outside of London.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kiran Bhullar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaw student Alexi Norris visited Wembley to buy a desk but was shocked at the long waits and tweeted that she went home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Alexi Norris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Midlands police took to Twitter to warn people of large queues at Ikea's Wednesbury branch. The police urged: \"Please consider if you need to go there today as you may be in for a very long wait.\"\n\nThere were long queues outside the Belfast branch, noted BBC reporter Mark Simpson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Manchester one shopper (who didn't want to be named) told the BBC that despite queues outside, inside the shop it was easy to maintain social-distancing.\n\n\"It's very busy with every entrance manned by staff with walkie talkies who were managing the long queues that had formed,\" the shopper said.\n\n\"We arrived just after 11:00 and had to queue for about an hour and a half before we were allowed into the store.\n\n\"However, once inside though the store was much emptier than usual, so it was very easy to stay a safe distance from the other shoppers.\"\n\nBut some criticized the long queues as a sign of runaway consumerism.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Don't understand how a person sees this Ikea queue and actually joins it, rather than… heading home for a beer.\"\n\nOthers warned that people queuing were risking catching coronavirus.\n\nOne said: \"People shopping at Ikea moaning about the people in the queue at Ikea today. It's the 'it's not me, it's everyone else' attitude that will cause the inevitable second wave.\n\n\"Wear a mask and only go out if you have to. It's not that hard, surely?\"\n\nAn Ikea spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our customers and co-workers remains our top priority, which is why we put extensive and enhanced measures in place to create a safe and comfortable experience.\"\n\nThe measures include limiting numbers of customers in stores, a staggered entry system, screens in key areas and social-distancing wardens. All play areas and the restaurants have remained closed.\n\n\"We ask that these measures are respected at all times,\" Ikea said.\n\nIt had asked customers to \"come prepared with ready-made lists and their own bags to help ease waiting times\". It also pleaded with customers wishing to return items, \"to do so at a later date\".\n\n\"While frustrating, these planned measures are in place to ensure everyone's safety,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"To avoid queues, we'd ask those purely wishing to browse, to visit us in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new footfall data from retail analyst Springboard has shown a sharp rise in the number of shoppers as a result of lockdown restrictions in England being eased.\n\nOverall, shopper numbers were up 36% on last week's Bank Holiday Monday and 21% on the week before that. High Streets saw the largest increase, with footfall up 44% on last week and 24% on the week before.\n\nThe increases have come despite only limited reopening allowed in England.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have not yet allowed similar shops to open again.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nLiverpool players took a knee around the centre circle at Anfield in a message of support following the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nThe picture, featuring 29 Reds players, was posted with the caption \"Unity is strength. #BlackLivesMatter\".\n\nPlayers reportedly requested the picture during training on Monday.\n\nManchester United players Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford added their voices to worldwide protests against racism.\n\nProtests have been held after Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on 25 May after being restrained by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes to pin him down.\n\nChauvin has since been charged with his murder and sacked.\n• None The last 30 minutes of George Floyd's life\n\nFormer San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first protested against racial injustice and police brutality by kneeling down during the American national anthem in the summer of 2016. That gesture has since become symbolic to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nUnited midfielder Pogba said in a passionate Instagram post that he felt \"felt anger, pity, hatred, indignation, pain and sadness\".\n\nThe French World Cup winner added: \"Sadness for George and for all black people who suffer from racism EVERY DAY! Whether in football, at work, at school, ANYWHERE! This has to stop, once and for all. Not tomorrow or the next day, it has to end TODAY!\n\n\"Violent acts of racism can no longer be tolerated. I can't tolerate, I won't tolerate, WE WON'T TOLERATE.\n\n\"Racism is ignorance, LOVE is intelligence, STOP the silence, STOP racism.\"\n\nUnited team-mate Rashford said he had been \"trying to process what is going on in the world\".\n\nThe England striker added: \"At a time I've been asking people to come together, work together and be united, we appear to be more divided than ever.\n\n\"People are hurting and people need answers. Black lives matter. Black culture matters. Black communities matter. We matter.\"\n\nNumerous Liverpool players tweeted the picture of themselves kneeling at Anfield, including defenders Virgil van Dijk,Joe Gomez, Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold, and midfielders Georginio Wijnaldum and James Milner.\n\nIn Germany, Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi of Borussia Dortmund, Weston McKennie of Schalke, and Marcus Thuram of Borussia Monchengladbach made on-field protests at the weekend\n\nThe four players are being investigated by the German Football Association (DFB) for breaching rules over making political statements on the field of play.\n\nBut DFB president Fritz Keller said he felt \"respect and understanding\" for them\n\nHe said: \"I have great respect for players who have an attitude and show their solidarity. I wish for such mature players and I am proud of them.\n\n\"Morally, I can absolutely understand the actions. What happened in the USA can leave anyone cold.\n\n\"When people are discriminated against because of the colour of their skin, this is intolerable. If they die because of their skin colour, then I am deeply shocked. The victims of racism need solidarity from us all.\n\n\"The DFB and German football as a whole, through their broad commitment, show time and again and in many forms, events and facets their clear NO to racism, discrimination and all forms of violence.\"\n\nIn relation to the investigation, DFB vice-president Rainer Koch said: \"The rule is the immediate phase of the game should be kept free of political statements. It remains to be seen whether sanctions are necessary in the cases.\"\n\n'We have had enough'\n\nBritish sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, Liverpool striker Rhian Brewster and tennis stars Serena Williams, Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka were among the sportspeople to speak out about Floyd's death.\n\nAnd basketball legend Michael Jordan said he was \"deeply saddened, truly pained and plain angry\".\n\n\"I see and feel everyone's pain, outrage and frustration,\" he added. \"I stand with those calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of colour in our country.\n\n\"We have had enough.\"\n\nVanessa Bryant, widow of basketball legend Kobe, shared an image of her late husband wearing an \"I Can't Breathe\" T-shirt.\n\n\"My husband wore this shirt years ago and yet here we are again,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Life is so fragile. Life is so unpredictable. Life is too short.\"\n\nFormula 1 drivers Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Daniel Ricciardo all issued anti-racism messages on social media after world champion Lewis Hamilton criticised those in his industry for not speaking out.\n\n\"I'm one of the only people of colour and yet I stand alone,\" the Briton, who is the only black F1 driver, wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"I would have thought by now you would see why this happens and say something about it but you can't stand alongside us.\"\n\nLeclerc said he had been \"completely wrong\" not to speak out previously, saying he had not done so because he felt \"out of place and uncomfortable\".\n\nHamilton's Mercedes team said in a statement they \"stand with Lewis\" and were \"deeply saddened by the recent developments and hope to see a de-escalation soon\".\n\nThey added: \"Tolerance is an elementary principle of our team and we are enriched by diversity in all its forms. We welcome and encourage people from all races, cultures, religions, philosophies and lifestyles.\n\n\"We condemn every form of discrimination as we work together to drive change forward.\"", "Thousands of people are continuing to protest against the death of George Floyd. The 46-year-old man, who was unarmed, died in the US city of Minneapolis after a white police officer used his knee to pin him to the ground.\n\nBBC Minute’s Nabihah Parkar has been speaking to young African-Americans in the city, who say they are scared for their safety.", "Protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis have spread across the US and to other countries. They've been documented in videos, images and posts on social media.\n\nBut some of these aren't what they claim to be. The BBC's anti-disinformation team has been tracking misleading videos and conspiracy theories about the protests, which have been circulating online.\n\nSo, here's what to look out for - and avoid - on your social media feeds.\n\nRumours that the protests have been set up with potential projectiles handed out to agitators have gained traction, with thousands of posts referencing \"bricks\" on social media.\n\nSeveral videos that show piles of bricks along with claims that they were planted by police or the government have been watched by millions of people.\n\nOther posts pin the blame on Antifa - the left-wing group President Trump has accused of promoting the disturbances.\n\nHowever, there's no evidence so far to suggest foul play, nor that the protests have been somehow pre-planned.\n\nMost of the videos and images we've seen don't look particularly suspicious - it's not uncommon to see piles of bricks near building sites.\n\nResponding to a video suggesting bricks had been deliberately placed to escalate protests, San Francisco police said on Twitter \"pallets are affiliated with a construction site and (we) have contacted the contractor to have them removed.\"\n\nOne police department in Boston hit back at misleading claims about a viral video of its officers unloading bricks from a van.\n\nSuggestions had been made on social media that the officers were unloading bricks from a vehicle \"to use them as an excuse\" against protesters.\n\nHowever, Boston's Northeastern University Police Department has tweeted that the officers had collected them \"from a damaged brick sidewalk\" and taken them back to the station as they were posing a safety hazard to pedestrians.\n\nAnother viral video from Fayetteville, North Carolina that has racked up over a million views shows a pile of bricks in the vicinity of protests as a man says there is \"no construction\" site in the area.\n\nWe've been able to geolocate the video and found images from 24 May with the same pile of bricks in the same place, long before any protests took place.\n\nIn other cases, old images of piles of bricks have been re-shared of previous demonstrations elsewhere, such as from the protests in Hong Kong last year.\n\nWe've seen lots of examples of old video surfacing in recent days.\n\nAmong many genuine videos of brutal arrests, one that went viral yesterday was not what it seemed. The dramatic video shows a man being arrested then released by police once they'd checked his ID.\n\nA post claiming the man in the video is an \"FBI agent\" has been viewed over 4 million times on Twitter. This claim was repeated on Facebook and Instagram by others sharing the video, where it racked up millions more views.\n\nIn response, Rochester Minnesota Police Department put out a statement clarifying that the man is not a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent. The incident took place in June last year, when he was mistaken for a wanted man.\n\nThe original post of the video on Instagram includes a caption which stated the video was from the year before, and contains no mention of the FBI.\n\nA video of a teenager being violently arrested by a US police officer has generated almost 10 million views in the last few days.\n\nBut the incident happened back in April - in Rancho Cordova, a city in Northern California. This wasn't made clear in the latest post that has been retweeted more than 100,000 times. It also wrongly identifies the teenager as female.\n\nThe clip attracted widespread criticism at the time.\n\nMeanwhile, there is footage from the current protests which has led to allegations of police brutality.\n\nVideo from the US shows police using batons and tear gas on protesters and journalists seemingly unprovoked.\n\nThis video claims to show a US police building on fire and was posted on 28 May.\n\nIt's not only old - it's from 2015 - it was filmed in another country. It shows an explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin.\n\nSo, why are people sharing old videos?\n\n\"The videos may be compounding the anger they are feeling and could be driven by attempts to sow division or get clicks,\" says Marianna Spring, BBC Specialist Disinformation and Social Media reporter.\n\nSpeculation about who's behind the protests have been circulating online.\n\nSome claims are unsubstantiated, others totally false.\n\nFirst up, posts that have gone viral about George Soros.\n\nSome influential right-wing figures have made unfounded claims that the Hungarian-American billionaire is \"funding\" the demonstrations.\n\nSupporters of QAnon - a conspiracy theory about a \"deep state\" secret coup against Donald Trump - have shared similar claims.\n\nMore than a million posts and memes online have repeated allegations about Mr Soros paying agitators.\n\nMr Soros, whose Open Society Foundations provide financial support to a number of civil society groups and progressive projects around the world, has been a bogeyman of some on the right for a long time.\n\nHis organisation has responded to the latest posts, tweeting that \"Mr. Soros and the Open Society Foundations oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest\".\n\nClaims have circulated online about Russia's involvement in the protests.\n\nViral tweets with thousands of shares suggest that Russia was involved in George Floyd's death - as part of a military operation or an elaborate plot. There is no evidence to support these claims.\n\nThis isn't to rule out the idea that Russia or other countries - either through state media outlets or networks of fake accounts - could be involved in stoking tensions online.\n\nInvestigations into Russian interference during the 2016 US Presidential election revealed that Russia was involved in a misinformation campaign, infiltrating groups and pages run by US activists - and that included Black Lives Matter groups.", "Parents dropping off children at St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School in west London\n\nAt St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School in West London, head teacher Helen Frostick has spent the last couple of weeks redesigning classrooms, reconfiguring timetables and totally rethinking school policy on everything from PE to uniform.\n\nBy the time she welcomed back pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, every classroom looked very different.\n\nIt's particularly striking for the youngest pupils:.\n\n\"They've got their own little tables,\" says teaching assistant, Clare Gordon. \"Obviously they're used to spending a lot of time on the carpet,\"\n\nEach table is separate, with its own tray of equipment so that the children don't need to get out of their seats so much.\n\nReception children sit at their own little desks rather than on the carpet\n\nOn arrival the parents queue with their children in the playground, which has been marked into two-metre sections, and each year group has been asked to arrive at a different time.\n\nThey don't have to wait long.\n\n\"You look like you've grown, Arthur,\" says teacher Catherine Hughes to a Reception pupil who hasn't been in school since March.\n\nHead teacher Helen Frostick thinks many parents are biding their time before sending their children back to school\n\n\"Are you excited to be back?\" Ms Frostick asks another.\n\nShe was expecting to welcome 70 pupils, who were last in school in late March, alongside 15 children of key workers who have been coming in throughout the lockdown - but in the end just 32 turned up.\n\nMs Frostick is not too surprised, given ongoing concerns about the health impact of reopening schools.\n\nShe believes many parents are waiting to see how it goes - so numbers may pick up in coming days.\n\nThese primary school classrooms now look a little like they might have done in the 1950s with all the desks facing forward in rows, instead of being pushed together into big tables.\n\nFor Year 6 pupils, it's a foretaste of the discipline they might expect when they start secondary school in September.\n\n\"I'm excited to see my friends and see everyone but not excited for the work,\" says 11-year-old Sean.\n\nHe says he has kept up with the home schooling \"but it's nowhere near the amount we normally do\".\n\nSean and Ruby are Year 6 pupils at St Mary Magdalen's\n\nHis classmate Ruby, also 11, quite likes the new desk arrangement as it gives her a bit more personal space.\n\n\"It could be better because sometimes people can be annoying.\"\n\nSean agrees it will be better for concentration but says \"partner work\" will now be impossible.\n\nThe school has split each class into two separate \"bubbles\" with one half in on Monday and Tuesday and the other on Thursday and Friday, which allows for a deep clean on Wednesdays.\n\nRuby says she will miss some of the people in the other group. School will be \"way different\", she says.\n\nDora, who is not due in until Thursday, is quite disappointed.\n\n\"I was looking forward to seeing all my friends again; it's been over two months since I last saw them at school.\n\n\"And then I found out I was only going to see three of my friends because the rest of them are put together in the other group.\n\n\"It isn't long until the end of primary school and I'm worried I wont be able to see my friends before we're all sent off to different secondary schools.\"\n\nDesks are in rows facing the front\n\nOne thing is for sure - hand washing is going to play a far larger part in the school day than ever before.\n\nEvery classroom has its own supply of hand-sanitiser and anti-microbial wipes - and the windows are wide open to let in as much fresh air as possible to keep the virus at bay.\n\nSophia is one of the parents who decided to bring her children to school.\n\n\"It really is best for the family,\" she says.\n\nShe has managed to do some home schooling with her sons Nico, nearly five, and Alessio, 6, but it hasn't always been easy.\n\nSophia who sent both her children back to school says it's best for her family\n\nJulia, has come to the same conclusion about her six-year-old son Max.\n\n\"I was 10% worried but 90% thinking it was the right thing to do,\" she says of her decision to send him to school.\n\n\"The main thing is for normality and for his mental health. He needs the interaction with his friends. He's been begging to come back.\"\n\nRuby and Sean agree they have definitely missed being taught by professional teachers rather than mums and dads.\n\n\"I call my mum over and she says: 'What is this?'\" says Sean - while his dad can sometimes be a bit confusing when he comes up with \"an easier way\" of doing the maths.\n\nSchool governor and parent Serena, whose son is also in Year 6, says she too struggled with home education as her two sons have to share a single computer.\n\nShe says she is confident that the school has done a very stringent risk assessment and says her boy needs more structure in his life in the run-up to secondary school.\n\nBut preparing to reopen has been challenging, as it was one thing deciding to send her own child back but far tougher to make decisions on behalf of the wider school community.\n\n\"The virus is such an unknown. It's been quite stressful. I feel a great deal of responsibility,\" says Serena.", "A home was left partially suspended over the cliff edge\n\nA cliff fall that led to 20 homes being evacuated has worsened with a large section of ground giving way.\n\nA house in Surf Crescent, Eastchurch, Kent, is partially suspended over the edge, while a car and garage fell down the cliff face on Sunday morning.\n\nThe family left the property after a smaller collapse on Friday.\n\n\"They are just waiting for the house to fall,\" said neighbour Malcolm Newell, who has been told it is not safe to return to his home two doors away.\n\nThe second cliff fall left the home at \"increased risk of collapse,\" the fire service said\n\nA car and garage have slipped down the cliff face\n\nA swimming pool in the property's back garden is also at risk, Mr Newell said, adding: \"If that goes it could take a lot more with it.\"\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said it was called at 07:00 BST to the landfall involving a \"significant section of the cliff\", leaving the house \"structurally unsafe and at increased risk of collapse\".\n\nIt said a \"small number\" of households had \"self-evacuated\" and were being looked after by Swale Borough Council at a community centre.\n\nAll but two of the households evacuated on Friday were told they could return to their homes on Saturday morning.\n\nA \"significant section of the cliff\" collapsed on Sunday, Kent Fire and Rescue Service said\n\nIt is unclear how many are affected by the second cliff fall, but Mr Newell estimated eight households have been told they can not return.\n\n\"I'm out. I can't go back,\" he said. \"Apparently there are more cracks appearing along the front.\"\n\nMr Newell, a parish councillor in Eastchurch, said he first warned authorities in 2015 that action was needed to prevent further erosion.\n\n\"This should have been dealt with a long time ago,\" he said. \"It's not right to have people's home, their livelihoods, falling into the sea.\"\n\nA section of road collapsed leading to 20 homes being evacuated on Saturday\n\nA larger landfall overnight took a car and a garage over the cliff edge on Sunday morning\n\nIn a statement, Swale Borough Council said it was opposed to the Environment Agency's existing shoreline management plan, which includes \"no active intervention to defend this area\".\n\nHowever, the Environment Agency said: \"The shoreline management plan, which indicates which areas justify continued protection or not, was written in full consultation with Swale Borough Council and other partners.\n\n\"These are always difficult decisions, and the plan sets out no further intervention for this area, however we continue to work closely with Swale Borough Council.\"\n\nThe agency described the area as \"mainly rural though includes a small number of houses and caravan parks at risk from ongoing significant erosion\".\n\nIn 2015 the agency said it had considered a coastal defence scheme, but the number of properties in the area did not justify the cost.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Modest crowds gathered in the capital Tokyo to watch the five-minute show\n\nFireworks have lit up skies across Japan in surprise displays to lift spirits during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe shows were held at secret locations, each lasting five minutes from 20:00 local time (12:00 BST).\n\nOrganisers set a time limit for the displays to avoid crowds gathering.\n\nInitially, they said the time and date of the event would not be revealed but later reversed course, deciding a sudden pyrotechnics show could cause distress to some.\n\nFilling the skies with a burst of light, the fireworks lasted long enough for people who did not know about it in advance to view them from the street or their homes.\n\nThe displays were held simultaneously on Monday night\n\nYet, the fireworks still drew modest crowds in places. In the capital Tokyo, people were seen watching the displays near the Tama River, before dispersing when they were over.\n\n\"I had a hunch, so I came here,\" one of the spectators, Yukiji Kushiro, told Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Shimbun. \"Even though they say it's a secret, there are only so many places they can launch fireworks.\"\n\nDozens of firework-makers nationwide were involved in organising the synchronised displays, a project called \"Cheer up Hanabi\".\n\nThe event was brief to prevent crowds from gathering\n\nThey are struggling to keep their businesses afloat because many traditional festivals have been cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic.\n\nThe postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was a major blow for the industry, leaving craftsmen unable to sell fireworks they had spent months making.\n\nOne of the craftsmen, 38-year-old Kouhei Ogatsu, said the pyrotechnics industry had been discussing ways to cheer up a society \"changed so much by the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Historically fireworks in Japan have been launched to pray for the eradication of plagues and to console the spirits of the deceased,\" he told the AFP news agency.\n\nFirework-makers have been struggling for business during the pandemic\n\nWritten messages praying for the end of the pandemic were attached to some of Mr Ogsatu's fireworks.\n\nHis company launched nearly 100 fireworks from four locations across eastern Japan.\"Of course I don't think the coronavirus will disappear with our fireworks. But we wanted to do this and hope something good will come out of it,\" he said.\n\nSome fireworks had messages praying for an end to the pandemic attached to them\n\nLast month, Japan lifted its state of emergency after a marked fall in new coronavirus cases.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe urged people to \"remain vigilant\" and adopt a \"new lifestyle\" to prevent a second wave of infections.\n\nJapan faced early criticism for its handling of the virus, but appears now to have avoided a epidemic on the scale of that seen in the US, Russia or the UK.\n\nThe country has recorded 16,787 infections and 899 deaths so far, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.", "British soldiers who have been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq are unlikely to face criminal prosecution.\n\nIndependent investigators were asked to look at thousands of allegations made against the British military after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nBut the director of the Service Prosecution Authority (SPA) said just one remaining case was being examined.\n\nAndrew Cayley said the \"low level\" of offending and lack of credible evidence had led most cases to be dismissed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme, Mr Cayley said most of those cases were sifted out at a very early stage because of the lack of credible evidence or because the offending was \"at such a very low level\".\n\nMore than 1,000 cases were made by former lawyer Phil Shiner and his firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). In 2017 he was struck off as a solicitor after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and dishonesty, including false accounts about the actions of UK soldiers.\n\nMr Cayley said seven remaining cases had been referred to the SPA, but in six of those cases it was concluded that no charges should be brought.\n\nOne case is still being considered, but Mr Cayley admitted that it is now \"quite possible\" that none of the original allegations will lead to a prosecution.\n\nMr Cayley also said he is confident a separate investigation being conducted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague will conclude this year without further action being taken.\n\nIn 2014, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda re-opened a preliminary examination of cases involving alleged British abuses in Iraq.\n\nMr Cayley said he was \"convinced\" that examination would soon be completed without any further action.\n\nHe said: \"My sense is these matters are coming to a conclusion; she will close the preliminary examination this year in respect of Iraq and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe cloud hanging over British service personnel accused of wrongdoing has already left a bitter taste and contributed to political pressure to do more to protect soldiers on the battlefield from criminal and civil prosecution for alleged actions which took place years ago.\n\nEarlier this year the government presented a bill promising to curb historic allegations and tackle what it calls \"vexatious claims\" against armed forces deployed overseas.\n\nThe bill proposes a five-year time limit on any criminal prosecution unless compelling new evidence is brought to light.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Defence said it was strongly opposed to service personnel and veterans being subjected to the threat of repeated investigations and potential prosecutions.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the bill was introduced \"to reduce the uncertainty currently faced by service personnel and veterans in relation to historic allegations\" - and aimed to make sure \"that we never end up in a situation like this again\".\n\nBut human rights groups and some lawyers have already expressed concern - saying the legislation could place the military above the law, and undermine existing international conventions.\n\nDavid Greene, vice-president of the Law Society, said a balance must be struck to ensure charges are only brought when warranted.\n\nBut he added: \"The argument behind time limits for British service personnel deployed overseas is that there has been a rise in historic prosecutions. Based on Andrew Cayley's comments the evidence for such an assertion is lacking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Data on how the coronavirus can spread between aircraft passengers is in short supply\n\nAir passengers should have restricted access to toilets on flights as part of wide-ranging coronavirus safety recommendations, a UN agency has said.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines also include limiting or suspending food and drink services on short-haul flights.\n\nThe new guidelines are designed to protect air passengers and workers from the Covid-19 virus as lockdown eases.\n\nAirlines could see revenues plunge £314bn in 2020, the ICAO added.\n\nThe aviation industry has been struggling as lockdown measures around the world have limited flights and passenger numbers.\n\nAs those travel restrictions begin to ease, the ICAO has issued guidelines for governments, with the aim of airlines and airports having a unified response when trying to keep passengers and staff safe from coronavirus.\n\nThe ICAO stopped short of saying that passengers must be socially-distanced on planes, but it did say they should be seated separately \"when occupancy allows it\".\n\nPassengers should travel as lightly as possible, with small hand luggage stowed under their seat. Newspapers and magazines should be removed, and duty free sales should be temporarily limited, the UN's civil aviation body said.\n\nShort-haul food and drinks services should be limited or suspended, or be sold in sealed, pre-packaged containers.\n\nAccess to toilets should also be restricted, the ICAO said. Where possible, one toilet should be set aside for use by cabin crew, and passengers should use a designated lavatory based on which seat they have.\n\nThe new recommendations cover airports, aircraft, crew and cargo.\n\nIn general, face masks should be worn in line with public health guidelines, and social distancing should be made possible where it is feasible, the UN body said.\n\nAreas should be routinely cleaned, and passengers should be checked for signs of coronavirus, by screening temperatures, for example. Contact tracing methods should also be explored.\n\nAt airports, staff should have adequate personal protective equipment, which \"could include gloves, medical masks, goggles or a face shield, and gowns or aprons,\" the guidelines said.\n\nPassengers should be encouraged to check-in before getting to the airport, and to use mobile boarding passes.\n\nAirports should also use contactless technology, including facial and iris scanning, for \"self-service bag drops, various queue access, boarding gates and retail and duty-free outlets\", the guidelines say.\n\n\"This will eliminate or greatly reduce the need for contact with travel documents between staff and passengers,\" the UN agency added.\n\nThe recommendations are extensive and detailed - a blueprint for aviation in the Covid-19 era; and one fact stands out. Flying, for a while at least, is not going to be a whole lot of fun.\n\nFrom the moment you arrive at the terminal building, armed with your pre-printed boarding pass and luggage tags, human contact will be limited, social distancing the norm. Masks will be obligatory, and supplies of hand sanitiser everywhere.\n\nIf you don't like potentially intrusive technology, tough - ICAO suggests that \"contactless biometrics such as facial or iris recognition \" should be used wherever possible, to reduce physical contact between staff and passengers.\n\nAnd it continues on board the plane: there are instructions to \"limit interaction on board\" - so no striking up a conversation with your neighbour - to reduce or suspend food and drink services, and to restrict lavatory access.\n\nWhat ICAO is trying to do here is create a common and consistent framework for the industry to follow around the world - allowing people to travel, while placating even the strictest health authorities.\n\nIt insists the new measures should be temporary.\n\nBut for the moment, anything that was left of the once-lauded romance of flying looks set to disappear in a pungent cloud of disinfectant.\n\nAirlines and aerospace firms have been struggling amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAt the beginning of May, Virgin Atlantic said it would axe 3,000 jobs and quit Gatwick. Later in the month, engine-maker Rolls Royce said it would cut 9,000 jobs.\n\nThere has been a huge reduction in air travel, with daily flights down about 80% since the start of the year.\n\nBut now carriers are making plans to get airborne again, with plans to reintroduce some schedules.", "Some people were complying with social distancing in The Meadows, Edinburgh, today and some were not Image caption: Some people were complying with social distancing in The Meadows, Edinburgh, today and some were not\n\nBritain and Scotland are moving in the right direction in fighting Covid-19 and easing the lockdown but it needs compliance to prevent another surge in the virus, health experts warn.\n\nNathalie MacDermott, a paediatric infectious disease specialist at King's College London and who worked in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak, tells BBC Radio Scotland that the new lockdown measures do not mean \"we can meet with anyone we want without social distancing\".\n\n\"The reproduction number is sitting at just under one at the moment and, if you have a reproduction number of one, you essentially have what is essentially a grumbling epidemic,\" she explains. \"Since we are just under one and are too bold in reducing our lockdown measures, or if we don't comply with what the government is asking us to do, we will see the virus get a foothold in the population again.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, says: \"All the numbers are going in the right direction. In terms of the R number, we know from the London School of Hygiene it might be around 0.8 in Scotland, so it is very close to one.\"\n\nRemarking on reports of police fines and lockdown non-compliance, she adds: \"The Scottish government's decision to move slowly should be welcomed, but as we have seen from the scenes at the weekend, the people are very frustrated.\"", "The US city of Minneapolis has endured a third night of clashes between police and protesters.\n\nThe unrest follows the death of an unarmed black man in police custody in the city on Monday.\n\nVideo of the death shows George Floyd, 46, groaning \"I can't breathe\" and \"don't kill me\" as a white policeman kneels on his neck.\n\nOn Thursday, police officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse a crowd outside the 3rd Precinct police station, the epicentre of the unrest.\n\nBut the cordon around the police station was eventually breached by protesters, who set fire to it and two other nearby buildings, as officers withdrew.\n\nThe Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement that the 3rd Precinct had been evacuated shortly after 22:00 \"in the interest of the safety of our personnel\".\n\nThe unrest continued despite the governor of Minnesota ordering the deployment of hundreds of members of the National Guard to restore order.\n\nThere have also been protests in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and Memphis, Tennessee.", "Seven former UK foreign secretaries have urged Boris Johnson to form a global alliance to co-ordinate the response to the China-Hong Kong crisis.\n\nChina is facing mounting criticism over a planned security law for Hong Kong which would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would not turn a blind eye.\n\nHong Kong was handed back to China from British control in 1997 but under a unique agreement.\n\nThe former British colony enjoys some freedoms not seen in mainland China - and these are set out in a mini-constitution called the Basic Law.\n\nBut there are fears the proposed law, which has sparked protests in Hong Kong, could compromise some of the freedoms guaranteed by the Basic Law.\n\nIn their letter to the prime minister, the cross-party group of former cabinet ministers says the UK government must be seen to lead the international response, as many countries take their cue from Britain over its former colony.\n\nJeremy Hunt, David Miliband, Jack Straw, William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and Margaret Beckett all expressed their concern at what they call China's \"flagrant breach\" of Sino-British agreements by imposing tough national security laws on Hong Kong.\n\nThey urged Mr Johnson to set up an \"international contact group\" of allies to coordinate any joint action, similar to that set up in 1994 to try to end the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman insisted the government was already playing a leading role with international partners in urging China to think again.\n\nMr Raab said the new security legislation \"very clearly violates\" the autonomy that is guaranteed under Chinese law as well as that in the 1997 agreement.\n\nHe confirmed the UK will allow those who hold British National (Overseas) (BNO) passports to come to the UK and apply to study and work for an extendable 12-month period.\n\nThis will in turn \"provide a path to citizenship\", he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\nBNO passports were granted to Hong Kong citizens born before the Chinese handover in 1997 and while they allow the holder some protection from the UK foreign service they do not give the right to live or work in Britain.\n\nMr Raab said up to three million people registered as a British national (overseas) in Hong Kong could be eligible for UK citizenship if China presses ahead with the law.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of Commons foreign affairs committee, Tom Tugendhat, said the government must realise that China has a \"very, very authoritarian system of government\" and should rethink the partnership between the two.", "Simon Waddup said he \"kept hearing this voice telling me to buy a lottery ticket\" before playing online\n\nAn electrician who has been unable to work for a year through ill health has won £1m on the Euromillions lottery.\n\nSimon Waddup, 31, of Coventry, said he hoped the win meant he could realise his \"dream\" of buying and doing up old properties.\n\nHe said a rare blood disorder and faulty heart valve had \"constantly held me back\".\n\nMr Waddup added his daughter, 10, hoped the win meant she could go on holiday abroad for the first time.\n\n\"For as long as I can remember I have wanted to buy old properties, do them up and build my own portfolio,\" he said.\n\n\"Friends and family laughed at my dream, especially when I was a teenager.\"\n\nHe studied Design Technology, worked on building sites and trained to become an electrician with this ambition in mind.\n\nHowever, he said ill health had meant he had \"been in and out of hospital a lot over the last few years\" and had been unable to work since last summer.\n\nMr Waddup said he had played the Euromillions game for the first time this month and had been in \"a bit of a daze\" since the win.\n\n\"Due to coronavirus, I can't celebrate with my family and I can't wait to see people and talk about the win - I will definitely be treating my family,\" he said.\n\n\"I will also get a passport for my daughter and, when we can, take a trip abroad - she has already told me that she wants to go to Spain.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxfam has asked people to call ahead before donating goods, because storage space at its network of charity shops might be limited.\n\nOxfam stores will begin reopening in England from 15 June.\n\nThe charity said it could not yet confirm which stores would open in the first phase, nor how many of them.\n\nHowever, it said there would be space for social distancing, while staff and volunteers would have the necessary personal protective equipment.\n\nAll surfaces, doors and equipment will be regularly cleaned and donated items will be isolated for 72 hours.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said it was aware that many people had been \"busy decluttering under lockdown\" and the charity was excited about receiving the resulting donations.\n\nHowever, the charity also pointed out that with the need to quarantine donated items, storage space could be restricted, so it asked people to call ahead to check beforehand.\n\nAll Oxfam shops have been closed since 21 March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move to start reopening them comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that non-essential retailers would be able to reopen in England.\n\nOxfam shops in Scotland and Wales will remain closed at this stage, as no dates have yet been set for retailers to reopen there.\n\nOxfam has the third-largest network of charity shops in the UK, with 595 High Street outlets around the country.\n\nOther charities, including British Heart Foundation and Barnardo's, have already announced their own plans to resume operations at a limited number of shops.\n\nOxfam said it would take time to reopen all English branches, as they varied in size and shape. Arrangements to curb the spread of the virus had to be made on a completely individual, shop-by-shop basis, it said.\n\nMr Sriskandarajah said: \"Our shops are a much-loved part of their communities and, at this difficult time, we can't wait to reopen our doors and reconnect with our supporters and shoppers.\n\n\"Our shop staff and volunteers are working hard to make sure we can welcome the public back into Oxfam stores safely.\"\n\nThe charity also said it was appealing for volunteers to help shops get back to business over the summer. Each shop typically has a team of 30 dedicated volunteers and one or two staff, with more than 20,000 volunteers required in all.\n\nThe UK's 11,000 charity shops help raise almost £300m for good causes each year and the people who run them are expecting a surge of donations when they open their doors again,\n\nRobin Osterley, chief executive of the Charity Retail Association, said that shops were expecting to be \"full to bursting\".", "Low water levels can be seen in Llwyn-on reservoir in Taf Fawr valley, Wales\n\nMay was the sunniest calendar month on record, and spring was the sunniest spring, the Met Office has said.\n\nThe UK enjoyed 266 hours of sunshine in May - surpassing the previous record of 265 hours in June 1957.\n\nAnd it is even more extraordinary following a drenching winter, with record rain in February.\n\nMeteorologists say they are amazed at the sudden switch from extreme wet to extreme dry – it is not \"British\" weather.\n\nOn average the UK gets 436 hours of sunshine between March and the end of May.\n\nSince 1929, only 10 years have had more than 500 hours. And none has got more than 555 hours.\n\nScientists say the recent weather in the UK has been unprecedented and astounding.\n\nThis year we've bathed in an extraordinary 626 hours - smashing the previous record by a “staggering” amount, one Met Office worker said.\n\nIt is because the jet stream has locked the fine weather in place, just as it locked the previous winter rainfall in place.\n\nThe Met Office declared February 2020 as the wettest February on record\n\nProfessor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, told BBC News: “We’ve swung from a really unsettled spell with weather systems coming in off the Atlantic to a very, very settled spell.\n\n“It’s unprecedented to see such a swing from one extreme to the other in such a short space of time. That’s what concerns me. We don’t see these things normally happening with our seasons.\n\n“It’s part of a pattern where we’re experiencing increasingly extreme weather as the climate changes.”\n\nMark McCarthy, from the Met Office, said: “If we look at the difference in rainfall that’s fallen over the winter compared to spring it is the largest difference in rainfall amount in our national series from 1862.\n\n“The stand out is by how much sunshine has broken the previous record - set in 1948. There’s been more sunshine than most of our past summer seasons. It's quite remarkable.\"\n\nOne of his colleagues described the figures as \"absolutely staggering\".\n\nCrowds flocked to the beach at Bournemouth, to enjoy the soaring temperatures on bank holiday Monday last month\n\nThe Met Office says this year is not an indicator of the future, because the jet stream might behave differently.\n\nScientists suspect man-made climate change may be implicated, but it is too soon to tell.\n\nSome of them believe the rapid man-made heating of the Arctic, which has led to record temperatures and wildfires in Siberia, may be influencing the jet stream, although that is not proven.\n\nProfessor Joe Smith, chief executive of the Royal Geographical Society, told BBC News: \"For many people, the recent long sunny spell is simply 'nice weather'.\n\n\"In a wider context it’s a signal of the increasing unpredictability of the UK’s climate. Planning for the growing season is starting to resemble a night at the gambling tables.\n\n“The fact remains that bold early actions to slash emissions can still cut the larger risks associated with climate change in the UK and around the world”.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous 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. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, 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 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "'My son can go to school but my daughter cannot'\n\nDanielle Nott, from Tyne and Wear, said she's decided to keep her son at home because it would be \"unfair\" on her daughter, who cannot go back because of capacity issues. Ms Nott's son is in nursery and her daughter is in Year 1. \"There is no sound play, carpet time or book corner for him even if he did go,\" she said. \"I would have to drag my daughter to school to drop him off and then take her home.\" \"She is really upset; I am really struggling to get her to do her school work,\" Ms Nott added. She said her children's school were bringing students back \"in order of age\" with the youngest returning first. \"All the younger ones are just playing; at least if my daughter went back, she would be learning,\" she said. \"There is still a lot of learning that we can’t do at home.\"", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Early in the Covid-19 outbreak, the Shetland Islands were one of the worst-hit areas of the UK by head of population. Now, no new cases have been detected there for six weeks. Some experts say it offers the rest of the country a route map out of lockdown - but for the first family on the islands to test positive, it hasn't been easy.\n\nIt was a clear, bright Tuesday in early March when the plane began its descent. The Shetland archipelago stretched out ahead of the tiny twin-propeller aircraft. Iain Malcolmson looked through his passenger-seat window at the sprawl of islands, aware of how far north he'd just travelled.\n\nIain, 53, an architect, was on his way home. He and his wife, Suzanne, had spent a long weekend in the Italian city of Naples with four friends. They'd hesitated before setting off on 28 February - news bulletins were full of alarming footage of the Covid-19 cluster in Lombardy, 500 miles to the north of where they were staying.\n\nBut official travel advice at that point was clear - it was safe to visit the south of the country - so they'd gone as planned. All the same, Iain recalled spending the trip fastidiously wiping down restaurant tables and washing his hands.\n\nNow, after an overnight stop in Edinburgh, Iain would soon be back at the house in the tiny settlement of Nesting, about 12 miles north of the islands' capital, Lerwick. Locals call this leg of the journey the \"white-knuckle express\"; in strong winds, the plane has to take off and land at Sumburgh Airport sideways, like a crab. Normally, Iain preferred the 14-hour overnight ferry from Aberdeen. But on this occasion everything seemed calm.\n\nDuring the first week of March 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic that had raged out of Wuhan still seemed far away. Here in the tiny aeroplane, Scotland's mainland was 110 miles to the south, Norway was 190 miles to the east. It was still possible to conceive that Shetland might be spared.\n\n\"You have to understand what Shetland is like,\" says Iain. \"We're pretty isolated, and I think most people thought it would be something that would happen to other people. It wouldn't have come to Shetland.\"\n\nThen, two days after he landed, on the evening of Thursday 5 March, Iain noticed he had a headache.\n\nFrom Sumburgh Head in the south to Out Stack, the northernmost point in the British Isles, Shetland has 567 sq miles of land and 1,679 miles of coastline. Of its 100-odd islands, 16 are inhabited, and about half the 23,000 population, like Iain and his family, live close to Lerwick. In the summer, days are up to 19 hours long; in the winter, if you're lucky, you can see the Northern Lights.\n\nThe islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468, and the Norn language - a form of Old Norse spoken on the islands - died out in the mid-19th Century. The Scandinavian influence is still strong, from the Nordic-derived placenames - Burravoe, Grutness, Mavis Grind - to the brightly coloured timber-clad houses dotted across the landscape, and the annual Up Helly Aa fire festivals, which conclude with the torching of a Viking galley.\n\nBut despite this Shetlanders don't want the rest of Scotland to forget about them. A 2018 law introduced by the islands' Member of the Scottish Parliament banned public bodies from producing maps that depict Shetland, for reasons of cartographical convenience, in a box in the Moray Firth or east of Orkney rather than its true geographical location.\n\nIain was raised as a Shetlander. He left to study architecture in Edinburgh, where he met Suzanne, but two decades later, after starting a family, they decided to open a practice back on Shetland. It had been their dream for a long time.\n\n\"It's just the freedom that you have,\" he says. \"You've got family, friends and that sort of thing. It's a very friendly, positive sort of place.\" He's a well-known figure in Shetland - he sits on the local community council, is a keen Up Helly Aa participant and has played guitar in local bands. The property he and Suzanne designed for their family to the dimensions of a Norse longhouse was featured on the BBC's Scotland's Home of the Year programme.\n\nShetland might be remote, but it is no backwater.\n\nThanks in part to the discovery of North Sea oil in the late 20th Century, its per capita GDP is among the highest of all Scotland's local authority areas. In the 1970s, the local council drove an extraordinarily hard bargain with the energy companies who wanted to operate the terminal at Sullum Voe. Compensation payments were invested in a charitable trust that ensures the islands have exceptionally good public services. \"The facilities up here are second to none,\" says Iain. \"Every little community has its own leisure centre or pool.\"\n\nWhen he woke on the morning of Friday 6 March, Iain still didn't feel well. For the past two days he'd gone in to work, but now he clearly wasn't up to it. One of the friends he'd travelled to Naples with, a Glasgow resident, wasn't feeling great either and had been advised by the NHS to get tested; so Iain and Suzanne arranged to be tested too.\n\nNurses arrived at the couple's house. They stripped off on the porch and, before stepping inside, changed into full PPE - visors, protective suits - before taking swabs from the Malcomsons' noses and the backs of their throats.\n\n\"It was like something off the telly,\" Iain says. The whole scenario was unnerving, but the staff were reassuring. \"They were saying: 'You'll be fine, the chances of you having it where you've been are almost zero. So don't worry about it.'\" He says he and Suzanne stayed indoors that weekend anyway.\n\nThere was a delay while the samples were tested - Iain was told they had to be flown down to Aberdeen and then taken to Glasgow. On Sunday evening the results came through: Shetland had its first confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\n\"Everybody was gobsmacked,\" says Iain. \"And it all kicked off from there.\"\n\nAt least one person on Shetland wasn't surprised by the arrival of the virus. His name is Michael Dickson.\n\nNot long before, as NHS Shetland's chief executive, he'd been summoned to the mainland for a presentation on the likely impact of the pandemic. \"I can honestly say when I came out of the government briefing, it was without a doubt the worst day of my entire career,\" he says. \"To go back to Shetland and have to share that with the people of Shetland was incredibly difficult.\"\n\nHe also knew that Shetland's geographical isolation would make treating the virus there especially challenging. \"Lovely as it is,\" he says, Lerwick's Gilbert Bain Hospital \"was never built for this.\" There is no intensive care unit anywhere on the islands. At that stage, any patients who became critically unwell would need to be flown to Aberdeen or elsewhere on the mainland in an enormous RAF Atlas military transport aircraft.\n\nBut Shetland would have advantages, too. Standing at his front door, \"I can cast my eye out and see no-one\", he says. \"There's houses but I'm not going to see anyone walking down the street. If I go for a five-mile run I might run into three or four people. It's just a completely different place to socially distance.\"\n\nAlso, an outbreak of measles on the Aberdeen ferry meant NHS Shetland had very recent experience of carrying out contact tracing. \"That was hugely useful,\" he says. \"The fact is, knowing the geography of Shetland, the different communities, makes a huge difference.\"\n\nThis was crucial, Dickson says, after the first positive test results came in. \"When that call went out from the Public Health teams to say we need to do this now, there wasn't a debate. People came in on their Sundays and said 'Right, let's start, let's get on with this.'\"\n\nThe nurses in visors and PPE suits who came to test the Malcolmsons took the names of everyone they had come in contact with and tested them too.\n\nAccording to Dr Susan Laidlaw, NHS Shetland's public health consultant, staff from other NHS departments were drafted in to phone contacts. \"We had a week of very long hours and intense work following up the contacts, identifying new cases and getting them tested and isolated,\" she says. \"Although difficult at the time, this did help to contain the initial outbreak.\"\n\n\"Everybody at our work got it,\" Iain says. \"And everyone from our work's family ended up getting it.\" Some had diarrhoea, others lost all sense of smell and taste. Others fared worse - Iain says the father of one of his employees had to be airlifted to Aberdeen. He would later make a full recovery.\n\nWhile the contact tracers scrambled to identify how far the virus had spread, Iain's condition was getting worse. Suzanne's symptoms were cold-like, but his were more like the flu - a high temperature, shivering. There was talk of flying Iain, too, to Aberdeen. The prospect terrified him. \"I really didn't want to go off the island,\" he says.\n\nAfter a few days, Iain's symptoms began to improve. But the knowledge he might have given the virus to others in less robust health weighed heavily on him. He was terrified he'd given it to his parents, both in their 80s. \"That stress was there, knowing that you could have given it to people who weren't going to be as lucky as you.\"\n\nAnd while he'd been feeling unwell, Iain hadn't felt much like looking at social media. He hadn't yet seen the rumours about him.\n\nThe virus spread quickly on Shetland. On 12 March, four days after Iain and Suzanne's test results came back, the number of confirmed cases announced in the local press rose from two to six; five days later, they stood at 15; by 19 March, they had risen again to 24.\n\nThese were not enormous numbers, but they were enough to ensure that Shetland had the highest number of Covid-19 patients in Scotland relative to its population, and one of the highest in the UK. \"I think we were top of the graph possibly in the world at one point,\" says Dickson.\n\nAs Dickson sees it, this early spike was, in part, testament to the efficiency of the contact tracing teams. A dedicated Covid ward had already been set aside at the hospital. But compared to Orkney and the Western Isles, which had largely been unaffected at that point, Shetland stood out - and Shetlanders were understandably anxious.\n\nDickson believes this was a crucial factor in containing the outbreak; it meant islanders were already taking social distancing seriously before controls on movements were enforced.\n\n\"It's a difficult thing to say, but I think having those cases early on enabled us to move possibly more quickly than had we not had cases until later on in the pandemic,\" he says.\n\n\"My family live down in Brighton and if you went down to the beach there a week before the lockdown occurred you wouldn't have known anything was different. In Shetland, things have been different pretty much from day one.\"\n\nAs early as 11 and 12 March, two Up Helly Aa fire festivals - hugely important events in Shetland's social calendar - were called off, in response to appeals from the health board. The following day, while the Cheltenham Gold Cup was going ahead as planned 700 miles away, it was announced that nearly all Shetland's schools would close from 16 March - a week before the rest of the country.\n\nCafes, bars, restaurants and leisure centres were already shutting down across the islands long before the Scottish and Westminster government imposed their lockdowns, says Maggie Sandison, chief executive of the Shetland Islands Council.\n\n\"I think there's a really strong sense of community in Shetland,\" says Sandison. Naturally, islanders were anxious to do the right thing by their neighbours. But also, because such a high proportion of the population knew each other, \"people were aware that they may have come into contact with somebody who then became a positive case\" - and this in turn meant they knew to self-isolate.\n\nSandison says the early decision to close schools was taken in part because some teachers had been part of the contact tracing teams and were advised to stay home after coming into face-to-face contact with people who had tested positive. On a sparsely populated group of islands, this was enough to put a strain on staffing levels. At the same time, \"there was quite heightened anxiety from parents\" some of whom were keeping their children at home already.\n\nFerry operators also began preventing tourists and non-residents from travelling to the islands before nationwide restrictions were brought in. \"Because the transport links with the mainland were reduced early on, and the transport operators are only taking people who have essential reasons for travel, this has to some extent isolated the islands,\" says Laidlaw.\n\nA weekly Covid-19 Facebook livestream hosted by Dickson would attract as many as 600 viewers at a time. And Shetland's community spirit wasn't just about locking down and staying vigilant.\n\nWhen laundry staff at the hospital found they had a shortage of scrubs, a sewing pattern was posted on Facebook along with an appeal to turn any unwanted bedsheets into medical clothing. \"We had bags and bags of finished scrubs within days,\" says a personal assistant working for NHS Shetland, 38-year-old Lisa Grey, who oversaw the Shetland Scrubs project.\n\nAs well as bringing extra colour to the wards, superhero patterns on erstwhile children's duvet covers proved especially popular with medical staff.\n\n\"You can see it when you're flicking through Facebook - folk saying, 'If anyone needs shopping, I'm off tomorrow.' If anyone needs help, there will always be someone that'll help,\" Grey says.\n\nWith the rest of Scotland and the UK soon following Shetland's example in locking down, and many other Covid-19 clusters emerging around the UK, the islands felt less like an outlier. But as March turned to April the archipelago's cases kept rising, and before long it would report its first death.\n\nWord had spread quickly around the islands that the Malcolmsons had been the first to test positive; Iain had never expected otherwise. \"One thing about Shetland is you have absolutely no anonymity,\" he says. \"People know you're the person that's brought it in.\"\n\nTo Iain, it was understandable, in a perverse way, when rumours about his family began to circulate on social media. Their names hadn't been officially released, and \"in the absence of fact, people just make stuff up\", he says. \"That's never going to change. There's always a few idiots out there.\" As he hadn't been looking at Facebook, it was news to him when friends got in touch to say the family was \"getting a serious amount of flak\".\n\nAccording to the gossip, on the weekend he and his wife had been tested, \"we were everywhere - we were out on pub crawls, we were out at concerts,\" says Iain. \"That weekend we did everything in Shetland that everyone else was doing. And I don't know why, but they were totally convinced that they'd seen us there.\"\n\nIt was bad enough when it was confined to Facebook. Then tabloid journalists began calling the house. Iain's friends and family were feeling the pressure. They urged him to go on Facebook and correct the record.\n\nIain really didn't want to do it. He wasn't a big social media person. What if it backfired? Might this not antagonise people further?\n\nBut something needed to be said. Late one evening, Iain sat down at his computer and began typing.\n\n\"After some of the hardest few days we have ever experienced, and it is only getting harder, it is with a heavy heart that Suzanne and I feel it is necessary to put straight some of the more vicious rumours that are circulating about us on social media in Shetland,\" he wrote. After being told they were to be tested and advised to self-isolate, \"we have not left the house since and have not been out partying, or socialising of any kind\".\n\nThe response was overwhelmingly positive. The post was shared over 1,000 times; friends and neighbours backed up their account; the record was duly corrected. Iain didn't bear a grudge - this was what happened in the absence of reliable information. \"It showed you the good side and the bad side of social media.\"\n\nAccording to National Records of Scotland (NRS), the first death of a person in Shetland with Covid-19 took place some time between 30 March and 5 April. Five more came the following week; a sixth the week after that. On 6 May, another death was announced; there have been no more since then. Tragically, five of the seven were in a single care home.\n\nShetland has good reason to hope it has seen its last coronavirus death of the current peak. The last time a resident of the islands tested positive was 20 April - since then, the total number of confirmed cases has stood still at 54. Nine days afterwards, Dickson told Shetland's local media that the outbreak there may have \"plateaued\".\n\n\"They've obviously managed to control the virus by doing an early lockdown,\" says Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, who has advised the Scottish and UK governments. \"Full marks to them, really. Whatever they did worked.\"\n\nShetland's isolation and lack of new cases makes it, along with Orkney, effectively \"a very small-scale New Zealand\", says Prof Pennington - and like New Zealand, he says, the islands could in theory lift their lockdowns by strictly controlling who comes and goes.\n\nBut the islands' authorities are cool on the idea of a New Zealand-style quarantine. Dickson notes how many patients have to travel to Aberdeen for routine, non-Covid medical treatment: \"So are we saying those people aren't able to go to the mainland because we've closed our borders?\" It's also necessary for the fishing and oil industries for some people to have the ability to travel in and out.\n\nLynn Johnson says her business depends on tourism\n\nIt's not just winter and spring events like the Up Helly Aa festivals that have been postponed though, as a result of the lockdown. In 2020 the long summer days will pass on the islands without sheepdog trials, the accordion and fiddle festival, Shetland Wool Week. And there's no end in sight - the first fire festival of 2021 has already been cancelled.\n\nThe absence of tourists is also being keenly felt.\n\n\"My business wouldn't exist without tourism,\" says Lynn Johnson, who runs the Cake Fridge tea room on a single-track road between Voe and Aith on West Shetland Mainland's northern coast.\n\nTo keep it going, she needs both the lockdown to be lifted and travel to resume. \"We really, really need that spring, summer, along with the big tourism boost that our islands get, to see us through the winter. And we're not going to have that at all.\"\n\nBut for now, the lockdown is holding.\n\nShetland is ready to resume contact tracing - which was halted in late March, as in the rest of the UK - and Laidlaw says the islands are well prepared for the next phase. Since late April, Shetland has had its own Covid-19 testing equipment, meaning samples no longer have to be sent to the mainland. And two small planes - like the one Iain flew back from holiday on - have been converted into air ambulances.\n\nIn spite of the apparent success of Shetland's track-and-trace operation, no-one may ever know how the virus arrived there. Iain and his wife may have been the first people on Shetland to have tested positive, but that doesn't mean they were the first to bring it.\n\n\"Obviously I know about the contact tracing, the Malcomsons and their experience,\" says Dickson. \"We picked up those people who were diagnosed and got a positive result. I always say, those are the ones we know about. Shetland is a small community but we do have people who come in and out of the islands frequently.\"\n\nThe couple most likely travelled in with the virus, but \"what we can't guarantee is they were the only people\". And there is no guarantee the Malcolmsons caught the virus in Italy either, as it is thought to have been circulating in Edinburgh, where they changed flights, since February.\n\nIain knows better than most the importance of social distancing. And he knows he's fortunate to being doing so in Shetland, where keeping apart from others is easier.\n\n\"It's absolutely beautiful,\" he says. \"You feel like you're on holiday. You have to be pretty disciplined about actually working. But this could be our summer, so you have to make hay while the sun shines.\"", "Anita Pointer (far left) said the family was devastated by the death of Bonnie (second left)\n\nShe and her sisters rose to fame as the Grammy award-winning Pointer Sisters, who were best known for the hits Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited.\n\n\"Our family is devastated,\" her sister Anita told the Associated Press on Monday.\n\n\"On behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.\"\n\nBonnie and her sister June Pointer originally performed as a duet and were later joined by their sisters Anita and Ruth.\n\nThe Pointer Sisters became popular in the 1970s and won the first of their three Grammy Awards for the song Fairytale in 1975.\n\nBonnie left the group to pursue a solo career two years later but the Pointer Sisters' success continued into the 1980s and they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.\n\nEarlier this year, Anita and Bonnie Pointer released a single in memory of their sister June, who died in 2006.\n\nTheir sister Ruth is the only sibling still performing in the Pointer Sisters, joined by her daughter and granddaughter.", "Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from coronavirus in Europe, a study estimates.\n\nThe team at Imperial College London said the \"death toll would have been huge\" without lockdown.\n\nBut they warned that only a small proportion of people had been infected and we were still only \"at the beginning of the pandemic\".\n\nAnother study argued global lockdowns had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe Imperial study assessed the impact of restrictions in 11 European countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK - up to the beginning of May.\n\nBy that time, around 130,000 people had died from coronavirus in those countries.\n\nThe researchers used disease modelling to predict how many deaths there would have been if lockdown had not happened. And the work comes from the same group that guided the UK's decision to go into lockdown.\n\nThey estimated 3.2 million people would have died by 4 May if not for measures such as closing businesses and telling people to stay at home.\n\nThat meant lockdown saved around 3.1 million lives, including 470,000 in the UK, 690,000 in France and 630,000 in Italy, the report in the journal Nature shows.\n\n\"Lockdown averted millions of deaths, those deaths would have been a tragedy,\" said Dr Seth Flaxman, from Imperial.\n\nTheir equations made several assumptions, which will affect the figures.\n\nThey assume nobody would have changed their behaviour in response to the Covid threat without a lockdown - and that hospitals would not be overwhelmed resulting in a surge in deaths, which nearly happened in some countries.\n\nThe study also does not take into account the health consequences of lockdowns that may take years to fully uncover.\n\nThe model also predicted that the outbreak would be nearly over by now without lockdown, as so many people would have been infected.\n\nMore than seven in 10 people in the UK would have had Covid, leading to herd immunity and the virus no longer spreading.\n\nInstead, the researchers estimate that up to 15 million people across Europe had been infected by the beginning of May.\n\nThe researchers say at most, 4% of the population in those countries had been infected.\n\n\"Claims this is all over can be firmly rejected. We are only at the beginning of this pandemic,\" said Dr Flaxman.\n\nAnd it means that as lockdowns start to lift, there is the risk the virus could start to spread again.\n\n\"There is a very real risk if mobility goes back up there could be a second wave coming reasonably soon, in the next month or two,\" said Dr Samir Bhatt.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate study by University of California, Berkeley, analysed the impact of lockdowns in China, South Korea, Iran, France and the US.\n\nTheir report, also in Nature, says lockdown prevented 530 million infections in those countries.\n\nJust before lockdowns were introduced, they said cases were doubling every two days.\n\nDr Solomon Hsiang, one of the researchers, said coronavirus had been a \"real human tragedy\" but the global action to stop the spread of the virus had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A maximum of a third of pupils will be in school at any one time under the plans\n\nWales' education minister is facing calls to drop her plans to reopen schools at the end of this month.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Wales, teaching union UCAC urged Kirsty Williams to keep schools closed until September.\n\nAs plans to reopen primary schools in England were changed, the union said schools faced \"mind-boggling\" challenges.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said the change of policy in England would not affect their plans.\n\nA spokesman confirmed the guidance on how schools in Wales should reopen on 29 June will be published on Wednesday as planned.\n\nMost unions criticised last week's announcement that schools in Wales would reopen for all age groups for limited periods during the week.\n\nWelsh Government officials pointed to comments by England's children's commissioner, who has called on the UK government and unions to \"stop squabbling and agree a plan\" to reopen schools in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Lawrence says there is too much uncertainty to send children back to the classroom\n\nBefore the meeting, UCAC wrote to Mrs Williams saying schools were being asked to prepare for children to return \"without knowing what arrangements will be in place to ensure their safety\".\n\nOpening in September \"would be the wisest option\" UCAC said, but allowing Years 6, 10 and 12 to return before the summer \"could be workable\".\n\n\"Under the current circumstances, the practical, logistical considerations involved in seeking to give every pupil the opportunity to return to school before the summer are mind-boggling,\" it said.\n\n\"UCAC believes that the risks the government is asking the school workforce to take are unacceptably high.\"\n\nThe union called for reassurance on a range of points, including the supply of personal protective equipment and coronavirus testing for pupils and staff.\n\nMeanwhile, teaching union NASUWT said the guidance being published on Wednesday would be too late and was \"not firm enough\" in directing schools and local authorities to adopt safe working practices.\n\n\"This guidance should have gone out when the minister made the statement regarding return to schools last Wednesday,\" said the union.\n\n\"In the last week some local authorities have been putting together plans that may now be in conflict with the Welsh Government guidance.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations.\n\nA follow-up check by Babylon revealed a small number of further UK users could also see others' sessions.\n\nThe firm said it had since fixed the issue and notified regulators.\n\nBabylon allows its members to speak to a doctor, therapist or other health specialist via a smartphone video call and, when appropriate, sends an electronic prescription to a nearby pharmacy. It has more than 2.3 million registered users in the UK.\n\nLeeds-based Rory Glover had access to the service via his membership of a private health insurance plan with Bupa, one of Babylon's partners.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, when he went to check a prescription, he noticed he had about 50 videos in the Consultation Replays section of the app that did not belong to him.\n\nClicking on one revealed that the file contained footage of another person's appointment.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't expect to see anything like that when you're using a trusted app. It's shocking to see such a monumental error has been made.\"\n\nMr Glover said he alerted a work colleague to the fact, who used to work for Babylon. He in turn flagged the issue to the company's compliance department.\n\nMr Glover discovered dozens of replay videos in his app that he should not have had access to\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Glover's access to the clips was rescinded.\n\nBabylon, which has its headquarters in London, has since confirmed the breach.\n\n\"On the afternoon of Tuesday 9 June we identified and resolved an issue within two hours whereby one patient accessed the introduction of another patient's consultation recording,\" it said in statement.\n\n\"Our investigation showed that three patients, who had booked and had appointments today, were incorrectly presented with, but did not view, recordings of other patients' consultations through a subsection of the user's profile within the Babylon app.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the firm amended its statement to make clear that it meant two patients in addition to Mr Glover - who had in fact viewed a recording - to make the total of three.\n\n\"This was the result of a software error rather than a malicious attack,\" it continued.\n\n\"The problem was identified and resolved quickly.\n\n\"Of course we take any security issue, however small, very seriously and have contacted the patients affected to update, apologise to and support where required.\"\n\nA spokesman said that Babylon's engineering team was already aware of the issue before it was contacted by Mr Glover's workmate.\n\nHe said the problem had been accidentally introduced via a new feature that lets users switch from audio to video-based consultations part way through a call.\n\nAnd he said that Babylon had informed the Information Commissioner's Office of the matter.\n\n\"Affected users were in the UK only and this did not impact our international operations,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Glover said he still had concerns and did not intend to use the service again.\n\n\"It's an issue of doctor-patient confidentiality,\" he said.\n\n\"You expect anything you say to be private, not for it to be shared with a stranger.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that it had been contacted by Babylon and that it was now waiting to receive the company's breach report.\n\n\"People's medical data is highly sensitive information, not only do people expect it to be handled carefully and securely, organisations also have a responsibility under the law,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"When a data incident occurs, we would expect an organisation to consider whether it is appropriate to contact the people affected, and to consider whether there are steps that can be taken to protect them from any potential adverse effects.\"\n\nBabylon told the BBC it had already been in touch with everyone involved to inform them and apologise.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown on 23 March, latest government figures show.\n\nA further 55 people died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597.\n\nThis included no new deaths announced in both Scotland and Northern Ireland for the second consecutive day.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe number of new UK cases on Monday - 1,205 - is also the lowest number since the start of lockdown.\n\nOn the day lockdown began, 23 March, there was a rise of 74 deaths.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to pass the milestone of 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths being announced is encouraging news.\n\nBut they come with a big caveat - there are always delays recording fatalities over the weekend.\n\nLast Monday there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but other days last week topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, it does show that progress is being made. Two Mondays ago there were more than 120 deaths and in the week before that there were 160.\n\nDuring the peak of the virus there were more than 1,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.\n\nAnother difficulty facing the government is that, even with the extra testing in place, not all infections appear to be getting picked up.\n\nMonday's data shows there were 1,205 new infections diagnosed, but surveillance suggests the true figure may be five times higher.\n\nSome of these will be asymptomatic cases - people who do not show symptoms - but the concern remains that some people are simply not coming forward.\n\nIdentifying these will be crucial to keep on top of the virus.\n\nThere were no new deaths reported from London hospitals for the second day in a row. However, NHS England said it was aware of a \"small number\" of people who had died over the weekend and they would be included in figures in the next few days.\n\nIn Wales, three more deaths were announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that the R number - the rate at which the virus reproduces - remained below one in every region of the country but said that while the figure was the lowest since lockdown, 55 deaths was \"55 too many\".\n\n\"So, there are encouraging trends on all of these critical measures, coronavirus is in retreat across the land, our plan is working and these downward trends mean we can proceed with our plans. But we do so putting caution and safety first,\" he said.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the government to proceed with caution but said \"many now fear that the prime minister is starting to throw caution to the wind\".\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing Mr Hancock said data was \"pointing in the right direction\" and showed \"we are winning the battle with this disease but have further to go\".\n\nHe said the government was ready to take action in response to local outbreaks of the virus if the R number was seen to rise.\n\n\"This will mean, for instance, action in particular hospitals or particular care homes to make sure there is control of those outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock also announced the launch of a national Covid-19 social care support taskforce, led by David Pearson, a former chief of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.\n\nAll staff and residents at 6,000 care homes for adults with disabilities in England will receive coronavirus tests, Mr Hancock said, following on from his claim on Sunday that the government had hit its target of testing staff and residents homes for the over-65s.\n\nThe final batches were delivered to 9,000 homes last week.\n\nThe health secretary also denied there was a trade-off between the economy and health, amid reports the government is considering further easing measures, and said a \"second spike would be hugely damaging to the economy\".\n\nOn average, a total of about 1,600 people a day die of all causes in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths being reported is to what extent those deaths are in addition to that average figure, or whether they form part of it.\n\nMany of the victims are old and frail people with underlying health conditions, who therefore are at the highest risk of dying.\n\nExperts predict there will be significant overlap between the coronavirus deaths and those that would normally be expected to die.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests those deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angharad Paget Jones said she and her dog Tudor have been \"yelled at\" in shops\n\nPeople with sight loss say they have been abused and abandoned during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMany say they are struggling to access services during the lockdown.\n\nSome have been verbally abused because they find it hard to follow social distancing rules.\n\nThe Fight for Sight charity is calling for health services and retailers to ensure that people who are visually impaired can get the help they need and \"are not excluded\".\n\nA survey it carried out of 325 people with sight loss found one in four find it difficult to follow social distancing.\n\nMore than half of respondents said their access to food and other services had become worse during the lockdown period.\n\nAngharad Paget Jones says her guide dog Tudor is her eyes on four paws - she's only confident leaving her home in Port Talbot with him by her side.\n\nBut during lockdown, she has found people are far less tolerant of her disability, making a trip to the shops a scary experience.\n\n\"I've been yelled at in stores for being too close to people when they can see I've got the dog - I can't see them,\" she said.\n\n\"Tudor is trained to find the door of a supermarket - I don't know there's a queue because he's shown me where the door is and I've been yelled at for not queuing.\n\n\"I'm lucky I'm quite thick-skinned, but if someone just told me they were there or told me 'sorry actually, there's a queue', it doesn't take two seconds to let me know.\n\n\"I have a lot of help - I have friends and family around me. But some people don't have that help and they do have to go to these places alone and if their confidence is knocked, they won't want to go outside.\"\n\nSherine Krause, chief executive of Fight for Sight, said there needed to be more advice given to retailers on social distancing measures \"to ensure the needs of people with poor vision are not excluded\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The education secretary said he was \"working to bring all children back to school in September\" and that exams would take place next year.\n\nGavin Williamson said a \"cautious phased return” was the “most sensible approach to take” for schools across England.\n\nAnd he confirmed the government was “not able to welcome all primary children back for a full month before the summer”.", "President Donald Trump talks about imposing law and order, and his hardline approach towards the protesters this week is helping to shore up his base of supporters. But what do the parts of the US that propelled him to victory in 2016 think of his aggressive strategy?\n\nShirley Hartman, an artist who works in watercolour and acrylics, moved to Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, years ago because she wanted to feel safe. She had been robbed in Philadelphia, a city about 60 miles away, and she was looking for a place where she did not have to worry about violence.\n\nWith protests unfolding across the US, she says that she is again concerned about her safety and is glad that the president acted forcefully, threatening to deploy the military. The demonstrators went too far, she says, and he responded appropriately.\n\n\"It's gotten out of hand,\" says Ms Hartman. \"They've gone to extremes, and sometimes it's necessary to go to extremes, too, to respond.\"\n\nThe protests have continued for more than a week, with tens of thousands taking to the streets across the US. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, however, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests most people in the US disapprove of the president's hardline approach.\n\nStill a significant number of people, one-third of those who were surveyed, support the president and his actions.\n\nMany of them are like Ms Hartman - they live in suburban areas of the country and are concerned about security. Their views will play a significant role in the November election.\n\nMs Hartman lives in a swing district in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which Mr Trump won in 2016 and is widely viewed as crucial to his chances again this time around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nFor that reason, political operatives, scholars and others are watching closely to see how the president's law-and-order message plays in key states across the country.\n\nIn a week of more than 20 interviews in Pennsylvania, Missouri and North Carolina - three states Trump won in 2016 - most people echoed the views of Ms Hartman and agreed that the president's tough rhetoric was necessary and say they will support him in November.\n\nSome said they supported the protesters and their goals, but were concerned about those who had become violent.\n\n\"I understand how people feel about George Floyd and I agree that something needs to change. But burning a church, looting, turning over cars - I don't agree with that. I don't agree with burning a town to the ground,\" says Brian Bufka, 47, who lives in Warrenton, Missouri, and runs a printing company.\n\n\"I support our president - I think his heart is in the right place, and I will vote for him again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak\n\nLyle Updike, who is 75 and lives in Kearney, Missouri, says: \"I'm strong on law and order. I don't tolerate this violence - this rioting. I'd like to see the president tighten the screws better.\" He added: \"The mayors and governors won't do it, so he needs to.\"\n\nRosella Roberts, who works for a musical theatre company in Steelville, Missouri, says she is concerned about the violence: \"I'm not saying that all of the people who are protesting are evil. But when you shoot at a policeman - that's just evil.\"\n\nThe election is still five months away, and the fortunes of the candidates and their political parties may change dramatically. One of the factors is the economy.\n\nFor many conservatives, the Trump presidency has been a blessing - spiritually as well as financially. Brian Watts, 45, from Kearney, Missouri, says that he loves the image of the president holding a bible while walking near the White House: \"It shows he's for the church.\"\n\nBrian Watts, who lives in Missouri, says the president has \"got to have security\"\n\nMr Watts' radio station has survived the financial problems brought about by the pandemic, and he is confident that Mr Trump will pull the country out of its malaise.\n\nThis upbeat view could play a crucial role in the election. As Matthew Mackowiak, a Texas-based political consultant, points out, most elections hinge on economic concerns, not social issues.\n\n\"In the end the president's law-and-order mandate probably won't contribute much to the election,\" says Mr Mackowiak. \"But coronavirus and the economy will.\"\n\nEconomists are predicting an uptick in the coming months, a trend that is likely to help Mr Trump. The monthly job numbers this week were better than expected but it's unclear how the pandemic - and possible new infection spikes - will affect the economic recovery.\n\nOthers the BBC spoke to said they have been energised by the protests and horrified by the White House response. They fear the president's language would embolden aggressive police officers.\n\n\"People have been turned off by the president's behaviour,\" says Lauren Arthur, 32, a Democratic state senator in Missouri's 17th district, which includes parts of suburban Kansas City. She won in 2018 and believes that progressive women, disturbed by the president's actions, will vote in large numbers: \"They're saying: 'We are going to show up in full force.'\"\n\nIn Durham, North Carolina, an important battleground state, Gemynii, a 35-year-old poet, wasn't happy to see Mr Trump hold a bible in front of a church near the White House after peaceful protesters were cleared out of the way.\n\nGemynii at a beauty-supply store in North Carolina: \"He's definitely not my president\"\n\n\"Yeah, it definitely feels like a nightmare,\" says Gemynii of the president's efforts to impose order. \"I can understand how other countries look at us and don't have respect because of what's going on.\"\n\nThe experience of watching the president in news clips this week has made Gemynii and her friends in Durham even more determined to change the country's leadership. She was distressed when Mr Trump was elected, and his recent actions have reinforced her mission: \"It's another wake-up call for America.\"\n\nThe dismay among Democrats is near-universal, and many of those who have felt lukewarm about Mr Biden, who has centrist roots, now have a different view. They are focused on getting the president out of the White House.\n\nSays Peggy Wilson, 68, a retired schoolteacher in Kansas City: \"I don't care who is it - it could be anybody. Just someone to replace him.\"\n\nShirley Hartman says that she's had her ups and downs as an artist in Philadelphia, New York and most recently in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and voted for Democrats in some elections. She chose Mr Trump last time. Afterwards, she says, her business \"slowly went up, year after year\". She has been happy with him as president.\n\nWith the onset of the pandemic, business has dropped off again, and she is spending time at home with her cats, Darma and Peanut. She takes walks in the park, \"sketching and doing pastels in the grass\", and is hoping for a speedy economic recovery. This variable, one that is still unknown, is likely to decide her vote.", "How much coronavirus transmission comes from people with no symptoms is still a \"big unknown\", a World Health Organization scientist has clarified.\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove said on Monday it was \"very rare\" for asymptomatic people to pass the disease on.\n\nBut she has now stressed this observation was based on a relatively small set of studies.\n\nEvidence suggests people with symptoms are most infectious, but the disease can be passed on before they develop.\n\nAlthough a proportion of people test positive with no symptoms, it is not known how many of these people go on to infect others.\n\nDr Van Kerkhove said the evidence she had been discussing came from countries that had carried out \"detailed contact tracing\",\n\nLooking at investigations of clusters of infections from various countries, she said that where an asymptomatic case had been followed up it was \"very rare\" to find secondary infections among their contacts.\n\nBut she it was still a \"big open question\" as to whether the same was true globally.\n\nThe uncertainties involved emphasise the importance of lockdown measures in \"massively reduc[ing] the numbers of people infected,\" said Prof Liam Smeeth, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by the WHO statement but had not seen the data it was based on.\n\nDirector of the WHO's health emergencies programme, Dr Michael Ryan, said he was \"absolutely convinced\" asymptomatic transmission was occurring, \"the question is how much\".\n\nDr Van Kerkhove, the WHO's head of emerging diseases, made the distinction between three categories:\n\nSome reports distinguish between these categories while others do not and she said this, along with the relatively small groups of people studied, make it difficult to draw firm conclusions.\n\nBut Dr Van Kerkhove said the weight of evidence suggested people who never develop symptoms did not play a significant role in passing on the virus in the locations studied.\n\nStudies which tested samples of the population to find asymptomatic cases, and then traced their contacts, found far fewer secondary infections than in the contacts of people who'd had symptoms.\n\nThis led the WHO, in guidance on wearing masks published at the weekend, to conclude: \"The available evidence from contact tracing reported by member states suggests that asymptomatically-infected individuals are much less likely to transmit the virus than those who develop symptoms\"\n\nIn England, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been regularly testing a sample of the population.\n\nIt has found that, of those who have so far tested positive for Covid-19, only 29% reported \"any evidence of symptoms\" at the time they were tested, or at the previous or following visits.\n\nContact-tracing studies from a number of countries suggest that while \"true\" asymptomatic cases \"rarely transmit\" infection, transmission can occur before or on the day symptoms first appear when they may be very mild, according to Prof Babak Javid, an infectious diseases consultant at the University of Cambridge.\n\nPeople can have detectable amounts of the virus in their system roughly three days before developing symptoms and appear to be capable to passing it on during this period, especially the day before or on the day symptoms begin.\n\nPre-symptomatic transmission has \"important implications\" for track, trace and isolation measures, Prof Javid said.\n\nUnder the terms of the contact-tracing schemes now operational across the UK, someone who passed on the infection while pre-symptomatic could still have their contacts traced once they developed symptoms. Someone who never experienced symptoms wouldn't trigger the same process.\n\nWhile people without symptoms do seem to be capable of infecting others, current evidence still suggests people with symptoms are the highest risk.\n\nA positive result alone doesn't tell you how much of the virus someone has in their system. And this - what is known as the viral load - along with whether an infected person is sneezing and coughing and what kind of contact they are having with other people, influences how likely they are to pass the illness on.\n\nDr Van Kerkhove pointed out since coronavirus mainly \"passes through infectious droplets\", it is when people are coughing or sneezing that they are most able to transmit the disease.", "Tens of thousands of people around the world have been protesting against the death of George Floyd. For many it’s reminded them of the issues they face in their own countries, including their own personal experiences of racism.\n\nBBC Minute’s Kash Jones has been speaking to protesters from New Zealand to France to find out why they’re taking to the streets.", "Rachel Adedeji has appeared in more than 200 episodes of Hollyoaks\n\nHollyoaks has launched an investigation after Rachel Adedeji alleged she witnessed racism on the soap.\n\nThe actress said a senior producer referred to black cast members using a racial slur and claimed black actresses were told to change their hair.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Hollyoaks' producers said they were \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the issues that had come to light.\n\nThey said they have \"zero tolerance on racism\" but \"have further work to do\".\n\nOn Saturday, Adedeji tweeted several claims about her experiences on the Channel 4 soap, which is produced by Lime Pictures.\n\nThe actress said she was told \"You're all the same\" by a make-up artist, and said black actresses on the show were \"forced to drastically change their hair\" after being told viewers wouldn't be able to tell them apart.\n\nAdedeji, has appeared in more than 200 episodes of the show, but said in her four years on the soap she had only worked with one black director.\n\n\"Working at Hollyoaks is mostly positive, but the experiences I have encountered are a constant reminder of how difficult it is being a black woman in the industry,\" Adedeji said. \"I am no longer standing for it.\"\n\nAdedeji's co-star Kéllé Bryan said the show was launching a series of podcasts about racism\n\nIn their statement on Tuesday, Lime Pictures said: \"We must stamp out implicit bias which means calling out racism wherever and whenever we see it.\n\n\"We will continue to add to our action plan as we continue and broaden our dialogue with cast and staff.\"\n\nThe action plan includes the following measures:\n\nFormer Hollyoaks star Amanda Clapham supported Adedeji on Twitter, saying she witnessed \"micro-aggressions\" towards BAME staff on the show.\n\nClapham alleged one male black cast member was \"disproportionately told off\" for talking and messing around during filming, when a whole group of actors had been involved.\n\nAndrea Ali, who plays Celeste Faroe, supported Adedeji but praised the soap's efforts on representation.\n\n\"I am beyond blessed to be a part of a team as diverse and as inclusive as Hollyoaks,\" Ali said.\n\n\"Celeste Faroe is a powerhouse and that representation of black women is not only one that I am proud of, but one that matters.\"\n\nLast week, Hollyoaks announced it would address the Black Lives Matter movement by recording a series of special podcasts about racism.\n\nAt the time, actress Kéllé Bryan said: \"We've been busy behind the scenes having lots of highly important conversations and we'll be kick-starting with a podcast all about racism - how we tackle it, how we face it and, most importantly, how we overcome it.\"\n\nBut in her statement, Adedeji said: \"Putting out a podcast and asking your black cast members to teach you how to tackle these issues is the bare minimum. Do better.\"\n\nOn Monday's Loose Women, Bryan addressed the backlash she'd received from the podcast announcement, but said there was no bad blood between herself and Adedeji.\n\n\"Myself and Rachel have spoken and we have shared our feelings... I'm supporting her and she's reached out to me also. We'll just work through this, hopefully, internally.\n\n\"She meant no harm in her post in terms of me personally.\"\n\nHollyoaks is set to resume production in Liverpool this week, with the cast expected back on set in July.\n\nAdedeji first shot to fame as an X Factor finalist in 2009, finishing in ninth place. She joined Hollyoaks in 2016.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ONS found people in Wales were most likely to stay in gardens if they could\n\nFour out of five people in Wales are stressed, anxious or worried about the future because of coronavirus, a survey has found.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) has looked into the social impact of the virus around the UK during the lockdown in April.\n\nIt found anxiety was only higher in the north east of England.\n\nMeanwhile, one in five people reported their their household income has fallen as a result of the virus.\n\nThe survey looked at a number of aspects about how the lockdown has impacted people's lives.\n\nThe biggest concern (23%) was about health, wellbeing or access to care, followed by worries over work, school or university (19%).\n\nJust over 12% were worried about not being able to make plans, while 11% were worried about access to essentials and transport.\n\nMore than one in three people (37.8%) also reported that the struggled to get groceries and toiletries.\n\nBut the survey also found that the Welsh public were most likely to stay in their gardens and least likely to visit a park or public green space.\n\nJames P Harris, ONS cities statistician, said: \"This is the first time we have analysed the country and regional differences in our regular research into how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people's lives.\n\n\"Levels of worry and concern are high across all countries and regions, with many of us keeping in touch with families and friends, but we also find differences in how lockdown has affected people around Great Britain.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nGerman prosecutors say they may have to drop the investigation into a convicted paedophile suspected of killing Madeleine McCann if they do not receive more information from the public.\n\nInvestigators told the BBC they have substantial evidence that Madeleine is dead - but this is not enough to take the suspect to court.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe suspect, 43, has been named by German media as Christian B.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, a prosecutor in the northern city of Braunschweig - where detectives are leading the investigation - told the BBC: \"We have evidence against the accused which leads us to believe that he really killed Madeleine but this evidence is not strong enough at the moment to take him to court.\"\n\nThe evidence is \"strong enough to say that the girl is dead and strong enough to accuse a specific individual of murder - that strong,\" he said.\n\nHowever he added: \"One has to be honest and remain open to the possibility that our investigation could end without a charge, that it ends like the others have.\n\n\"We are optimistic it will be different for us but for that we need more information.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe suspect, a German man, is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in 2007, when Madeleine went missing. She had been there on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe rape conviction is currently under review in the German courts, according to German n-tv news.\n\nGerman media say Christian B has also been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl, named only as Inga. She went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nInvestigators were told by a friend of Christian B that the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a German bar, as they were watching news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, according to the source.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they are assuming Madeleine is dead.\n\nHowever, the Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there is no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe League One and League Two seasons have both been ended early after a formal vote by clubs on Tuesday.\n\nBoth tables will be settled on points per game, while promotion, relegation and the play-offs all remain.\n\nCoventry and Rotherham go up from League One, while Wycombe replace Peterborough in the play-off places.\n\nSwindon are League Two champions, but \"ongoing disciplinary matters\" mean it is not yet certain who will drop out of the EFL and into the National League.\n\nStevenage are bottom, but they could yet be reprieved after Macclesfield Town were handed a fresh EFL misconduct charge on 1 June.\n\nThe Silkmen, who are three points above Stevenage, have already had 11 points deducted for previous rule breaches this season and have a further suspended two-point penalty hanging over them if they transgress again.\n\nBoth votes were passed by an \"overwhelming majority\", according to the EFL, who also confirmed that the League Two play-off final would be held at Wembley on 29 June.\n\nNo dates have yet been confirmed for the League One play-offs.\n\nElite football in England has been suspended since 13 March because of coronavirus, with only the Premier League and Championship so far committing to resuming their seasons later this month.\n• None Peterborough have been cheated - director of football Fry\n• None There should be consequences for Macclesfield - Stevenage chairman\n• None How might the League One 'final table' have looked?\n• None How would League Two have finished?\n\nWho is set to go up & down from League One?\n\nClubs in League One had previously been divided over whether or not to bring the season to an early conclusion.\n\nInitial talks stalled after at least six sides, including Sunderland, Portsmouth and Ipswich Town, said they wanted to continue the campaign.\n\nHowever, the new regulations - proposed by the EFL board and approved by the 71 member clubs earlier on Tuesday - meant just 51% of teams in any given division needed to agree on ending a season early.\n\nThe points-per-game system does throw up one significant change to the League One table, with eighth-placed Wycombe Wanderers replacing sixth-placed Peterborough United in the play-offs.\n\nWycombe will move up to third because they have at least one game in hand on each of their play-off rivals.\n\nWhat's the situation in League Two?\n\nWhile the top half of League Two is largely unaffected, Swindon Town have been named champions after leapfrogging Crewe Alexandra because the Robins have a game in hand.\n\nThe situation at the bottom has been complicated by the Macclesfield charge, however, which relates to late payment of wages in March and for \"failing to act with utmost good faith in respect of matters with the EFL and for breaching an order, requirement, direction or instruction of the league\".\n\nIn a statement, the EFL said \"due to ongoing disciplinary matters, the final placings cannot yet be confirmed\".\n\nAs it stands, this is how promotion, relegation and the play-offs will finish:\n\nFollowing Tuesday's vote, it was announced that the League Two play-off semi-finals are to begin on Thursday, 18 June - two days before the Championship season is set to resume.\n\nThe final, which will take place on Monday, 29 June, is to be held at Wembley as originally planned. All games will be held behind closed doors.\n\nTimeline: How did we get to this point?\n• None 10 March - Last games played in Leagues One & Two\n• None EFL suspended until at least 3 April\n• None Season 'can be finished in 56 days'\n• None League Two sides want to end season, League One undecided\n• None 9 June - League One & League Two clubs formally vote to end season", "A preliminary post-mortem examination on Simeon Francis did not find a cause of death\n\nAn investigation has begun into the death of a man in police custody in Devon, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSimeon Francis, 35, who was black, died in a cell in Torquay police station on 20 May after being arrested in Exeter, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nA preliminary post-mortem examination did not find a cause of death, it said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the independent inquiry.\n\nMr Francis was arrested at about 00:45 BST on 20 May in Cowley Bridge Road in Exeter. He was transported by van to Torquay before being booked into custody at about 03:00, the IOPC said.\n\nMr Francis was found unresponsive in a cell at Torquay police station\n\nPolice said paramedics were called after he was found \"seriously unwell\" in his cell in the afternoon. The IOPC said an ambulance crew pronounced him dead at about 18:00.\n\nThe investigation followed a mandatory referral from the Devon and Cornwall force, which officers announced the day after the death.\n\nRegional IOPC director Catrin Evans said: \"Our thoughts are with Mr Francis's family and friends following his death.\"\n\nShe said investigators were gathering evidence and statements from officers and \"analysing a considerable amount of CCTV footage from the custody suite\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at the level of care provided during the period of detention, including the frequency and adequacy of checks carried out.\"\n\nFurther tests were also to be carried out on Mr Francis's body, she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Heneghan said the data showed it was best to get coronavirus under the age of 45 Image caption: Prof Heneghan said the data showed it was best to get coronavirus under the age of 45\n\nSociety will need to have \"rational debates\" about when is the least risky age to be infected with coronavirus if a vaccine does not materialise, an expert has said.\n\nCarl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said Covid-19 is behaving in a way similar to seasonal flu in its disproportionate impact on the elderly.\n\nHe told a Science Media Centre briefing: \"It matters when you get infections in relation to your risk - I think that's incredibly important.\n\n\"So we will start to have some rational debates, because many infections, we know if you get them when you're very young you actually do very well, for instance chickenpox, you get that when you're young and you confer immunity.\n\n\"So, if you took away the concept that there were no vaccinations, let's park that aside and this becomes a circulating endemic infection, we will start to have to have a debate around when is it better to get this infection?\n\n\"If you look at the data, it is when you're under 45. As you get older then it's worse for you.\"", "Honda has said it is dealing with a cyber-attack that is impacting its operations around the world.\n\n\"Honda can confirm that a cyber-attack has taken place on the Honda network,\" the Japanese car-maker said in a statement.\n\nIt added that the problem was affecting its ability to access its computer servers, use email and otherwise make use of its internal systems.\n\n\"There is also an impact on production systems outside of Japan,\" it added.\n\n\"Work is being undertaken to minimise the impact and to restore full functionality of production, sales and development activities.\"\n\nThe firm - which makes motorcycles, cars, generators and lawn mowers, among other products - said one of its internal servers was attacked externally.\n\nIt added that \"the virus had spread\" throughout its network, but did not provide further details.\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\nHonda currently runs a factory in Swindon, where it makes its Civic cars, which is due to close in 2021.\n\nThe company has confirmed that work at the UK plant has been halted alongside a suspension of other operations in North America, Turkey, Italy and Japan.\n\nHowever, it added that it hoped some of the affected sites would go back online this afternoon or later this week.\n\nSome cyber-security experts have said it looks like a ransomware attack, which means that hackers might have encrypted data or locked Honda out of some of its IT systems.\n\n'It looks like a case of Ekans ransomware being used,' said Morgan Wright, chief security advisor at security firm Sentinel One. 'Ekans, or Snake ransomware, is designed to attack industrial control systems networks. The fact that Honda has put production on hold and sent factory workers home points to disruption of their manufacturing systems.'\n\nThe company has insisted no data has been breached and added that \"at this point, we see minimal business impact\".\n\nHonda employs nearly 220,000 people worldwide across more than 400 group affiliate companies.\n\nIt is not known how the criminals infiltrated Honda's computer system but research suggests that ransomware attacks are on the rise with hackers using Covid-19 related lures to trick victims into downloading booby-trapped documents and files.\n\nInsurer Beazley says its seen a 25% spike in clients being hit by ransomware in the first quarter of 2020 compared to last year.\n\nKatherine Keefe, from the firm said: \"Cyber criminals are preying on people's heightened anxiety during this pandemic, tricking them into clicking and sharing links that steal information.\n\n\"Organisations must ensure their security systems and protocols are up to date and ensure that colleagues working from home are extra vigilant.\"", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson: Accused of spreading hate without breaking hate laws\n\nThe government's adviser on extremism is investigating whether it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.\n\nThe Commission for Countering Extremism says there may be gaps in the law, allowing extremists to sow divisions.\n\nThe former head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Rowley, will lead the review into the complex area of law.\n\nSuccessive governments have tried and failed to come up with an agreed criminal definition of extremism.\n\nThe commission, set up by the Home Office but operating independently of ministers, says it has gathered widespread evidence of people falling victim to hate that leaves them living in fear - but is short of a crime.\n\nIncidents include sectarian campaigns between communities, far-right street and Islamist protests that encourage hostility to other groups, and online abuse that makes violence more likely.\n\nIn each case it says victims can feel let down by the authorities who are powerless to stop subtle attacks that are not crimes under terrorism legislation or hate laws.\n\nAnjem Choudary: Radical preacher evaded prosecution for years because he did not directly advocate violence\n\nLast year, the commission concluded in a report that government should focus on \"hateful extremism\" - meaning activity that amplifies hate and pitches communities against each other - potentially leading to violence.\n\nNow it has asked Sir Mark Rowley to examine the existing laws and how they are used to see if there are gaps that may need filling.\n\nSara Khan, head of the commission, said: \"Hateful extremism threatens our ability to live well together. Yet despite this, our ability to counter repeat and persistent offenders is inconsistent and often ineffective.\n\n\"When extremists engage in terrorist activity, they are often caught by robust counter-terrorism legislation. But when they incite hatred, engage in persistent hatred or justify violence against others, extremists know they will not cross over into the threshold of terrorism.\n\n\"As a result, many extremist actors and organisations, whether far-right, Islamist or other continue to operate with impunity in our country both online and offline.\"\n\nSir Mark Rowley said: \"Extremism, hate crime and terrorism have all been increasing challenges for our communities and society as a whole.\n\n\"While I was in post as head of counter-terrorism policing for four years, I knew that we had strong counter-terrorism system, resources and laws in place. However, I increasingly realised that nationally we are less experienced and ready to address the growing threats from hateful extremists.\"\n\nTheresa May, when she was Home Secretary, pledged to introduce new powers to act against extremist groups which could not be outlawed under terrorism legislation - but the 2016 plan was abandoned.\n\nSir Mark said: \"When Sara asked me to look... at whether the existing legal framework has gaps that allow extremist to flourish, I was initially cautious - not least because successive governments have tried to tackle this very problem, by proposing new legislation, and failed.\n\n\"However, after some initial scoping I am convinced that the Commission's clarity of focus on 'hateful extremism' can help identify the gaps that exist at the boundaries of current laws, such as hate crime and terrorism, which are being exploited daily by extremists.\"\n\nHe will report his findings later in the year.", "Model Munroe Bergdorf has rejoined L'Oreal Paris after she was sacked by the brand in 2017 for posting about \"the racial violence of white people\".\n\nLast week, she criticised L'Oreal after it posted a support message for Black Lives Matter, saying the brand \"threw me to the wolves\" when it fired her.\n\nBergdorf said the brand's new president Delphine Viguier had apologised for the way the situation was handled.\n\nShe will now join the company's UK diversity and inclusion advisory board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 1 June, the transgender model and activist tweeted: \"You dropped me from a campaign in 2017 and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy. With no duty of care, without a second thought.\n\n\"I had to fend for myself being torn apart by the world's press because YOU didn't want to talk about racism. You do NOT get to do this. This is NOT okay, not even in the slightest.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Viguier, she wrote that she believes in \"accountability and progress, not cancellation and grudges\".\n\nShe said: \"While what happened three years ago was extremely traumatic for me personally and professionally, sitting on a board to provide a voice and a champion for black, trans and queer voices in the beauty industry is important for me.\n\n\"It feels good to finally have closure on this matter and I look forward to new beginnings with the L'Oreal team.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn L'Oreal Paris's Instagram page, Viguier said she had had \"an honest, transparent and vulnerable conversation\" with Bergdorf.\n\n\"Here is what I heard from her: Three years ago, Munroe felt silenced by a brand, L'Oreal Paris, that had the power to amplify her voice.\n\n\"While we both agree today that negative labels should not be used to define all individuals in any group, I understand much better the pain and trauma that were behind Munroe's words back then and the urgency she felt to speak in defence of the black community against systemic racism.\n\n\"I regret the lack of dialogue and support the company showed Munroe around the time of the termination. We should have also done more to create a conversation for change as we are now doing.\n\n\"We support Munroe's fight against systemic racism and as a company we are committed to work to dismantle such systems.\"\n\nViguier said L'Oreal would also donate to causes that support social justice.", "UK Border Force officers will face violent attacks after the government told them to take the fingerprints of migrants who try to board Eurotunnel trains, a trade union has said.\n\nThe Home Office order was made to staff at the terminal in Coquelles, near Calais, after a spike in small boat crossings to the UK by migrants.\n\nTrade union ISU said both staff and migrants will get hurt.\n\nBut the Home Office said effective risk assessments were made to minimise harm.\n\nBBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme spoke to some of the hundreds of migrants living rough in Calais during the coronavirus lockdown, who said unbearable conditions were driving them to attempt to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nSince the lockdown began in March, more than 1,000 migrants have reportedly crossed to the UK on small boats.\n\nA record 166 migrants attempted to reach the UK on small boats in a single day last week.\n\nThe total for this year is already estimated to have exceeded the number who reached the UK in the whole of 2019, despite a pledge made last year by Home Secretary Priti Patel to ensure small boat crossings become an \"infrequent phenomenon by spring 2020\".\n\nNow the home secretary has ordered UK border control officers, working at the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, in the \"pas de Calais\" area, to take fingerprints of migrants they find trying to board trains illegally.\n\nThe Home Office said registering fingerprints may assist in returning people to France - via an EU law called the Dublin Regulation - should they later make a successful crossing into the UK.\n\nBut Lucy Moreton, of the ISU, a union representing front-line officers, said the move would spark violence as migrants try to avoid being registered in France.\n\n\"That is quite a challenge, particularly if they really don't want to have their fingerprints taken,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't have digital fingerprint recorders, we only have wet ink. So you have literally got to hold their hands and roll their fingers from side to side to get a print.\n\n\"That's quite a lot of avenue to fight back if that's what they want to do. I'm very concerned about the levels of violence that will result and the fact that there will be, eventually, staff and migrants injured.\"\n\nMigrants used to have their fingerprints taken by UK Border Force officers at the port in Calais, but the practice was stopped in 2010 and was also later abandoned at Coquelles.\n\nMs Moreton said: \"All it resulted in was a lot of physical violence and individuals - both our staff and migrants being injured. And migrants deliberately harming themselves in order to damage their fingertips so that their fingerprints can't be taken.\n\n\"That's not something that anyone wants to be forced to do.\"\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC people fleeing persecution should stay in the first safe country they entered and there was \"no reason why they need to make an often dangerous trip\" to claim asylum.\n\nIt added the Border Force has robust risk assessments in place to minimise the risk of harm to both migrants and officers.\n\nFile on 4's The Perfect Storm is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 9 June at 20:00 BST and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "The economic downturn in the US triggered by the pandemic has been officially declared a recession.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Tuesday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.\n\nIt said activity and employment hit a \"clear\" and \"well-defined\" peak in February, before falling.\n\nThe ruling puts a formal end to what had been more than a decade of economic expansion - the longest in US history.\n\nMeanwhile, US markets continued their rebound on Monday, as investors remained optimistic that the downturn will be short-lived.\n\nA recession was expected after the US economy contracted 5% in the first three months of the year.\n\nEmployers also reported cutting roughly 22 million jobs in March and April, as restrictions on activity intended to help control the virus forced many businesses to close.\n\nSome economists are hopeful that the job losses have now stopped, and a rebound has begun. In May, US employers added 2.5 million jobs, as states started reopening.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organisation, said it viewed the scale of the decline that started in February as more significant than its duration.\n\n\"The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions,\" it said.\n\nThe bureau typically defines a recession as an economic contraction that lasts \"more than a few months\".\n\nIt has declared 12 recessions since 1948, the longest of which was the Great Recession, which lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009.\n\nUS financial markets, which tumbled in February amid signs of the economic collapse, have been on the upswing since March, due to investor hopes that economic damage will be limited, thanks to emergency relief from Congress and the central bank.\n\nOn Monday, the Nasdaq index closed at 9,924.7, gaining 1.1% to top its pre-pandemic record.\n\nEmployees screened by healthcare workers before entering the New York Stock Exchange, which partially reopened in late May\n\nThe S&P 500 rose 1.2% to close at 3.232.3 - returning to where it started the year - while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.7% to 27,572.4. The two indexes are now less than 10% lower than their pre-pandemic peaks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has celebrated the rebound.\n\n\"Big day for Stock Market. Smart money, and the World, know that we are heading in the right direction. Jobs are coming back FAST. Next year will be our greatest ever,\" he wrote on Twitter on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nMany economists have warned that the economic pain is likely to linger, even if the worst has passed.\n\nThe World Bank on Monday said it expected the global economy to shrink by 5.2% this year, in the deepest recession since World War Two.\n\nIt said it expected the US economy to contract by 6.1% and the Euro area to shrink by 9.1%.\n\nWhile global growth of 4.2% is expected to return next year, the bank warned that the outlook is \"highly uncertain and downside risks are predominant, including the possibility of a more protracted pandemic, financial upheaval and retreat from global trade and supply linkages\".", "Less than a fifth of UK deaths in the last week of May were linked to coronavirus, figures show.\n\nAcross the UK, 2,000 (18%) of deaths mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate, compared to 38% at the peak in April.\n\nThe data shows trends in both overall excess deaths and those involving Covid-19 are falling.\n\nBut they also show that just under 64,000 more people had died by the end of May than would be seen on average.\n\nThe figures, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) and National Records Scotland (NRS) data cover all deaths in hospitals, care homes and private homes.\n\nIn comparison, the figure issued daily by the government is the number of deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThese figures, for the week up to 29 May, show just over 11,000 deaths occurred that week, around 1,800 above normal.\n\nIn total, the ONS suggests there have been more than 50,000 deaths where coronavirus is mentioned by the end of May, compared to the government's current figure of 40,597\n\nNick Stripe, head of health analysis at the ONS, said some deaths involving coronavirus in care homes \"will have brought forward deaths that might otherwise have happened relatively soon\".\n\nHe added in a tweet: \"We might expect deaths not involving Covid in care homes to fall below the five-year average in the next few weeks.\"\n\nThe north east region saw the highest proportion of deaths involving coronavirus at 25%.", "London Zoo had said it faced an \"uncertain future\"\n\nZoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas are set to reopen in England from Monday, the PM has said.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's daily briefing, Boris Johnson outlined the latest steps in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the outdoor attractions can reopen as long as they follow social distancing rules.\n\nSome zoos, including Chester Zoo and London Zoo, have reported financial struggles during the pandemic.\n\nA number of Tory MPs have been calling for zoos to reopen to ensure they survive the crisis.\n\nThe move will pave the way for zoos to reopen in England alongside non-essential shops, which can also open from 15 June.\n\nBut Mr Johnson faced criticism from the Labour leader at Prime Minister's Questions, after the plan for the reopening of all primary schools in England by the summer was ditched by the government.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the government's plan for getting children back to school in England was \"in tatters\", blaming the situation on a lack of leadership from Mr Johnson.\n\nHe called for a \"national taskforce\" to be set up, to find a way forward.\n\nMr Johnson said Sir Keir had previously said school reopenings were happening too quickly and accused him of trying to have it both ways.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg at the daily briefing why children could go to the zoo but not school, the prime minister said he had wanted all children to return before the summer holidays but the \"continued prevalence\" of the disease meant it wasn't possible.\n\nHe said the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\" and the education secretary would be setting out further details.\n\nHe defended the government's policy on reopening schools saying: \"We're very much in line or slightly ahead of some other European countries.\"\n\nThe chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, has called on the PM to \"set out a national plan on how we get schools opening again and a catch up programme for left-behind pupils whose life chances are being damaged by being off school for 40% of school year\".\n\nEarlier this week Chester Zoo - which has been closed since 21 March - said its future was \"on a knife edge\", despite a government pledge to provide financial support.\n\nAnd last month London Zoo - closed since 20 March - said it faced an \"uncertain future\" without immediate support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large zoo says it needs government grants as it has no visitors or income\n\nSpeaking at the daily press conference, the prime minister said outdoor attractions where visitors remain in their cars can reopen because the risk of spreading the disease is lower outside.\n\nHe said zoos would be able to reopen \"provided visitor numbers are managed and safeguards are put in place - that includes keeping indoor places such as reptile houses closed\".\n\nZoos must also ensure amenities including cafes are take-away only.\n\nDowning Street continues to emphasise that the UK government wants to move forward carefully in further easing the lockdown.\n\nWednesday's announcement on zoos reflects the belief the risk of transmission is lower outdoors and is based on social distancing rules being followed.\n\nWe also know non-essential shops in England and Northern Ireland will reopen in the coming days (though we don't know when this will happen in Scotland and Wales). Small parts of normal life are returning, even if they will likely feel quite different.\n\nBut while steps to reopen the economy are being taken, the slow progress on schools shows that coming out of lockdown is not always easy and not always in the hands of ministers.\n\nThe delay in getting primary school pupils back to classrooms in England is a reminder that practicalities - and in some cases public reluctance - are important too.\n\nThe government says it has already provided a £14m support fund for zoos.\n\nThey have also been eligible to apply for a \"range of support schemes\", including business rate relief, during the pandemic.\n\nAndrew Hall, spokesperson for Biaza - British and Irish Association for Zoos and Aquariums - said he was \"delighted\" with the announcement, but added the sector was \"not out of the woods\".\n\n\"Aquariums are still closed, and zoos and safari parks have taken a real hit,\" he said.\n\n\"For some zoos, particularly those reliant on tourism, reopening isn't going to be financially viable for them.\"\n\nHe said the announcement was \"not the full answer\" and government support would still be required, especially with limited entry.\n\nHe added: \"Zoos and aquariums in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will still be facing significant challenges and we will be working hard to achieve positive outcomes in these nations.\"", "A bill introducing \"no-fault\" divorces in England and Wales has been backed by MPs.\n\nIt passed its first hurdle in the Commons by 231 votes to 16 against, following a debate.\n\nCurrently, in order to start divorce proceedings immediately, one spouse has to allege adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion has taken place.\n\nUnder the proposed law, they will only have to state that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.\n\nThe Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill - which has been passed by the House of Lords - also removes the possibility of contesting the decision to divorce.\n\nAt the moment, someone wishing to obtain a divorce without the consent of their spouse must live apart from them for five years.\n\nDivorce proceedings will still be challengeable on certain grounds including fraud and coercion. Currently fewer than 2% of divorce cases are contested.\n\nThe bill also introduces a new option, allowing couples to jointly apply for a divorce, where the decision to separate is a mutual one.\n\nAnd it replaces the terms \"decree nisi\" and \"decree absolute\" with \"conditional order\" and \"final order\". \"Petitioners\" will also become \"applicants\".\n\nUnder the proposals, there must be a minimum six-month period between the lodging of a petition to the divorce being made final.\n\nOpening the debate, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the bill will seek to make separation \"less traumatic\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"No-one sets out thinking that their marriage is going to end, no-one wants their marriage to break down, none of us are therefore indifferent when a couple's lifelong commitment has sadly deteriorated.\n\n\"It is a very sad circumstance but the law, I believe, should reduce conflict when it arises.\n\n\"Where divorce is inevitable, this bill seeks to make the legal process less painful.\"\n\nConservative MP Jonathan Gullis said he had to put the blame on his partner during his own divorce, saying: \"I would have preferred to have had a no-fault divorce.\n\nBut, raising concerns about the bill, the DUP's Jim Shannon said: \"More funding must be allocated to counselling services to provide trained help for those in marriage difficulties and to prioritise saving a marriage.\"\n\nMr Buckland replied: \"It is, I think, the sad experience that by the time a decision to issue a divorce petition has been made then matters have sadly gone beyond that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy says his party welcomed the bill as it offers a \"common-sense approach\" and respects the institution of marriage and civil partnerships.\n\nHe said the new law \"will promote conciliations and compromise\" and it will reduce legal costs which can reach \"eye-watering sums quite unnecessarily\".\n\nTini Owens was refused a divorce by the courts\n\nThe bill cleared its first hurdle - its second reading - in the House of Commons; despite some Conservatives expressing opposition.\n\nIn a letter to the Telegraph, MPs including Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir John Hayes and Fiona Bruce urged the government to focus on helping couples reconcile instead of \"undermining the commitment of marriage\".\n\nThey said the bill was badly-timed, arguing that many \"otherwise durable\" marriages were under \"intense Covid-related strain\".\n\nThe move to change divorce laws was partly prompted by the case of Tini Owens - a woman from Worcestershire who wanted to divorce her husband of 40 years.\n\nHowever, because her husband contested the split, the law stated she could only obtain a divorce by living apart from him for five years.\n\nMrs Owens said she was \"desperately unhappy\" in the marriage but Mr Owens disagreed and said the couple still had a \"few years\" to enjoy.\n\nIn 2018, her case was heard and rejected by Supreme Court justices - one of whom said, they had ruled against Mrs Owens with \"no enthusiasm whatsoever\" and that it was up to Parliament to change the law.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"We will always uphold the institution of marriage. But when divorce cannot be avoided, the law must not create conflict between couples that so often harms the children involved.\n\n\"Our reforms remove the needless 'blame game', while ensuring there is a minimum six-month time frame to allow for reflection and the opportunity to turn back.\"", "An Amazon worker has issued a desperate plea to customers after accidentally losing her engagement ring while packing parcels.\n\nJasmine Paget, 18, was left in tears after finishing her shift in the packaging department at the Swansea depot and discovering the silver band was missing.\n\nShe got engaged to fiancé Josh Mannings, 20, on Valentine's Day.\n\nThe ring has a central diamond and smaller rocks around the main gem.\n\nJasmine believes she dropped the ring into one of hundreds of parcels she packed on Saturday.\n\nOn arriving at her Swansea home, she shared her story on Facebook, prompting thousands of people to share her post.\n\n\"I reckon I lost the ring in the last hour of my shift as I do tend to glance down to admire it now and then and when I looked down this time, it was just gone,\" she said.\n\nJasmine Paget got engaged to fiancé Josh Mannings on Valentine's Day\n\nThe ring vanished at about 17:50 BST, \"right at the end of my shift,\" she said.\n\n\"I was so gutted. I felt my heart in my stomach, I started crying and just went to my managers to find out if there was any way they could find it.\n\n\"It definitely went into a parcel, we just can't tell what one, which is so frustrating!\n\n\"I roughly pack 160 packages an hour and I package up such a wide variety of parcels, so it could be in any type.\"\n\nJasmine said her husband-to-be had been \"so understanding.\"\n\n\"He's just made a big joke out of it to keep my hopes up,\" she added.\n\n\"The response on social media has been incredible and we're just trying to stay positive and hope that somebody finds it.\"\n\nJasmine Paget hopes a customer will find the ring and return it\n\nShe is asking people to check their parcels in case it is inside one and the couple have their fingers crossed someone will return the ring.\n\nAmazon Swansea general manager, Chris Law, said: \"As soon as we heard Jasmine had lost her engagement ring we immediately mounted an extensive search of the fulfilment centre and also appealed to customers to check the packaging of their items.\"", "Coronavirus may have been spreading in Scotland before the first cases were confirmed at the start of March, the chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said scientists had identified early cases of the virus which had no clear link to travel.\n\nHe said this suggested that coronavirus was likely to have been spreading in the community in February.\n\nBut he stressed that these cases were likely to have been \"very few in number\".", "School governors want ministers to drop plans for all primary pupils in England to return before the summer holidays.\n\nThe first wave of children is due back from Monday but the government wants all primary pupils in class for the last four weeks of term.\n\nThis ambition piles pressure on schools \"when actually it wouldn't be safe\", said Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association.\n\nMinisters say the return of all pupils will depend on updated safety advice.\n\nLast week the schools minister Nick Gibb told MPs any decision on whether all pupils should return would be led by the science, and no decision had as yet been made.\n\nMany schools have been open to the children of key workers and vulnerable children throughout the lockdown, with all the others attempting to follow the primary curriculum at home.\n\nFrom Monday, the government wants all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 to return to their classrooms, with no more than 15 pupils per class.\n\nThis means every class of 30 would have to be spread across two classrooms.\n\nUnder these rules, if all year groups went back, there would not be enough classrooms in the vast majority of primary schools.\n\nMs Knights has written to the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, \"asking him to review and to drop\" the expectation that all primary pupils should be back at school for the last four weeks of term.\n\n\"Unless something dramatic changes very soon in terms of the government's scientific and medical advice, it will simply not be possible for primary schools to invite all pupils back for a whole month of education before the summer holidays,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Indeed many of them won't be able to invite all pupils back at all before the summer holidays...\n\n\"It is adding to uncertainty for parents, but also extra pressure on school leaders and governing boards who think that they need to try and do this when actually it wouldn't be safe.\"\n\nMr Williamson has not as yet responded to the letter.\n\nKerry Hill, head teacher at Eyres Monsell primary school in Leicestershire, told BBC Breakfast that her school would not reopen until the middle of June.\n\nShe said that even then, it will be closed one day a week to all pupils apart from the children of key workers for deep cleaning. A one-way system will be put in place and any non-essential items that could potentially spread the virus, such as toys and soft furnishings, are being removed.\n\n\"In our classrooms we can't even fit 15 in and still observe social distancing,\" she said. \"In terms of the logistics, rearranging the entire school and having the available staff to come in and take all of those groups has been incredibly challenging - as well as the logistics of how are we going to do regular cleaning across the day.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is not just about the safety of minimising risks. We know parents are scared, anxious, and our staff a worried, so we're really trying to put in place measures that help keep that trust and confidence.\"\n\nJust over 2,350 governors shared their plans for the return of pupils with the BBC.\n\nMany say, even with the limited numbers due to return in the first phase, they are already having to ask pupils to attend part-time, due to space constraints and the need for deep cleaning to keep the virus at bay.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return?\n\nOf the governors who answered a BBC snapshot questionnaire:\n\nAbout four in five said they were able to accept pupils from all the eligible year groups.\n\nAbout a third of the schools are planning rota systems, for example with one half of pupils attending school for two days at the start of the week, and the other half for two days at the end, with a day for deep cleaning in between.\n\nThere are wide variations in the numbers of parents who have committed to sending their children to school from Monday, with some schools expecting almost everyone, and others just a handful.\n\nOf the 2,350 governors asked whether it would be possible to have all pupils back for the last four weeks of term, 1,682 said this was unlikely or very unlikely.\n\n\"It would be physically impossible to bring all pupils back with reduced class sizes - we do not have the extra classrooms or staff to accommodate them safely,\" one governor wrote.\n\n\"It is going to be challenging enough to get Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 pupils back into school, respecting all of the social distancing and also providing spaces for key worker and vulnerable children. This will take up all the classroom space in the school and use up all of the staff who are available,\" wrote another.\n\nHowever, another expressed frustration at being unable to welcome all children back to school immediately, saying parents \"need a break and the children are getting feral\".\n\nOverall, governors expressed concerns about the pressure placed on themselves and on headteachers by the pandemic.\n\n\"I can only say that the professionalism of our team has shone through and for everyone's sake we hope the advice is right and that safe and effective learning returns for some and continued remote learning carries on for others,\" said Nick Horslen, chair of governors at Kings Wood Primary and Nursery School in High Wycombe.\n\n\"The situation is a long way from ideal but the creativity and determination to help children is the constant priority.\"\n\nSchools in Wales do not have a date for returning and schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland are going back in August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Medics face similar challenges to soldiers in war zones, Help for Heroes says\n\nFront-line medics need support similar to that received by soldiers, an armed forces charity has said.\n\nHelp for Heroes said NHS staff dealing with the coronavirus pandemic had faced mental challenges comparable to service personnel.\n\nThese include challenging environments, putting themselves at risk and, in some cases, losing colleagues.\n\nMore than 100 NHS and care staff have died after being infected with the virus.\n\n\"I think when you're in the thick of it, you just turn up and you get the work done. You can't process it too much,\" said Dr Ami Jones, a critical care consultant for Aneurin Bevan health board.\n\nDr Jones also works for the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) with Wales Air Ambulance.\n\nShe said the \"most distressing\" part was not being able to talk to relatives face to face and having to break bad news over the phone.\n\n\"I'd never thought that would be the worst bit, but it you know it really, really was,\" she said.\n\n\"I think until you experience it, you're never quite sure what it is that's going to kind of push the button and kind of break somebody and upset them.\"\n\nDr Jones is also an Army reservist and has served two tours of Afghanistan, based in the medical emergency response teams in Camp Bastion, where she would fly by helicopter to treat injured soldiers on the front line.\n\nShe said the intensive therapy unit (ITU) at the hospital where she works reached about \"two-and-a-half, three times their usual capacity\" and felt like a war zone at times.\n\n\"It did all feel a little bit fraught at times. We had lots and lots of sick people to deal with,\" she said.\n\n\"You felt like that patient in front of you could be you.\n\n\"A lot of these patients were young, fit patients. Certainly with the military, they are young, fit patients that are wearing your uniform, so I think that vulnerability is definitely a crossover.\"\n\nTim Penney, of Help for Heroes, says early intervention is key to tackling traumatic experiences\n\nA Help for Heroes' Field Guide to Self Care was originally created for those who had experienced traumatic events or been affected by working in high-intensity situations in the armed forces.\n\nHowever, due to the coronavirus pandemic, they chose to make the resource available to support health workers.\n\nTim Penney, the charity's veterans clinical liaison nurse, said early intervention was \"very much the key\" when it comes to mental health after a traumatic experience.\n\n\"We could see that the struggles that the key workers have in the NHS and on the care home side are very similar to those frustrations and huge difficulties many of our veterans have had to cope with,\" he said.\n\n\"We thought passing these skills and knowledge on would be hugely beneficial.\n\n\"I don't think that people on the front line in the NHS will have been expecting to work in an environment where they could see some of their colleagues both very seriously ill and perhaps in some cases passing away, no-one would have expected that.\n\n\"It's obviously an incredible emotive time for people on the front line out there.\"\n\nMatthew Gravelle has starred in Keeping Faith, Doctor Who and Hinterland\n\nKeeping Faith and Broadchurch actor Matthew Gravelle voiced part of the resource in both English and Welsh.\n\n\"I can't personally provide any physical help, as much as I'd like to, so being able to just provide a voice, and to help to guide people through something that can hopefully achieve relaxation, from a place of stress or anxiety, at least I feel like I'm providing something in some way.\"\n\nThe Army has also played an active role in supporting the NHS during the crisis.\n\nMaj Dominic Pascoe of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh, is the Shenkin Company's commanding officer.\n\nSince March, the regiment has been driving and decontaminating ambulances, unloading PPE air-delivered into Cardiff Airport and assisting with management of test sites.\n\n\"This regiment is just over 300 years old and we've never ever in our history been able to serve our communities. It's an honour to be able to do that,\" he said.\n\nMaj Dominic Pascoe said medical staff he had been working with were \"inspirational\"\n\n\"For a front-line soldier, it's the experiences of trauma and probably seeing things that you really shouldn't have to see in your in your lifetime.\n\n\"For front-line medics, it's exactly the same thing. It still has the same impact and effect on you, whether you're a soldier, a nurse or a doctor.\n\n\"The one difference is though is for a soldier, at the end of your tour, you can go home, whereas for a nurse that's every day of the week those shifts keep on going, year after year after year.\"", "The spill now threatens a huge, pristine area of Arctic wilderness\n\nDiesel oil from a huge spill in Russia's Arctic north has polluted a large freshwater lake and there is a risk it could spread into the Arctic Ocean, a senior Russian official says.\n\nEmergency teams are trying to contain the oil, which has now travelled about 20km (12 miles) north of Norilsk from a collapsed fuel tank.\n\nIt is the worst accident of its kind in modern times in Russia's Arctic region, environmentalists and officials say.\n\nThe oil started leaking on 29 May.\n\nSo far about 21,000 tonnes have contaminated the Ambarnaya river and surrounding subsoil.\n\nInvestigators believe the storage tank near Norilsk sank because of melting permafrost, which weakened its supports. The Arctic has had weeks of unusually warm weather, probably a symptom of global warming.\n\nThe power plant where it happened is run by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading nickel and palladium producer.\n\nLake Pyasino serves as the basin for the Pyasina river, which flows to the Kara Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. From October to June that river is usually ice-bound.\n\n\"The fuel has got into Lake Pyasino,\" said Alexander Uss, governor of Krasnoyarsk region.\n\n\"This is a beautiful lake about 70km [45 miles] long. Naturally, it has both fish and a good biosphere,\" Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.\n\n\"Now it's important to prevent it from getting into the Pyasina river, which flows north. That should be possible.\"\n\nOfficials say booms have not prevented the oil drifting\n\nClean-up teams have removed about 23,000 cubic metres (812,000 cubic feet) of contaminated soil, Ria Novosti news reports.\n\nThe pollution \"will have a negative effect on the water resources, on the animals that drink that water, on the plants growing on the banks\", said Vasily Yablokov of Greenpeace Russia.\n\nGreenpeace has compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.\n\nRussian prosecutors have ordered checks at \"particularly dangerous installations\" built on permafrost.\n\nDelays over reporting the collapse angered President Vladimir Putin and the power plant's director, Vyacheslav Starostin, has been taken into custody.\n\nThe Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over pollution and alleged negligence.\n\nThe term is used for ground that is frozen continuously for two or more years.\n\nSome 55% of Russia's territory, predominantly Siberia, is permafrost and home to its main oil and gas fields.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 2017 report to the Arctic Council, an international forum which includes Russia, warned that because of global warming and melting ice, foundations in permafrost regions could no longer support the loads they did as recently as the 1980s.\n\nA recent report by Bloomberg news agency points out that Russia's newer oil infrastructure takes account of the changing climate: storage tanks on the Yamal Peninsula, for instance, are mounted on piles.\n\nThe leaked oil turned long stretches of the Ambarnaya river crimson red.\n\nExperts have warned that the clean-up operation poses huge challenges\n\nIn a statement, Norilsk Nickel said the incident had been reported in a \"timely and proper\" way. The company has pledged to pay for the clean-up, estimated so far at $146m.\n\nNorilsk is already a well-known pollution hotspot, because of contamination from the industry that dominates the city.\n\nIn 2016, Norilsk Nickel admitted that an accident at one of its plants was responsible for turning a nearby river red.\n\nYulia Gumenyuk, deputy environment minister for Krasnoyarsk region, said booms had so far failed to stop the oil spreading downriver.\n\n\"We can see a large concentration of diluted oil products beyond the booms,\" she said.", "North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations' leaders.\n\nThe North said this was the first in a series of actions, describing South Korea as \"the enemy\".\n\nDaily calls, which have been made to a liaison office located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, will cease from Tuesday.\n\nThe two states had set up the office to reduce tensions after talks in 2018.\n\nNorth and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953.\n\nNorth Korea \"will completely cut off and shut down the liaison line between the authorities of the North and the South, which has been maintained through the North-South joint liaison office... from 12:00 on 9 June 2020,\" the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said.\n\nMilitary communication channels will also be cut, North Korea said.\n\nWhen the liaison office was temporarily closed in January because of Covid-19 restrictions, contact between the two states was maintained by phone.\n\nThe two Koreas made two phone calls a day through the office, at 09:00 and 17:00. On Monday, the South said that for the first time in 21 months, its morning call had gone unanswered, although contact was made in the afternoon.\n\n\"We have reached a conclusion that there is no need to sit face-to-face with the south Korean authorities and there is no issue to discuss with them, as they have only aroused our dismay,\" KNCA said.\n\nKim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader's sister, threatened last week to close the office unless South Korea stopped defector groups from sending leaflets into the North.\n\nShe said the leaflet campaign was a hostile act that violated the peace agreements made during the 2018 Panmunjom summit between the South's Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un.\n\nIt's likely that this shut down isn't just about sending leaflets over the border - but instead, all part of a grander plan by Pyongyang.\n\nNorth Korea may be creating a crisis in order to use the tension as leverage in later talks. In short, it could be simply spoiling for a fight to get attention and ask for more from its neighbour.\n\nThey've played this particular game before in 2013 to try to win more concessions from South Korea.\n\nIt's also a good distraction domestically. Kim Jong-un is failing to deliver the economic prosperity he keeps promising and rumours continue to circulate that Covid-19 is affecting parts of the country. Giving the nation a common enemy helps rally his people back around a cause.\n\nIt's worth noting one of the two signatures on this policy. Kim's sister, Kim Yo-Jong gave the order to sever ties with Seoul. This gives her a platform and the spotlight and will fuel more speculation that she is being groomed as a potential leader.\n\nBut how disappointing this must be for the Moon administration. Two years ago in a wave of optimism, the country cheered as the two leaders met and agreed to keep the phone lines open. Now all calls to the North are not being picked up.\n\nAnd the question is, if this is just the start of Pyongyang's plan, what comes next?\n\nNorth Korean defectors occasionally send balloons carrying leaflets critical of the communist region into the North, sometimes with supplies to entice North Koreans to pick them up.\n\nNorth Koreans can only get news from state-controlled media, and most do not have access to the internet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTies between the North and South appeared to improve in 2018, when the leaders of both countries met three times. Such high-level meetings had not taken place in over a decade.\n\nBut Pyongyang largely cut off contact with Seoul following the collapse of a summit between Kim and US president Donald Trump in Hanoi last year that left nuclear talks at a standstill.\n\nThe two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-1953 Korean war ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.\n• None What the North Korean 'leaflet bombs' say", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nA self-described Ku Klux Klan leader has been arrested for allegedly driving his car into a group of Black Lives Matters protesters gathered on Sunday in the US state of Virginia.\n\nProsecutors say that Harry Rogers, 36, drove \"recklessly\" towards a protest in Henrico County, and \"revved the engine\" before driving into protesters.\n\nMr Rogers appeared in Henrico court on the outskirts of Richmond on Monday, facing charges of assault and battery.\n\nHarry Rogers may face hate crime charges after allegedly driving his car into a group of protesters\n\nOne protester was injured and treated at the scene, authorities said, but was not seriously hurt.\n\nIn a separate incident on Sunday night, a man drove at a crowd of protesters in Seattle, and brandished a gun at them. The suspect is now in custody, while a 27-year-old man who was shot at the scene was taken to hospital, local authorities said.\n\nAnti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd are entering their third week. Mr Floyd died while being restrained by a Minnesota police officer last month. Large rallies and protests have been held in several US cities, including Richmond, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.\n\nThough some protests have involved rioting or looting, and violent clashes between participants and police, an overwhelming majority have been peaceful.\n\n\"An attack on peaceful protesters is heinous and despicable and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law,\" Henrico Country Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor said in a statement.\n\nMr Rogers told officers he was president of the Virginia KKK, the highest-ranking member of the white supremacist group not in prison, US media report.\n\n\"The accused, by his own admission and by a cursory glance at social media, is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate ideology,\" Ms Taylor said. \"This egregious criminal act will not go unpunished. Hate has no place here under my watch.\"\n\nThe Virginia governor has ordered a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee to be removed amid protests against racial injustice\n\nMr Rogers is expected back in court in August.\n\nVirginia has long been a locus for racial tensions in the US.\n\nHeated debate around Confederate symbols in the state, and the statue of Confederate general Robert Lee sparked the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, about 80 miles from Henrico.\n\nAt that rally, a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman. He was found guilty of murder.\n\nMr Rogers was also pictured at that white nationalist rally, according to the Guardian.\n\nLast week, amid Black Lives Matters protests over the killing of Mr Floyd, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Lee would be removed from the state capital and \"immediately\" put into storage.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" after the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.\n\nThe world champion saluted anti-racism protesters for tearing down a monument to the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston at a demonstration on Sunday.\n\nHamilton said governments around the world should \"implement the peaceful removal of these racist symbols\".\n\nHe has made a series of statements amid global anti-racism protests.\n• None Hamilton 'overcome with rage' at events in US\n\nThese have occurred in a number of countries following the death of George Floyd in the US last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died in police custody in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nHamilton said last week that he was \"completely overcome with rage\" at events following Floyd's death.\n\nAnd on Monday he said the Colston statue should not be recovered after demonstrators threw it into a river.\n\n\"If those people hadn't taken down that statue, honouring a racist slave trader, it would never have been removed,\" he said on Instagram.\n\n\"There's talks of it going into a museum. That man's statue should stay in the river just like the 20,000 African souls who died on the journey here and thrown into the sea, with no burial or memorial. He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated!\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter shortly afterwards, Hamilton made a pointed reference to US President Donald Trump's response to the protests that have swept America.\n\nThe 35-year-old posted a picture of the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\" painted on the road leading to the White House and wrote: \"And don't you forget it.\"", "Here's a practical maths conundrum, rather than a political question, about the plan to reopen schools in England.\n\nAnd as a spoiler - the Department for Education says it will need to issue new guidance to sort it out.\n\nThe government announced that to keep children and teachers safe there should be no more than 15 pupils per class - so in effect, every class of 30 would have to be spread over two classrooms.\n\nThis might work for the phased return of the first few year groups. But the government is also aiming, if the safety advice permits, for all primary year groups to be back in school for a month before the end of term.\n\nThe complication is that if each class is occupying two or more classrooms, how could all the year groups be back full time at the same time? There wouldn't be enough classrooms or teachers.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, says the sums don't add up: \"It seems to us a non-starter.\"\n\n\"It is impossible to reconcile this ambition with the current guidance about limiting class sizes to 15 and keeping groups in 'bubbles' to reduce mixing,\" says Mr Barton.\n\nIt's an example of how the plan to reopen schools is being road-tested against reality - before the final decision is taken, on or before 28 May, on whether to go ahead with reopening schools.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman says new safety guidance will be provided if it's decided all primary pupils are going back: \"We'll revisit the advice when the science indicates it is safe to invite more children back to schools and colleges.\"\n\nPrimary schools are going to have to be adapted in many other ways.\n\nSecondary schools will be closed for most year groups until September\n\nThey're designed to be welcoming, family-friendly places, with lots of shared play areas. But now they will need a safety-first environment.\n\nIt's goodbye to the soft toys and anything which might be hard to clean and might spread infection. Instead there will be marked out spaces, gaps between desks, one-way systems and a routine of frequent hand washing.\n\nThere's a big encouragement on fresh air and ventilation - with the safety guidance urging outdoor classes where possible and doors and windows to be kept open.\n\nAnything that can be touched will have to be frequently cleaned - light switches, books, tables, chairs, bannisters.\n\nBringing books or anything else between school and home is discouraged - and in school there shouldn't be a sharing of pencil and paper, and libraries will be closed.\n\nBut it's not about masks or social distancing - with the guidelines accepting that a two-metre exclusion zone is not realistic between young children.\n\nInstead the safety guidance is based on keeping children in closed groups of no more than 15, which stay separate from the rest of the school, and so minimise the risk of spreading infection.\n\nThese small groups will have one teacher and will learn, play and eat separately, arriving and leaving school at a different time from other small groups of pupils - each group staying two metres apart from any other.\n\nIt's a system that's followed Denmark's \"protective bubble\" approach - and teachers there suggest that pupils adapt surprisingly quickly and seem to enjoy seeing their friends again.\n\nSteve Chalke, founder of the Oasis academy trust which runs 35 primary schools, says it is very hard to have a catch-all set of national guidelines - because every school will have different buildings and circumstances.\n\nAccess to outside spaces, the design and size of rooms, the layout of schools and corridors will be different. Every building will need a \"bespoke plan\", he says.\n\nMr Chalke, who supports reopening schools, says the pressure on space from class sizes of 15 will mean that schools are likely to need rota systems, such as different classes having morning and afternoon shifts.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return?\n\nThat might raise childcare questions for parents, if they have to work around part-time school timetables.\n\nMr Chalke says while there are political debates going on between the government and teachers' unions, the key demographic to persuade over reopening schools will be parents.\n\n\"If I'm a mum or a dad, am I going to send my child?\"\n\nHe expects at first there might be relatively few arriving. \"I'm guessing it's going to be a trickle,\" he says.\n\nBut he thinks if schools can show that schools are safe and children are glad to be back, the numbers will start increasing.\n\nSchools were closed in a rush more than eight weeks ago - reopening them could prove a more complicated process.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patients recovering from being critically ill with Covid-19 'have a long road ahead'\n\nA critical care consultant at Wales' largest hospital said it was a week away from being overrun by coronavirus.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said as people heeded \"stay at home\" advice, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales just avoided breaching its critical care capacity at the pandemic's peak.\n\nThe Intensive Care Unit is now gearing up for a second wave of infections.\n\nDr Hingston said \"the really big fear\" was that it may struggle to deal with a bigger peak.\n\n\"We were very much on the verge of not coping,\" he added.\n\nBBC Wales' health correspondent Owain Clarke was given rare access to the unit, at the hospital where 755 patients who have tested positive for the outbreak have been admitted and 228 have died.\n\nWhile 477 patients have been discharged, the road to recovery can still be a long one.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said the \"stay at home\" advice helped his unit to cope\n\nGeoff Bodman, 56, from Tremorfa in Cardiff, spent eight-and-a-half weeks on the hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nHe is now undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy on the hospital's step-down ward, re-learning basic skills such as walking and brushing his teeth, before going home to his family.\n\n\"I was on a ventilator. My brother thought I was a goner, bless him.\n\n\"I find it difficult to recall a lot of it and I find it quite embarrassing sometimes that I'm trying to recall information that I should know.\n\n\"The other day I wanted to write my name and I couldn't even do that. I know they say it's a long way to go and it's going to take a hell of a journey.\"\n\nGeoff Bodman believes he may have caught coronavirus at the Cheltenham Festival\n\nMr Bodman, who runs his own painting and decorating business, said his illness affected his memory and he cannot remember being admitted to hospital.\n\n\"My last memory was going to Cheltenham races. I probably caught the damn thing there.\n\n\"That was the last memory I had, up until then it's pretty much wiped.\n\n\"And that in itself is upsetting and frightening because those are memories that I'm going to have to try to claw back.\"\n\nEmma Thomas described the heartbreak of seeing patients die with their families unable to be with them\n\nEmma Thomas, a critical care research nurse who has been helping with some of the hospital's most gravely ill patients, said the worst thing was seeing patients dying without their families by their side.\n\n\"I can't say that any nurse hasn't cried here.\n\n\"The worst thing is patients dying without families and knowing that [their] family's at home longing to be with their dying relative and just not being allowed that.\n\n\"The only thing we have to fight the virus with at the moment is lockdown, there is no vaccine, that is our only defence.\n\n\"You can deal with something when you know what the plan is, there is no plan with Covid-19, it's a brand new unprecedented virus that we just don't know if it'll end and when it'll end.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women often cannot claim legal aid because there is equity in homes they co-own with their ex-partners\n\nA woman is challenging rules which deprived her of legal aid for action to protect her from her former partner.\n\n\"Claire\" gets universal credit but not legal aid because there is equity in the home she owns with her ex-partner.\n\nAbout one in five women who suffer domestic violence cannot access legal aid because they are deemed to have \"capital\" - even if they cannot access it - lawyers say.\n\nA review of these rules, promised by government, has not yet been completed.\n\nClaire, who asked not to use her real name, lives with her two children in the home she co-owns with her ex-partner.\n\nShe says he subjected her to physical, emotional and psychological abuse, so she went to court to obtain a non-molestation order to stop the abuse and an occupation order to remove him from the home.\n\nHowever, even though she receives universal credit, she was not entitled to legal aid because she owns some of the equity in the home.\n\nClaire cannot sell the home because that would make her and her children homeless, meaning her equity is \"trapped\".\n\nIn any event, whether the house should be sold is itself subject to proceedings for which she needs legal aid.\n\nShe cannot borrow against its value because she would require her ex-partner's consent.\n\n\"My ex-partner has all the money, controlled all the money. I didn't have any of it. He has to agree to everything because the mortgage is joint. He wouldn't agree to anything.\n\n\"Selling would also mean that me and my children were homeless. So we are basically fighting for our safety, and we would be made homeless because we were being forced to sell our house to get any legal support and advice,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClaire had no option but to represent herself in court.\n\nShe describes the experience as \"horrendous, because I had to speak for myself\".\n\n\"I was in a really vulnerable position. I had to speak against his barrister who was a top barrister. He could afford to have a barrister and I couldn't.\"\n\nDespite that, she succeeded in getting the non-molestation and occupation orders.\n\nClaire returned to court for a second hearing four weeks later, but this time her ex was present.\n\n\"It was the first time I saw him after he'd been removed from the home. So I knew he was extremely angry. I was terrified and I didn't have any legal advice or help. When I heard his voice it made me physically vomit in court.\n\n\"The judge told him and his barrister to leave, they got some people to help me to get rid of the vomit and give me some water.\"\n\nClaire is challenging the rules at the High Court\n\nClaire needs legal aid for proceedings about arrangements for her children and to respond to her ex's application to force a sale of their home.\n\nHer application has been refused by the Legal Aid Agency, and she is challenging the decision at the High Court.\n\nShe is being supported by the rights group Public Law Project (PLP), which sees contradiction and unfairness in the Department for Work and Pensions not taking into account the equity in a main home in calculating benefits, while the Legal Aid Agency does take it into account for assessing eligibility for legal aid.\n\n\"It means that the same person can be destitute enough to get Universal Credit but not destitute enough, even if they are a victim of domestic violence, to get legal aid to protect them from their abuser,\" says PLP lawyer Katy Watts, who is representing Claire.\n\nMs Watts also points out such equity is often \"dead\" for domestic violence victims, in that \"even though they may have equity on paper, this is trapped capital. They often have no way of accessing it. Selling will involve getting permission from the person who has been abusing them\".\n\nIn 2012 the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) made large cuts to legal aid in England and Wales, removing many areas of civil and family law from its scope.\n\nThe only route to getting legal aid for a private family law matter is if a person is a victim of domestic violence - but this is still subject to a means test of both income and capital.\n\nIn February 2019, the Ministry of Justice promised to conduct a review to \"assess the effectiveness with which the means-testing arrangements appropriately protect access to justice, particularly with respect to those who are vulnerable\".\n\nThe review would include a look at capital thresholds for domestic violence victims, the MoJ promised.\n\nThe review has not yet concluded 15 months later.\n\n\"Sadly I am having to turn cases like Claire's away every single day,\" says her solicitor Jenny Beck, whose firm Beck Fitzgerald is working \"pro bono\" for her.\n\n\"The current rules mean that one in five women who are living on benefits and suffering abuse will not get legal aid, and will face the terrifying task of representing themselves.\n\n\"The justice system should be accessible to all, and this undermines both access to justice and the rule of law.\"\n\nMany family lawyers believe that with the reported incidence of domestic violence and deaths resulting from it rising during lockdown the need for non-means tested legal aid for victims, is urgent and overwhelming.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency says it cannot comment on ongoing proceedings.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands\n\nThe RNLI is planning summer lifeguard cover at more beaches after saying staff were only to be at 70 in the UK.\n\nIt paused its roll-out programme in March amid measures to control the spread of coronavirus, and said in May it would not be at its usual 240 sites.\n\nThe charity said it was now planning a \"more comprehensive\" service but did not confirm at how many beaches.\n\nPlans also depend on no further virus spikes or \"reintroduction of [lockdown] restrictions\", bosses said.\n\nThe charity has been facing calls to increase cover in the UK and Channel Islands after several incidents during the recent sunny weather, including two people dying in incidents in Cornwall.\n\nChief Executive Mark Dowie said at that time, restarting the full service in a pandemic was not simple as staff needed \"time to train and prepare for ever-changing medical directions about what we can and can't do on the beach\".\n\nThe RNLI said it was now \"planning to maximise the number of beaches we can put lifeguards on in the fastest possible time\" and \"provide a more comprehensive lifeguard service this summer safely, despite the continuing challenges created by the pandemic\".\n\nIt said it had been testing \"new ways of operating\" and was reassuring everyone that \"we can accelerate and expand our plans.\"\n\nRNLI lifeguards have already started working on an additional beach in Cornwall.\n\nThey were due to be patrolling only seven beaches in the county, starting on 30 May, but increased it to eight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most pupils in returning year groups still at home\n\nThe government said children in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 could start going back to school from last Monday. According to the data 659,000 children did so by last Thursday. But is that a big number? We know from the data it includes thousands of vulnerable pupils as well as 284,000 children of key workers in all years, who have been allowed to go school throughout the lockdown. According to last year's school census there are more than two million children in the year groups that were eligible to return, if their schools were able to open and their families wanted to send them. So while the government data doesn't show exactly how many children were in the returning year groups, we do know that most of those pupils were still at home. About half of schools with nursery, Reception, Year 1 or Year 6 pupils were open to at least one of these year groups by last Thursday and the government expects this to increase as some schools reported they'd be able to open from yesterday.", "Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox as objections resurfaced to some of the sketch show's characters.\n\nNetflix pulled the Matt Lucas and David Walliams series on Friday, along with their other comedy Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nBoth shows include scenes where the comedians portray characters from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"There's a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer, which we regularly review,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"Times have changed since Little Britain first aired so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.\"\n\nNetflix has not commented on the reasons for the removal, but has said recent reports that it was in negotiations with Walliams and Lucas to make a new series were false.\n\n\"We were not in active conversations about reviving the show,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe removal angered some fans, with one viewer saying people should be able to make their \"own choices\".\n\nBut others have expressed unease about watching sketches which featured the comedians wearing make up to portray different races.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and that they had had a conversation with Netflix.\n\nHe suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option, adding: \"It will come back in some form, we're just still figuring out what that will be.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis apologised for portraying black celebrities on sketch show Bo' Selecta.\n\nIt comes as certain parts of life have come under scrutiny in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.\n\nCome Fly With Me came off Britbox around November, and has not been available to view on iPlayer since it was first broadcast in 2010 and 2011.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008. There have also been a handful of specials, including a sketch on the BBC One coronavirus charity fundraiser The Big Night In this April.\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. Here are some coal-fired power stations being demolished over the years\n\nBritain is about to pass a significant landmark - at midnight on Wednesday it will have gone two full months without burning coal to generate power.\n\nA decade ago about 40% of the country's electricity came from coal; coronavirus is part of the story, but far from all.\n\nWhen Britain went into lockdown, electricity demand plummeted; the National Grid responded by taking power plants off the network.\n\nThe four remaining coal-fired plants were among the first to be shut down.\n\nThe last coal generator came off the system at midnight on 9 April. No coal has been burnt for electricity since.\n\nThe current coal-free period smashes the previous record of 18 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes which was set in June last year.\n\nThe figures apply to Britain only, as Northern Ireland is not on the National Grid.\n\nBut it reveals just how dramatic the transformation of our energy system has been in the last decade.\n\nThat the country does not need to use the fuel that used to be the backbone of the grid is thanks to a massive investment in renewable energy over the last decade.\n\nTwo examples illustrate just how much the UK's energy networks have changed.\n\nA decade ago just 3% of the country's electricity came from wind and solar, which many people saw as a costly distraction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could coronavirus be the environment's big moment?\n\nNow the UK has the biggest offshore wind industry in the world, as well as the largest single wind farm, completed off the coast of Yorkshire last year.\n\nAt the same time Drax, the country's biggest power plant, has been taking a different path to renewable energy.\n\nThe plant, which is also in Yorkshire, generates 5% of the country's electricity.\n\nA decade ago, it was the biggest consumer of coal in the UK but has been switching to compressed wood pellets. Drax plans to phase out coal entirely by March next year.\n\nDrax power station in Yorkshire has been switching from coal to wood pellets\n\n\"We here at Drax decided that coal was no longer the future,\" explains Will Gardiner, the chief executive of the power group.\n\n\"It has been a massive undertaking and then the result of all that is we've reduced our CO2 emissions from more than 20 million tonnes a year to almost zero.\"\n\nThat is a controversial claim. Environmental activists point out that wood actually produces more carbon dioxide per unit of power generated than coal when it is burnt to generate electricity.\n\nThey also say it will take many years for the trees in US forests where Drax sources the seven million tonnes of wood pellets it now burns each year to absorb the CO2 the power plant and its wood processing operations produce each year.\n\nAnd it is not just coal that is being eclipsed by renewables.\n\nSo far this year, renewables have generated more power than all fossil fuels put together.\n\nBreaking it down, renewables were responsible for 37% of electricity supplied to the network versus 35% for fossil fuels.\n\nNuclear accounted for about 18% and imports for the remaining 10% or so, according to figures from the online environmental journal, Carbon Brief.\n\n\"So far this year renewables have generated more electricity than fossil fuels and that's never happened before\", says Dr Simon Evans of Carbon Brief.\n\n\"With gas also in decline, there's a real chance that renewables will overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as a whole.\"\n\nSetting the figures for this year context shows just how quickly this turnaround has happened.\n\nThe first day when renewable power out-generated fossil fuels was in December 2016.\n\nBefore this year, there had been a total of 154 days when the combined power created from renewable sources exceeded those from fossil fuels.\n\nCarbon Brief says that 91 of those days occurred in 2019.\n\nThe decline in the role of fossil fuels in general and coal in particular looks set to continue.\n\nThe remaining three coal plants in the UK will be shut down within five years.\n\nThen the fuel that sparked the industrial revolution here in Britain almost two centuries ago will be a thing of the past.", "Victoria Rogers says children need some degree of normality\n\nRelief that children will be kept away from school for another few months, or despair that they are losing out on education and time with their friends?\n\nWhat do parents make of the government's ditching of a plan for all primary school years in England to go back to school for four weeks before the end of term?\n\nJonathan Wills a parent from Barnton Primary in Northwich in Cheshire says families need to get back to some sort of routine.\n\n\"I think it's going to be extremely difficult for kids and some families, because it's a long time to try to recreate the structure that schools give you.\n\n\"And I think without that structure, a lot of schools and kids will struggle, particularly with the stresses of financial problems and then all the types of psychological problems.\n\n\"I think the kids that were struggling before will be struggling even more now.\"\n\nMother-of-two Victoria Rogers agrees: \"I do think children should start coming back to school, as we need to get back to some form of normality.\"\n\nJonathan Wills says many families are struggling\n\nBut elsewhere, mother-of-one Molly told the BBC she is relieved that not all primary years will be returning this term, as she would not have been prepared to send her daughter back to school.\n\n\"Until it is safe for parliament to sit next to each other and until it's 'safe' to cuddle your own blood mother, then how is it deemed safe to mix your children with numerous other households?\n\n\"But our children can be placed into school with numerous other households' children. Even at small groups of 15, how is that safe? When we are only allowed to meet up in groups of six?\n\n\"It's either dangerous to us all or it's not as dangerous as what they are making out.\n\n\"As much as my daughter needs to go back to school and the lockdown has taken its toll with her, I will not be sending her back.\n\n\"If it's this big killer, keeping us away from blood relatives, then it's not safe.\"\n\nFor some families, there is a difference of opinion even within the family.\n\nOne mother-of-three - who was expecting two of hers to return to school before the summer - told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that her children had opposing views on the matter.\n\n\"I know that one of them is going to be really disappointed at the prospect of not seeing her friends.\n\n\"That's been something she's really counting down to, even though we knew it was uncertain.\n\n\"But the boy in Year 5 will be absolutely delighted!\"\n\nAs for her, she remains ambivalent on it all: \"I feel sort of resigned to it really. I just feel sad for them that they're not going to see their friends for such a long time now.\"\n\nNigel Rowlands says his daughter is happier now she is back to school\n\nAnother mother told Today said she was \"unsurprised\" but \"incredibly disappointed\" by the news.\n\n\"I feel really sad for my son. I've got one son in year two, and another one in reception.\n\n\"My child in reception's gone back, albeit only four days a week, every other week.\n\n\"And my older son, who is just about to turn seven, is desperate to go back, can't understand, thinks it's so unfair - which it is.\n\n\"He and the school are going to have to put up with my rather inadequate home schooling, while I'm stuck at home, also with a one-and-a-half year old, trying to juggle a business and everything else.\"\n\nBut another mother, with two children aged eight and six, told Today she thought a return before the summer was too early.\n\n\"I'm actually relieved if schools don't go back until September because I think it's too soon.\n\n\"They don't socially distance at that age. I don't think there's enough protective equipment available in school.\"\n\nHowever, for Nigel Rowlands, the past few weeks have been very difficult and he is glad to have his daughter back in school.\n\n\"It's been difficult - we've been through a lot. There's no structure, learning at home is entirely different to learning at school,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I've been working from home. So we've just spent a huge amount of time together, confined within four walls with not a lot of other places to go to.\n\n\"We try to get out and do a daily walk, but that's not the same as spending all day in school with other people.\n\n\"Having her back in school now has given some of that structure back and that's reflected in her being connected with other children and you can see that in that her demeanour is completely different since she's been back in school.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Personal finance expert Martin Lewis says he wants an end to 'furlough shaming' online\n\nSome 8.9 million workers are now covered by the government's furlough scheme, the Treasury has said.\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK workforce is now being supported by it and the cost so far has reached £19.6bn.\n\nThe scheme, brought in to mitigate the effects of coronavirus, allows employees to receive 80% of their monthly salary up to £2,500.\n\nA similar programme for self-employed workers has seen 2.6 million claims made worth £7.5bn.\n\nKnown as the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS), it differs from the furlough scheme because it is a grant paid out in a single instalment covering three months and amounting to 80% of average profit.\n\nSelf-employed workers can continue to apply for the first SEISS grant until 13 July. Applications for a second grant will open in August.\n\nThe latest Treasury figures for both schemes cover all claims made by midnight on 7 June.\n\nThe furlough scheme, officially called the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, was originally intended to last until the end of July, but has now been extended until the end of October.\n\nFrom July, businesses using the scheme will be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time. Even if they do not, the government will continue to pay 80% of staff salaries during June and July.\n\nFrom August to October, workers on furlough will continue to receive 80% of their salary, but the amount paid by the state will be reduced each month. Employers will be expected to make up the rest.\n\nRecent figures from the government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), indicate that the cost of the government's efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic is expected to hit £123.2bn.\n\nThe OBR expects annual borrowing to equal 15.2% of the UK economy, which would be the highest since the 22.1% seen at the end of World War Two.\n\nIn another development, personal finance expert Martin Lewis has spoken out against what he called a \"dangerous trend\" of \"furlough shaming\" online by people who objected to furloughed workers pursuing leisure activities.\n\nMr Lewis, who runs the MoneySavingExpert website, told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It is not flouting the furlough scheme to be in a park, to be sunbathing, to be reading a book, to be taking time off.\n\n\"It is actually the definition of the rules of the furlough scheme, which says you cannot work.\"\n\nMr Lewis added: \"It is the employer who decides whether people are furloughed, not the individual, and they are not allowed to work.\"", "There are estimated to be 700,000 young carers in England.\n\nTwelve-year-old Finlay cares for his mum, while 15-year-old Danielle helps her mum look after her siblings while her step-dad works long hours.\n\nThey describe how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe young carers are supported by a group in Salford run by the charities: Gaddum, The Lowry and the Who Cares Campaign.", "Subscribers to Vodafone's UK mobile network have had problems making and receiving calls.\n\nWhile the issue prevented voice calls connecting, customers were still able to text and use mobile data.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, the problem began shortly after 17:00 BST and affected people across the country.\n\nA spokeswoman for Vodafone said a fix had been made at 18:10 BST and that its operations had \"started recovering\" shortly afterwards.\n\nShe added that not all Vodafone's users had been affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier the firm had told the BBC that the incident had impacted \"a large number of customers\".\n\n\"I understand it's particularly inconvenient, especially in a lockdown situation,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThe company said the problem had been caused by a change it had made to block a range of telephone numbers used to make spam calls.\n\n\"Somehow that had a knock-on effect to the voice platform,\" it explained.", "The Duke of York has \"sought to falsely portray himself\" as eager to cooperate with an inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said.\n\nUS attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew \"has repeatedly declined our request\" to schedule an interview.\n\nThe duke's lawyers previously rejected claims he had not co-operated, saying he offered to help three times.\n\nHe will not be extradited, the US government's chief lawyer has said.\n\nUS Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: \"I don't think it's a question of handing him over. I think it's just a question of having him provide some evidence.\"\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year after an interview he gave to the BBC about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nMr Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has criticised the duke in the past. In January he accused him of providing \"zero co-operation\" and in March he said Prince Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nOn Monday, the duke's lawyers responded for the first time and hit back at the claims as \"inaccurate\".\n\nMr Berman then issued a statement, deepening the row. He said: \"Today, Prince Andrew yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate with an ongoing federal criminal investigation into sex trafficking and related offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.\"\n\nHe said the duke \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\n\"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nIn the BBC interview last year, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further. But a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nEarlier, the legal team said: \"As the public record indicates the DoJ has been actively investigating Mr Epstein and other targets for more than 16 years, yet the first time they requested the duke's help was on 2 January 2020.\n\n\"Importantly, the DoJ advised us that the duke is not and has never been a 'target' of their criminal investigations into Epstein and that they sought his confidential, voluntary co-operation.\"\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who represents some of Epstein's victims, told BBC Breakfast she thinks Prince Andrew has \"very little credibility\".\n\n\"I have a lot of suspicion about what he is saying through his representatives,\" she said, adding that she did not feel the same way towards Mr Berman.\n\nShe added that the victims are in pain and \"deserve the truth\".\n\n\"Questioning the motives of the prosecutors, I just think that's meaningless in this situation,\" she said.\n\n\"Let him step up to the bar of justice, take the oath and just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers said they had asked US prosecutors to confirm the cooperation would remain confidential, adding: \"We were given an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential.\"\n\nThey added: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the DoJ.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of York said he would testify under oath\n\nThe legal team added: \"It is a matter of regret that the DoJ has seen fit to breach its own rules of confidentiality, not least as they are designed to encourage witness co-operation.\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen. Further, those same breaches of confidentiality by the DoJ have given the global media - and, therefore, the worldwide audience - an entirely misleading account of our discussions with them.\"\n\nThe DoJ has made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nThe duke emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Charity Commission has ruled that Prince Andrew's trust, which supported his charitable work, was in breach of rules over payments of more than £355,000 to a former trustee.\n\nThe duke's charitable body allowed the former trustee, who was an employee of Prince Andrew's household, to work as a director for a fee for three of its subsidiary companies - in breach of charity law.\n\nThe duke's household was then reimbursed £355,297 for a proportion of this employee's time by the subsidiaries, the Charity Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"Trustees cannot be paid to act as directors of a subsidiary company, unless there is authority from the charity's governing document or the payments are authorised by the Commission or the court, none of which were in place at the charity,\" the statement read.\n\nHis household has since paid back the money to the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust (PACT).\n\nThe trust has also notified the commission of its intention to wind up, with the remaining funds being distributed to other charities.\n\nA statement from the current trustees said former trustees who were in post at the time had \"inadvertently breached charity law\".\n\n\"The current trustees of PACT are grateful to the Charity Commission for its support in bringing this matter to a satisfactory conclusion with the payment of funds by HRH The Duke of York's office to the Trust,\" the statement said.", "Alice Cutter and Mark Jones were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA \"Miss Hitler\" beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.\n\nAlice Cutter, 23, and Mark Jones, 25, were convicted of membership of a terrorist group in March, alongside co-accused Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.\n\nNational Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed in 2016 after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nCutter was jailed for three years and Jones for five and a half years.\n\nAt Birmingham Crown Court, Jack, 24, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and Scothern, 19, was detained for 18 months.\n\nJudge Paul Farrer QC told Jones he had played \"a significant role in the continuation of the organisation\" after its ban in December 2016.\n\nThe judge told Cutter she \"never held an organisational or leadership role\" but said she was a \"trusted confidante\" of one the group's leaders, as well as being in a \"committed relationship\" with Jones.\n\nCutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, were convicted along with Jack and Scothern at a trial in March.\n\nThe court heard Cutter had entered the Miss Hitler beauty pageant under the name Miss Buchenwald - a reference to the World War Two death camp.\n\nShe denied being a member of National Action, despite attending the group's rallies, in which banners reading \"Hitler was right\" were raised.\n\nJurors were also shown messages in which Cutter joked about gassing synagogues, and using a Jew's head as a football.\n\nJones and Cutter were described as key members of National Action\n\nJones, the group's London regional organiser who later moved to Yorkshire, acknowledged posing for a photograph delivering a Nazi-style salute and holding a National Action flag in Buchenwald's execution room during a trip to Germany in 2016.\n\nCutter was described at the sentencing as \"an active member\" of National Action by prosecuting barrister Barnaby Jameson.\n\nHe said frustration with a lack activism in her native Yorkshire led her to join their Midlands sub-group, whose membership was \"determined to defy the ban\".\n\nJack, of Heathland Avenue in Shard End, Birmingham, appeared via video-link for the sentencing and was described by Mr Jameson as turning up to \"almost every Midlands meet-up\".\n\nHe had previously been given a suspended jail term for plastering Birmingham's Aston University campus with racially-aggravating National Action stickers in July 2016, some of which read: \"Britain is ours, the rest must go.\"\n\nJack wrote a letter to the judge stating: \"I have turned my back on the far right.\"\n\n(L-R) Garry Jack, Connor Scothern and Daniel Ward were also convicted or pleaded guilty to being National Action members\n\nMr Jameson told the court Scothern, of Bagnall Avenue in Nottingham, was \"one of the most active members of the group\" who was \"considered future leadership material\".\n\nAnother leading member once observed how Scothern had \"driven himself into poverty\" travelling to member meetings and self-funding 1,500 stickers, calling for a \"Final Solution\" - in reference to the Nazi's genocide of Jewish people.\n\nGerard Hillman, defending Scothern, described him as vulnerable and \"under the influence of others\".\n\nA fifth man, Daniel Ward, 28 from Bartley Green in Birmingham, pleaded guilty to being a member of National Action last year and was jailed for three years.\n\nMax Hill QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the group were \"diehards in the way that they think\".\n\n\"They hark back to the days of not just anti-Semitism but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany, and they take their mindset from those extreme Nazi groups and latterly neo-Nazi groups in Germany,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The statue of Robert Milligan was removed by the Canal and River Trust to \"recognise the wishes of the community\"\n\nA statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nSadiq Khan earlier announced a review of all of London's statues and street names, saying any with links to slavery \"should be taken down\".\n\nOn Sunday, anti-racism protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nMilligan's monument was removed to \"recognise the wishes of the community\" said the Canal and River Trust.\n\nThere were cheers and clapping as the monument was lifted from its plinth using a crane.\n\nThe Museum of London Docklands said the statue of the prominent British slave trader, who owned two sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica, had \"stood uncomfortably\" outside its premises \"for a long time\".\n\n\"The Museum of London recognises that the monument is part of the ongoing problematic regime of white-washing history, which disregards the pain of those who are still wrestling with the remnants of the crimes Milligan committed against humanity,\" they added.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it had worked with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the museum and partners in Canary Wharf to have it removed.\n\nAs the Milligan statue was lowered from its plinth, thousands of people gathered outside an Oxford college to demand the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nMilligan was a noted slaveholder and founder of London's global trade hub, West India Docks\n\nMr Khan said London had to face \"an uncomfortable truth\" with its historical links to slavery.\n\nThe Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will review the city's landmarks - including murals, street art, street names, statues and other memorials - and consider which legacies should be celebrated before making recommendations.\n\nMr Khan said London was \"one of the most diverse cities in the world\", but said recent Black Lives Matter protests had highlighted that the city's statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain.\n\n\"It is an uncomfortable truth that our nation and city owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade,\" he said.\n\n\"While this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been wilfully ignored.\"\n\nDuring a Black Lives Matter protest in central London on Sunday, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nBut Mr Khan said he did not consider statues of the likes of Churchill to be included in the review.\n\nHe said pupils needed to be educated about famous figures \"warts and all\" and that \"nobody was perfect\", including the likes of Churchill, Gandhi and Malcolm X.\n\nThe statue of Robert Milligan was covered with fabric and Black Lives Matter sign before being removed\n\nMr Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he did not have ownership of the statues and the land they are on.\n\nHe also said it would be \"inappropriate\" to single out which statues and street names he thinks should go.\n\nInstead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.\n\nA statue of Sir Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest\n\nThe Local Government Association's (LGA) Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review \"the appropriateness\" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities.\n\nCampaigns calling for the removal or amendment of monuments celebrating controversial figures have increased in volume around the UK in recent days.\n\nIn Oxford, 26 councillors and an MP have called for a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college.\n\nA plaque is to be added to a Henry Dundas monument in Edinburgh to \"reflect\" the city's links with slavery, while the leader of Cardiff Council said he would support the removal of a statue of slave-owner Sir Thomas Picton from the city's civic building.", "Marta Kauffman says she would do things differently now\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman has admitted she \"didn't do enough\" to promote racial diversity in her shows.\n\nKauffman, who also co-created Grace and Frankie, was asked on a virtual panel interview what she wished she knew when she started out.\n\n\"I just wish I knew then what I know now. I would've made very different decisions,\" she said.\n\nDespite its success, Friends has been criticised in recent years for its lack of diversity, even by its cast members.\n\nKauffman added during the 2020 ATX TV Festival: \"I mean we've always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn't do enough and now all I can think about is, what can I do?\n\n\"What can I do differently? How can I run my show in a new way? And that's something I not only wish I knew when I started showrunning, but I wish I knew all the way up through last year.\"\n\nA Friends special unscripted reunion is set to show on HBO Max\n\nIn an interview earlier this year, David Schwimmer - who played Ross in the sitcom - proposed a more diverse remake.\n\n\"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends,\" he said. \"But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of colour.\n\n\"One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.\"\n\nLisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe, was recently asked what a modern-day reboot of Friends would look like and told The Sunday Times: \"Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure.\"\n\nHowever she added that the show was of its time: \"I'm not sure what else, but to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong.\"\n\nFriends was arguably one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history, running for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004. It has since gained a whole new young audience.\n\nThe cast of Friends is also set to reunite for a one-off unscripted special, which will be shown on the HBO Max streaming service.\n\nThey will be seen reminiscing about their time on the series. However, production has been delayed due to the coronavirus.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The holiday firm behind Hoseasons and Cottages.com has agreed to give customers refunds for trips which have been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority said Vacation Rentals had changed its policy after action by the regulator.\n\nThe CMA said a \"significant proportion\" of complaints it received about holiday lettings were about Vacation Rentals.\n\nHowever, the firm said it had been offering refunds since 30 April.\n\nThis date is when the CMA published guidance to travel firms on consumer rights and refunds, a Vacation Rentals spokesman said.\n\n\"We believe we have acted fairly and responsibly at all times,\" the spokesman said. \"We responded and adapted to the evolving issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic whenever new guidelines from the government were made available.\"\n\nVacation Rentals runs 22 brands offering holiday lets in the UK, as well as Italy, France and Ireland. Its other sites include Blue Chip Holidays and Welcome Cottages.\n\nThe competition watchdog said Vacation Rentals voluntarily changed its policy after originally failing to offer refunds to all customers whose trips were cancelled.\n\nThe company has now given a formal commitment that customers will have the option of a full refund if a booking has been cancelled because of restrictions associated with the coronavirus outbreak, the CMA said.\n\nIn a statement, the CMA said: \"The CMA's Covid-19 Taskforce has so far received around 4,500 reports about UK holiday rental companies, with complaints about Vacation Rentals making up a significant proportion of those reports.\"\n\nHowever, Vacation Rentals maintains it had been offering refunds for some time.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Following the CMA's statement on 30 April clarifying its view on the law on cancellations of consumer contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic, we acted immediately and expanded the options available to any customers who were due to travel during the government imposed lockdown period to include a full cash refund.\n\n\"By the time the CMA's investigation into our business commenced, we were already acting in line with the CMA's guidance.\"\n\nThe CMA is hoping that by trumpeting its success with one holiday let provider, it can push the others into paying full refunds.\n\nThere are plenty of others which have been reluctant to pay full refunds, in some cases arguing that they are simply the agents and should not be liable.\n\nIt is important that people who have been fobbed off with vouchers can now go back and demand their money, even if they accepted them.\n\nCompanies may now decide there is no point in holding out against the CMA if they are going to have to re-open previous cases as well.\n\nThe CMA said other holiday companies face \"further scrutiny\" because, despite consumer law on refunds being clear, some firms are still refusing to offer customers their money back. Legal action was a possibility, the CMA said.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said: \"Our Covid-19 Taskforce is working hard to ensure that consumers get what they are entitled to, so it's good news that Vacation Rentals has agreed to offer people the refunds they are due. We welcome this step and other holiday lets firms must now follow suit.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that some firms faced financial challenges, \"but it's not right that people are being left hundreds or even thousands of pounds out of pocket - on top of having to sacrifice their holidays.\n\n\"Consumer protection law exists for a reason; businesses must observe the law or face the possibility of enforcement action.\"\n\nThe CMA said that common complaints it had received included companies refusing to provide full refunds at all or offering only vouchers instead of cash refunds.\n\nThe holiday lettings business is just one area where consumers are complaining about refunds. Airlines have also faced a barrage of criticism from disgruntled customers.\n\nRory Boland, travel editor at the consumer group Which?, said: \"While it is positive to see some firms changing their policy on refunds, there are still many customers struggling to get their money back for cancelled holiday accommodation and package travel bookings.\n\n\"The CMA must continue to investigate these sectors and come down strongly on any firms found to be flouting the law.\"\n\nAre you a Vacation Rentals customer? Have you been affected? Please 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.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were photographed in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nBuckingham Palace has released a new photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to mark the duke's 99th birthday.\n\nPrince Philip, who celebrates his birthday on Wednesday, has been shielding with the Queen at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe photo was taken in the castle's grounds during sunny weather last week.\n\nIt is the first public photo of the duke since he was seen leaving hospital in London on 24 December last year.\n\nPrince Philip spent four nights in the private King Edward VII's Hospital in relation to a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nIn the picture, which was taken by a Press Association photographer, the duke is wearing a Household Division tie.\n\nThe Queen is wearing a heart-shaped 18.8 carat diamond brooch called Cullinan V, which she has worn many times, including for her granddaughter Princess Eugenie's wedding and London Fashion Week.\n\nIt follows another photograph last week that showed the Queen, 94, riding a pony called Balmoral Fern in Windsor Home Park.\n\nThe Queen was seen outside for the first time since lockdown began riding a 14-year-old Fell pony\n\nPrince Philip, who has been married to the Queen for 72 years, has rarely been seen in public since he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nHe is the longest-serving consort in British history and the oldest serving partner of a reigning monarch.\n\nThe duke issued a rare statement in April thanking key workers who were keeping essential services running during the pandemic.\n\nIt followed the Queen's own message on television, watched by about 24 million viewers.\n\nMeanwhile the Duke of Cambridge said he was worried about Prince Philip and the Queen during the coronavirus outbreak, but said his grandparents were doing everything they could to ensure they were protected and isolated.\n\n\"Obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents who are the age they're at - we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this,\" said Prince William.\n\nPrince Philip was last seen in public leaving hospital in time for Christmas last year\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus in mid-March.\n\nPrince Philip, who had been staying at the Sandringham estate, was flown by helicopter to join the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe government's rules for the lockdown identified groups of \"clinically vulnerable\" people who should take particular care to minimise contact with anyone outside their household.\n\nThey included those aged 70 or over, \"regardless of medical conditions\".\n\nThe managing editor of Majesty magazine, Joe Little, said the royal couple's time in lockdown together was \"an opportunity for them in their later years to reconnect... It is the perfect royal cocooning\".\n\nHe added: \"They will make a fuss of him on Wednesday as much as you can make a fuss of the Duke of Edinburgh.\"", "Mark Redfern said the head was \"saved by the people of Ashbourne\"\n\nA figure of a black man's head has been removed from a pub sign amid a row over racism.\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council said on Monday the 18th Century iron and wood feature in Ashbourne would be \"removed with immediate effect\".\n\nAbout 150 residents gathered to take down the figure, vowing to return it, before the council could act.\n\nA petition to remove the head, launched on Friday, has gathered more than 40,000 signatures.\n\nThe district council said permanent removal of the head would need listed building consent and consultation with Historic England\n\nAshbourne resident Mark Redfern said the head, which is part of the Grade II*-listed sign for The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel in St John Street, \"will be restored while on the ground and returned to its position at a later date\".\n\nHe said local councillors witnessed the removal.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Redfern said the head would be given \"a lick of black paint\", and claimed the move was to save it from vandalism.\n\nHis son, 17-year-old Shaun Redfern, has gathered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition calling for the head to remain for historical reasons.\n\nThe district council said it intended to remove the sign as it was a public safety concern and the issue required urgent discussion\n\nResident Darren Waring, who said he was involved in taking down the feature, said: \"People are making these racist overtures without knowing the facts.\"\n\nHe said the figure is a head of a Turkish man who came to Ashbourne hundreds of years ago and traded coffee.\n\n\"He brought prosperity. He was a well-respected and well-loved Turkish man so in his honour they put his head up. It has nothing to do with slavery,\" he said.\n\nHe added in the 1980s, he went up to the sign to restore it with his father.\n\n\"The sign was actually dark brown,\" he said. \"My dad explained to me this is a Turkish man, not a black man. It was painted brown then something has gone wrong in the restoration.\"\n\nA 19-year-old student from the town said: \"Having it in the middle of the street in a small town is so unwelcoming\"\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council's decision to remove the head followed the statue of a slave trader in Bristol being torn down during demonstrations on Sunday.\n\nA council spokesman said a councillor spoke to the group, explaining the council needed to take down the figure temporarily in the interests of public safety ahead of a consultation.\n\nHe said: \"The group, who had ladders, then decided they would remove the figure themselves for safe keeping and, not wanting to create a confrontation, in the circumstances we did not object.\n\n\"We expect to have possession of the head figure later today.\"\n\nHistoric England said: \"As the government's adviser on heritage, we will be ready to advise the council on next steps if they need it.\"\n\nOne 20-year-old anthropology student from the town - who did not want to be named - said the sign resembled a gollywog, a 19th Century rag doll which is largely considered racist.\n\n\"I think people are ashamed of it,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Holt, a 19-year-old international relations student from Ashbourne, said: \"It should be in a museum where we can learn about it with a description to contextualise it.\"\n\nCouncillor Barry Lewis, Derbyshire's County Council leader, said the figure should not be taken down, although it was \"clearly culturally insensitive and racist\".\n\nHe added: \"Cultural heritage is there to challenge us sometimes, to make us uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe district council said it was gifted the sign a number of years ago\n\nA Derbyshire Police spokesman said officers attended from 21:00 until 23:00 BST to \"monitor the situation and ensure there were no breaches of the peace\".\n\n\"There were no arrests,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new leader and the end of Brexit as an election issue will not be enough for Labour to win back power, a review of the party's 2019 defeat has warned.\n\nThe Labour Together project says the party has a \"mountain to climb\" after slumping to its lowest number of seats since 1935 in December's poll.\n\nIt says the historic defeat had been a \"long time coming\" and deep-seated changes were needed.\n\nLabour will have been out of power for 14 years by the next election in 2024.\n\nThe Conservatives won December's election with a majority of 80, while Labour lost 59 seats and saw its vote share fall by eight points.\n\nLabour's defeat led to the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. He was replaced in April by Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Labour Together report, which was largely compiled before the coronavirus pandemic, warned that \"disunity and division within our party over time has badly damaged our electoral fortunes\".\n\nAnd the commissioners of the review agreed it would \"be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes\".\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a network of activists from all Labour traditions, surveyed 11,000 members, held in-depth interviews with former MPs and party candidates, and spoke to polling experts and academics.\n\nIt identified a manifesto viewed as \"undeliverable\" by many voters, concerns about Mr Corbyn's leadership and the party's position on Brexit as the \"interlinked and indivisible\" factors behind the 2019 defeat.\n\nBut it says the party's problems run far deeper and its failure to properly analyse previous defeats \"sowed the seeds for our failure in 2019\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said Labour \"won the argument\" at last year's election but blamed media bias for the party's defeat and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit.\n\nThe report paints a portrait of a party riven by \"factionalism\", \"internal arguments\" and \"division\".\n\nBut it issues a stark warning to those who believe that a change in both the party leadership and in the political landscape will necessarily bring Labour much closer to power.\n\nThe report says: \"It would be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes.\"\n\nAnd this is perhaps the true value of the report for the new leadership - it serves as both a reality check for activists and an opportunity for the new regime to argue that a break for the past is necessary.\n\nIt declares that Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" - and the authors are clearly thinking of K2 rather than a Scottish munro.\n\nThe Labour Together review was headed by MP Lucy Powell - who ran Ed Miliband's unsuccessful 2015 election campaign, leading the party to win more seats than Mr Corbyn in 2019, but with a slightly lower vote share.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Labour needed to address a long-standing \"disconnect\" with working-class voters to win again.\n\nThe \"red wall\" of seats in the party's traditional strongholds, she said, had \"been crumbling for twenty years\".\n\nShe said there was \"no sign yet that long-term decline is in any way abating,\" adding it could put a number of Labour MPs in formerly safe seats at risk in future.\n\nMr Miliband, who has returned to the shadow cabinet under Sir Keir and was a member of the Labour Together panel, said winning the next election would be a \"Herculean task\".\n\nWriting for the Guardian, he said the party's \"new core vote\" of younger graduates in big cities are \"not enough on their own to win us the election\".\n\nBut he said the party needed to maintain a commitment for \"economic transformation,\" adding this was desired by both Leave and Remain voters.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would stand down after the 2019 election loss\n\nThe report said responsibility for the defeat did not rest \"wholly with one side or part of our movement\".\n\nBut it said Mr Corbyn's low poll ratings going into the election could not \"easily be disentangled from the handling of issues like Brexit, party disunity and anti-Semitism\".\n\nMomentum, the campaign group formed out of Mr Corbyn's successful 2015 leadership bid, called the report a \"much needed contribution\" to the debate over Labour's future election strategy.\n\nA spokesperson said the party needed to \"professionalise the party machine,\" and better engage party members through \"community organising\".\n\nThey added the group was happy to offer its \"expertise\" in digital campaigning to help the party reach more voters online.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the report included:\n\nIn its recommendations, the report warned Labour could \"could fall further, unless it faces up to the disconnect between the party and the public and is realistic about the scale of the political and organisational task ahead\".\n\nIt said the party needed to \"build a winning coalition of voters which spans generations, geographies and outlooks\", while holding onto Labour's existing supporters and \"inspiring more younger voters\".", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been downgraded from four to three, its chief medical officers have said.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nPreviously transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the change was \"a big moment for the country\" and showed that the government's plan was working.\n\nThe decision to reduce the alert level followed a recommendation by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said.\n\n\"There has been a steady decrease in cases we have seen in all four nations, and this continues,\" the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nBut they warned it \"does not mean that the pandemic is over\" and that \"localised outbreaks are likely to occur\".\n\nThe daily UK update provided by the government showed there were 173 coronavirus deaths recorded across the UK on 18 June, taking the total to 42,461.\n\n\"We have made progress against the virus thanks to the efforts of the public and we need the public to continue to follow the guidelines carefully to ensure this progress continues,\" they said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care for England said the alert level would be used by government to inform its decision on \"the continuing easing of lockdown\", but a spokesperson added the two were \"not contingent on each other\".\n\nThe alert level is telling us what we already know - the virus is still here, but at much lower levels.\n\nIt combines all the data on coronavirus in the UK to give a single, clear message about the current threat.\n\nBut how closely it is tied to government decisions is debatable.\n\nBoris Johnson announced the relaxation of a range of measures - including the reopening of shops in England - while we were still at Level 4.\n\nAlthough the decision - by the UK's chief medical officers - would make any decisions to relax the 2m rule or open pubs and restaurants politically easier.\n\nHowever, it doesn't mean that we can all relax and stop social distancing and practising good hygiene. Remember the alert level can go up as well as down.\n\nThere are five coronavirus alert levels in total.\n\nIn determining the UK's alert level, the four chief medical officers considered a number of factors including:\n\nMr Hancock said recent progress in these factors showed \"a real testament to the British people's determination to beat this virus\".\n\n\"Infection rates are rapidly falling, we have protected the NHS and, thanks to the hard work of millions in our health and social care services, we are getting the country back on her feet,\" he added.\n\nThe government is now publishing \"growth rates\" alongside the R number, which indicates how fast cases are rising or falling.\n\nAcross the UK, the growth rate is estimated at between -2% and -4% per day. The growth rate is thought to be negative in every region of England, meaning cases are falling.\n\nThe R number for the UK is currently between 0.7 and 0.9. Anything below 1.0 means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nThe move to level 3 comes weeks after some restrictions were first eased in each UK nation.\n\nAt the end of May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level four to level three tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level and it remained at four until now.\n\nWhen the government first announced the alert system in early May, it also published a three-step plan to ease restrictions.\n\nStep one, the first easing of lockdown, involved allowing people to take unlimited exercise and spend more time outdoors.\n\nStep two permitted the gradual opening of schools and non-essential retail, which is the current situation.\n\nThe third step in the government's published plan, which it said was to take place \"no earlier than 4 July\", includes opening further non-essential services like hairdressers and beauty salons, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities.\n\nMoving to alert level three signals there could be a \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\", according to the government's original plan.\n\nA review is also currently taking place into reducing social distancing guidance from 2m (6ft 6) to 1m (3ft 3).\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, the earliest date that pubs and restaurants can open in England.\n\nOn Friday the prime minister said. \"On the social distancing measures, watch this space. We will be putting in further changes, as the science allows.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a primary school, he said he hoped there would be more guidance published \"very very shortly\" in the run up to July 4th to help businesses.\n\nWhen the review was announced, Mr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"", "A Conservative activist has been suspended after tweeting a British Muslim MP should \"go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe party said they were investigating the comments made by Theodora Dickinson on Twitter about Labour's Naz Shah.\n\nResponding to a GIF of the MP talking about her experience of poverty while growing up in Yorkshire, she wrote if Ms Shah \"hates this country so much why doesn't she go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said such \"blatant racism\" was unacceptable.\n\nThe group - which has previously accused the Conservatives of turning a blind eye to Islamophobia - said it showed there was still a \"serious problem\" within the party.\n\nFormer party chair Baroness Warsi has also suggested the Conservatives are in denial about the extent of Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThe Conservatives have launched an inquiry into all forms of prejudice within the party.\n\nBut critics have said it is not independent and would not specifically address anti-Muslim racism.\n\nMs Dickinson posted the tweet in response to a clip from a speech the MP made in a Commons debate on free school meals.\n\nMs Shah accused ministers of having \"no real understanding, care or emotion\" about the extent of child poverty in the UK.\n\nIn the clip, the Labour politician - who was born in Bradford and now represents the city - spoke of her experience, being \"palmed off\" to social services when she was a child, separated from her family and taken on trips to Scarborough, adding \"that is what poverty is\".\n\nMs Dickinson's comments, which were first reported by the Huffington Post, have since been deleted.\n\nOn her Twitter handle, Ms Dickinson describes herself as a political communications and social media consultant. She is understood to have worked for the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was born in Bradford and now represents the city\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain claimed the party activist had previously shared an Islamophobic conspiracy theory in response to the 2019 terror attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, but no action had been taken against her.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"Will this latest blatant racism elicit action? The party must reflect and consider why it chooses to ignore widespread concerns about its institutional Islamophobia.\n\n\"If a truly independent inquiry is not enacted with its recommendations implemented, there will be a drip-feed of these stories for a long time to come.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"Theodora Dickinson has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\"", "A £1bn fund to help England's children catch up on what they have missed while schools have been closed has been announced by the prime minister.\n\nThe most disadvantaged pupils will have access to tutors through a £350m programme over the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nHead teachers welcomed the funds, but said more details were needed.\n\nLabour said ministers should convene a taskforce - involving trade unions and scientific and health experts - to help all pupils return to school safely as soon as possible.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the plans \"lack detail and appear to be a tiny fraction of the support\" needed and called for a \"detailed national education plan to get children's education and health back on track\".\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson said the fund would help head teachers provide what pupils need.\n\nHe thanked teachers, childcare workers and support staff for their efforts during the pandemic, and said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nAnd during a visit to a school on Friday, Mr Johnson suggested there may be change in the rules on social distancing, with more guidance due \"very, very shortly\", adding: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nIt comes as the Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded, bringing with it a possible relaxation of the rules that have kept many pupils out of school.\n\nThe Scottish Government said it is also looking at social distancing rules in schools, after Northern Ireland decided to reduce its two-metre rule to one metre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she wanted schools to open safely as soon as possible.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Mr Johnson said the government was planning \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nBut the announcement did not include any specific push towards catch-up activities running through the summer break except a expectation that usual summer clubs would be running.\n\nInstead there is a strong push for head teachers to target catch-up help via tutoring from September.\n\nHowever, schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC there was lee-way for heads to set up summer schemes if they so wished.\n\nBut he said: \"If you want children to catch up, it can't just be done over the month of August - it has to be longer term over the academic year\".\n\nResearch by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests the £650m pot represents about £80 extra for each student.\n\nThat is a rise of about 1% but would leave total spending still 3% below 2010 levels in real terms.\n\nEarly years providers and colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds are not included in the plans.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said it would be \"entirely unjustifiable\" to exclude sixth form students from the package.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the government's decision not to include pre-schoolers \"beggars belief\".\n\nBut Mr Gibb said that older age groups had \"fared better with remote education than other age groups\" which is why the government was focused on helping younger pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nChildren in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have begun returning to primary schools in England, and some Year 10 and 12 pupils returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".\n\nPlans for the subsidised National Tutoring Programme have been developed with a group of social mobility organisations and academics led by the charity Education Endowment Fund (EEF).\n\nThe EEF has said that until now, access to tutoring has been the preserve of wealthy families - but this would no longer be the case as schools would be able to seek subsidised tutoring.\n\nHowever, individual schools would be expected to pay 25% of the tutoring costs in the first year, or from their share of the £650m in extra funding being made available to them as part of this package.\n\nThe tutors themselves will be provided by organisations approved by the National Tutoring Programme. Many of them will be students or graduates trained by tutoring groups.\n\nTheir modelling suggests between 550,000 and 650,000 courses, featuring three pupils to one tutor, would run for an hour a week over 15 weeks.\n\n\"Tutoring is the catch-up approach supported by the strongest evidence,\" said the EEF's chief executive, Prof Becky Francis.\n\nShe said the programme hoped to reach more than a million pupils, calling it a tremendous opportunity to create long-lasting change.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed the investment, saying it would help support the work schools are already undertaking on pupil catch-up.\n\nBut he noted that the investment was expected to be spent on tutoring, rather than being left to head teachers to decide.\n\n\"As ever, we suspect the devil will be in the detail and we await further information,\" he said.\n\nHe was also concerned that there was no investment for sixth forms.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, criticised the decision not to include colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds in the plans.\n\nHe said teenage college students deserved as much catch-up support as every other age group and it was \"indefensible\" to overlook them.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said he was pleased ministers had listened to calls for a longer-term response, rather than short-term fixes.\n\n\"This is a considerable sum of money,\" said Mr Whiteman, but he also warned there were many details still to be worked through.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Malala Yousafzai said her current plans were 'Netflix, reading and sleep'\n\nHuman rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai has expressed her \"joy and gratitude\" after finishing her final exams at Oxford University.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who survived a shot to the head by Taliban soldiers, studied politics, philosophy, and economics.\n\nTweeting earlier, she said: \"I don't know what's ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep.\"\n\nMs Yousafzai was attacked for saying girls should be allowed to stay in education.\n\nShe was shot in the head, neck and shoulder while travelling home from school after writing an anonymous diary about life under the extremists.\n\nAfter recovering from her near-fatal injuries, she and her family relocated to Birmingham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2014, she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 17. Three years later she accepted a place to study at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford.\n\nMs Yousafzai tweeted two pictures as she announced the news that she completed her degree. In one, she is celebrating with her family in front of a graduation cake.\n\nThe other was taken after a \"trashing\", a tradition at the university where students are covered with food and confetti after completing their exams.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK retail sales partly recovered in May, driven by DIY stores and garden centres reopening amid the lockdown.\n\nThe amount of goods sold last month increased by 12%, in comparison with record falls seen in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSales were boosted by a 42% rise at household goods stores, such as hardware, furniture and paint shops.\n\nDespite the rebound seen in May, retail sales still remain well below pre-lockdown levels.\n\nNon-essential retailers in England and Northern Ireland have, however, since been allowed to reopen.\n\nMost shops in Scotland are to reopen from 29 June. Non-essential retailers in Wales will be told they can reopen from Monday, the first minister is expected to announce on Friday.\n\nNon-food stores saw the biggest increase in sales last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, with DIY sales providing a bright spot.\n\n\"According to retailers in this sector, consumers appeared to be carrying out home improvements while spending more time than usual in their homes,\" the ONS said.\n\nHowever, despite the May boost, sales overall were still down by 13.1% compared with February, before the coronavirus lockdown measures were introduced.\n\nIn the three months to May, sales fell by 12.8% compared with the previous three months, the fastest quarterly decline since records began in 1996.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, cautioned that the \"overall consumer picture remains bleak\".\n\n\"May's recovery in retail sales should not be interpreted as a sign that the economy is embarking on a healthy V-shaped recovery from Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"Naturally, spending on goods will recover faster than on services, which usually require human contact and remain largely unavailable.\"\n\nMay's retail sales were always going to be better than the off-the-charts collapse in April, when the full force of the lockdown was underway.\n\nThe decline is now reversing. But it's far from clear when retail sales will return to pre-Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen non-essential shops re-opened in England on Monday, with lots of queues for some of the most popular stores, footfall was still far lower than normal. And with social distancing in place, retailers will have to limit customer numbers where necessary.\n\nFewer customers will mean fewer sales. With unemployment set to rise and the various government support schemes starting to ebb away, many people's finances will start to come under real pressure.\n\nOnline sales rose to their highest proportion on record in May while consumers stayed at home. They accounted for 33.4% of total spending, compared with 30.8% in April, the ONS added.\n\nLynda Petherick, head of retail for Accenture UK and Ireland, said: \"Given the wholesale shifts in consumer behaviour these last few months, it would be optimistic to assume shopping habits will return to normal in the immediate future.\n\n\"As the proportion of shoppers buying online continues to soar, the individual retailers who best recover in this new environment will be those who can quickly adapt to accelerating trends, such as the shift to ecommerce,\" she added.\n\nPeter Cowgill, executive chairman of JD Sports, told the BBC's Today programme that the chain's online sales had \"gained a lot of momentum\" in April and May.\n\nHe added that he hoped to see the same \"kickback\" in stores after non-essential retailers in England were allowed to reopen on 15 June.\n\n\"I think that as consumer confidence continues to grow though, that the level of footfall will grow with it,\" Mr Cowgill added.\n\nOn Monday, stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began.\n\nShoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were there for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\nAction Fraud warned on Friday that customers should take additional care when shopping online during lockdown.\n\nSince shops were forced to close due on 23 March, the UK's reporting centre for fraud has received reports of online shopping fraud totalling £16.6m in losses.\n\nHowever, separate research suggests that shoppers might be feeling anxious about their return to the High Street.\n\nMore than half of UK customers expect they will now go shopping less often over the next one or two years, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people by accountancy giant EY.\n\nSilvia Rindone, partner in consumer product and retail at EY, said that retailers \"must do all they can to help alleviate customers' concerns\".\n\n\"People need to know the shopping environment and communal space is safe and that the brand is taking health and safety as seriously as they are.\"\n• None The first thing I bought when the shops reopened", "Parents will be waiting to find out if schools will have all pupils back in September\n\nThe billion pound school catch-up plan for England aims to drag the return-to-school policy out of a quagmire of indecision.\n\nParents have been increasingly baffled by how few pupils have returned to school this term, confused by what would be offered over the summer and downright horrified at the idea that schools might not even go back full-time in September.\n\nA parent emailed the BBC this week to say she wanted to burst into tears when she got a letter from her school to say pupils were only likely to go back half-time in the autumn.\n\nAnd head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said it was like operating in an \"information black hole\".\n\nSo has this juggernaut of cash put the show back on the road?\n\nIt's a lot of money - but it has to tackle massive disruption to almost nine million children in primary and secondary schools.\n\nAnd every family will want to know what will be done for their children, with many expected to be out of school for almost six months.\n\nFirst of all, there's no mention of extra summer activities. And nothing yet to explain how pupils might all go back in September.\n\nThe big focus is on private tutoring - and for schools, there is no such thing as a free launch.\n\nSecondary schools are back, but pupils are only attending part time\n\nThe £350m for tutoring will fund discounts - it's not added to school budgets. So schools will have to spend their own money to take advantage of the subsidy.\n\nIt's still not entirely clear how much schools will have to pay - but at the most generous, the discount will be 75%. So, based on £50 per session, it would cost schools £12.50 per pupil per session.\n\nBut there is financial support for this, in a £650m one-off payment to schools, otherwise the tutoring scheme would have actually cost schools money.\n\nTutoring businesses and charities can apply to join the new tutoring service, with the criteria for selection not yet published.\n\nHow much tuition will the funding deliver?\n\nThe programme is scheduled to start in the \"autumn\", paid for by the Department for Education and with extra cash from the KPMG Foundation.\n\nLuke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the funding represents a 1% increase in school budgets and will be worth, on average, about £80 per pupil per year.\n\nTo put the £650m in context, the annual pupil premium supplement to schools to help disadvantaged pupils is about £2.4bn per year.\n\nHead teachers and many education researchers are supportive of the idea of providing one-to-one tuition to pupils - to give more pupils the type of help already accessed by many better-off families.\n\nSo how much tutoring will this buy?\n\nIf the total £650m was spent on tutoring, and schools accessed all of the £350m available in subsidies, the IFS says it would mean about £2,400 available per class of 30 for the year.\n\nThis could give one hour each week to about five pupils in a class of 30.\n\nOn average, there are about five pupils eligible for free school meals in each class - so it would provide a real opportunity for them to catch-up, not just on missed school, but also to narrow the wealth related gap in educational attainment.\n\nHead teachers' leaders are supportive - and even with a nervous glance at the funding model, they're backing the idea of subsidised extra lessons.\n\nThere are schools already using their pupil premium money to buy private tutors and the Education Endowment Foundation (which test drives ideas for improving achievement) says there is evidence that such extra tuition works.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute is less impressed.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of the think tank and a former education minister, said the new funding was \"poorly targeted\".\n\nHe disagrees with schools in affluent areas getting the same share as the poorest - and there's no requirement to spend the money on disadvantaged pupils.\n\nBut here's the big question: Is it really a summer catch-up programme at all?\n\nIt might be a positive example of \"never let a crisis go to waste\" - in that it's an opportunity to launch a national tutoring scheme that could make a big difference to those most in need of help.\n\nBut it's not the type of summer educational recovery programme that parents might have been expecting. And there's nothing for early years, sixth forms or further education.\n\nIt might give a few children extra lessons, but what about the rest of the class, including those worrying about exams next year, those who have had only patchy access to online lessons and, well, everybody else who has been out of school for so long?\n\nParents might already feel they've had contradictory messages over schools, with confusion over who was going back and uncertainty about what to expect from lessons at home.\n\nAnd the catch-up plans might not stop them looking anxiously at the clock, ticking away to the autumn term.", "Lee Waters is the Welsh deputy minister for transport and economy\n\nThe UK government has \"given-up\" on a \"science-led approach\" to coronavirus, a Welsh Labour minister has claimed.\n\nLee Waters said London-based ministers have made announcements at their daily press conferences without thinking them through.\n\nIt is some of the strongest criticism of the UK government's strategy from the Welsh Government.\n\nA UK government spokesman said it continues \"to be guided by the science\".\n\nMeanwhile Conservative Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has called for \"action\" to help the tourism industry in Wales.\n\nFollowing calls for further lockdown easing from Labour-led Flintshire council, international relations minister Eluned Morgan said her colleagues are \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector.\n\nMr Waters said he hoped the Welsh Government could ease the lockdown rules on Friday in a way that \"helps the tourism industry\" and small firms, but does so in \"a way that does not risk all the sacrifices we have made\".\n\nUnder the laws being used to enforce lockdown, rules in England are set by the Conservative UK government, while the lockdown in Wales is the responsibility of the Labour-led Welsh Government.\n\nThe latter's cabinet is due to discuss its next steps, with an announcement due Friday. First Minister Mark Drakeford has said it could include news for non-essential retail.\n\nNon-essential retailers have been allowed to reopen in England\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Waters said: \"It is clear… the UK government is departing from the advice of SAGE, it has given up [on] a science-led approach.\"\n\nHe suggested some UK government announcements, such as its original plans for schools, \"unravel before they come in\".\n\nThe deputy transport minister said the government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson tends \"to make an announcement that is driven by a 5pm press conference without thinking it through\".\n\n\"A lot of this is about the air war, the PR war, which they have tried to be too clever with I think they have been too clever by half.\n\n\"We are not going to make the same mistakes as them, no matter what the pressure we are under.\"\n\nMr Waters said he felt the UK government was making decisions \"based on London\".\n\nThey are pulling England out of lockdown at a time to suit the R number in London,\" he said.\n\n\"Actually the R rate in Wales is different because the virus is moving from east to west.\"\n\nThe R figure is the average number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart called for \"action\" for the tourism secto\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"There are far more similarities than differences in the approaches of the nations of the UK to the pandemic.\n\n\"We entered this fight as one United Kingdom and we will come out of it equally united.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain committed to a UK-wide approach and continue to be guided by the science. Each of the four nations agrees that there should only be differences in approach when the scientific evidence supports it.\"\n\nIn a letter to members of the Senedd, UK government Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said \"action is needed\" to help the tourism sector.\n\nHe asked them to \"do everything in your power this week to encourage the Welsh Government to set out a roadmap for the tourism and hospitality industries in Wales\".\n\nMr Hart said he was more sympathetic to First Minister Mark Drakeford's predicament \"than perhaps has been reported\".\n\nBut he added he need not \"rehearse the value of the tourism and hospitality industries to our country, which employ hundreds of thousands of individuals\".\n\n\"Losing these jobs risks plunging communities into deprivation,\" he said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We thank Mr Hart for his advice, but the first minister makes decisions based on safety and science rather than lobbying efforts by UK government ministers.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said ministers are \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector\n\nDeeside.com reported that Labour-run Flintshire Council had also written to the Welsh Government calling for a lifting of lockdown measures on the \"retail and tourism sectors who are at great risk.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government is \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector, according to the international relations minister.\n\nShe said the government will be \"putting guidance in place that we've worked up with the industry\" but the support of local communities was also needed.\n\n\"We've made it very clear that shops should have been preparing during this period, but we will of course, look at that as part of the next review.\n\n\"Just to make it clear in relation to tourism we are intensely aware of the pressure that is on a sector, which is fundamental to the Welsh economy.\n\nThe first minister will announce the outcome of the fourth lockdown review on Friday.\n• None Reopening shops on table at next lockdown review", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nStaff at England's only children's NHS gender clinic say concerns about patient welfare were shut down, leaked documents reveal.\n\nClinicians reported worries that some patients were referred onto a gender transitioning pathway too quickly.\n\nBBC Newsnight has seen transcripts of staff interviews from a review into the Gender Identity Development Service.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the service, defended the review and its practices.\n\nThe review was published in Spring 2019 after the Trust asked its medical director, Dr Dinesh Sinha, to investigate serious concerns about children's welfare raised by staff in an internal report.\n\nBBC Newsnight has read transcripts of some of the interviews conducted with staff as part of the review.\n\nThe Trust said it had not identified any immediate issues in relation to patient safety or the overall approach taken by the gender identity service (GIDS), yet in the transcripts clinicians claim child protection and safeguarding concerns were \"shut down\".\n\nIn the transcripts, staff are damning in their assessment of some parts of the service\n\n\"Let's pray that I am wrong because if I am not wrong, very many vulnerable children have been very poorly treated and will be left with, potentially, a lifetime of damage here,\" one says.\n\n\"The reality is, by not doing anything, children are potentially still being medically mismanaged.\"\n\nThe Tavistock - like other NHS organisations - has a named person clinicians can turn to discuss specific safety concerns.\n\nBut staff allege they were discouraged by GIDS Director Polly Carmichael from going to see the Trust's safeguarding lead, and from referring cases to social services.\n\nDr Polly Carmichael was interviewed on the BBC's The Victoria Derbyshire Show earlier this year\n\nAccording to the transcripts, these included cases where staff feared a child had suffered sexual abuse or trauma.\n\n\"In all of my previous work, if you had a concern, you refer them on,\" it's claimed.\n\n\"And that did not happen.\"\n\nThe Trust said a safeguarding lead was created specifically for GIDS in August 2018 to reflect the growth in the service.\n\nBut in their interviews, staff didn't view this as adequate and argued there was wide variation in practice at GIDS.\n\n\"There was a very clear message from senior management about being really cautious about how we talk to the safeguarding team at the Tavi[stock], and specifically [the Trust's safeguarding lead].\"\n\n\"I would say that perhaps that's why more than 40 clinicians decided to leave the service within three years,\" one, who left GIDS last year, told the BBC.\n\nThe review acknowledges staff had raised concerns over a period of years. But staff claim in the transcripts that when they did so, they were seen as the problem.\n\n\"People who raise concerns are seen as trouble making and difficult,\" one staff member argued.\n\n\"When I raised concerns I was told that I had to toe the line or I would never progress in my career,\" another said.\n\nIt's unlikely all staff will have been as critical of GIDS as the ones whose interviews were read by Newsnight.\n\nBut the number of transcripts seen by Newsnight amount to a sizeable proportion - albeit a minority - of the total number of frontline GIDS staff interviewed for the review.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman Trust said it \"stands by\" the 2019 review of GIDS and is \"confident that it fairly addressed the issues raised\".\n\n\"Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to the Trust,\" it added.\n\nThe transcripts detail a range of worries about the service.\n\nHomophobia in families attending GIDS is mentioned in all the transcripts Newsnight has seen.\n\nAs well as seeing young people struggling with their sexuality, staff say some parents appeared to prefer their children to be transgender and straight, rather than gay.\n\nIn one example, a GIDS clinician describes a young person who had come out as a lesbian and faced homophobic bullying, \"within the family and quite openly in school\".\n\n\"Suddenly the young person changed their mind and they started identifying as trans.\"\n\nIn some of these cases, clinicians thought that it wouldn't be appropriate for the patient to be referred for puberty blockers, with one child apparently saying: \"My mum wants the hormone more than I do.\"\n\nBut staff could be overruled by GIDS director Polly Carmichael, the transcripts suggest.\n\nRecently updated NHS guidance on puberty blockers acknowledges that little is known about their long-term effects, or what impact they might have on children's brains and bones\n\nNHS England says young people should only be referred for this treatment after a minimum of three sessions.\n\nRead more: What are puberty blockers?\n\nHowever, the review heard from several staff that one member of the GIDS leadership, Sarah Davidson, would sometimes refer children for treatment after only one or two appointments.\n\n\"Absolutely it should never happen because this is a pathway that will lead to huge, huge changes for this young person, potentially, infertility,\" one GIDS clinician said.\n\nSuch a quick referral, staff claim, could risk putting young people on potentially life-changing medicines who may have been struggling with issues such as their mental health and sexuality.\n\nThe Tavistock Trust said \"there are many pathways for patients using the service\" and many would not be referred on for consideration for hormone blocking drugs.\n\n\"GIDS is a safe and caring service which supports a wide range of children,' it said. \"[We] strongly refute the allegations put to us by Newsnight,\" it added.\n\nNewsnight showed some of the transcripts to the Children's Commissioner for England and contacted the healthcare regulator, the CQC.\n\nBoth were interested in speaking to the people involved.\n\nThe CQC encouraged anyone with specific concerns about safety or safeguarding at the trust to contact them directly. It had been due to inspect GIDS, though routine inspections are currently paused because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:45 BST or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow on Twitter.", "Dr Meirion Evans has worked as a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales\n\nThe five-mile travel guidance in Wales should be \"reviewed\" according to a Welsh Government coronavirus adviser.\n\nDr Meirion Evans, who advises Wales' chief medical officer, said that \"the purpose of the journey rather than the distance\" should be considered.\n\nHe told the BBC that journeys such as visiting family members are \"important for society\".\n\nA minister suggested a further decision on the issue may be made on Friday.\n\nBut a Welsh Government spokesperson said changes would only be made \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nOpposition politicians say that people need to travel greater distances than five miles in rural areas.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have signed a petition calling on ministers to relax the guidance, introduced at the end of May.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said that the limit is a \"general rule\" rather than law - with Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford suggesting last week that there were \"no immediate plans to lift the stay-local message in Wales.\"\n\nIn England, unlimited travel is allowed, although scientific advisors to the Conservative UK government have expressed concern at the speed lockdown is being eased in England.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Newyddion programme, on S4C, Dr Evans said: \"I'd like to see the rule on how far you can travel being reviewed.\n\n\"I think it's more important that we consider the purpose of the journey rather than the distance… That it is essential.\n\n\"For example going to see family is important for society.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic governments across the UK have recommended businesses and individuals maintain a 'social distance' of two metres.\n\nThe two-metre rule is currently being reviewed for England. In Wales, it has been part of lockdown legislation since the beginning.\n\nDr Evans also said that the risk in reducing the two-metre distancing rule to one metre \"isn't very big\".\n\n\"The difference in risk between being within a metre, or more than two metres away, isn't very big,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a matter of deciding whether there's more risk in being closer to someone else, that it's worth taking that risk in order to be able to do far more in terms of opening shops, schools and so on.\"\n\nLockdown has been in force since March\n\nThe International Relations Minister, Eluned Morgan told a press conference there is a \"degree of flexibility\" around the five-mile guidance for people living in rural areas.\n\nShe said: \"We absolutely understand that local in a rural area means something very different from local in an urban area, and that's why we have provided that degree of flexibility.\"\n\nMs Morgan said that the Welsh Government would be making some further decisions on the matter on Friday, when the outcome of the next lockdown review is expected to be announced.\n\nThe minister said the Welsh Government is closely monitoring the impact of lifting coronavirus lockdown measures on mainland Europe.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth called for the Welsh Government to \"move forward as quickly as possible as long as they can show that it is safe\".\n\n\"We need real clarity about what the government's vision is, what it plans as the roadmap ahead, because that lack of certainty is causing real problems for businesses and huge frustration for the population at large.\"\n\nHe said people are finding the five-mile restriction difficult, \"though staying local makes sense still\".\n\nAdvisors of the Welsh Government have said that releasing lockdown measures in many European countries has not resulted in a rapid rise in the Covid reproduction rate - the R rate.\n\nMs Morgan said in most countries the R rate had stayed below one, \"but there are some strong hints from France, which suggest as more measures are eased, R may be rising\".\n\n\"The experience from Europe would tell us a cautious approach to further unlocking measures - that's what would be prudent\".\n\nThe R rate is the average number of people a sick person could pass the virus on to.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to Dr Evans: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Changes will only be made when it is safe to do so. Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nThe first minister is due to announce the outcome of the latest lockdown review in Wales on Friday.", "Nina Ambrose works in another unit from her father and has to change completely before seeing him\n\nA woman furloughed from her job has been volunteering at a care home in order to see her father.\n\nNina Ambrose, from Writtle in Essex, usually works at a cosmetics company.\n\nRoger Ambrose, 76, moved into a care home in January and she was unable to see him for the first five weeks of the lockdown.\n\nMrs Ambrose, a former Butlins Red Coat, became an activities team volunteer at the home, and said she felt \"so, so lucky\" to have spent time with him.\n\nThe former Butlins Red Coat is helping organise an Aloha party for residents\n\nRetired lorry driver Mr Ambrose was diagnosed with Alzheimer's six years ago and his daughter was used to seeing him several times a week.\n\nSo when she was furloughed at the beginning of April, Mrs Ambrose offered her services to Manor Lodge in Chelmsford, where he lives.\n\nShe has been visiting the home three or four times a week, helping to organise events and activities.\n\nThe 49-year-old said she had to take eight exams, including tests for wellbeing, health and safety and hygiene, as well as having a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, before she could start.\n\nMusic was a big part of Roger Ambrose's life and he played in soft rock and country music bands\n\nMrs Ambrose, who normally works in culture and communications for Benefit, said: \"I help on a separate unit from my dad and it's been lovely to get to know other residents.\n\n\"I end each session by paying him a visit - once I've changed my clothes and shoes - and we are strict about staying at a social distance.\n\n\"We'll sing together or sometimes just sit in silence.\n\n\"People say 'what you're doing is great' but I'm doing it for selfish reasons - I feel so, so lucky to be able to spend this time with him.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he does not think the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review its use.\n\nThe RFU said many people were not aware of the song's links with slavery.\n\nBut the PM said people should focus less on symbols and more on the substance of racism.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think there should be \"any sort of prohibition\" on singing the song.\n\nHe added: \"Frankly I think what people need to do is focus less on the symbols of discrimination... all these issues that people are now raising to do with statues and songs and so on - I can see why they're very emotive, I understand that.\n\n\"But what I want to focus on is the substance of the issue.\"\n\nHe added that he \"certainly didn't think there should be any sort of prohibition on singing [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]\".\n\n\"Nobody, as far as I'm concerned, seems to know the words,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Before we start complaining about Swing Low, Sweet Chariot I'd like to know what the rest of the words are.\"\n\nFormer rugby league and union wing Martin Offiah, who was playing during the song's first known use at Twickenham in 1987, has welcomed the RFU review but does not want it banned either.\n\nOffiah told Radio 5 live: \"The song is not really what the issue is here - the issue is about diversity and inclusion.\n\n\"I think this is the first step as we progress towards change.\"\n\nThe song is believed to have been sung at rugby clubs since the 1960s but came to prominence at Twickenham in 1987, when Offiah played in the Middlesex Sevens tournament.\n\nIt is thought Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was written in the mid-19th century by Wallace Willis, who was a black slave.\n\n\"It's definitely an emotional piece of music, very emotive, it stirs up feelings and that's probably something to do with its history,\" Offiah said.\n\n\"That history is probably not that well known by a lot of people in the UK. I champion the RFU reviewing it, I wouldn't support the banning of such a song. When you do try to ban things like that it just makes the song more divisive.\n\n\"If this review leads to the RFU putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the RFU and addressing those issues, that's what we actually want.\"\n\nFormer England captain Maxine Edwards believes the RFU has bigger issues to face than fans' use of the song.\n\nEdwards said: \"I think it is interesting that the RFU has decided to review this song and have discussions about its appropriateness, as part of their bigger process of reviewing their approach to the representation of people of BAME backgrounds within their organisational structure at all levels and taking part in their sport.\n\n\"I would, however, ask why this is the first thing that they have on their list to review as part of this review process?\n\n\"It is complicated, but it is really by no means the biggest issue that the RFU needs to address.\"\n\nEngland's Maro Itoje, who spoke about rugby and race on the Rugby Union Weekly podcast, recently said the song had a \"complicated\" background .\n\nLast week World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi - the only black person on the RFU council - said that the death of George Floyd in the United States had led to \"powerful conversations\".\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has promised to increase diversity in the organisation, saying: \"We have undertaken some very good initiatives at the grassroots level to encourage more diverse participation. However, that in itself is not enough.\n\n\"We need to do more to achieve diversity across all areas of the game, including administration.\"\n• Football Daily: When will the Champions League restart?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SA Brain chief executive Alistair Darby: \"The industry is running out of time rapidly\"\n\nMany Welsh pubs will go bust - putting thousands of jobs at risk - unless social distancing measures are relaxed, the boss of Wales' biggest brewery has said.\n\nPubs and bars have been closed since the start of lockdown in March.\n\nNow the boss of Brains has said even if they are allowed to reopen this summer, many will not be able to due to the two-metre social distancing rule.\n\nThe Welsh Government said lockdown would only be eased when it is safe to.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants across the UK were told to close on 20 March, as social distancing rules came into force to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Wales, there is currently no date for them to reopen, while in England the UK government has suggested they will reopen \"no earlier than 4 July\", if Covid-19 safety guidelines could be met.\n\nThe Welsh Government is due to make an announcement on lockdown measures on Friday.\n\nBut Alistair Darby, the CEO of Brains, Wales largest domestic pub chain, said many brewers, caterers and landlords had depleted their reserves and time was now running out to save the industry.\n\nThe Duke of Wellington pub is one of Brains' many pubs in Cardiff\n\nBrains, which employs 1,400 people in Wales, is initially planning to reopen only 40 of its 104 Welsh pubs, with it predicting demand to be at about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nSocial distancing rules, in place since the start of the pandemic, mean people must remain two metres (6ft) apart in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nIn Wales, employers are required by law to make sure employees can maintain social distancing while at work, and can be fined if not.\n\nBut Mr Darby said this rule needed to be eased to one metre if pubs were to survive, while another pub landlord in Swansea said enforcing the distance would be a \"logistical nightmare\".\n\nMr Darby said: \"The industry is running out of time rapidly, you can't choke off an industry's turnover and expect it to be able to survive, even with substantial government support.\n\n\"All business needs certainty and we aren't getting that at the moment, and the longer the uncertainty continues the more people are going to lose their jobs.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Brains announced the closure of 40 of its pubs, with staff told their jobs could be at risk and the company blaming economic uncertainty - partly caused by Brexit, for the closures.\n\nJD Wetherspoon said all 50 of its pubs in Wales would open on the first day they were allowed to\n\nIn 2019, the number of UK pubs and bars increased for the first time in a decade after years of concerns about closures, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBut a survey in April by the British Beer and Pub Association [BBPA] found that 40% of pubs in the UK now said they would not survive until September, due to lockdown.\n\nAccording to the BBPA, the beer and pub industry employs 42,000 people in Wales and is worth £950m to the economy.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the BBPA, said businesses were \"burning through cash\" during lockdown and many would not be able to reopen.\n\nSocial distancing will mean pubs not being able to sit as many customers as usual\n\nDavid Morgan has owned the Cross Inn pub in Maesteg for 28 years and started brewing a decade ago.\n\nAfter having to furlough four staff, he is now running the brewery with his wife to try and keep the business afloat.\n\nMr Morgan said if social distancing rules were not relaxed he would only be able to have 12 people in the Cross Inn at one time, which he said would not make it viable to reopen.\n\n\"You see beaches are chock-a-block in England, and these protests, there's no social distancing,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\n\"It's time for people to take responsibility for their own safety. Valley towns, in general, were starting to get the high street back on its feet and now it's going to be devastated.\"\n\nGreen King, which manages the Claude, said it had plans for opening its 30 pubs across Wales\n\nSara John, owns BOSS Brewery in Swansea, which sells 80% of its beer to pubs, and also runs a pub in the city.\n\nThe lockdown has meant furloughing most staff, but Ms John said they had been doing everything they could to make sales through a new online shop.\n\n\"Retailers have seen a surge in beer sales so that's ticked over nicely and we've started to work with beer subscription companies,\" said Ms John.\n\nShe said the beer only had a three-week shelf life and the Welsh Government needed to give a firm date for the reopening of pubs so they can plan production.\n\nMs John added that opening the pub would not be feasible, and enforcing social distancing would be a \"logistical nightmare\" when people had been drinking.\n\n\"We estimate 25 people, though there is talk of some pubs using beer garden and street access. But if we see strict queuing rules like in supermarkets we will serve less people,\" she said.\n\n\"And if the public is not feeling safe they won't show up. So better to stay closed then opening to people who won't come.\"", "Sir Ian was Oscar-nominated for Chariots of Fire\n\nStage and film actor Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings films, has died aged 88.\n\nSir Ian, Oscar-nominated as Olympic running coach Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, also played the android Ash in 1979's Alien.\n\n\"It is with great sadness we can confirm that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,\" his agent said in a statement.\n\n\"He died peacefully in hospital with his family and carer,\" he added.\n\nThe actor, pictured last year, began his career in the theatre\n\nHis illness was Parkinson's-related, his agent confirmed.\n\nHolm, who also played Dr Willis in The Madness of King George, was classically trained and put in memorable performances in numerous plays.\n\nThe National Theatre remembered him as an \"extraordinary actor\" whose performance as King Lear in 1997 created \"wonderful memories\".\n\nSamuel West, whose father Timothy played Gloucester in the production, recalled on Twitter that the older cast members were all asked to grow beards.\n\nWhen they came together for a read-through, he remembered, \"[director] Richard Eyre said it looked like a garden gnome convention\".\n\nSir Ian originated the role of Lenny in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming in 1965, reprising his performance on film eight years later.\n\nHolm starred with Judi Dench in a RSC production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard\n\nHowever, his stage career was cut short after he developed acute stage fright during a production of The Iceman Cometh in 1976.\n\nHe went on to work primarily in film, thanks to roles in such high-profile movies as The Fifth Element and the Lord of the Rings series.\n\nIt was 1981's Chariots of Fire that saw him receive his best supporting actor Oscar nomination.\n\nThe same film won him a Bafta, as did his supporting performance in The Bofors Gun in 1968.\n\nSir Ian played Bilbo in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, having played Frodo Baggins for BBC radio in 1981.\n\nDiminutive in stature, he was similarly well-cast as Pod in 1992 children's series The Borrowers.\n\n\"I'm never the same twice,\" he told the Los Angeles Times in 2000, \"and I'm not a movie star-type, so people don't demand that I'm always the same.\"\n\nHe received a knighthood in 1998 for his contribution to drama following the CBE he received in 1989.\n\nHe returned to the stage to play King Lear at the National in 1997\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard remembered Sir Ian as \"a wonderful actor\", adding: \"It's so sad to see him go.\"\n\nDirector Edgar Wright also paid tribute, calling him \"a genius actor who brought considerable presence to parts funny, heartbreaking and terrifying\".\n\n\"What an actor,\" tweeted League of Gentleman star Reece Shearsmith. \"A lifetime of incredible performances.\"\n\nPeep Show star Robert Webb was among many others to express respect for \"a splendid actor\" who \"could be very funny too\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.\n\nThe Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused.\n\nHowever, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nThe government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point.\n\nInstead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she judges it to be fit for purpose, which she does not believe is the case at present. It is possible this may never happen.\n\nGermany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called \"centralised\" approach to a \"decentralised\" one.\n\nThe NHS has been testing both systems against each other, over the course of the past month.\n\nThe centralised version trialled on the Isle of Wight worked well at assessing the distance between two users, but was poor at recognising Apple's iPhones.\n\nSpecifically, the software registered about 75% of nearby Android handsets but only 4% of iPhones.\n\nBy contrast, the Apple-Google model logged 99% of both Android mobiles and iPhones. But its distance calculations were weaker.\n\nIn some instances, it could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested the original plan might have worked had it not been for Apple's restrictions on third-party apps' use of Bluetooth.\n\nMr Hancock said he would not recommend use of a contact-tracing app \"unless I'm confident in it\"\n\n\"Apple software prevents iPhones being used effectively for contact tracing unless you're using Apple's own technology,\" he said.\n\n\"Our app won't work because Apple won't change that system... and their app can't measure distance well enough to a standard that we are satisfied with.\n\n\"What matters is what works. Because what works will save lives.\"\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"What we've done in really rigorously testing both our own Covid-19 app and the Google-Apple version is demonstrate that none of them are working sufficiently well enough to be actually reliable to determine whether any of us should self-isolate for two weeks [and] that's true across the world.\"\n\nIn response, Google noted that it and Apple had developed an application programming interface - a set of functions and procedures for others to build on - rather than a fully-fledged app.\n\n\"We have developed an Exposure Notification API with Apple based on consultation with public health experts around the world, including in the UK, to ensure that our efforts are useful to authorities as they build their own apps to limit the spread of Covid-19, while ensuring privacy and security are central to the design,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe latest developments come a day after the BBC revealed that a former Apple executive, Simon Thompson, was taking charge of the late-running project as part of Baroness Harding's team.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.\n\nThey work by logging when two people have been in close proximity to each other for a substantial period of time.\n\nIf one of the users is later diagnosed as having the disease, an alert can be sent to others they have recently been close to, telling them that they should also get tested and/or self-isolate.\n\nThe UK's previous \"centralised\" design carried out the contact-matches on a remote server.\n\nThe Apple-Google model carries the process out on the handsets themselves, making it more difficult for the authorities or potentially hackers to de-anonymise the records and use them for other means.\n\nOne advantage of the switch - if deployed - is that the NHS Covid-19 app would be able to overcome a limitation of iPhones and carry out Bluetooth \"handshakes\" when the software is running in the background.\n\nAnother is that it should be easier to make the app compatible with other countries' counterparts, which are based on the same system - including the Republic of Ireland and Germany.\n\nEarlier in the week, the European Commission said that France - which had adopted a centralised app - would face challenges in this regard.\n\n\"This is a welcome, if a heavily and unnecessarily delayed, move,\" commented Dr Michael Veale from the DP3T group, which promotes the decentralised model.\n\n\"The Google-Apple system in a way is home-grown: originating with research at a large consortium of universities led by Switzerland and including UCL in the UK.\"\n\nHe added that developers should be able to adapt code already being used by Germany and Switzerland if required.\n\nIf Baroness Harding decides the Apple-Google tech is never good enough to roll out, then another alternative might be a system based on wearable tech.\n\nSingapore recently ordered 300,000 dongles to test as an alternative. Rather than uploading data over the internet, users will physically hand them over if they test positive for the virus, allowing recent contacts to be flagged.\n\nBaroness Harding's team is monitoring it and other innovations, but for now intends to focus on manual contact tracing carried out by humans.\n\nWhile the government is still set to launch an app of some kind across England, health is a devolved issue.\n\nAs a consequence, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have still to commit to the initiative.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the UK government to gather the information we need on data integration, technical information and overall timescales before making any decisions on whether or not to support its use,\" a spokesman for the Scottish government told the BBC.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Executive added: \"People in Northern Ireland already have access to a symptom checker and advice app called Covid-19 NI, which more than 50,000 have downloaded and use regularly. This helps people to improve access to information, particularly when they have been advised to self-isolate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n• None What is contact tracing and how does it work? Video, 00:03:37What is contact tracing and how does it work?", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nSchools in Anglesey will not reopen as planned, after an outbreak of coronavirus at a meat processing factory.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters chicken factory, in Llangefni are self-isolating after 61 workers tested positive.\n\nClassrooms across Wales are due to reopen on Monday 29 June, for pupils to check in with their teachers.\n\nBut the council said the safety of children and teachers was its priority.\n\nIt comes after Public Health Wales statistics showed a growing number of positive cases of Covid-19 on Anglesey in recent days.\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the increasing number of cases and the outbreak at the factory had caused a \"great deal of uncertainty and concern on the island\". \"It is, of course, possible that we could see an increase in community transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\n\"I am not, at present, willing to see classrooms reopened to Anglesey children.\" \"Given the current uncertainty, I believe that this is the right course of action, and the best decision in respect of the safety of our children, all school staff and wider communities.\"\n\nShe earlier told BBC Radio Wales the island may not be ready to reopen to visitors on 6 July - the date the Welsh Government has indicated the \"stay local\" restrictions will be lifted.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and produces about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales said staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, had been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and all staff would be contacted by the company for testing.\n\nMark Drakeford has said the outbreak at the factory may be to do with the \"challenges of maintaining social distance\".\n\nMeanwhile in Wrexham, 38 staff have tested positive at Rowan Foods, which supplies supermarkets.\n\nThe company, which employs 1,500 people, said 38 staff were \"absent due to testing positive for Covid-19\", but said there was \"no clear evidence to suggest that there is a spread of the virus within the site\".\n\nPublic Health Wales said an outbreak \"has not been declared at the site\", and investigations were ongoing as to the \"possible cause of the cluster, and no firm conclusions can be reached at this early stage\".\n\nAn army testing unit is being set up in Wrexham to help test workers for Covid-19.\n\nStaff at Rowan Foods in Wrexham, which makes ready meals, have also tested positive\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the virus at the Anglesey factory was down to its internal organisation, but it had been brought into the Wrexham factory.\n\n2 Sisters said it had no agency workers at the Llangefni plant, and \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business.\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What we're being told is that there's a different explanation in Wrexham and a different explanation on the island of Anglesey.\n\n\"On Anglesey, we think it may be to do with the internal organisation of the factory and the challenges of maintaining social distance.\n\n\"In Wrexham, so far the science is saying that wasn't the cause, it's not internal to the factory. It's just that the disease was brought in by people who would become infected outside the factory so there's not just one explanation for both.\"\n\nHe said ministers did not believe the Wrexham factory had found social distancing a challenge.\n\nIn Wales, employers are required by law to do everything they can to make sure workers can socially distance while in the workplace, or face a fine of up to £120.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nVirginia Crosbie won the seat of Anglesey in December's general election\n\nAnglesey MP Virginia Crosbie said she was \"hugely concerned\" by what had happened at 2 Sisters.\n\n\"This situation highlights the risks faced by people working in this sector and we should all be hugely grateful for the contribution that the 2 Sisters employees have made, and the courage that they have demonstrated, in supporting the fight against Covid-19,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was liaising with the management at the plant to ensure that \"none of the workers are left without pay during the duration of the plant's closure\".\n\nAnywhere cold, damp and indoors is an ideal environment for the coronavirus to thrive.\n\nIt survives best on cool surfaces, especially if there's no dry breeze to get rid of the moisture or any ultraviolet light from the sun to kill it off.\n\nAdd to that the challenges of social distancing on a busy production line, together with loud machinery forcing staff to raise their voices.\n\nResearchers know that situations where people sing - or have to shout - increases the chances of them projecting the virus to others nearby.\n\nAccording to Prof Calum Semple, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Liverpool, and an adviser to the government, meat processing plants can be \"a perfect environment for the virus to persist on surfaces and in the air.\"", "Companies that benefited from slavery must go further than apologising, the chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission has said.\n\nMany British and European firms and their predecessors \"drank from the well of Caribbean slavery\", said Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles in a Reuters interview.\n\nThe comments came as several financial institutions apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nHe called on British firms to fund development projects in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Unfortunately, one cannot go back and remake the history but you can make atonement: it is not enough to make your apology as a public spectacle, it is not enough to present it as public relations exercise,\" said Prof. Beckles, who is vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies.\n\nThe historian added that British institutions should sit down with Caribbean nations to fund development projects. Alternatively, they could consider a type of \"Marshall Plan\" - a reference to the US aid given to Europe after World War Two.\n\n\"All the institutions that created this mess really have to come and help in practical ways to clean it up,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England and the Church of England have apologised for the role that some of their senior figures played in the slave trade. The Daily Telegraph, which first reported the news, said the Church called its links a \"source of shame\".\n\nThe Bank said it would ensure that images of former governors who were involved in the slave trade are not displayed in its buildings.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nIn 2006, the Church voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.\n\nIts missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts (SPG), inherited three sugar estates in the Caribbean.\n\nThe plantation was run for the Church by professional planters, but its profits went to the missionary group. Slaves working on the estate were branded on their chests with the word \"society\".\n\nAnd now, the Telegraph has reported that nearly 100 clergymen also benefitted individually from slavery.\n\n\"While we recognise the leading role clergy and active members of the Church of England played in securing the abolition of slavery, it is a source of shame that others within the Church actively perpetrated slavery and profited from it,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nA database compiled by University College London shows that at least 11 former Bank governors and 16 early directors either benefitted from those payments or had links to the slave trade.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that the 18th and 19th Century slave trade was an unacceptable part of English history,\" a Bank spokeswoman said.\n\n\"As an institution, the Bank of England was never itself directly involved in the slave trade, but is aware of some inexcusable connections involving former governors and directors and apologises for them.\"\n\nShe said the Bank had started a \"thorough review\" of its image collection to ensure no pictures of anyone involved in the slave trade remained on display.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\nVideos showed Mr Floyd, who was unarmed and in handcuffs, dying after a white policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nOn Wednesday, pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London also apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean, while the maritime insurance business, which centred around Lloyd's, thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.", "The furlough scheme means the government is paying the wages of more than 6.3 million people\n\nThe UK's debt is now worth more than its economy after the government borrowed a record amount in May.\n\nThe £55.2bn figure was nine times higher than in May last year and the highest since records began in 1993.\n\nThe borrowing splurge sent total government debt surging to £1.95trn, exceeding the size of the economy for the first time in more than 50 years.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures confirmed the severe impact the virus was having on public finances.\n\n\"The best way to restore our public finances to a more sustainable footing is to safely reopen our economy so people can return to work.\n\n\"We've set out our plan to do this in a gradual and safe fashion, including reopening high streets across the country this week, as we kickstart our economic recovery,\" he added.\n\nIncome from tax, National Insurance and VAT all dived in May amid the coronavirus lockdown as spending on support measures soared.\n\nThis is the first time debt has been larger than the size of the economy since 1963, but it is not as high as the post-war peak of 258% in 1946-47.\n\nThe deficit - the difference between spending and tax income - for the first two months of the financial year (April and May) is now estimated to have been £103.7bn, £87bn more than in the same period last year, another record.\n\nBut the ONS estimates borrowing for the 2020-21 financial year will dwarf that at £298bn. That would be the largest deficit since World War Two.\n\nIt cautioned that due to the coronavirus, its official estimates were subject to greater than usual uncertainty.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics had previously said that April's borrowing figure was the highest since records began in 1993, but it subsequently revised the figure down to £48.5bn from £62bn.\n\nThe revision was due to higher than expected income from taxes and national insurance, as well as the spending on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme being lower than originally estimated.\n\nAlex Tuckett, senior economist at consultants PwC, pointed to the 46% fall in the amount of VAT collected in the month, although it said the biggest issue for the government's finances was the £29bn it spent on the various support schemes for the economy.\n\n\"In the near term, there are signs the economy is recovering as the country re-opens, and this should boost tax receipts.\n\n\"However, these figures remind us that Chancellor Rishi Sunak faces a difficult backdrop to any summer fiscal event.\"\n\nSamuel Tombs at Pantheon Economics said the emergency support measures had placed a \"colossal burden\" on the public finances.\n\nIn a release packed with striking figures, he singled out the fact the government had needed to raise more cash in the first two months of this fiscal year than in total in any prior 10 fiscal years.\n\nBusting the overdraft, with a borrowing figure nine times as high as a year ago is not an easy thing for any government to swallow. In his first full year as Chancellor, Rishi Sunak is on track for the biggest public sector deficit since World War Two,\n\nBut it is, he reckons, a price worth paying to prevent a bigger cost to the economy, in terms of lost jobs and output. Billions have been pumped into supporting millions of jobs, and many businesses, while, on the other side, tax receipts have plunged. Those lifelines will be wound down in the coming months, and the government can borrow cheaply on financial markets to fund them.\n\nBut what happens next? As lockdown is eased, the Treasury is watching closely, knowing the recovery may need extra support - perhaps tax cuts or more spending. That will present the government with more bills - but failing to provide more help risks an even higher cost.\n\nThe chancellor is to present some sort of statement before Parliament ceases for the summer in July - that won't be a full Budget but may contain some measures to boost the recovery. The tough choices aren't over yet.", "Outbreak accelerating 'in many parts of world' - WHO\n\nHere’s a little more on the news we brought you earlier that the World Health Organization is warning that the pandemic is entering a “new and dangerous” phase. Maria van Kerkhove, technical lead of the WHO’s Covid-19 response, told a press conference the pandemic is “accelerating in many parts of the world”. “While we have seen countries have some success in suppressing transmission and bringing transition down to a low level, every country must remain ready,” she said. Mike Ryan, the head of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, said that some countries had managed to flatten the peak of infections without bringing them down to a very low level. \"You can see a situation in some countries where they could get a second peak now, because the disease has not been brought under control,\" he said. “The disease will then go away and reduce to a low level, and they could then get a second wave again in the autumn or later in the year.”", "Anglesey Sea Zoo and the Welsh Ape and Monkey Sanctuary have thanked people who sent donations\n\n\"You can't furlough fish\" is the reaction of one owner to help given to Wales' 30 licensed zoos since lockdown.\n\nFrankie Hobro said her frustration was when the public recognised the plight of her Anglesey Sea Zoo and fundraised to save it, but the Welsh government failed to offer specific help.\n\nA government spokesman said a \"generous package\" meant more money was available than if a special scheme was created.\n\nHe pointed to eight attractions already having accessed £350,000.\n\nBut Ms Hobro said: \"The Anglesey Sea Zoo is in a particularly untenable position, with high running costs, staffing costs and the pressure of maintaining ultimate animal welfare, with absolutely no income during closure and currently no promise of when we will be allowed to reopen for our income to return.\"\n\nMajor zoo attractions opened earlier this week in England with reports of \"unprecedented\" ticket sales, but there is still no indication when this may happen in Wales.\n\nAnglesey Sea Zoo has 40 tanks with marine life such as octopus, lobsters, seahorses, conger eels and jellyfish with running costs of £20,000 a month whether it is open or closed.\n\nAnglesey Sea Zoo has research programmes for endangered native species such as seahorses\n\nMs Hobro said it was not possible to reduce costs, as the Welsh government suggested, without \"cutting corners\" and \"sacrificing the quality of care\".\n\nMoney from a special Economic Resilience Fund (ERF) has helped it get back on track after three months of closure, and Ms Hobro described a Development Bank of Wales bounceback loan of £50,000 as a \"lifeline\".\n\nBut she accused the government of \"a total failure to appreciate the unworkable challenges we are currently facing on a daily basis\".\n\n\"We had exciting plans for the Anglesey Sea Zoo in 2020, with several fundamental changes planned across the site and the prospect of an exciting expansion project on the horizon,\" she added.\n\n\"Sadly, as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, instead we have been faced with a fight for survival.\"\n\nMs Hobro has run the Anglesey Sea Zoo for 14 years, housing species from around Britain's coast\n\nHer views were echoed by Jan Garen of the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary in Abercrave, Powys, who described an \"utterly irresponsible\" and \"frankly insulting\" attitude to zoos.\n\nWhile she was able to access £10,000 from the ERF, Mrs Garen believes there has been a failure to recognise the unique challenges faced by the industry.\n\n\"It assumes all businesses are in the same boat. We have no income but our overheads are the same,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been special funds recognising that we have to stay functioning even though we are closed.\n\n\"A cafe or pub, for example, doesn't need to be buying food and drink or pay their staff. It's not the same thing.\"\n\nThe sanctuary has 200 animals to feed and care for.\n\nThe sanctuary has mainly monkeys and apes, but also has horses, goats, pigs, wolf dogs and racoons\n\nWhile two part-time reception staff were furloughed at the start of the pandemic, the other four employees stayed on to look after the animals.\n\nShe blasted the Welsh government for sending a letter suggesting cost-cutting or collaboration work, saying mowing lawns was the only work they could stop and the individual zoos had enough on their plates to be able to help each other.\n\nAlthough the sanctuary lost £30,000 in net sales in April alone, Mrs Garen praised supporters.\n\nMore than £7,440 was raised in a raffle for which 100 prizes were donated and people have donated online.\n\nThe owner of the sanctuary said \"no animal has wanted for anything\" after the community rallied around\n\nOwners of attractions in north Wales have joined together to help raise funds for the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay - which has animals including Sumatran Tigers and Snow Leopards.\n\nDenbighshire Leisure is giving free Ninja TAG games - an obstacle course on Rhyl promenade - to everyone making a donation to its official recovery fund.\n\nThe zoo's Marcia Azevedo Moreira said: \"It is incredible to see another popular attraction in the area putting something together that will help us push our plight further.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Zoos and other animal attractions in Wales have been able to access a more generous package of support through our ERF than they would have had through a sector specific scheme and several weeks before England announced their fund on 4 May.\"\n\nHe urged those that had not applied to do so and said ministers looked at the possibility of lifting restrictions during each review - the latest set to be announced on Friday.\n\nThe spokesman also pointed out Scotland and Northern Ireland have no specific fund either, and like in Wales, officials are working with zoos to identify key difficulties.", "A child who died at Sheffield Children's Hospital on Monday tested positive for Covid-19\n\nA 13-day-old baby with no known underlying health conditions has died with Covid-19, NHS England has said.\n\nThe baby is thought to be the youngest to die with the disease in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirmed a child died on Monday after being admitted in a critical condition.\n\nThe hospital, which has not confirmed the child's age, said the victim tested positive for Covid, but the cause of death was yet to be determined.\n\nEarlier it was announced a further 62 people aged between 13 days and 96 years, who tested positive for coronavirus, had died in hospitals in England.\n\nThe 13-day-old baby was the only person under 20 years of age recorded as dying.\n\nIn a statement, Sheffield Children's Hospital, said: \"Sadly on Monday June 15, a child passed away... having been brought in to the hospital in a critical condition. Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\n\"The cause of death is not yet known. Tests have confirmed that the child had Covid-19, but it isn't yet clear if it was a contributing factor.\"\n\nPreviously, the youngest person to have died with the virus in the UK with no pre-existing health problems was Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was 13 and from Brixton in south London.\n\nIn May, a six-week-old child who did have underlying health conditions died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "A large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nSouth Asian people are the most likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital in Great Britain, major analysis shows.\n\nIt is the only ethnic group to have a raised risk of death in hospital and is partly due to high levels of diabetes.\n\nThe study is hugely significant as it assessed data from four-in-10 of all hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe researchers said policies such as protecting people at work and who gets a vaccine may now need to change.\n\nTwenty-seven institutions across the UK, including universities and public health bodies, as well as 260 hospitals, were involved in the study.\n\nThe findings have been made public online ahead of being formally published in a medical journal.\n\nHowever, the results were passed onto the UK government's scientific advisory group - Sage - more than a month ago.\n\nThe study tells us only what happens once somebody is admitted to hospital, not whether they were more likely to catch the virus.\n\nIt looked at nearly 35,000 Covid-19 patients in 260 hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales up until the middle of May.\n\n\"South Asians are definitely more likely to die from Covid-19 in hospital, but we don't see a strong effect in the black group,\" Prof Ewen Harrison, from the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC.\n\nPeople from South Asian backgrounds were 20% more likely to die than white people. Other minority ethnic groups did not have a higher death rate.\n\nThe study, the largest of its type in the world, shows:\n\nThe study also reveals profound differences in who is needing hospital care based on ethnicity.\n\n\"The South Asian population in hospital looks completely different to the white population,\" Prof Harrison said.\n\nHe added: \"They're 12 years younger on average, that's a massive difference, and they tend not to have dementia, obesity or lung disease, but very high levels of diabetes.\"\n\nAround 40% of South Asian patients had either type 1 or type 2 diabetes compared with 25% of white groups.\n\nDiabetes has a dual effect of increasing the risk of infection and damaging the body's organs, which may affect the ability to survive a coronavirus infection.\n\nThis is thought to be a major factor in increasing the death rate in people of South Asian ethnicity, but the full picture has not yet been uncovered.\n\nOther explanations could include poverty or subtle genetic differences that increase the risk of serious infection, the researchers say.\n\nThe report says ethnicity may now need to be considered alongside age and other health issues when deciding who gets a vaccine if one becomes available. The same issue crops up in deciding who should be shielding and whether some people need extra protection in the workplace.\n\n\"It does have far-reaching implications that are difficult to grapple with,\" Prof Harrison told the BBC.\n\n\"Should there be a different policy for a frontline South Asian nurse to a white nurse - that's what's really tricky.\"\n\nThe study showed all ethnic minorities were more likely to need intensive care than people from white backgrounds.\n\nThis may be partly due to the disease becoming more severe. However, another factor is white people were older and sicker so ventilation in intensive care may not be an option.\n\nThe differences, however, were not about access to healthcare.\n\nThe report showed that all ethnicities arrived in hospital in roughly the same stage of Covid-19 suggesting there is no delay in getting help between ethnicities.\n\nEarlier work by Public Health England showed people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white people, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death. Although that did not account for other factors such as occupation, health problems and obesity.\n\nMeanwhile, work by Queen Mary University of London has suggested heart disease and vitamin D levels do not explain the increased risk of coronavirus in black, Asian and minority ethnic people.\n\nBoth had been suggested as potential explanations for the greater risk in some groups.\n\nThe researchers used data from the UK Biobank study. It is following people throughout their lives, including during the pandemic, and has detailed personal and medical information on people taking part.\n\nIt did not look at deaths, rather who was testing positive for the virus in hospital.\n\nTheir study, published in the Journal of Public Health, showed weight, poverty and crowded homes all contributed to a higher chance of having the virus.\n\nResearchers Dr Zahra Raisi-Estabragh and Prof Steffen Petersen told the BBC: \"Although some of the factors we studied appeared important, none of them adequately explained the ethnicity differences.\"\n\nEven after taking them into account, people from ethnic minorities were still 59% more likely to test positive than those from white backgrounds and the reason remains unknown.\n\nDr Raisi-Estabragh and Prof Petersen added: \"This is a really important question and one that we need to address urgently.\n\n\"There are a wide range of possible explanations including sociological, economic, occupational and other biological factors such as different genetic susceptibilities that need to be considered.\"", "Apple said it did not know about a proposed \"hybrid\" version of the contact-tracing app announced by Matt Hancock\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nThe firm took the unusual step of saying it was also unaware of an issue regarding distance-measuring, which was flagged by Health Secretary Matt Hancock in Thursday's daily briefing.\n\nApple said it was \"difficult to understand\" the claims.\n\nDowning Street said the government had \"worked closely with Apple and Google\".\n\nIn tests carried out in the UK, there were occasions when software tools developed by Apple and Google could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nDuring the briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"Measuring distance is clearly mission critical to any contact-tracing app.\"\n\nHowever, speaking to the Times, Apple said: \"It is difficult to understand what these claims are as they haven't spoken to us.\"\n\nThe firm also pointed out that the tech was already either in use or intended for use in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland.\n\nThe tech giant also expressed surprise that the UK was working on a new version of the contact-tracing app which incorporated the Apple-Google software tool.\n\n\"We've agreed to join forces with Google and Apple, to bring the best bits of both systems together,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nHowever, Apple said: \"We don't know what they mean by this hybrid model. They haven't spoken to us about it.\"\n\nIt told the BBC it had nothing further to add.\n\nOn Friday, the Department of Health said the NHS's digital innovation unit had indeed discussed its ambitions with Apple.\n\n\"NHSX has been working with Google and Apple extensively since their API [application programming interface ] was made available,\" it told the BBC.\n\n\"Over the last few weeks, senior representatives from NHSX and Apple have had productive meetings to discuss both products and future direction.\n\n\"There is a commitment between the teams to work together to improve the distance measurement technology, which is integral to have a fully functioning contract-tracing app.\"\n\nThe original NHS app has now been abandoned\n\nGoogle said yesterday that it welcomed the government's announcement.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the government continued to work closely with both Apple and Google on the app, and had done so since development began.\n\n\"We've agreed with them to take forward our work on estimating distance through the app that we've developed and work to incorporate that into their app,\" he said.\n\nApple and Google have not created an app.\n\nWhat they have built is a software tool which enables contact-tracing apps to work more smoothly with both iPhones and Android devices, but which does not store any data centrally.\n\nThe UK wanted to store the data as it argued it would be useful for scientists tracking the spread of Covid-19.\n\nDr David Bonsall from Oxford University, who is an adviser to the NHS app developers, told the BBC the tech giant had made a choice not to support the UK's original model.\n\n\"Ultimately, a decision was taken by Apple to not support the centralised system that had been in development by the UK from March, and six weeks before they announced their own system under a decentralised model,\" he said.\n\n\"And that has got to be considered in our reflection on the situation that the UK now faces.\"\n\nThe now-abandoned NHS app was tested on the Isle of Wight where it was downloaded more than 50,000 times.\n\nHowever, it registered only about 4% of the iPhones that were nearby.\n\nIslanders have now been asked to delete it.\n\nIt's not the first time the government has clashed with Apple over an app - in 2018 an app built to help EU citizens apply to remain in the UK after Brexit was also found to not work properly on iPhones.\n\nOn that occasion Apple did eventually agree to make the necessary changes to its system.", "The Queen and Dame Vera, pictured in 1992, were both key UK figures during World War Two\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney are among those who have paid respects to Dame Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103.\n\nForces' Sweetheart Dame Vera, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, was best known for her wartime anthem We'll Meet Again.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen will send private condolences to the singer's family.\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones said during a BBC One special on Thursday evening: \"We as a family are very sad that my mother is no longer with us and this programme is a tribute to her wonderful life and her fantastic career.\n\n\"She touched so many people's lives and we are very, very proud of her.\"\n\nSir Paul tweeted after the programme to describe Dame Vera as \"strong and inspiring\".\n\n\"I am so sad to hear of her passing but at the same time so glad to have met her and experienced first-hand her warm, fun-loving personality. Her voice will sing in my heart forever,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nClarence House shared images of the singer meeting Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall and receiving her honour at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Queen previously echoed Dame Vera's famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nShe told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said Dame Vera's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nDame Vera's family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nWW2 veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the coronavirus lockdown, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently.\n\n\"She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard, who performed with her on the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995, said she was \"a great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon\".\n\nHe recalled his \"best, and favourite, memory\" of sharing a stage with her in front of Buckingham Palace that year.\n\n\"We walked to the stage through a crowd of survivors of that war, and they were reaching out to touch and get a smile from Vera,\" he remembered.\n\n\"I heard the words... 'God bless you' ... 'Thank you' ... 'We love you' for their very own Forces' Sweetheart! A great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon.\n\nKatherine Jenkins, whose virtual duet was seen on the recent 75th VE Day anniversary, said Dame Vera's voice \"brought comfort to millions\".\n\n\"It was she who chose the sentiments of her songs - she knew instinctively what people needed to hear, how to rally the morale and her spirit and strength created the soundtrack of a generation,\" she added.\n\nMichael Ball said she was \"an inspiration to us all\", adding: \"We shall never see her like again.\"\n\nHe wrote that \"her talent was so very rare and special\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Michael Ball OBE 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\nAlfie Boe, one of the younger generation of singers who appeared on an album released for Dame Vera's 100th birthday in 2017, said: \"It was a real pleasure to sing with her - an honour I will treasure forever.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alfie Boe OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAled Jones, who also appeared on that album, echoed those sentiments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Aled Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and singer Sheridan Smith, who performed Dame Vera's anthem We'll Meet Again for the 75th anniversary of D-Day last year, told BBC Radio 5 Live her music is \"so relevant today, just as it was back then\".\n\n\"She boosted morale with her music and brought the nation together though music, and it's been very relevant recently. A lot of people have been using it again at this strange time,\" Smith said. \"She'll never be forgotten. Her music lives on.\"\n\nDame Vera was able to \"move everybody in the country\", Lesley Garrett said\n\nLesley Garrett told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that Dame Vera was \"still able to stir us\" until late in life.\n\n\"She had the ability to communicate to an extraordinary degree, and there was nobody who she didn't touch,\" she said.\n\n\"She had the ability to move everybody in the country - royalty, politicians, you name it, she was an inspiration to them.\"\n\nLyricist Sir Tim Rice also paid tribute, saying: \"Dame Vera Lynn was one of the greatest ever British popular singers, not just because of her immaculate voice, warm, sincere, instantly recognisable and musically flawless.\n\n\"She will be remembered just as affectionately for her vital work in the Second World War and for her own Charitable Foundations in the 75 years since. A link with more certain times has been irrevocably broken.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said she \"demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 will repeat a special edition of The People's Songs about We'll Meet Again at 21:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nurses' leaders want all healthcare employers - including the NHS - to \"care for those who have been caring\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for better risk assessments; working patterns and mental health care for those on the front line.\n\nIt warns many may be suffering from exhaustion, anxiety and other psychological problems.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said support was a \"top priority\".\n\nThe RCN has released an eight-point plan of commitments it wants to see enforced to mark the 100 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic.\n\nAmongst its suggestions are a better Covid-19 testing regime for healthcare workers and more attention paid to the risks posed to ethnic minority nurses.\n\nIt says employers and ministers \"must tackle the underlying causes which have contributed to worse outcomes for Bame staff\".\n\nThe RCN also wants a commitment that no nurses will be pressured into working if they do not feel they have the right personal protective equipment for their jobs.\n\nAnd it wants more done too to avoid long shifts and excess hours as well as measures to protect annual leave and work breaks.\n\nAbove all, the union is asking for proper funding for the mental health counselling that may be needed to support staff who've had traumatic experiences on Covid-19 wards and in care homes.\n\nIt points out even those who work in other areas may be affected by work-related stress as backlogs from disrupted services mount up.\n\nLast month, an Icon/ King's College London survey of members of the nursing and midwifery workforce found that 88% continue to worry about risks to family members during the pandemic.\n\nRespondents also reported ongoing depression, anxiety, stress and emerging signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, the RCN's general secretary, said: \"The weekly clapping may have stopped, but the practical measures needed to fully support our health care staff are only just beginning.\n\n\"It is vital that our governments and employers, including the NHS, take steps now to protect our health and social care services and staff, who have done such remarkable work at a time of crisis.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the whole country recognised the \"bravery of everyone working on the frontline of this unprecedented global pandemic\" and it would \"continue to do everything we can to support them, including ensuring that their mental health and wellbeing is a top priority\".\n\nIt said all NHS staff have free access to helplines and wellbeing apps, and urged anyone struggling to call them, or speak to a colleague or their occupational health team.\n\nDuring the peak of the epidemic in the UK, many commentators said there should be a \"never again\" approach to the health service and social care sector - similar to the founding of the welfare state following WW2.\n\nBut the medical professional bodies worry that society will return normal without the support they say is crucial for healthcare staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A series of drive-in concerts have been announced to take place across the UK this summer.\n\nGary Numan is among the acts announced by Live Nation, presumably so he can belt out his hit 'Cars' to a crowd full of them.\n\nWhat will the experience be like for those driving up to watch acts like Beverly Knight, Sigala, and Jack Savoretti?\n\nDrive-in concerts have already been tried out in Denmark, Germany and the US.", "A 90-year-old woman is on the verge of completing a two-month fundraising effort for NHS charities by climbing the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - on her stairs.\n\nMargaret Payne said on Friday she has seven of the 282 trips upstairs at her Sutherland home remaining.\n\n\"I hope to do two more today, and I average between two and four a day as a rule,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nInspired by Army veteran Captain Tom Moore's 100 laps of his garden, she began her own mission on Easter Sunday, 12 April, and has so far raised around £418,000 , including gift aid.\n\nMrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland, aged 15, in 1944, and said it is the only mountain she has climbed to the top of.\n\nHer daughter, Nicola, said her mother's effort was \"absolutely amazing\".\n\n\"Mum has got fitter, she is sleeping and eating well, and she has stuck at it,\" she added. \"The whole family is really proud.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC revisits Lombardy, the site of Europe's first major outbreak of coronavirus, to ask what went wrong\n\nItalian scientists say sewage water from two cities contained coronavirus traces in December, long before the country's first confirmed cases.\n\nThe National Institute of Health (ISS) said water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December.\n\nIt adds to evidence from other countries that the virus may have been circulating much earlier than thought.\n\nChinese officials confirmed the first cases at the end of December. Italy's first case was in mid-February.\n\nIn May French scientists said tests on samples showed a patient treated for suspected pneumonia near Paris on 27 December actually had the coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile in Spain a study found virus traces in waste water collected in mid-January in Barcelona, some 40 days before the first local case was discovered.\n\nIn their study, ISS scientists examined 40 sewage samples collected from wastewater treatment plants in northern Italy between last October and February.\n\nSamples from October and November came back negative, showing that the virus had not yet arrived, ISS water quality expert Giuseppina La Rosa said. Waste water from Bologna began showing traces of the virus in January.\n\nThe findings could help scientists understand how the virus began spreading in Italy, Ms La Rosa said.\n\nHowever she said the research did not \"automatically imply that the main transmission chains that led to the development of the epidemic in our country originated from these very first cases\".\n\nItaly's first known non-imported virus case was a patient in the town of Codogno in the Lombardy region. The town was closed off and declared a \"red zone\" on 21 February. Nine other towns in Lombardy and neighbouring Veneto followed and the entire country went into lockdown in early March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Italian grandad urging tourists to visit his beach\n\nThe ISS said the results confirmed the \"strategic importance\" of sewage water as an early detection tool because it can signal the virus's presence before cases are clinically confirmed. Many countries are now using the technique.\n\nThe institute says it aims to begin a pilot project monitoring waste water at tourist resorts in July with a view to setting up a nationwide waste water monitoring network later this year.\n\nNearly 35,000 people have died with Covid-19 in Italy, a tally from Johns Hopkins University shows.", "Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins has been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct policy, the social media giant said.\n\nMs Hopkins, who had more than one million followers, was previously suspended in January for a week.\n\nBut Twitter said her latest ban is permanent.\n\nThe social network did not, however, say which tweets Ms Hopkins had posted, to result in the ban.\n\n\"Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us - abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take action when our rules are broken,\" it said.\n\nThe cited hateful conduct policy bans promotion of violence or direct written attacks and threats on other people, based on a wide range of personal characteristics such as race, gender or sexual orientation.\n\nMs Hopkins is well-known for both her media appearances and controversial right-wing viewpoints.\n\nShe has been re-tweeted by US President Donald Trump on several occasions.\n\nTwitter has recently taken a firmer line against Mr Trump himself over tweets it says break its policies.\n\nThe US President has seen warnings placed on some of his tweets and others hidden from general view, although they remain online.\n\nBut leaving such tweets up in the public interest is an exception Twitter makes for world leaders - other accounts like Ms Hopkins' risk being suspended when they break Twitter's rules.", "A policeman involved in the killing of an African-American woman in the US state of Kentucky will be fired, Louisville city officials have said.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was shot when officers entered her flat on 13 March during a drugs investigation.\n\nMayor Greg Fischer said Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, would lose his badge. The others have been placed on administrative leave.\n\nMs Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at global anti-racism protests.\n\nMayor Fischer did not provide more details regarding the decision to fire Mr Hankison.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I very much would like to see changed, both the Chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment, or even the timing of this decision,\" he said.\n\nBrett Hankison will be fired, officials say\n\nPolice suspected Ms Taylor's flat was being used to receive drugs by a gang based at a different address 10 miles (16km) away. One of the suspects was an ex-boyfriend of Ms Taylor.\n\nShe was one of three people named on the warrant, according to Louisville NBC affiliate Wave 3.\n\nBut Ms Taylor was not the main subject of the investigation, the city's Courier-Journal newspaper reports.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hankison published by the Courier-Journal, Louisville Police interim chief Robert Schroeder wrote that his conduct was \"a shock to the conscience\" that \"demands your termination\".\n\nMr Hankison is accused of \"blindly\" firing 10 rounds into Ms Taylor's apartment, displaying \"an extreme indifference to the value of human life\".\n\n\"I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion,\" Mr Schroeder added.\n\n\"The result of your action seriously impedes the department's goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department.\"\n\nAttorneys for Ms Taylor's family said they want to see the other officers fired as well.\n\n\"We also look forward to these officers being prosecuted for their roles in her untimely death.\"\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, Mr Hankison, along with officers Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, entered Ms Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without permission. Ms Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nPolice said they knocked before using a battering ram to enter the home, though this account has been disputed by Ms Taylor's family and a neighbour.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nDuring the exchange, Ms Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times. She died on her hallway floor.\n\nMr Walker surrendered and was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a police officer.\n\nA lawsuit filed by Ms Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence.\n\nNo drugs were found in the property. The lawsuit also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nLast week, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.\n\nOn Sunday, pop star Beyoncé urged the Kentucky Attorney General to bring charges against the three officers involved.\n\nMs Taylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight again with the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month.", "Some primary school pupils in England began returning to classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nAll pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing, he said the government was \"signed up... to bring every child back, in every year group, in every school\".\n\nGuidance on safety measures will be published in the next fortnight.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister announced a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nMr Williamson also said class size limits - or \"bubbles\" - imposed to curb the spread of the virus could be increased to allow every child to return to school.\n\nUnder current rules imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, class sizes are limited to a maximum of 15 pupils, but the education secretary said ministers were looking at \"expanding those bubbles to include the whole class\".\n\nClass sizes vary in England, but this could be around 30 pupils.\n\nTeachers' unions say the proposals have not been thought through.\n\n\"There is no social distancing if you've got 30 children in one classroom,\" Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC.\n\n\"But then you're going to ask them to abide by social distancing when they go out, I think that won't work and that will mean children aren't looking at social distancing at all.\"\n\nSchools closed to everyone except vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker on 20 March, in response to the pandemic.\n\nAs the lockdown measures started easing at the beginning of this month, children in nursery, reception, Year 1 and Year 6 were encouraged to return to primary schools in England, albeit in smaller class sizes.\n\nSome Year 10 and 12 pupils - selected because they are sitting GCSEs and A-levels respectively next summer - returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nMinisters now want all pupils in England to return to classrooms full-time in the autumn, ending a near six-month absence for many pupils.\n\n\"We have already been very clear that we want to see all children in all classes returning full-time to school in September. That's what we are working towards,\" Mr Williamson told reporters.\n\nIt is a promise that many parents will have been waiting to hear.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has committed to all school pupils in all year groups going back full-time in September.\n\nThe part-time, online, often not-really-anytime lessons will be over.\n\nBut the much trickier question will be how to deliver this.\n\nEven if social distancing is reduced - and class size \"bubbles\" of 15 pupils can be increased - there will still be massive logistical challenges.\n\nHead teachers have warned any social distancing, even 1m, will require additional classrooms and teachers.\n\nAnd they have been exasperated at time ticking away without any clear plan - with heads' leader Geoff Barton complaining schools are working in an \"information black hole\".\n\nWhen the government had to U-turn on bringing back all primary pupils it was because nobody listened to similar warnings about lack of space.\n\nBut a September deadline is now in place - and there will be high political stakes if there is another failure to deliver.\n\nThe education secretary said signs that the spread of coronavirus was reducing meant that ministers could now look at \"making sure that every child returns to school\".\n\nHe said he understood \"there is anxiety still among parents\" about their children going back to school, but stressed: \"I want to assure you that the well-being of your children is the absolute top priority for every single one of us.\"\n\nThe government will publish guidance for schools within the next two weeks on how to bring children back \"so that schools have the maximum amount of time to prepare for the next phase\", Mr Williamson said.\n\nHowever, there was no confirmation of whether the government's 2m social distancing rule was going to be relaxed in schools.\n\nMr Williamson reiterated that a review of the measure is under way, and added that could not provide an exact date for a decision.\n\nCurrent Department for Education (DfE) guidance states that primary school classes should be split in half and contain no fewer than 15 pupils, desks should be spaced as far apart as possible and lunch, break, drop-off and pick-up times should be staggered.\n\nSchools should also consider introducing one-way circulation, or placing a divider down the middle of the corridor, to keep young people apart, it adds.\n\nMr Williamson was speaking after the coronavirus alert level for the UK was downgraded from four to three, paving the way for a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nAt level four, transmission of the virus was thought to be \"high or rising exponentially\"; at three, it is thought be \"in general circulation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's pledge prompted teachers' unions to call for further clarity on the proposals.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said schools and colleges were trying to prepare for September amid an \"information black hole\" from the government.\n\nMr Barton said school and college leaders were preparing for two scenarios for the autumn - using rotas to stagger the return of pupils or bringing students back full-time - amid an \"absence of information\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"The desire to bring everyone back is correct but we need to know what the government is thinking and the scenarios they are planning for.\n\n\"This will give school communities what they need to get through this term and plan for the new academic year in September.\"\n\nMr Courtney, of the NEU, said earlier: \"The prime minister's hopes are not enough.\"\n\n\"If the requirements of social distancing - in order to stop a second peak - are reduced even to 1m, then most schools could not have 30 children in a classroom,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn fund to help England's children catch up will see the most disadvantaged pupils gain access to tutors through a £350m programme in the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".", "Trump supporters have begun camping outside the arena\n\nOklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday in Tulsa, his first since March, can go ahead.\n\nA lawsuit to stop the 20 June event over concerns that it could increase the spread of Covid-19 in the community was filed this week.\n\nVirus cases are rising in Oklahoma, and local health officials have expressed concerns over hosting the rally.\n\nThe Trump campaign says they received over 1m ticket requests for the event.\n\nThe queue for the event at the Bank of Oklahoma Center - which seats 19,000 people - began forming earlier this week.\n\nFacing tough re-election prospects in November, the Republican president is hoping to reboot his campaign after a rocky week that has seen news of sinking opinion poll numbers, twin US Supreme Court defeats, two damning tell-all memoirs and a resurgence in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe lawsuit to cancel his rally was filed by John Hope Franklin for Reconciliation, a nonprofit organisation that promotes racial equality, and a commercial real estate company, the Greenwood Centre.\n\nThey argued the venue should mandate social distancing guidelines in accordance with US public health officials' recommendations, or cancel the event.\n\nBut the Supreme Court said that as the state had begun to reopen, the regulations left social distancing decisions up to individual business owners. Oklahoma has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn response to safety concerns, the Trump campaign has said they will check attendees' temperatures and offer hand sanitiser and masks.\n\nBut people buying tickets for the Tulsa rally online also have to click on a waiver confirming they \"voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19\" and will not hold the president's campaign responsible for \"any illness or injury\".\n\nSome of the president's supporters gathering in Tulsa have been seen wearing masks\n\nThe president himself has pushed back against guidance around masks, calling them a personal choice.\n\nIn an interview with political news outlet Axios released on Friday night, he was asked if he recommended rally attendees wear facial coverings.\n\n\"I recommend people do what they want,\" he replied.\n\nMr Trump also said: \"We're going to have a wild evening tomorrow night at Oklahoma.\"\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has said attendees will be given masks, but they will not be instructed to wear them - and told reporters on Friday that she will not be wearing one either.\n\nTulsa's health department director Dr Bruce Dart told the Tulsa World paper: \"I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large a concern as it is today.\"\n\nTulsa's mayor imposed a curfew on Thursday around the venue, declaring a civil emergency, but the president says the city leader has assured him the measure will not apply to the rally itself.\n\nMayor GT Bynum, a Republican, cited recent \"civil unrest\" and potential opposition protests as he slapped an exclusion zone on a six-block radius near the arena.\n\nBut on Friday afternoon, Mr Bynum said that the Secret Service had asked the city to lift the curfew.\n\n\"Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,\" the mayor said in a statement.\n\n\"Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.\"\n\nThe mayor also said law enforcement had intelligence that \"individuals from organised groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behaviour in other states are planning to travel to the city of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally\".\n\nMeanwhile, a high metal fence was put up to barricade the Trump rally venue.\n\nEarlier on Friday, President Trump posted a warning on Twitter to demonstrators.\n\n\"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,\" the president tweeted.\n\n\"It will be a much different scene!\"\n\nMr Trump originally planned to hold the rally on Friday, but changed the date last week after learning it fell on Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of US slavery.\n\nThe president told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that a black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of the anniversary.\n\nOn Friday, Ms McEnany said the president \"routinely commemorated\" the day and \"he did not just learn about Juneteenth this week\".\n\nTulsa was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A celebration of life. A celebration of freedom': What you need to know about Juneteenth", "Victoria Rogers says children need some degree of normality\n\nRelief that children will be kept away from school for another few months, or despair that they are losing out on education and time with their friends?\n\nWhat do parents make of the government's ditching of a plan for all primary school years in England to go back to school for four weeks before the end of term?\n\nJonathan Wills a parent from Barnton Primary in Northwich in Cheshire says families need to get back to some sort of routine.\n\n\"I think it's going to be extremely difficult for kids and some families, because it's a long time to try to recreate the structure that schools give you.\n\n\"And I think without that structure, a lot of schools and kids will struggle, particularly with the stresses of financial problems and then all the types of psychological problems.\n\n\"I think the kids that were struggling before will be struggling even more now.\"\n\nMother-of-two Victoria Rogers agrees: \"I do think children should start coming back to school, as we need to get back to some form of normality.\"\n\nJonathan Wills says many families are struggling\n\nBut elsewhere, mother-of-one Molly told the BBC she is relieved that not all primary years will be returning this term, as she would not have been prepared to send her daughter back to school.\n\n\"Until it is safe for parliament to sit next to each other and until it's 'safe' to cuddle your own blood mother, then how is it deemed safe to mix your children with numerous other households?\n\n\"But our children can be placed into school with numerous other households' children. Even at small groups of 15, how is that safe? When we are only allowed to meet up in groups of six?\n\n\"It's either dangerous to us all or it's not as dangerous as what they are making out.\n\n\"As much as my daughter needs to go back to school and the lockdown has taken its toll with her, I will not be sending her back.\n\n\"If it's this big killer, keeping us away from blood relatives, then it's not safe.\"\n\nFor some families, there is a difference of opinion even within the family.\n\nOne mother-of-three - who was expecting two of hers to return to school before the summer - told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that her children had opposing views on the matter.\n\n\"I know that one of them is going to be really disappointed at the prospect of not seeing her friends.\n\n\"That's been something she's really counting down to, even though we knew it was uncertain.\n\n\"But the boy in Year 5 will be absolutely delighted!\"\n\nAs for her, she remains ambivalent on it all: \"I feel sort of resigned to it really. I just feel sad for them that they're not going to see their friends for such a long time now.\"\n\nNigel Rowlands says his daughter is happier now she is back to school\n\nAnother mother told Today said she was \"unsurprised\" but \"incredibly disappointed\" by the news.\n\n\"I feel really sad for my son. I've got one son in year two, and another one in reception.\n\n\"My child in reception's gone back, albeit only four days a week, every other week.\n\n\"And my older son, who is just about to turn seven, is desperate to go back, can't understand, thinks it's so unfair - which it is.\n\n\"He and the school are going to have to put up with my rather inadequate home schooling, while I'm stuck at home, also with a one-and-a-half year old, trying to juggle a business and everything else.\"\n\nBut another mother, with two children aged eight and six, told Today she thought a return before the summer was too early.\n\n\"I'm actually relieved if schools don't go back until September because I think it's too soon.\n\n\"They don't socially distance at that age. I don't think there's enough protective equipment available in school.\"\n\nHowever, for Nigel Rowlands, the past few weeks have been very difficult and he is glad to have his daughter back in school.\n\n\"It's been difficult - we've been through a lot. There's no structure, learning at home is entirely different to learning at school,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I've been working from home. So we've just spent a huge amount of time together, confined within four walls with not a lot of other places to go to.\n\n\"We try to get out and do a daily walk, but that's not the same as spending all day in school with other people.\n\n\"Having her back in school now has given some of that structure back and that's reflected in her being connected with other children and you can see that in that her demeanour is completely different since she's been back in school.\"", "Education Minister Peter Weir has published new guidance setting out how schools should plan to reopen.\n\nThe New School Day guidance has been designed by the Department of Education, school leaders and partners.\n\nAmong the plans is a possible \"no bell\" strategy with flexible class times to cut pupil flow in busier schools.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Weir announced that the 2m social distancing rule would be reduced to 1m between pupils, when schools reopen in September.\n\nThe minister said this was to allow \"full classes\" to attend school as lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nMr Weir said his ambition remained for all pupils to resume classroom-based learning \"as soon as it is safely possible to do so\". He told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme the direct threat to young people from coronavirus was extremely low, while their continued absence from school was damaging.\n\nHe said he appreciated the stresses felt by teachers, parents and pupils during a time of disruption and uncertainty.\n\n\"Although our overall approach to managing the Covid-19 virus must rightly remain cautious, today is a positive step forward in providing a road map to plan for the reopening of schools in two months' time,\" he said.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said expectations needed to be managed about the reopening of schools.\n\nIts vice president, Graham Gault, said comments by First Minister Arlene Foster on Thursday - that the executive wanted \"to get everybody back to school in September\" - were unrealistic and undeliverable.\n\nGraham Gault said he did not have the teaching staff to take pupils to neighbouring non-school buildings\n\nMr Gault the principal of Maghaberry Primary School, said this would need \"very drastic changes\", as even with the 1m distancing rule his classrooms would only be able to cater for 15 pupils at one time rather than the usual 30.\n\nAlthough great progress had been made in talks between trade unions and the education department on how to manage school numbers safely, Mr Gault rejected the first minister's suggestion that schools should use extra spaces, such as assembly and dining halls, for teaching - saying these comments \"stopped (him) from sleeping last night\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government was looking carefully at Northern Ireland's decision to reduce physical distancing in schools, saying she had been advised 2m distancing was required to inhibit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Scottish government's current plan is for all schools to reopen on 11 August, but with elements of remote learning.\n\nMany pupils in only part-time, and staggered start and finishes to the school day.\n\nOne way corridors, small group 'bubbles, maybe even no schoolbags or school bells.\n\nWhen children return in September their experience of school is set to be very different.\n\nBut the Department of Education wants to get as many pupils as possible back in class for as much time as possible, an aspiration shared by school leaders and their staff.\n\nThe guidance will help, but many difficult decisions will still be left at the door of principals.\n\nSome schools may be able to get all pupils in full-time, but many won't and that will lead to headaches for parents.\n\nAnd specific guidance on the complex tasks of opening special schools - and how to provide school meals and school transport - has yet to be published.\n\nJulie Thomas, principal of Clandeboye Primary School in Bangor, welcomed the reduction in the social distancing guidelines but said it was important not to over-promise parents what schools might be able to deliver in the new academic year.\n\nMethodist College Belfast Principal Scott Naismith echoed that sentiment, saying Mr Weir had been overly optimistic.\n\nWhile favourable pupil-staff ratios and accommodation meant Methody's preparatory school could get all the pupils back full-time from August, complexities in the senior school meant only half its pupils could be safely accommodated at one time.", "The founder of the pub chain Oakman Inns has vowed to reopen all of its sites on 4 July even if the government has not relaxed restrictions.\n\n\"We cannot wait for the government to make a decision,\" Peter Borg-Neal wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe government has said pubs would not be able to reopen until July at the earliest under lockdown measures.\n\nBut it has not yet given a definitive date for reopening pubs, despite pressure from the industry.\n\nMr Borg-Neal's vow came as the British pubs' trade body demanded a definitive date so that staff could prepare.\n\nBut some health experts fear that opening venues such as pubs or restaurants too early could increase the number of coronavirus cases, especially as outbreaks reoccur in countries such as China.\n\n\"To open without proper forward planning would also be wrong,\" Mr Borg-Neal 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 Peter Borg-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\nHe later told the BBC: \"I'm not trying to be some reckless rebel.\n\n\"We need to plan ahead, get staff off furlough, remove furniture, install hand-washing stations, change layouts in pubs,\" he said. \"You can't just give us a couple of days' notice and expect us to open safely.\"\n\nHe added: \"We would not open unless we thought it was 100%-safe to do so.\"\n\nOakman Inns told the BBC that it had not yet received a response from the government following the announcement.\n\n\"If they wanted to stop us, they could threaten a licensing review, in which they would need to show that we have broken licensing laws. I do intend to seek legal advice on this,\" Mr Borg-Neal said.\n\n\"In a conflict situation we might not open all of our pubs immediately, I could just open one or two to see what they do.\"\n\nOn 21 March, the government brought in regulations requiring pubs, cafes and restaurants to stop serving customers food and drink for consumption on the premises.\n\nMr Borg-Neal said he would have no choice but to open regardless in July, whether the regulations were still in force or not.\n\n\"We can hang around and definitely go bust, or open and see if they destroy us,\" he said.\n\nOakman Inns and Restaurants has 25 pubs spread over the south of England and the Midlands, with plans to open three more.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nOn Thursday, the British Beer and Pub Association set out demands in a letter calling for a definitive opening date from the government by Friday.\n\n\"Without this certainty by the end of this week, many businesses in the sector will be forced to cut costs to ensure their survival through the extended period of financial uncertainty,\" it said.\n\n\"This could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses and permanent pub closures.\"\n\nIt said that pubs and beer businesses are \"burning through £100m every month in cash while they remain closed\".\n\n\"These costs... could tip many pubs over the edge unless they are given clarity and confidence on when exactly they can reopen,\" it said.\n\nOther pub bosses also joined in the call for clarity.\n\nMark Davies, chief executive of the Hawthorn Leisure chain, said: \"Our pubs are part of the social fabric of their communities, but there's so much our partners need to do to get ready for reopening, from bringing staff off furlough, to adopting new health and hygiene protocols and implementing social distance measures, not to mention getting beer into their pubs from suppliers.\n\n\"If we're to stand any chance of getting the Great British pub open by 4 July, it's imperative that the government provides clear guidance by Friday at the absolute latest.\"", "Lord Carloway said he would not contemplate any measure that might compromise the basic principle of a fair trial\n\nScotland's most senior judge has called for new legislation to help address the growing backlog of court cases.\n\nThe Lord President, Lord Carloway, said measures proposed so far had simply been \"tinkering at the edges\" of a major problem.\n\nHe warned that if things continued as they had been, there could be a backlog of 3,000 jury trials in the high and sheriff courts by next March.\n\nSome cases have now resumed but social distancing has reduced capacity to 30%.\n\nThe Scottish government said a working group had been set up to consider the practical and operational requirements needed to resume jury trials and that it was working to explore options.\n\nIn a strongly-worded statement, Lord Carloway paid tribute to the court service for the speed at which it had developed digitally-based techniques of working, but he said new legislation was needed.\n\nHe said that while progress had been made in conducting civil cases and non-jury trials remotely, proceedings that required a jury had proved more difficult.\n\n\"This is not the time for a defence of tradition,\" he said. \"The cry of 'it's aye been' cannot prevail. We have to seize the momentum and opportunity to respond to the particular challenge.\"\n\nThe first jury citations since March have now been issued, but jurors will have to sit in more than one courtroom to observe the proceedings.\n\nLord Carloway said this would reduce trial capacity to 30% of normal,\n\n\"We need to stop thinking about tinkering at the edges,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a keenness across the justice sector to find ways to address the serious backlog of solemn cases. I have been absolutely clear that I will not contemplate any measure to aid recovery which might compromise the basic principle of a fair trial.\n\n\"The fact remains, however, that the requirements, for physical distancing and self-isolation in order to protect public health, are extraordinary inhibitors on the conduct of all kinds of court business.\"\n\nVideo technology is expected to be used increasingly in Scottish courts\n\nHe said he had \"no doubt\" that legislation would be needed to address some of the technical constraints.\n\n\"None of the measures proposed by others have so far come close to offering practical answers to what are real difficulties,\" he said.\n\n\"They are simply tinkering at the margins of a major problem which, as long as social distancing and self-isolation are in place, requires a political solution.\"\n\nLady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, is currently leading a working group on restarting jury trials.\n\nOne option being considered is reducing the size of juries from 15 people in order to enable social distancing.\n\nMargaret Mitchell, chairwoman of Holyrood's justice committee, said: \"In such unprecedented times it is important that we continue to be open minded to innovative suggestions and not limit ourselves to bitesize change.\n\n\"This will require looking more broadly at the system, with the aim of ensuring justice is carried out swiftly and effectively and of course with the necessary safety measures in place.\n\n\"The committee stands ready to play its role in this whether through legislation or other options such as the use of other appropriate venues for trials.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said: \"The difficult but necessary decisions taken by the courts in order to protect public health have inevitably led to a backlog of cases.\n\n\"As the Lord President makes clear, we must aim to remain dynamic and agile, and continue to embrace new technologies for the longer term, for a resilient, modern justice system.\n\n\"A judicial-led working group, chaired by the Lord Justice Clerk, is reviewing the practical and operational requirements for resuming jury trials while complying with physical distancing rules.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We welcome the pragmatic approach taken by all partners and we are currently considering operational and legislative options, such as sentencing powers for sheriffs, which can be agreed to help to address the backlog and mitigate its impacts.\"", "A woman whose hospital bed appeal for others to obey lockdown rules went viral has given birth.\n\nKaren Mannering, from Herne Bay, Kent, was six months pregnant when she contracted Covid-19. She was hospitalised and developed pneumonia in both lungs.\n\nNow recovered, Ms Mannering told the BBC: \"I just wanted everyone to know it's not a joke, take it seriously\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba returned to action for first time since 26 December to win the late penalty that earned Manchester United a crucial point at Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nPogba, who had not played for almost six months because of an ankle injury that needed surgery, emerged as a second-half substitute and demonstrated he has the creativity to make a difference as United battle for a place in the top four.\n\nUnited keeper David de Gea was badly at fault when he failed to stop Steven Bergwijn's powerful 27th-minute drive, so there was relief all-round for the visitors when Pogba surged into the area before he was hauled down clumsily by Eric Dier.\n\nIn the cavernous spaces of the deserted Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - as the match was played behind closed doors - Fernandes equalised with an emphatic penalty.\n\nSpurs survived a last-minute scare as referee Jon Moss pointed to the spot again when Dier collided with Fernandes but the video assistant referee correctly reversed a poor decision.\n\nDe Gea made a measure of amends with a superb save from Son Heung-min shortly after his error, while Hugo Lloris made a magnificent flying save from Anthony Martial as United chased an equaliser.\n\nIt finally arrived via that Fernandes spot-kick nine minutes from time to leave United in fifth place, four points ahead of Spurs.\n• None De Gea and Maguire 'should get taxi back to Manchester'\n• None Relive the draw between Tottenham and Manchester United\n• None How you rated the players\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept faith with the side that went 11 games unbeaten in all competitions as their season restarted here in north London - which meant no place for Pogba, despite his recovery from injury.\n\nIt was no surprise, however, when he was called into action just after the hour to inject some zest into what had been a lifeless United performance up to that point.\n\nPogba was right in the fray, having a shot instantly - but he made his most significant contribution when he tricked Dier in the area and drew a foul from the Spurs defender to win that point-saving penalty.\n\nIt was a timely reminder to Solskjaer, should he even need one, of the rare talent he has at his disposal if Pogba could only show consistency and put the speculation about his future behind him.\n\nDe Gea did not have such a good night. There were already questions about his form before this game and he produced another error here - all with Dean Henderson's reputation growing in his loan spell at Sheffield United.\n\nSpurs will be bitterly disappointed to concede a goal so late on, and in such needless fashion, although it could have been worse when referee Moss erroneously awarded that second penalty - before VAR put matters right.\n\nLloris had produced that outstanding save from Martial but Spurs were hardly under siege and manager Jose Mourinho, who stalked the touchline in fury when United were originally awarded that injury-time penalty, will feel an important two points have been cast aside.\n\nMourinho will take some solace in the return of Harry Kane after hamstring surgery and Son after he broke his arm, as well as goalscorer Bergwijn.\n\nSpurs, however, need wins, and this result leaves them in eighth place, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea in the chase for Champions League places.\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live: \"I think difficult to find the word, I have to try to find a nice word - a strange penalty because the team was so compact, so well organised.\n\n\"The players did fantastic work defensively - they had two dangerous shots that Hugo Lloris saved and nothing else. Everything else was under control. I have to admit for the last 15 minutes I would love to have had Lucas Moura here, Dele Alli here. The last 15 minutes were difficult for us.\n\n\"Lucas and Dele are players we need and we could feel that today. when you look to their bench and then to ours the difference in attacking options. Hopefully they will be back for West Ham because in this moment it is very, very important to change players.\n\nOn the penalty for Manchester United: \"Paul Pogba did his job. That is it. I think Jonathan Moss was also trying to do his job the best he could. I think the VAR is a different situation.\"\n\nManchester United on the spot again - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions (W8 D4), scoring 30 goals and conceding just three in that run.\n• None Steven Bergwijn became only the second player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances for Spurs, after Rafael van der Vaart in 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, Manchester United have both taken (23) and scored (16) more penalties than any other Premier League side.\n• None Only Trent Alexander-Arnold (14) has more assists among Premier League defenders in all competitions than Spurs full-back Serge Aurier this season (eight).\n• None Jose Mourinho has won none of his past six matches against his former clubs in all competitions (D2 L4), taking just one point from four Premier League matches against Chelsea and Man Utd this season (D1 L3).\n• None Spurs are winless in seven games in all competitions (D3 L4), their worst run since November 2016 (also seven without a win).\n\nTottenham host West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday, 23 June (20:15 BST) while Manchester United are at home to Sheffield United on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Harry Maguire tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "After months of work, the UK has ditched the way its coronavirus-tracing app works, prompting a blame game between the government and two of the world's biggest tech firms. So what went wrong?\n\nAt the end of March, I got a text from a senior figure in the UK's technology industry. This person said they were helping the NHS \"on a very substantial project that will launch in days and potentially save hundreds of thousands of British lives.\"\n\nThat was the first I knew of the plan to build a contact tracing app, a project that soon appeared to be at the very centre of the government's strategy to beat coronavirus and help us all emerge from lockdown.\n\nThe tech luminary had somehow assumed that I could be an adviser to the project - I made it clear that could not be my role but I was very interested in following its progress.\n\nNow, nearly three months on, after missing deadline after deadline, there has been a radical change in direction. The app that has been developed so far is being scrapped, and a new approach will be tried based on a system created by Apple and Google.\n\nBut there is no guarantee when, if ever, this will be rolled out. So what went wrong?\n\nWhen the team from the NHSX digital division was assembled they were told they were engaged on a vital mission. According to a presentation the team was shown the Covid-19 app would have four aims:\n\nOnce installed on a user's phone, the app would use Bluetooth to keep a record of other people with whom they came into close contact - as long as they too had installed the app. Then when someone tested positive for the virus, alerts would be sent to their close contacts of recent days telling them to go into quarantine.\n\nThe epidemiological expertise was provided by a team of Oxford scientists who had argued that there was an urgent need to identify people who were spreading the virus without knowing. \"Very fast contact tracing was likely to be essential,\" says one of the Oxford team, Dr David Bonsall. \"And smartphones have the technological capability to speed up that process.\"\n\nBut using the Bluetooth connection on smartphones to detect contacts was untested technology. Still, the team was inspired by Singapore, which had released its Trace Together app using that system.\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock announces the development of \"a new NHS app for contact tracing\". The app is launched on the Isle of Wight. It is downloaded by 60,000 people, under half the population of the island, over the following 10 days. Mr Hancock tells BBC Breakfast that if the trial on the Isle of Wight is successful, the app will be rolled out nationwide by the middle of May. He also says the public would have a \"duty\" to download the app and that 60% of people in the country would have to do so for the system to function. PM says test, track and trace will be ‘world-beating’ Boris Johnson says the system will be in place by 1 June Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells Parliament: \"We will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes it will be in place by 1 June.\" He also says there will be 25,000 trackers who \"will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day\". Contact-tracing system is launched without a nationwide app. Anybody who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive will have to self-isolate for 14 days. According to government figures, in the first week tracers contact 5,407 people with the virus. Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the app tested on the Isle of Wight will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\". Speaking on BBC Question Time, the minister says: \"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\" Asked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he says: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\" Minister says the app ‘isn’t the priority’ Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, says the app \"isn’t the priority\". Answering a question about the app from the Science and Technology Committee, the minister says: \"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment.\" He declines to offer a launch date for the app. In a major U-turn, the UK ditches its version and shifts to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google. The Apple-Google design is promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nBut it soon became clear that using Bluetooth was tricky. Reports from Singapore suggested people were reluctant to download the app because it had to be kept open on the phone all the time, draining the battery.\n\nThen on 10 April came a surprising announcement from Google and Apple. The two tech giants - on whose software virtually all the world's smartphones depend - said they were going to develop a system that would help Bluetooth contact-tracing apps work smoothly. But there was a catch - only privacy-focused apps would be allowed to use the platform.\n\nApple and Google favoured decentralised apps, where the matching between infected people and their list of contacts happened between their phones. The alternative was for the matching to be done on a central computer, owned by a health authority, which would end up storing lots of very sensitive information.\n\nThe app the NHS was developing was based on a centralised model, which the Oxford scientists felt was vital if the health service was to be able to monitor virus outbreaks properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nTwo days later, with quite a fanfare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled the plans for the Covid-19 app, promising \"all data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research\".\n\nBut immediately privacy campaigners, politicians and technology experts raised concerns. \"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises,\" said Cambridge University's Prof Ross Anderson.\n\nYet the project was still gathering pace with the first trial of the app at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The trial was held under artificial conditions, with servicemen and women placing phones adjacent to each other on tables to see what happened.\n\nMeanwhile, privacy-conscious Germany became the latest country to switch its app to the decentralised model, using the Apple and Google system. It seemed that Apple had made it clear that it would not cooperate with a centralised app.\n\nMichael Veale, a British academic working with a consortium developing decentralised apps, warned that the NHS app was on the wrong path, asking on Twitter \"will the UK push ahead with an app that will not work on iPhones - which has devastated adoption in Singapore?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut the UK pushed ahead with a trial in the Isle of Wight. As it got underway Mr Hancock told the public they had a \"duty\" to download the app when it became available and that it would be crucial in getting \"our liberty back\" as the lockdown was eased.\n\nFirst sight of the app showed it was very simple, asking users whether they had a fever or a continuous cough. But any symptom alerts sent out to contacts merely echoed the standard \"stay alert\" advice - test results couldn't be entered into the app at this stage. It left many residents confused.\n\nStill, the fact that the app was quickly downloaded by more than half of the island's smartphone users saw the government branding the trial a success.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times revealed that the government had hired a Swiss software developer to build a second app, using the Apple and Google technology. NHS insiders were quick to downplay the significance of this move - although one admitted \"Downing Street is getting nervous\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nWork continued on a second, more sophisticated version of the original app, which was again going to be tested in the Isle of Wight before a national rollout - though the original deadline of mid-May had been missed.\n\nOn 20 May, however, it became clear that the government's focus was switching to manual-contact tracing. The prime minister announced that a \"world beating\" tracing system would be in place by the beginning of June, though Number 10 stressed that the app's contribution to the system would come a bit later.\n\nAs May drew to a close the boss of the wider test and trace programme, Baroness Dido Harding, said the app would be the \"cherry on the cake\" of the project. It was no longer the cake itself.\n\nBy early June, more deadlines for the national release of the app had come and gone. Three weeks into the Isle of Wight trial residents were getting restless, with very little information on how it was going or when an updated version of the app was coming.\n\nFrance launched its centralised Stop-Covid app, which had drawn heavy criticism from privacy campaigners, and digital minister Cedric O said 600,000 downloads in the first few hours was \"a good start\".\n\nOn 4 June, Business Minister Nadhim Zadhawi was coaxed into saying the app should be ready by the end of the month, but that was the last firm deadline that would be promised.\n\nSingapore, which had continued to struggle to make its contact tracing app work, announced plans to give all citizens a wearable device in the hope that this would do a better job than a smartphone.\n\nOn 14 June, Germany became the biggest country to launch a decentralised app on the Apple/Google platform. It quickly outstripped France in terms of downloads with something approaching 10% of the population installing it.\n\nBy now the silence from the UK government about the NHS app was deafening. What was going on?\n\nAround lunchtime on 18 June all became clear. The BBC broke the story that the government was abandoning the centralised app and moving to something based on Google and Apple's technology. Despite all the spin, the Isle of Wight trial had highlighted a disastrous flaw in the app - it failed to detect 96% of contacts with Apple iPhones.\n\nThe blame game has already begun. Mr Hancock and some of the scientists working with the NHS believe Apple should have been more cooperative. Technology experts and privacy campaigners say they warned months ago how this story would end.\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nMeanwhile, there is scant proof from anywhere around the world that smartphone apps using Bluetooth are an effective method of contact tracing. Back in March, it seemed that the hugely powerful devices most of us carry with us might help us emerge from this health crisis. Now it looks as though a human being on the end of a phone is a far better option.", "Hospitals are now the target of state hackers\n\nThe Covid crisis has reshaped the cyber-threat landscape around the globe.\n\nThere may not have been a significant increase in the volume of cyber-attacks, but countries have pursued new targets, pushed boundaries and taken advantage of their adversaries working from home, according to cyber-security experts.\n\nUnderstanding the crisis is the highest priority for almost every government - vital to their security, and in some cases their political survival at home.\n\nFrom January, states began urgently tasking their cyber-security teams with gathering information.\n\nIntelligence analysts say some of the normally less active states have begun using cyber-espionage more aggressively and they have seen allies target each other for information for the first time. \"It's a free-for-all out there - and with good reason - you don't want to be the intelligence agency that doesn't have a good answer for what's going on,\" says John Hultquist, director of threat analysis at Mandiant.\n\nIn an era of controlled borders and lockdowns, spy agencies have found it harder to use human assets and so relied even more on cyber-spies and pushed them to do more.\n\nThose involved in responding to the crisis have become a prime target. The World Health Organization has been targeted by Russian, Iranian and South Korean hackers, among others.\n\nAnd according to one Western intelligence official, \"everyone\" is targeting the Wuhan Institute, probably to see if there is any evidence to back up the allegations that the virus could somehow have escaped from there. Western spies have been told that discovering any evidence of a cover-up in China is a top priority.\n\nSome countries are asking cyber-spies to investigate the Wuhan Institute of Virology\n\nMany of the new targets - like local authorities and the health sector - were not used to being in the sights of high-end threat actors.\n\nIn the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre moved to protect areas which were overnight suddenly considered part of the critical national infrastructure. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has drawn up a list of all of those involved in Covid-19 response, including purchasing organisations which supply vital equipment.\n\nOne of the complexities has been that foreign pharmaceutical companies may end up being vital to the US, making protecting a broader global health supply chain a new challenge.\n\nAnd ransomware, usually motivated by crime, has also become a greater worry for defenders, since a localised incident at a hospital or a city can be more serious when under strain from the virus.\n\nThere was particular concern when Fresenius, a German-based major provider of medical equipment and healthcare services, was taken down by an attack with wider knock-on effects.\n\nState-based cyber-espionage teams have not necessarily grown in size. \"Spinning up a new programme can take a bit of time\", Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike says, and most are not able to work from home. \"A lot of it requires them working on government facilities.\"\n\nBut diverting a new team to a new target is easy, argues John Hultquist. \"This is a capability you can pivot on a dime - you can, say, get into Wuhan tomorrow, and you can start looking for emails and spear-phishing,\" he says.\n\nRansomware attacks are more dangerous when healthcare and cities are already under strain\n\nUK intelligence officials talk of a change of focus - from looking at Chinese actors targeting the energy sector to looking at the health sector, including vaccine research. But China is not the only country active in this space. \"Others are in the game too. It is a very active space,\" says one US cyber-security official.\n\n\"China's own cyber-teams had to work from home at the beginning of the year and that affected productivity - there was relatively limited activity over the winter months, to include the traditionally slow Chinese New Year, but then pushed back in the spring,\" says Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded CrowdStrike.\n\n\"And they are now also doing more information operations as well as espionage - they are really learning from the Russian playbook in that matter, such as getting better at setting up fake personas in support of China's propaganda, that look more realistic and Western.\"\n\nAnd the new normal of working from home is adding to the problem for cyber-spies. \"Russia has realised that intelligence communities are functioning with one hand behind their back as they are not letting everyone go into work, and trying to take advantage of that situation to infiltrate the networks of defence contractors and governments,\" says Mr Alperovitch.\n\nMany organisations managed the shift by adopting temporary security fixes, which may be hard to sustain.\n\nThe crisis has also increased the challenges for defenders, argues Nadav Zafrir, a former commander of Israel's Unit 8200 military cyber-agency, and now a founding partner of Team8.\n\nUsing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand normal behaviour and then look for deviations is a common tool which has struggled to adapt. \"The workforce is so dispersed that trying to understand what is an anomaly right now is almost impossible,\" Mr Zafrir says. \"There is no normal, no baseline.\"\n\nWorking from home has added a new complexity for organisations wanting to protect themselves against cyber-attack\n\nThat view is echoed by Mike Rogers, a former head of the US National Security Agency, and now a senior adviser to Team8. \"AI takes time and data to work so when you have significant disruption as we are just experiencing now, you need time and you need data from this new normal to get a sense of what's anomalous…and that time lag tends to favour attackers.\"\n\nOne of the hardest threats to spot can be insiders within a company or organisation who provide access to networks. The economic and psychological stresses of the current crisis - including the sense of detachment from the normal office and colleagues - could heighten those dangers.\n\n\"The sad reality is human beings under stress for extended periods of time will sometimes make bad choices,\" argues Mr Rogers.\n\nAs with other areas of life, it is not yet clear what a return to normal in cyber-space will look like or when it will happen. But one key lesson, he believes, is that all organisations will need to ensure they have more resilience, ready for whatever the next crisis may be.", "LGBT groups from the UK political parties have expressed \"disappointment and anger\" over potential changes to laws affecting trans people.\n\nLeaders of the groups representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members directly addressed the minister for women and equalities in a letter.\n\nThey fear leaked plans show it could be harder for trans people to transition.\n\nThe government said it will publish its response to a consultation on the Gender Recognition Act in the summer.\n\nThe LGBT groups featured in the letter to Liz Truss, seen by the BBC, are from the Conservatives, Labour, Scottish National Party, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Greens and Alliance parties.\n\nThe groups are concerned the potential plans will see the government amend laws to make it more complicated for trans people to transition and access facilities such as toilets and changing rooms.\n\nThe leak, first reported by the Sunday Times, stated that ministers have \"ditched\" plans developed under Prime Minister Theresa May to allow trans people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, and that \"safeguards\" will be put in place to \"protect safe spaces for women,\" with amendments to the Equality Act.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nFor this reason, many do not, and instead rely on the protection afforded by the Equality Act 2010. Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act - to safeguard transgender people against discrimination and that can be based on self-identification alone.\n\nThe 2010 act says: \"A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.\"\n\nThe Equality Act also effectively permits service providers not to allow a trans person to access separate-sex or single-sex services—on a case-by-case basis, where exclusion is \"a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim\".\n\nThe government has not yet commented on the leak or its accuracy but should the plans go ahead as reported, the group warns it will be a \"step backwards\" for LGBT rights.\n\nColm Howard Lloyd, chair of LGBT+ Conservatives, says the current \"toxic atmosphere\" is leading to trans people fearing for their safety and future.\n\nHe said: \"The minister for equalities has said that all trans adults should be free to live their lives as they wish without fear of persecution. The LGBT groups of all major UK parties call on the government to back that with action.\"\n\nIn 2018 the government launched a public consultation in order to understand gender in more detail and explore ways in which the system could be improved.\n\nIt acknowledged that many trans people find the current requirements \"too bureaucratic, expensive and intrusive\".\n\nA response was promised \"by spring 2019\", and then \"before Parliament's summer recess\" in 2019, but now an update is expected by the end of July.\n\nA spokesman for the Government Equalities Office said: \"We will publish our response to our consultation on the Gender Recognition Act this summer.\"\n\nThe cross-party letter says a \"rollback on trans rights\" could repeat \"past mistakes\" and requests of Ms Truss:\n\nMelantha Chittenden and Heather Peto, co-chairs of LGBT+ Labour, told the BBC they are prepared to work with colleagues from across the political spectrum to protect trans rights and they will fight the government's plans \"every step of the way.\"\n\n\"It is a disgrace that we have waited two years for the government to announce long promised changes to the Gender Recognition Act only for them to go back on their word,\" they said.\n\nThe group has written to Equalities Minister Liz Truss\n\nThe group say they hope that their cross-party coalition will stop this potential \"reversal of LGBT rights\".\n\n\"This is unique,\" say Benali Hamdache and Chandler Wilson, co-chairs of the LGBTIQA+ Greens, \"it really shows the breadth of the political support for trans rights. We'd urge this matter to rise above party politics.\"\n\nThey added: \"Trans people deserve respect and dignity, not harassment, marginalisation and vilification. Please Liz, do the right thing.\"\n\nJosh Aaron Mennie of the SNP's LGBT wing, Out for Independence, added: \"These are reforms backed by the LGBT affiliate organisations from every main political party in the country, I urge Boris Johnson to listen to us.\"\n\nCurrently to change their legal sex a person has to show they have lived in their new gender for two years and will continue to do so as well as getting a diagnosis of gender dysphoria from two doctors, she said.\n\nJoan Smith, feminist writer and human rights activist, said: \"'No-one has proposed to take away rights and protection from trans men and women - the situation is exactly as it was last week. It looks as though ministers intend to maintain the current system of regulation for the process of getting a new birth certificate, which is one of many processes regulated by the state.\n\n\"In April, Liz Truss talked about the importance of single-sex spaces, but that might simply mean clarifying the exemptions that already exist under the 2010 Equality Act. Many women welcome that as well, and I think its important to base this discussion on what's actually happened, instead of a very emotional species of speculation.\"\n\nClarification 22nd June 2020: This article has been amended to clarify the terms of the Equality Act 2010.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neomi Bennett: \"I was just sitting in a car, minding my own business...it scared the life out of me\"\n\nA nurse pulled over by police who drove in front of her in a \"hard stop\" operation, says she was targeted because of her race.\n\nPolice officers stopped Neomi Bennett in 2019 because, they said, her front windows were tinted too dark.\n\nShe was convicted of obstructing a police officer, but prosecutors later decided not to challenge her appeal.\n\nMs Bennett, who was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to nursing, is now taking legal action.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was \"assessing a complaint in relation to this incident\".\n\nMs Bennett said the officers carried out a hard stop, meaning they pulled a car up in front of her to box her in, on the evening of 4 April 2019, and she refused to get out of the vehicle.\n\nShe said the manner in which she was pulled over \"scared the life out of\" her and, had they taken a different approach, she she might have got out of her car, but instead opted to stay inside.\n\nAt first Ms Bennett, from Wandsworth in south-west London, thought it was \"some kind of hijack\" because she could only see an officer in plain clothing.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I believe I was racially profiled and certainly don't think this would have happened if I were white.\"\n\nThe nurse, who invented the Neo-slip device to help patients with deep vein thrombosis, said she was \"locked up\" even though nothing illegal was found in her car and she was a \"stone's throw away\" from her home and family.\n\nMs Bennett was left \"traumatised\" by her encounter with police\n\nHer lawyer Ann Tayo told BBC News the arrest left Ms Bennett traumatised, and her encounter with the police was a \"genuine case of a woman being bewildered\" before officers made \"all manner of allegations\".\n\nShe added this was an example of what a \"disproportionate number of black British citizens\" have to go through.\n\nMs Bennett was eventually convicted of obstructing a police officer and said the criminal record meant she lost out on some opportunities.\n\nThe 47-year-old said: \"When the police approached me, I think my experience as a black person is very different to that of a white person and the fear it invokes is tremendous.\n\n\"I can't even describe the fear that I experienced on that night.\"\n\nMs Bennett said she has since appealed against and overturned her conviction, but added that many people in her community had experienced similar encounters with police.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met said: \"The South West Basic Command Unit Professional Standards (SWBCU) team is currently assessing a complaint in relation to this incident.\n\n\"Due to the complaint, we cannot go into any more detail at this time, however, Sally Benatar, SWBCU Commander, has recently been in contact with Neomi Bennett and has put her in touch with the local Independent Advisory Group chair to discuss her experiences with police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHS trusts were not consulted before the government announced changes to the use of face coverings and visitor policy in English hospitals, the chief executive of NHS Providers has said.\n\nChris Hopson said trust leaders felt \"completely in the dark\" about the \"significant and complex\" changes.\n\nFrom 15 June, hospital visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings and staff must use surgical masks.\n\nThe Department of Health says masks can be provided by the hospital if needed.\n\nA spokeswoman said that, while the public were \"strongly urged\" to wear a face covering while inside hospitals, no-one would be denied care.\n\nSeparately, NHS England has lifted the national suspension on hospital visiting with new guidance for NHS trusts.\n\nThe guidance, which states visiting will be subject to the discretion of individual trusts and other NHS bodies, advises measures to support visiting, such as:\n\nThe Department of Health said trusts had all of next week to implement the changes and that it had made NHS England aware of the announcement before it was made public.\n\nBut Mr Hopson said the announcement by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Friday was \"rushed out\" with \"absolutely no notice or consultation\" of NHS trust leaders.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's the latest in a long line of announcements that have had a major impact on the way the NHS operates, in which frontline organisations feel they've been left completely in the dark, and they're then expected to make significant and complex operational changes either immediately or with very little notice.\"\n\nHe said trust leaders were worried there was not enough strategy or planning and that it felt like \"last minute decisions are being made on the hoof that seem overly influenced by politics and that need to fill the space of the Downing Street press conferences\".\n\nThe announcement had left many unanswered questions, such as when it was appropriate for staff to wear face masks, the numbers of masks needed and how they would be distributed, he added.\n\nMr Hopson called for a \"proper, sensible forward plan and forward strategy of what we are trying to do, where trusts are given the time and space they need to do complex and difficult things\".\n\nMeanwhile, 40,465 people have now died with the virus, an increase of 204, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA further 10 people have died of coronavirus in Wales, while there were six deaths registered in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier, NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said trusts were also nervous about the imminent lifting of some patient visiting restrictions.\n\nShe said they needed time to \"put in place processes and guidance to ensure that patients can receive visitors safely and while adhering to social distancing and infection control measures\".\n\nMr Hopson's criticism was echoed by the British Medical Association (BMA), which warned there was \"little detail\" on how the policy would be implemented, where the masks would come from or how outpatients and visitors would be given them.\n\nConsultants committee chairman Dr Rob Harwood said: \"Given the lack of PPE supplies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it is absolutely crucial that the government ensures there are enough supplies of face masks for staff, and adequate provision of face coverings for outpatients and the public by the 15 June.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK's death toll passed 40,000 on Friday according to government figures.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US with 108,000 deaths - to pass the milestone.\n\nAlso at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock appealed to people not to attend large demonstrations with more than six people, saying he was \"appalled\" by the killing of George Floyd in the US but \"coronavirus remains a real threat\".\n\nThousands ignored his plea to take part in the protests across the UK, with the majority of those at the London gathering wearing face coverings.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn by the general public in situations where social distancing is difficult, eg on public transport, in shops - particularly for over 60s and those with underlying health conditions", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "The mayor of Bristol says those taking part in Black Lives Matter protests this weekend should think about the possible health consequences of large rallies and demonstrations.\n\nMarvin Rees says he agrees with the aims of the campaign but says there were other ways to protest - and suggested people follow the lead of the American footballer Colin Kaepernick who in 2016 started the practice of dropping to one knee during the national anthem to protest against racism.\n\n\"Covid is with us. We don't have a vaccine. And it's not the demonstration I have a problem with, it's any form of demonstration that requires a mass gathering,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Because my fear is a second wave will lead to a disproportionate loss of black and brown lives and any consequence of a further lockdown we know is also disproportionately impacting black and brown people - the lost jobs, the lost wages, the lost businesses, which, again, will have a health consequence.\"", "The government is being urged to ease social distancing for musicians, so more of them can get back performing and recording.\n\nMusicians' Union leader Horace Trubridge told the BBC they could play \"side by side\" to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe 2m rule was \"overkill\" at a \"bleak\" time for his members, he added.\n\nThe government said it welcomed \"creative and innovative\" ideas to help the UK's \"brilliant\" musicians.\n\nCoronavirus means theatres, pubs, clubs and other indoor music venues will be closed for the foreseeable future, while promoters have cancelled all the UK's main festivals.\n\nThe Labour-affiliated Musicians' Union is in talks with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over \"enhanced busking\" - allowing spectators in outdoor spaces to make contactless payments for individual and group performances.\n\n\"They seem to be keen on that,\" Mr Trubridge said, adding that councils could \"relax their bylaws\" to help \"get live music back into the public's consciousness\".\n\nHe argued it was difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but that this was not the case for performers.\n\n\"There's no finesse about the 2m rule at the moment,\" Mr Trubridge said. \"If you're in a line rather than looking at each other, then it seems to be overkill.\"\n\nParks could become venues for \"enhanced busking\", the Musicians' Union says\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of 1m between people from different households, but the UK is sticking to the 2m rule.\n\nMr Trubridge said this distance was particularly unnecessary for string instrumentalists, as opposed to singers, as they could wear masks.\n\nMany musicians had been earning £20,000 a year or less even before coronavirus, and some were missing out on furlough payments and loans, he said, adding: \"I can't see anything really significant happening this year to help them out of this hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: \"These are challenging times for the UK's world-class music industry, and we are providing unprecedented support through substantial financial measures such as the Self-Employed Income Support and Bounce Back loan schemes.\"\n\nThey added: \"We welcome creative and innovative ideas on how we can support our talented musicians.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Australia are also highlighting the mistreatment of Aboriginal people\n\nTens of thousands of people have protested across Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRallies were held despite warnings from officials over the coronavirus.\n\nA ban in Sydney was lifted only at the last minute and some organisers have been fined for breaking health rules.\n\nThe marches were inspired by the death of African American George Floyd in police custody but also highlighted the mistreatment and marginalisation of Australia's Aboriginal people.\n\nRallies were organised in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and elsewhere.\n\nThey were held in high spirits with no reports of major unrest.\n\nThere were a few tense scenes later in the evening at Sydney's Central Station, with police using pepper spray, but there were only three arrests in the city overall, among a total of 20,000 protesters, police said.\n\nAlthough the rallies were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many in Australia were also protesting against the treatment of its indigenous population by police.\n\nBanners reading \"I can't breathe\" remembered the words of Floyd before his death, while another said: \"Same story, different soil.\"\n\nThousands protest in Sydney. Organisers urged attendees to try to observe social distancing\n\nThere were massive crowds too in Brisbane\n\nThe Sydney protest had been ruled unlawful on Friday by the New South Wales Supreme Court under coronavirus social distancing rules.\n\nNSW Police Minister David Elliott had said: \"Freedom of speech isn't as free as we would like it to be at the moment. Rules at the moment are clear.\"\n\nBut organisers took the case to the state court of appeal and it overturned the ban on Saturday afternoon, just 15 minutes before the scheduled start.\n\nThe protest was authorised for 5,000 people. Health ministry directions would normally prohibit public gatherings of more than 10 people.\n\nI've covered so many protests in my home city in the past decade. Outside of climate change rallies at the start of the year, I can't recall a larger turnout, particularly for a rally about race.\n\nThey turned up even when it was initially illegal and despite the health fears. They were angry, they were passionate, they knew there were risks but they donned masks and carried signs anyway.\n\nThis is a resounding success for indigenous Australia.\n\nBack in January people were struggling to breathe due to smoke from the bushfires. Today they were chanting \"I can't breathe\" - the choked words of George Floyd, but also David Dungay- an Aboriginal man who was fatally pinned down by five police officers in 2015.\n\nFor many Australians, the US protests have ignited fierce introspection of their country's own record of black deaths in custody. Aboriginal people remain the most incarcerated in the world by percentage of population - they make up just 3% of the nation's people but almost 30% of those in jail.\n\nThis has been the rate for decades - in fact it's become worse - but only now does there appear to be a large demand in the mainstream for change.\n\nOrganisers across Australia encouraged those attending rallies to use hand sanitisers and observe social distancing.\n\nImages showed that although the majority of demonstrators have been wearing face coverings, many of the protesters have been close together.\n\nThe chief health official in the state of Victoria said it was \"not the time to be having large gatherings\".\n\nVictoria police said on Saturday they would be fining organisers A$1,652 ($1,150; £900) each for breaking health rules. It was unclear if Melbourne's attending protesters would be fined.\n\nProtesters chanted: \"Always was, always will be Aboriginal land\" and \"Too many coppers not enough justice\".\n\nLeon Saunders, 77, demonstrating in Sydney, said: \"The raw deal Aborigines have been getting in this country for my lifetime and many lifetimes before that is just not right.\n\n\"We can look at America and say what terrible things are happening over there but, right here on our home soil, there are just as bad things happening and they need to be improved.\"\n\nA 1991 inquiry reported on 99 deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody, but a Guardian study found that at least 432 had died in custody since then.\n\nAnother protester in Sydney, Sarah Keating, said: \"I thought Australians were resting on their laurels - just because we're not as bad as America doesn't mean we're good enough... 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody is atrocious. That number should never have gotten that high. It should just be zero.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo police officer has ever been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal death in custody.\n\nMany of the demonstrators in Brisbane were wrapped in indigenous flags.", "Masks must be worn on public transport in England from 15 June\n\nWearing face coverings to protect against coronavirus \"seems reasonable\", a senior figure in Public Health Wales (PHW) has said.\n\nChristopher Williams said there \"should be\" an effect on transmission if a lot of people wore them in \"appropriate settings\".\n\nIn England, face coverings will become compulsory on public transport from 15 June.\n\nThe Welsh Government will make an announcement early next week.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has previously said there is only a \"marginal public health case\" for face coverings.\n\nDeputy minister Lee Waters said there was a worry masks give \"a false sense of security\".\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice, saying masks should now be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nIt had previously argued there was not enough evidence to say that healthy people should wear masks.\n\nOn Friday, the British Medical Association said it wanted ministers in Wales to change position.\n\n\"I think in general in public health there's a good principle that things done by lots of people in lots of settings, even if they have a small individual effect, are able to have a large population effect,\" Dr Williams told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"I think this is some of the thinking behind the use of face coverings.\n\nPassengers in Wales are being asked by train operators to wear masks from 15 June\n\n\"If a lot of people use them in the appropriate settings there may be, there should be, an effect on transmission.\n\n\"Obviously it's quite difficult to quantify, and the evidence is not 100%, but it seems reasonable to add them in as an additional level of protection in the same way that staying away two metres from someone else is also a way of avoiding transmission.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said the Welsh Government was \"playing catch-up\" and face coverings should be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nPlaid Cymru said the use of face coverings should be \"actively encouraged\" by the Welsh Government.\n\nBut Brexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless said: \"Any requirement should be strictly temporary and on a UK-wide basis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners have renamed some streets in central Glasgow as part of the Black Lives Matters demonstrations Image caption: Campaigners have renamed some streets in central Glasgow as part of the Black Lives Matters demonstrations Anti-racism campaigners in Glasgow have temporarily renamed streets in the city centre with the names of black activists and those believed to have been victims of racism, including Rosa Parks and George Floyd. Cochrane Street - named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-Century tobacco lord - has been renamed Sheku Bayoh Street after a man who died in police custody in Fife, Scotland. But his sister - a nurse - said her family would not attend the Black Lives Matters demonstration this weekend because the danger of spreading coronavirus is \"still too great\". Kadi Johnson joined Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Anas Sarwar to issue a statement urging demonstrators to keep any protest virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic. The statement highlighted the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community. \"As a staff nurse I know the deadly impact of the virus, and I would worry about social distancing and the lives of family and others being put at risk,\" Ms Johnson wrote separately. Sheku Bayoh died in 2015, aged 32, after he was restrained by police officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was found to have suffered 23 separate injuries. The officers involved have always denied any wrongdoing. No prosecutions were made and Mr Bayoh's death is to be the subject of a public inquiry. Ms Johnson told the BBC that younger members of her family were angry too. \"When they saw George Floyd's video they were angry and hurt, remembering their uncle and how he died.", "The pandemic has been catastrophic for Bike Park Wales, its director says\n\nThe furlough scheme must be extended beyond October to stop adventure tourism businesses \"disappearing off the map\" in Wales, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb called for the UK government to provide \"extra support\" for the sector.\n\nMore than 9% of the workforce in Wales is now employed in tourism.\n\nThe Treasury said it had extended the scheme until October and would continue to \"support businesses\".\n\nA million employers have used the UK government's Job Retention Scheme to furlough their workers, paying 80% of their wages up to £2,500 per month.\n\nThe Treasury extended the scheme until October, and have asked employers to start contributing to furloughed workers' wages from August.\n\nBut adventure firms in Wales have called for more support, saying their businesses will struggle to make a profit so long as social distancing is in place.\n\nMartin Astley, the director of Bike Park Wales in Merthyr Tydfil, said the coronavirus lockdown had been \"catastrophic\" for the company.\n\n\"It's hit us at a very bad time as well - a lot of outdoor providers in Wales had a really hard winter, the weather was horrendous, Storm Dennis caused tens of thousands of damage on our site, we were still in midst of fixing that when lockdown came,\" he said.\n\nMr Astley said part of his operation saw customers taken to the top of a mountain in minibuses, which was \"very difficult\" to run with social distancing in place.\n\n\"Our businesses are completely un-financially viable under social distancing. We can't even come close to breaking even let alone turn a profit.\"\n\nMr Astley said the furlough scheme needed to become \"more focused\" to help businesses like his avoid redundancies.\n\n\"What concerns me is I'm fairly confident the furlough scheme will end before social distancing measures are no longer required, which puts us in a very difficult position - best case 50% down on our revenue and that only really leads in one direction unfortunately.\"\n\nJet Moore runs kayaking trips in west Wales, including on the River Teifi\n\nJet Moore runs an adventure tourism business called Adventure Beyond in west Wales.\n\nIt would usually be taking groups out kayaking or coasteering at this time of year.\n\nHe said the recent hot weather should have meant a \"bumper season\" for the industry - but that income has been lost.\n\n\"For the adventure tourism sector, it's like three winters in a row.\n\n\"We've had the winter, we've now got the summer with no work which is like a winter, and we're going straight back into a winter by the time it maybe gets going again.\"\n\nHe believes bespoke financial support packages are needed to help businesses survive through the winter, after the Job Retention Scheme ends.\n\n\"It's really hard but if they want the tourism industry to survive there's going to have to be something through the winter - but also allow people to continue working while getting that support.\n\n\"Because our winter time would be spent prepping for the season and we'd usually pay for that with our summer money.\"\n\nStephen Crabb, the Preseli Pembrokeshire MP, said such businesses in his constituency would face redundancies without more support.\n\n\"All are saying to me, realistically with social distancing in place, it becomes very difficult to run a viable operation with need for instructors.\n\n\"There is a need I think for an ongoing financial package for this sector and tourism across Wales generally.\n\n\"Tourism is probably the industry in Wales most economically impacted by coronavirus.\"\n\nStephen Crabb said he had spoken to firms that run dolphin boat tours, rock climbing trips and coasteering excursions\n\nMr Crabb is chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee in Parliament, which launched an inquiry in April into the impact of the coronavirus on the Welsh economy.\n\n\"My fear is unless the government provide some lifeline now and extend furlough scheme in a creative way then I think the inevitable will be many tourism businesses making their employees redundant and many of those businesses disappearing off the map of Wales altogether.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the retention scheme had \"protected 8.7 million jobs across the UK\".\n\n\"We have extended it until October - meaning it will have been open for eight months and will continue to support businesses as the economy reopens and people return to work,\" a spokesman added.", "Anti-racism campaigners in Glasgow have temporarily renamed streets in the city centre with the names of black activists and those believed to have been victims of racism, including Rosa Parks and George Floyd.\n\nCochrane Street - named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-Century tobacco lord - has been renamed Sheku Bayoh Street after a man who died in police custody in Fife.\n\nBut his sister - a nurse - said her family would not attend the Black Lives Matter demonstration this weekend - in Glasgow Green and Edinburgh's Holyrood Park on Sunday - because the danger of spreading coronavirus is \"still too great\".\n\nKadi Johnson joined Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Anas Sarwar to issue a statement urging demonstrators to keep any protest virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe statement highlighted the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community.\n\n\"As a staff nurse I know the deadly impact of the virus, and I would worry about social distancing and the lives of family and others being put at risk,\" Ms Johnson wrote separately.\n\nSheku Bayoh died in 2015, aged 32, after he was restrained by police officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was found to have suffered 23 separate injuries.\n\nThe officers involved have always denied any wrongdoing. No prosecutions were made and Mr Bayoh's death is to be the subject of a public inquiry.", "Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.\n\nThe tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use future gains on his Reddit stock to \"serve the black community.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said he was doing it \"as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'\"\n\nIt follows days of US protests against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis champion Serena Williams, said he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\n\"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now,\" he said in a video. \"To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ohanian founded social media website Reddit 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman.\n\nHe stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.\n\nReddit promoted its first female board member, Porter Gale, last year.\n\nBut the website has come under fire for hosting forums that promote racist content. The company has banned groups like r/blackpeoplehate and alt-right r/MillionDollarExtreme. It has also \"quarantined\" a pro-Trump forum, r/TheDonald, ensuring that its content does not appear in website searches or recommendations.\n\nEarlier this week, several popular Reddit forums switched their access rights to private, or banned new posts entirely, to protest against the company's hate speech policies. Ex-chief executive Ellen K Pao also lambasted her former employer in a tweet, saying: \"You don't get to say [Black Lives Matter] when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has told the BBC he is \"sorry\" that he has not been granted a peerage.\n\nPrevious outgoing Speakers have been given a seat in the House of Lords, but the government has not put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by his former colleagues but denies the claims.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions he had \"made a lot of enemies\" during his 10-year stint in the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow accepted he was \"periodically irascible\" and \"wouldn't take no for an answer\", but insisted: \"I don't think I bullied anyone, anywhere, in any way, at any time.\"\n\nHe stepped down as Speaker in October after a decade in the post, during which time he faced accusations of bias over Brexit, as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nThe Speaker is in charge of what goes on within the House of Commons.\n\nBy tradition, the Speaker is above politics and is supposed to represent only the rules and conventions of Parliament. Once elected to the post, the Speaker no longer represents any political party.\n\nMr Bercow told BBC political correspondent Chris Mason that serving as Speaker had been \"my enormous privilege\".\n\n\"I did my best - I had some successes, I had some failures. I endured controversies. I made friends, I incurred enemies as well,\" he added.\n\nHe said, despite \"a long-standing convention\" of giving peerages to former Speakers, the matter was \"best decided by other people\".\n\n\"I am not going to sit awake at night worrying about it.\n\n\"There are people who have got grievances and agendas of their own who think I just don't fit.\"\n\nHe would not comment on reports that he was under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over allegations of bullying, saying only \"in due course people will know what the truth is\".\n\nMr Bercow has been proposed for a peerage by the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, amid suggestions by the opposition that the ex-Speaker is being denied a seat for his hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nDuring his time in the role, Mr Bercow gave unprecedented powers to backbenchers to hold ministers to account and made controversial and far-reaching procedural decisions at key stages of the Brexit process.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC there was a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said there was \"no obligation\" on the prime minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage and the allegations against him need to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow is asked in the Commons about bullying allegations against him\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour in the Speaker's chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, and maintains that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4 he was upset not to have been given the opportunity to take a seat in the House of Lords.\n\n\"I am not going to pretend it doesn't matter,\" he said, adding that he would like \"to make a contribution\".\n\nMr Bercow added: \"I am just going to go on doing what I think is right, standing up for good causes [and] celebrating important principles.\"", "Harry Billinge had planned to be in Normandy for the 76th anniversary of D-Day, visiting a new British memorial with other veterans.\n\nThe 94-year-old raised tens of thousands of pounds for the memorial - and he was even made an MBE for his efforts.\n\nBut the trip was cancelled due to coronavirus. So BBC Breakfast surprised with a face from the past.\n\nRead more: Memorial 'brought to veterans' for D-Day", "The death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police custody in the US has sparked some of the largest protests against racism, inequality and police brutality since the 1960s.\n\nRallies were organised globally to express solidarity with US protesters.\n\nThousands marched in the UK, France and Australia chanting \"no justice, no peace\" and \"black lives matter\".\n\nMany protests have evolved as people express anger at killings and systemic injustice in their own countries.\n\nConcerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted many to wear face masks, and government officials in some cities asked residents not to attend large gatherings.\n\nThe police chief in Washington DC said he expected Saturday's demonstrations to be the largest ever in the capital.\n\nPeople took to the streets for the 12th day running in Washington DC\n\nAround 20,000 members of the US National Guard have been posted to police protests in Washington DC, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested their removal, saying their presence is \"unnecessary\"\n\nPeople marched on the newly-named Black Lives Matter plaza in the US capital\n\nIn New York City, healthcare workers joined protests, holding placards reading \"do no harm\" and \"racism is a public health crisis\"\n\nIn Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians\n\nIn France, protests have re-ignited a campaign for justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in police custody in 2016\n\nIn London, protesters walked in the cold and rain and, outside the US embassy, they dropped to one knee and raised their fists in the air chanting \"colour is not a crime\". Police in riot gear clashed briefly with crowds\n\nSome drew attention to the death of black train station worker Belly Mujinga with Covid-19 in April. A man who claimed he had coronavirus reportedly spat at her before she fell ill\n\nA silent vigil was held for George Floyd in Berlin's Alexanderplatz square. Also in Germany, Bundesliga footballers warmed up wearing shirts reading \"Red card to racism #BlackLivesMatter\" and took a knee prior to kick-off\n\nIn the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, hundreds of people gathered, and some held banners calling for justice for Claudia Simões, a woman who was assaulted by police", "Scientists are warning that we have created \"a perfect storm\" for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world.\n\nAs part of a global effort to study how and where new diseases emerge, scientists at the University of Liverpool have led the development of a pattern-recognition system to predict which wildlife diseases pose the most risk to humans.", "World War II veterans whose D-Day anniversary trip to the new British Normandy Memorial was cancelled are being brought new footage of the site to mark the day.\n\nMore than 70 veterans, many in their mid-90s, were meant to make the trip for the 76th anniversary on Saturday.\n\nDue to the coronavirus outbreak, the Normandy Memorial Trust is showing them the latest construction work instead.\n\nThe memorial was meant to be officially opened on 4 September.\n\nThat ceremony will now take place in spring or early summer 2021 instead.\n\nLord Peter Ricketts, chairman of trustees at the Normandy Memorial Trust, said: \"We at the trust know how much the veterans and their families were looking forward to visiting the site around the time of the D-Day anniversary to see the memorial taking shape.\n\n\"We share their frustration that the unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic have made that impossible. But the good news is that we are pressing on with real determination to complete the construction, despite all the obstacles.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the dedication of everyone involved in this.\"\n\nAn artist's view of how the memorial will look\n\nThe new content showing the construction work is being released on the trust's website on Saturday.\n\n\"You will get a sense from these new pictures of how moving and impressive the memorial will be once it is finished in the autumn,\" added Lord Ricketts.\n\nIn the footage, people can watch letter carvers inscribing the words of Winston Churchill's speech, including the famous words \"we shall fight on the beaches\".\n\nThe stone columns of the memorial are engraved with the names of 22,442 men and women under British command who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.\n\nThere was a two-month pause in construction of the memorial due to the pandemic, but it has now restarted. Work has included the planting of hundreds of young trees, as well as 12 semi-mature oak trees at the memorial entrance.\n\nThe French memorial - recognising the sacrifice of Normandy's civilian population - has had its foundations installed and the first stone laid.\n\nAs the UK government is not providing funding for the maintenance of the memorial. the trust is also launching a support programme. The Normandy Memorial Guardian programme will see supporters recruited to look after the site in the years ahead.", "The pop star was taken to hospital after falling off the Thames towpath (file picture)\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor has said she is recovering at home with a \"newly glued forehead\" following a bike crash in London.\n\nThe pop star said on Instagram she had not broken any bones after falling from her bike while cycling along the Thames with her husband on Tuesday.\n\nEllis-Bextor, who had said she had \"some impressive bruises\", added that she was being \"well looked after\".\n\nThe 41-year-old posted a photo from A&E on Tuesday of her injuries.\n\nSharing an image of a bouquet of flowers on Friday, Ellis-Bextor updated fans on Instagram, saying: \"Hello all. Just to let you know I'm doing ok. I've been so well looked after at home and am currently laid up on a sofa surrounded by my 3 smallest boys.\n\n\"I've got some impressive bruises and a swollen and newly glued forehead which I'm completely fascinated by.\n\n\"If I hurt myself, I'm always satisfied by a spectacular healing process and my puffy face has not disappointed.\"\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 sophieellisbextor 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\nShe thanked fans for their kind messages. \"Quite overwhelming really, and almost worth falling off my bike for,\" she added.\n\nShe said she felt \"incredibly lucky\" to have not broken anything and was fortunate to have so much support.\n\nThe singer was taken to West Middlesex Hospital in West London following the accident.\n\nEllis-Bextor, whose hit songs include Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) and Murder On The Dancefloor, made it to the final of the 11th series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, securing fourth place.\n\nDuring lockdown she has been entertaining fans by hosting \"kitchen discos\" from her house every Friday night, usually wearing sparkly outfits and accompanied by her husband and five children.\n\nShe told fans in her latest post: \"Have a boogie for me. I'll be dancing with you again in no time.\"\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 Horse Racing\n\nAndrew Balding's Kameko stunned unbeaten favourite Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the first British Classic of the year.\n\nOisin Murphy guided the 10-1 shot through the centre on good to firm ground for a famous victory by a neck.\n\nKameko's win set a new track record at 1min 34.72 secs, beating Mister Baileys's time in 1994.\n\nThe Aidan O'Brien-trained Wichita (15-2), ridden by Frankie Dettori, took second.\n\nPinatubo (5-6) was on the inside rail but finished third in a field of 15, one and a quarter lengths back.\n\nKameko, beaten by a neck over the same course and distance last September, won by three and a quarter lengths last time out in November.\n\nPinatubo beat Arizona by two lengths on soft ground over seven furlongs in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket last time out in October, when Wichita was third.\n\nBut on a blustery, showery day behind closed doors at the Suffolk track, the favourite was unable to find an extra gear in his seventh race.\n\nCelebrating his first British Classic, Murphy said: \"It means the absolute world to me. It's the stuff of dreams.\n\n\"Around four furlongs he got a little bit lost but he came home really well.\n\n\"It was a gutsy performance. He hardly blew a candle out afterwards - he must have a tremendous amount of ability.\"\n\nHaving given Balding a first Guineas triumph, Kameko is now favourite for the Derby at Epsom on 4 July.\n\nBalding, who won the Oaks with Casual Look in 2003, said: \"To me it looks the obvious choice. There would be a stamina doubt but there's only one way to find out.\"\n\nPinatubo's trainer Charlie Appleby, who won the Group One Coronation Cup with Ghaiyyath on Friday, said: \"Pinatubo travelled well into the race when he had Frankie's horse as his target, but when he made his move he got up to their girths and just didn't go any further forward.\"", "Some older people in care homes are being asked to pay more than £100 a week extra in fees to cover the costs of coronavirus.\n\nAge UK said residents who pay their own fees are facing the bills to pay for protective gear and rising staff costs.\n\nIt adds \"insult to injury\" for people who have \"been through the mill\" during the pandemic, the charity said.\n\nThe government said it provided £600m for infection control in care homes and £3.2bn for wider council services.\n\nCare home residents who fund themselves have effectively subsidised the care system for many years, paying far more for their support than those funded by their local authority.\n\nAge UK says on average these residents are charged just over £850 a week, and some are now seeing their fees rise by 15%.\n\nIt is not clear how many care homes have asked self-funding residents to pay more.\n\nThere are 400,000 people estimated to be living in care homes in England, with 167,000 believed to be self-funders and 45,000 part self-funders.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, director of Age UK, said older people and their families have \"been through the mill\" in recent months as outbreaks occurred in one in three care homes.\n\n\"It is adding insult to injury that after going through so much, some residents who pay for their own care are now facing a big extra bill - on top of already expensive fees.\"\n\nShe called for government to meet the extra costs of the pandemic, saying that otherwise there was a risk that some could fold and leave their residents homeless.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many care homes have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of protective equipment to stop the spread of Covid-19 between staff, residents and visitors.\n\nThey have also faced extra costs for agency staff when employees are off sick or isolating.\n\nIn total, the Local Government Association (LGA) and directors of adult social care estimate that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\n\"People living in care homes should not be penalised in this way,\" said councillor Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board.\n\nHe said the way self-funders subsidised the system was already unfair and should be addressed as part of the long-term reform of the social care system.\n\nBut he said councils were helping care home providers with the extra costs \"to the best of their ability\".\n\nTo support their work during the pandemic, local authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government, which also announced a £600m infection control fund for care homes.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.\n\nIt said it would work with local authorities to ensure the funding is distributed fairly and reaches front line services.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic is creating significant challenges for care homes and that extra support is needed to care for residents,\" a spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people gathered at an anti-racism rally in Manchester\n\nThousands of people have gathered for a rally in Manchester over the death of George Floyd, despite warnings not to assemble due to concerns that coronavirus is spreading again.\n\nCampaigners attended the protest in Piccadilly Gardens, while another one is planned for Sunday.\n\nAnti-racism rallies are being held worldwide after Mr Floyd's death in US police custody on 25 May.\n\nAndy Burnham has urged people to show support \"in different ways\"\n\nScientists have raised concerns the R number - the average number of people who can catch a virus from an infected person - is creeping up again nationwide.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"While I understand people's wish go to protest against what's been happening in the USA and send that message of solidarity, that can be done in different ways.\n\n\"It is not at all ideal... to be gathering in these circumstances when we still face a very high risk.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death has sparked protests against police brutality and racism in the US and Europe, including one held in Manchester last Sunday.\n\nThe unarmed black man who was put in handcuffs in the street died while a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with murder while three colleagues stand accused of aiding and abetting.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest is also planned for St Peter's Square on Sunday.\n\n\"I would normally want to go and show my support but I won't be doing that for precisely this reason, so I would ask people to think about that and show their support in another way,\" said Mr Burnham.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock also issued a warning against the protests, which are being held in several British cities.\n\nCurrent government rules restrict public gatherings to no more than six people in England.\n\nIn a statement, Greater Manchester Police said: \"We stand alongside all those who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life - justice and accountability should follow.\n\n\"We know people want their voices heard and the right to peaceful protest is a key part of democracy, which UK police uphold.\n\n\"Our officers will monitor the situation to maintain the safety of all involved. A top priority for us will be striking the balance and ensuring any response is both proportionate and fair.\"\n\nDr Sarah Jarvis told BBC Breakfast that demonstrators should stay distant from one another.\n\n\"Coronavirus is no respecter of the good cause for which you are going out,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are protesting, please be sensible. I know you feel strongly about it, but please socially distance - but actually if you can't socially distance even outside, please wear a face covering.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted the march organisers for a comment.", "This is Joe Biden's third attempt to win the presidency\n\nJoe Biden has formally won the Democratic Party nomination to take on Donald Trump in November's presidential election.\n\nHe said on Twitter that he had secured the 1,991 delegates needed and would fight to \"win the battle for the soul of the nation\".\n\nHe had been the effective nominee since Bernie Sanders withdrew in April.\n\nCoronavirus - and its effect on the economy - and the recent civil unrest are sure to dominate the election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Biden, who served as Barack Obama's vice-president, began the primary campaign in faltering style in Iowa and New Hampshire, but then built momentum with a convincing victory in South Carolina.\n\nHe then dominated the so-called Super Tuesday contests, taking 10 of the 14 states.\n\nMr Biden said: \"It was an honour to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party.\"\n\nMr Biden, 77, secured the nomination officially after seven states and the District of Columbia held presidential primaries on Tuesday.\n\nIt is his third bid for the presidency.\n\nAssociated Press puts his tally at 1,995 delegates, with eight states and three US territories still to vote.\n\nMr Obama endorsed Mr Biden in April, saying in a video that Mr Biden had \"all the qualities we need in a president right now\".\n\n\"This is a difficult time in America's history,\" Mr Biden said. \"And Donald Trump's angry, divisive politics is no answer. The country is crying out for leadership. Leadership that can unite us. Leadership that can bring us together.\"\n\nMr Trump has indicated he is eager to take the fight to Mr Biden who he derides as \"Sleepy Joe\", and the Democrat has faced a number of difficulties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The biggest myth about the \"black vote\"\n\nHe was forced into damage limitation mode after saying African Americans \"ain't black\" if they even considered voting for President Trump, later apologising for the \"cavalier\" comment.\n\nMr Biden has also faced accusations of inappropriate contact with women. He has described himself as a \"tactile politician\" and apologised for how people might react. Former staff assistant Tara Reade has accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993, which he denies.\n\nThe US is facing major civil unrest over the death of an unarmed African American man, George Floyd, in police custody, at the same time as unemployment has reached levels unseen since the Great Depression amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden have already clashed on these issues, which look set to dominate the polls in November.", "Group worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nPlaces of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week.\n\nThese are not expected to include weddings of any size, or full services - which will come at a later date.\n\nThe prime minister is set to outline measures which will come into effect in England on 15 June.\n\nNorthern Ireland has already allowed private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to update his cabinet on the plans on Tuesday.\n\nMinisters have been working with faith leaders on guidance for how places of worship can re-open safely with social distancing measures in place.\n\nIndividual churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will have to manage the number worshippers attending.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nFaith leaders have called for churches, mosques, synagogues and temples to be allowed to reopen as other lockdown measures have been lifted.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the \"first, measured step in restoring\" church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that \"not every Catholic church will be open on 15 June\".\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Seders and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public is ready to re-engage in retail therapy then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\" during the unprecedented time.\n\n\"We plan to open up places of worship for individual prayer in a safe, Covid-secure way that does not risk further transmission.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\".\n\nHe said: \"People of all faiths have shown enormous patience and forbearance, unable to mark Easter, Passover, Ramadan or Vaisakhi with friends and family in the traditional way.\n\n\"As we control the virus, we are now able to move forwards with a limited but important return to houses of worship.\"\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions and rituals such as singing which may lead to the virus. spreading more freely", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Unscrupulous\" firms are promising NHS workers big savings through tax dodging schemes that could leave them out of pocket.\n\nThe firms, which operate at the fringes of the law, target key workers drafted in to help with the coronavirus crisis, a BBC Money Box investigation found.\n\nSocial media adverts push workers toward some umbrella companies that take a hefty cut of their salaries.\n\nIn return, these companies hide a portion of their pay from the taxman.\n\nBut Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has said signing up with these firms, which it described as \"unscrupulous\", could leave key workers facing large, unexpected tax bills.\n\nOne advert on Twitter says: \"If you've been drafted in to reinforce the NHS response to the #coronavirus pandemic, we want to assist you.\"\n\nWhen operating legitimately, working through an umbrella company can make it easier to take on jobs for multiple employers at once.\n\nThe worker has their salary paid to the umbrella company, which then pays tax, National Insurance and other deductions on their behalf. After taking a fee, the umbrella company will then pay the worker what is left.\n\nBut one company told Money Box that it was possible to save thousands of pounds a year legally by hiding a large chunk of a worker's salary from the taxman.\n\nPosing as a healthcare worker on a salary of £145 a day, our reporter was told by Dark Blue Professional, a UK-registered umbrella company, that they could take home 78% of their salary, which is more than they would have made through a standard umbrella company.\n\nKay from Dark Blue Professional explained how the scheme works: \"You receive one payment which is a PAYE [pay as you earn] salary payment, that's taxed and you receive a payslip - and the residual balance is then paid as an investment payment.\"\n\n\"You receive your second amount into your account…and because it's done that way there is no tax liability on the second proportion,\" she told us.\n\nAs a result, a healthcare worker earning £725 per week would be able to pocket £60 more than if they used a standard umbrella company.\n\nBut what Kay did not say is that Dark Blue Professional would take £80 a week in fees, four times the industry standard, and that the government would be cheated out of up to half the tax that it should have received.\n\nKay insisted the scheme is tax compliant. But similar types of scheme have been challenged by HMRC in the past, which has left thousands of workers with crippling tax bills.\n\nSome even faced losing their homes, leaving their finances in tatters.\n\nResponding to the findings of Money Box investigation, Judith Freedman - professor of taxation law and policy at Oxford University - said: \"There's a strong likelihood that HMRC will challenge them [the schemes] successfully.\n\n\"Not only could the individual taxpayers be left with a big tax bill and a lot of hassle, but they have already paid relatively large fees to the promoters, so they are much worse off than they would have been doing things in a straightforward way,\" she said.\n\n\"It is distressing that people are trying to sell these schemes with…minimal explanation of the risks. Everything possible needs to be done to stop the firms doing this before ordinary taxpayers get caught up in it.\"\n\nMoney Box also spoke to a broker from Contracting Scout, which actively targets key workers with adverts on Twitter and LinkedIn.\n\n\"Tim\", from Contracting Scout, offered to sign us up with an umbrella company also offering 78% take home pay.\n\nHe explained that the umbrella companies he works with \"are taking advantage of a few tax loopholes\" and admitted that \"the government doesn't like it\".\n\n\"They [the government] do try and legislate against it, but legislation is extremely slow, so once the new legislation moves in there's a hundred different umbrellas that pop up next week with a different type of payment structure which doesn't get captivated by the law.\n\n\"So the goal posts are always moving and the providers are always trying to cater to that,\" he said.\n\nNeither of the two companies responded to the findings of our investigation.\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson told Money Box \"it is shocking that unscrupulous promoters of tax avoidance schemes are targeting returning NHS workers during this difficult time. HMRC published [advice] on 30 March warning returning workers about this very issue.\n\n\"Our advice has always been to steer well clear of such schemes, and to report them to us in confidence for investigation\".\n\nThere are more details of this story on Money Box and you can follow Anna and Money Box on Twitter.", "Sending all children back to school - and freeing parents to go back to work - could trigger a second wave of coronavirus, warn researchers.\n\nUCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine team said testing and tracing contacts of those with the virus might help prevent this.\n\nBut the current test and trace system would need to be more effective.\n\nThe study is the first to assess the extent of contact tracing that will be needed to prevent a second wave.\n\nIt used computer models to see how the virus might spread as pupils returned to the classroom and their parents were freed from childcare and able return to work or other activities.\n\nThe academics investigated the impact of the \"phased return\" strategy in England.\n\nThey analysed what happens when Reception, Year 1 and Year Six go back at the start of June; followed by all primary school pupils in July; secondary pupils in Year 10 and 12 having some contact in July and all secondary schools going back in September.\n\nThe study showed the combined effect on pupils and parents would be enough to cause a second wave without an effective test and trace programme.\n\nThis would happen around December 2020 and would be twice as big as the first peak, unless the government took other actions such as re-imposing lockdown.\n\nThe success of the scheme is dependent on how well the testing and the contact tracing goes.\n\nThe model suggested a second wave would be prevented if:\n\nModelling is not a crystal ball and there is always uncertainty around any predictions. However, researchers are concerned England is not achieving those figures.\n\nAbout 1,700 people are testing positive every day in hospitals, care homes and the wider community, while figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are 5,600 new infections a day in the community alone - and one Public Health England report suggests 17,000 infections per day.\n\nThere is still no official data on the number of contacts being traced, but a report by the Times (paywall) suggests it is less than 40%.\n\n\"Our concern from the data at the moment is test-trace-isolate is not reaching the coverage we think is the minimum,\" Prof Chris Bonell, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\n\"There is clearly a risk of a second pandemic wave… I'm worried. The R [rate of virus spread] is a bit below one [the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again], but the incidence is high so it's precarious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, from UCL, said it would have been better to wait until test and trace was fully up and running before lifting lockdown.\n\n\"Cases are not coming down as much as we wanted. I would caution against reopening schools when we are doing a lot of other interventions and we don't know the impact of them.\n\n\"Everything depends on control of transmission, there is the threat of a second pandemic wave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, researchers at the University of Warwick have also published modelling on the impact of reopening schools. It looked only at the impact of children mixing, not the society-wide effect of schools opening.\n\nIt found that halving the size of classes or focusing on getting younger children into school was less likely to push the R number above 1, the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again.\n\nSecondary schools were deemed more risky, as older children come into contact with more people.\n\n\"If we reopen all schools it could push R above 1 in some regions,\" Dr Ed Hill said.\n\nBut he added: \"Decisions surrounding reopening of schools are a difficult trade-off between the epidemiological consequences and the needs of the children in terms of educational development.\"", "The family have become custodians of the Roman fort while it is shut to the public\n\nA family spending lockdown living in a Roman Fort have described it as a \"surreal experience\".\n\nAs the UK went into lockdown Sonya and Colin Galloway, who both work for the trust that runs Vindolanda Fort, left their home in Hexham to live there.\n\nThe couple thought they and their sons Oliver, 15, and Luke, 13, would only be there for three or four weeks.\n\nBut they have remained for 11 weeks, sweeping bathhouses and protecting artefacts from wind and badger damage.\n\nLuke Galloway collected two buckets full of coins from a dried up well during lockdown life that has been like a \"permanent history lesson\"\n\nUsually this would be the busiest time of the year at the fort near Hadrian's Wall, with hundreds of visitors and would-be archaeologists booked in to take part in digs.\n\nBut, like tourist attractions across the UK, it has been closed because of the coronavirus crisis and communications manager Mrs Galloway said the site would have lost an estimate £600,000 in income by the end of July.\n\nMost of the site's 40 staff have been furloughed and she and her husband, deputy CEO at the Vindolanda Trust, took the decision to decamp the family as well as pet labradoodle Eric and cat Bramble to live in accommodation on site where volunteer diggers would usually stay.\n\nThey arrived soon after lockdown began in March, fearing a travel ban would leave the site empty.\n\nThe family has been able to appreciate super moons and sunsets with the fort as a backdrop\n\nSonya Galloway hopes her lockdown photos will inspire visitors to come when the fort begins a phased reopening on 15 June\n\nMrs Galloway said: \"We've been working 24/7 and there are worse places to be.\n\n\"We've been making sure the buildings are secure, repairing any minor damage caused by the weather or animals and inside checking our artefacts, maintaining the right humidity.\n\n\"My two boys have been locked in a permanent history lesson and it's been unforgettable for them.\n\n\"My youngest Luke has helped to sweep the pre-Hadrianic bathhouse, collect coins from a dried up well on the site and he was most impressed to get two buckets full of coins - only worth about £20 though.\n\n\"One highlight has been seeing a deer give birth to twins in the ground on a hot bank Holiday Monday - ordinarily animals wouldn't come that close but with no visitors she felt safe.\n\n\"Luckily for her the Roman Army with their love of hunting have long since left\".\n\nThe family has been able to enjoy a deer up-close having her fawns at the fort\n\nEric the labradoodle has been acting as Roman fort guard dog\n\nThe Vindolanda Trust had to apply for emergency funding and successfully obtained grants from the Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council.\n\nMrs Galloway said it has also had to take out a £300,000 bank loan to bridge some of the immediate funding gap and the financial costs of the pandemic would be felt for years.\n\nThe trust has launched a survival appeal and has raised just over a fifth of its £100,000 target.\n\nThe family has been running the Vindolanda online shop sending orders out all over the world.\n\nThey have also created a home learning section of the website to support parents with Roman-themed activities.\n\nTrust deputy CEO Colin Galloway created a home learning section on the site tested out by sons Luke and Oliver\n\n\"Personally for me it's been great,\" Mrs Galloway said. \"I love photography so have captured some wonderful images during lockdown, at all times of the day and night.\n\n\"I hope that those images inspire people to make a visit to the site once life returns to normal.\n\n\"Our downtime has been quite magical, from super moons to super sunsets and sunshine.\n\n\"We are, however, ready now to move back home and will be doing so in the next couple of weeks.\n\n\"We know there are many people out there who would have relished the opportunity to have been locked down at Vindolanda and we feel, actually, very fortunate to have played our part in caring for it while everyone has been away.\"\n\nVindolanda Fort is due to begin a phased reopening on 15 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nRose Paterson, the chairman of Aintree Racecourse, has been found dead near her Shropshire home aged 63.\n\nShe was married to Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson.\n\nIn a statement, he said the loss of his wife had come as a \"terrible shock\" to the family. A cause of death has not been given.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I must inform you that my wife, Rose, has been found dead at our family home in Shropshire,\" he said.\n\n\"Rose and I were married for 40 happy years. She was a wonderful, caring wife, mother and grandmother.\n\n\"Her death has come as a terrible shock to us all. I would ask the media to respect the privacy of myself and my family at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nThe couple married in 1980 and had two sons and a daughter.\n\nA minute's silence was held before racing at Haydock on Wednesday in her memory and that of Grand National-winning jockey Liam Treadwell, whose death was announced on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement West Mercia Police said: \"We can confirm the body of a woman has been found in woodland near Pant Lane in Sodylt in Ellesmere. The death is currently being treated as unexplained. However at this stage, there is believed to be no third-party involvement.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has offered his condolences to Mr Paterson and his family.\n\n\"The PM heard the news this morning and has written to Owen,\" said a Downing Street spokesman.\n\n\"His thoughts and every sympathy are with Owen, his children and grandchildren at this difficult time.\"\n\n'She will be missed greatly'\n\nPaterson, the daughter of the fourth Viscount Ridley, was on the main board of stewards at the Jockey Club, which owns Aintree Racecourse, home of the Grand National, and other leading tracks including Cheltenham.\n\nShe was appointed chairman of Aintree in 2014, having been a racecourse committee director there since 2005.\n\nSandy Dudgeon, senior steward of the Jockey Club, said: \"This is tragic news and our thoughts go out to Rose's husband, Owen, and all members of her family.\n\n\"Rose was a wonderful person and involved in so many aspects of our sport. She was a skilled chairman at Aintree, a valued member of our board of stewards and headed up our horse welfare group. She also enjoyed participating at grassroots level over many years.\n\n\"We appreciated her contribution very much and my fellow stewards and I looked forward to hearing her sound views on a subject, where she was always sensitive to the best course of action for racing. She will be missed greatly for the person she was.\"\n\nHer husband is MP for North Shropshire and a former Northern Ireland secretary.\n\n\"Owen rang me this morning to inform me that Rose had been found passed away at home,\" said Steve Charmley, the chair of North Shropshire Conservative Association.\n\n\"Obviously, Owen is very devastated and asked to be left in peace to come to terms with the situation. Rose was a very well-liked person. \"\n\nIn 2011, Rose joined her husband in a nine-day 1,000km (621-mile) race across Mongolia on horseback following a trail blazed by Genghis Khan.\n\nThey endured extreme weather, being set on by a pack of dogs, and she also survived two tumbles but raised more than £100,000 for charity.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust said he was \"extremely saddened\" by her death.\n\n\"Rose was one of those people who always seemed to see the bigger picture, do her best for the wider good and work tirelessly and selflessly towards achieving results,\" he said.\n\n\"She also had the knack of being able to say the right words at the right time.\"", "Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was in close contact with the businessman behind a controversial planning case while preparing to decide whether to approve it, official documents show.\n\nPrivate messages show Mr Jenrick texted Richard Desmond before giving the go ahead for a housing development against advice from officials.\n\nLabour said it showed \"discrepancies\" in Mr Jenrick's account of events.\n\nBut Downing Street said Boris Johnson now considered the matter \"closed\".\n\nThe documents were released after Labour claimed Mr Jenrick's approval of a massive housing development on the site of the former Westferry Print Works in east London raised suggestions of \"cash for favours\".\n\nMr Desmond made a personal donation of £12,000 to the Conservative Party 12 days after the minister overruled government planning inspectors to approve the development.\n\nThe decision to approve the development was later challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, forcing the secretary of state to say what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\". It is now being handled by another minister.\n\nThe housing secretary insists he had no knowledge of Mr Desmond's donation and that his decision to overrule the inspectors was \"not unusual\", motivated by a desire to see more homes built.\n\nA billionaire with a planning problem finds himself sitting next to the cabinet minister responsible for planning, at a Conservative fundraising dinner.\n\nThe two later exchange texts and planning permission is granted in the nick of time, just before the developer would have found himself on the hook for a whopping tax bill.\n\nThe billionaire then makes a donation - albeit a small one - to the Conservative Party.\n\nLittle wonder this has caused Labour and others to ask loads of questions about what on earth was going on.\n\nIt looks bad. That's not my judgement - but that of Robert Jenrick.\n\nMr Jenrick changed his mind and rescinded the planning permission, as it was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe minister insists he wasn't biased, he declined to visit the proposed building site, and he has always been committed to and driven by ensuring more houses are built.\n\nOh, and there is still no permission for the building work to start.\n\nNotably, Labour is not calling for Robert Jenrick to resign and the prime minister says the case is closed.\n\nSo, for now at least, Mr Jenrick appears safe.\n\nIt is clear from the emails and letters released on Wednesday evening that Mr Jenrick supported the housing project - in the face of opposition from his officials - and was keen to make rapid progress with the decision.\n\nThe papers include personal correspondence between the minister and Mr Desmond, owner of property developers Northern & Shell, in the run-up to the planning permission being granted on 14 January.\n\nMr Desmond, the former owner of Express newspapers, had been lobbying for the proposed 1,500-home development to be approved before the local council, Tower Hamlets, introduced a new Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to pay for local services.\n\nIn a text message to Mr Jenrick in November 2019, with an apparent reference to the Labour council, Mr Desmond wrote: \"...we appreciate the speed as we don't want to give Marxists a load of doe [sic] for nothing!\"\n\nIn one of the papers, a civil servant wrote, \"On timing, my understanding is that the SoS is/was insistent that the decision issued this week i.e. tomorrow - as next week the viability of the scheme is impacted by the change in London CIL.\"\n\nMr Jenrick approved the scheme on 14 January, by which Mr Desmond avoided paying £40m for the levy.\n\nThe planned development is in London's Docklands area\n\nBusiness Minister Nahim Zahawi told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Getting stuff built is important to Robert Jenrick, that was his motivation.\n\n\"But when there was a perception of bias, he pulled back on this, pulled the plug on it and will now allow a different minister to decide the scheme.\n\nDocuments show Mr Jenrick tried to set up a meeting with Mr Desmond\n\nThe papers also show Mr Jenrick asked a member of his staff to arrange a meeting with Mr Desmond the day after he sat next to him at a Tory fundraising dinner, at which the businessman showed him a video of the planned development on his phone.\n\nBut on the following day, Mr Jenrick said by text that they should not meet again to avoid \"any appearance of being influenced\".\n\nThe arranged meeting appears to have been cancelled nearly a month later because Mr Jenrick had to be in Parliament for the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe opposition said Mr Jenrick also overruled his advisers to reduce the amount of affordable housing required in the development, potentially saving Mr Desmond a further £106m.\n\nLabour's shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, said he was \"far from satisfied\" with Mr Jenrick's explanation of events, claiming the text exchanges with Mr Desmond were \"highly inappropriate\" and \"not in the spirit of the ministerial code of conduct\".\n\n\"The housing secretary needs to explain these discrepancies as a matter of urgency: the public must be reassured that there is not one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy donors and another rule for everyone else,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's top civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has rejected opposition calls for an investigation into Mr Jenrick's conduct - and whether he had broken the ministerial code - saying he had given a \"full and factual account\" of his actions.\n\nUnder the code, ministers must \"declare and resolve any relationships\", report any social contact with interested parties and \"take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias\".\n\nJohn Biggs, Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets, said: ''The revelations about the Westferry Print Works decision have blown apart confidence in our planning system under Mr Jenrick.\n\n\"The documents he was forced to release are damning and it looks like he rushed through the decision to help save the developer money and short-change my residents.\n\n''The minister referred to our borough as 'rotten', and messages from the developer called our council 'Marxist'. This name calling says more about them and their disregard for my residents whose borough it is, and who rightly want much needed affordable homes and money for local services.''\n\nThe 15 acre site is in the shadow of Canary Wharf\n\nIt is the timing of the decision to approve the development which is the greatest cause for concern among those living close to the east London site.\n\nIt came the day before a new community infrastructure levy was introduced, saving the developer an estimated £40m that could have been spent on schools, transport, hospitals and sports facilities.\n\n\"I really feel that I've been a bit cheated to be honest with you,\" says local resident Ruth Bravery, who runs a charity that helps the destitute in East London.\n\n\"That meant that the local people are really going to lose out as a result.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons before the documents were released, Mr Jenrick said the accusations were \"not simply wrong but actually outrageous\", adding the decision had been made on its merits after a thorough process.\n\nBut he admitted \"things could and should have been done differently\", saying: \"On reflection, I should have handled the communication differently.\"\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bernard Jenkin backed Mr Jenrick to stay in his job and told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while there had been a mistake there was \"no sign of actual maladministration\".", "\"We're almost 90% open with most of our retailers trading. It's a return to almost normality,\" says James Roberts the boss of Grosvenor Shopping centre in Northampton.\n\nBut there's one big question. How many of the 50 or so retailers and food outlets will be paying any rent this week.\n\n\"Hopefully some, but we've only collected 56% in the last quarter,\" he says.\n\nUK landlords should be collecting at least £2.5bn on Wednesday for shop rents.\n\nOn the last rent day in March, no more than half the total rent was handed over and landlords will be lucky to get a quarter of what they're owed today.\n\nMost high street shops, along with pubs and restaurants, have seen sales evaporate and have either been unable or refusing to pay rent.\n\nBill Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\nBusinesses are hoarding cash to survive. But the crisis is starving landlords of much needed income, too.\n\nThe Grosvenor Shopping Centre is the kind of everyday mall you'd find in many of our towns and city centres.\n\nIt's owned by Legal & General which invests in property to fund thousands of pensions.\n\n\"It's not well known, or particularly transparent to people, but most retail properties are effectively owned by the normal person on the street in the UK,\" said Bill Hughes, Legal and General's head of real assets.\n\nRecent research by Estates Gazette, a commercial property weekly, showed that as much as 60% of all UK retail space is owned either directly or indirectly by the public, including pension funds, the public sector and individual shareholders.\n\nIt's been a secure form of income until now.\n\n\"The risk of loss of income is really important. The pension fund owners of the built environment of the UK, they rely upon the income being produced by what hitherto have been seen as being very stable assets. And that is at risk in a way that's never been there to the extent before.\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nLandlords have enjoyed the good times over the decades with long leases and upward-only rent reviews.\n\nAnd rapidly expanding retailers were happy to sign up. But in recent years with sales shifting online, it's become far harder for shops to make a profit.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated this trend. The Government extended its ban on evictions for non-payment of rent until the autumn.\n\nOccupiers are now frantically trying to secure better deals or turning to insolvency proceedings to renegotiate their debts, including owed rent.\n\nMark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, said landlords may have to get used to the fact their properties are worth less\n\nThe traditional business model of how retail property is leased is now well and truly broken.\n\n\"It's a mess, but it's not a mess that we can't tidy up\" said Mark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, a real estate business which advises landlords and retailers.\n\n\"I do feel sorry for them (landlords) . Absolutely. They are entitled to receive income, but I don't believe they're entitled to receive the same income as they were. I think they have to understand the value of their asset. And the value of their asset is what someone is prepared to pay for it. There isn't a queue of retailers coming up behind them,\" he said.\n\nHe believes upward only rent reviews should be abolished along with the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954, the law which still underpins the leasehold system in the UK.\n\n\"It's inflexible. We need something which is much cheaper and quicker to negotiate. We should have a system of rents based on turnover, allowing retailers to pay a rent they can afford. But in order to do that, tenants have to play their part. They have to declare what they are turning over,\" said Mr Burlton.\n\nBill Hughes thinks the Government's new code of practice on rental agreements should ease the tensions.\n\n\"We're having an active conversation with tenants about can they pay, and if they can't pay, we're working hard to restructure things.\n\n\"Because it's in our interest to find a way of helping cash flow to companies that would survive beyond this very difficult, unusual crisis that Covid presents.\"\n\nLegal & General's Bill Hughes thinks the Government should take a careful look at providing some financial support to help bridge the likely shortfall in income otherwise the \"dynamic between landlords and tenants is likely to be challenging and deteriorate\".\n\nThe future prosperity of our high streets and town centres could ultimately be at stake if this crisis doesn't end well.\n\nRegeneration requires private sector investment as well as Government funding.\n\nMr Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\n\"They need a sensible and stable environment within which they can get some sort of return,\" he explains.\n\nMr Burlton says he's receiving phone calls from US private equity and venture capitalists sniffing around for opportunities to snap up some retail assets on the cheap.\n\n\"Ultimately if landlords and tenants can't agree what the actual rent should be, then a number of landlords face the very real prospect of going bust. And then we have to be careful what we wish for because the purchasers of these assets in my opinion will likely have much shorter goals than the landlords they currently have. \"\n\nThe fate of heavily indebted shopping centre owner, Intu, will be decided by Friday. It owns some of the UK's biggest and most popular malls, including the Trafford Centre and the Metrocentre in Gateshead.\n\nIf it can't secure a last minute agreement with its lenders, it will go into administration which could mean the temporary closure of its sites.", "Segway is ending production of its original two-wheeler, which was popular with city tour guides and some police forces - but not the public.\n\nLaunched in 2001, the much-hyped self-balancing vehicle promised to revolutionise personal transport.\n\nThe Segway, invented by US engineer Dean Kamen, debuted with much fanfare, but struggled to make a profit.\n\nAccidents didn't help with the Segway's popularity, and the company was bought by Chinese rival Ninebot in 2015.\n\nMade at a factory in New Hampshire, in the US, production of the Segway Personal Transporter will end on 15 July.\n\nAnnouncing the news, Segway president Judy Cai said: \"Within its first decade, the Segway PT became a staple in security and law enforcement, viewed as an effective and efficient personal vehicle.\"\n\nHowever, in the vehicle's almost two decade-long history it has also been the subject of mockery and high-profile collisions as well as a tragic death.\n\nThen-US President George W. Bush was pictured falling off a Segway in 2003\n\nIn 2003, then-US President George W Bush took a tumble off a Segway at his parents' summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.\n\nThe incident followed Vice President Dick Cheney's use of a Segway to ride around his office when his Achilles tendon was playing up.\n\nThe Segway also served as a, quite literally, comedy vehicle in the 2009 Hollywood movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.\n\nIn the film, actor and comedian Kevin James played a security guard who patrolled a shopping mall on a Segway to much comic effect.\n\nSprinter Usain Bolt collided with a cameraman on a Segway in 2015\n\nIn 2015, as he celebrated his fourth consecutive world 200 metres title, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was knocked over by a cameraman on a Segway.\n\nNo serious harm was done, and the legendary athlete quickly got to his feet and continued his victory lap.\n\nIn January this year Segway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) exhibition in Las Vegas.\n\nThe S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall.\n\nThe Segway was also at the centre of a tragic incident when the self-made millionaire owner of the company died after falling from a cliff in the UK while riding one of his firm's motorised scooters.\n\nJimi Heselden crashed into the River Wharfe while using his Segway on his estate, in West Yorkshire, just 10 months after buying the firm in 2009.\n\nThe inquest into Mr Heselden's death heard that he died due to an \"act of courtesy\" as he tried to make way for a dog walker.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged young people in England, warns the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nThe commission also says the Covid-19 pandemic will make things worse and will exacerbate youth unemployment.\n\nIn a report, it highlights a 36% decline in people from disadvantaged backgrounds starting apprenticeships, compared with 23% for other groups.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country\".\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission's report was published as the Education Select Committee took evidence about apprenticeships and skills at a session on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe report, Apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling potential, says the introduction of an apprenticeship levy in 2017 has led to a \"collapse in overall apprenticeship starts that hit disadvantaged learners hardest\".\n\nThe apprenticeship levy takes 0.5% of the salary bill from major employers that have an annual pay bill over £3m, with the intention of using the money to improve skills and provide training.\n\nThe report finds that between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the number of apprenticeship starters from disadvantaged backgrounds fell by more than a third (36%), as opposed to 23% for other apprentices.\n\nThe commission's report also says that most of the benefits of apprenticeships are going to those from wealthier backgrounds.\n\nBut it stresses that apprenticeships are \"one of the most effective means of boosting social mobility for workers from poorer backgrounds - if they can get into and through the system\".\n\nLead report author, Alice Battiston from London Economics said: \"There is a severe disadvantage gap throughout the entire apprenticeship training journey, and this has worsened over time.\n\n\"Not only has the proportion of new starters from disadvantaged backgrounds declined over time, but they have also benefited less than their better-off peers from the shift towards higher-level programmes.\"\n\nSteven Cooper, joint deputy chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: \"The apprenticeship levy, introduced in 2017, has disproportionately funded higher-level apprenticeships for learners from more advantaged communities, rather than those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds who would benefit more.\n\n\"It is no longer credible for the government to assume that apprenticeships automatically improve social mobility and leave the system to its own devices,\" he said.\n\n\"Strategic action and direction are needed to target the system better on disadvantaged communities and improve the system's value for money.\"\n\nFollowing the coronavirus pandemic, there are concerns that disadvantaged apprentices are at further risk from an economic decline, with many employed in hard-hit sectors such as hospitality and retail.\n\n\"The pandemic is likely to have made the disadvantage gap worse. There needs to be urgent consideration of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on social mobility outcomes,\" added Ms Battiston.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said apprenticeships would be one of the building blocks of economic recovery after Covid-19.\n\n\"If the government is serious about offering an 'apprenticeship guarantee' it will heed calls from the further education sector for a post-Covid skills funding package, address the barriers to success and support employers to provide the opportunities and decent pay new apprentices need to succeed.\"\n\n\"As this report shows, many disadvantaged apprentices face significant barriers to success already, but with warnings from the FE sector that a shortage of new places and large numbers of apprentice redundancies could be on the horizon, their future may look even bleaker without urgent government action.\"\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We are absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"Apprenticeships are an excellent way to get into a wide range of rewarding careers and they will continue to play a vital role delivering the high-quality skills employers and our economy will need to recover.\n\n\"We are looking at how we can make sure more people and businesses can take advantage of apprenticeships in the future, including supporting employers, especially small and medium sized businesses, to take on new apprentices this year.\"", "Ben and Jerry's has joined a growing list of firms pulling advertising from Facebook platforms throughout July.\n\nIt's part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, which calls on Facebook to have stricter measures against racist and hateful content.\n\nBen and Jerry's Tweeted that it \"will pause all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the US\".\n\nFacebook has said it is committed to \"advancing equity and racial justice\".\n\nEarlier this week outdoor brands The North Face, Patagonia and REI joined the campaign.\n\nBen and Jerry's said it is standing with the campaign and \"all those calling for Facebook to take stronger action to stop its platforms from being used to divide our nation, suppress voters, foment and fan the flames of racism and violence, and undermine our democracy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben & Jerry'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\nAfter George Floyd's death in police custody, Ben and Jerry's chief executive Matthew McCarthy said \"business should be held accountable\" as he set out plans to increase diversity.\n\nGeorge Floyd died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones. Four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nEarlier this week the freelance job listing platform Upwork and the open-source software developer Mozilla also joined the campaign.\n\n\"We're taking steps to review our policies, ensure diversity and transparency when making decisions on how we apply our policies, and advance racial justice and voter engagement on our platform,\" Facebook said on Sunday.\n\nThe statement also pointed to the company's Community Standards, which include the recognition of the platform's importance as a \"place where people feel empowered to communicate, and we take seriously our role in keeping abuse off our service\".\n\nA European Commission report this month found Facebook removed 86% of hate speech last year, up from 82.6%.\n\nThe social network, says almost all of the content which violates its policies is automatically detected by its systems and removed before it is reported.\n\nThe Stop Hate for Profit campaign was launched last week by advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Color Of Change.\n\nThe movement has said it is a \"response to Facebook's long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform\".\n\nStop Hate for Profit has called on advertisers to pressure the company to adopt stricter measures against racist and hateful content on its platforms by stopping all spending on advertising with it throughout July.\n\nLast year the social network attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56bn).\n\nFacebook, and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, have often been criticised for the handling of controversial subjects.\n\nThis month the company's staff spoke out against the tech giant's decision not to remove or flag a post by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe same message was shared on Twitter, where it was hidden behind a warning label on the grounds that it \"glorified violence\".\n\nUnilever, the parent company of Ben and Jerry's, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.", "Hairdressers will be allowed to reopen from 4 July - and clearly it's not a moment too soon for thousands of customers desperate for a trim.\n\n\"We've built up a waiting list of more than 2,000 people,\" said Katya Davies, who runs four Myla and Davis hairdressers in south London.\n\nAmid mounting speculation that the lockdown would be eased for large swathes of the service sector, Ms Davies opened her appointment book a couple of weeks ago.\n\nJuly is already looking full, she said, and there's now a big rush to get the salons ready in time. They will open an extra four hours each day to cope with demand.\n\n\"We can't wait to get back to work and we've planned our reopening schedule around the 2m distancing rule. We don't plan to change that, although the switch to 1m-plus will ease the burden a little,\" she said.\n\n\"Our salons will be able to work at around 65% capacity although wearing visors will be quite cumbersome and bring its own problems, especially for the comfort of our workers who will be dealing with clients back-to-back.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson anticipated the huge demand for a haircut when he announced the easing of the lockdown after more than three months\n\nHe said: \"Almost as eagerly awaited as a pint will be a haircut, particularly by me, and so we will reopen hairdressers with appropriate precautions, including the use of visors.\"\n\nThe details of the new guidelines are expected to be announced soon, but are expected to include use of protective screens and an increase in handwashing facilities.\n\n\"We've already had lots of texts and calls from customers excited to be able to return to the saloon,\" said Dale Hollinshead, who runs Hazel & Haydn, in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.\n\n\"It's been a long lockdown for all of us,\" he said. His salon has two floors, which makes social distancing a little easier to deal with, he reckons.\n\n\"We've been busy preparing the salon for opening in the last few weeks and have put plastic screens in place and have floor markings that are ready to go down.\n\n\"We have a range of plastic visors and face masks for staff and will do whatever else the guidelines require to ensure everyone is safe.\"\n\nThe salon will extend opening hours from 8am to 8pm when it reopens on 4 July, and stylists will work shifts in teams to reduce the number of people that customers come into contact with.\n\n\"We're really looking forward to getting back to business,\" Mr Hollinshead said.\n\n\"We're very pleased about the news that we can finally reopen,\" said Belle Cannan, co-founder of Salon Sloane in London's Chelsea. \"We all want to get back to work and our clients are excited to see us.\"\n\nShe had been preparing to reopen based on 2m social distancing, but welcomed the reduction to 1m, saying: \"It means we will be able to work at around 75% capacity rather than 50%.\n\n\"We've remained in contact with clients through lockdown with advice to help them avoid hair disasters. Then a couple of weeks ago we started taking provisional appointments, and the phone's been very active.\"\n\nClients will be offered face-masks while stylists will be wearing lightweight visors. Other changes will see a hand-sanitising station for clients, and the reception will be screened off.\n\nMs Cannan said: \"There are some of our usual touches that have had to go, such as offering tea, coffee or magazines to clients. They will also have to put on their own gowns and hang up their own coats.\"\n\nBut she's confident clients will adjust: \"People having been waiting so long for this that they will be happy with the new normal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I want to come back to change in Wales\"\n\nAt only 24 years of age, Chizi Phiri, has an impressive CV.\n\nA graduate of Swansea University, she was Women's Officer at NUS Wales where she ran a nationwide campaign on period poverty.\n\nAfter that, she completed a mentoring scheme to help her break into public life in Wales.\n\nA good start for an articulate and confident young person whose ultimate goal is to become a politician.\n\nThe only problem? Ms Phiri says she hit a dead end in Wales and had to leave.\n\n\"We all know the statistics,\" she says.\n\n\"Black and Asian graduates have to send 80% more applications than their white counterparts. That's definitely something I experienced.\n\n\"And public life and politics is really not representative of the Wales we're living in today. As a young black woman, you want to see other people that look like you to give you confidence, and it really wasn't there in Wales.\"\n\nMs Phiri wants to see change.\n\n\"I think a lot of people pay lip service and I hear a lot of these conversations. You know I've seen countless reports and consultations. What I'm not seeing is actions,\" she said.\n\n\"How many black people are you employing in higher executive levels? What are you paying your black staff? Is it equal to their white counterparts? And what are you doing to elevate them further into higher roles?\"\n\nShe is not the only person of colour who said she had to leave Wales to develop their career.\n\nDr Constantino Dumangane Jr would like to work in Wales in the future\n\nDr Constantino Dumangane Jr is an academic whose research specialism is race and diversity.\n\nOriginally from the USA, he has lived in Cardiff for 14 years.\n\nHe says it was a battle to get Welsh academia to take race seriously as a research subject.\n\n\"In Wales, it's class or it's gender and race is always the last thing on the list, and that's extremely problematic,\" he said.\n\nDr Dumangane went to work at the University of York, where he now researches and teaches on issues of race and ethnicity, despite still living in Cardiff.\n\nRecently, the impact of Coronavirus on BAME people and the Black Lives Matter movement have sharpened the focus on systemic racism.\n\nThe first minister has spoken about the \"lack of BAME representation in decision-making processes\" and a recent review of the appointments the Welsh Government makes to public bodies has suggested changes.\n\nIn 2018-19, 3% of appointments were of BAME people despite them making up 5% of the population.\n\nEqualities Minister Jane Hutt insists some progress has been made over the 20 years that Welsh Labour has been in power in Cardiff Bay but admits there is \"a huge deficit in terms of representation particularly of BAME people and also disabled people, though we've made more progress on women\".\n\nShe added: \"We know it's no good just going on the same way we've been doing.\"\n\nBoth Dr Dumangane and Ms Phiri would like to work in Wales, but only when they feel there is a place for them.\n\n\"I love it and I think it's an incredible country,\" says Ms Phiri.\n\n\"But I want to come back and see diversity. I would love to come back, but things really, really need to change.\"", "Four children were killed between 2014 and 2019 by a parent given access to them by a court, BBC research found\n\nDomestic abuse victims will get greater protections in an \"overhaul of how the family courts deal with the horrific crime\", the government has announced.\n\nUnder new plans, more victims will have access to separate courtroom entrances, waiting rooms and protective screens to shield them from their alleged abuser.\n\nA number of reforms will be included in the upcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nIt comes after an expert-led review of the family courts' handling domestic abuse, following a BBC investigation.\n\nResearch by the Victoria Derbyshire programme found that within five years at least four children were killed by a parent with a known history of domestic abuse after a family court granted access.\n\nThe BBC also learned of cases where a parent with convictions for serious crimes relating to domestic abuse - including rape and serious violent offences - were granted unsupervised access to their child.\n\nThe government review, led by experts from charities, the judiciary, family law practitioners and academia, took the views of more than 1,200 organisations and individuals, including parents and children with experience of the family courts.\n\nIt heard concerns about a \"pro-contact culture\", in which courts placed undue priority on ensuring contact with the non-resident parent, resulting in \"systemic minimisation of allegations of domestic abuse\".\n\nThe panel heard evidence about potential long-term harm to children as a result of courts ordering continued contact with an abusive parent.\n\nIt also found that an \"adversarial system\" in the family courts, including in cases involving child sexual abuse, often worsened conflict between parents and could re-traumatise victims and their children.\n\n\"Sweeping reforms\" of the system aimed to better protect domestic abuse victims in the family courts, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nJustice minister Alex Chalk said the family courts see some of the most vulnerable in society and the government had a duty \"to ensure they are protected and not put in danger\".\n\n\"This report lays bare many hard truths about long-standing failings, but we are determined to drive the fundamental change necessary to keep victims and their children safe,\" he said.\n\nNicki Norman, Acting CEO at the charity Women's Aid, who was a member of the expert panel, said the report marked \"a major step forward\".\n\nShe said that \"all too often, survivors and their children experience the family courts as failing to effectively protect them\".\n\n\"This welcome report must now deliver change.\"\n\nDomestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird QC also welcomed the reforms.\n\n\"This panel of experts has dug deep to understand, and address, the serious harm to domestic abuse victims and their children caused over many years by the presumption of contact, and the intensely adversarial process present in the family courts,\" Dame Vera said.\n\nTop family court judge in England and Wales, Sir Andrew McFarlance, President of the Family Division, praised the review, and said he hoped parliament would be able to allocate the resources necessary to implement the proposals.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill is currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Other measures include prohibiting perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims in person in the family courts in England and Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one Image caption: Prof Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one\n\nThe decision over the two-metre social distancing rule in Scotland is one of \"personality and politics\", a scientist has claimed.\n\nProf Hugh Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one, given how new Covid-19 is and the fact advice being given to both administrations will be \"largely the same\".\n\nWriting in the Scottish Daily Mail , Prof Pennington said should there be a localised outbreak - in a place such as a bar - when the rule is relaxed then it could simply be shut down and the rest of the population will not be impacted.\n\nThe first minister has said she has asked her scientific advisers to look into reducing the amount of social distancing in certain measures, with a report expected by 2 July.\n\nProf Pennington said there is \"every reason\" Scotland should also reduce the social distancing rule.\n\nHe wrote: \"But in my view there is absolutely no need for (Nicola Sturgeon's) caution.\n\n\"There is no reason we should not be following England and reducing the social distancing limit to one metre and every reason we should be in order to get the economy and education system going again.\n\n\"If we do see a localised outbreak of Covid, for example if there is an outbreak linked to a particularly busy pub, we can step in and close it down again.\n\n\"The whole country does not need to go back into lockdown.\"\n\nHe added: \"What we are seeing now is not about the science, it's about the personality and the politics.\"", "The hoods are made of a mesh-type fabric and are placed over an individual's head to prevent them biting or spitting at officers\n\nAmnesty International has called on the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to suspend the use of spit hoods after \"an admission they provide no protection from Covid-19\".\n\nThe organisation said there were implications for other UK police forces which have the same make of equipment.\n\nThe PSNI has said it is reviewing the position as more information emerges.\n\nThe PSNI began using the hoods during lockdown, after incidents where suspects coughed or spat at officers.\n\nAmnesty claimed the pandemic had been used \"as cover\" to roll out their use.\n\nThe human rights body has long had serious reservations about the use of the hoods.\n\nThey are made of a mesh-type fabric, and are placed over an individual's head to prevent them biting or spitting at officers.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Policing Board approved their limited introduction at the end of March, after previously withholding consent.\n\nOther UK police forces started using them long before the pandemic.\n\nThe PSNI wrote to Amnesty two weeks ago in response to concerns they raised.\n\nThe police letter states the manufacturers have informed them the hoods are \"not designed to stop airborne pathogens or respiratory droplets etc (i.e. Covid-19)\".\n\nBut the PSNI added they could \"counter the virus\" if contained in saliva or blood when spitting or biting.\n\nThe PSNI said the spit hoods had been used 29 times between the end of March and 23 June.\n\nAs is procedure, the Police Ombudsman has been informed about each incident.\n\n\"The police have issued spit and bite guards as a temporary measure for use during the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said Ch Supt Sam Donaldson.\n\n\"We will continue to review this position in light of all available information.\"\n\nSpit guards or hoods aren't in universal use by all British police.\n\nThe basic rule is that they should only be placed on a suspect who's already spat or bitten, or it's clear they're about to.\n\nAnd in England and Wales, the combined police chiefs haven't pronounced that they should be deployed to protect officers from the coronavirus.\n\nSome campaigners say the guards are degrading and dangerous - although the Metropolitan Police's medically-supervised tests found they presented no risk to a suspect's breathing.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales - representing front-line officers - believes they're a defence against the \"weaponising\" of Covid by dangerous offenders.\n\nIt believes there's no evidence to suggest using spit guards increases the risk of infection to officers.\n\nThat's because by the time a constable deploys the covering on a suspect, they will almost certainly already have been subjected to a grim assault, with all the disease dangers that come with it.\n\nAmnesty International's Patrick Corrigan said: \"The pandemic has been used as cover to roll out these controversial restraint devices in Northern Ireland in the face of the scientific evidence.\"\n\nThe organisation added that with other UK forces using identical kit, police chiefs should \"make it crystal clear to officers\" that the hoods \"do not offer any protection\" from Covid-19.\n\n\"Police forces across the UK should now withdraw them from use in possible or suspected cases of COVID,\" it said.\n\nChief Superintendent Sam Donaldson from Operational Support Department said: \"The Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued Spit and Bite Guards as a temporary measure for use during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to review this position in light of all available information.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick is facing fresh questions from Labour after the release of documents relating to a controversial planning decision.\n\nMr Jenrick released the papers to hit back at Labour allegations of \"cash for favours\", saying they would kill off the party's \"wild allegations\".\n\nThey relate to a decision to grant planning permission to a developer who later gave money to the Tory Party.\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must clear up \"discrepancies\" in his account.\n\nIn a point of order in the Commons following the documents' release, Labour's Steve Reed said: \"There appear to be significant discrepancies between what the secretary of state told the house and what is in the documents.\n\n\"He did not immediately notify officials following his dinner with the applicant Richard Desmond, that rather than closing discussion down with the developer as the secretary of state implies, he instead initiated contact with him the next day by text.\n\n\"And the letters confirm that he rushed through the decisions deliberately to help the developer avoid a £30m to £50m levy payable to Tower Hamlets council.\"\n\nBut Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the top civil servant in No 10, said the prime minister \"considered the matter closed\" following the publication of the documents.\n\nThe documents include letters and emails between Mr Jenrick and his officials, and representatives of developer Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell company, as well as the minister's correspondence with senior MPs.\n\nThey detail attempts by Mr Desmond's representatives to set up a meeting, and a site visit, with Mr Jenrick - something the minister said did not happen, after advice from officials.\n\nDocuments show Mr Jenrick tried to set up a meeting with Mr Desmond\n\nThe documents also include email discussions between Mr Jenrick's officials on how to explain his decision to overrule the government's own planning inspectors to give the go-ahead to the development.\n\nIn one document, a civil servant said the secretary of state wanted the development signed off the following day so that Northern and Shell would avoid a new community infrastructure levy.\n\n\"On timing, my understanding is that SoS is/was insistent that decision issued this week ie tomorrow - as next week the viability of the scheme is impacted by a change in the London CIL regime.\"\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Mr Jenrick took the opposition by surprise by announcing he would publish all \"relevant\" documents relating to the case.\n\nHe said the accusations made against him were \"not simply wrong but actually outrageous\", but he admitted \"things could and should have been done differently\".\n\n\"On reflection, I should have handled the communication differently,\" he said.\n\nLabour had tabled a motion seeking to force the government to release all documents relating to the controversy, something the minister had previously refused to do.\n\nOpening a Commons debate on the matter, shadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it had \"blown apart\" public confidence in the planning system - and the only way to put that right was to publish the papers.\n\nLabour's Steve Reed was pushing for the publication of documents\n\nMr Jenrick said the material would kill off \"all the wild accusations and the baseless innuendo\" coming from the Labour Party.\n\n\"This was a decision taken with an open mind on the merits of the case after a thorough decision-making process,\" he told MPs.\n\nMr Jenrick denied claims by Labour's Toby Perkins that he would not have published the documents without pressure from Labour and that they had been \"dragged out of him\".\n\nHe said the material had taken time to pull together in response to a call from Labour MP Clive Betts, chairman of the communities and local government select committee.\n\nThe planned development is in London's Docklands area\n\n\"Transparency matters, openness matters and settling this matter because I certainly don't want to be the subject of the innuendo and the false accusations that the Opposition are choosing to peddle,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was \"not unusual\" for ministers to \"come to a different conclusion to that of a local authority\" and to overrule the government's planning inspectors.\n\n\"I stand by the decision I made. I believe passionately that Britain needs to build houses.\"\n\nThe row centres around a 1,500 home development at the former Westferry printing works on the Isle of Dogs, in East London.\n\nThe developer, former Daily Express owner Richard Desmond, personally gave the Conservative Party £12,000 two weeks after the scheme was approved, in January.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Jenrick had sat next to Mr Desmond, and three Northern and Shell executives, at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner in November 2019.\n\nLabour says Mr Jenrick also overruled his advisers to reduce the amount of affordable housing required in the development, potentially saving Mr Desmond a further £106m.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, forcing the secretary of state to back down and say what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nCouncillors asked the High Court to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nMr Jenrick said Mr Desmond had tried to raise the scheme with him during the dinner, and had invited him on a site visit, but that he had told the businessman he could not discuss it and declined the site visit, on the advice of his officials.\n\nMr Desmond told The Sunday Times last weekend that he had shown Mr Jenrick a promotional video for the scheme on his mobile phone during the fundraiser at the Savoy Hotel.\n\nWhen pressed by the SNP's communities spokesman David Linden about Mr Desmond's claims, Mr Jenrick said: \"He did bring out his iPhone and show me some images of the development.\"\n\nBut the minister said he had told Mr Desomond \"it was not appropriate to discuss the matter and I couldn't comment on it\".", "The LIGO-Virgo collaboration runs some of the most exquisite scientific instruments ever built\n\nScientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before.\n\nIt is more massive than collapsed stars, known as \"neutron stars\", but has less mass than black holes.\n\nSuch \"black neutron stars\" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to be rethought.\n\nThe discovery was made by an international team using gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy.\n\nCharlie Hoy, a PhD student from Cardiff University, UK, involved in the study, said the new discovery would transform our understanding.\n\n\"We can't rule out any possibilities,\" he told BBC News. \"We don't know what it is and this is why it is so exciting because it really does change our field.\"\n\nThis event involved an object more massive than known neutron stars but less massive than known black holes. It existed in what has become known as the \"mass gap\"\n\nMr Hoy is part of an international team working for the Ligo-Virgo Scientific Collaboration.\n\nThe international group, which has strong UK involvement backed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, has laser detectors several kilometres long that are able to detect minute ripples in space-time caused by the collision of massive objects in the Universe.\n\nThe collected data can be used to determine the mass of those objects involved.\n\nLast August, the instruments detected the collision of a black hole 23 times the mass of our Sun with an object of 2.6 solar masses.\n\nThat makes the lighter object more massive than the heaviest type of dead star, or neutron star, previously observed - of just over two solar masses. But it was also lighter than the lightest black hole previously observed - of around five solar masses.\n\nAstronomers have been searching for such objects in what they've come to call the \"mass gap\".\n\nWriting in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the research team believes that of all the possibilities, the object is most likely to be a light black hole, but they are not ruling out any other possibilities.\n\nThe labs that detect gravitational waves fire lasers down long tunnels\n\nHaving collided with the large black hole, the object no longer exists. However, there should be further opportunities to learn more about these mass-gap objects from future collisions, according to Prof Stephen Fairhurst, also at Cardiff.\n\n\"It is a challenge for us to determine what this is,\" he told BBC News. \"Is this the lightest black hole ever, or is it the heaviest neutron star ever?\"\n\nIf it is a light black hole then there is no established theory for how such an object could develop. But Prof Fairhurst's colleague, Prof Fabio Antonioni, has proposed that a solar system with three stars could lead to the formation of light black holes. His ideas are receiving increased attention following the new discovery.\n\nIf, however, this new class of object is a heavy neutron star then theories for how they form may also need to be revised, according to Prof Bernard Schutz of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.\n\n\"We don't know a lot about the nuclear physics of neutron stars. So, people who are looking at exotic equations that explain what goes on inside them might be thinking, 'maybe this is evidence that we can get much heavier neutron stars'.\"\n\nA scientific visualisation of a gravitational waves-producing merger where one object is 9.2 times more massive than the other\n\nBoth black holes and neutron stars are thought to form when stars run out of fuel and die. If it is a very large star, it collapses to form a black hole, an object with such strong gravitational force that not even light can escape its grasp.\n\nIf the starting star is below a certain mass, one option is for it to collapse into a dense ball composed entirely of particles called neutrons, which are found inside the heart of atoms.\n\nThe material from which neutron stars are composed is so tightly packed that one teaspoonful would weigh 10 million tonnes.\n\nA neutron star also has powerful gravity pulling it together, but a force between the neutrons, caused by a quantum mechanical effect known as degeneracy pressure, pushes the particles apart, counteracting the gravitational force.\n\nCurrent theories suggest that the gravitational force would overcome the degeneracy pressure if the neutron star were much larger than two solar masses - and cause it to collapse into a black hole.\n\nAccording to Prof Nils Andersson of Southampton University, if the mystery object is a heavy neutron star then the theorists will have to rethink what goes on in these objects.\n\n\"Nuclear physics is not a precise science where we know everything,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know how nuclear forces operate under the extreme conditions you need inside a neutron star. So, every single current theory we currently have of what goes on inside of one has some uncertainty.\"\n\nProf Sheila Rowan, director of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), said the discovery challenges current theoretical models.\n\n\"More cosmic observations and research will need to be undertaken to establish whether this new object is indeed something that has never been observed before or whether it may instead be the lightest black hole ever detected.\"", "Large crowds headed to the beach in Bournemouth to bask in the hot weather\n\nWednesday is officially the hottest day of the year so far, with people flocking to beaches and beauty spots.\n\nThe Met Office said the temperature hit 32.6C at Heathrow Airport at 14:26 BST on Wednesday, beating the previous record of 28.9C set at the end of May.\n\nA level three heat-health alert has been set for parts of England, with advice to take extra care in the sun.\n\nThe heatwave is set to break from Thursday evening, with a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in the UK.\n\nThe Met Office warning covers parts of the UK, including Wales, Northern Ireland and areas of Scotland.\n\nA separate yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across most of the UK is in place from 12:00 BST on Friday to 06:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nFamilies relax on the Merseyside's Crosby Beach, where lifeguards put out signs warning of strong currents\n\nPeople enjoy the hot weather by Three Shires Head on the River Dane, where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have been slightly cooler, with a high of 26.9C recorded in Charterhall in Berwickshire, and 21.8C in Derrylin, County Fermanagh. In Wales, meanwhile, temperatures peaked at 30C in Cardiff.\n\nTuesday missed out on being the UK's hottest day this year, with a temperature of 28.6C recorded at Heathrow Airport and Kew Gardens.\n\nGroups enjoy the hot weather at Durdle Door in Dorset\n\nThe highest UK maximum temperature recorded in June is currently 35.6C, set at Mayflower Park, Southampton on 28 June 1976.\n\nPeople have been taking advantage of the heatwave by heading to beaches and beauty spots, with crowds of sunbathers pictured on beaches in Brighton and Bournemouth.\n\nHowever, council leader Vikki Slade warned Dorset wasn't ready for visitors yet, tweeting \"please do not come\" in response to a video showing crowds of people arriving at Bournemouth train station.\n\nShe added: \"Your visit will be much more enjoyable if you come after 4 July when we will be fully prepared for your visit.\"\n\nThat date is when businesses such as hotels, museums and restaurants will be able to reopen after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown.\n\nDaytrippers soaked up the sun and took a swim on Brighton Beach\n\nCrowds flocked to the beach in Scarborough on Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office raised the level of its heat-health alert to three for the West Midlands and East Midlands on Wednesday, as health officials advised the most vulnerable - many of whom have been shielding during the lockdown - to protect themselves amid the \"exceptionally hot weather forecast this week\".\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said older people, those with underlying health conditions, and very young children were all more at risk from the higher temperatures.\n\nSt John Ambulance advised shoppers to be aware they could be forced to spend extra time in the sun as a result of social distancing measures and to be prepared.\n\nWarnings have been also issued about UV levels, which are going to be \"exceptionally high\" over the next couple of days.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said these will reach eight across many places and nine across parts of Devon and Cornwall on Thursday.\n\n\"That's about as high as it gets really in the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Property Services warned that hand sanitiser should not be left in hot cars, as it can catch fire in high temperatures.\n\nHowever the organisation later clarified saying it now understood that risks associated with hand sanitisers in cars \"only become apparent when in contact with a spark\".\n\nPaddleboarders on the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice, London\n\nHow are you experiencing the heatwave? Share your pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "'I really don't get why we can't open'\n\nWhile pubs and hairdressers in England have been given the all clear by government to reopen on 4 July, many businesses have been told to remain doors closed for now. Beautician Tara Williamson is frustrated by what she sees as a double standard from government, with hairdressers allowed to reopen but beauty salons staying closed. She runs The Beauty, Skin and Eyelash Lounge in Epping and had planned to open on 4 July. \"I don't really get it. I don't see a reason why we couldn't open and it will obviously be a big blow,\" she says. \"We've put screens in place, we've done a one-way system in the salon, we've prepared everything for the two metre distancing, we've staggered appointments, we've got sanitising stations,\" she says. \"It just seems crazy that we have no guidelines of when we can open and what is going to be happening.\"", "Kathy is one of the first volunteers taking part in a trial to find a vaccine for coronavirus.\n\nAbout 300 people will be immunised in the coming weeks in the Imperial College London trial.", "The daily presentation of slides is no more\n\nThe daily Downing Street press conference on coronavirus has been stopped, the government has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson led the final regular briefing, flanked by chief advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nFrom now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street said.\n\nIt comes as the PM announced an easing of the lockdown in England.\n\nThere have been 92 briefings, and two national addresses by the prime minister.\n\nLeading the final briefing, Mr Johnson thanked Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick for their \"heroic work in presenting information to the public so clearly and so powerfully\".\n\nHe added that there will \"certainly\" be more local outbreaks and \"I don't think, therefore, that you have seen the last of us by any means but they will not be happening as often as they have been\".\n\nHe said all of the information on hospital admissions, death rates and the spread of the virus presented at the daily briefings would still be published on the government website.\n\nBut Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move, saying regular televised briefings should continue while the UK remained in an \"enduring emergency\".\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\nAnd acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said there needed to be the fullest scrutiny of government decisions at what was still \"an incredibly crucial stage\".\n\n\"It's almost like they don't want people asking questions,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe daily briefings started on 16 March, following criticism of a lack of transparency over government plans to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the time, the UK death toll from Covid-19 stood at 55 and the government had yet to introduce lockdown measures.\n\nThe total number of deaths currently stands at 42,927.\n\nMr Johnson led the first briefing, flanked by the government's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, and used it to urge the public to avoid going to pubs and non-essential travel, and work from home if they could.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM led the next four briefings, before handing over to a rotating cast of cabinet ministers, normally accompanied by scientific and medical experts.\n\nThe panel talked through slides on hospital admissions, deaths and the government's efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and then took questions from the media, via video conferencing.\n\nMr Johnson gave a televised address to the nation on the introduction of the lockdown on 23 March, and then limited his appearances at the daily briefings to major announcements.\n\nOn Sunday 24 May, he appeared at the daily briefing to defend his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, following revelations that he had driven 260 miles at the height of the lockdown.\n\nThe Saturday and Sunday briefings were scrapped shortly afterwards, due to low ratings.\n\nAt the end of April, the panel began taking two questions submitted by members of the public.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock led the most daily briefings, with 26 appearances, followed by Mr Johnson on 16.\n\nMatt Hancock holds the record for the most appearances\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab - who filled in for Mr Johnson when he was in hospital with coronavirus - led 12 briefings, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Business Secretary Alok Sharma and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick hosting six each.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak led five briefings - the same number as Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove. Environment Secretary George Eustice, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden appeared a handful of times each.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was the only female minister to take a turn at the podium, with three appearances.\n\nPriti Patel was the only female minister to appear at the podium\n\nIn recent weeks, ministers have increasingly been appearing on their own, without scientific or medical advisers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam last appeared at a briefing on 30 May, while Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, made her first appearance in more than three weeks on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A plume of dust and smoke blew up\"\n\nOne woman and two children have been seriously injured after a house was destroyed in an explosion in south Wales.\n\nNeighbouring properties and vehicles have been damaged in the blast at Seven Sisters in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nFourteen properties were evacuated following the incident on Church Road.\n\nBoth children were flown by air ambulance to Southmead Hospital, Bristol and the woman was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police said all three have suffered serious injuries.\n\nThe house has been destroyed by the blast, and neighbouring properties badly damaged\n\nA former firefighter was one of the first to get into the remains of the house and pulled the adult free.\n\nJeff Davies said he was one of \"three or four\" people who scrambled to remove rubble and debris to reach those inside.\n\n\"I could hear the woman screaming, I entered the property then and started moving debris out then to remove her.\n\n\"I actually pulled the woman out of the property.\n\n\"The house was demolished, flattened, the house wasn't safe.\n\n\"You don't think of that, you just think of someone trapped in there.\"\n\nHe said he understood the children were rescued from the front of the house.\n\nMr Davies said there was a small fire in the house as he began freeing the trapped woman.\n\n\"It is a bit surreal, I didn't stop to think about it,\" he added\n\n\"The young lady, the mother was trapped, I could see her.\n\nThe rescuer said the entire community had been shocked by the explosion and have been rallying around those forced to evacuate.\n\nA spokeswoman for South Wales Police said the cause of the explosion was being investigated.\n\n\"The road will remain closed overnight and diversions are being put in place.\n\n\"Around 14 properties have been evacuated and Neath Port Talbot council have opened a rest centre with full support for these residents,\" the police said.\n\nCommunity councillor Gary James said: \"We live further up in the village and all we hear is this massive bang and what happened then was a plume of dust and smoke blew up but then we were concerned personally whether people were in it.\"\n\nKirsten Alison Williams, who was visiting family nearby, said the explosion made their conservatory shake.\n\n\"My father-in-law rushed up the drive and saw people running across the road,\" she said.\n\n\"What shook me the most was a small, baby teddy bear was there laying on top of the car roof.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to the scene at 14:05 BST.\n\nUtility company Wales and West Utilities said it sent emergency engineers to assist.\n\n\"We are working with the emergency services to make the area safe and to investigate the cause of the explosion,\" said gas emergency service manager Sarah Burgess.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones thanked the emergency services for their swift response and said the council \"stands ready to offer whatever support is required\".\n\n\"My thoughts and those of my council colleagues are with those who were injured in the explosion,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that Seven Sisters is a close-knit community, and that many will be feeling a mixture of shock and sadness at this time.\"\n\nAir ambulances were sent to the scene after two children and an adult were hurt\n• None House roof destroyed after being hit by lightning", "West Bengal was going to ease its lockdown on 30 June Image caption: West Bengal was going to ease its lockdown on 30 June\n\nThe Indian state of West Bengal has extended its lockdown until 31 July to stem the spread of Covid-19 after a spike in infections nationwide.\n\nThe lockdown in the eastern state was supposed to expire on 30 June.\n\nBut as new infections continue to rise across the country, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, said it was necessary to keep restrictions in place to \"help the entire nation\".\n\nSchools, colleges and universities would remain shut as part of the continued curbs, but some relaxations would go ahead, the minister said.\n\nIndia's infections jumped by almost 16,000 to more than 456,000 on Wednesday, the highest daily rise in the country. The death toll stands at more than 14,000.\n\nThere have been 14,728 confirmed cases and 580 deaths in West Bengal.\n\nIn the capital Delhi, which reported a record daily increase on Wednesday with 3,788 new cases, soldiers have been deployed to assist medics in treating Covid-19 patients.\n\nMeanwhile, our India correspondent Soutik Biswas has looked into how Asia's biggest slum contained the coronavirus.", "The mothers say they are struggling to provide for their children\n\nFour single mothers have told the government they are seeking a judicial review into unpaid child maintenance.\n\nThe women said they wanted to \"challenge the persistent failure\" of the Child Maintenance Service.\n\nLatest figures show £354m is owed by absent parents, but less than 10% of that has been clawed back.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which runs the service, said anyone \"abusing the system at this difficult time\" could face prosecution.\n\nThe women, from Yorkshire, London, Surrey and the North West, said they were owed payments of between £2,000 and £8,000 dating back a number of years.\n\nThey have notified the DWP that they intend to seek a judicial review after they were left in \"financial difficulty and, in some cases, in poverty\".\n\nThe mothers are being supported by the charity Gingerbread and parenting website Mumsnet\n\nThey have told how they have to use food banks, take on credit card debt and rely on other people's generosity in order to keep their children clothed and fed.\n\nOne mother, who lives near Selby in North Yorkshire, said: \"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up.\n\n\"Birthday money sent to my boys by relatives is saved up and spent on necessities like school shoes, instead of them being able to have a little treat of their choosing.\n\n\"I go without so my children don't. I never go out, I never spend money on myself - I'd rather use the little we have so they can go on things like school trips. I don't want my boys to be stigmatised.\"\n\nOne mother says she is owed more than £8,000\n\nGingerbread, a charity which works with single parent families, said it was supporting the women in their legal action.\n\nAccording to the charity, the Child Maintenance Service has collected little over £30m through enforcement actions, which is less than 10% of what is owed to single parents across the UK.\n\nCharity chief executive Victoria Benson said: \"It is a child's legal right to be supported by both parents, and yet the service designed to protect this right is failing them.\n\n\"It simply cannot be right that a government service is responsible for leaving children of single parents in poverty.\"\n\nAccording to Gingerbread, there are about 1.8 million single-parent households. and about 90% of single parents are women.\n\nA spokesperson for the DWP said: \"No-one will get away with giving false information to avoid paying what they owe and all decisions carry rights of appeal, so either parent can dispute a decision.\n\n\"Those found to be abusing the system at this difficult time will find themselves subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers - including prosecution through the courts.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of Covid-related deaths recorded by National Records of Scotland (NRS) has declined for the eighth consecutive week.\n\nIn the period 15-21 June, 49 deaths were registered where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nMore than half of Scotland's local authority areas recorded no Covid-related death.\n\nDeaths from all causes in Scotland are now close to the five-year average for the same week of the year.\n\nThe total of 1,058 for the week is 39 above average.\n\nFor the first time in several weeks, a lower proportion of coronavirus deaths have taken place in care homes (41%) compared with hospitals (57%).\n\nAt the height of the Covid-19 crisis, care homes accounted for up to 60% of deaths.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland figures show that, as at 21 June, there had been a total of 4,119 deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned.\n\nNRS said most of the deaths were of older people, although the weekly death rate from all causes has returned to \"close to average\" in all age groups.\n\nSince 16 March, there have been 2,131 more deaths of people over the age of 85 than would have been expected in an average year.\n\nIn the age group 75-85, excess deaths were 1,629.\n\nThere has been no overall increase in the death rate for children under 14.\n\nThe local authorities with no Covid-related deaths in latest weekly figures are:\n\nSince the coronavirus outbreak began, the proportion of deaths associated with the virus has risen to a peak of 36%, before falling back to 5% in the most recent figures.\n\nCare homes have seen a total of 2,463 excess deaths.\n\nBut in hospitals, after an early peak, excess deaths have fallen significantly and are currently only 133 above the average for the three months from the middle of March.\n\nOutwith hospitals and care homes, there have been 2,329 excess deaths.\n\nNRS said cancer, circulatory deaths, and deaths from other causes were the most significant factors in these non-institutional settings.\n• None Covid death rates twice as high in deprived areas", "Terry Crews hosts America's Got Talent as well as starring in Brooklyn Nine-Nine\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews has said four new episodes of the police comedy were thrown \"in the trash\" in the wake of the death of George Floyd.\n\nCrews said the show would \"start over\" in light of the anti-racism protests.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a lot of sombre talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we're going to make something that will be truly groundbreaking this year.\n\n\"We have an opportunity and we plan to use it in the best way possible.\"\n\nCo-creator Dan Goor had four episodes \"all ready to go\" before Mr Floyd's death a month ago prompted widespread Black Lives Matter protests as well as soul-searching in society in the US and beyond, Crews said.\n\n\"They just threw them in the trash,\" he told Access Hollywood. \"We have to start over. Right now we don't know which direction it's going to go in.\"\n\nCrews (second right) with the rest of the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine follows the exploits of a team of detectives in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. In 2014 it won two Golden Globe Awards, including best TV comedy series.\n\nCrews did not give details of the content of the four scrapped episodes.\n\nThe actor and America's Got Talent presenter also recounted his own dealings with the police, saying police officers had pointed guns at him, mistakenly, before he became a well-known face.\n\n\"It's something that every black man has been through and it's hard to really try to get other people to understand,\" he said.\n\nThe 51-year-old said the momentum for change made it \"Black America's Me Too movement\".\n\n\"We always knew this was happening, but now white people are understanding,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this month, Goor and the cast made a $100,000 (£79,000) donation to the National Bail Fund Network to support \"the many people who are protesting police brutality\".\n\nActor Kendrick Sampson spoke at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles earlier this month\n\nMeanwhile, more than 300 black artists and executives - including Michael B Jordan, Idris Elba and Viola Davis - have signed an open letter calling on Hollywood to invest in black communities and stop the \"glorification of police corruption\" on screen.\n\nThe letter, published by Variety, was written by Insecure actor Kendrick Sampson, who was hit with police batons and shot with rubber bullets during the recent protests.\n\n\"The way that Hollywood and mainstream media have contributed to the criminalisation of black people, the misrepresentation of the legal system, and the glorification of police corruption and violence has had dire consequences on Black lives,\" it read.\n\nIt also demanded greater opportunities for black creatives off-camera and in senior management roles, as well as guaranteeing that marketing budgets were no longer slashed due to \"myths of limited international sales and lack of universality of Black-led stories\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stars of Queen & Slim both say they can relate to the film's story of police brutality and race\n\nThe letter noted how \"distribution and marketing processes are often marred, filtered, and manipulated by the white gaze\".\n\nThe open call comes in the same week that, in the UK, the BBC committed to investing £100m of its TV budget over a three year period to produce \"diverse and inclusive content\".\n\nTerry said the worldwide movement is a chance for deep and meaningful change.\n\n\"This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Car taxes should be increased to help fund the battle against climate change, government advisers say.\n\nThey say ministers should bring forward the date for ending sales of new conventional cars from 2035 to 2032.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says the chancellor should also consider increasing the tax on gas for home heating.\n\nIt says the changes should be made as the UK looks to recover from the Covid-19 crisis by creating jobs.\n\nThe CCC also recommends the country aim to cut carbon emissions as part of a “green recovery“.\n\nIt says the government has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change society for the better.\n\nA government spokesperson said that tackling climate change should be at the heart of the UK's economic recovery.\n\nBut the committee insists that ministers must send the right economic messages to consumers.\n\nThe CCC chair, Lord Deben, says it makes sense to raises fuel prices when the cost of oil is low - and use the proceeds to subsidise low-emissions vehicles.\n\nHe said: “It seems perfectly clear that we should increase the tax on the very low oil prices we have at the moment. We need to make people who choose the right way to do so cheaper than those who choose the wrong way.”\n\nThe committee was more cautious about increasing the price of heating gas, and Lord Deben said the poor must be protected from high prices.\n\nBut it said the Treasury’s forthcoming review of climate policies must tackle the issue, as home heating must shift from gas towards low-carbon alternatives.\n\nAnother sector in urgent need of investment is the cooling of people’s homes, the report says.\n\nAs much of the UK swelters, the CCC warns that elderly and sick people are vulnerable to overheating, with hospitals, care homes, prisons, and flats in the south of England particularly at risk.\n\nIt projects that annual heat-related deaths could more than double by 2050 to 5,000 – that’s even if emissions targets are achieved.\n\nIt says refurbishing homes would improve lives and reduce emissions whilst also creating thousands of “green” jobs.\n\nVentilation could be improved, sun-shading could be fixed to windows, and trees could be planted to cool the air and provide shade.\n\nThe report warns that the government will need to exceed its manifesto commitments on homes.\n\nIt also says the post-Covid-19 changes will require what’s known as a just transition’ for workers who’ll need to be re-trained from high-carbon to low-carbon jobs.\n\nThe report warns ministers against protecting jobs in polluting industries because that will lock in higher emissions in the long term.\n\nBaroness Brown of Cambridge, chair of the CCC’s adaptation committee, said: “Covid-19 has shown that planning for systemic risks is unavoidable.\n\n“We have warned repeatedly that the UK is poorly prepared for the very serious impacts of climate change, including flooding, overheating and water shortages. Now is the moment to get our house in order.”\n\nA Government spokesperson said: \"We agree that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic recovery.\n\n\"We were the first major economy to commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.\n\n\"We believe that the actions we need to achieve that target can help to deliver a stronger, cleaner, more sustainable and more resilient economy after this pandemic.\"\n\nThe CCC has been one of many organisations urging a green recovery. Some of them think help should be refused to struggling high-carbon industries such as aviation unless “green strings” are attached.\n\nAmong the voices is the employers’ organisation, the CBI, which said: “The need to act urgently on climate change will remain just as important as before the outbreak of coronavirus.”\n\nA report from the green think-tank ECIU said investing in low-carbon jobs can help to ”level up” the UK to benefit the so-called “Red Wall“ constituencies that proved pivotal in the 2019 General Election.\n\nAnd an overwhelming majority (79%) of Climate Assembly UK members – from many different backgrounds - said the government should support changes which help meet the UK’s net zero emissions target.\n\nThe prime minister has said he wants to invest in a greener UK and he’s expected to to offer some policy details in coming weeks.\n\nBenny Peiser, from the libertarian group the Global Warming Policy Forum, doubts that he’ll fully follow the committee’s advice.\n\nHe told BBC News: “Any policy that prioritises climate change policy over a rapid economic recovery would be suicidal for both the UK economy and the government. While Boris may talk the talk, he is unlikely to walk the walk.”\n\nThe committee is also criticised – from the opposite direction - by the authors of a report in the journal Climate Policy.\n\nResearchers concluded that planned UK emissions cuts are less than half as rigorous as needed for the country to contribute fairly towards restricting global climate heating to less than 2C.\n\nCo-author Prof Kevin Anderson told me: “The trouble is that the committee isn’t looking at what needs to be done – it’s looking at what it can say without being politically ignored. That’s very different.”", "As English hotels and other forms of accommodation prepare to reopen on 4 July, there is a \"frenzy\" of appetite for holidays, says one listings site.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis, who run the Independent Cottages website, say traffic in the past week has been 150% up on the same time last year.\n\n\"We're very excited and very busy,\" said Steve, adding that the lifting of restrictions on Tuesday was \"very welcome news\".\n\nBut he added that not all holidaymakers will get the accommodation they want.\n\n\"There will be a shortage of holiday cottages,\" he told the BBC. \"There are forward bookings to be honoured and there will be fewer properties available.\"\n\nIndependent Cottages has more than 1,800 properties on its books, with more than 1,500 of them in England.\n\nUnlike online travel agents, it does not take a percentage on bookings, but charges an annual listing fee and allows property owners to deal directly with holidaymakers.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis say demand for cottages is high\n\nSarah said travel industry guidelines on coronavirus allowed holiday lets to cope with back-to-back bookings.\n\nHowever, some holiday cottage owners were opting to leave two to three days between bookings to allow for thorough cleaning, further constraining the supply of accommodation.\n\n\"There's a lot to clean,\" she said. \"It's all very achievable, but some owners will feel that they want to leave a gap.\"\n\nOne issue that is still unclear is the question of accommodation for stag and hen parties and other mass gatherings.\n\nSuch occasions can bring together as many as 18 to 20 people from different households, all using shared areas.\n\n\"We're being asked about this a lot,\" said Sarah. \"The 2m rule isn't much of an issue in a self-catering cottage. but we don't know how many households are allowed.\"\n\nSelf-catering accommodation is ideal for helping people \"ease back to a new normal\" as lockdown restrictions are lifted, says another holiday provider, holidaycottages.co.uk.\n\nThe firm's chief marketing officer, James Starkey, welcomed the government's announcement, saying it gave would-be holidaymakers \"something to look forward to\".\n\n\"Self-catering accommodation by its very nature allows for natural social distancing, with people visiting holiday properties staying in self-contained units without having to use shared facilities,\" he said.\n\n\"Our owners already adhere to high standards of cleaning, but all have now been provided with additional information on cleaning best practice for before and after a stay.\"\n\nHotels, too, are busy preparing to open their doors to guests on 4 July.\n\nAccor, which operates 270 hotels in the UK, says it will be reopening them gradually. It hopes to have 90% of them back in business by the end of August.\n\nThose booking in will see plenty of changes. Restaurants and bars will be serving food and drink on a \"grab-and-go\" basis, while fridges in the rooms will not contain any mini-bar items.\n\nEvery other room will be unoccupied and rooms will be left empty for 24 hours after a guest checks out.\n\nThomas Dubaere, Accor's chief operating officer for Northern Europe, told the BBC Accor had been able to test its safety measures in other countries which had already eased lockdown.\n\nHe said guests were comfortable with the measures \"as long as we keep good service and a friendly smile\".\n\n\"They still get the service. It's just in a different way for the time being,\" he added.\n\nMr Dubaere welcomed the government's moves to allow hotels to reopen.\n\n\"We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nDomestic tourism will now most likely be operational in some form in all parts of the UK by 15 July - starting with self-catering in Northern Ireland from Friday.\n\nHolidaymakers will still have some concerns, not least the possibility of a local or national spike in coronavirus cases over the summer.\n\nAny new lockdown would mean a return to the refund or rebooking rights currently in place.\n\nThat gets more complicated if you are told, under the test and trace system, to self-isolate. Any refund rights would be subject to the terms and conditions when you book.\n\nThe traditional backstop of insurance (albeit less common among domestic travellers) may not help, unless you bought your policy months ago.\n\nCoronavirus is no longer an unknown event, so anyone buying travel insurance now is unlikely to be covered for any coronavirus-related delays or cancellations.\n\nSelf-catering holiday accommodation will open again on Friday in Northern Ireland, and hotels will follow on 3 July.\n\nA decision will be taken in Wales on 9 July on whether to open up the country to tourists again. If this is given the go-ahead, it's likely to take effect from 13 July.\n\nThe Scottish government has said that hotels and tourist accommodation may be able to reopen from 15 July at the earliest, if its next review of lockdown restrictions on 9 July decides that conditions are favourable.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents hotels and accommodation as well as other areas of the hospitality sector, said it greeted the government's relaxation of the lockdown restrictions in England \"with relief and praise\".\n\n\"The government has given due recognition to how hard hospitality has been hit by this crisis,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"Our sector was one of the first to be seriously affected and we are going to be one of the last to reopen.\" However, she added that government support would remain crucial.\n\n\"Many businesses have been closed for months with no revenue and are now facing substantial rent and PAYE bills,\" she said.\n\n\"We need financial help from the government, otherwise some of these businesses are going to go under right at the point at which they are allowed to open once again.\"\n\nAbta, the travel association, described the latest measures in England as \"a step in the right direction on the road to restarting travel in earnest\".\n\n\"However, the travel sector remains in a perilous state, with redundancies announced each week, and more needs to be done to help the whole sector recover,\" it added.\n\n\"We need a more comprehensive roadmap as soon as possible that includes timeframes for relaxing international travel restrictions too, so businesses and customers can plan ahead.\"\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister and Labour leader clashed over coronavirus contact tracing apps – and the fact that England does not have one yet.\n\nBoris Johnson said: “I wonder whether [he] can name a single country in the world that has a functional contact tracing app, because there isn’t one.”\n\nGermany’s public health body, the Robert Koch Institute, has tweeted to say the app has been downloaded 12.6m times since then.\n\nBut we haven't yet seen figures from the German government on how well it is performing and how many people have received an alert as a result.\n\nTwo million people downloaded it (although 460,000 have uninstalled it since) – according to figures from the French government.\n\nBut just 68 people used it to say they had Covid-19 and only 14 people have been traced and warned they are at risk of infection.\n\nA number of other countries around the world have also launched apps.\n\nYou can read more about manual contact tracing here.", "The US Defense Department has determined that 20 top Chinese firms, including Huawei, are either owned by or backed by the Chinese military.\n\nThe list, seen by US media, features video surveillance firm Hikvision, China Telecoms, China Mobile and AVIC.\n\nThe determination could lay the groundwork for new US financial sanctions against the firms.\n\nIt comes as the US has pressured other countries, including the UK, to bar Huawei for national security reasons.\n\nThe BBC understands that the list has been published in order to inform congressional committees, US businesses, investors and other potential partners of Chinese firms about the role such firms may play in transferring sensitive technology to the Chinese military. The list is also likely to grow.\n\nUnder US law, the Defense Department is required to track firms \"owned or controlled\" by China's People's Liberation Army that are active in the US.\n\nThe Pentagon has been under pressure in recent months from lawmakers of both the Democrats and Republican parties to publish and update the list.\n\nIn November, US senators Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, asking for an update on reviews of US policy that are mandated by the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 and the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.\n\nSenators Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton have called on the Commerce Department to investigate whether China has been stealing US technology with military applications\n\nIn the letter, the senators emphasised their concerns about the danger of exporting critical US technologies to companies with Chinese ties.\n\nThey also questioned why the Commerce Department had been slow to complete export-control reviews mandated by the two acts.\n\nThe senators stressed that reviews should be conducted to assess whether the Chinese Communist Party had been stealing US technology with military applications, as well as whether it had been enlisting Chinese corporations to harness emerging civilian technologies for military purposes.\n\n\"What is the status of this review and implementation of the results? Will this review determine specific sectors of the US economy that the Chinese are targeting for espionage and forced technology-transfer efforts? Will you modify the scope of controls for military end uses and end-users in China? Will you make the results of this review public?,\" wrote Mr Cotton and Mr Schumer.\n\n\"We urge you to conduct these mandatory reviews as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter of national security.\"\n\nThe White House already taken several steps against Huawei and other Chinese firms, including barring US companies from selling them certain technology without permission. The administration has also said its trade war with China, which resulted in billions of dollars worth of tariffs, was a response to theft of US trade secrets.\n\nBut it has faced calls by some in Washington to act more aggressively.\n\nHuawei has contested US claims against it as \"unsubstantiated allegations\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fire destroyed the roof of the house after the lightning strike\n\nA house has been set on fire after being hit by lighting.\n\nEmergency crews were called to the property on Porth Y Waun, Gowerton, Swansea, just after 18:00 BST.\n\nFirefighters from Gorseinon, Sketty and Swansea have been fighting the blaze.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the roof of the house was \"well alight\", but everyone in the building had been accounted for and there were no causalities.\n\nNeighbour Stuart Roberts said: \"My little girl went to the window and said there was smoke coming from a house down the road.\n\n\"It was horrific - it looked like it hit the TV aerial - one in a million that happening, it was a terrible shame.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised just after 18:00\n\nNo-one was hurt in the fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 24-year-old man who was paralysed after being Tasered by police last month has told the BBC he believes he was targeted because he is black.\n\nJordan Walker-Brown fell from a wall while being pursued by two officers.\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer is under criminal investigation by the police watchdog over the incident in London.\n\nIt will examine what role ethnicity played in decisions that day amid concerns about the disproportionate use of Tasers on black men.\n\nMr Walker-Brown has been told by doctors he will never walk again after being paralysed from the chest down during the incident on 4 May.\n\nHe was Tasered by a police officer as he fled and jumped onto a wall in Haringey in north London.\n\nHe fell from a height of around 2m (6.5ft) and landed on a concrete canal towpath, close to the water.\n\n\"I do not pretend to be anyone other than myself,\" Mr Walker-Brown told the BBC from hospital in a statement released through his lawyer.\n\n\"I ran from the police because I had a small amount of cannabis in my possession for personal use - and I had fresh in my mind the memory of a similar encounter with TSG [Territorial Support Group] officers only the previous day when I was mistreated, arrested and charged for possession of a similar amount of cannabis.\"\n\nHe said he believed he was targeted by police because he is black.\n\n\"I know that I would not have been the subject of police attention, on either day, if I had not been a young black man,\" he added in the statement.\n\n\"And I know, from my own personal experience as a young black man, that I always have to be very fearful of being alone with police officers in a police van: that is an experience to be avoided if at all possible for the sake of my own safety, as most black men know from their encounters with the police.\"\n\nJordan Walker-Brown has been told he will never walk again\n\nAccording to the Independent Office for Police Conduct's (IOPC) summary of events, seen by the BBC, Mr Walker-Brown was being followed by a police van when two officers got out and he started to run.\n\nThe officers chased him and both drew their Tasers and Mr Walker-Brown jumped onto a wall.\n\nOne officer discharged the weapon which fires two small dart-like electric probes to deliver a high-voltage electric shock.\n\nMr Walker-Brown fell over the wall and landed on a canal towpath, adjacent to the water.\n\nThe IOPC said this summary represents the information presently available. It added the veracity and accuracy of the information will be considered as part of the investigation.\n\nThe Home Office has previously said that Tasers \"are an important tactical option for officers facing violent situations\".\n\nMr Walker-Brown said in his statement that he recognises the law allowed the police to chase him as he tried to run away.\n\n\"But what they are not entitled to do is use a Taser on me when they knew that I did not pose any threat to them whatsoever. I was running away from them,\" he said.\n\nMr Walker-Brown has told his sister, Sharn, that he was handcuffed as he lay on the concrete and that officers were trying to make him stand up as he complained that he couldn't feel his legs or body.\n\nThe most recent figures for England and Wales showed, in the year up to March 2019, a black person was involved in nearly 20% of the incidents where a Taser was used. Black, African, Caribbean and black British people represent 3.5% of England's population, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe use of Tasers in the England and Wales data covers incidents where they are discharged and not discharged - a Taser can be drawn or aimed, for example, and no electricity is discharged.\n\nLast month, the director general of the IOPC, Michael Lockwood, called for greater scrutiny of Taser use and spoke of the growing concern about its disproportionate use against black men and those with mental health conditions.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Police Chiefs' Council is commissioning independent academic research to look at the issue.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We know that trust in the police is lower among some communities. We are listening to the national debate and we are reflecting carefully on our place in it.\n\n\"We are now also working towards developing a national plan of action to address wider concerns. This will be delivered with the help of all parts of the police service, and with the support and challenge of our communities - particularly from people of colour with lived experiences.\"\n\nTasers fire two small dart-like probes before delivering an electric charge\n\nThe IOPC investigation in the Jordan Walker-Brown case will examine, among other issues, whether his ethnicity influenced the officers' decision to stop, pursue and Taser him as well as the aftercare they provided.\n\nHis solicitor, Raju Bhatt, believes the watchdog should have carried out a longer investigation into other officers at the scene. He says he has been told they are now being treated as witnesses.\n\nThe IOPC said: \"It is standard practice to treat officers as witnesses. The evidence which emerges during the investigation may or may not change this.\"\n\nWith other members of the family Sharn, 28, now has to make future plans for her paraplegic brother and is contemplating the \"long road\" ahead.\n\nThey have been unable to visit Mr Walker-Brown in person due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We're going to have to find suitable accommodation, all those things,\" she said.\n\nMr Walker-Brown added: \"I have been told that I shall not be able to walk again because of what the police did to me, but I am determined to prove them wrong, just as I am determined to prove that the police are not above the law.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trevaile Wyse: \"I would not have been Tasered if I was white\"", "Nurseries are warning of \"mass closures\" which could leave parents struggling to find childcare when they return to work as the lockdown eases.\n\nEngland's early years providers have been operating at 37% of their capacity since early June when they were able to re-open, data analysts Ceeda has said.\n\nProviders will face huge losses if this continues at this rate, it said, and called for the government to step in.\n\nThe government said it protected early years staff with job retention scheme.\n\nChildcare providers were ordered closed during lockdown until 1 June.\n\nCeeda data, published by nursery sector body the Early Years Alliance, suggests nurseries are set to lose more than half their funding (55%) for every government subsidised three- and four-year-old place.\n\nFor every two-year-old place, they stand to lose 68%.\n\nAnd modelling suggests problems will continue even if parents start to send their children back in greater numbers.\n\nThere are predicted to be significant shortfalls even if occupancy rates rise to 65%.\n\nNurseries, pre-schools and childminders have been allowed to open to all children since 1 June.\n\nBut due to the lockdown, they have had significantly reduced parental demand.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the situation was \"simply not sustainable\".\n\nHe said: \"Even in areas where parental demand for childcare places remains high, providers are currently restricted on how many children they can care for under government guidance, which is going to place even more financial pressure on them over the coming months.\n\n\"The early years sector is at a crunch point, and unless urgent action is taken, we are going to see many, many more settings forced to close their doors over the coming months.\n\n\"This could mean chaos for parents - and particularly mothers - trying to access childcare in order to return to work at a time when the government is desperately trying to restart the economy.\"\n\nCeeda managing director, Jo Verrill, said there was much rhetoric on the importance of early education, adding: \"Now more than ever, this must be matched by investment, if we are to protect the country's vital early years infrastructure.\"", "Filmmaker Steve Bing took his own life, a coroner in Los Angeles has confirmed.\n\nBing, who had a son with actress Elizabeth Hurley, was found dead on Monday at the age of 55.\n\nThe LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office listed his cause of death as \"multiple blunt trauma\" and said the manner was suicide. The case is now closed, the coroner added.\n\nHurley has paid tribute to him, as have former US president Bill Clinton and Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nSir Mick, said it was \"so sad to hear of Steve Bing's passing\".\n\nThe star wrote: \"He was such a kind and generous friend and supported so many good and just causes. I will miss him very much.\"\n\nHurley remembered the producer and philanthropist as a \"sweet, kind man\".\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end.\"\n\nTheir son, Damian, 18, added: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nAt the age of 18, Steve Bing inherited a $600m property fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Clinton, having donated at least $10m to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\n\"I loved Steve Bing very much,\" the former president said.\n\n\"He had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in. I will miss him and his enthusiasm more than I can say, and I hope he's finally found peace.\"\n\nFor information and support on mental health and suicide, access the BBC Action Line.\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 Tennis\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic said he is \"so sorry\" after becoming the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.\n\nGrigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki all revealed they had coronavirus after playing at Djokovic's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic, 33, played fellow Serb Troicki in the first event in Belgrade.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Djokovic said it had been \"too soon\" to stage the tournament.\n\n\"I am so deeply sorry our tournament has caused harm,\" added Djokovic.\n\nHe said the tournament had been organised with \"a pure heart\", \"good intentions\" and a belief that they had \"met all health protocols\".\n\n\"We were wrong and it was too soon,\" Djokovic said.\n\nThe remaining Adria Tour events in Banja Luka and Sarajevo have now been cancelled Djokovic's brother Djordje, who is a director of the tournament, has confirmed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to all the events that happened in the last few days, we have decided that the most important thing right now is to stabilise the epidemiological situation, as well as for everyone to recover,\" he said.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray said the positive tests were a \"lesson for us\", while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing a \"bone-headed decision\".\n\nA statement on Djokovic's website said: \"Immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade [after the second event] Novak was tested along with all members of the family and the team with whom he was in Belgrade and Zadar. He is not showing any symptoms.\"\n• None Battle of the Brits - follow live coverage as Andy and Jamie Murray feature\n\nThere have been no ATP Tour events since February because of the global pandemic and the Adria Tour, which is not an ATP Tour event, was one of the first competitions to be staged since then.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nBulgaria's Dimitrov played Croatia's Coric on Saturday in the second leg in Zadar, Croatia.\n\nWith Croatia easing lockdown measures, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.\n\nPictures on the tournament's social media site from Friday showed Dimitrov playing basketball with Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic, while he also put his arm around Coric before their match.\n\nZverev, Cilic and Andrey Rublev, who also played in the Adria Tour, have tested negative, but suggested they will all now self-isolate for up to 14 days.\n\nThe ATP Tour season is set to restart on 14 August and the US Open will be held without fans from 31 August to 13 September, despite some players voicing concerns about travelling to New York.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case - Djokovic's statement\n\nThe moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested. My result is positive, just as Jelena's, while the results of our children are negative.\n\nEverything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions. Our tournament was meant to unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region.\n\nThe Tour has been designed to help both established and up and coming tennis players from south-eastern Europe to gain access to some competitive tennis while the various tours are on hold due to Covid-19.\n\nIt was born with a philanthropic idea, to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my heart to see how everybody strongly responded.\n\nWe organised the tournament when the virus had weakened, believing the conditions for hosting the Tour had been met.\n\nUnfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality we are learning to cope and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope it will not complicate anyone's health situation and everyone will be fine.\n\nI will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.\n\nDjokovic has been no stranger to coronavirus conspiracies throughout the pandemic. He revealed during a Facebook live in April that he opposes vaccinations. He said he \"wouldn't want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine\", should that be necessary to travel and compete in tournaments.\n\nHis comments fed into conspiracy theories about mandatory vaccinations that have been circulating on Facebook groups in recent weeks. That includes in one called \"Collective Action Against Bill Gates. We Wont Be Vaccinated!!\" - with over 160,000 members. The group, which promotes conspiracies about Bill Gates, praised Djokovic's comments and used them to justify false claims about vaccinations.\n\nA few days later, a video promoting conspiracy theories about 5G and coronavirus was shared by Djokovic's wife, Jelena. It was labelled by Instagram as false information.", "Oti Mabuse and Kelvin Fletcher were crowned the winners of the 2019 series\n\nStrictly Come Dancing will return to BBC One this autumn, but the 2020 series will be \"slightly\" shorter than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC said adjustments would be made \"to ensure we deliver the high standards audiences know and love\".\n\n\"The safety of our cast and crew is of the utmost importance to us,\" it said, promising updates \"in due course\".\n\nThe announcement follows news that this year's series of The Apprentice has been called off.\n\nThe BBC has not announced how long the 2020 series of Strictly will be and how many celebrities will take part. Strictly normally begins in September, and ends in mid-December.\n\nKevin Clifton and AJ Pritchard are leaving, but the line-up of professional dancers will otherwise remain the same.\n\nThey are set to start rehearsing remotely at the end of July and could be isolated along with key production members.\n\nHowever, it is not certain whether Bruno Tonioli will be able to combine his judging role with his duties on Strictly's US sister show Dancing with the Stars.\n\nThe two shows' shooting schedules typically coincide, necessitating numerous Transatlantic flights for the ebullient Italian.\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher won last year's final, having entered as a last-minute replacement for Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing.\n\nFletcher's victory alongside professional dancer Oti Mabuse marked the latter's first grand final triumph since joining the show in 2015.\n\nLaing may return to compete in this year's series, alongside such other rumoured contenders as former BBC Radio 1 presenter Maya Jama.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Israel could begin the annexation process next week\n\nMore than 1,000 parliamentarians from across Europe have signed a letter strongly opposing plans by Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe letter raises \"serious concerns\" about the proposals and calls for \"commensurate consequences\".\n\nMore than 240 signatories are legislators in Britain. The Israeli embassy in London declined to comment.\n\nThe publication of the letter in several newspapers comes a week before the annexation process could begin.\n\nAccording to a power-sharing deal which led to the formation of the current Israeli government last month, annexation can be put to a vote from 1 July.\n\nThe project is being led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking to extend Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank containing Jewish settlements.\n\nIf passed, the move could incorporate up to 30% of the territory - land claimed by Palestinians for a future independent state of their own.\n\nIsrael's incorporation of the settlements was given the green light under US President Donald Trump's Vision for Peace - a plan for ending the decades old Israel-Palestinian conflict unveiled in January.\n\nThe letter, sent to European foreign ministries, warns that unilateral annexation of West Bank territory could be \"fatal to the prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations\".\n\nIt is a sign of growing international pressure over the proposals which stem from President Trump's plan for the region, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nThe letter, signed by 1,080 parliamentarians from 25 countries, warns of the \"destabilising potential\" for the region.\n\nIts British signatories include the Conservative Party's former leader Lord Howard, former EU commissioner Lord Patten and Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, a former counter-terrorism minister who previously chaired the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee.\n\nIt is also signed by 35 members of Labour's current front bench, including shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy.\n\nThe former Labour leader Lord Kinnock is a signatory, as is former defence secretary and Nato chief Lord Robertson, as well as the Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge who campaigned against anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nEuropean names on the list include France's security subcommittee chair, Nathalie Loiseau, Vice-President of the European Parliament Fabio Massimo Castaldo, and Ireland's next Prime Minister, Míchéal Martin.\n\nThe letter was organised by a former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg, along with three other public figures in Israel among those who have traditionally supported the so-called two-state solution of a Palestinian state in the West Bank alongside Israel.\n\nIt says President Trump's plan promotes \"effectively permanent Israeli control over a fragmented Palestinian territory, leaving Palestinians with no sovereignty and giving a green light to Israel to unilaterally annex significant parts of the West Bank\".\n\nIt warns that allowing annexation to pass \"unchallenged\" would encourage other states with territorial claims to \"disregard basic principles of international law\". It stops short of explicitly calling for sanctions against Israel if the move takes place.\n\nIsrael's ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer wrote on Friday that Israel \"plans to extend sovereignty to territories that will remain part of Israel in any realistic peace agreement\".\n\nHe said Israel would not include territory the Trump plan designates for a future Palestinian state and would commit not to build settlements in those areas in the coming years.\n\nIsrael and the US describe the plan as a \"realistic\" two-state solution.\n\nMr Dermer added: \"We hope it will convince the Palestinians that another century of rejectionism is a losing strategy and that the Jewish state is here to stay.\"\n\nThe Palestinians oppose the Trump plan outright and have boycotted diplomatic relations with the US.\n\nSome 430,000 Jews live in over 130 settlements (and scores of smaller \"outposts\") built since Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war.\n\nThe settlements are widely considered illegal under international law, though Israel - and the US under the Trump administration - denies this.", "A crewless \"drone\" version of a boat that could help operations including search-and-rescue and drug raids has been launched by the Royal Navy.\n\nMore than £3m is being invested in the crewless Pacific 24 boat and other self-operated craft.\n\nBoats could be sent on individual missions or in groups, reaching speeds of up to 38 knots (nearly 44mph).\n\nThe Pacific 24 has been used in sea boat operations from Royal Navy warships for more than 25 years.\n\nIt is fundamental to a wide range of operations including life-saving, search operations, and the more mundane task of ferrying personnel and stores between ships or from ship to shore.\n\nHowever the new \"drone\" version of the Pacific 24 could provide a more streamlined way of carrying out these operations - and even open up some new types of missions.\n\nThe boats will be controlled from a parent ship, such as a frigate or destroyer.\n\nDefence Minister Jeremy Quin said: \"Commencing the trials of the crewless Pacific 24 boat is an important stepping stone in the Royal Navy's development of its autonomous capability to ensure our fleet remains at the forefront of military innovation and technology, ready to meet the evolving threats of modern warfare.\"\n\nThe crewless Pacific 24 is sponsored by NavyX, the specialist wing of the Royal Navy which trials cutting-edge technology for use on the front line.\n\nThe team has worked in partnership with BAE Systems, which builds the Pacific 24 in Portsmouth.\n\nIts potential will be tested when it begins trials with a Royal Navy warship later this year. This will determine whether the UK invests in a whole fleet, or just a few for specific missions.\n\nLt Cdr Rob Manson, of the NavyX team, said the autonomous Pacific 24 \"ensures the Navy remains at the forefront of technological improvement and innovation\".", "Emergency services were seen at a stretch of the river in Cookham\n\nPolice are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in the River Thames.\n\nEmergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to a stretch of the river in Cookham, Berkshire, at about 18:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was reported that a man had entered the water.\n\n\"Officers are working to locate the man, who was not seen to get out of the water,\" the force said in a tweet.\n\nPictures from the scene appear to show rescue workers, including fire crew rescue teams, in boats on the river.\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\nEarlier, South Central Ambulance Service tweeted to say that \"reports of three boys having drowned in this incident are not correct\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swissport is set to cut more than half of its UK workforce as air companies struggle with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe firm said it was consulting on cutting up to 4,556 jobs.\n\nChief executive Jason Holt said the company had to reduce the size of its workforce to survive.\n\nSwissport operates at airports across the UK, including Heathrow and Gatwick, which are among those badly hit by the crisis.\n\nAir travel collapsed around the world after governments imposed travel restrictions during coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nWhile some airlines are making plans to start flying some routes again as lockdowns lift, Swissport has said its revenue is forecast to be almost 50% lower than last year due to the crisis.\n\nMr Holt said in a message to staff: \"We must do this to secure the lifeline of funding from lenders and investors to protect as many jobs as possible in the UK and Ireland.\n\n\"It's true that we've seen tough times before - volcanic cloud, 9/11, the financial crisis - and we've weathered these. But this time it's different. We have never seen anything like Covid-19 in our lifetimes.\n\n\"We are now facing a long period of uncertainty and reduced flight numbers, along with significant changes taking place to the way people travel and the way goods move around the world.\n\n\"There is no escaping the fact that the industry is now smaller than it was, and it will remain so for some time to come.\"\n\nSwissport employs about 8,500 workers at airports, including baggage handlers and check-in staff.\n\nThe GMB union said the announcement was \"devastating news\", with jobs set to be lost that were essential for regional economies.\n\nUnions are warning that the government needs to step in to prevent the air travel industry from collapsing\n\nNadine Houghton, national officer of the GMB, said: \"With Swissport now considering job cuts on this scale, we have deep concerns about the viability of many of our regional airports and the benefits for regional connectivity that they bring.\"\n\nOliver Richardson, national officer of Unite, said: \"We can't wait any longer, the UK government needs to urgently intervene with a bespoke financial package and an extension of the 80% furlough scheme for the aviation industry.\"\n\nThe Unite union in Ireland confirmed that 287 workers at Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport face redundancy.\n\n\"This will be devastating news for these workers and their families. It is also entirely unnecessary - the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme remains in place - these workers could continue to be furloughed. There is no need for any job-losses at this time. This is a disgraceful move solely rooted in the need to secure corporate profits,\" said George Brash, Unite Regional Officer for Swissport workers in Belfast.\n\n\"It is now absolutely imperative that we see urgent action in both Stormont and Westminster to safeguard our aviation sector, its workforce and the future of regional airports.\"\n\nStaff at Swissport handle luggage after it's checked-in. They also de-ice and refuel planes and manage freight.\n\nThe company provides essential services for most UK airports and airlines.\n\nBack in April Swissport UK warned it would have to slash thousands of jobs if more government support for the aviation sector was not forthcoming.\n\nThis latest announcement demonstrates how the deep the damage to the aviation sector is.\n\nThe pandemic has hit aviation hard and airlines and airports have already announced plans to scrap tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nThe Department for Transport has consistently said that while the aviation sector is important to the UK economy, all firms, including aviation companies, should first explore existing government schemes and try to raise capital from investors before the government will consider the situation of individual firms.\n\nIndustry association Airlines UK responded to Swissport's announcement by repeating its call for targeted government assistance for the sector.\n\n\"The need for a stimulus package of measures for the industry is now even more vital,\" said chief executive Tim Alderslade.\n\nNext Monday, the government is expected to make an announcement on international travel corridors, which would allow people from the UK to visit selected countries without having to face a 14-day quarantine on their return.\n\nMr Alderslade welcomed that prospect, but added: \"The government needs to do much, much more to help a sector very much on its knees.\"", "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\nCouncils in England will be given an extra £105m to support rough sleepers put up during lockdown.\n\nThousands of rough sleepers were housed in hotels and B&Bs as coronavirus hit.\n\nBut councils and charities had called for help to ensure people did not have to return to the streets when hotels reopen on 4 July.\n\nDame Louise Casey, who leads the government's rough sleeping taskforce, said the funding meant nobody would need to return to rough sleeping.\n\nMore funds for drug and alcohol support services will also be brought forward.\n\nHowever the funding is not a long-term solution to homelessness. It is to act as a stopgap until longer term policies can be worked out later in the year.\n\nAt the start of lockdown, English councils were given days to move thousands of homeless people off the streets and out of shelters into self-contained rooms, many in hotels.\n\nThe government estimates that 14,500 people have been helped so far under the scheme that became known as 'Everyone In'.\n\nLast week, the BBC's The Next Episode podcast revealed that three quarters of homeless people in 17 areas were still in temporary accommodation, with some already sleeping rough again.\n\nCouncils and charities warned that more would soon join them if a proper solution wasn't found before hotels were allowed to reopen to the public from 4 July.\n\nThe government's rough sleeping taskforce said the new funding meant nobody needed to return to the streets\n\nNow, councils will be given a further £105m to support rough sleepers, for example by extending existing contracts with hotels, or starting new ones with other providers like universities or youth hostels.\n\nMost of this is new funding, with £20m taken from existing government homelessness budgets. It will be up to individual authorities to decide how to use that money.\n\nA further £16m of planned spending on drug and alcohol support for homeless people is being brought forward to this year.\n\nThe devolved governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will also receive extra money under the Barnett formula.\n\nCommunities secretary Robert Jenrick said the new funding would give homeless people \"access to the accommodation and support they need now while we continue with plans to deliver thousands of long-term homes in the coming months.\"\n\nThe efforts so far had created an \"extraordinary opportunity\" to end rough sleeping, said Louise Casey, chair of the Covid-19 rough sleeping taskforce.\n\n\"I am clear that there can now be no going back to the streets as people begin to move on from the emergency accommodation that has been put in place,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda, who was put up in a hotel, told 5 Live: \"We’re finding our own identities again now.\"\n\nBefore the announcements, several charities had warned of the urgent need for further support.\n\nPetra Salva, the director of rough sleeping services at homelessness charity St Mungos said \"conversations are starting to happen around exit planning - we've got weeks, at best some months to find alternative solutions.\"\n\nCllr David Renard, the Local Government Association's housing spokesman, said councils were pleased at the extra funding.\n\n\"Councils want to take this opportunity to change the lives of our most vulnerable residents and have already been working up plans to support people to move on from emergency accommodation.\"\n\nHowever, he said councils also wanted those rough sleepers with no recourse to public funds to be allowed to access welfare benefits, to ease the pressure on homelessness.", "\"Knowing he was taken from us in such a brutal way has left us devastated,\" say Cheriff Tall's family\n\nA man shot dead at a lockdown party had lobbied MPs on youth violence, a youth worker has said.\n\nCheriff Tall, 21, was one of two men killed by a lone gunman at the \"unplanned\" event in Manchester.\n\nAkemia Minott, who had known Mr Tall since he was six, said he had recently lost a close friend in a violent attack.\n\nThe experience had inspired him to travel to London to raise the issue, she said.\n\nMs Minott, a youth worker in Moss Side, where Sunday's event was held, said she felt \"extremely privileged\" to have known Mr Tall for 15 years.\n\nShe described him as being from a \"loving family\" and known to friends as the \"joker in the pack\".\n\nHe had \"been through so much in recent years\", she said.\n\n\"He's been to the Houses of Parliament with us, challenged MPs on what they're going to do about youth violence and how they are going to address situations,\" she said.\n\n\"Which is obviously incredibly sad when you look at what's happened.\"\n\nMr Tall's parents also paid tribute, describing him as a \"model son\" whose brutal death had left them devastated.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Cheriff was loved and respected by his brothers and sisters and to say they are broken is an understatement.\"\n\nRelatives said he was \"popular and well-liked\" with a \"strong sense of loyalty\" and \"would always try to help anyone who needed it\".\n\nHis parents said they were grateful for all messages of condolences and support but they had \"a long road ahead\" to try to come to terms with the death of their son.\n\nLola Ajose said her husband was an \"amazing man\" and \"an amazing father\"\n\nAbayomi Ajose, 36, was also gunned down at the event.\n\nHis widow Lola Ajose described her husband as \"the best man\" and an \"amazing father\".\n\nFather-of-three Mr Ajose, who was also known as Abi or Junior, worked for children's services at Manchester City Council.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is a rare and welcome moment to be able to say something positive about the treatment of Covid-19.\n\nUntil this week there was no medicine proven to save lives. Now we have dexamethasone, which cuts the risk of death for patients on a ventilator by a third, and for those on oxygen by a fifth.\n\nI seldom use the term \"breakthrough\", but it is worth it here.\n\nIt came about due to the persistence and single-mindedness of a small team at Oxford University, the co-operation of hospitals across the UK and the agreement of thousands of patients and their families.\n\nThe study that dexamethasone is part of is called Recovery - Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy. Clinical trials usually take months, even years to get under way and involve a few hundred patients. The Recovery trial was set up in nine days, and has recruited 11,500 Covid patients in 175 hospitals across the UK.\n\nSpeed was vital in order to catch the rising wave of hospital admissions here and to do so before doctors were overwhelmed.\n\nThe UK has had Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak with a terrible death toll. But that has also meant there were sufficient patient numbers here to create what is the world's biggest trial of Covid-19 treatments.\n\nThe trial is led by Prof Peter Horby, who had spent recent years looking at how best to prepare for and respond to disease X, an unknown pathogen that could cause a pandemic.\n\nHe told me he'd been frustrated that, during the last pandemic, of H1N1 swine flu, there was a \"massive failure to do proper drug trials\" and they emerged from it with \"zero evidence\" about whether any treatments actually worked.\n\nHorby and fellow lead investigator Prof Martin Landray were determined that would not happen with coronavirus.\n\nThey decided to keep the trial simple. They would test a small number of repurposed or experimental drugs and ask one question - do they cut the risk of death?\n\nOne of those drugs under evaluation in the randomised trial was low-dose dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory steroid which has been in use since the early 1960s.\n\nThis was considered risky. At the start of the pandemic, most international guidelines strongly discouraged the use of steroids for Covid-19.\n\nSteroids had been tried during outbreaks of two other deadly coronaviruses, Sars and Mers, with mixed results.\n\nDexamethasone is an immunosuppressive drug and there were fears it could make the illness worse, prolonging the infection, and increasing the likelihood of patients needing a ventilator.\n\n\"We had some senior doctors writing to us saying, 'You really shouldn't be doing this,' and that dampening down the immune system in patients trying to fight an infection was probably not a wise thing to do,\" says Landray. \"The reality was that nobody knew whether dexamethasone would be helpful or harmful.\"\n\nWhat was missing, until now, was a randomised trial which was big enough to reach firm conclusions. This meant that some of the patients received dexamethasone, and their life or death outcomes were compared to those who did not.\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, I have reported on global disease threats such as bird flu, swine flu, Sars and Mers - both coronaviruses - and Ebola. You could say I've been waiting much of my career for a global pandemic. And yet when Covid-19 came along, the world was not as ready as it could have been. Sadly, we may have to live with coronavirus indefinitely. Here, I will be reflecting on that.\n\nThe Recovery team was not expecting to release any results until July. But a week ago the data on dexamethasone came through.\n\nThe findings were so good that they spent the next few days trying to break them. Did they really stack up? Was the data robust? Only when convinced the results were genuine did they rush out the findings.\n\nThere are two distinct phases in coronavirus infection. Most people only undergo the first, where the virus invades the body and the immune system mounts an effective response.\n\nBut for a minority, the disease alters about a week after infection. The immune system begins to overreact and cause inflammation. At this point it is not the virus, but the body's own response to infection which causes damage in the lungs and beyond.\n\nFor some Covid patients the immune system can overreact and damage the lungs\n\nThe trial found that dexamethasone helped only those hospital patients who needed oxygen or were on a ventilator. It appears to dampen the immune response, giving the lungs a better chance to recover\n\nIt is not a magic bullet. On the Covid trial, 40 out of every 100 ventilated patients died. These were intensive care patients who were sedated and put on invasive ventilation, a machine that takes over your breathing for you. Dexamethasone reduced that number to 28, saving one life for every eight patients treated.\n\nFor those on oxygen 25 out of every 100 patients died, but the drug cut that to about 20 in a 100.\n\nThat is still a very high death toll. But it is a start and it will give hope to doctors, patients and their families. Better medicines may follow as a result.\n\nOvernight the drug became the standard of care and was given to all NHS Covid patients on oxygen or a ventilator. The World Health Organization called it a \"lifesaving scientific breakthrough\", not least because the drug is extremely cheap and used across the world for a range of conditions.\n\nThe results were greeted with some scepticism in the US, where several experts said they would only accept them once all the data had been published and peer reviewed.\n\nIn truth, top-line results of trials are often released at medical conferences, with full disclosure later. The Oxford team say they will publish the results within the next few weeks.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to be effective against Covid-19 is the antiviral remdesivir. It has been shown to cut the duration of symptoms by about four days. In a trial of about 1,000 patients, those who received it had a slightly lower risk of dying, but it was not statistically significant.\n\nRemdesivir, which was developed by the US pharma company Gilead Sciences, has been in short supply. It was excluded from the Recovery trial as there were not enough doses available.\n\nAlthough Gilead is donating millions of doses during the pandemic, at one point it will need to set a price for the drug. One thing is sure, it won't be as cheap or as widely available as dexamethasone.\n\nThe Recovery trial is also looking at another anti-inflammatory, as well as an HIV treatment, an antibiotic, and convalescent plasma from donors who've recovered from Covid-19.\n\nLast week the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was removed from Recovery after it showed no evidence of benefit. The WHO also halted its trials.\n\nProfessors Horby and Landray are keen to stress that the Recovery trial is a team effort, involving about 20 staff in Oxford. Add to them the 3,500 doctors, nurses, research and admin staff across the UK who made the trial happen, and finally, the patients, without whom no medical progress would ever be made. Those who were well enough were asked to give their consent, and only after this did they find out whether or not they'd be getting a drug. In most cases it was their families who had to make that decision. With no hospital visits allowed, this was a leap of faith made by loved ones at a time of maximum stress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\n\"I say to everyone involved that they should have a warm feeling about the results we are producing because this is how we advance medicine,\" says Prof Landray.\n\nThe NHS is uniquely well placed to conduct large randomised trials, not just during pandemics but across all chronic diseases. So there are lessons to be learned here that could ultimately help patients with heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and a host of other conditions. Faster, bigger and simpler sometimes is the way to go.", "The missing man is believed to have got into difficulty in a stretch of water called Lulle Brook\n\nA body has been found in the search for a swimmer feared drowned in the River Thames.\n\nThe man went missing on Tuesday in a stretch of water called Lulle Brook in Cookham, Berkshire.\n\nThe body of a man in his 30s was discovered at about 16:50 BST on Wednesday, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nThe death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious, the force said. Formal identification has not taken place.\n\nA second man in his 30s was pulled to safety and taken to hospital\n\nEmergency services were called on Tuesday after reports that two men swimming in the water had got into difficulty.\n\nA second man in his 30s was pulled to safety and taken to hospital where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nPolice said a third man who entered the water to help was unharmed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lola Ajose said her husband was a \"kind man\" and \"an amazing father\"\n\nA father-of-three was \"trying to keep the peace\" when he was shot dead with another man at a lockdown party in Manchester, his family have said.\n\nAbayomi Ajose, 36, and a 21-year-old were killed by a lone gunman in Caythorpe Street, Moss Side, on Sunday.\n\nMr Ajose, known as Abi or Junior, was at the party, attended by \"hundreds\" of people including a DJ, looking after a friend, his family said.\n\nPolice and community workers have appealed for help to catch the killer.\n\nLekan Oyekanmi said there had been a community event for children earlier in the day which his brother-in-law Mr Ajose attended with his family.\n\n\"Everyone had such a good time and wanted it to continue for the adults in the evening,\" he said.\n\n\"He [Mr Ajose] stayed on and was looking out for his friend who wasn't in the right frame of mind.\"\n\nLekan Oyekanmi said the shootings were a big shock\n\nMr Oyekanmi said the gunfire caused a stampede and after the second shot he saw two men on the floor, one of whom was his brother-in-law.\n\n\"I thought he was looking for his friend but whatever must have been going on - I know he was trying to keep the peace,\" he added.\n\n\"He was the peacemaker of everything.\"\n\nMr Ajose, who worked for children's services at Manchester City Council, was described by his family as a \"go-to\" person for people who needed help in the community.\n\nHis widow Lola said: \"He was a kind man, everyone loved him. He worked in children's services and was passionate about it.\n\n\"I couldn't do the job he does - he is just a natural. It takes a strong person to deal with vulnerable children like that.\"\n\nShe described her husband as \"the best man\" and an \"amazing father\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage showed hundreds of people at the party before the shootings at about 01:00 BST\n\nYouth worker Akemia Minott said the deaths brought a \"new layer of devastation\" to the Moss Side community but bringing the killer to justice would be \"part of the healing process\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police previously said finding the killer was \"our absolute top priority\".\n\nThe force said it did not break the party up because of \"public disorder\" fears.\n\nCandles and flowers were left at the scene in memory of the victims\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson announced further easing of lockdown measures on Tuesday\n\nHealth leaders are calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the \"real risk\" of a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nIn an open letter published in the British Medical Journal, ministers were warned that urgent action would be needed to prevent further loss of life.\n\nThe presidents of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Nursing, Physicians, and GPs all signed the letter.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would continue to be guided by the latest scientific advice and would give the NHS \"whatever it needs\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures show a further 154 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, taking the total to 43,081.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister said pubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers will be able to reopen from 4 July.\n\nThe 2m social-distancing rule will be replaced with a \"one-metre plus\" rule, meaning people should stay at least 2m apart where possible, but otherwise should remain at least 1m apart while taking steps to reduce the risk of transmission, such as wearing face coverings.\n\nThe 2m rule will remain in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, however.\n\nBoth the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and the chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty stressed Mr Johnson's plan was not \"risk-free\" at Tuesday's final daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing.\n\nFollowing the announcement, health leaders called for a \"rapid and forward-looking assessment\" of how prepared the UK would be for a new outbreak.\n\n\"While the future shape of the pandemic in the UK is hard to predict, the available evidence indicates that local flare-ups are increasingly likely and a second wave a real risk,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Many elements of the infrastructure needed to contain the virus are beginning to be put in place, but substantial challenges remain.\"\n\nThe authors of the letter, also signed by the chair of the British Medical Association, urged ministers to set up a cross-party group with a \"constructive, non-partisan, four nations approach\", tasked with developing recommendations.\n\n\"The review should not be about looking back or attributing blame,\" they said, and instead should focus on \"areas of weakness where action is needed urgently to prevent further loss of life and restore the economy as fully and as quickly as possible\".\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the liaison committee, told BBC Two's Politics Live he supported a \"lessons learned\" enquiry and had broached the subject with the government following the BMJ letter.\n\nHe said it wasn't a \"full-blooded inquiry but \"about setting up a process that learns lessons\".\n\nHe said: \"If you look at the papers the Cabinet Office had going into this [pandemic], there was nothing about massive PPE procurement; there was nothing about massive tracking and tracing and testing; there was nothing about a lockdown.\n\n\"This has turned out to be a massively different pandemic than the government was prepared for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett that he did not think it was the right time for a public inquiry, which would take up a lot of ministerial time. But he thought there was a \"very real risk\" of a second wave.\n\nPointing to an outbreak at a meat processing plant in Germany and South Korea having to trace 1,700 contacts after an incident at a nightclub, he said: \"In the places which are the best in the world they are dealing with these spikes and we have to recognise there is a very real risk of that here too.\"\n\nTalk of a dreaded second wave will dominate the coming weeks and months.\n\nThe UK will need to be prepared for one. But as the health leaders acknowledge, it's not possible to predict for sure if one will actually happen.\n\nWhat is certainly a given, is there will be local flare-ups where we see clusters of infections in places. This has already happened in Leicester, Anglesey and Cleckheaton.\n\nBut what is important to recognise is that the UK is in a completely different position to where it was in March when the first wave hit.\n\nTesting capacity has gone from a few thousand a day to 200,000 to identify those infected. There is a network of contact tracers to find those that might be infected.\n\nThere are still weaknesses - some tests take too long to turn around, while the tracing system is still bedding in and the app is not ready.\n\nBut there is a realistic chance if these continue to improve and, importantly, the public keeps playing its part by both continuing to adhere to social distancing and complying with requests to self-isolate if they test positive or are identified as a close contact of an infected person, that the virus will be largely kept at bay.\n\nRead more analysis from Nick here.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"Thanks to the dedication of NHS staff, hospitals have not been overwhelmed and intensive care capacity continues to meet the needs of patients.\n\n\"Effective local management of any outbreak is the first line of protection against a second wave. In the event the local response is not sufficient to contain outbreaks, the government would reintroduce measures if necessary to contain the virus and stop it spreading to the wider population.\"\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said he did not believe there was \"a risk of a second peak of infections that might overwhelm the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is cheered as he announces English pubs can reopen from 4 July\n\nAnnouncing the biggest easing of lockdown yet, he said two households in England would be able to meet indoors and stay overnight - with social distancing.\n\nHe warned all the steps were \"reversible\" but confirmed the following venues could reopen:\n\nSome other venues will remain closed by law, including nightclubs, casinos, indoor play areas, nail bars and beauty salons, swimming pools and indoor gyms.\n\nThose businesses set to reopen in 10 days' time have been given government guidance on how they can operate as safely as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors determine a potential second wave of Covid-19 infections?\n\nIt comes as struggling retailers must pay their quarterly rent to landlords on Wednesday.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced an updated route map for leaving lockdown with five-mile travel restrictions to end on 3 July and the reopening of self-catering accommodation.\n\nFrom 6 July outdoor hospitality areas such as beer gardens will be able to open. People will be able to meet indoors from 10 July.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds, who attends Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) meetings, said the switch to \"one metre-plus\" restrictions, plus the reopening of pubs and restaurants, meant a risk \"transmission will take off again\" and the Test and Trace system had to be \"working well\" to stamp out infections.\n\nBoth Labour and Mr Hunt are calling for NHS staff to be tested every week for coronavirus so that patient waiting list backlogs can be safely cleared.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the relaxation of lockdown measures and Covid-19?\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.", "Several hosts said they had found gas cannisters, used for taking laughing gas, in their properties\n\nLockdown parties hosted in properties booked via online sites, including Airbnb and Booking.com, are putting \"communities at risk\", the Bed and Breakfast Association has said.\n\nHosts and residents have complained of groups of up to 30 breaking social-distancing rules and taking drugs.\n\nBBC News has been told of several such parties in the past month.\n\nAirbnb said it had gone further than its rivals to protect public health during the pandemic.\n\nHowever, last week a man was stabbed at a party in a south London property police believe had been rented out via the platform.\n\nFollowing a previous BBC News investigation into \"coronavirus retreats\", Airbnb had told users they could make bookings only if they were key workers or required “essential stays”.\n\nBut that restriction is to be lifted, in line with local rules on hotels and self-catering accommodation, in:\n\nRival platform Booking.com does not currently flag such limits.\n\nEvidence of drug taking was found at one property\n\n“While B&Bs and guest houses have been closed since 23 March, it seems these giant platforms have allowed bookings to be made and enabled the so-called 'lockdown parties', which have put guests, hosts, neighbours and communities at risk,” Bed and Breakfast Association chairman David Weston said.\n\n“It is about time these global platforms took some responsibility for the safety of their guests, their accommodation and showed some respect for local communities.”\n\nAlthough the BBC saw evidence that some of the bookings involved were made via Airbnb, the hosts involved asked that their details not be shared with the company.\n\nAs a result, the platform said it had seen no evidence to connect the incidents with its business.\n\n\"We have zero tolerance for illegal activity and Airbnb is the only platform to limit all UK bookings to essential travel for key workers until restrictions are lifted,\" the company said.\n\n\"We also explicitly ban party houses and our neighbourhood support tool enables anyone to contact us with concerns about a listing in their community, and we take action on issues brought to our attention.\"\n\nBooking.com did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nDarya Simanovich, who runs Chelsea Creperie but rents out a property on both Airbnb and Booking.com for extra income, said it had been “trashed” many times since lockdown began, at the end of March, by guests posing as key workers, who had turned out to be organising illegal parties.\n\n“I wasn’t able to meet the guest because of restrictions,\" she said of one instance.\n\n“But because I live above the property, I saw lots of people going in, with music playing.\n\n\"So I had to ask them to leave.\n\nMs Simanovich said she had found the detritus left behind by some guests\n\n“Letting out your home is all about trust.\n\n“It’s hard to think people are breaking the rules, especially when hosts have lost income.\n\n“I don’t think the new guidelines will change anything.\n\n\"People will still bend the rules.”\n\nDanial Abbas, who also hosts a flat on both platforms, said a group of more than 10 people held a party there until 04:00 BST last week.\n\n“I’ve had no problems at all until lockdown,” he said.\n\n“It’s disappointing that people would flout the rules and create disruption at a time when people are already feeling unnerved.\n\nAnother host, who asked to remain anonymous, had a group of younger adults partying in her property.\n\n“They’re less at risk,\" she said.\n\n\"They feel hard done by, as lockdown measures are largely for older people.\n\n“They feel like they’re missing out, so don’t care if they break the rules.”\n\nNext month, people in England are allowed to meet indoors in groups of up to two households.\n\nBut there is concern this will be difficult to enforce in short-term lets.\n\n“The guidance as it stands is unenforceable,” Holiday Home Association chief executive Martin Sach said.\n\n“It’s too complicated and not law.\n\n\"So self-catering owners aren’t able to police this.\n\n\"You can’t verify the relationship of your guests.”\n\nMerilee Karr, who chairs the UK Short Term Accommodation Association, which represents short-term rental businesses, including Airbnb, said people should have made bookings only if they had legitimate reasons to do so, such as being a key worker or needing hospital treatment.\n\n“We have been vigilant and very strict about taking bookings during lockdown and have openly opposed anyone breaching the guidelines,\" she said.\n\n\"We totally disapprove of anyone that has falsely booked accommodation to hold an activity that falls outside of the government guidelines and take action where this would be discovered.”\n\nA neighbour to a rental property, who asked to remain anonymous, told BBC News: \"I live in a quiet area in London.\n\n\"But since the lockdown, and in the last four weeks, there have been four parties in my street.\n\n\"You can spot them right away.\n\n\"They only stay for one night, arrive in groups of up to 20 people, coming in and out of the house.\n\n\"I’ve been kept up all night by the loud music that has played until 05:00.\n\n\"And you can see and smell evidence of drug-taking.\n\n\"When it happens, I’ve wanted to knock on the door and confront them.\n\n\"But I have no idea who these people are, which can be scary and threatening, especially when we aren’t meant to be in crowds.\n\n\"It’s happening because people don’t have anywhere else to go at the moment.\n\n\"And they want to drink and socialise.\n\n\"Action needs to be taken.\n\n\"It’s not right to have a party house in the middle of a residential area, especially during a pandemic.\"", "Scientist David Wails, 49, US citizen Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and history teacher James Furlong, 36, were killed in the knife attack\n\nA parliamentary assistant tried to save the lives of three men who were stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were killed in the knife attack in Reading's Forbury Gardens on Saturday.\n\nJames Antell, who works for West Dorset Conservative MP Chris Loder, used his shirt in an effort to stem their bleeding.\n\nHe said he had been \"shaken\" by the attack which was \"all a bit of a blur\".\n\nPolice are continuing to question Khairi Saadallah, 25, who has been arrested under the Terrorism Act. He came to the UK from Libya in 2012.\n\nJames Antell has been praised for his \"remarkable and extraordinary effort\"\n\nMr Antell said: \"I tried my very best to identify where the injuries were and took my shirt and tried to apply pressure.\n\n\"It was certainly a big relief when the police did arrive to those of us that were with the victims.\"\n\nHe said he still felt \"a little bit shaken\" by the \"hideous and callous\" attack, but added his overriding thoughts were with the victims, including three people who needed hospital treatment for injuries, and their families.\n\n\"It's all a bit of a blur - I was concerned for my safety and for the safety of others around,\" Mr Antell said.\n\n\"As much as this is a story of terror and violence and hate, it also exemplifies the bravery and resilience of the public.\n\n\"Looking back I was heartened by the response from members of the public and the emergency services and the wider Reading community who in the hours afterwards were providing sanctuary and doing all that they could to help.\"\n\nMr Loder said in the Commons that he was \"extremely proud\" of his parliamentary assistant for his \"remarkable and extraordinary effort\".\n\nHe told MPs Mr Antell \"ran courageously towards danger, his only focus to help the injured\".\n\nReading Borough Council has announced it plans to create a permanent memorial in Forbury Gardens to 49-year-old scientist Mr Wails, US citizen Mr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and 36-year-old history teacher Mr Furlong.\n\nThe authority said it would work with the victims' families and the community to create a memorial \"where people can pay their respects to those who lost their lives, and everyone affected by the tragic events\".\n\nIt added it would share its plans \"over the coming days and weeks\".", "The CrossFit fitness plan was developed by Greg Glassman\n\nCrossFit owner Greg Glassman has sold his fitness company, after stepping down as chief following outcry over remarks he made about George Floyd.\n\nThe comments, in which he asked why he should mourn for Mr Floyd, had prompted athletes, gyms and sportswear firms to cut ties with the business.\n\nIncoming owner Eric Roza, a tech executive and co-founder of a successful CrossFit gym, said he would be \"working hard to rebuild bridges\".\n\nTerms of the deal were not disclosed.\n\nThe value of the Crossfit business, which is based on a branded exercise regimen focused on high intensity workouts, has previously been estimated at about $4bn (£3.1bn). It is affiliated with about 13,000 gyms in 158 countries worldwide.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eric Roza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"In the past weeks, divisive statements and allegations have left many members of our community struggling to reconcile our transformative experiences in the local box with what we've been reading online,\" said Mr Roza, a former Oracle executive who is now working for US venture capitalists General Catalyst.\n\n\"My view is simple: Racism and sexism are abhorrent and will not be tolerated in CrossFit.\"\n\nIn early June, Mr Glassman had courted controversy by responding to a public health body on Twitter that was saying racism was a public health issue.\n\nMr Glassman tweeted: \"It's FLOYD-19\", an apparent reference to the coronavirus.\n\nHe followed it up with a second tweet saying: \"Your failed model quarantined us and now you're going to model a solution to racism? George Floyd's brutal murder sparked riots nationally.\"\n\nHe also called an affiliate \"delusional\" for questioning why CrossFit had been silent on the killing in Minneapolis.\n\nHours before posting the fateful tweets, Mr Glassman had told gym owners on a private Zoom call that was leaked to reporters: \"We're not mourning for George Floyd - I don't think me or any of my staff are.\n\n\"Can you tell me why I should mourn for him? Other than that it's the white thing to do.\"\n\nThe comments prompted affiliate gyms to drop CrossFit branding and were rebuked by athletes, as well as Adidas-owned Reebok, which said it was ending its partnership with the brand. The backlash set off further reports that alleged incidents of sexism at the firm.\n\nIn a statement this month announcing his retirement, Mr Glassman acknowledged that he had \"created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members\".\n\nHe added: \"I cannot let my behaviour stand in the way of HQ's or affiliates' missions. They are too important to jeopardise.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, in its announcement of the new owner, CrossFit shared a statement from Mr Glassman, which said it was \"time\" for him to move on.\n\n\"The world has changed but the magnificent human machine, the proven benefits of CrossFit, and its market opportunity remain unchanged,\" he said.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Glassman's retirement was the latest corporate fallout from the protests set off by George Floyd's death in the hands of police, which have reignited discussions of racism and prompted many firms to speak out.", "Screens between customers are among the safety measures suggested for hairdressers\n\nMusic should be kept quiet and customers encouraged to order through apps, under updated guidance for businesses reopening from 4 July.\n\nPubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers are among the venues which will be allowed to reopen in England.\n\nThere is also advice to reconfigure seating, minimise self-service, cancel live acts and stagger arrivals.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown, including a relaxing of the 2m rule.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures show a further 154 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, taking the total to 43,081.\n\nThe updated government guidance includes some general advice for all businesses as well as guidance for specific sectors.\n\nIt says businesses should carry out a Covid-19 risk assessment to ensure the safety of their workplace, which should be shared on their website, and also develop cleaning and hygiene procedures.\n\nGuidance for close contact services such as hairdressers says employees should wear a visor where it is not possible to maintain distance and customers could also be separated from each other by screens.\n\nPlaces like pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers are asked to keep a temporary record of customers and visitors for 21 days, to support the test and trace system.\n\nPubs and restaurants should keep music at a low volume to avoid people needing to shout, which increases the risk of transmission from tiny droplets in the air, known as aerosols.\n\nCustomers will be encouraged to book in advance and order food and drink direct to their tables through a smartphone app.\n\nPubs are among the venues which will be allowed to open in England from 4 July\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he expected people to continue to use \"common sense\" and follow government guidelines.\n\nBut he said there was a \"legal duty\" for businesses to keep their employees safe and the Health and Safety Executive could take action if not.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of trade union body the TUC, said the more the government relaxes lockdown \"the tougher it needs to get on health and safety at work\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it should be a legal requirement for employers to publish risk assessments on their website, adding too many companies were \"not doing the right thing\".\n\nAdam Regan, who runs the Hare and Hounds pub in Birmingham, said the guidelines were \"very, very difficult to navigate safely\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live extra staff would be needed to monitor entrances and serve tables, while some customers might not be comfortable giving their contact details on arrival.\n\nMr Regan said another concern was that people would become more relaxed and less conscious of social distancing after drinking alcohol.\n\nMike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said while there was \"a lot to welcome\" in the guidance, \"ideally, small firms would have been given weeks rather than days to prepare for their reopenings\".\n\nHe said the new measures would also bring extra costs for companies and called for government support to help businesses which could not afford to reconfigure their premises.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that while he supported the easing of the lockdown, a more effective test and trace system was needed for the plan to work safely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is cheered as he announces English pubs can reopen from 4 July\n\nIn the biggest easing of lockdown yet, Mr Johnson also said the 2m social-distancing rule would be replaced with a \"one-metre plus\" rule in England.\n\nThis means people should stay at least 2m (6ft) apart where possible, but otherwise should remain at least 1m apart while taking steps to reduce the risk of transmission, such as wearing face coverings.\n\nThe 2m rule will remain in Scotland and Wales. In Northern Ireland, ministers have said social distancing of 1m is \"safe and appropriate\" for children at school.\n\nAnnouncing the changes on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said the following venues would be able to reopen from 4 July:\n\nSome other venues will remain closed by law, including nightclubs, casinos, indoor play areas, nail bars and beauty salons, swimming pools and indoor gyms.\n\nIt comes as struggling retailers must pay their quarterly rent to landlords on Wednesday.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said in a tweet that the government's \"aspiration\" was to reopen gyms and leisure facilities in England in mid-July.\n\nHowever, Mark Sesnan, chief executive of Greenwich Leisure, which runs leisure centres for councils across the country, said he was \"shocked and disappointed\" that such sites would not be allowed to reopen on 4 July.\n\n\"We had been led to believe that we would be,\" he told the BBC, adding that the company had \"incurred quite a lot of expense\" getting facilities ready.\n\nHe said most swimming pools and sports halls were \"very large spaces\", making social distancing easier. Scientists also say chlorinated water should kill the virus.\n\nThe Betting and Gaming Council said it was \"inconsistent and frankly nonsensical\" that casinos were not able to reopen along with other parts of the hospitality industry.\n\n\"Casinos have done everything that they were asked to do by the government and they have pulled out all the stops to ensure they are able to open their doors safely for both staff and customers from 4 July,\" chief executive Michael Dugher said.\n\nMr Sharma said he understood the \"frustration\" of businesses that were not yet allowed to reopen but \"the proximity that you have to someone in some of these closer settings\" posed \"a greater risk\".\n\nIn Scotland, outdoor hospitality areas such as beer gardens will be able to open on 6 July, while shopping centres, holiday accommodation, hairdressers, pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen on 15 July.\n\nThere is not yet a date for when pubs and restaurants might reopen in Wales, although the government has said discussions on a potential phased reopening will be held in July.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, hotels, pubs and restaurants can reopen from 3 July.", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth, prosecutors say.\n\nHe is accused of attacking the women between 2014 and 2019. The alleged victims were aged between 25 and 46.\n\nThe 67-year-old is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in more than 2,000 films dating back to the 1970s.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 90 years behind bars. He denies the charges.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, stands accused of raping a 25-year-old woman at a house in West Hollywood, according to a statement from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.\n\nHe allegedly sexually assaulted two women, ages 33 and 46, on separate occasions at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, the district attorney said. He also is accused of raping a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.\n\nA separate case from 2016 was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nMr Jeremy's attorney Stuart Goldfarb told AFP news agency the charges were a \"surprise\". \"He is not a rapist,\" he said.\n\n\"Ron - over the years, because of who he is - has essentially been a paramour to over 4,000 women,\" he said.\n\n\"And to allege that he is a rapist is beyond... I mean, women throw themselves at him.\"\n\nMr Jeremy appeared in court Tuesday, wearing handcuffs and a face mask, but did not enter a plea.\n\nA judge delayed his arraignment until Friday and set his bail at $6.6 million (£5.27 million).\n\nDante Rusciolelli, Mr Jeremy's manager, told US media he was dropping the actor as a client.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos, including for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren and LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.\n\nThe mayor of Oaxaca sad that that one person is known to have died. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged people to stay on their guard in case of further tremors.", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBlackpool Airport has suspended banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium on Monday night.\n\nThe banner was flown over the stadium during Manchester City's 5-0 win over Burnley.\n\nIn a statement, manager Stephen Smith said the airport and Blackpool Council are \"outraged by this incident\".\n\nBurnley say they are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by the banner.\n\nBlackpool Airport says the incident was reported to police and the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nChief superintendent Russ Procter said Lancashire Police had investigated the incident but \"concluded that there are no criminal offences that have been disclosed at this time\".\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said his organisation condemned the incident.\n\nBlackpool airport statement read: \"We stand against racism of any kind and absolutely do not condone the activity, the message was offensive and the action reprehensible. The decision to fly the banner was taken entirely by the banner flying company without the knowledge or approval of the airport or Blackpool Council.\n\n\"Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator's discretion.\n\n\"Following an emergency review this morning, Blackpool Airport will suspend all banner towing operations at the airport with immediate effect and we would suggest that other airports should also consider this approach in light of what has happened at Blackpool.\"\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments before the aircraft circled over the stadium.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We're ashamed, we're embarrassed. It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nIt is understood that the stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and runs a one-stop shop where they make the banners and fly them. They have flown over football stadiums in the past, including a 'Moyes Out' one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not 'take sides' and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nThe Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic; players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitnesses said a garage door was sent flying across the street in the explosion\n\nA man has died in an explosion at a garage in a \"quiet\" residential street in south Wales.\n\nGwent Police said it received reports of an explosion at a garage in the Coed Camlas area of Pontypool, Torfaen, at about 11:10 BST on Monday.\n\nOfficers have confirmed that a man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police cordon around the area has been extended, with fire and ambulance teams also at the scene. Engineers have already ruled out a gas explosion.\n\nIn a statement Gwent Police said the cause of death and formal identity were still being established.\n\n\"At this moment in time it is too early to confirm whether the death is suspicious,\" said a force official.\n\n\"Emergency services including South Wales Fire and Rescue and South Wales Ambulance are currently on the scene and will remain for the rest of the day.\n\n\"As there has been significant damage caused to the premises, a cordon is still in place.\"\n\nInvestigations into the cause of the explosion are ongoing\n\nWitnesses described the garage doors being \"blown off\" and drain pipes meltin\n\nOne eyewitness described \"a boom\" and said the \"garage was gone\".\n\n\"I heard a loud noise, first it was a bang and then it was a boom, then the house sort of shook,\" said neighbour Pauline McKane.\n\n\"It was just ablaze, it was unbelievable. Within minutes, the garage had gone.\"\n\nAnother resident said the garage door at the property had been blown across the street.\n\nNeighbour Annette Jackson was at home in the street when the explosion happened\n\nNeighbour Annette Jackson said it was a quiet street with most people working when she heard the blast.\n\n\"I was at the back of the house in the garden and I heard a loud explosion and I came running out,\" she said.\n\n\"You could see the flames coming out of the garage - about 5ft high in the air - and lots of black smoke.\"\n\nOne couple, who did not want to be named, said the explosion had damaged their son's property, next door to where the garage explosion happened.\n\nPolice have cordoned off part of Coed Camlas after the explosion\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service has sent an additional engine and an aerial platform to the incident.\n\nAn official at Wales & West Utilities said they had also sent an engineer to the scene.\n\n\"The explosion was not related to the mains gas network,\" said Steve Williams, the gas emergency services manager for the utility firm.", "Scotland will not immediately follow England in cutting the 2m social distance rule, the country's first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she would give an update on Wednesday on the country's lockdown easing restrictions.\n\nBut she said there would be no decision on whether or not to reduce the 2m rule until her Scientific Advisory Group has examined the evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be done by 2 July at the latest.\n\nThe first minister was speaking as Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted an array of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"long national hibernation\" was coming to an end as he announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England.\n\nThe 2m social distancing rule will also be eased from that date, although a \"one metre plus\" rule will be introduced.\n\nThe new guidelines in England will see people encouraged to use \"mitigation\" such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face when within 2m of each other, and \"where it is possible to keep 2m apart, people should\".\n\nThe prime minister said it was each nation's own responsibility to make their own lockdown restrictions, but that all parts of the UK were now \"travelling in the same direction\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing in Edinburgh that she would be \"very interested\" to see the scientific evidence upon which the UK government had based its decision.\n\nThe first minister, like Mr Johnson, has been under pressure from the tourism and hospitality sector, as well as many other businesses, to relax the distancing rules to make it easier for them to reopen.\n\nIt would also make it easier for pupils to return to the classroom without the need for part-time \"blended learning\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will outline further details of the lockdown easing plans on Wednesday\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was under no illusions about the potential economic benefits - but stressed that easing the rules also brought a greater risk of the virus spreading.\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government is clear that the advice and evidence we have right now supports physical distancing at 2m in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission.\n\n\"But we have asked in what settings, what circumstances and with what additional mitigation it might be possible to accept the risk of people not keeping to a 2m distance.\n\n\"That advice will be available by the 2nd of July. Until then the position here in Scotland remains the same, we are advising people to maintain 2m physical distancing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw accused Ms Sturgeon of following a \"go-slow\" approach that risked leaving Scotland behind both economically and socially.\n\nHe added: \"It will be very difficult for people here to look on as England, and indeed the rest of Europe, begins a return to normal.\n\n\"It will also be very costly for businesses, industries like tourism and hospitality, and the mental health of the nation.\"\n\nLast Thursday, Scotland formally moved to the second phase of its four-phase plan aimed at ending the three-month lockdown while continuing to suppress the virus that has been linked to the deaths of more than 4,000 people across the country.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the briefing she will announce more details on easing lockdown restrictions tomorrow, which she said was earlier than she had originally planned to do so.\n\nThis acceleration of the plans was possible because of the progress that had been made during what had been the \"most challenging\" three month period in the lifetime of most Scots, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Hospital admissions which at one point were at 200 a day are currently in single figures every day.\n\n\"The number of people in intensive care has fallen by 90% and while it is the case that one person dying from this virus is one too many, we've also seen a very significant and sustained decline in the number of those deaths.\"\n\nThe NHS did not \"come close\" to being overwhelmed, Ms Sturgeon said, crediting the efforts of the Scottish people for the progress made in suppressing the virus.\n\nBut she said the \"sorrow\" over those who have died - about half of them in care homes - would \"live with me forever\".", "Karren Brady, Lord Sugar and Claude Littner will not pick an apprentice this year\n\nThis year's series of The Apprentice has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has said.\n\nThe show, which sees Sir Alan Sugar pick a business partner, has been broadcast every year since 2005, and normally starts in October.\n\nBut series 16 has been put on hold in the interests of \"production safety and the wellbeing of everyone involved\".\n\nInstead, highlights of previous boardroom highs and lows will be broadcast later this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Apprentice\n\nLord Sugar has previously said the series could be pushed back to next spring or by a whole year.\n\nLast week, the businessman was criticised for appearing to downplay the impact of the virus, saying lockdown restrictions should be lifted faster, as he had seen happen in the US.\n\nSpeaking on Jeremy Vine's Channel 5 show from his home in Florida, the 73-year-old said: \"I just, logically, say, 'Well hold on, six weeks when we've come out of this so-called lockdown, who's dead?'\n\n\"I'm not. I'm still alive. My wife, thank God, is still alive. So's everybody else I know. No-one else has caught anything.\"\n\nSome TV shows, like EastEnders and Coronation Street, have recently resumed filming under new Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nBut others, like Love Island, have been cancelled, while there are question marks over how other autumn and winter ratings winners like The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here will go ahead.\n\nLast year's series of The Apprentice ended in December, when it was won by Carina Lepore.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nHealth leaders are calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the \"real risk\" of a second wave of infections. The presidents of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Nursing, Physicians and GPs urged the government to examine \"areas of weakness where action is needed urgently to prevent further loss of life\". Is a second wave inevitable? Our health correspondent James Gallagher looks closely. The warning comes after the prime minister announced a wholesale easing of lockdown in England from 4 July - here's all you need to know on that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors determine a potential second wave of Covid-19 infections?\n\nBusinesses told they can reopen in 10 days' time are looking at detailed guidance on the measures they must put in place - for example, around requiring customers to provide contact details. Not all sectors of the economy received good news, though. Hear from some of those left disappointed. Rent day has also arrived for struggling retailers, adding even greater pressure. In Scotland, more detail on dates for lockdown easing will be announced later.\n\nGym manager Rob Ward was prepared for reopening, but has been left dismayed\n\nWhatever happens next we won't be told about it in a daily government press conference - they're being scrapped. From now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street says. Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move during an \"enduring emergency\", as did acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHundreds of thousands of university students who've missed out on learning during lockdown are being asked to sign up for a \"mass action\". The National Union of Students (NUS) wants debt relief and compensation for students, but England's universities minister says students should complain to their individual universities. Student life will likely look quite different next academic year too, of course - find out more.\n\nAdults are spending a quarter of their waking day online during lockdown, according to Ofcom. The pandemic has radically changed the nature of online behaviour too, the regulator says, with people seeking new ways to keep connected, informed, entertained and fit during lockdown.\n\nVideo-conferencing has proved one of the biggest hits of lockdown\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, a lot of us will be hoping the latest announcements pave the way for a holiday this summer. Find out where things stand right now.\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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool moved to within touching distance of their first title in 30 years as Crystal Palace were brutally dismissed behind closed doors at Anfield.\n\nManchester City must now win at Chelsea on Thursday to further delay the inevitability of Liverpool's coronation as Premier League champions.\n\nAfter the goalless Merseyside derby at Everton on Sunday, they shook off the cobwebs in their first home game since the campaign was halted because of the coronavirus pandemic to beat Palace with almost embarrassing ease.\n\nAnfield may have been home to only around 300 people but Liverpool played with familiar intensity, although Palace's cause was hardly helped by the early loss of Wilfried Zaha to injury.\n\nTrent Alexander-Arnold was on target with a superb free-kick after 22 minutes and Mohamed Salah effectively settled the contest with a cool finish from Fabinho's brilliant pass just before the break.\n\nAnd Fabinho produced something even more special in the 54th minute when he drilled a magnificent rising right-foot finish past Wayne Hennessey from more than 30 yards.\n\nSalah turned provider after 69 minutes with a slide-rule pass to Sadio Mane, who finished with precision as Liverpool's superiority was stamped all over this game.\n• None How you rated the players\n• None When can Liverpool win the league?\n\nLiverpool's world-class attacking trio of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Salah take most of the headlines - but no-one should underestimate the influence of Brazilian Fabinho.\n\nThe languid midfield man is the complete operator and showed all sides of his game in what turned into a stroll.\n\nHe ran midfield while demonstrating his class as a creator and goalscorer to simply underline the role he has played in Liverpool's romp to the Premier League this season.\n\nFabinho's pass to pick out Salah for Liverpool's second goal was a masterpiece of touch and vision, while he again showed his potency from long range by flashing that stunning goal past the helpless Hennessey in front of a Kop populated by flags on what might be their last game before clinching the title.\n\nLiverpool's season has been a complete team performance and Fabinho, understated but hugely influential, has played his full part despite a lengthy absence through injury in the middle of the campaign.\n\nCrystal Palace arrived at Anfield accompanied by talk of European qualification after a very solid showing under manager Roy Hodgson this season and their very impressive first 'Project Restart' win at Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nPalace had put together four straight Premier League wins but this was a harrowing night, not helped by losing Zaha, their most dangerous player, early on to an injury he appeared to pick up in the warm-up.\n\nFor all the good work Palace have done this term, they simply had no answer to Liverpool as they were ripped apart at regular intervals.\n\nTaken in full context, this has still been a fine season for Palace, as they reside comfortably in the top 10.\n\nLiverpool were in the mood and that's what Jurgen Klopp wanted to see.\n\nA match behind closed doors at Anfield is just a surreal experience. Football is not meant to be like this. You'd be forgiven for thinking this was played out in front of a full and raucous Anfield, though - Liverpool played some fantastic football.\n\nFabinho has been a good signing - it can take foreign players a while to settle. I can't remember Jurgen Klopp buying anyone that hasn't really done it apart from Loris Karius.\n\n'We do not want to wait' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told Sky Sports: \"Imagine how this stadium would have been full today and all the people could have experienced it live.\n\n\"I don't think the game could have been better because my boys played like everybody was in the stadium. The atmosphere on the pitch was incredible. That was the best counter-pressing game I have ever seen.\n\n\"The boys are in good shape and in a good mood and it was important we showed our supporters we are still here and we do not want to wait.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson told Sky Sports: \"We didn't need to make any excuses really, but it's a Liverpool team in incredible form. They were so aggressive, so good in winning the ball back, we had no opportunities to put our foot on the ball and ask them some questions.\"\n\nGoals, goals, goals - best of the stats\n• None This was Liverpool's 20th win at Anfield in all competitions this season (23rd home match), making them the first club in Europe's big-five leagues to win 20 home matches in 2019-20\n• None Under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool have now won more Premier League games against Crystal Palace (eight) than they have against any other opponent\n• None Having kept four consecutive clean sheets prior to this defeat, Crystal Palace conceded as many goals against Liverpool in this game as they had in their previous six Premier League games combined\n• None Liverpool extended their top-flight record to 23 consecutive home victories; the Reds have scored 67 goals in those 23 wins while conceding just 15 in reply\n• None Liverpool have now scored 100+ goals in all competitions for a third consecutive season, the first time they have done so since 1986-87 (eight in a row)\n• None Alexander-Arnold's free-kick was his 30th Premier League goal involvement (five goals, 25 assists); since his debut in December 2016, this is more than any other defender in the competition\n• None Mane became the 10th player to score in six consecutive Premier League appearances against a single opponent, and the second to do so for Liverpool after Mohamed Salah v Bournemouth.\n• None Fabinho celebrated his 41st victory in what was his 50th Premier League appearance; only Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben, Ederson (all 42) and Aymeric Laporte (43) won more of their opening 50 games in the competition.\n\nLiverpool could travel to Manchester City as champions on Thursday, 2 July (20:15 BST kick-off). Meanwhile, Crystal Palace host Burnley on Monday, 29 June (20:00 kick-off).\n• None Crouchy is joined by former boss Sean Dyche\n• None Apologising to an ex in lockdown: 'I know that I crossed a bunch of lines'\n• None Attempt saved. Neco Williams (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neco Williams (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two metre social distancing is enshrined in law in Wales\n\nThe original recommendation to stay 2m apart from others remains the \"safe way to behave\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said the original social distancing advice is staying in place in Wales.\n\nThe UK government has eased it in England, allowing parts of the hospitality sector including pubs to reopen from 4 July.\n\nWelsh Conservatives have called for a \"similar lifeline\" for firms in Wales.\n\nEarlier Mr Drakeford's colleague, Health Minister Vaughan Gething, said he could not see how the measures being eased in England were consistent with scientific advice.\n\nPubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers will be able to reopen in England from 4 July.\n\nConcerns have been raised of the risk of a second wave. The UK government said it would continue to be guided by the latest scientific advice.\n\nDates in Wales have not been given for the hospitality sector, including pubs and restaurants, to reopen, although the Welsh Government has promised \"detailed discussions\" on a phased reopening.\n\nIn England a \"one metre plus\" rule has been introduced where two metres is not possible, taking steps to reduce transmission\n\nBut in Wales the 2m advice is enshrined in law and workplaces are expected to follow it as much as they can, risking fines otherwise.\n\nPubs in Wales are yet to have a date for reopening\n\nAt a virtual session of the Senedd Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservative group, said it was \"right\" to reassess the regulations as infection rates fall.\n\nHe put it to Mr Drakeford that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had welcomed the prime minister's statement on Tuesday \"overall\" and believed \"the UK government is trying to do the right thing\".\n\nIn response, the first minister said: \"In Wales, the message remains. Stay two metres apart. That is the safe way to behave.\"\n\nHe said the science of the UK government's scientific advisory group SAGE said \"if you halve the distance the risk increases somewhere between two and five times greater than if you stay within a two metre distance\".\n\nBut Mr Drakeford did not totally rule out easing the advice.\n\n\"If it is possible, always using public health as our primary test, to reduce the two metre rule by exception then we will see what we are able to do in Wales, but we will do it by looking at the evidence first.\"\n\nEvidence for the England decision had been promised by the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, the first minister said.\n\n\"That evidence had not arrived by the end of yesterday but we certainly hope to see it today.\"\n\nMr Drakeford faced calls from Paul Davies to provide a \"strategy\" for Welsh tourism for how it will support it in the short and long term, and for \"immediate action\" to help the hospitality sector.\n\nHe said last week's statement on lockdown in Wales, which said self-contained tourist accommodation could take bookings from 13 July, \"resulted in more questions than answers\".\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said \"none of us know how this disease will progress as we move through the summer and into autumn\".\n\n\"We do our best to provide forward guidance to sectors in Wales, but to ask us to provide clarity where none is possible, would be to provide a false prospectus to those industries.\"\n\nVaughan Gething said he was concerned at the number of measures being eased in Wales\n\nCoronavirus travel restrictions are among the measures still in place in Wales, with people expected to stay local at least until 6 July.\n\nVaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers the lockdown changes in England were \"a lot of measures to undertake on one day\".\n\n\"I don't think you'd see that same appetite for risk here,\" he added.\n\nHe said Welsh Government officials are in contact with their counterparts in the UK government \"trying to get sight of the evidence\".\n\n\"And as soon as [we see it] we'll consider it, and it will inform choices that we make here in Wales.\"\n\nMr Gething claimed that the \"overwhelming majority of people in Wales support the approach\" taken by the Welsh Government - which has eased lockdown more cautiously than in England.\n\n\"Some people are thirsty for a much more rapid unlocking of the country but, actually, that isn't the overwhelming view of people,\" he said.\n\nDarren Millar, Welsh Conservative Covid recovery spokesman, said that the UK government's measures are \"safe and sensible\" and will \"come as a huge relief to those parts of society and the economy which would otherwise be unable to function and it is great to see them attracting cross-party support\".\n\n\"We encourage the Welsh Government to urgently review the restrictions here as soon as possible in order that a similar lifeline can be thrown to people and businesses across Wales.\"", "Jet2 and Eurostar have announced that they will be cancelling some summer flights and trains in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEurostar is cutting direct services to three French cities due to lack of demand and difficulties implementing protection measures on long journeys.\n\nSeparately, pilots union Balpa has said that airline Jet2 is to make 102 pilots redundant.\n\nThe airline will be reducing its flying programme for 2020 and 2021.\n\nEurostar said: \"As we restart our service, we are focusing our timetable on our routes between capital cities, which have the highest demand from customers at the moment and shorter journey times.\"\n\nThe company said its services were operating with restrictions on food service, the compulsory wearing of masks, significantly increased hygiene measures and high-frequency cleaning.\n\nHowever, these standards were \"more challenging to maintain on long distance routes\".\n\nEurostar's direct summer services to Lyon, Avignon and Marseilles, which were meant to start in May, will no longer be run at all in 2020 or 2021.\n\nInstead, the rail company will focus on its main routes between London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.\n\nA spokesman for Jet2 said that the airline was facing \"complicated\" challenges relating to the coronavirus crisis and \"changes on an almost daily basis\", which had resulted in the need to reduce its flying programme.\n\n\"Sadly, the overall effect of these reductions has been the need to propose a number of colleague redundancies across our business.\"\n\nHe said the company had \"every confidence\" that it would \"bounce back from the unprecedented demands currently placed on the company\" but it did have to make \"difficult decisions in the current climate\".\n\nJet2, which has bases at airports in Leeds, Birmingham, Stansted, Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast, is the latest airline to issue formal notice of redundancy and start a consultation process with its workforce.\n\nIn May, Virgin Atlantic announced that it would be slashing more than 3,000 jobs in the UK across its business and would end its operation at Gatwick airport, as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThe airline said it had to apply for emergency loans from the government in order to avoid collapse.\n\nBritish Airways has proposed to make 12,000 of its 45,000 staff redundant\n\nAnd in June, German airline Lufthansa said it would cut 22,000 jobs and have 100 fewer aircraft, just weeks after the German government injected €9bn to prevent it from going bust.\n\nRyanair and EasyJet have also announced that they will be cutting between 15-30% of their workforces, while British Airways is proposing to make 12,000 of its 45,000 staff redundant.\n\nBalpa general secretary Brian Strutton said he was concerned about the \"knee-jerk\" way in which airlines like Jet2 had been responded to falling customer numbers due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Many of the pilots whose jobs are on the line in Jet2 have just recently moved there after having lost their jobs at Thomas Cook - these pilots have been through the mill already,\" he said.\n\nMr Strutton said Jet2 played an \"extremely important role\" at airports in the north of the UK, and it was important that it did not collapse:\n\n\"Once again, I reiterate my call for the government to step in, call for a job cuts moratorium, and work on a strategic support package to help this industry get through this crisis.\"", "The Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield has been issued with a prohibition order by the police and council\n\nA pub has been stripped of its licence after police found drinkers hiding in cupboards during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield was raided by police on 24 April after reports it was still serving customers.\n\nThe Staffordshire Arms, also licensed to Paul Greasby, has had its licence removed too.\n\nThe decision was made at the council's licensing committee meeting on Tuesday.\n\nIn March, the government ordered that pubs, restaurants and other businesses must close in an attempt to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and the legislation said owners could be given a prohibition notice and fined if they opened their establishments.\n\nIf they broke the prohibition notice then magistrates could impose potentially unlimited fines.\n\nThe Staffordshire Arms in Burngreave was also told it must close\n\nThe Pitsmoor Hotel was forced to shut after the raid on 24 April, with South Yorkshire Police and Sheffield City Council issuing the pub with a prohibition order.\n\nBut when police returned the next day, following reports from the public it was still serving customers, officers found people were on the roof \"to make it look like no-one was inside\", a report to the council licensing committee said.\n\nThe licence holder, Mr Greasby, had also been served a prohibition notice for The Staffordshire Arms in Burngreave,\n\nAnd in January - before lockdown - the Pitsmoor Hotel licence was suspended because fees had not been paid.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video-conferencing has proved one of the biggest hits of lockdown\n\nUK adults spent a quarter of their waking day online during lockdown - a record high, according to Ofcom.\n\nDuring April, adults spent an average of four hours a day online, up from three-and-a-half in September 2019, the communications watchdog said.\n\nAnd seven in 10 people made video calls at least once a week during lockdown, with millions turning to Zoom for the first time.\n\nThe pandemic has radically changed online behaviour, said Ofcom.\n\nThe regulator's Online Nation report found that people are seeking new ways to keep connected, informed, entertained and fit during lockdown.\n\nTwitch, the livestreaming platform for gamers, saw visitors increase from 2.3 million in January to 4.2 million in April.\n\nTikTok, which allows users to create and share short videos, reached 12.9 million UK visitors in April, up from 5.4 million in January.\n\nMuch of Ofcom's report focused on people's online habits in September 2019, before the coronavirus struck.\n\nAt that point, nine in 10 adults and almost all children spent time on platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram, according to the study.\n\nAnd nearly half of adults watch videos on such platforms several times a day, rising to 73% for children aged eight to 15.\n\nPeople are no longer just passive consumers, with two in five adults uploading videos to TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat or Instagram.\n\nVideo conferencing app Zoom has proved the big hit of lockdown - up from 659,000 users in January to 13 million in April as the nation turned to it to chat to family and friends, and take part in quizzes and games.\n\nThe app has not been without controversy, with questions about how secure it was, with some people falling victim to zoom-bombing, where an uninvited guest joins a call to cause mischief or share unpleasant or hateful material.\n\nPeople have turned online to entertain themselves and even to exercise\n\nEven before the pandemic, people were moving away from landline calls and text messages in favour of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the report indicates.\n\nLockdown seems to have accelerated the adoption of such services. Nearly half of UK adults used WhatsApp to make video calls at least weekly, with Facebook Messenger not far behind on 41% and Apple's FaceTime being used by 30%.\n\nOfcom's director of strategy and research Yih-Choung Teh said: \"Lockdown may leave a lasting digital legacy. Coronavirus has radically changed the way we live, work and communicate online, with millions of people using online video services for the first time.\"\n\nPeople remain wary about online safety though, with 87% of adults saying that they had concerns over children using video-sharing websites and other apps.", "Antibody tests are carried out in other countries, such as Russia\n\nHealth and care staff will be the first to receive antibody tests to check if a person has had coronavirus, after the government agreed a deal with a large pharmaceutical company.\n\nThe tests will be available on the NHS for \"those who need them\", No 10 said.\n\nAt the moment, the only testing available are swab tests to check if someone currently has Covid-19.\n\nThe UK-wide antibody tests will help scientists with virus research, BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said.\n\nIt comes as the government announced on Thursday a further 338 people had died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe deal follows talks between the government and Swiss firm Roche.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The tests will be free for people who need them, as you would expect. NHS and care workers will be prioritised for the tests.\"\n\nThe Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to give more details this evening.\n\nThe coronavirus tests already available to all adults and children aged over five on the NHS involve taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat. These tests tell you if you currently have Covid-19.\n\nThe antibody test is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus. Antibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nHowever, having antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others, says BBC health correspondent James Gallagher.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence people who have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nAntibody testing attracts huge attention. But this development needs to be kept in context.\n\nWe still do not know how strong any antibody response is and therefore the potential for long-term immunity.\n\nSo the logic in offering it to health and care workers is to help with that research.\n\nThey will not suddenly be casting aside their PPE at work.\n\nInstead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.\n\nThe test may also help with surveillance in time.\n\nA large sample of the population could be tested to look for signs of antibodies.\n\nOne of the great unknowns is just how many people have been infected but have not developed symptoms.\n\nIt comes after NHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis cautioned people against using antibody tests which are being sold by some retailers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Superdrug became the latest business - and first High Street retailer - to offer the antibody test. The kit costs £69 and buyers need to take a blood sample at home, which is sent off to a lab for testing.\n\nAs warm weather continues in some parts of the country, people have been sunbathing at Brighton beach\n\nA group of friends from different households observed social distancing measures in Belfast\n\nPublic Health England approved Roche's antibody test last week, calling it a \"very positive development\".\n\nThe government previously spent a reported £16m buying antibody tests which later proved to be ineffective.\n\nPublic Health England said experts at the government's Porton Down facility had evaluated the Roche test.\n\nRoche found that if someone had been infected, it gave the correct result 100% of the time.\n\nIf someone had not caught coronavirus then it gave the correct result more than 99.8% of the time.\n\nIt means fewer than two in 1,000 healthy people would be incorrectly told they had previously caught the coronavirus.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar previously said the tests would mainly be used on those in the NHS and social care settings to begin with.\n\nIt comes as the NHS Confederation, which represents health service trusts, warned that time was running out to finish a test, track and trace strategy. It warned a contact tracing system was critical to prevent a second wave of the virus.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person and warns them via phone, email or an app.\n\nMeanwhile, lockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from next Thursday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first phase will include allowing people to meet outside with people from one other household.\n\nBut schools - which are planned to begin a phased reopening from 1 June in England - will not reopen until the school new year begins on 11 August.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "Demand for Naked Wines and Premier Foods home cooking ingredients soared during lockdown, the firms have said.\n\nThe online wine seller said revenue surged 81% in April and May, after many shops were forced to shut on 28 March.\n\nNaked Wines temporarily halted new orders last month after a huge jump in business as customers stockpiled.\n\nMr Kipling-owner Premier Foods saw a 20% sales rise in the run-up to lockdown, with strong demand for cooking products continuing afterwards.\n\nShoppers began to stock up on alcohol in April to drink at home as the coronavirus pandemic spread. Food stockpiling began in March, when the shelves of some shops were cleared.\n\nIn a statement, Naked Wines said: \"We entered the new financial year with good momentum as Covid-19 has influenced customer shopping behaviour and driven increased demand for the Naked Wines offer.\"\n\nThe company stopped short of providing guidance for the rest of the year's trading due to the possibility of a consumer downturn in the second half of the year and ongoing uncertainties about the economy due to the pandemic.\n\nIn a separate announcement Naked Wines, best known as the online business developed by Majestic Wine before the chain was sold last year, said its current finance chief James Crawford will leave the position to be appointed as the managing director of Naked Wines' UK business.\n\nMeanwhile, Premier Foods said demand for its pre-made Loyd Grossman pasta sauces, Bisto and Oxo gravy, and Sharwoods curry condiments had soared.\n\n\"One of the most prevalent trends we have seen during the lockdown is that Britain has got cooking again, with particularly high levels of demand for items relating to meal preparation, including cooking sauces, gravy and baking ingredients,\" chief executive Alex Whitehouse said.\n\nIts biggest brand, Mr Kipling, achieved its highest ever annual sales - but that was before the lockdown. During the crisis, cake sales were flat, a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Hurley and Bill Clinton have paid tribute to Steve Bing, the Hollywood producer and political donor who has died at the age of 55.\n\nActress Hurley, who had a son Damian with Bing in 2002, wrote on Instagram that he was a \"sweet, kind man\" and \"our time together was very happy\".\n\nFormer US President Clinton said he \"loved Steve Bing very much\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Clinton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported that Bing fell to his death from a high-rise building on Monday.\n\nLA police and the LA County coroner said a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene in Culver City.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nHe also hit the headlines in the early 2000s for his 18-month relationship with Hurley.\n\nTheir son Damien, who turned 18 in April, was at the centre of a high-profile paternity case after Bing cast doubt on whether he was the father. That was confirmed after DNA results were revealed at London's High Court in 2002.\n\nDamian Hurley said he was \"immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Hurley said she had reconciled with Bing in recent months. \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"Our time together was very happy and I'm posting these pictures because although we went through some tough times, it's the good, wonderful memories of a sweet, kind man that matter.\n\n\"In the past year we had become close again. We last spoke on our son's 18th birthday. This is devastating news and I thank everyone for their lovely messages.\"\n\nDamian Hurley posted on Instagram: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nBing sued the Daily Mirror in the wake of the court case after the paper dubbed him \"Bing Laden\" and printed his phone number so readers could insult him.\n\nThe paper's apology read: \"Our readers should know that Mr Bing is not the ignominious character that has been depicted in the media. He is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has dedicated himself to helping causes impacting children and their families.\"\n\nBing inherited a $600m (£481m) real estate fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing at the age of 18.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Mr Clinton, having donated at least $10m (£8.03m) to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\nMr Clinton wrote that Bing \"had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in\".\n\nIn another headline-grabbing court case, Bing sued MGM studio boss Kirk Kerkorian in 2002, claiming he enlisted infamous private eye Anthony Pellicano to take dental floss out of his rubbish to get DNA to prove Bing fathered a child with Kerkorian's ex-wife.\n\nA paternity test proved that Bing was indeed the father of tennis player Lisa Bonder's daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Officials have appealed for help in identifying further victims (file photo)\n\nA man in California has been charged with poisoning eight homeless people with a substance described as \"twice as strong\" as pepper spray.\n\nWilliam Robert Cable, 38, is accused of giving at least eight people food laced with oleoresin capsicum and filming them as they became ill.\n\nSeveral of the alleged victims were hospitalised and authorities believe the suspect could have targeted others.\n\nMr Cable faces up to 19 years in prison if convicted.\n\n\"These human beings were preyed upon because they are vulnerable,\" Orange County's district attorney Todd Spitzer said.\n\n\"They were exploited and poisoned as part of a twisted form of entertainment, and their pain was recorded so that it could be relived by their attacker over and over again.\"\n\nAccording to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the suspect approached vulnerable homeless people in the Huntington Beach area in May and offered them food laced with a substance \"twice as strong\" as the pepper spray used by police.\n\nOleoresin capsicum is derived from chilli plants and is the main active ingredient used in pepper spray. The strength of each spray varies between manufacturers.\n\nSome of the victims were told they would be taking part in a \"spicy food challenge\" and were given beer to encourage them to take part, while others were unaware the food had been tampered with.\n\nUpon eating the food, they suffered reactions including seizure-like symptoms, difficulty breathing and vomiting, the District Attorney's Office said.\n\nCable, who is being held on $500,000 bail, was arrested last month and faces eight charges of poisoning, as well as a further count because one of the victims was elderly. He has also been charged with involving a minor in the attacks.\n\nOfficials in Orange County have appealed for the public to help identify any further victims or suspects.\n\nLast year a Spanish YouTuber was sentenced to 15 months in prison after tricking a homeless man into eating an Oreo biscuit filled with toothpaste.", "Pupils in England will not be going back to school full time in September if the 2m social distancing rule is still in place, academy leaders say.\n\nHamid Patel, chief executive of the Star Academy group, is calling for an urgent recognition that schools will not have capacity for a full return.\n\nHe says schools need a decision on social distancing to be able to start making plans.\n\nThe government has said it wants all schools and pupils back for the autumn.\n\nMr Patel, who is also on the board of the education watchdog Ofsted, says that with 2m distancing in place, no more than 50% of secondary pupils could attend, and in some schools it would be lower.\n\nPrimary pupils are being kept in \"protective bubbles\" of no more than 15 pupils and for secondary schools going back in September, the guidance calls for a distancing of 2m.\n\nThe lack of space in primary schools, because of small groups needing more classrooms, has already stopped primary schools bringing back all year groups.\n\nIf the ambition is \"genuinely for all schools to reopen in September, open and honest discussions are needed\" about what \"workable solutions\" could be achieved, says Mr Patel.\n\nMr Patel, whose schools include some at the top of the league tables, says a choice will have to be made about social distancing measures and the practical capacity available to schools.\n\nHe believes the suggestion to put pupils unable to fit in school in other nearby empty spaces, such as sports centres, is a \"red herring\" with too many practical problems, such as a lack of extra staff and the difficulties in converting accommodation into classrooms.\n\nThe academy head warns this has become a \"distraction\" while the \"clock ticks inexorably onwards\".\n\nHe wants a national plan to be put in place as a matter of urgency.\n\nAnother academy leader, Sir Jon Coles, head of United Learning, also rejects the plausibility of relying on nearby empty buildings.\n\nHe says, to create these extra classrooms, while maintaining the current groups of 15 pupils, will require another 250,000 teachers, which is not realistic.\n\n\"The reality is we will not be able to open schools fully to all pupils until the public health advice is that it is safe to teach in groups of up to 30. That is what schools have the space and staffing to do,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nMr Patel says if the social distancing rule is reduced to 1m, that in some schools, with staggered lunchtimes and one-way systems, it will be possible to bring back all or most pupils.\n\nBut Steve Chalke, head of the Oasis Trust school group, says that even with 1m many schools will struggle to get pupils back together.\n\nMr Chalke was much more positive about the possibility of using other buildings, including churches and hotels.\n\n\"You have to think of a school as a community, not a building,\" he said.\n\nHowever, there needed to be a recognition that it would still mean rotas for school attendance in the autumn, he added.\n\nThis could be improved so that pupils would focus on group activities when in school and could be given homework to cover the days at home.\n\n\"But in September we're not going to be in a perfect world. We're not going back to normal, whether it's 1m or 2m,\" he said.\n\nMr Chalke says school leaders were keen to get involved in finding a plan for the return, and wanted a strategy, but warned schools did not want to be left \"waiting until mid-August\".\n\nThe leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, says the government needs to \"get off the podium\" and engage with school leaders about the practicalities of the return in September.\n\n\"Let's look at the art of the possible,\" he said.\n\nWhen there is already a \"recruitment crisis\" for teachers, he casts doubt on the feasibility of hiring thousands more teachers for new temporary classrooms in 10 weeks.\n\nMr Whiteman recognised the difficulty for the government in knowing how high infection rates will be in the autumn, but he suggested that schools could at least be given a series of scenarios to plan around, saying that preparations have to start \"as soon as possible\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Being in school is vital for children's education and their well-being, which is why we're working to get all pupils back into classrooms by September.\n\n\"We know that young children cannot be expected to follow social distancing in schools, and our guidance is clear schools should implement a range of protective measures, including reducing the size of classes and keeping children in small groups.\"\n• None Many primary pupils not back until September", "Hair salons in Ireland may be allowed to reopen earlier than previously planned Image caption: Hair salons in Ireland may be allowed to reopen earlier than previously planned\n\nHairdressers say they are having to employ \"complete guesswork\" as they try to work out when they might be able to open again.\n\n\"The most important thing for us would be for clients to return to the salon,\" says Mark McCune of the National Hair & Beauty Federation. \"We don't really have a business without them.\"\n\nThe industry contributes £600m annually to Scotland's economy and is desperate for guidance from the government so they can prepare properly.\n\nRiccardo Corvi, a director of one of Rainbow Room's 20 salons in Scotland, says the company has protective equipment and screens in place and are \"good to go\".\n\nWhat they need most, he says, is a definite date to work towards - the industry is part of phase three of lockdown easing, so anticipates a possible return in mid-July - and guidance on the square footage per client required.\n\nHe says with clients needing to be spaced out, salons will need to extend opening hours.\n\nQuote Message: I do realise the difficulties faced by industries like hairdressing with social distancing and it will probably be beyond phase four in terms of being able to reopen. We do publish detailed guidance before asking any sector to reopen.\" from Kate Forbes Finance Secretary I do realise the difficulties faced by industries like hairdressing with social distancing and it will probably be beyond phase four in terms of being able to reopen. We do publish detailed guidance before asking any sector to reopen.\"", "Most BA aircraft have been grounded since the lockdown\n\nBritish Airways' treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis \"is a national disgrace\", MPs have claimed.\n\nA Transport Select Committee report accuses the airline of a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the pandemic by cutting thousands of jobs and downgrading terms and conditions.\n\nBA said it was doing all it could to keep \"the maximum number of jobs\".\n\nBut the MPs said the airline's actions fell \"well below the standards we would expect from any employer\".\n\nThe aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit since the pandemic forced a lockdown. Airlines including EasyJet, Ryanair, and Virgin Atlantic, and suppliers Rolls-Royce and Airbus, have announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nBA plans a major restructuring, which could mean up to 12,000 redundancies and changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff.\n\nThe airline warned unions that if it could not reach an agreement over the proposals it would push through the issue by giving staff notice and offering them new contracts.\n\nUnite and the GMB are not engaging in talks with BA. Pilots' union Balpa has had discussions with the airline over the possibility of voluntary redundancies but said consultations were \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nThe MPs acknowledged that job losses in the sector \"may sadly be inevitable\" due to the collapse in air travel. But it urged UK-based employers not to \"proceed hastily\" by making large numbers of people redundant while the government's furlough scheme was in place.\n\nUnions told the committee that BA had threatened a \"fire and rehire\" approach by giving redundancy notices to most of its 42,000 workers with the intention of offering jobs to a proportion of them under diminished terms and conditions.\n\nThe Transport Committee found that BA had received nearly £35m from the government as of 14 May by furloughing 22,000 staff. The MPs also noted that at the end of 2019, the airline recorded profits after tax of £1.1bn and had cash reserves of £2.6bn.\n\nThe committee's report said: \"The behaviour of British Airways and its parent company towards its employees is a national disgrace. It falls well below the standards we would expect from any employer, especially in [the] light of the scale of taxpayer subsidy, at this time of national crisis.\"\n\nBA insists it will do all it can to protect jobs but says the airline industry is in a \"new reality\".\n\nThere have been calls from MPs and unions for BA to be stripped of some of its lucrative take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport as punishment for the treatment of its staff.\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the committee, said: \"We will continue to bring pressure where we can, including the airport slot allocation process. This wanton destruction of a loyal workforce cannot appear to go without sanction by government, parliamentarians or paying passengers, who may choose differently in future. We view it as a national disgrace.\"\n\nBalpa said the committee was \"absolutely right\" about BA. Brian Strutton, the union's general secretary, said: \"Any company using the cover of Covid to slash jobs and terms and conditions like they have needs to be called out.\n\n\"I have described consultation talks between Balpa and BA as hanging by a thread due to BA's decision to issue a 'fire and rehire' threat. That remains the case.\"\n\nThe airline said in a statement: \"We find ourselves in the deepest crisis ever faced by the airline industry - a crisis not of our making but one which we must address.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to ensure that British Airways can survive and sustain the maximum number of jobs consistent with the new reality of a changed airline industry in a severely weakened global economy.\"\n\nBA is already embroiled in a bitter fight with its unions and a row with the government. Now MPs have weighed in against the company as well.\n\nIt's a remarkable situation for BA. It was once seen as a flag carrier for British values, a national champion, with the closest of links to the government - and a place where staff were delighted to work.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? The Covid-19 crisis has scythed through the airline industry, leaving previously strong companies teetering. Carriers around the world are shedding jobs, as they prepare for a bleak few years.\n\nBA is far from unique in wanting to make deep cuts. But there's more to it than that. BA has spent the past decade trying to streamline its business, in order to compete with low-cost upstarts like Ryanair and EasyJet.\n\nThat has sometimes caused conflict with its employees - and seemingly created a legacy of mistrust and resentment, in particular among cabin crew.\n\nNow, during a crisis, those feelings are bubbling up. At times, the company looks as though it is under siege.\n\nThe MPs' report also urged the government to abandon its 14-day quarantine rule at the end of June.\n\nIt called for a \"more targeted and nuanced border control policy\", allowing people travelling from countries where the infection rate of Covid-19 is relatively low to enter the UK on a less restrictive basis.\n\nOn Friday, BA, EasyJet and Ryanair launched legal action against the \"flawed\" quarantine policy. The airlines are asking for a judicial review to be heard \"as soon as possible\", claiming the measures introduced this week will have a \"devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\".\n\nThey said they have seen no evidence of when proposed \"air bridges\" between the UK and other countries will be implemented. Instead, they want the government to re-adopt the policy it introduced on 10 March, which required passengers from countries deemed at high risk of coronavirus infection to self-isolate on arrival in the UK.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel has insisted that the policy can \"help stop a devastating second wave\" of the disease.\n\nAre you a BA staff member who has been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Trump has come under fire for his handling of the protests in the US\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the controversial chokehold method for restraining some suspects should \"generally speaking\" be ended.\n\nSome US police forces have moved to ban chokeholds since the outbreak of anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African American.\n\nMr Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nMr Trump said it would be a \"very good thing\" to ban chokeholds but they may still be needed in some situations.\n\nThe president's comments come with Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress trying to hammer out the details of a police reform bill - the proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020.\n\nMr Trump told Fox News that chokeholds sounded \"so innocent, so perfect\" but that if you get two-on-one, \"it's a different story\".\n\nBut he continued: \"If a police officer is in a bad scuffle and he's got somebody... you have to be careful.\n\n\"With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that generally speaking it should be ended,\" he said, adding that he might make \"very strong recommendations\" to local authorities.\n\nThe police officer who knelt on Mr Floyd's neck has been sacked and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of police violence in the US\n\nMr Trump - who has faced criticism for his responses to the outbreak of the protests against racism and police brutality - said he wanted to \"see really compassionate but strong law enforcement\", adding \"toughness is sometimes the most compassionate\".\n\nChallenged by interviewer Harris Faulkner to explain his tweet last month that \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", which was censored by Twitter for glorifying violence, the president said: \"When the looting starts, it oftentimes means there's going to be... sure, there's going to be death, there's going to be killing. And, it's a bad thing.\"\n\nThe Justice in Policing Act was proposed by the opposition Democrats who control the House of Representatives but in order to pass it must win the support of Mr Trump's Republicans who control the Senate.\n\nThere is potential for the two parties to reach agreement on banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, like the one in the Breonna Taylor shooting.\n\nMeanwhile, the city council in Minneapolis, where Mr Floyd died, passed a resolution on Friday to replace its police department with a community-led public safety system.\n\nIt comes days after the council voted to disband the police department.\n\nAccording to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging \"with every willing community member in Minneapolis\" to come up with a new public safety model.\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered police departments to undertake major reforms, in response to the demonstrations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cuomo said he would stop financing local authorities that failed to adopt reforms addressing excess use of force and bias in their police departments by next April.\n\nHe said he would sign an executive order for municipalities to \"reinvent and modernize\" their police departments to battle racism. Police disciplinary records would be publicly released and chokeholds would become a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.\n\n\"That should be done in every police agency in this country,\" Mr Cuomo was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nSitting alongside the governor at the news conference were Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, the mothers of Eric Garner and Sean Bell, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with police.\n\nMr Garner died when a white police officer used a chokehold on him while making an arrest in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during the coronavirus lockdown when they welcome the French president to the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla will meet Emmanuel Macron at their London home on 18 June.\n\nThey will mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nMr Macron will be exempt from a 14-day quarantine imposed on most people who travel to the UK, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nA Clarence House spokeswoman said government guidelines on social distancing would be followed.\n\nThe royal couple will travel from Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, where they have been staying for almost three months, to Clarence House in London to attend the meeting.\n\nBoth had to self-isolate in March after Charles, 71, contracted coronavirus.\n\nThey have been carrying out royal engagements remotely - via video calls or recorded messages - and are said to be \"pleased\" to be welcoming Mr Macron to the country.\n\nDuring the height of lockdown, to curb the spread of coronavirus in France, residents there had to to provide a travel permit to justify any outdoor trips.\n\nRestrictions began to ease on 11 May, and phase two of the easing began on 2 June. Nearly all of France is now in a so-called \"green zone\" where, for example, bars and restaurants can reopen.\n\nAsked if the French president would be subject to quarantine rules for UK arrivals, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"No, he won't.\"\n\n\"As we set out in the guidelines when they were published, the French delegation will fall within the exempted category of representatives of a foreign country or territory travelling to undertake business in the UK.\"\n\nFrance's coronavirus death toll rose to 29,374 on Friday, while the UK's rose to 41,481.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClarence House said the royal couple would formally receive Mr Macron, with a guard of honour, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of World War Two resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle's \"Appel\" to the French population.\n\nOn 18 June 1940, de Gaulle used a BBC broadcast to urge people to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\n\"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me,\" he said.", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "Mark Drakeford said he would not risk letting the \"deadly virus\" rise again\n\nWales' first minister has said he will not shift from his cautious approach to easing coronavirus restrictions \"however loud the demands\".\n\nPeople in Wales are restricted to journeys of five miles for leisure and non-essential shops remain closed.\n\nIn England, there is no travel limit and shops are reopening on Monday.\n\nThe next review of the rules in Wales is due in a week's time, but Mark Drakeford said he was resisting calls to make changes sooner.\n\nThe tourism industry warned this week it was \"on the brink of collapse\" due to the restrictions.\n\nCases have been falling in Wales, with the R number - the average number of people infected by each person who gets the virus - now down from 0.8 to 0.7, the first minister told the Welsh Government's daily news conference.\n\nThere are 32 people in critical care for coronavirus, the lowest figure since 25 March.\n\n\"We can chose a path in which we regain our freedoms gradually, carefully and safely, using the headroom we have made together - but never taking steps which would knowingly undermine everything we have achieved,\" he said.\n\n\"Or we could throw it all away, lift the restrictions in a rush and run the real risk that this deadly virus would be on the rise again in Wales.\n\n\"I want you to know that whatever happens elsewhere and however loud the demands to do things differently may be, we will stick to the path we have chosen.\"\n\nTesting capacity had increased, he said, with Wales now having the ability to carry out 12,300 tests a day - although the figure of actual tests in the past 24 hours was 3,300.\n\nA new drive-through test centre opened in Deeside on Thursday, he said, with another due to open in Abergavenny next week.\n\nConversations within government about the further easing of lockdown restrictions started the Saturday after the last review.\n\nThere was a further conversation on Thursday and another on Friday, with a set of options to be presented ahead of the cabinet meeting of ministers on Wednesday of next week.\n\nThe demands on ministers to lift restrictions are coming from all directions - zoos, restaurateurs, pub landlords, car showrooms and people wanting to see family members not living locally.\n\nThe impression I get is that the intention is to continue with the strategy to date: pick one big change or a couple of small ones to fit the headroom ministers have to work with, in the hope that it does not cause an increase in transmission.\n\nAlso, don't forget that with schools set to reopen for all year groups on 29 June they have already announced one big change that will overlap with the next three-week cycle, and - from the conversations I have had - there seems to be some uncertainty as to the possible ramifications of that change on the spread of the virus.\n\nSo, a flurry of immediate changes is unlikely to be announced next week - but we could get, as the first minister suggested, the sketch of a plan for the easing of restrictions over the following weeks.\n\nBut, as one source said, there is a feeling that despite relatively positive polling for the Welsh Government's strategy, maybe \"people's tolerance is starting to wear thin\".\n\nA promise to test every care home resident in Wales was \"nearing completion\", Mr Drakeford said - despite a pledge it would be done by now.\n\nMr Drakeford previously said all residents would be tested by June 12.\n\n\"We are nearing completion of testing every single care home resident and staff member in Wales, and from next week, we will continue to offer weekly tests for staff in care homes for the next four weeks,\" he added.\n\n\"As the position has improved, we have been able to help care homes plan for additional visits to residents from family and friends, provided these can be done safely and in line with the guidance.\"\n\nThree-quarters of care homes in Wales have had no cases of the virus, he added.\n\nOn Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), he said there was now a stockpile of 78 million items, with 14 million items having been supplied to other parts of the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "Vivien Wong, who runs Little Moons, said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise\n\nThe scale of the UK's economic troubles have been laid bare by the latest GDP figures.\n\nWill the recovery be V-shaped, L-shaped, U-shaped, or is it far too early to tell?\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, some British companies are nothing if not positive.\n\nHere, the owners of three firms that went into lockdown in March tell the BBC why they can see light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe lockdown hit just as Little Moons was enjoying its best month of trading.\n\nThe business, which makes the Japanese ice cream confection mochi for restaurants and supermarkets, shut down overnight.\n\nCo-founder Vivien Wong said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise. \"We'd followed what was happening in China and Hong Kong,\" she said.\n\nMore than 50% of revenues came from restaurants, money that dried up immediately. \"We were weren't sure what was going to happen with supermarkets, but we knew immediately we had to go into cash preservation mode.\"\n\nLuckily, Little Moons struck a deal with its landlord, which eased cash flow. \"We cancelled marketing and all unnecessary spending. Basically, we just hunkered down,\" Ms Wong said.\n\nThe London-based company trades throughout Europe, which has helped Little Moons to get back to business.\n\nMs Wong said: \"Europe opened up a little earlier, so from about mid-May we started getting orders from supermarkets.\n\n\"We started un-furloughing a few members of our team, and have just started cranking up production again.\"\n\nBut a return to the record trading Little Moons saw in March could be a long way off. Ms Wong said: \"We have halved the number of people on the production floor and changed shift patterns.\n\n\"It means we are not as efficient as before. That's really affected us financially.\" Little Moons is employing more cleaners, and the cost of face masks and other food hygiene equipment has soared.\n\nThe firm's future is tied up with the restaurant sector, which she worries may never fully recover. That said, supermarket orders are rising, which Ms Wong puts down to people wanting comfort food.\n\n\"It was pretty catastrophic\" is how Adam Redhouse describes the first few days of lockdown. Sales and lettings at his London estate agents firm disappeared virtually overnight.\n\n\"We furloughed sales staff immediately, and closed all the offices,\" he said. \"We lost over 50% of the sales pipeline over the first few days as people cancelled.\"\n\nAnd yet, over the following weeks the business continued to get what Mr Redhouse said were \"a fair few inquiries. That was a massive surprise. But if you can't do viewings, you can't sell properties.\"\n\nStill, even though Squire Estates did very few transactions, the continuing customer interest at least gave him hope that business would pick up once the lockdown eased.\n\nIt was only in mid-May that estate agents began re-opening for business, but Mr Redhouse has been amazed at the pace of recovery. \"It sounds crazy, given how much business we lost,\" he said.\n\n\"It was on a Tuesday night that the government said we could re-open, and on the Wednesday morning we un-furloughed all the sales staff. There was a lot of pent up demand for transactions and viewings,\" he said.\n\nIt helped, Mr Redhouse believes, that he and his partner made a special effort to keep in touch with clients and potential clients during the lockdown.\n\nBusiness continues to pick up, but will it get back to normal? \"I like to think so. The amount of demand that we are seeing shows that people want to move. I feel positive,\" he said.\n\nSophie Lawler's 17 health clubs remain closed to their 100,000 members in the north of England and Wales. And like the rest of the fitness sector, she has no idea when she might get the green light to re-open.\n\n\"The whole sector has struggled financially, and may do so for years to come,\" she said. \"The industry is shouldering quite some rental burden, costs we still incur even while we're closed.\"\n\nFurloughing has been vital. \"It's given us a great deal of oxygen to keep the business going,\" she said.\n\nStaff wages are the biggest fixed costs after property rents and rates.\n\nAs soon as Total Fitness is given the go-ahead to re-open Ms Lawler plans to bring all the staff back from furlough. \"We will need all our people, maybe even more.\"\n\nShe'd like to see the government do more to help, perhaps with some VAT exemptions and support for landlords to let them ease the burden on leaseholders.\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, she says the fitness industry \"has an exceptionally bright future if we can weather this storm\".\n\nMs Lawler said the sector has proved particularly resilient to recessions in the past, and will do so again. She expects to see a uptick in customers who recognise the importance of fitness and exercise in the fight to stay healthy against viruses.\n\n\"It terms of demand, we will do pretty well when we get through to the other side of this,\" she said.\n\nThe trouble is, she has no idea when that might be. \"Our single biggest challenge is that there is just no guidance on re-opening.\"", "The availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care staff both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic has become one of the most intensely debated issues of the crisis.\n\nDoctors, nurses and care staff in many settings warned that supplies were running low and they were concerned about their safety.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) has now published the first official assessment of the supply and distribution of PPE in England by government organisations.\n\nIt highlights shortcomings in the system, though the Department of Health and Social Care has said that parts of the report are \"misleading\".\n\nThe NAO report, on the preparedness of the NHS and social care in England, states that the only stockpile available to meet increased demand for PPE in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak was the one built up in anticipation of a pandemic flu crisis.\n\nCrucially it did not contain gowns or visors. According to the NAO, the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) recommended stockpiling gowns in June 2019.\n\nThe Department of Health told the NAO that \"procurement of gowns was planned for early 2020\".\n\nThe NAO report looks at the assumptions in Whitehall modelling for PPE requirements in a \"worst case scenario\".\n\nBetween mid March and early May, it says, the amount of face masks and clinical waste bags for use in health settings distributed from central stocks exceeded the modelled requirement but for all other items such as gowns, eye protectors and aprons it was lower.\n\nFor social care, the items distributed were all less than the modelled requirement, and with gloves and eye protectors it was below 10%.\n\nThe NAO adds that feedback from local providers revealed a large majority reporting that the PPE issue was having \"a high or significant disruptive impact in their area across health and social care services\".\n\nThe Department of Health's argument to the NAO was that NHS and social care organisations could purchase their own PPE to top up what was sent out from central stocks.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have delivered over 1.7 billion pieces of PPE and we continue to ensure supplies reach the frontline.\n\n\"The modelled PPE requirements presented in this report are theoretical worst case estimates - it is misleading to compare them to figures on centrally procured PPE which do not account for equipment supplied through other routes or existing local stocks.\"\n\nThe report paints a picture of confusion over the extent to which local NHS and care organisations were responsible for securing their own supplies of PPE at a time of global shortages in an unprecedented pandemic.\n\nCentral government opened up a dedicated central supply route in early April but for a while officials struggled to secure adequate stocks.\n\nOn May 1, the Department of Health wrote to NHS trusts saying PPE was being centrally managed and that hospitals should only do their own sourcing from new local suppliers.\n\nBy the middle of that month, says the NAO, central supplies of PPE were meeting demand from the health and care sectors.\n\nPublic Accounts Committee chair Meg Hiller said the government had \"squandered the last opportunity to add to the central PPE stockpile, even after the NHS had gone to the highest level of alert.\"\n\nShe added: \"Care homes were at the back of the queue for both PPE and testing so only got a small fraction of what they needed from central government. Residents and staff were an afterthought yet again: out of sight and out of mind, with devastating consequences.\"\n\nThe PPE debate wont go away.\n\nThe BBC's recent Panorama investigation highlighted some of the issues considered in the NAO report.\n\nIt may take a while for the full story to emerge including an assessment of how the UK authorities handled PPE procurement at a time when every leading healthcare system was struggling to acquire supplies. The NAO report is certainly an interesting early contribution to that debate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA boy has finally been reunited with his seaman father who he had longed to see while his boat was moored near their house during lockdown.\n\nFour-year-old Euan Gordon had only been able to wave to his dad Alasdair when the vessel docked just 100m (328ft) from their home in Oban.\n\nBut now Alasdair has finished his stint at sea and returned to his family.\n\nMum Seonaid Russell said it had been like Christmas Day when her son was reunited with his father.\n\nShe said Euan had woken up at 05:00 with \"excitement\" and anticipation.\n\nAlasdair Gordon, 41, is in charge of the deck on the Pharos, which is responsible for the operation of Scottish lighthouses.\n\nUnder normal circumstances, when the boat is moored near his home he can spend the night with his family.\n\nBut since the lockdown began, Alasdair and his crew have been instructed to stay on the ship when it is tied up in dock.\n\nHowever, he has now finished his latest stint at sea and been allowed to go home for 28 days.\n\nSeonaid, 34, said Euan had been counting down the days and knew his dad would be allowed off the ship on Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"Euan was very excited and woke up particularly early because he he was so looking forward to seeing his dad. It was like Christmas for him.\n\n\"It was so lovely to see the smile on Euan's face.\"\n\nThe family live in a cabin in the grounds of Seonaid's mother's house.\n\n\"Euan loves baking and his granny had promised she would bake a cake with him in the morning for his dad,\" Seonaid said.\n\n\"So he ran through the garden to his granny's house at 06:00 and baked a beautiful cake for Alasdair's welcome home.\"\n\nSeonaid and Euan then went to the pier for the reunion.\n\n\"Euan was so excited but he waited patiently until his dad came through the gates,\" she said.\n\n\"I also felt excited, and was so happy to see Euan so happy to see his dad again.\n\n\"Euan wanted confirmation his dad would now be staying with us for a while and he was delighted when we said yes.\"\n\nThey went back to the house for cake, then Alasdair took his son cycling in the park.\n\nSeonaid said: \"They spent time together to reacquaint themselves with each other.\n\n\"It's so lovely to see them back together.\"\n\nSeonaid added that she was grateful that the Northern Lighthouse Board had stuck to the guidelines, and understood why it had done so.\n\nAlasdair said he was happy to be back with his family.\n\n\"I'm delighted to be home after a month at sea,\" he said. \"I can finally spend the summer with my family.\"\n• None Boy yearns to see seaman dad who is moored outside house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day when most fines were handed out in the past two weeks was 30 May - when people flocked to beauty spots to enjoy warm weather\n\nMore than 17,000 fines for alleged breaches of coronavirus lockdown laws have been issued in England and Wales.\n\nPeople have been fined by the police for driving with others not from their household, holding house parties, meeting in large groups and camping.\n\nBut the number of fines has fallen as restrictions have eased.\n\nThere were 523 fines in the two weeks from 26 May to 8 June - compared with 1,171 in the previous two weeks and 4,796 in the fortnight before that.\n\nAccording to data from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the day with the highest number of fines in the past two weeks was Saturday 30 May - when 96 fines were issued in England. That weekend, people flocked to popular beaches and beauty spots to enjoy the warmer weather.\n\nSaturday 30 May was also two days before lockdown measures were eased to allow people in England to meet in groups of up to six, and to allow people in Wales to meet one person from a different household.\n\nUp to 8 June, 15,715 fines, or Fixed Penalty Notices, have been handed out in England and 2,282 in Wales.\n\nBut generally far fewer fines have been issued since 13 May, when restrictions began to ease.\n\nThree fines have been given out by London's Metropolitan Police since 25 May, with 1,060 being issued by the force before that.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police is the force which has given out the most fines, with 1,082 handed out since lockdown began.\n\nFines have most often been given to young men aged between 18 and 24, and were more likely to be issued at weekends and during warmer weather.\n\n\"Since measures eased in England, the number of fines issued has seen a sustained fall,\" NPCC chair Martin Hewitt said.\n\nHe added that behind each fine was someone who has \"failed to listen and do the right thing\".\n\n\"A fine is issued following engagement to establish the circumstances, explanation of what the regulations are and why they're in breach of them, and encouragement to stop their activity and return home,\" he said.\n\nThe NPCC has not yet released data about how many fines have been paid.", "Mr Jack warned that many businesses would not survive unless the 2m rule is relaxed\n\nA UK cabinet minister has called for the 2m (6ft) social distancing rules to be relaxed as quickly as possible.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said he believed the distance should be cut to 1m as soon as is it safe to do so\n\nMr Jack said the move was needed to ensure the tourism and hospitality sector were financially viable.\n\nHis call was echoed by economist and former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson, who wrote the party's growth commission report.\n\nMr Wilson said reducing the distance was \"mission critical\" for many businesses across Scotland.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends that people keep at least 1m apart to help reduce the risk of transmitting Covid-19.\n\nBoth the UK and Scottish governments have said the current 2m rule is best of the best-available scientific evidence, and is needed to ensure the virus continues to be suppressed\n\nBut the tourism industry, pubs, restaurants and other businesses say they will be unable to reopen unless the distance is cut, as has already happened in several other countries around the world.\n\nAnd Downing Street has been facing calls from Tory backbenchers to cut the social distancing rule in England.\n\nPeople across the UK must currently keep at least two metres apart\n\nMr Jack told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the tourism and hospitality sector was \"effectively going to face three winters\" unless it can be restarted this summer.\n\nHe said: \"As soon as it is possible to do so with the R number suppressed, I would like to see it move to 1m to get back to something near normal in the way that we conduct our lives and our businesses as we see the virus recede\n\n\"We've seen this happen without any bad consequences in other European countries.\n\n\"For a lot of hospitality businesses they need 2m to become 1m when it is safe to do so to be economically viable.\"\n\nAsked when the UK government would change the rule, Mr Jack said the prime minister had an \"open mind\".\n\nHe also said he would have preferred for Scotland's tourism industry to reopen on 1 July that than 15 July, as is currently the plan.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Wilson told the same programme that he agreed many businesses would not be viable unless the social distancing rules were relaxed.\n\nHe said: \"The evidence from around the world is that it is possible, and I think it is mission critical for so many businesses.\"\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Kate Forbes, joined the Podlitical team for a discussion about how coronavirus could have a \"disproportionate\" impact on Scotland's economy, the \"acute hardship\" facing firms and how to persuade people to return to shops and restaurants.\n\nMr Wilson said Scotland, where the economy relies on tourism and the oil sector more than other parts of the UK, would be among the hardest hit.\n\nHe added: \"The tidal wave of unemployment, the cost of business failures, the cost to people who lose their income, that will be more damaging to their health and wellbeing and their mental health than the current Covid impact.\n\n\"It's not either/or. They are both part of the same problem.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that infection rates and cases were falling in Scotland due to a \"careful and orderly plan\".\n\nShe added: \"The more we suppress - and hopefully eradicate Covid-19 - the more normality we can restore to the economy. Sustainability of recovery matters.\n\n\"If we can effectively eradicate Covid-19 and then control through Test and Protect and policies to mitigate against cases coming into country - we can restore much greater degree of normality.\n\n\"Decisions then about, eg, 2m v 1m are more possible. But first we must suppress/eradicate.\"", "Immigrants 'could become homeless' without support\n\nCouncils are calling for the government to allow people with a temporary immigration status to receive public funds amid fears they will be forced into homelessness during the pandemic. Increasing numbers of people who are not eligible to support from UK taxpayers are approaching local authorities for support during the coronavirus pandemic, the Local Government Association (LGA) said. People with a temporary immigration status are given the condition called \"no recourse to public funds\" by the Home Office, meaning they cannot access welfare benefits. But the LGA fears that, without this support and as people lose their jobs, they could become homeless. Councillor David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said: \"As the economy recovers, local outbreaks may mean there still may be a need to be able to access safe and suitable accommodation and financial support to allow for self-isolation, particularly for single adults without care needs who are not usually eligible for social services' support.\" A government spokeswoman said: \"Families with leave under family and human rights routes can apply, free of charge, to have no recourse to public funds conditions lifted and we encourage anyone eligible to submit an application.\"", "Post-Brexit transition border checks could cause fresh food supply problems, an industry body has warned.\n\nShoppers will notice the supply issues next January unless there is a \"massive upgrade\" in border facilities, the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nThe warning came after cabinet minister Michael Gove said that border checks are \"inevitable\" after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nOfficials said firms have enough time to prepare for the changes.\n\nBorder checks could quickly cause hold-ups at Channel ports of thousands of trucks, including those carrying fresh food, the BRC said.\n\nThe government will have to \"move fast\" to put in place the necessary border infrastructure and staff to cope with those checks by the end of the year, it said.\n\nIf it doesn't, \"consumers in the UK will see significant disruption, particularly in the availability of fresh fruit and vegetables\" the BRC's director of food and sustainability Andrew Opie warned.\n\n\"If you think this is going to hit us in January, that's our peak import season for things like fresh fruit and vegetables. Customers are really going to see the problems on supermarket shelves unless we get that infrastructure,\" he said.\n\n\"So, you've got enormous bureaucracy, enormous change, but crucially you've got a problem with the infrastructure at the key ports around the Channel, which currently really act as an extension of the motorway for our supply chain, where you will be holding thousands of vehicles every day.\"\n\n\"I don't know if you've been to Dover recently, but there isn't an enormous amount of room to hold that infrastructure,\" he added.\n\nThe warning came after Mr Gove told a Border Delivery Group event on Monday: \"The UK will be outside the single market and outside the customs union, so we will have to be ready for the customs procedures and regulatory checks that will inevitably follow.\"\n\nThe Brexit transition period is due to end at 11pm on 31 December this year.\n\nFrom then, there will be import checks at the UK border, and traders in the EU and UK will have extra paperwork, the government said.\n\nFrom next January, all traders will have to fill out customs declarations and be liable to customs checks on goods for cross-channel trade.\n\nIf no trade deal is reached with the EU, taxes such as tariffs will also need to be charged and collected.\n\nMichael Gove said businesses must be ready for 'customs procedures and regulatory checks'\n\nFacilities such as the Channel Tunnel have been designed for minimal border checks.\n\nNew customs infrastructure, facilities and systems as well as staff, agents and vets will have to be in place by the end of this year.\n\nBut Mr Gove told the conference there would be light touch administration of trade across the Irish Sea.\n\nHowever, last week it emerged that Stena Line, the biggest operator of ferries in the Irish Sea, is preparing for trade checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was quietly confirmed in a speech. Some might argue it has been inevitable since the election.\n\nBut the change in the way the UK trade border functions with our biggest trade partner is one of the single biggest changes to the way the UK economy functions.\n\nPut simply, many industries rely on the frictionless free flow of goods between the UK and the continent.\n\nThe unequivocal message from Michael Gove is that businesses should prepare for the the end of that as 2020 draws to a close.\n\nWhereas the impact of all this in the Irish Sea has garnered considerable attention, the new trading arrangements between Dover and Calais and along the Channel Tunnel will have a bigger effect on the economy.\n\nBy getting businesses to take the prospect seriously, the government's hope is that more will be prepared and so delays and disruption can be limited.\n\nBut we are dealing with parts of the border that are designed to run without checks.\n\nThere will need to be more customs officers, thousands more customs agents, mass recruitment of vets, and new customs posts.\n\nAlmost every independent economic analysis - and the government's own until now - has shown that extra trade friction with what is currently our biggest market will be an overall hit to the economy.\n\nPreparation can help alleviate some of that hit, but not all.\n\nBusinesses also said they face extra costs from checks. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said that for many businesses, border delays would incur higher costs than tariffs.\n\nAdam Marshall, the BCC director general, said: \"Additional friction will equal higher costs for a lot of our business, and while the discussion over the past few months has focussed a lot on tariffs, it's actually these border costs... that really is the biggest source of cost for most.\"\n\nEU trade will not be waved through with zero checks, which would have been the case under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTraders will not be able to use special arrangements to lodge new paperwork after a grace period at a later date.\n\nIndustries from car manufacturers to food distributors, which rely on the frictionless free flow of goods with the continent, say they face extra costs, delays and red tape from what are known as non-tariff barriers.\n\nProducts of animal origin will need export certificates from a registered vet.", "Toilet roll was not the only thing to disappear from supermarket shelves at the start of lockdown. Buy-one-get-one-free deals were pulled too.\n\nThere was a 15% fall in the frequency of promotions during the first month of lockdown, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.\n\nThis, in part, led to a 2.4% rise in the price of groceries in one month.\n\nResearchers said this was the equivalent of price increases expected for a whole year.\n\nThere was also an 8% fall in the variety of grocery products on the shelves during lockdown, according to the research funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which campaigns on social policy.\n\n\"This, independently of price rises, will have a negative impact on consumers,\" the authors of the report said.\n\nShoppers bulk bought various essentials just prior to, and at the start of, lockdown.\n\nIt prompted a number of retailers to put limits on the number of items being bought, ranging from individual products such as toilet roll and pasta to the entire basket of items available via supermarket websites.\n\nMajor supermarkets introduced limits on the number of in-demand items people could buy, such as toilet paper\n\nThe IFS research tracked price data of groceries such as food, drink, toiletries, cleaning products and pet food.\n\nIt found prices were 2.4% higher in the first month of lockdown, a rate more than 10 times higher than in preceding months and unprecedented in recent years.\n\nSince then, prices had fallen slightly, but they still remained more than 2% higher than before lockdown, the report said.\n\n\"There was more grocery inflation in one month than we often see in a year,\" said Martin O'Connell, co-author of the report.\n\n\"Higher prices and reduced variety have persisted in the following weeks. At a time when many households are subject to reductions in their income, higher prices for food, drinks and household goods will further feed into squeezed household budgets.\"\n\nHalf of this increase was the result of fewer promotions, such as buy-one-get-one-free deals and money off discounts. The IFS said was not recorded in official inflation figures, to be updated next week.\n\nThe fall in promotions was different to during last recession, when consumers bought more goods that were on sale as their own finances were squeezed.\n\nThis time, almost all households saw their grocery bills increase.\n\nThe researchers also said that investors would have expected the coronavirus crisis to lead to prices falling, rather than rising.\n\n\"At a time when financial markets expect the Covid-19 pandemic to be a disinflationary shock, this increase in the price of groceries, which was experienced by almost all households and in almost all product categories, suggests policymakers nonetheless should remain vigilant about the prospect of higher inflation, at least for some goods and services,\" said co-author Xavier Jaravel.", "Boarding around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was erected overnight\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph in central London have been boarded up ahead of planned protests.\n\nMonuments were targeted during last week's anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the USA.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest planned for Saturday in Hyde Park has been brought forward to Friday, over fears of clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Mayor of London has called on protesters to \"stay at home\" to avoid further disorder.\n\n\"Key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, will be covered for protection, Sadiq Khan said.\n\nDuring protests last weekend a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was defaced, while in Bristol an effigy of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down.\n\nVideo shared online also appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead on Whitehall, and attempt to set a union jack flag alight.\n\nBy Friday morning the statue of Churchill was fully encased\n\nMore protests are taking place over the weekend.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest planned for Saturday in Hyde Park has been brought forward to Friday, over fears it would be hijacked by counter-protests.\n\nFar-right groups have called on supporters to travel to London to protect monuments from being damaged.\n\nImages appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph and attempt to set a flag alight\n\nMr Khan said: \"I'm extremely concerned that further protests in central London not only risk spreading Covid-19, but could lead to disorder, vandalism and violence.\n\n\"Extreme far-right groups who advocate hatred and division are planning counter-protests, which means that the risk of disorder is high.\n\n\"Staying home and ignoring them is the best response this weekend.\"\n\nViolent protesters could be jailed within 24 hours under plans to fast-track arrests linked to protest.\n\nThe BBC understands that opening hours at magistrates courts are to be extended to process anybody caught vandalising, causing criminal damage or assaulting police officers.\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nChurchill is lauded for leading Britain to victory in World War Two.\n\nHe is described on the UK government website as \"an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader\", and was voted the greatest ever Briton in a 2002 BBC poll.\n\nBut for some he remains a controversial figure, in part because of his views on race.\n\nAnti-racism protest have been taking place across the country sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US\n\nFollowing last weekend's protests, campaigns to have monuments to controversial historical figures taken down have gained pace.\n\nOn Tuesday, a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nGuy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London have said they will remove two statues linked to slavery in response to anti-racism protests.\n\nThe NHS foundation trust which runs the hospitals said monuments of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton will be moved out of public view.", "The London Coliseum, the largest theatre in the West End, is closed along with the rest of the UK capital's theatre district Image caption: The London Coliseum, the largest theatre in the West End, is closed along with the rest of the UK capital's theatre district\n\nTheatres are \"running out\" of time and need urgent help from the UK government to stop the industry collapsing, says shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens.\n\nThe Labour MP has written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden asking for sector specific support, warning venues \"are going under\".\n\nTheatres, gig and comedy venues were ordered to shut in mid-March. Stevens says many cannot afford to reopen when restrictions are eased because of social distancing measures.\n\nShe also says many actors, comedians and musicians have been excluded from Treasury support schemes, warning the prospect of no further income \"means large scale redundancies\".\n\nIn response, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said many organisations have \"already benefited\" from government support.\n\n\"The UK government is providing unprecedented financial support for the arts and culture through the job retention scheme, a years' business rates holiday and more than £200m emergency public funding,\" a DCMS spokesperson told BBC News.\n\nThe DCMS added it is committed to opening arts and cultural institutions \"as soon as it is safe to do so\". Earlier this week, Dowden said he would not \"stand by and see our world-leading position in arts and culture destroyed\".", "Global stock markets have fallen amid fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases could cause more economic damage.\n\nThe declines came after the US Federal Reserve warned that the American economy faces a long road to recovery.\n\nIn the US on Thursday, the three main share indexes saw their worst day in weeks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 7%.\n\nStock markets in Asia also fell on Friday with benchmark indexes losing ground in Japan, Hong Kong and China.\n\nThe falls followed a weeks-long rally that had helped shares recover some ground from the lows seen in March.\n\nEnergy and travel stocks were among the biggest losers, as global crude oil prices also took a hit.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, European shares also dropped, with the UK's FTSE 100, the Dax in Germany and France's CAC 40 all losing 4% or more.\n\n\"Government, companies and people would be better prepared for a second wave than for the first one,\" said Roland Kaloyan, European equity strategist at Societe Generale.\n\n\"But the problem is there is a limit to governments injecting money.\"\n\nShare prices had gained in recent weeks amid hopes that the economy would rebound as authorities loosened restrictions put in place to try to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nLast week's surprise report showing US employers had restarted hiring in May helped to push the tech-heavy Nasdaq index to new highs.\n\nBut the recovery remains tentative. On Thursday, the US Labor Department reported that another 1.5 million people had filed new unemployment claims last week. More than 30 million continue to collect the benefits, it said.\n\nUS Federal Reserve policymakers said on Wednesday that the unemployment rate could remain above 9% at the end of the year - close to the worst level of the financial crisis,\n\nAt a news conference, Fed chairman Jerome Powell warned that this assessment may prove optimistic, if coronavirus infection and hospitalisation rates rise.\n\nSeveral states that have moved to reopen, including Arizona and South Carolina, have seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent days.\n\n\"It could hurt the recovery, even if you don't have a national level pandemic. Just a series of local ones, of local spikes, could have the effect of undermining people's confidence in travelling, in restaurants and in entertainment,\" he said. \"It would not be a positive development.\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he did not want to see a return of the lockdowns that had kept the world's largest economy frozen for weeks.\n\nBut economists have warned that people will stay at home voluntarily if they are afraid of becoming ill.", "India’s capital Delhi could have more than half a million coronavirus cases by the end of July, according to officials.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country’s worst-affected city, Mumbai, has surpassed Wuhan in China, where the virus first appeared.\n\nHospitals in the country are struggling to cope with the number of patients they’re getting. Many are dying without getting the treatment they need.", "Ricky Valance's single Tell Laura I Love Her sold more than a million copies in 1960\n\nWelsh singer Ricky Valance has died at the age of 84, his agent has confirmed.\n\nValance, who was born David Spencer, became the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One hit with the song Tell Laura I Love Her in 1960.\n\nThe singer was born in Ynysddu, now in Caerphilly county, and joined the RAF aged 17 before going into the music business.\n\nHis agent said he had been diagnosed with dementia and had been in hospital since before the start of lockdown.\n\nValance was lead soprano in his local church choir as a child, before joining the air force, where he saw active service in north Africa before returning three years later.\n\nIt was then he started performing in clubs in the north of England, before being signed and recording Tell Laura I Love Her.\n\nThe song tells the tragic story of a boy called Tommy and his love for a girl called Laura.\n\nIt was controversial at the time and reportedly banned from airplay by the BBC, but went on to be a number one single, selling more than a million copies.\n\nIt spent 16 weeks in the chart, three of those at number one, but was to prove his only big hit in the UK.\n\nNevertheless, fans have taken to social media to express their sadness at his death.\n\nHyder Ali Pirwany tweeted: \"Ricky Valance, RIP. Great singer from Wales. His \"Tell Laura I love her\" song was tear jerking.\"\n\nWhile another fan wrote: \"Another one gone. RIP. Hope Laura is waiting for 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 Hyder Ali Pirwany This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Valance was given an award at a St David's Day concert at the Wales Millennium Centre for being the first Welshman to have a UK Number One hit.\n\nIn 2017, he released a final single, called Welcome Home, to raise money for the Royal Air Force Museum and RAF Association.\n\nValance and his wife Evelyn were living in Skegness, Lincolnshire, at the time of his death.\n• None Final song for first Welsh number one", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft amid the pandemic\n\nBritish Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's quarantine policy.\n\nThe airlines say the policy will have \"a devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\" and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nThey have applied for a judicial review at the High Court.\n\nThe challenge claims that the quarantine rules for travellers are more stringent than those applied to people who actually have Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules came into force this week. They require most inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days, although there are more than 40 categories of incomers, largely pertaining to certain workers, who are exempt. Rules for those actually infected with the virus require self isolation for seven days.\n\nThe airlines state that there was no consultation and no scientific evidence provided to support the policy; that weekly commuters from France or Germany can be exempted; and that the government is preventing people from travelling to and from countries with lower infection rates than the UK.\n\nHowever, the government has said the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach\" to protect public health.\n\nIn a statement, the three airlines said they had not seen any evidence on how and when so-called \"air bridges\", allowing quarantine-free travel between the UK and other countries with low infection rates, could be implemented.\n\nThey have called on the government instead to re-adopt a previous policy, where quarantine was limited to travellers from high risk countries.\n\nThe air industry has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak, which has all but stopped their activities. Mass job cuts are under way:\n\nFriday's legal move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between airlines and the UK government.\n\nWillie Walsh, the boss of IAG, which owns BA, Iberia and Aer Lingus, has called the quarantine policy \"irrational\", while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said the policy was a \"stunt\" and would not be enforceable.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office for a comment.", "Holly King-Mand says \"every child deserves the opportunity to engage with English for the sheer joy of it, and not just as a subject to study in school\"\n\nAn English teacher whose online lessons have reached thousands of children across the world during lockdown said it had been an \"incredible\" experience.\n\nHolly King-Mand, 36, has provided English Live lessons every weekday since 23 March but they finish on Friday in favour of a weekly vlog.\n\nStarting with just 74 Facebook followers, Mrs King-Mand, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, now has 54,000 across three social media platforms.\n\n\"In truth, I need a rest,\" she said.\n\nIn March, having just finished maternity leave and decided not to return to school, she began hosting free 30-minute lessons on Facebook, aimed at Key Stage Two and Three levels (ages seven to 14) to support parents home-schooling their children.\n\nMoving to YouTube, she now has more than 9,000 subscribers there, plus 2,000 more on Instagram.\n\n\"It has honestly been one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I've learnt far more than I've taught, and I've got to 'virtually' know some of the most hardworking and talented children of my entire career,\" the former secondary school teacher said.\n\n\"I have learnt a whole new way of teaching as I had never considered how I would teach without having the learner in front of me to bounce off.\"\n\n\"Some of the learners have said 'Because of you, I want to be an English teacher' - I've inadvertently become a bit of a role model,\" said Mrs King-Mand\n\nBut she said she now needed to create \"something valuable with longevity out of this experience\".\n\nHer weekly Spellathon will continue until the end of the summer term, but from Monday, she will present Chapter and Verse, a weekly video magazine aimed at children aged six to 16.\n\nShe has also been asked to create content for online schools and is collaborating on a podcast.\n\n\"I'm just trying to build a bit of a brand and then see where it takes me,\" she said.\n\n\"It kind of feels like finishing school or university; you look back at all the great memories and how much you've learnt and you have a glowing sense of pride and achievement, ready to head out into the world.\n\n\"I've been brought to tears by heartbreaking and beautiful messages telling me of the difference I've made... it all shows that out of awful times, good things can happen.\"\n\nThe teacher receives fan mail from around the world\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The road signs on Penny Lane were attacked overnight on Thursday\n\nRoad signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced over claims they are linked to slave merchant James Penny.\n\nThe markers had the word Penny blacked out and the word racist written above them on Thursday night.\n\nThe city's International Slavery Museum said it was not certain whether the street, which was immortalised in a song by The Beatles in 1967, was named after the 18th Century slave merchant.\n\nA spokeswoman said \"more research is needed\" to clarify the name's origin.\n\nCity tour guide Jackie Spencer, who runs Blue Badge Tour Guides, said she was \"absolutely livid\".\n\n\"It's pure ignorance,\" she said.\n\n\"We've researched it and it has nothing to do with slavery. James Penny was a slave trader, but he had nothing to do with the Penny Lane area.\"\n\nLocal resident Emmett O'Neill, who has helped clean the paint from the signs, said he thought it was \"an idiotic act\".\n\n\"If you want something removed, there's ways and means,\" he said.\n\n\"Defacing Penny Lane signs isn't going to change a lot [and] it's the wrong way to go about things.\"\n\nSeveral of the road's signs already had a large amount of graffiti on them, much of it Beatles-related, with one even bearing the signature of Sir Paul McCartney.\n\nLiverpool's International Slavery Museum said the link to James Penny was \"not conclusive\"\n\nLiverpool City Council was criticised by historian Laurence Westgaph on Monday for \"not doing enough\" to acknowledge the city's links with slavery.\n\nMr Westgaph said he understood the actions, but added residents should \"talk to the council and demand certain things that should have been changed years ago\".\n\nThe city's mayor, Joe Anderson, said he was \"frustrated\" by the \"defacement of our street signs\".\n\n\"[It] does nothing to further advance the argument and the debate around Black Lives Matter here in Liverpool,\" he said.\n\n\"It isn't just about the artefacts and street names, it's also about how we change the fundamental things that are causing disadvantage and inequality within our city.\"\n\nLiverpool was Europe's most used slave port by 1740 and many of its streets have names linked to slavery.\n\nHowever, the International Slavery Museum, which includes Penny Lane in its display of street names linked to slavery, said the evidence linking Penny Lane to James Penny was \"not conclusive\".\n\n\"We are actively carrying out research on this particular question and will re-evaluate our display and change if required,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, has said the move is \"stupid\"\n\nJohn Cleese has laid into the \"cowardly and gutless\" BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off UKTV's streaming service because it contains \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major uses highly offensive language, and Cleese's Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV said it expected to reinstate the show with \"extra guidance\" in \"the coming days\".\n\nCleese wrote on Twitter: \"The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 went on to compare the situation with that of Alf Garnett, the racist character in sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health.\n\n\"We laughed at Alf's reactionary views. Thus we discredited them, by laughing at him,\" Cleese wrote.\n\n\"Of course, there were people - very stupid people - who said 'Thank God someone is saying these things at last'. We laughed at these people too. Now they're taking decisions about BBC comedy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But it's not just stupidity. The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes. Not any more.\n\n\"So BBC decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible. I rest my case.\"\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year. A BBC spokesman declined to comment.\n\nA UKTV statement said it would update the episode with guidance and contextual information in line with similar warnings on other classic comedy titles.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days,\" it added.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Carl Anka described the removal as \"a waste of time\", noting many people would prefer it if UKTV and other companies simply \"committed to hiring black creatives\" instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\n\"We are very proud of Fawlty Towers and its contribution to British television comedy,\" a BBC spokesman told the Daily Mail at the time.\n\n\"But public attitudes have changed significantly since it was made and it was decided to make some minor changes, with the consent of John Cleese's management, to allow the episode to transmit to a family audience at 7.30pm on BBC Two.\"\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People living at Skyline Central 1 tower block (left) in Manchester said they were given no option but to take out \"life-changing\" loans\n\nMPs have urged the government to take over residential tower blocks if owners fail to remove dangerous cladding.\n\nThe housing committee says it's \"deeply shocking and completely unacceptable\" that about 2,000 buildings in England are still potentially at risk nearly three years after the Grenfell fire.\n\nThe committee wants the work finished by December 2021 but says the budget is only a third of what is needed.\n\nThe government said it was providing £1.6bn to remove dangerous cladding.\n\nA spokesperson added that ministers were bringing in the biggest legislative changes in a generation to ensure residents' safety.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures 246 buildings still had Aluminium Composite Material cladding, the type which fuelled the Grenfell fire.\n\nHowever, there are also concerns about an estimated 1,700 buildings with other dangerous materials, including high pressure laminate boards which are made from paper and resin.\n\nThe government is trying to offer funding to ensure the materials are removed, because some freeholders, who own the buildings have taken no action to make their properties safe.\n\nHowever, the report by the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee finds that while the owners do have a legal duty to ensure the work is done, they usually do not have a duty to pay for it, \"regardless of how we feel about the morality of the situation\".\n\nAs a result, leaseholder residents living in the buildings are facing \"life-changing\" bills.\n\nMPs say that if the owners will not act, the government should buy the buildings, do the work, and hand them over to their residents to run.\n\nThey want a national body to oversee the process.\n\n\"Any residential building where works have not commenced by December 2020 should be subject to a compulsory purchase order,\" the MPs propose.\n\n\"The national body would step in where overburdened local authorities are unable or unwilling to act.\n\n\"Once remediated, buildings should be converted to commonhold and returned to leaseholders,\" the MPs argue.\n\nBy their calculation, the government fund will only pay for a third of the work needed and more funding will be required.\n\n\"The government is clearly trying to find ways to fit a £3bn liability into a £1bn funding pot,\" the report says.\n\nBut the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said its fund now stands at £1.6bn and ministers do not expect public money to be the only means of making buildings safe, with owners expected to pay a \"significant proportion\".\n\nSome residents say they have been \"utterly broken\" by the crisis, according to a survey published on Thursday by the UK Cladding Action Group.\n\nSome have been forced to take huge loans to pay thousands of pounds towards repairs or for bigger insurance premiums and service charges.\n\nOthers are in buildings not eligible for funding.\n\nThe uncertainty has meant many owners cannot sell their flats, causing big problems for young families.\n\nThey are also aware they are living in blocks which could pose a major fire hazard, with \"Waking Watch\" patrols introduced to warn of fires, sometimes funded by residents.\n\nOf 550 leaseholders who responded to the survey: :\n\nThe group says leaseholders had bought properties in good faith and had no idea the buildings posed a fire risk.", "The Sun said it had not intended to \"glorify\" domestic violence in its interview with JK Rowling's former husband Jorge Arantes\n\nThe Sun newspaper has faced a backlash from domestic abuse charities for an article in which JK Rowling's ex said \"I'm not sorry\" for slapping her.\n\nAs part of a blog addressing criticism of her comments on transgender people, the Harry Potter author said her first marriage had been \"violent\".\n\nJorge Arantes told the Sun he slapped Rowling when she left him - but added \"there was not sustained abuse\".\n\nThe newspaper said it had not intended to \"enable or glorify\" domestic abuse.\n\nCritics have accused the author of being transphobic for her response to an article about \"people who menstruate\".\n\nRowling said her personal experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and her concerns about protecting safe spaces for women, were some reasons why she spoke out about transgender issues.\n\nThe Sun's front page headline on Friday was: \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\".\n\nMr Arantes, who shares a daughter with Rowling from their marriage, told the paper: \"Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn't abuse her.\" When asked about his response to her claims - which included that the relationship was violent - he said: \"If she says that, that's up to her. It's not true I hit her.\"\n\nNicole Jacobs, England's domestic abuse commissioner, wrote to the newspaper to say she was \"deeply concerned\" about the story.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that the Sun has chosen to repeat and magnify the voice of someone who openly admits to violence against a partner,\" she said.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid said the newspaper's front page had a \"negative impact\", and added it was in conversation with the Sun about reflecting the voices of survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nSome 20 anti-domestic abuse campaigners - including the chief executive of Women's Aid - wrote an open letter calling on the paper to apologise.\n\n\"Responding to a woman disclosing her experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault by giving a platform to her perpetrator to trivialise the abuse he subjected her to is irresponsible and dangerous,\" the letter said.\n\nPress regulator Ipso said it had received more than 500 complaints about the Sun article.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sun said: \"It was certainly not our intention to 'enable' or 'glorify' domestic abuse, our intention was to expose a perpetrator's total lack of remorse. Our sympathies are always with the victims.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that the tabloid had a \"long history of standing up for abused women\", and \"over the we have empowered countless victims to come forward and seek help\".\n\nPoliticians have also criticised the Sun's coverage. The Liberal Democrats called on the Sun to donate the revenue made from Friday's newspaper to Refuge - while Labour's shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, said \"doubt and disbelief\" benefited perpetrators of abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Phillips 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. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Gillian Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 row about Rowling's comments on transgender issues began last weekend, after she responded to a headline on an online article discussing \"people who menstruate\" by writing in a tweet: \"I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\"\n\nHarry Potter actor Rupert Grint is the latest star to voice his support for the trans community, following Rowling's comments.\n\nHis co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, are among others who have already spoken out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn her blog defending her comments, Rowling said: \"I've been in the public eye now for over 20 years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help. If you have been affected by gender identity issues, a list of organisations offering support and information can be found here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow.\n\nTwo follow-ups to bestselling PS4 releases were among the standout games announcements - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West.\n\nSony's machine will launch alongside Microsoft's rival Xbox Series X before the end of the year.\n\nMiles Morales takes over the lead role from Peter Parker in the latest spin-off for Marvel's crime-fighter\n\n\"While there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed to with this reveal event,\" commented Laura Kate Dale, a freelance games critic.\n\n\"It showed off an hour of games, mixing sequels to popular titles, and new franchises from its biggest first-party studios, for a solid hour.\n\n\"People on Twitter are very split on whether they like or hate the look of the box, but overall Sony spent an hour getting people excited.\"\n\nSo many people remarked that the console looked like a \"wi-fi router\", that the term trended on Twitter shortly after the event.\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\nMore than two dozen new games were shown off in total.\n\nOther highlights included a first look at Sony's racing game Gran Turismo 7 and a brief look at Capcom's zombie horror game Resident Evil 8.\n\nResident Evil 8's reveal was full of dim lighting - and reflections\n\nIt was not always clear during the event which titles were PS5 exclusives and which were not.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 is set to go on sale later this year, seven years after the PS4.\n\nIn addition to being able to deliver improved visuals, the new machine also has a customised hard drive that will make it possible to radically reduce load times.\n\nSony is building a library of launch titles that will only be available on its next-generation machine. This contrasts with Microsoft's approach, which is to initially release new first-party games on both its current and next-gen consoles.\n\nSony opted to stream a pre-recorded video rather than a host a live event because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe video was broadcast at 1080p resolution, much lower than the PS5 is capable of.\n\nThe PS4 outsold the Xbox One globally by more than a 2:1 margin, although the gap was much closer in the US.\n\nIn advance of Thursday night's event, one industry insider said there were two things he was most excited about.\n\n\"The first is the new controller - the adaptive triggers offer deeper and more meaningful feedback for gameplay,\" explained Robert Karp, development director at UK developer Codemasters.\n\n\"The other is the super-fast loading. On PS5, waiting to get into the action is a thing of the past.\"\n\nHorizon: Forbidden West sees Aloy travel westwards across a far-future version of the United States\n\nThe new Spider-Man game acts as a follow-up to 2018's action-adventure game based on the Marvel superhero.\n\nBut this time round the protagonist appears to be the Afro-Latino teenager Miles Morales rather than Peter Parker. The brief trailer showed him fighting and web-slinging through New York, showing off snow and electricity particle effects that would not have been possible in such detail on the PS4.\n\nHours after the announcement, Sony executive Simon Rutter told the Telegraph that it was not, in fact, a wholly new title, but an \"an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game\".\n\n\"There's a substantial Miles Morales component-which is the expansion element-but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nBut that was later disputed by developer Insomniac Games, which called the new title \"the next adventure\" and a \"standalone game\".\n\nThe Spider-Man: Miles Morales teaser showed off a range of lighting and particle effects\n\nSeveral of the other reveals reintroduced familiar characters.\n\nAloy is back in the follow-up to Horizon: Zero Dawn.\n\nIn Forbidden West, the heroine was shown swimming underwater as what appeared to be a robot crocodile passed overhead, and battling against robot dinosaurs.\n\nAssassin Agent 47 returned in Hitman III, IO Interactive's stealth series. It is not due to go on sale until January 2021, however, so will miss out on launching alongside the PS5.\n\nRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart marked a return to Insomniac Games' cartoon-like third-person action franchise.\n\nRatchet and Clank return for the first time since their 2016 PS4 reboot\n\nOddworld: Soulstorm was a surprise, bringing back the former slave turned hero Abe, in a series that dates back to the original PlayStation.\n\nAnd Sackboy also returned for more platforming in A Big Adventure, a follow-up to the earlier Little Big Planet Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Patrick O'Rourke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was also a first look at some new intellectual property, including:\n\n\"What I found particularly great was the push on new IP,\" gaming presenter Shay Thompson told the BBC.\n\n\"Many of the protagonists featured were women or girls, which is a huge deal. That would've been a pipe dream, even 10 years ago.\"\n\nThere was no mention of any virtual reality games, however. Nor was was there any mention of a PlayStation 5 version of The Last of Us 2.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephen Totilo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSony also highlighted new features of the PS5's hardware including 3D Audio and a 4K Blu-ray player. It also said the the new console would be released in a version that lacked a disc drive.\n\nWhile Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles will battle for sales, they both face the challenge of launching at a time when the coronavirus pandemic may not be over.\n\nA new version of the 2009 classic Demons' Souls was also shown\n\nAlthough both firms have said that production is on track for winter 2020 releases, it is unclear what level of demand there will be.\n\n\"Console gaming has proven to be resilient to economic downturns because it continues to offer good per-hour entertainment value,\" Piers Harding-Rolls wrote in a research note for Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Even so, the recession and growing unemployment in key sales territories will undermine adoption - less so at launch [but] more significantly after mid-2021.\"\n\nOne of the more unusual games was Stray, a third-person cat adventure set in a neon-lit cyber-city\n\nA confident introduction to the PlayStation 5 from Sony, letting the games do the talking, with a varied mix of big-name fan favourites and a lot of new titles from smaller studios.\n\nThe event lacked the fevered energy that a live showcase generates, but it managed to settle into a comfortable groove as games like the new Ratchet and Clank allowed us to see what the PS5's solid state drive (SSD) can do to reduce or almost eliminate load times.\n\nRather than a quantum leap, this next generation looks like it might be built around lots of smaller improvements in areas like audio, with 3D sound and improved haptic feedback in the controller.\n\nBeyond better visuals and faster loading times, what does the next generation actually mean when it comes to games though?\n\nOn this evidence more of the same: shooters, racers, third-person adventure titles and sports games. Things we already have, but graphically improved.\n\nPlayStation and Xbox have both struggled to communicate what the next-gen really has to offer.\n\nBut at least fans have now had a glimpse of some games and finally clapped eyes on the PS5's curvy physical case.\n\nIt's enough, perhaps, to whet gamers appetites for what's to come.", "Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson who died in a care home in Oxfordshire in April\n\nA woman who said goodbye to her dying father through a care home window is suing the government over his death.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner's father, Michael Gibson, 88, died of probable Covid-19 related causes on 3 April.\n\nHer case, which accuses the government of unlawfully exposing thousands of care home residents to serious harm, will be filed at the High Court today.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it could not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\n\nDr Gardner, from Sidmouth, Devon, said her father's death was part of a \"national disgrace\".\n\nShe added her case was about everybody, including care home residents, staff and the family members of those who had been put at risk or died.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have died from coronavirus in England and Wales care homes since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe government has faced criticism for policies allowing patients to be discharged from hospitals into care homes without being tested for Covid-19.\n\nLawyers representing Dr Gardner sent a pre-action letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, NHS England and Public Health England on 2 June, demanding they admit those policies were unlawful.\n\nThe government has until Tuesday to respond but lawyer Paul Conrathe, representing Dr Gardner, said the case needed to be lodged on Friday before receiving a reply due to time limits.\n\n\"Legally the state is required to protect its citizens, protect their right to life,\" he said.\n\n\"Our view is not only did they not protect them but they actively exposed them to harm.\"\n\nMr Gibson, who had Alzheimer's, was a resident at the Cherwood House Care Centre, near Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nDr Gardner, who praised the care he was given there, was able to see him through a window the night before he died.\n\nShe said: \"This was heart-breaking, it's not how I imagined his last days would be.\"\n\nHis cause of death was recorded as probable Covid-19-related but he had not been tested.\n\nDr Gardner's lawyers claim that prior to his death the care home had been pressured into taking a hospital patient who had tested positive for Covid-19 but \"had not had a temperature for about 72 hours\".\n\nMore than 14,000 care home residents with coronavirus have died in England and Wales\n\nDr Gardner, a microbiologist with a PhD in virology, said: \"Somebody needed to take the lead and I thought ... I can so I should.\n\n\"It is a national disgrace and it needs to be held up as such and not just brushed under the carpet.\"\n\nDr Gardner, who is also chair of East Devon District Council, is crowdfunding to help cover legal fees and has so far raised £10,000.\n• None Help me hold the government to account for Covid-19 care home deaths The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Recently released figures show that more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England.\n\nAn anonymous contact tracer told the BBC they felt training for the new system was inadequate and that there had been \"mass confusion\".\n\nThe government disputed the claims and said the new system is \"helping save lives\".", "Shintaro Tsuji has been at the helm of Sanrio for more than six decades\n\nThe founder of the Japanese company that created Hello Kitty has announced he is stepping down as CEO aged 92.\n\nShintaro Tsuji said he would hand over control of Sanrio to his 31-year-old grandson, Tomokuni Tsuji.\n\nIt marks the first change in leadership in the company's six-decade history.\n\nHello Kitty, a mouthless cartoon adorned with a trademark hair bow, has generated billions of dollars since its inception almost 50 years ago.\n\nThe simple line-drawn image has appeared on merchandise including clothing, toys and stationery. It is targeted mostly at young children, but in recent years it has also proved popular with adults.\n\nMr Tsuji will formally leave his role on 1 July.\n\nShintaro Tsuji started a gift company in the 1960s and quickly realised that the products featuring \"cute\" designs were his bestsellers.\n\nThat led to the creation of Hello Kitty, who has since become an iconic Japanese character.\n\nBut Kitty has competition: sales have been dropping inside Japan for years and Sanrio now depends on its increasingly fragile global business.\n\nSo, Mr Tsuji's decision to step aside comes at a turning point for the company.\n\nIn Japanese tradition, CEO founders strive to pass on their positions to family members. Mr Tsuji's son died of a heart attack in 2013, and so this is why his grandson is taking over.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji has already pledged to transform the company and to drop outdated ideas. Let's hope he's not referring to Hello Kitty, who is older than the company's new leader.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji, who is currently a senior managing director at Sanrio, will become the youngest CEO of a company listed on the Topix share index.\n\nHe coincidentally shares a birthday with Hello Kitty on 1 November, according to the AFP news agency. But he is 14 years younger than the character itself.\n\n\"I want to transform the company to better respond to today's rapidly changing business environment,\" he told a press conference on Friday.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold around the world and its image has even featured on a bullet train\n\nThere is even a Hello Kitty theme park in China\n\nSanrio, whose business has been declining for several years, has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnnual net profits fell by 95% in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, according to figures published on Friday. Sales were also down 6.5 % on the previous year.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold in 130 countries worldwide, with the range extending from prosecco to plimsolls.\n\nIt is also licensed for amusement parks and cafés, while last year a Japanese railway firm splashed the image on its bullet train, painted in pink and white.\n\nAlthough the brand typifies the Japanese trend for \"kawaii\" or cuteness, the character itself is identified as British because when she was created in the 1970s British culture was fashionable in Japan.", "It is not yet known whether the statue has been permanently damaged\n\nA statue of a Jamaican poet, playwright and actor has been covered with what appears to be a corrosive substance.\n\nThe monument to Alfred Fagon in St Pauls, Bristol, was erected in 1987 on the first anniversary of his death.\n\nMr Fagon was the first black person to have a statue erected in their honour in the city.\n\nIt was reported on Thursday to police, who said it was being investigated as criminal damage and inquiries were continuing.\n\nThe statue was erected in green space off Grosvenor Road on the first anniversary of Alfred Fagon's death in 1987\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it was liaising with Bristol City Council to establish ownership of the statue and to determine if it had suffered any permanent damage.\n\nIt comes after Black Lives Matter anti-racism protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nSince that statue was toppled several other statues around the UK of people linked to the slave trade have been removed, or it has been announced that they may be taken down.\n\nMr Fagon's sister-in-law, Judy Malone-Fagon, said if it was vandalism, it was \"ignorant and idiotic\".\n\n\"It's the only statue to a black person in Bristol, who would do something like that?\" she said.\n\n\"It's shocking. Alfred didn't do anything to anyone but he would definitely have laughed at it, he was so much bigger and better than that.\"\n\nAnton Phillips, an actor and friend of Mr Fagon, said following the \"dumping\" of the Colston statue it \"doesn't surprise me\".\n\n\"My memory of Alfred is he quite liked to laugh at things,\" he said.\n\n\"So I don't think he would have been angry, he would have laughed his head off about the absurdity of it and might have written something about it.\"\n\nHe was born in Jamaica in 1937, the third of nine brothers and two sisters.\n\nAt the age of 18 he came to England to work on the railways before joining the army before moving to Bristol to work as a welder in the 1960s.\n\nOne of his first plays, No Soldiers in St Pauls, explored the social tension between the police and the black community in 1970s Bristol.\n\nHis final role was in the BBC's Fighting Back, set in St Pauls.\n\nHe died suddenly from a heart attack on 28 August 1986 outside his flat in Camberwell, London.\n\nAt the time police claimed they were unable to identify him and he was given a pauper's funeral.\n\nThe annual Alfred Fagon Award was named after him and is for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, care chiefs in England say.\n\nAn Association of Directors of Adult Social Services report says a lack of testing in England may have sped up the spread of coronavirus in care settings.\n\nADASS also said the impact of Covid-19 meant many care providers faced financial problems.\n\nThe government said funding was being put in to local care services.\n\nAn extra £3.8 billion has also been provided to councils to fund social care, it added.\n\nThe ADASS report on the impact of the pandemic on care services is based on a survey of 146 out of the 151 directors of social care in English councils.\n\nThey point to the problems caused by the rapid discharge of patients from hospitals into care homes in the first weeks of the pandemic.\n\nMore than half of directors believe people were not tested before being discharged. They also raise concerns about a lack of checks on whether the homes people were going to had enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nJames Bullion, president of ADASS, said: \"Just assuming the homes could cope, and assuming that homes had the PPE to cope, wasn't the right thing to do.\n\n\"And that tells us that social care was an afterthought rather than a forethought of a whole system approach to discharge and that has had terrible consequences.\"\n\nHe said it was right to try to move people out of hospital at that time.\n\nBut he added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we learn the lesson that you can't think about the health service without thinking about social care.\"\n\nWren Hall nursing home in Nottinghamshire has seen 16 of its residents die with Covid-19.\n\nIt saw its first case on March 24, but managers do not know how the virus got into the home.\n\nWren Hall did take people discharged from hospital. Most had been tested, but sometimes that was days before they were transferred.\n\nAnita Astle, the home's managing director says it has been a deeply distressing time, emotionally and financially.\n\n\"The first thing is losing people we cared about and didn't expect to lose. Our staff teams were grieving, but at the same time we were aware that we needed to fill beds for for financial viability and job security.\n\n\"We did feel under pressure to take people from hospital, whether or not they were Covid positive, because we needed to keep the business going.\"\n\nBut she said that, if there is a second wave of coronavirus, care homes would make very different decisions.\n\n\"We won't be taking positive people from hospital. We will be consulting our staff team and families of those we're supporting and we'll create a plan that meets those people's requests and expectations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic most directors said they were concerned about the financial viability of some of the care providers in their area.\n\nNow with the extra costs of PPE, staffing and with care home vacancies resulting from the pandemic, a quarter say they are worried about the ability of most of the companies in their area to survive.\n\nAnd 7% say they are worried about the sustainability of all local care providers.\n\nThey are calling for the government to provide more funding to help stabilise the care system.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Adult social care will continue to get all the support and resources they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn for local authorities to help address pressures on local services, including in in adult social care, and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lady Antebellum - now Lady A - with the three Grammys they won in 2010\n\nChart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.\n\nThe Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones.\n\nThe word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War.\n\nThey say they took the name from the architectural style, but are \"deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to \"the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced\" and \"blindspots we didn't even know existed\".\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 originally took their name from the antebellum style of home after taking their first band photos in front of one such house almost 14 years ago, they said.\n\n\"As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us,\" they wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. Causing pain was never our hearts' intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that.\"\n\nThe group are best known for their hit Need You Now, which reached number two in the US, and the top 20 in the UK, in 2010.\n\nBjork's record label has also changed its name\n\nThey said they made the decision after \"personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues\".\n\nThey added: \"We can make no excuse for our lateness to this realisation. What we can do is acknowledge it, turn from it and take action.\"\n\nTheir move comes after British record label One Little Indian, which has released music by Bjork, Sigur Ros and Paul McCartney's side-project The Fireman, changed its name to One Little Independent.\n\nFounder Derek Birkett said he'd made the decision after a fan explained why the name - which uses an outdated term for the indigenous people of the Americas - was \"offensive\".\n\n\"The last few weeks have been a monumental learning curve,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\n\"Following the receipt of an eye-opening letter from a Crass fan that detailed precisely why the logo and label name are offensive, as well as the violent history of the terminology, I felt equally appalled and grateful to them for making me understand what must be changed.\"\n\nHe went on to explain that the label had been founded in the late 1970s, when his friends were inspired by the \"philosophies of the Indigenous People of the Americas\".\n\n\"I was naive enough at the time of founding my label to think that the name and logo was reflective of my respect and appreciation of the culture,\" he said. \"I recognise now that both contribute to racism and should have been addressed a long, long time ago.\"\n\nThe name changes come as the music industry seeks to address its complicated history with race, in the wake of George Floyd's death and Black Lives Matter protests around the world.\n\nThe term \"urban music\" has been scrapped by Republic Records, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, while the Grammys have announced they will stop using \"urban\" to describe music of black origin in their awards categories.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Activists angry at Brazil's response to Covid-19 have created 100 graves on Rio's Copacabana beach to remember the more than 40,000 people who have died.\n\nHowever, organisers said supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the event with one man pulling out crosses.\n\nThe president's opposition to lockdowns and his downplaying of the virus have deeply divided the nation.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest number of cases - and the third-highest number of deaths in the world.\n\nOn Thursday, deaths passed 40,000 and cases rose to above 800,000, according to the health ministry.\n\nThe symbolic graves, with black crosses, were dug before dawn opposite the Copacabana Hotel by members of the Rio de Paz group.\n\nOrganiser Antonio Carlos Costa told Reuters news agency: \"The president has not realised that this is one of the most dramatic crises in Brazil's history.\n\n\"Families are mourning thousands of dead, and there is unemployment and hunger.\"\n\nBut he said some supporters of the president had mocked the project.\n\n\"They feel such rage - and I think they're reproducing the behaviour of the person occupying the highest position in the land,\" he said.\n\nOne man went around knocking down the crosses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus\n\nOnly the US has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than Brazil figures from Johns Hopkins University show\n\nBut even as the numbers of deaths and cases continue to rise, the country's two largest cities reopened shopping malls on Thursday.", "Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week.\n\nThe UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year.\n\nBoth sides were due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December.\n\nOn Friday, the UK formally confirmed it will not extend the transition period.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said in a tweet that he had chaired a meeting with the EU Commission's Maros Sefcovic in which he said the \"moment for extension has now passed\".\n\n\"On 1 January 2021 we will take back control and regain our political and economic independence,\" he added.\n\nA UK government spokesman said both sides had also agreed an \"intensified\" schedule of weekly talks throughout the month of July.\n\nThis will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow, he added.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she was \"looking forward\" to the meeting, while UK chief negotiator David Frost said he was \"very pleased\" an \"intensified talks process\" had been agreed.\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 he said the government's policy on not extending the transition period - during which the UK stays in the single market and customs union - \"remains valid\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the Commons the UK will \"under no circumstances\" accept an extension to the transition period.\n\nHe said the EU's Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier had indicated progress can be made on issues including fisheries and state aid. but some EU member states had been a \"little more reluctant\".\n\n\"I think it would be in everyone's interests, EU member states, the Commission, and of course the UK government, if Michel Barnier were able to use the flexibility that he has deployed in the past in order to secure an arrangement that would work in everyone's interests,\" he told MPs.\n\nIt comes after Mr Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at last week's negotiating round.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart Mr Frost said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Michael Gove, Maros Sefcovic said it would be \"extremely useful\" if the UK could provide technical clarifications on customs IT systems at Northern Ireland ports by the end of June.\n\nHe added that he wanted to have \"the specialised committee meetings organised in the course of summer so we can, I would say, bring the momentum into these discussions\".\n\nHe added: \"We can also proceed with important conclusions in early September because time is really pressing and the clock is ticking, and I think we need tangible results in that process.\"\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "St Athan is one of two sites listed for the lithium ion battery plant\n\nThe firm behind a proposed battery factory which could create 4,000 jobs has listed a site in Wales as its \"preferred option\".\n\nBritishvolt, which wants to produce batteries for electric vehicles, said it will build its factory in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, or Coventry.\n\nThe Welsh town is already home to an Aston Martin electric car plant, which opened fully in December 2019.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"very pleased\" St Athan was shortlisted.\n\nBritishvolt's chief operating officer, Orral Nadjari, who studied at Cardiff University for seven years, said St Athan was a \"very good location\" for the factory, which would bring £1.2bn of investment.\n\nBritishvolt COO Orral Nadjari said St Athan was the \"preferred destination\" of the factory\n\nHe said: \"We're looking to build a 'gigaplant' that is roughly 1km long, 500m wide and 30m high, so it's a huge undertaking, and something as big as that doesn't really just fit anywhere.\n\n\"The direct dialogue that we've had with the Welsh Government has been going on now for a couple of weeks, and the readiness and preparedness that they've shown us has been extremely interesting, hence now why they're in the running for our site location.\"\n\nBritishvolt said it was offering between 3,500 and 4,000 direct jobs at the site, but denied it was marketing itself to the highest bidder in order to get more funding.\n\n\"I am being very honest and open about the fact that Wales is the kind of preferred option,\" Mr Nadjari added.\n\n\"We are not marketing or trying to sell to the highest bidder because the Welsh Government is doing an exceptional job and they are the preferred destination.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We have been working with Britishvolt on this project for a significant period of time and we are very pleased they have shortlisted Bro Tathan as a location for its landmark gigafactory.\n\n\"We firmly believe that Bro Tathan provides a compelling case, particularly for a company looking to become one of the greenest battery producers worldwide.\"\n\nTim Williams, from the Welsh Automotive Industry, said the proposal was \"excellent news for Wales\".\n\n\"If this comes off, and hopefully it will, then we're talking about 3,500 new jobs directly and probably a multiplier of two in the supply chain,\" he said.\n\n\"The Welsh Government need to be as bold as they possibly can be. This is such a huge investment, such a big number of jobs and the Welsh Government over many years has had a very, very successful record in bringing in large projects.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"fantastic that we can talk about Wales as being a leading contender\" for the UK's first gigafactory.\n• None Welcome to St Athan - Please drive carefully © Jaggery -- Geograph Britain and Ireland The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suffolk Police officers ask for the black couple's details \"because we can\"\n\nAn exchange in which a police officer accused a black woman of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" was \"clumsy\", a deputy chief constable said.\n\nTwo officers had asked a black couple outside their Ipswich home for their details, saying \"because we can\".\n\nWhen the woman complained, an officer said: \"You've just jumped on the bandwagon in the current climate.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable of Suffolk Police, Rachel Kearton, said it would be investigated internally.\n\nThe exchange, filmed on the woman's mobile phone, has been viewed on Twitter more than 1.5m times after it was shared by the couple's daughter, Maja Antoine.\n\nIn the video, the officers appear to want to check a driving licence because the couple had \"paid attention\" to them while they worked on an operation on the same street on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by maja This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said in her tweet: \"My parents were stopped and questioned in their own driveway for 'driving a motor vehicle on the road', and 'because they can'.\n\n\"It's suspicious to walk from your car to your house, while black. The UK is not innocent.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Suffolk, Miss Antoine said her first thought when her mother sent her the footage was \"people need to see that\".\n\n\"Everything we are fighting for is happening where we stand, to the point that it's my parents on their doorstep,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After everything calmed down my main feeling was anger because this shouldn't have been happening.\"\n\nAsked about an official apology due to be given to her parents on Friday, she replied: \"Until we see some sort of change in bias training I don't think I'm really impressed, but the apology was welcomed.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Kearton told BBC Look East she could see the incident was upsetting\n\nFranstine Jones, the former president of the National Black Police Association, said it was \"just not professional\" to ask someone for their details \"because we can\".\n\n\"It leaves me wondering about the mindset of our officers in Suffolk going out on the street doing their policing,\" she said.\n\n\"If they think every interaction with a black person - if they are not happy about the way they are being spoken to, or the way they are being treated, or asking for an explanation - that officer is going to think 'oh here we go, they are just jumping on the bandwagon'.\n\n\"It's really disappointing. It makes me fearful.\"\n\nDCC Kearton said body-worn camera footage and the online video were being examined and the matter investigated by the force's professional standards team.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for us to have a long, hard look at how we conduct ourselves,\" she explained.\n\n\"It isn't always perfect, we do have mistakes and weaknesses, however, we do care for our communities and we do hold very close to our hearts our sense of professionalism and integrity and to do the right thing and respect all of our members of our communities to keep them safe.\n\n\"That is what was at the heart of what the police officers were trying to do, however it appears to have been carried out in a clumsy fashion which will be dealt with by the constabulary and we will do better in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was created less than three months ago, but has already grown into perhaps the most expensive intervention by a British government to support the jobs market.\n\nJust under nine million jobs are currently having their wages paid by the taxpayer through the pandemic shutdown, and for the first time, the HMRC has produced breakdowns of precisely where and which employers are using the scheme.\n\nShops and their suppliers are the biggest users of the scheme, claiming £3.3bn of £17.5bn total to furlough 1.6m workers.\n\nThen it's hotels and restaurants, claiming £2.6bn to park a further 1.4m workers.\n\nThat is followed by manufacturers whose factories have been shut claiming £2.1bn for 831,000 workers.\n\nEverything from mining to education, health, waste, and estate agents are represented.\n\nBy region, the pattern is of course the more employees, the greater the use of the scheme.\n\nTwo million jobs in London and the South East, and 628,000 in Scotland, have been funded by the scheme.\n\nPerhaps the most fascinating data is the breakdown by council and parliamentary constituency.\n\nAlmost all of the 650 MPs in the UK have more than 10,000 constituents who have been furloughed.\n\nIt is an average of 13,000. But within that there are considerable variations.\n\nMainly London constituencies with larger populations of employed people top the list, with West Ham having 29,300 furloughed jobs.\n\nSome very interesting patterns emerge if this data is compared with the number of jobs in the constituency.\n\nNearly half of jobs in Brent Central in North West London - 45.4% - are furloughed, paid for by the taxpayer.\n\nFeltham and Crawley, close to Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, are in the top 10 too.\n\nBut Glasgow East, Blackpool South and Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria are also in the top 10.\n\nThese figures show just how far spread is the reach of this scheme, and perhaps, just why it had to be extended by the chancellor into the autumn.", "The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in England is continuing to fall, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAround one in 1,700 people were infected between 25 May and 7 June, or 33,000 individuals, compared to one in 1,000 before then.\n\nThe figures are based on 20,000 tests on people in private households.\n\nEveryone in the study was tested whether they had symptoms or not.\n\nThe ONS figures are thought to give a good picture of the proportion of people infected with the virus in the community - but they do not include infections in hospitals and care homes.\n\nHowever, there are wide margins of error around the figures because they are based on small numbers of people testing positive.\n\nAs of 11 June, there were 202 more deaths reported in the UK, taking the total number of deaths with a positive test for Covid-19 to 41,481 since the epidemic began.\n\nIn this analysis, 19,933 people from 9,179 households carried out their own swab tests of their throat and nose, which look for the presence of the virus.\n\nJust 11 individuals from eight households tested positive for coronavirus, allowing statisticians to come up with estimates for the whole population.\n\nAt the end of April, the percentage of the population in England testing positive was 0.4% - now it's less than 0.1%, the ONS says.\n\nThat means an average of 31,600 new infections occurring per week in private households, or 4,500 per day.\n\nThe ONS analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the general population with researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester and Public Health England.\n\nThe NHS test and trace scheme in England identified 31,000 close contacts from 8,000 people testing positive during its first week of operation, up to 3 June.\n\nBut only two-thirds of cases shared details of their close contacts so they could be followed up and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere is no new data on how many people have already had the virus, using antibody tests of blood samples from people in households.\n\nThis is estimated to be around 7% in England as of 24 May.", "Vaughan Gething said it was a \"real issue\" having a prime minister who used \"offensive language\" in the past\n\nBoris Johnson's previous remarks about about black and ethnic minority people were \"deeply offensive\", Wales' health minister has said.\n\nLabour's Vaughan Gething said it was an \"issue\" having a prime minister who had used terms such as \"watermelon smiles\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the comments made when he was a journalist back in 2002.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said he judged Mr Johnson on his actions as an elected politician.\n\nDuring the BBC's Question Time, Mr Gething said the prime minister's comments, made in an article he wrote for the Daily Telegraph, were \"deeply offensive\".\n\nWriting in 2002, before then-Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr Johnson said: \"What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.\"\n\nIn the article, he added: \"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.\"\n\nMr Johnson apologised for the comments in 2008, during his successful campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'I will not support those who flout the rules on social distancing'\n\nMr Gething also criticised Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price's comments, \"comparing the experience of Wales with colonialism\", when he called for reparations last year.\n\n\"It is a real issue. For people who look like me, having a prime minister who used language like watermelon smiles and piccaninnies, it mattered,\" he said.\n\n\"Just as someone comparing the experience of Wales to colonialism and the African American experience, it matters and it's offensive\".\n\nMr Buckland said he judged Mr Johnson on his actions as an elected politician, not on something he wrote 15 years ago.\n\nThe Conservative MP said: \"I would say that journalists write lots of things, write lots of polemic and lots of things they would later come to regret or later choose to regret.\n\n\"I can't speak for him about something that might have been written 15 or so years ago. I've got to judge a person on his actions as an elected politician.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he wants \"economic justice\" from Westminster\n\nAt a party conference in October 2019, Mr Price said Wales was owed \"reparation for a century of neglect that has left a country, rich in its resources, a bitter legacy of poverty, sickness, blighted lives and broken dreams\".\n\nHe was criticised and the issue came up again in a later interview during the general election campaign, when Mr Price said Wales had an \"extractive economy\" and \"political power centre outside of our nation\".\n\n\"For most people that is analogous, if not identical, to the experience of colonialism,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have faced racial prejudice in Wales'\n\nPlaid Cymru later conceded Mr Price was \"wrong\" to call for reparations for Wales without referring to the country's role in empire.\n\nResponding to Mr Gething's comments, Plaid MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"When we are looking at the real big issues in the UK, one of the petty things we do is bring it down to personalities.\"\n\nShe said Mr Price had called for an \"independent inquiry into structural racism in Wales\" and was leading calls for a Welsh BAME museum.", "An extended catch-up plan for England's schools is to be launched for the summer and beyond, to help pupils get back on track amid school shutdowns.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the plans would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are expected to fare worse during closures.\n\nIt comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the break.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer called for a national recovery plan for schools, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nMr Johnson said at Wednesday's daily briefing that the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return as now planned in September.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the aim remained to have all pupils back in school for the start of the academic year, but gave no details about how ministers intended to achieve this.\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing and separating out existing classes into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils from much larger class sizes.\n\nWhen the spokesman was asked about increasing this capacity, by creating extra classrooms or using village halls for example, he said the government was \"looking at exactly what might be required to get all children back\".\n\nThe Scottish Government, which is bringing pupils back in staggered fashion from August, has said it will be working with local councils to seek out extra community spaces and empty offices to accommodate pupils, where necessary.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran has called for a register to be drawn up in local areas to map out where spaces could be brought into school use.\n\nThere are few details of how the summer catch-up plans will work. A further announcement is expected next week.\n\nIt is not clear whether this catch-up work would be offered in school buildings or elsewhere, or whether teachers would be asked to staff the programme.\n\nThe general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, said the plan was the latest in a long line of eye-catching announcements that would suffer from a lack of input from the teaching profession.\n\nHe said it was not credible to think academic catch up could be achieved over the summer, and warned that the impact of enforced isolation on young people was little understood but likely to be significant.\n\nBut he said support was clearly needed for pupils over the summer, and urged the government to fund a locally co-ordinated offer involving youth groups and charities.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, warned last week that there were just two weeks left to set such summer learning projects up.\n\nAnd the House of Commons Education Committee chairman, Robert Halfon, has called for a Nightingale Hospital style plan to get schools back to capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups, and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June, but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, but with some continued home learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Face coverings will also be compulsory on public transport in England from Monday\n\nRide-sharing giant Uber is to make it mandatory for passengers and drivers to wear face coverings from Monday in the UK.\n\nThe minicab app firm said it was taking measures \"to help everyone stay safe\" and had introduced measures to give drivers access to protective equipment.\n\nFace coverings will become compulsory on public transport and in hospitals in England from Monday.\n\nIt comes after a study suggested masks could cut Covid-19 spread by up to 40%.\n\nUber drivers in London will have to submit a picture of themselves to verify they are following the new rules before they can begin working.\n\nOther measures include trialling in-car partitions in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, distributing more than two million masks to drivers and sending out 54,000 units of cleaning spray and hand sanitiser.\n\nUber's regional general manager for northern and eastern Europe, Jamie Heywood, said: \"For months we've been urging people to stay home, for their safety and the safety of drivers who make essential trips.\n\n\"Now, as cities begin to reopen and people start moving again, we're taking measures to help everyone stay safe and healthy every time they use Uber.\"\n\nResearch on face coverings has been described as \"slim\" by many authorities, and for health professionals there's always been the fear of a rush to snap up medical-grade masks.\n\nBut studies in laboratories have shown not only how far droplets can be spread by coughs but also how various kinds of materials can dramatically reduce how many of those droplets do get through.\n\nA homemade mask will not do a great job of protecting you but may reduce the chances of you infecting others.\n\nAnd if enough people follow that advice, the risks of the infection spreading are brought down.\n\nThere have been passionate disagreements over this within the world of science.\n\nAnd even advocates would agree that the public wearing masks will not defeat the virus on its own; but it's a potentially useful extra tool as we come out of lockdown.\n\nFrom Monday, face coverings will be compulsory on public transport in England.\n\nScotland already recommends wearing coverings in shops and on public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople in Wales are asked to wear three-layer face coverings on public transport and other situations where social distancing is not possible.\n\nFace coverings on public transport are also recommended in Northern Ireland.\n\nAccording to government figures, the average person in England made 10 taxi or private hire vehicle trips last year with an average duration of 20 minutes per trip.\n\nMore than a third of all licensed vehicles in England are registered in London. Uber said its platform was used to complete 10 billion trips worldwide in 2018.", "The most deprived parts of England and Wales have been hit twice as hard by coronavirus as wealthier areas, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nAnd London had significantly more deaths from coronavirus per 100,000 people than any other region.\n\nMortality rates are \"normally higher in more deprived areas\" and coronavirus appeared to be \"increasing this effect\", an ONS statistician said.\n\nIn England, once you adjust for the age of population, there were 128 deaths involving Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the population in the most deprived areas.\n\nThe least deprived areas saw less than half that rate (60 deaths per 100,000) in March, April and May.\n\nHow many deaths involving coronavirus have there been in your neighbourhood? Privacy notice\n\nThe BBC uses the postcode you enter here to provide the data on coronavirus deaths for your neighbourhood. We do not process any other data and as such, the limited information you provide will not identify you. The map and data on deaths are provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Neither the BBC nor the ONS store this postcode data or any other personal information from this map.\n\n\n\nThe full ONS Privacy Policy is here, although all cookies and data collection for analytics mentioned in that policy have been stripped from this map. If you have any questions about how the BBC processes data, please read our Privacy and Cookies Policy.\n\n\n\nMap notes\n\n1. Points on the map are placed at the centre of the local area they represent and do not show the actual location of deaths. The size of the circle is proportional to the number of deaths\n\n2. To protect confidentiality, a small number of deaths have been reallocated between neighbouring areas\n\n3. Deaths occurring between 1 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 and registered by 6 June 2020\n\n4. Figures exclude death of non-residents and are based on May 2020 boundaries\n\n5. Coronavirus (COVID-19) was the underlying cause or was mentioned on the death certificate as a contributory factor (ICD-10 codes U07.1 and U07.2)\n\n6. Locally adopted MSOA names are provided by House of Commons Library. While these names are not officially supported for National Statistics they are provided here to help local users\n\n7. Figures are provisional.\n\nIf you can't see the map click here. For more details on the map scroll to the bottom of this page or see the full ONS release here.\n\nIn Wales a similar pattern was seen, with a rate of 110 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 in the most deprived areas - nearly double the rate of 58 deaths per 100,000 in the wealthiest areas.\n\nThere was also a clear link between coronavirus mortality and how densely populated an area is.\n\nBetween March and May, the most built-up areas, classified as a \"urban major conurbations\", like Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, experienced 124 Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nIn contrast, across \"urban cities or towns\", like Preston and Brighton, there were 74 Covid deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nThis shrank to 48 in rural villages and 23 per 100,000 in the most sparsely populated areas of England and Wales.\n\nBroadly, the more people who come into contact with each other in a given area, the better infection spreads.\n\nThere may also be some overlap with the deprivation effect.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Friday, the national medical director of NHS England said many of the risk factors that can heighten the risk of Covid-19 - such as diabetes, obesity and lung disease - are seen \"more frequently in more deprived areas\".\n\nProf Stephen Powis added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we narrow the gap in health inequalities.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the briefing that the government was \"dedicated\" to tackling health - and other - inequalities.\n\nNine out of the 10 local authorities with the highest mortality rate from coronavirus, adjusted for age, were in London.\n\nBy May the outbreak had shifted away from London and the region with the highest age-adjusted Covid-19 mortality rate was the north east.\n\n\"General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but Covid-19 appears to be increasing this effect,\" says Sarah Caul, the ONS's head of mortality analysis.\n\n\"Although London had some of the highest Covid-19 mortality rates in the country during March and April, it is now experiencing lower mortality rates compared with most areas.\"", "Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is to stand down from his role as editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper.\n\nOsborne took on the job in March 2017, after having held the nation's purse-strings from 2010-2016.\n\nHis replacement is Emily Sheffield, a columnist on the newspaper, BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan confirmed.\n\nOsborne is moving to the more managerial role of the newspaper's editor-in-chief.\n\nEmily Sheffield [L] is the sister of Samantha Cameron, the wife of ex-prime minister David\n\nRajan said the print title will continue for now but is in \"desperate financial trouble\".\n\nIn response, the incoming editor tweeted that the newspaper \"remains a core element to this outstanding legacy news organisation.\n\n\"It has survived this crisis and it will survive many more,\" added Sheffield.\n\nThe newspaper's owner, Evgeny Lebedev, said he was \"delighted\" Sheffield was taking the helm at the newspaper and was \"very pleased\" Osborne would be editor-in-chief.\n\nOsborne thanked his colleagues at the newspaper and said of his replacement: \"She will bring creativity, commitment and experience to the job - and take the Standard, online and in print, through the next exciting chapter in its long history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amol Rajan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne is also chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and holds a £650,000-a-year post advising the investment fund BlackRock.\n\nLast year he was made chairman of a panel of advisers to Exor, which owns the Italian football club Juventus and has major stakes in Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Emily Sheffield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum and he stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.\n\nAccording to The Guardian, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Evening Standard's circulation was about 800,000 daily copies in the capital, but it was struggling due to an industry-wide decline in advertising revenues.\n\nDue to its reliance on readers using public transport, the Evening Standard was reported to have distributed just over 423,000 copies a day in April, after the nation went into lockdown.\n\nOsborne's replacement, Sheffield, will remain director of a female news brand she launched called This Much I Know, and will be \"tasked with making it a digital first operation\" added Rajan.\n\n\"That's a extremely difficult challenge for a title so heavily dependent on print for its income,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As an ad-funded title reliant on footfall, the Standard has been devastated by the pandemic.\"\n\nLast month the industry's auditor said newspapers will no longer have their sales figures automatically published.\n\nThe Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which records and audits sales, usually publishes figures every month.\n\nBut ABC said publishers were growing concerned about a \"negative narrative of decline\" in newspaper sales.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters found dead in a park after a party nearly a week ago were murdered by a stranger, police say.\n\nNicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park off Slough Lane in Wembley, north-west London.\n\nThey had met friends in the park at about 19:00 BST last Friday to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nA pond and tonnes of rubbish, which may contain vital evidence, are being searched by police.\n\nThe sisters' bodies were found shortly after 13:00 on Sunday and post-mortem tests revealed they both died from multiple stab wounds.\n\nInvestigators are searching a large area, including a pond, in the park\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said on Friday: \"We can now say with some certainty that Nicole and Bibaa were murdered by someone who was unknown to them.\"\n\nHe said investigators were searching a large area, including a pond, and trawling through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish which may contain evidence that was accidentally cleared from the scene.\n\n\"We believe the suspect received injuries during the incident which have caused significant bleeding,\" he said.\n\n\"Do you know anyone who has been wounded in the last week who is unable to account for their injuries?\"\n\nPolice believe the killer left the park via the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nThe sisters and their friends had been in part of a park which was about a five-minute walk from the Valley Drive entrance to the park.\n\nMr Harding also urged anyone who was in the park on Friday evening through to Sunday lunchtime and saw the group or noticed anything suspicious to come forward.\n\nExtra resources have been brought in to help the investigation from across the Met, including additional detectives.\n\nA 36-year-old man arrested in south London on suspicion of murder was released with no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA trade deal with the EU based on the UK's \"very reasonable\" demands is still possible, cabinet minister Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after the two sides admitted little progress had been made in the latest round.\n\nHe said he \"very much\" hoped a no-deal outcome to the talks could be avoided if the two sides worked together.\n\nHe was speaking after EU negotiator Michel Barnier accused the UK of \"backtracking\" on its commitments.\n\nThe French official said differences remain in four key areas - fisheries, competition rules, governance and police cooperation.\n\nGuidelines for these issues were included in the political declaration, agreed by the UK and EU last year, which set out objectives for a future relationship.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Barnier said: \"My responsibility is to speak to truth and, to tell the truth, this week there have been no significant areas of progress.\"\n\nMatt Hancock said he hoped 'no deal' could be avoided\n\nHe added: \"In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack under commitments undertaken in the political declaration, including on fisheries. We cannot and will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration.\"\n\nThis week's discussions - held online - were seen as the last chance to make progress ahead of a summit between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, expected to take place later this month.\n\nThe UK has until the end of June to ask for the \"transition period\" - during which the country stays in the single market and customs union - to be extended into next year. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"We have always been open to the possibility of an extension of one or two years - as is possible under the exit agreement. And our door remains open.\"\n\nAsked about the prospect of a no-deal exit from EU rules at the UK's daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said: \"I very much hope that we avoid that because our position is very reasonable\n\n\"It's that any agreement we reach must reflect the fact that the UK is an independent sovereign state.\n\n\"And we're working very hard and will accelerate the work to make progress in talks by the end of the year so that we can put into place the vision that has already been agreed between the UK and the EU which is based within the political declaration.\"\n\n\"Plus ça change,\" you could say.\n\nRound four of EU/UK trade negotiations after Brexit comes to an end. Cue yet another dismally downbeat assessment from the EU and the UK's chief negotiators.\n\nBut I don't belong to the growing \"No deal is becoming the most likely outcome\" school of thought.\n\nOn the contrary, both sides insisting loudly that their position will not waver (on all issues linked to national sovereignty for the UK; on all issues linked to the single market for the EU) is also a way of trying to reassure audiences back home that their interests will be protected, while privately considering what compromises they're prepared to make.\n\nSift carefully through the rhetoric of EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nAmong his words of disappointment at the lack of progress, plus accusations that the UK is constantly \"backtracking\" on commitments, you'll find clear indications of wiggle-room in Brussels: a possible softening of EU demands on state aid rules and fishing quotas and an admission from Mr Barnier, that, if a deal were close this autumn, there would almost certainly be a \"dense\" period of last-minute negotiations.\n\nNo compromise clues from the UK yet, though.\n\nIt's not too late. But concessions will be needed from both sides for even a very narrow deal to be agreed by the UK-imposed deadline of the end of this year.\n\nA senior UK negotiating official told the BBC their side was prepared to accept some tariffs if they were needed to reach a deal with the EU.\n\nThe UK was \"committed\" to sticking to the political declaration, but the document had been designed to set out only the \"parameters\" of discussions, they added, and was not a treaty.\n\nUK chief negotiator David Frost said: \"We continue to discuss the full range of issues, including the most difficult ones. Progress remains limited but our talks have been positive in tone.\n\n\"We are now at an important moment for these talks. We are close to reaching the limits of what we can achieve through the format of remote formal rounds.\"\n\nUK officials told the BBC they would prefer to move to face-to-face talks but acknowledged that might not be possible just yet.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January. The transition period lasts until 31 December and keeps the UK bound to most EU rules.\n\nThe sides currently have until then to reach a free trade deal, needed if they want to do business without tariffs, quotas or other barriers in future.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first minister Arlene Foster said she was \"concerned\" about the current state of the talks.\n\n\"For both our sakes I hope that we get to a situation where we get a deal because that's what we need in Northern Ireland,\" she told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast.\n\n\"We need to make sure that both sides understand that it is to both sides' benefit and that's something that I think the European Union often didn't get in the negotiations from 2016 onwards.\"\n\nBusinesses - hit by the coronavirus pandemic - have raised concerns over a possible \"cliff-edge\" break to the UK's remaining access to the EU single market at the end of the year with no replacement deal.\n\nThe CBI business group called progress in the talks \"worryingly slow\", adding that this was causing \"deep concern to firms when resilience has rarely been more fragile\".", "Jamie Brown (left), whose father, Tony, died of Covid-19 in March, wants an urgent public inquiry\n\nRelatives of 450 people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic are demanding an immediate public inquiry.\n\nThe families want an urgent review of \"life and death\" steps needed to minimise the continuing effects of the virus and a guarantee that documents relating to the crisis will be kept.\n\nA full inquiry would take place later, says lawyer, Elkan Abrahamson, who is representing the families.\n\nThe government has said its current focus is on dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group say immediate lessons need to be learned to prevent more deaths, and that waiting for ministers to launch an inquiry will cost lives.\n\nThe call for an inquiry comes as a report from the National Audit Office - assessing the readiness of the NHS and social care in England for the pandemic - has shown it is not known how many of the 25,000 people discharged from hospitals into care homes at the peak of the outbreak were infected with coronavirus.\n\nHealth and Social Care Select Committee chairman Jeremy Hunt said it seemed \"extraordinary that no one appeared to consider\" the risk.\n\nThe Department of Health says it took the \"right decisions at the right time\".\n\nMinisters have insisted throughout that their response to the pandemic has been based on scientific advice.\n\nBut for Jamie Brown, whose father, Tony, died of Covid-19 in Colchester General Hospital on 29 March, two-and-a-half weeks after travelling into central London by train, the government's decision to lock down on 23 March came too late.\n\nJamie, 28, who said his father made the journey once a week at most, believes his death was preventable.\n\n\"I can't help but believe that if we'd entered lockdown sooner he wouldn't have been exposed in the way he was,\" he said.\n\nTony Brown, 65, became ill with a dry cough and a temperature on 17 March. He was bedridden but was adamant he would \"wait out\" the illness at home.\n\nHe appeared to be getting better but on 28 March he developed chest pains.\n\nBy the following morning his family were so concerned they called an ambulance, and soon after Tony reached hospital he had a cardiac arrest - caused by respiratory failure - and died.\n\nJamie said government advice to \"stay at home\" meant his 65-year-old father did not seek medical help early enough.\n\n\"He was trying to wait it out and if you wait too long it turns out it kills you really quickly,\" he said.\n\nHe added that a detailed public inquiry into the broader handling of the crisis in the UK must eventually take place, but right now he believes it is crucial that a limited inquiry starts as soon as possible.\n\n\"We need to learn the lessons immediately from what has gone wrong to get us to this point,\" he said.\n\nThe group of families, which has 450 members and is expected to grow further, is supported by the Liverpool-based law firm Broudie Jackson Canter that acted for the Hillsborough families.\n\nTheir lawyer Mr Abrahamson has backed their call for an early phase to any inquiry, with full proceedings taking place once the pandemic is over.\n\n\"What we need to look at straightaway are the issues which are life-and-death decisions,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We expect there will be a second spike. We want to know what the government is going to do when that happens.\"\n\nMr Abrahamson said an early phase to a public inquiry would also help clarify government plans for fully reopening schools and easing the lockdown and lay out the science behind these decisions more clearly.\n\nThe government has rejected calls for an early start to any public inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"At some point in the future there will be an opportunity for us to look back, to reflect and to learn some profound lessons.\n\n\"But at the moment, the most important thing to do is to focus on responding to the current situation.\"\n\nThe National Audit Office's report into the readiness of the NHS and social care in England for the pandemic said 25,000 people were discharged from hospitals into care homes between 17 March and 15 April. That was 10,000 fewer than the same period last year.\n\n\"It is not known how many had Covid-19 at the point of discharge,\" said the report.\n\nIt said NHS England and NHS Improvement advice at the time was to urgently discharge from hospital \"all patients medically fit to leave\" in order to free up bed space for coronavirus patients.\n\nThe advice was changed on 15 April but the NAO noted that, as of 17 May, one in three care homes had declared a coronavirus outbreak, with more than 1,000 homes dealing with positive cases during the peak of infections in April.\n\nIt follows a separate report by care chiefs in England, who said there were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said 60% of all care homes had avoided outbreaks entirely.\n\nMr Hunt, a Conservative MP and former health secretary, said: \"It seems extraordinary that no-one appeared to consider the clinical risk to care homes despite widespread knowledge that the virus could be carried asymptomatically.\n\n\"Places like Germany and Hong Kong took measures to protect their care homes that we did not over a critical four-week period.\"\n\nLatest government figures show another 151 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, taking the country's death toll to 41,279.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Please 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.", "Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.\n\nThe Premier League will also support any player who chooses to 'take a knee' before or during matches.\n\nPlayers in Germany have made gestures of solidarity with people protesting about the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"We, the players, stand together with the singular objective of eradicating racial prejudice,\" read a statement.\n\nIn a joint message from all 20 clubs, players added that they were committed to \"a global society of inclusion, respect, and equal opportunities for all, regardless of their colour or creed\".\n\nA Black Lives Matter badge will feature on all playing shirts for the rest of the season alongside a badge thanking NHS staff for their work during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBBC Sport has learned that Watford captain Troy Deeney played a pivotal role in the discussions between club captains and the Premier League, alongside Leicester City's Wes Morgan.\n\nDeeney's girlfriend, Alisha Hosannah, has designed the Black Lives Matter badge that will be used on the players' shirts.\n\nSeveral Premier League squads have already 'taken a knee' in training-ground images shared on social media, and anti-racism charity Kick It Out had asked that players feel free to do so on the pitch.\n\nThe Football Association has said it will take a \"common sense approach\" to such protests.\n\nFour players, including Borussia Dortmund's England forward Jadon Sancho, were initially investigated by the Bundesliga authorities for making clear their support for anti-racism demonstrations in the wake of the death of 46-year-old Floyd in police custody in the United States last month.\n\nNone was subsequently punished and the German Football Association said it would continue to allow such displays of support over the coming weeks.\n\nThe Premier League resumes behind closed doors on 17 June after a three-month suspension caused by the pandemic.\n\n'It's a great start, but I then want to see something tangible'\n\nFormer England, Newcastle and Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas, who made 280 Premier League appearances between 2002 and 2013, hopes the campaign for change continues beyond those first 12 games.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: \"It's brilliant that all the clubs and the players have come together and said that this is what they want. I think it's a great message because the Premier League is one of the most powerful businesses in the world.\n\n\"I'm all for it in terms of the representation and for each club and player to be doing it. But I think the question on most people's lips is: what next?\n\n\"What about the week after? Does it just fade out and it's 'OK, we did our little bit and it's gone now'. Or are we actually going to see some real change within our game, our own house?\n\n\"There's been huge conversations about the lack of opportunities for black coaches. We need to quash all of that by starting to implement [diversity] at the hiring level of management, at the top clubs and within the FA.\"", "Protecting a statue of Winston Churchill from potential vandalism by boarding it up is \"absurd and shameful\", the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said the war-time leader expressed opinions that were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\nProtesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the Parliament Square tribute last weekend.\n\nLabour said the PM should address the concerns of those demonstrating.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC he wanted to hear that Mr Johnson \"understands the deep hurt and anger that black people in our country feel\".\n\nIn a series of tweets, Mr Johnson said monuments like Churchill's were put up by previous generations as he urged people to \"stay away\" from demonstrations amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Friday evening Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nLeaders of the march urged those in attendance to keep the demonstration \"peaceful\" and not to join any anti-racism rallies planned for the weekend.\n\nHundreds protested at Trafalgar Square in London on Friday evening\n\nHundreds of campaigners surrounded Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square after walking from Hyde Park, as around two dozen police officers watched on.\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph war memorial, in nearby Whitehall, has also been covered.\n\nIn Poole, Dorset, a statue of Scouts movement founder Robert Baden-Powell is to be cladded instead of removed.\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected.\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the river in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson says it is \"absurd and wrong\" that statues must be covered to protect them\n\nMr Johnson said that, while he understood \"legitimate feelings of outrage\" at Mr Floyd's death, the \"only responsible course of action\" was to \"stay away from these protests\".\n\nThe prime minister said the demonstrations had been \"hijacked by extremists intent on violence\".\n\nMr Johnson added that whatever people's feelings about the cause they should not support a demonstration which \"in all probability\" would \"end in deliberate and calculated violence\".\n\nBoarding around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was erected overnight\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was ready to tackle violence directed at officers or property following disorder at anti-racism protests last weekend.\n\nCommander Bas Javid said both Black Lives Matter protestors and right-wing groups would be dealt with using the same tactics but urged all parties to stay at home and make their voices heard in other ways.\n\nHe added it was accepted \"a very, very small minority\" were intent on engaging in violence last weekend but the force \"absolutely don't condone... violence of any kind\".\n\nImages appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph and attempt to set a flag alight\n\nWhile Churchill is credited with helping lead the Allies to victory in World War Two, some critics accuse him of racism because of comments he made about Indians.\n\nThe Grade-II listed bronze tribute to the former home secretary and prime minister was installed in 1973 at the north-east corner of Parliament Square, opposite the Carriage Gates entrance to the Palace of Westminster.\n\n\"It shows Churchill as a powerful, stocky, figure in a naval overcoat leaning informally on a stick and gazing, somewhat defiantly, towards the Houses of Parliament,\" according to Historic England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nOn Tuesday, a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nA petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester received nearly 5,000 signatures.\n\nThe National Trust confirmed a \"degrading\" statue of a black man has been removed from the grounds of Dunham Massey Hall in Greater Manchester.\n\nAnd the NHS trust which runs Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London has said it will remove statues of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton - both linked to slavery - from public view.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?", "The new rules will apply to goods coming into the UK from the European Union\n\nChecks on EU goods coming into the UK will be phased in next year to give firms \"time to adjust\", as ministers formally ruled out extending the Brexit transition period beyond 31 December.\n\nThe UK had committed to introduce full import controls on EU goods in January.\n\nBut coronavirus has forced a rethink, with firms able to defer customs forms and tariff payments for six months and some physical checks delayed to July.\n\nBusiness welcomed what ministers said was a \"pragmatic and flexible\" step.\n\nBut, in response, the EU said it would implement full checks on UK exports at the start of 2021.\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said the EU would not see the UK's move as a \"concession but rather a pragmatic move by a country that's not ready to implement full checks by then\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK left the European Union at the end of January, but the transition period - during which existing trading rules and membership of the single market and customs union apply - lasts until the end of the year.\n\nOpposition MPs have been pushing for it to be extended, with the Scottish and Welsh first ministers warning that exiting the current trading arrangements in just over six months time would be \"extraordinarily reckless\" given the economic damage and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus epidemic.\n\nMinisters from the two devolved administrations withdrew from a scheduled conference call with UK ministers on Friday evening in protest at their decision to rule out a delay, saying their views had been \"dismissed\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said he had \"formally confirmed\" to the EU that the transition period will not be extended, adding that the \"moment\" for such a move had \"now passed\".\n\nHowever, there will be an about turn, in the short term at least, on the checks carried out on imports.\n\nIn February, Mr Gove said full import controls were \"necessary\" from 1 January to keep UK borders \"safe and secure\" and to collect the appropriate taxes.\n\nUnder the revised plan, checks on goods entering Britain will be phased-in in three stages up to the summer of 2021, regardless of whether a deal is done with the EU or not.\n\nNew border facilities will be built in order to process the required checks either at ports, or where there is not enough space, at \"inland sites\".\n\nMinisters said they would consult with ports about what new infrastructure was needed and where it should be located.\n\nThe proposals only apply to rules on imports, with checks on exports to the EU being determined by Brussels.\n\nMr Gove said the arrangements would be introduced in a way that gives businesses affected by coronavirus \"time to adjust\" but conceded \"more work\" was needed to ensure the UK was ready.\n\n\"From 1 January we will be outside the customs union and outside the single market so it's appropriate we have checks on goods coming in to the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"But it also appropriate that we take account of what's happening with the coronavirus. And we want to make sure business has an opportunity to adjust in a pragmatic and flexible way.\"\n\nFirms are expected to have to fill in 200 million extra customs declarations every year and industry experts have said an extra 50,000 customs officials will need to be hired to deal with the extra paperwork.\n\nMinisters have announced £50m in extra funding to support the new customs infrastructure, for IT systems and for recruiting and training new customs brokers and freight forwarders.\n\nMichael Gove was a prominent figure in the Leave campaign, and in charge of preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt was no surprise, then, that he announced in February that full border controls would be implemented at the end of the transition period.\n\nBut now the new system will be \"phased in\" - with some companies having up to six months to complete customs declarations.\n\nThe government maintains that this is a \"pragmatic\" way to help businesses which have struggled under the coronavirus yoke.\n\nBut his critics say that it is a sign of Mr Gove's dogmatism, not pragmatism - that he is determined to end, rather than extend, the transition period.\n\nCritics in his own party are far more concerned about what they see as a lack of preparedness. Only today did the government commit to building new border facilities.\n\nThat, in itself, may be a further sign that trade talks with the EU are not making good progress.\n\nA leading figure involved in the negotiations last week conceded that a completely tariff-free deal may elude them.\n\nAnd some say the government, practically rather than philosophically, isn't yet fully prepared for the reality of life outside the EU.\n\nThe Freight Transport Association said ministers had listened to its \"concerns\" while business lobby group, the CBI, said the move was \"pragmatic and sensible\".\n\n\"It will be welcomed by Britain's manufacturing and food businesses, which simply aren't ready for chaotic changes with our biggest trading partner at the end of the year,\" said its deputy director general Josh Hardie.\n\nThe CBI also welcomed news that Boris Johnson will meet the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament remotely on Monday, as attempts to secure a trade deal with the EU are stepped up.\n\nThe negotiating teams have also agreed to \"an intensified timetable\" for July after the fourth round of negotiations last week failed to reach a breakthrough.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nRobert Jenrick has defended his decision to approve a controversial planning application by a Conservative donor as the Metropolitan Police said they would not be taking any action.\n\nThe housing secretary told MPs he had acted in \"good faith\" and \"within the rules\" when he backed Richard Desmond's scheme for 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nHe said he had handed relevant documents to No 10's top official.\n\nLabour called for an inquiry to clear up the \"bad smell\" over the decision.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to grant planning permission in January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, and the secretary of state has said what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe application, previously rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nThe housing secretary has been under political pressure after it emerged that Mr Desmond raised the issue with him at a Conservative fundraising dinner in November and, two weeks after planning permission was granted, donated £12,000 to the Conservative Party.\n\nPressed on the issue in the House of Commons, Mr Jenrick said it was \"not unusual\" for the secretary of state to reach a different conclusion from councils or planning inspectors on the most \"contentious\" applications.\n\n\"I took that decision in good faith, with an open mind, and I am confident all the rules were followed in doing so,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said \"all the relevant information\" relating to the decision had been handed to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the UK's most senior civil servant, who opposition parties are demanding hold an inquiry.\n\nRequests for further documentation would be considered where appropriate, he added, bearing in mind the \"legitimate interests\" of the parties involved and the fact the application had yet to be settled.\n\nMr Jenrick rejected claims of impropriety in relation to his contacts with Mr Desmond.\n\nHe said officials were aware he had \"inadvertently\" found himself sitting next to the businessman at the November dinner and he had been clear that he could not discuss the application when Mr Desmond raised it.\n\n\"I discussed and took advice from my officials in the department at all times,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a question from the SNP's Tommy Sheppard, he also revealed that the matter had been looked into by the police following a complaint and he had been told there were \"no criminal matters to investigate\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nThe Met confirmed it received an allegation on 27 May relating to a property development in east London.\n\nIn a statement, it said. \"The details were assessed by officers from the Special Enquiry Team who concluded the information provided did not meet the threshold for a criminal investigation.\n\n\"There will be no further police action at this time.\"\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate which said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council subsequently challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must do more to reassure people about the integrity of the planning process and dispel concerns that it could be \"auctioned off\".\n\n\"The only disinfectant that can clear the bad smell hanging around this decision is honesty,\" said shadow housing secretary Steve Read.\n\n\"Mr Jenrick must immediately publish all correspondence about this case to allow full public scrutiny of what he's been up to.\"", "Della Morgan spotted this twister just north of Brecon in Powys\n\nTornadoes have been spotted across two counties - as parts of Wales were hit by thunderstorms.\n\nEyewitnesses glimpsed the first just five miles north of Brecon in Powys on late Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThen 40 miles away at Bont Goch, east of Talybont in Ceredigion, another twister was caught on camera.\n\nRebecca Charnock said she stopped her car to grab a quick shot, before the swirling clouds \"fizzled away\".\n\nRebecca Charnock was stopped in her tracks by this twister in Ceredigion\n\n\"I did start to wonder what it was - and then thought 'crikey - I need a picture',\" said Ms Charnock.\n\n\"It was coming towards me, and I thought 'I wonder where it is going to go?\n\n\"But then it just fizzled out and it was gone.\"\n\nMoving away - the Brecon tornado on the horizon\n\nThe Brecon sightings were captured by Della Morgan and her husband.\n\n\"I said quick, quick, come outside,\" said Mrs Morgan\n\n\"We watched it descend, it moved around and then dissipated.\"\n\nThe tornado can be clearly seen making its way across the ridge above farmland.\n\nThe weather events were captured following a day of warnings for thunderstorms across much of Wales.\n\nFurther alerts have also been issued for Wednesday between 12:00 and 21:00 BST for more storms.\n\nThe yellow warning from the Met Office covers all but far western tips of Wales, with a small risk of flooding and lighting strikes.", "Bong Joon-ho directed last year's Oscar-winning film Parasite, the first non-English language film to win best picture\n\nNext year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Academy Awards were due to take place on 28 February next year but have now been put back until 25 April.\n\nOrganisers have also agreed to extend the eligibility window beyond 31 December 2020 to the end of February.\n\nNext year's British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) have been pushed back to 11 April, keeping in line with the Oscars.\n\nThe pandemic has already halted work on a number of films which were due to be released by the end of the year.\n\n\"This is a much needed boost for those films who may have been stalled in post-production,\" an Academy member told Variety.\n\nThe red carpet is a big draw for Oscar fans\n\nLast week, The Academy pledged to ensure greater inclusivity in its future award ceremonies, to \"level the playing field\".\n\nIt also said there would always be 10 films in the best film category rather than a fluctuating number between five and 10, potentially meaning more diverse film choices in the running.\n\nThis rule won't come into play until 2022, however.\n\nThe ceremony has been pushed back to Sunday 11 April 2021. It was due to take place on 14 February.\n\nThis keeps it in line with the Oscar changes - the Baftas traditionally take place two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards.\n\nAnd like the Oscars, Bafta has also changed its eligibility criteria.\n\nFilms that had an official release date that fell during the lockdown period will now still be eligible if they choose to debut on video on demand services.\n\nMarc Samuelson, chair of Bafta's film committee, said: \"We have pushed back by two months to give all films the best possible chance to be released and considered properly.\"\n\nThe Oscars has only been delayed three times before - due to LA flooding in 1938; after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968; and following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nIt's not yet known if the ceremony will be virtual or in person as it is too early to say.\n\nDavid Rubin, president of the Academy - the body behind the Oscars- and its CEO Dawn Hudson said: \"For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times.\n\n\"They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone's control.\n\n\"This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark an historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.\"\n\nNominations will be announced on March 15, 2021.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently changed its rules so films that debut on streaming or video on demand services are eligible for next year's awards.\n\nThe current rules say films can only enter if they have been shown in a Los Angeles cinema for at least a week.\n\nBut with cinemas shut during the coronavirus crisis, organisers said a \"temporary\" exception was necessary.\n\nMany film releases have been delayed, with others going straight to digital.\n\nThe Oscars is not the only big entertainment event to have been affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe prestigious Tony theatre awards were due to take place earlier this month but were postponed and a new date is yet to be announced.\n\nSome events have been cancelled, including last month's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The first symptoms appeared in Callum O'Dwyer on 23 March, the day the UK went into lockdown\n\nTwelve weeks after his first Covid-19 symptoms, 28-year-old Callum O'Dwyer is still not better.\n\nA fit and healthy young man, he had no underlying health conditions before he caught the virus.\n\nBut after five weeks fighting off the main symptoms, he could no longer look after himself and had to move in with his parents.\n\nRecovery has taken much longer than he imagined and his ongoing symptoms mean he still can't live on his own or work.\n\nDoctors have told Callum he has post-viral fatigue, a hangover from coronavirus which is affecting many survivors.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was just hours away from announcing lockdown in Scotland on 23 March when Callum first felt ill.\n\nCallum O'Dwyer reached a stage where he felt he could not look after himself, even though the virus was gone\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's Drivetime with Fiona Stalker: \"I had actually just picked up stuff for my home office to start working from home.\n\n\"I felt really fatigued and then nausea and then hour-by-hour it was like an advent calendar of new symptoms - a fever started to develop and then more things kicked off.\"\n\nHe added: \"For 10 days I was off my feet with what felt like a really really bad flu. I had never been as sick as that and it was very full-on. Early on, I suspected it was likely to be Covid.\"\n\nAnother thing Callum developed was a persistent shortness of breath and on two occasions he had to call 111 because he was struggling to breathe.\n\nAfter two weeks most of his symptoms went away and he was left with shortness of breath, fatigue and muscle weakness. They were severe and his doctor said he had hit a post-viral phase in his recovery.\n\nCallum said: \"I was resting in my bed for six to eight hours a day and I was struggling to pick things up. I am a 28-year-old guy and not long ago I was running races.\n\n\"I had a one litre water bottle and I was struggling to pick that up at arms' length, I was that weak.\"\n\nCallum, from Aberdeen, is still suffering severe fatigue twelve weeks after first showing symptoms\n\nHe was rationing his energy to do the things he had to - washing dishes, washing clothes. He was struggling to have phone conversations without feeling pain in his abdomen from talking. And mentally not being able to speak to anyone left him in \"a bad place\" .\n\nHe said: \"I was unwell in my flat by myself. It constantly felt like I was seeing false summits, thinking I was getting better, I could get over this, but then it got worse again, then it got better and then worse again.\n\n\"I made a decision after five weeks that I physically couldn't look after myself anymore.\"\n\nFree from the virus, he moved into his parents' house a few miles away.\n\nHe said: \"I was deeply depressed. I moved back into my parents' to effectively get care.\n\n\"The first day I got here I was struggling and in pain to get up the stairs.\"\n\nCallum has improved but now, 12 weeks later he still feels shortness of breath, triggered by any exertion.\n\nHe said: \"It's so frustrating. I am at 12 weeks and there has been so much false hope. I currently can't live independently and I can't work and that's a very difficult circumstance.\n\n\"When we talk about Covid we talk about life and death and there is no conversation about people being affected months later. I think we should put support measures in place for people.\"\n\nDr Geraldine McGroarty was in hospital with coronavirus at the same time as the prime minister\n\nScottish surgeon Geraldine McGroarty has had a similar experience. She caught Covid-19 at the same time as Boris Johnson at the end of March.\n\nShe too was looked after in intensive care in London. But like Callum O'Dwyer, she is still struggling daily.\n\nShe said: \"I'm doing okay. I was hit quite badly with post-viral symptoms which was surprising considering how well I felt when I came out of hospital.\n\n\"The last couple of weeks have been a real struggle. Particularly with fatigue. Having very low energy and difficulty forming thoughts and having conversations. It has been very unexpected.\"\n\nThe newness of the Covid-19 virus means that no one has yet been able to study how long it might take to recover from it, and what the long-term implications could be.\n\nDr McGroarty said: \"Certainly looking at research those who have had a more severe Covid, especially those who have been hospitalised in critical care, tend to be more susceptible to having the post-viral condition, the most common symptom being fatigue.\n\n\"And looking at the studies in countries affected before ours, we can expect it to last up to about six months in some cases with a very slow recovery.\"", "When Valentina Blackhorse tested positive for coronavirus, she texted her sister and told her not to worry.\n\nA former pageant queen, Valentina was known for her love of her Native American Navajo heritage, her passion for helping others and her playful sense of humour. She doted on her one-year-old daughter, Poet, and worked as a government administrator, with dreams of leading her people some day as Navajo president.\n\nWhen coronavirus reached the reservation on which she lived, Valentina warned her family to stay indoors and take precautions. Weeks later her boyfriend Bobby fell ill and she tended to him at their home in Kayenta, a small town near the sandstone buttes of Arizona's Monument Valley.\n\nShe'd lived with rheumatoid arthritis her whole life, but soon her joint pain started to feel different, and breathing wasn't so easy. She took herself for a test and the results came back a week later, confirming her fears. The next day, when Valentina's breathing got worse, Bobby rushed her to a health clinic. She died hours later, aged 28.\n\n\"She overcame a lot of things in her life,\" said her sister, Vanielle. \"I thought she was strong enough to pull through.\"\n\n\"If we had better resources, maybe Valentina would still be alive\"\n\nValentina was one of the youngest victims of coronavirus in the Navajo Nation, a Native American reservation grappling with what is America's worst outbreak.\n\nSince Covid-19 was first reported in the Nation on 15 March, infection rates per capita have become the highest in the country when compared with any individual state.\n\nAs of 14 June, 6,611 cases have been confirmed. More than 300 people have died after contracting the virus as well - a toll higher than 15 states.\n\nThe Navajo Nation is the largest reservation of its kind, in both size and population. More than 173,000 people live within its borders, in pockets of communities spread across the deserts and canyons of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. If it were a state, the Nation would be larger than 10 others.\n\nThe Navajo - or Diné, as they call themselves - have lived in the region for centuries, but the Navajo Nation is an American construct. After US expansion forced thousands of Navajo to leave their homes, America carved out a stretch of land where they could maintain some sovereignty. In return, the federal government pledged to support its people with funding for education, healthcare and other services. The Navajo have contributed much to America's development. Perhaps most famously, Navajo soldiers invented a military code, based on their language, that kept American communications secure during World War Two.\n\nBut as coronavirus has swept through the reservation, it has underscored many of the social and economic inequalities that continue to affect the tribe - all contributing to one another, and all making the outbreak worse.\n\n\"If we had better resources, maybe [Valentina] would still be alive,\" said Vanielle.\n\nThe Navajo Nation's vast scale has made it difficult for residents to access resources during the outbreak\n\nMany residents struggle with money. The reservation's unemployment rate is approximately 40%, and a similar number live below the poverty line, earning less than $12,760 (£10,191) a year.\n\nThese factors exacerbate health problems among the Navajo and a third of the population suffers from diabetes, heart conditions and lung disease. In some cases, people have fallen ill after years of radiation exposure from hundreds of abandoned uranium mines dotted around the desert.\n\nSeverely limited access to healthy food also plays a role. The Navajo Nation spans 71,000 sq km (27,413 sq miles) but has only 13 grocery stores, forcing many residents to drive for hours to towns outside the reservation with better facilities. It is common for people from different households to travel in one vehicle during these excursions because they are unable to afford petrol, further heightening their risk of catching coronavirus.\n\nRelief efforts have been hampered by limited healthcare resources, too. The reservation's dozen medical facilities hold just 200 hospital beds - approximately one bed for every 900 residents, and a third the national rate. As a result, some coronavirus patients have been moved to makeshift quarantine facilities, while others have been transferred to hospitals outside the reservation.\n\nMany homes are multi-generational as well, making it easier for the virus to spread to elderly and vulnerable residents. A third of households have no access to running water or electricity either, making it hard for thousands of people to wash their hands regularly and to stave off infection.\n\n\"This is something that is year-round, it's been going on since we were put on reservations,\" says Emma Robbins, head of DigDeep, a charity that's delivering bottled water and improving access to running water in the Nation.\n\nMiss Navajo Nation Shaandiin P. Parrish is one of the volunteers who have helped distribute food and water\n\nMs Robbins was born on the reservation. She now lives nearly 600km (373 miles) away in Los Angeles, California, but is unable to return due to travel restrictions.\n\n\"I fear for my family and I fear for my friends,\" she told the BBC, tearfully. \"Hearing these stories and not being able to go home is really hard and I feel so hopeless.\"\n\nBut despite their hardship, Ms Robbins says she feels frustrated by the tone of victimhood that often colours discussions about her tribe.\n\n\"It's really trendy to do things surrounding the Navajo Nation in terms of 'Oh look how bad it is here,' but I don't think people highlight enough of the amazing efforts on the ground and the positivity,\" she adds.\n\nAbout a third of households on the reservation have no running water\n\nIn response to the outbreak, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs told the BBC it had taken \"unprecedented actions to support Indian Country,\" providing the Navajo with protective equipment, contamination trailers, and other technical assistance.\n\nThe Navajo Nation has also received $600m under the CARES Act, a $2tn economic stimulus package to shore up local economies and communities during the pandemic. But local authorities only received the money a month after the bill was signed into law. In the meantime, the Navajo and 10 other tribes successfully sued the US Treasury over funding disparities in the CARES Act for Native American groups.\n\nIn the midst of federal funding delays, the Navajo Nation had to rely on donations and its own resources in the crucial early weeks of the outbreak. Navajo President Jonathan Nez has co-ordinated the distribution of food and medical supplies to local residents, and introduced some of the strictest lockdown measures in the US - imposing a series of 57-hour weekend curfew.\n\nLocals are stepping in to help as well. More than $5.1m has been raised for the 'Navajo & Hopi Families Covid-19 Relief Fund' - a crowdfunding campaign started by former Navajo attorney general Ethel Branch. In an unusual twist, thousands of dollars have come from donors in Ireland - many paying respect to Choctaw Indians who, in 1847, donated $170 towards relief efforts in Ireland during the Great Hunger. With help from volunteers, Ms Branch has used the donations to deliver food, water and hand sanitiser to thousands of residents. But poor infrastructure has presented a challenge at times.\n\n\"There's one community that's really isolated and we're trying to figure out how to get food there,\" she told the BBC. \"The easiest way would be to go directly, but it's all dirt road, and if we stick to the pavement, that adds on another hour and a half.\"\n\nNavajo President Jonathan Nez (L): \"There's still much uncertainty right now, but I'm hopeful.\"\n\nLanguage barriers have also been a deciding factor in the Navajo Nation's response to the outbreak.\n\nAs with all public communications, it shares coronavirus updates in the Navajo language as well as English. This is driven by desires to maintain cultural heritage, but is a practical step as well because some residents speak only Navajo, or have limited English skills. In Navajo, coronavirus is translated as Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19, or Big Cough-19. But several residents have told the BBC they believe this translation downplays the severity of coronavirus.\n\nAmong them is Agnes Attakai, a Navajo Nation native and a director at the University of Arizona's School of Public Health. She said a renaming should be explored in consultation with traditional Navajo healers.\n\n\"You have to be respectful of using the language and not invite the negativity of that particular illness,\" said Ms Attakai. \"Once you start respecting and addressing it appropriately… people will be engaged more to change their behaviours rather than linking it up with cough and pneumonia.\"\n\nBut Navajo President Jonathan Nez said it was \"unfair\" to suggest the translation did not adequately convey the dangers.\n\n\"That's an excuse being played out there,\" he told the BBC. \"We're respecting our elders and our traditional teaching by avoiding utilising the word death and anything that would bring negativity or hardship on our people.\"\n\nLooking ahead, as surrounding states begin easing lockdown measures, many residents are concerned about a possible second wave of infections hitting the reservation.\n\n\"There's still much uncertainty right now, but I'm hopeful,\" said President Nez. \"You've got to be hopeful to be the leader of the Navajo people.\"", "A school cover of I'm Still Standing by Elton John found its way to the singer, who sent pupils a personal message to say it had \"really cheered me up\".\n\nThe video of the students' performance has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.\n\nIn the video message, Sir Elton said: \"I watched it three times in a row because I couldn't believe how good you sang and played it.\n\n\"You did something brilliant and made a brilliant version of I'm Still Standing.\"\n\nHe also promises the students from Telford Priory School, in Shropshire, will be guests at a future show in the UK.", "At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in April, the BBC reported on the devastating effect the crisis was having on organ transplants in the UK.\n\nA shortage of donors and space in intensive care units meant the transplant programme was struggling to continue, only the most urgent cases were going ahead and even they were under threat.\n\nIn April, the BBC spoke to Ana-Rose Thorpe who desperately needed a liver transplant. As a baby she had been infected with two strains of hepatitis which attacked her liver function. A few weeks after the report, Ana fell seriously ill, but then received some good news and a life-changing operation.\n\nThe BBC's health correspondent Dominic Hughes has been catching up with Ana-Rose’s story.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began, shoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were here for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\n\"We bought lots of handbags for my wife, because she loves to buy bags from TK Maxx,\" says Paul Sabato, 56.\n\n\"We came today because it was the first day. After three months being closed - we knew there would be good sales and there are.\"\n\nAnd Mr Sabato and his wife Jennifer Sabato, 44, have plans to return.\n\n\"We also bought some shoes and sunglasses. We spent £570 but this would be worth more than £1,000 normally. We're going to drop these bags at home then come back and see what sales there are at Zara.\"\n\n\"We came to buy my daughter some new clothes for work because she starts a new job on Wednesday in the H&M warehouse,\" says Arlene Dela Pena, 53, out shopping with Jessica, 20.\n\n\"I'm not worried about the virus because I work in a hospital and as long as I have my mask and sanitise my hands and keep distant, then I think it will be safe.\"\n\n\"We're here to buy clothes. There are some great bargains,\" says Sophie Quantick, 27.\n\n\"I got this dress for £20. We were here at 9.30. By the time we got to Zara there was a queue. It's like a theme park, you have to have a strategy.\"\n\n\"We wanted to put on makeup and be normal and have a normal shopping experience, even though we have been buying online during the lockdown,\" says Bryony Martin, 29. \"We have a rollercoaster mindset - what's the best shop? Go there first.\"\n\n\"We wanted to buy home stuff like these cushions,\" says Ahmed Khan, 33, accompanied by wife Zainab, 28, and baby Mirha.\n\n\"We moved into our new home in January, then we went to Pakistan for my brother's wedding and when we came back in April all the shops were shut.\n\n\"We came today because it's the first day the shops are open. We were expecting sales and there have been. We could have bought online but it's not the same experience.\"\n\n\"We came to buy summer clothes for the children. We went to Primark first but the queue was never ending so we went to H&M,\" says Erika Stara, 41, standing alongside her children Rebecca and Marco.\n\n\"I wanted to come today and get out and see people, and have some retail therapy.\"\n\n\"The queue and the social distancing mean it feels different here,\" adds Rebecca, 12.\n\n\"I bought nightwear and baby clothes because Primark was open. I'm pregnant and I've been waiting to get some baby stuff,\" says Shantel Brown, 35.\n\n\"Everyone keeps their distance. They've got sanitiser at the entrance. As long as we've got our masks on, we're fine.\"\n\n\"I bought tops, shorts and summer clothes. I came because mum forced me,\" adds her daughter Tee, 16.\n\n\"I came to pick up a new watch strap,\" says Greg Dulson, 68.\n\n\"The strap on my favourite watch broke and I brought it in to the watchmaker's the day before lockdown. They said come back tomorrow but it was closed.\n\n\"So I've been sulking. But now my favourite watch is back. I've had it 10 years.\"\n\n\"I bought a jumpsuit because Primark was open and the weather's getting better again,\" says Katie Kirby, 18.\n\n\"I did go just to get some essentials like pants and socks, but I when I saw the jumpsuit I had to treat myself because the shops haven't been open for so long.\"\n\n\"We do keep our distance in the store. We thought it would be a different shopping experience but once we were in there it was just the same.\"\n\nZac Hopkins, 21, adds: \"I bought a skipping rope so I can do some exercise at home. You can't go to the gym and they're sold out in lots of shops.\"\n\n\"I came to Hugo Boss because I wanted to buy some tracksuits for my two brothers and the shops have been closed for three months,\" says Tom Hunjan, 34.\n\n\"I bought myself one too. They're similar to what I'm wearing, but in white. The shop didn't have them in though so they're ordering them for me and I'll come back in a few days. Why do I like Hugo Boss so much? It's probably just marketing.\n\n\"I also needed some new boxer shorts because yesterday I noticed an inconveniently placed hole.\"\n\nAll photographs by Phil Coomes with reporting by Vivienne Nunis.\n• None Shoppers rush to the High Street as stores reopen", "Ken Skates made the announcement at the Welsh Government's daily news briefing\n\nEveryone aged over 16 in Wales will be offered help to find work, self-employment, education or training to help with the job losses expected in the coming months, a minister has said.\n\nFigures show the numbers claiming benefits in Wales have doubled compared with this time last year.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said the support scheme would use £40m from the Economic Resilience Fund.\n\nThe aim was to bring \"hope\" to people fearing losing their job, he said.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures there were 118,600 claimants in the middle of May, equivalent to 6.2% of 16 to 64-year-olds.\n\nMr Skates told the Welsh Government's daily news conference on Tuesday, coronavirus \"will have a huge impact on our labour market\".\n\n\"We've given hope to businesses that have faced a perilous situation and now we are preparing to deliver hope to people who question whether the virus will steal them of livelihoods,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure everyone over 16 in Wales gets the offer of support and advice to find work, to pursue self-employment or to find a place in education or training.\n\n\"Over and above existing skills and employment support, we are preparing to use an additional £40m from our Economic Resilience Fund to deliver this commitment.\"\n\nMr Skates said the plan was part of the Welsh Government's Covid commitment to the people of Wales.\n\nPlaid Cymru economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones called on UK and Welsh ministers to \"work closely to respond to the coming crisis\".\n\n\"Of course reflection is needed as we consider what building back better means, but when it comes to responding to the immediate crisis it is time for action,\" she said.\n\n\"We can't sit around discussing what might be needed when tens of thousands of people face falling off an economic cliff edge in August.\"\n\nMr Skates' news conference came after more than 70 mid Wales tourism businesses signed an open letter to the first minister calling for \"clear guidance and timescales\" on when tourism in Wales can be reopened.\n\nThey said the continued lockdown in Wales was \"out of step\" with the rest of the UK, and the \"stay away\" message was causing \"long-term\" damage to the industry.\n\nTourism in Wales directly supports about 120,000 jobs - almost 10% of Wales' workforce\n\nClwyd West Conservative MP David Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast there was \"certainty\" of bankruptcies, business failures and redundancies if the industry failed to reopen this summer.\n\nLast week, a group of Welsh tourism leaders warned the industry was on the \"brink of collapse\".\n\nAt the lunchtime news conference, Mr Skates said this season's prospects were looking \"much better\".\n\n\"My primary concern has been to ensure the industry is sustainable for the future,\" he told journalists.\n\n\"The prospects of having a 2020 tourism season are looking much better.\n\nBut he added: \"We will not just select an arbitrary date and say 'this is when we hope you will be able to open'.\n\n\"We need to make sure when we declare a date we are able to commit to that date.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Skates singled out 9 July as a possible day for when the Welsh Government \"hopes to be able to say something positive\" for the tourism industry.", "Snowdonia remains out of bounds to visitors, unless they are local\n\nFor the last three months large swathes of one of Britain's national park crown jewels has been shut to the public.\n\nWalkers have been barred from Snowdon and popular peaks, such as Tryfan or Cader Idris.\n\nOnce flowing with visitors, summits remain forlorn, only viewed from afar by those lucky enough to live nearby.\n\nNow, those tasked with caring for the park are looking at how they can reopen. For others, it is a time to ask - can we reopen differently?\n\nThey want to avoid the scenes that heralded lockdown back in March, when on the final weekend of the month, as coronavirus began to spread across the UK, roads to Snowdon and surrounding villages were crammed with cars, as visitors flocked to the beauty spots that make the park so special.\n\nThere will be no Snowdonia Marathon in 2020 - it has been moved to next year\n\nBBC Wales has been told that organisers of events planned across the 823 sq miles (2,176 sq km) of park have been asked to postpone until 2021.\n\nThe Snowdonia Marathon has already announced its race will be moved to next year.\n\nLockdown has meant fewer visitors - and fines for those who breach the rules to travel to the region.\n\nIt has also meant real pain for those relying on the park and tourism for a living - with cafes, B&Bs, hotels, restaurants and non-essential shops shut.\n\nReady to go: Emlyn Roberts is eager to reopen his bistro in Beddgelert\n\nBut coming out of lockdown too soon carries its own risks as Emlyn Roberts, owner of Bistro Hebog in Beddgelert, acknowledged: \"We've got everything in place, we're ready to go, our staff are eager.\n\n\"I'm also cautious that opening the gates to Wales too soon, too fast, could jeopardise everything.\n\n\"But I'm really keen to move on and, after all, it's a great place to do business. The business is there, it's just a matter of waiting to see when.\"\n\nElin Aaron runs the Gallt y Glyn hostel in Llanberis, a popular spot for hikers and locals.\n\n\"There's the conflict between wanting my business to be successful and to be here after the restrictions open, but also wanting to keep the community and my family safe - I've grown up in the area,\" she said.\n\n\"The balance of getting everything right - I don't envy whoever has to make the decision about when we can open, but it'd be nice to know so I can plan.\"\n\nHostel and restaurant owner Elin Aaron says there needs to be a balance for business and the area\n\nParts of Wales' two other national parks - the Pembrokeshire Coast and the Brecon Beacons - have already reopened to locals. As they look to the future, could the Snowdonia National Park Authority look at a different, more low-impact, model of tourism?\n\nJohn Harold thinks so. He is the director of the Snowdonia Society, a key partner of the park authority, established in 1967 by Esme Kirby and her husband Peter to protect the fragile mountain environment.\n\n\"This break, this time of people really rethinking things, gives us a chance to reset expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"Our expectations of what visitors will do and how they will behave when they're here, and visitors' expectations of what their experience will be - and that could be a positive change.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge of communication. We need to get the message out as widely as possible that - with a national park that's under pressure, doesn't have massive resources - we need everyone to play their part, be respectful and tread lightly.\"\n\nStill shut - the paths to the summit of Snowdon are closed to the public\n\nGwynedd council has confirmed to BBC Wales that they have asked event organisers in the area to postpone all events until next year.\n\nIn a statement, the council said: \"Due to the unprecedented situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gwynedd Safety Advisory Group have sent letters to all event organisers in the county.\n\n\"The message makes it clear that Gwynedd welcomes and supports events in the county, but under current conditions are encouraging organisers to postpone events which are due to take place in the next few months to ensure the safety and wellbeing of participants and local communities, as well as to avoid expenditure by event organisers during such an uncertain time.\n\n\"This is based on the current medical evidence and the likelihood that restrictions will remain in place for some time - especially regarding crowd events.\"\n\nThe Snowdonia National Park Authority has already indicated it will adopt a cautious approach to reopening the area.\n\nExpect only \"minor changes\" to lockdown rules in coming weeks, aimed at the local populations. Access to internationally famous locations will be some time off.\n\nPark officials said reopening Snowdonia would be \"cautious and measured and will be phased\".\n\n\"Our utmost priority has been, and remains, to protect our local communities and health services,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shopper Adam Marlow said Bicester Village was \"way too overcrowded\"\n\nMore than three thousand people have signed a petition calling for Bicester Village to temporarily close after hundreds of people were pictured at the shopping complex.\n\nPictures on social media appear to show people struggling to maintain social distancing at the designer retail outlet in Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe petition is calling for it to be closed until changes are made.\n\nValue Retail, which runs the complex, has been contacted for comment.\n\nAll shops in England are now allowed to open, but with strict safety measures.\n\nLaura Wicks, who launched the petition, wrote she was \"disgusted to see hundreds of people squashed into the street like Coronavirus never happened\" and called for the complex to keep their staff safe.\n\nBicester Village reopened to the public on Monday\n\nThe complex, which has 160 shops, said on its website visitors are temperature-scanned on arrival and they should keep a two-metre distance apart.\n\nShopper Adam Galbraith said keeping two metres was fine in the shops, but it was not being enforced \"well enough\" outside the shops at the luxury retail outlet.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"It was definitely way too overcrowded to adhere to social distancing.\n\n\"For a complex of that size they should know how many people can be in this place safely and keep two metres distance, and that for me wasn't monitored at all.\n\n\"What would have been better if they had the queues to get into the village outside, and gave customers a two-hour slot to do their shopping.\"\n\nHe added queues outside the shops, which allocated a time to shoppers using an digital queuing app, were less busy.\n\nSome shops at the shopping complex had digital queues\n\nShopper Dr Tesh Amarasinghe said she had her temperature checked with a thermal scanner and social distancing within the stores was \"excellent\", but she said there were difficulties maintaining the two-metre distancing in the outdoor walkways.\n\nThe GP, from Northampton, said: \"It kind of took away the point of distancing in the shop, if you're standing in a queue up to an hour really close [to others].\"", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "The report examined why black and Asian people faced the greatest risks from coronavirus\n\nDoctors have called for the recommendations of a report into the impact of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic people to be implemented immediately.\n\nThe British Medical Association said it was \"critical\" to carry out risk assessments of vulnerable groups and protect them at work.\n\nRacism could contribute to increased risks for BAME groups, the report said.\n\nCommissioned by Public Health England, it has seven recommendations.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, who chairs the council of the British Medical Association, told the BBC: \"It's important we now move forward and deliver those changes because it's the fair and right thing to do for our population.\"\n\nHe said more than 90% of doctors who had died during the pandemic were from BAME backgrounds. Doctors from these communities were also three times as likely to say they had felt pressured to work without sufficient protective equipment, he added.\n\nDr Nagpaul said the recommendation for risk assessments would mean workers at the greatest risk - in healthcare and other key worker roles - could be redeployed into safer roles, such as tackling the backlog of non-coronavirus illness in the NHS.\n\nThe daughter of care home worker Joyce Davis, who continued working until she died with coronavirus aged 79, has told the BBC she feels let down.\n\nDenise Davis said: \"She was in the frontline, there was no protocols in place for them, for the people working in the home and she did feel exposed.\n\n\"We know that these are the lower end of the scale, lower paid, lower everything and these are where you'll find most black and ethnic minority people - why is that?\"\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on Covid-19 inequalities and previously seen by the BBC in draft, said \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant black and Asian people were less likely to seek care when they needed or speak up if they had concerns about risk in the workplace.\n\nSome people from ethnic minority communities feared being deported if they went to hospital for treatment, the report said.\n\nIt was prompted by data showing that black and Asian groups had the highest death rates from coronavirus. People of Bangladeshi ethnicity had twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity, accounting for age and sex.\n\nThe report said the unequal impact may be explained by social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, differing risks at work and inequalities in the prevalence of conditions such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma, which can increase the severity of Covid-19.\n\nThe existence of this second report was revealed by Prof Raj Bhopal from Edinburgh University, following criticism that an earlier review contained no recommendations. Prof Bhopal said it had initially been \"suppressed\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme that the recommendations were \"absolutely excellent\" and could make England \"probably the world leader\" in addressing Covid-19 inequalities.\n\nProf Bhopal said it was particularly important to provide public health information in languages other than English and called for the daily Downing Street briefing to to be translated.\n\n\"Currently the messages are going out for a largely white middle-class British population,\" he added.\n\nSir Michael Marmot, an expert health inequalities from University College London, said much of the increased risk to black and Asian people was caused by social and economic deprivation.\n\n\"It's systematic. It's related to to overcrowding, it's related to occupation, and those in turn are related to life chances,\" Sir Michael said.\n\nHe said black, Asian and minority ethnic groups were more likely to have lost their jobs in the pandemic or to be working in public-facing roles where they were exposed to the virus. \"One way of describing that is racism,\" he said.\n\nHow has being black, Asian or from another ethnic minority impacted on your experience of the pandemic? Please tell us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk - you can choose to be anonymous if you wish.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 after taking part in a drug trial feels \"eternally grateful\" and believes she would have died without it.\n\nKatherine Millbank was given dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid treatment which UK experts believe is a major breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nMrs Millbank, from Buckinghamshire, left hospital on her 55th birthday and is now able to go for short walks and cycle rides with her husband Paul Millbank.", "Transport For New Homes highlighted existing developments near the sites of the planned garden villages that were based on car use\n\nEngland’s new garden villages and towns risk becoming car-dependent commuter estates, a report has warned.\n\nThe government promised the sites would be thriving communities - with jobs, shops and recreational facilities.\n\nBut research has suggested the garden villages may be little better than the reviled edge-of town estates they were supposed to supersede.\n\nThe government said the report was unfair because the settlements were still in their early stages.\n\nBut the researchers said they believed the 20 garden communities they assessed - still in various stages of the planning process - would create up to 200,000 households dependent on driving.\n\nThe report has come from Transport for New Homes, a group promoting alternatives to the car.\n\nIt has been supported by the RAC Foundation, which said most drivers did not want to need a car to visit the corner shop.\n\nWalking routes that abruptly end are highlighted as features of developments that make car use more likely\n\nThe garden village concept was devised to overcome problems of local resistance to housing estates bolted on to small towns.\n\nThe government's prospectus said these should be largely self-sustaining and genuinely mixed-use, with public transport, walking and cycling enabling access to jobs, education and services.\n\nBut the report found that:\n\nOne author, Jenny Raggett, said: “Garden villages were put forward as an alternative to characterless estates – but they may well end up with more tarmac than garden.”\n\nShe said this was especially regrettable as the coronavirus outbreak had prompted more people to walk and cycle – a move that was being encouraged by the government.\n\nWalking and cycling would be easier on well-designed and maintained routes and paths\n\nSteve Gooding, RAC Foundation director, said: \"The vision is laudable but is at grave risk of being missed. The reality looks set to ingrain car dependence.\n\n“Many of us will still wish to own and use our cars… but we don’t want to be forced to get behind the wheel for every trip we make.”\n\nThe report’s authors singled out Long Marston, a proposed 3,500-home Garden Village in Warwickshire. As a former airfield it was categorised as a “brownfield” site, which would help secure planning approval.\n\nThe developers’ prospectus said: “Long Marston Airfield will provide opportunities to live, work and socialise, all within 10 minutes of historic Stratford.\"\n\nThe report’s authors agreed the trip to Stratford was indeed 10 minutes – so long as you had a car.\n\nThey said there was no evidence the village would create employment, and they believed it would not be big enough to support a full range of facilities.\n\nMike Emett from Cala Homes told BBC News: \"It’s on a brownfield site in the countryside, so by definition it’s not near any town.\n\n“We are having a debate ourselves whether the settlement will be big enough to support higher facilities such as a secondary school”.\n\nA government spokesperson said: “Many of these settlements are in their early stages and we are continuing to work with local partners to get the right infrastructure in place.”\n\nHe said the majority of new garden communities on green field sites would have more than 40% of their area given over to green space accessible to all by foot and cycle.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales' first minister wants to create a National Forest running the length of the country\n\nWales is falling behind the rest of the UK in planting trees to tackle climate change, official statistics show.\n\nAbout 80 hectares of new woodland were planted in 2019-20, the lowest number for a decade.\n\nForestry experts said the figure - which amounts to just 4% of the Welsh Government's target of 2,000 hectares a year - was \"clearly disappointing\".\n\nThe government said it was taking \"significant steps\" to increase tree cover.\n\nAcross the UK, 13,460 hectares of new woodland were created in 2019-20, according to provisional figures compiled by government-backed forestry organisations.\n\nThis breaks down to 10,860 in Scotland, 2,330 in England, 200 in Northern Ireland and 80 in Wales.\n\nMore than 80% of the new planting occurred in Scotland, heralded as \"outstanding\" by the Scottish Government though it too missed its annual target.\n\nIn recent years, Welsh ministers have made several attempts to boost tree-planting rates here - including the launch of a new woodland strategy in 2018.\n\nThe latest goal - a personal ambition of the First Minister Mark Drakeford - is to create a National Forest, running the length and breadth of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, advisers at the Committee on Climate Change and charities such as the Woodland Trust urged increasing planting targets to beyond 5,000 hectares a year.\n\nThese latest figures underline the scale of the challenge, according to Rory Francis of the Woodland Trust in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are more than three billion trees in UK woods\n\n\"(They're) clearly disappointing, but we do understand that the Welsh Government has recently outlined ambitious plans for a Welsh National Forest and doubled the funding for Glastir Woodland Creation grants, both of which we hope will make a real difference.\"\n\nHe also said a \"new land-use policy… supporting tree planting in the right places\" was needed.\n\nPlans to replace the EU's agricultural subsidies with a new scheme that will include paying farmers to plant trees is set to be phased in from 2021 - though it is yet to be finalised.\n\nAnthony Geddes, National Manager for Wales at CONFOR - which represents the forestry industry - added the figures were \"disappointing\" but represent \"the mistakes of the past not the opportunities of the future\".\n\nWoodlands are a common sight in some of the mountainous areas such as Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons\n\n\"We know there is high demand out there to plant trees and, thanks to hard work from all parties, the funding and the processes are falling into place to respond to that demand and get planting,\" he said.\n\nMr Geddes pointed to the fact the Welsh Government received applications for more than 7,000 hectares of new planting in 2019 and, in response, ministers committed £8m to the Glastir woodland creation scheme - which gives grants for managing land.\n\nHe said forestry and timber already contribute 10,000 jobs and bring in £0.5bn to the economy annually.\n\nAbout 150,000 native trees will be planted at Gnoll Country Park over the next five years, creating a woodland the same size as about 100 rugby pitches\n\nA spokesman for the Welsh Government said due to \"the timing of Rural Development Programme funding, funds made available last year will support tree planting in the upcoming planting season this winter\".\n\n\"Last year we funded the planting of 1,500 hectares of trees to re-stock existing woodland,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman said the government had also \"launched a new window of the Glastir Woodland Creation scheme, with a fourfold increase in the budget to £8m, which could significantly contribute to funding for 2,000 hectares of new planting\".\n\n\"Work has also begun to establish a National Forest across Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week we launched a new scheme to create new woodlands near local communities. We will run a number of demonstration projects this year, including a £2.1m community woodland scheme launched earlier this month.\"", "An F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed into the North Sea on Monday\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been found dead.\n\nThe F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed shortly after 09:30 BST while on a training mission.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, thought to have crashed 74 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast, was found earlier.\n\nThe cause of the crash is currently unknown.\n\nCol Will Marshall of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath said: \"The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We will not release the name of the pilot until after all next of kin notifications have been completed.\n\n\"This is a tragic loss for the 48th Fighter Wing community, and our deepest condolences go out to the pilot's family and the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\"\n\nThe F15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage this morning from the Yorkshire coast showed fog shrouding the North Sea\n\nThe 48th Fighter Wing shared an image of three jets in flight on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAF Lakenheath This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 October 2015, US pilot Maj Taj Sareen died when his F-18 Hornet jet crashed on farmland near RAF Lakenheath.\n\nAn investigation found the 34-year-old had not reported problems with his aircraft to engineers prior to take-off, because he was concerned it would delay his colleagues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A donation of £250,000 to help fund women's football in Scotland will be a weight off a lot of people's minds, according to Scotland midfielder Leanne Crichton.\n\nEdinburgh philanthropist James Anderson gave the cash after his £3m contribution to the men’s game last week.\n\nThe money will go to the Scottish Football Partnership Trust to help sustain the women’s game during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nQuote Message: At the top end of the game we have fought this hard to get there and to stay there is the most difficult part. But there are so many young girls missing football, missing their friends and facing uncertainty with their clubs and resources. I just hope the focus will be on keeping the top end of our game alive but also more importantly making sure exactly what was there for the younger generation will still be there when we get back at it again. from Leanne Crichton Scotland midfielder At the top end of the game we have fought this hard to get there and to stay there is the most difficult part. But there are so many young girls missing football, missing their friends and facing uncertainty with their clubs and resources. I just hope the focus will be on keeping the top end of our game alive but also more importantly making sure exactly what was there for the younger generation will still be there when we get back at it again.", "Fans can expect more live events, some related to the game and others about music and film\n\nGamers in a virtual queue to join a much-anticipated live Fortnite event were left disappointed as servers hit capacity one minute after fans had been asked to join.\n\nThere were some 12 million in-game players, and a further 8.4 million watched via Twitch or YouTube.\n\nThe event marked the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3 for the Battle Royale game.\n\nLarge events like this are likely to become the norm, thinks one expert.\n\nFortnite is one of the world's most popular online multiplayer games, with 350 million registered players according to developer Epic Games.\n\nThe event - dubbed The Device - began with players gathered around The Agency, a central building on the island the game is set on. Players were transported to a not-seen-before office, and the event ended with the island surrounded by walls of water.\n\nSeason 3, which has been delayed, is due out on June 17 at 07:00 BST.\n\nThe much-anticipated Doomsday event had come with a warning from Epic that servers might reach capacity quickly and, when they did, it recommended gamers watch the event via Twitch or YouTube.\n\nAfterwards the firm tweeted: \"We were overwhelmed by the response to The Device. At 12 million players in-game we capped participation for stability while 8.4 million more watched live on Twitch and YouTube. As we push the edge of what live events can be, we're improving systems so more of you can experience them in-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 Fortnite This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLockdowns around the world have seen more and more people flocking to gaming, and Fortnite has seen a surge in virtual meet-ups during the pandemic as it bids to become a destination rather than just a game.\n\nNearly 28 million watched a virtual Fortnite concert by rapper Travis Scott, and in May it aired a trailer for a forthcoming movie, Tenet. Another live concert featured Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki and deadmau5.\n\nResearch firm Ampere Analysis's gaming expert Piers Harding-Rolls told the BBC such events would become \"more numerous as Epic tests ways to expand the game into a social interactive platform for content, or artists that reside outside of the game\".\n\nNot all fans will want the in-game experience, but for those who do he thinks it is \"unrealistic for Epic to lay on lots of new servers to deal with a spike in demand\".\n\nEpic Games, which also owns the popular chat app Houseparty, now has a valuation of about $17bn (£13.4bn), according to Bloomberg.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the sounds of honeybee queens \"tooting\" and \"quacking\"\n\nScientists using highly sensitive vibration detectors have decoded honeybee queens' \"tooting and quacking\" duets in the hive.\n\nWorker bees make new queens by sealing eggs inside special cells with wax and feeding them royal jelly.\n\nThe queens quack when ready to emerge - but if two are free at the same time, they will fight to the death.\n\nSo when one hatches, its quacks turn to toots, telling the workers to keep the others - still quacking - captive.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Scientific Reports.\n\nDr Martin Bencsik, from Nottingham Trent University, who led this study, described the tooting and quacking of these \"wonderful animals\" as \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"You can hear the queens responding to each other,\" he said.\n\n\"It has been assumed that the queens were talking to other queens - possibly sizing one another up vocally to see who is strongest.\n\n\"But we now have proof for the alternative explanation.\"\n\nTooting, the researchers found, is a queen moving around the colony - announcing her presence to the workers.\n\nThe quacking is from queens that are ready to come out but are still captive inside their cells.\n\nThe queens are not talking to each other, explained Dr Bencsik, \"it's communication between the queen and the worker bees - an entire society of tens of thousands of bees trying to release one queen at a time.\n\n\"Quacking queens are purposefully kept captive by the worker bees - they will not release the quacking queens because they can hear the tooting.\n\n\"When the tooting stops, that means the queen would have swarmed [split the colony and set out to find a new nest] and this triggers the colony to release a new queen.\"\n\nDr Bencsik said bee society was \"absolutely splendid\" to observe.\n\n\"All decisions are group decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the worker bees that decide if they want a new queen or not.\"\n\nPollinating insects face numerous threats, including from pesticides, habitat loss and climate change. And Dr Bencsik pointed out that beekeepers - and the hives they provide - are crucial for honeybee survival in the UK.\n\nThe researchers hope this eavesdropping exercise will help beekeepers avoid interfering with this delicate collective decision-making and to predict when their own colonies might be about to swarm.", "There have been concerns that disadvantaged families are losing out when lessons are being taught online\n\nFree internet access is being offered for six months to help some disadvantaged youngsters study online.\n\nThe scheme will provide 10,000 families in England with vouchers for internet access, funded by BT and distributed by the Department for Education.\n\nMost primary and secondary pupils are still out of school and learning online.\n\nBut there have been concerns about a \"digital divide\" with poorer pupils missing out.\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb said everything possible would be done to \"make sure no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of coronavirus\".\n\nBut there have been warnings that a much greater number of poorer families do not have computer equipment or adequate internet access - and that a social divide in education is being made wider.\n\nLabour MP Siobhan McDonagh, leading a campaign for fairer online access, says there are 700,000 disadvantaged children without the technology needed to study online at home.\n\nWayne Norrie, chief executive of the Greenwood Academies Trust, has warned that many families in his schools rely on mobile phone data for an internet connection.\n\nThis is \"not realistic\" for online learning, he told the BBC when schools were switching online in the weeks after the lockdown.\n\n\"Many don't have broadband contracts,\" said Mr Norrie.\n\nThe scheme between BT and the Department for Education will give vouchers for free access to five million wi-fi hotspots.\n\nLocal authorities and academies will be asked to bid for vouchers for families in their schools without internet access or who cannot afford data and the Department for Education will decide the allocations.\n\nA scheme launched in April promised to lend laptops to disadvantaged youngsters - with 100,000 so far delivered out of an intended 200,000.\n\nMarc Allera of BT said the free wi-fi scheme would allow thousands of children \"to keep up with their important digital learning and online schoolwork for the rest of term and over the summer holidays as well as into the autumn\".\n• None 'Digital poverty' in schools where few have laptops", "Prince William spoke with Leanne whose five-year-old son Kaydyn has cystic fibrosis\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has made a surprise video call to a woman and her young son who have been shielding for the past three months.\n\nWilliam spoke with Leanne and five-year-old Kaydyn, who has cystic fibrosis, at their home in Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nFootage of the call will feature on BBC One's The One Show on Tuesday.\n\nLeanne was shown covering her mouth with her hands in shock as the Duke called from his home in Norfolk.\n\nIt forms part of a film focusing on extremely vulnerable people being advised to remain at home as much as possible, and the challenges they are facing.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge during a previous video call, when he revealed he was a volunteer for a mental health charity's crisis helpline\n\nFrom the start of June, more than 2.2 million extremely vulnerable people shielding from coronavirus were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nSince the advice changed, Leanne and Kaydyn have been outside twice, for country walks.\n\nThe BBC said: \"Initially Kaydyn was frustrated about being forced to stay inside - now he is very nervous about leaving the house.\"\n\nThe film will also look at Shelby Lynch, a 21-year-old from Leeds, who has spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and is on a ventilator 24 hours a day.\n\nIt follows the moment she finally leaves her home for a socially distanced meeting with her boyfriend for the first time in weeks.\n\n\"He had been feeling a little down so it was nice to see his face light up,\" she said.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and volunteers at Conscious Youth during a video call\n\nLast week, the Duke of Cambridge revealed he had been anonymously volunteering on a crisis helpline during lockdown, after being trained by a mental health charity.\n\nWilliam said he had been answering messages at Shout 85258, which offers support via text message to people in personal crisis.\n\nLast month he told fellow volunteers in a video call: \"I'm going to share a little secret with you guys, but I'm actually on the platform volunteering.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess have held video calls with those helping charities in England and Wales. The Duchess has also taken part in video calls with people who are self-isolating or vulnerable.\n\nThe One Show is on BBC One every weekday at 19:00 BST", "Wicks said his online PE lessons had attracted millions of views worldwide\n\nJoe Wicks has said he is scaling back his online PE lessons to three days a week, because he needs \"a little bit of a break\".\n\nThe Body Coach has been leading free fitness classes on weekdays throughout lockdown for children and parents.\n\nDuring Monday's workout he told viewers that from next week he would be moving to a reduced timetable, with sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n\nWith some schools now returning, Wicks said: \"I need a little bit of a rest.\"\n\nHe said he had \"loved every minute\" of the online classes but that this would be the last full week of PE with Joe.\n\n\"I feel very proud that I've been able to bring so many people together during lockdown,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nWicks said his online workouts had attracted almost 70 million views worldwide, which he described as \"truly mind blowing\".\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\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, Wicks spoke about the struggles he had faced growing up and how his life was changed by his father's heroin addiction.\n\nHe said that seeing the impact drugs had on his father meant he was never tempted to try them himself.\n\n\"I was scared of it and I got into exercise and fitness and so his mistake changed my life,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"I just don't regret anything I've gone through or anything I have been through with my mum and dad, I'm just proud of who I am,\" he added.\n\n\"He's had times when he's relapsed but today he is clean and that's the most important thing, but when I was a teenager I found it difficult.\n\n\"I didn't understand, I was angry but now as an adult I understand. I have got more empathy.\"", "Marcus Rashford's plea to the government to reverse its decision not to continue funding free school meals over the long summer break, has struck a chord with parents who have been relying on food vouchers to feed their families during lockdown.\n\nOn Monday, in response to the footballer's letter, the government confirmed that its voucher scheme in England would \"not run during the summer holidays\".\n\nBut families have told the BBC it will prove very difficult for them when food vouchers, worth £15 per child per week, stop at the end of term.\n\nIn Leicester, 15-year-old Dev says he and his 13-year-old brother would be eating poorer quality food without the vouchers.\n\nHis parents would have to rely on \"cheap, cheap meals - the type that make you full for about an hour\", he says.\n\n\"Unfortunately unhealthy food is the cheapest - food that you shouldn't really be feeding kids.\"\n\nDev, 15, from Leicester says the vouchers mean he and his younger brother eat more healthily\n\nDev is a member of the Bite Back youth campaign for better nutrition for young people whose petition to extend free school meal vouchers over the summer has more than 250,000 signatures.\n\nHe argues that if the UK wants to fight inequality and help his generation achieve their best for the country, all children - whether rich or poor - need access to nutritious food.\n\nIn Brent, north London, Susan Bleau, is considering sending her 11-year-old daughter to stay with her ex-partner's family in Birmingham, if there are no free school meals vouchers over the summer.\n\nHer daughter's primary school has helped her access vouchers from the government scheme and the school has been delivering food parcels every Friday.\n\nSusan has just returned to her part-time job having been furloughed since March - but the knock-on effect of a 20% cut in income under furlough has left her finances stretched.\n\nIf the food voucher scheme isn't extended over the summer, she says: \"I would have to get some form of help\".\n\nFortunately she and her daughter get on well with their extended family, who can support them.\n\n\"They're better off than me - but I need to check what their plans are for the summer,\" says Susan.\n\nHairdresser Jane Keen-Smith has been unable to work during the lockdown because of health issues in the family\n\nIn Pershore, Worcestershire, Jane Keen-Smith, a mother of four boys and a self-employed hairdresser has seen her livelihood collapse during the lockdown.\n\nUnderlying health conditions in the family - one son is severely disabled - mean she will be unable to work even once hairdressers are allowed to return next month.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that having the vouchers continue over the summer would be \"a huge help\".\n\nBoth women struggled at first to redeem the vouchers - but the scheme is currently working well, they say.\n\n\"I get the £60 a week for them... It makes a massive difference,\" says Jane.\n\nUnless the government changes its plans, the prospect of not being able to work and not having the vouchers throughout the summer is daunting.\n\n\"I'll have no income and we'll have no free school meal vouchers so it's going to make us stuck really because we're in a position that we've never been in before,\" says Jane.\n\n\"And so then we're left with zero, so we don't know what we're going to do.\"\n\nShe has had some help from friends and family during lockdown but teenage boys are \"bottomless hunger pits\" she says - so her budget is extremely tight.\n\n\"We're basically struggling with everything.\"\n\n\"We're stuck in this position and we don't know how long it's going to be for,\" Jane says.\n\nThe continuation of the scheme over the Easter holiday and half term was an enormous help, she says, but is worried at the prospect of being without it over the six-week summer break.\n\n\"It's going to be very difficult,\" she says.", "US President Donald Trump said he had taken hydroxychloroquine for two weeks\n\nEmergency use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus has been withdrawn by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\n\nThe FDA said that new evidence from clinical trials meant that it was no longer reasonable to believe that the drug would produce an antiviral effect.\n\nPresident Donald Trump later defended promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of Covid-19.\n\nIn March, the FDA granted the emergency use of the drug for some serious cases.\n\nBut on Monday, the agency said clinical studies had suggested that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective in treating the deadly virus and failed to prevent infection among those exposed to it.\n\nResponding to the FDA's decision, Mr Trump said that he had previously taken the drug preventatively with no side effects.\n\n\"I took it and I felt good about taking it,\" he told reporters on Monday, adding: \"I can't complain about it, I took it for two weeks, and I'm here, here we are.\"\n\nThe 74-year-old president said that many people had told him it had saved their lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said in May that he had taken the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine\n\nIn May, Mr Trump revealed that he was taking the drug after some people in the White House tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHis comments about hydroxychloroquine became the subject of widespread speculation online and controversy within the scientific community about the potential benefits and harmful effects of the drug - along with the related drug, chloroquine.\n\nTrials around the world were temporarily derailed when a study published in The Lancet claimed the drug increased fatalities and heart problems in some patients.\n\nThe results prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) and others to halt trials over safety concerns.\n\nHowever, The Lancet subsequently retracted the study when it was found to have serious shortcomings and the WHO has resumed its trials.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nFigures just published show the number of people on UK payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May as lockdown hit Britain's labour market. According to the Office for National Statistics the total number of hours worked fell by a record 94 million. It's worth bearing in mind these figures don't paint a complete picture of the employment landscape, especially because they don't take into account people furloughed as they're still counted as being employed. Kayleigh Rennix is just one of the millions struggling to find work during the UK's worst economic slump on record.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Restaurant chain owner: 'It's the worst news you can give as an employer'\n\nMinisters are facing increasing pressure to back a call by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford to extend free school meals in England into the summer holidays. The government has insisted it won't do so, but Rashford has vowed to keep fighting. MPs, including some Conservatives, have supported his campaign. See more on the row and hear from families affected. Provision will also stop in Northern Ireland at the end of term, but is set to continue in Scotland and Wales.\n\nMarcus Rashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people during lockdown\n\nChildren are studying for an average of 2.5 hours a day during lockdown, according to a survey of teachers and school leaders. That's only about half the time indicated by previous research. About a third are not engaging with set work at all. Limited access to technology and lower parental engagement mean already disadvantaged children are worst hit. The government says it has committed more than £100m to help home learning, and plans to provide 10,000 families in England with vouchers for internet access.\n\nFlat racing's biggest meeting, Royal Ascot, gets going today behind closed doors with jockeys wearing face masks. The Queen is missing the event for the first time in her 68-year reign. There'll be plenty of action though, with an expanded programme including six additional races over five days. It comes, of course, ahead of the return of the Premier League on Wednesday - see more on the changes fans can expect.\n\nThe pandemic has had a devastating effect on organ transplants in the UK with a shortage of donors and NHS resources diverted elsewhere. As things slowly begin ramping back up, the BBC revisited Ana-Rose Thorpe. She desperately needed a liver transplant and has now received that life-changing operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ana-Rose Thorpe became seriously ill after needing a liver transplant\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, remember the five tests the government says are key to easing lockdown? Well, find out whether we're meeting them right now.\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.", "Mohammad Asghar was first elected to the Senedd in 2007\n\nThe Conservative Senedd member for South Wales East, Mohammad Asghar, has died at the age of 74 after being taken to hospital.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it had received \"reports of a medical emergency\" on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Asghar, who lived in Newport, was the first ethnic minority member of the Senedd and had represented the region since 2007.\n\n\"Our friend and colleague Mohammad Asghar has served the people of South Wales East in the Senedd with distinction for more than 13 years,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sure that everyone will join me in sending condolences to his family.\"\n\nMr Asghar's daughter Natasha tweeted: \"Today, by far, has been the worst day of my life.\n\n\"I lost the first man I ever loved forever. The man who taught me to walk, crack terrible jokes, do whatever I had to to achieve my goals & do anything for ones family.\n\n\"I cannot imagine life without you. I love 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 Y Llywydd This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he was \"saddened to hear\" of his death.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family and friends today,\" he said.\n\n\"His presence in the Senedd will be missed.\"\n\nFollowing his election in 2007 - then as a Plaid Cymru assembly member- Mohammad Asghar became the first Muslim AM.\n\nMohammad Asghar with then-Tory group leader Nick Bourne, after announcing his 2009 defection from Plaid Cymru\n\nTwo years later, in December 2009, he was also the first member in Cardiff Bay to leave one party for another when he joined the Tories.\n\nThe move was announced with a flourish by the Conservative group leader then, Nick Bourne, at a hastily arranged news conference.\n\nExplaining the shock defection at the time, Mr Asghar said he had \"fallen out of tune with the views and policies of Plaid Cymru\".\n\nAt the time of his death Mr Asghar was a member of the Senedd's Public Accounts Committee, and Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee.\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\nBorn in Peshawar in what is now Pakistan in 1945, Mr Asghar moved to England and then Wales to complete an accountancy course in Newport.\n\nIn 2004 he was elected to the city's council.\n\nA keen sportsman, Mr Asghar ran with the Olympic torch in 1964 and campaigned for Wales to have its own cricket team.\n\nHe was a qualified pilot and spoke Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi fluently.\n\nMohammad Asghar's religious faith was a central part of his life\n\nThe UK government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart described him as \"an extremely significant figure in Welsh politics, someone who contributed so much to his community\".\n\n\"More than that, he was a renowned family man and a good friend to many,\" he said.\n\n\"He will be fondly remembered.\"\n\nThe chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, Lord Byron Davies of Gower, said: \"I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and former Senedd colleague, Mohammad Asghar who was affectionately known as Oscar.\n\n\"He was a valued and very active member of the Welsh Conservative family and my heartfelt condolences go to his wife Firdaus and daughter Natasha.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 David Melding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones said she was \"so saddened by the sudden death of our dear colleague, Mohammad Asghar\".\n\n\"He will be missed by all in our Senedd. He was a friend to all across parties and was a true champion of his region and his country.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"On behalf of myself and Plaid Cymru I send sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mohammad Asghar.\n\n\"We remember Oscar for his dedication to the people of South Wales East and his long service in the Senedd.\"\n\nTributes have been paid across political parties in Cardiff Bay and Westminster\n\nMohammad Asghar was well-liked by Senedd colleagues across the chamber for his unassuming clubbable personality and diligent work on Senedd committees.\n\nThe very opposite of a political firebrand, Mr Ashgar was only a moderate public speaker and preferred asking questions to speech-making.\n\nAs the first minority-ethnic and Muslim member of the Senedd he frequently brought new perspectives to debates, although he always fought attempts to define him either by his religion or ethnicity, insisting that he represented all the voters of his region.", "What are the rules about funerals?\n\nBoris Johnson was asked whether the rules on attendance at funerals in England would be relaxed. At the moment the only mourners allowed to attend are members of the deceased person’s household and close family members or close friends if family members are unable to attend. Numbers must be kept low enough to allow everybody to stay two metres apart. Someone to conduct the service, a funeral director and other staff may also attend. The guidance for England says that mourners who are self-isolating for 14 days but do not have symptoms should be helped to attend, as should those in vulnerable groups who are shielding. Anyone showing symptoms of coronavirus should not attend. In Scotland the advice is slightly different, with those self-isolating or shielding encouraged to seriously consider not attending. In Wales, those allowed to attend the funeral are the person organising it, people who have been invited and any carers, with numbers again limited by the requirements of social distancing. The guidance for Northern Ireland includes a limit of 10 mourners and stresses that those who are self-isolating should not mix with other people attending.", "Marcus Rashford has renewed his calls for the school meal voucher scheme to be extended in England.\n\nThe footballer asked others to think about struggling parents who have had their \"water turned off\" in lockdown, and whose children have gone hungry.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has been criticised for replying that \"water cannot be disconnected\".\n\nThe Manchester United forward, 22, urged MPs to \"put rivalries aside\" in a Parliament debate on the subject later.\n\nLabour described Ms Coffey's comment as \"snarky\" while the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives questioned why the government has not yet U-turned on the plans.\n\nFamilies whose children qualify for free meals have received vouchers or parcels in lockdown.\n\nWhile provision is to continue through the summer in Scotland and Wales, it will stop at the end of term in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost 1.3 million school children in England - accounting for 15.4% of state-educated pupils - were eligible for and claiming free school meals according to the latest available data.\n\nOfficial figures for 2019 showed the need was greatest in parts of London, the north and Midlands where between a quarter and a third of all pupils were getting the free meals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Ms Coffey replied to Mr Rashford's Twitter thread on the scheme, he said he was \"concerned\" she had only acknowledged his tweet about water being turned off.\n\nHe urged her to help \"make a difference\".\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted: \"We often couldn't afford hot water when I was growing up, I don't know if you've ever experienced poverty and being unable to pay the bills but as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions I would have expected better from you.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, an MSP and the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said she was \"baffled\" that the government had not already backtracked on the plans.\n\n\"Food security during the holidays so important. It's basic. Feed the kids,\" she said on Twitter.\n\nThe government says £63m is available to councils to help families.\n\nMr Rashford urged Therese Coffey to help \"make a difference\" as work and pensions secretary\n\nIn an emotional open letter to MPs posted on Monday, Mr Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up.\n\nMr Rashford, who grew up in Manchester, said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision - but the England international said he would fight on, tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nHairdresser Jane Keen-Smith says she struggled to redeem the vouchers\n\nJane Keen-Smith, a mother of four boys and a self-employed hairdresser, has seen her livelihood collapse during the lockdown.\n\nUnderlying health conditions in the family - one son is severely disabled - mean she will be unable to work even once hairdressers are allowed to return next month.\n\nShe told the BBC the £60 vouchers she receives each week make a \"massive difference\", saying the family will be \"stuck\" when they stop and she has no income.\n\nThe mother from Pershore, Worcestershire, said she has had some help from friends and family - but teenage boys are \"bottomless hunger pits\" and her budget is extremely tight.\n\n\"We're basically struggling with everything\", she said, adding that having the vouchers over the summer would be \"a huge help\".\n\nDuring the Commons debate on the issue later, Labour will say it would be \"callous\" not to take what it will call a \"small step\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said on Twitter that Conservatives have an opportunity to \"do the right thing\" to make sure \"children don't go hungry this summer\".\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted the government is \"not turning a blind eye\" to child poverty during the crisis, and defended its decision not to extend the voucher scheme.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the government had been \"wrapping its arms around people in communities\" to do \"everything it possibly can\" to support them, including the £20bn spent on its furlough scheme and payments to local government bodies.\n\nHe said No 10 had given an extra £63m to local authorities to help children during the pandemic, as well as a £129m investment \"that's already gone to families and schools as part of the process of helping children\".\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\nShadow education secretary Ms Long-Bailey said it was \"only right\" for the government to continue the scheme over the summer, so children don't go hungry and are in a position to start \"learning properly\" in September.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she asked ministers to \"just continue the free school meal voucher programme\" and pointing to Scotland and Wales, added: \"They are going to do this over the summer holidays for their children, so why can't the government in England do the same?\"\n\nLast week, three Conservative MPs signed a cross-party letter calling for an extension of the scheme - worth £15 for each child per week in England - into the summer holidays in England.\n\nDavid Simmonds, the Conservative MP and a member of the education select committee, said Mr Rashford's letter was \"incredibly powerful\" but the free school meals scheme, although \"popular\", is a \"very blunt instrument\" and it doesn't always get to the most vulnerable children.\n\nCiting figures from the Local Government Association that show a £3bn shortfall in the children's social care sector, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that pressure is \"building\" in the system and that there has been a \"massive increase\" in the number of children coming into care whose needs \"must come first\".\n\nHe said the government needed to address the \"significant pressure\" on the system \"so the most vulnerable children in this country - of whom there are tens of thousands - are not left behind\".\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also gave his support to Mr Rashford, saying he was a credit to the sport and his family.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"He shouldn't really be the one having to do this, but... he's doing a great job.\"\n\nThe former England striker said he understood \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very difficult times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Lineker: Marcus Rashford credit to his sport and his family\n\nConservative MPs will have a chance to register their unease during the Commons debate, said Newsnight's Nicholas Watt.\n\nOne Tory backbencher forecast an eventual government U-turn, he added.\n\nMinisters, who say free school meals are not usually continued into the summer holidays, are planning to amend the Labour motion to highlight the steps the government has taken to help pupils from poorer backgrounds.\n\nThis includes the £63m for local authorities to help people struggling financially as a result of coronavirus and the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer.\n\nHave you made use of school meal vouchers? 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.", "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.\n\nThe drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.\n\nIt cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.\n\nHad the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\nAnd it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe UK government has 200,000 courses of the drug in its stockpile and says the NHS will make dexamethasone available to patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a genuine case to celebrate \"a remarkable British scientific achievement\", adding: \"We have taken steps to ensure we have enough supplies, even in the event of a second peak.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Prof Chris Whitty said it would save lives around the world.\n\nAbout 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital.\n\nOf those who are admitted, most also recover but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation.\n\nAnd these are the high-risk patients dexamethasone appears to help.\n\nThe drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions.\n\nAnd it appears to help stop some of the damage that can happen when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight off coronavirus.\n\nThis over-reaction, a cytokine storm, can be deadly.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%.\n\nFor patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: \"This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough.\"\n\nLead researcher Prof Martin Landray said the findings suggested one life could be saved for:\n\n\"There is a clear, clear benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient.\n\n\"So essentially it costs £35 to save a life.\n\n\"This is a drug that is globally available.\"\n\nWhen appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, Prof Landray said.\n\nBut people should not go out and buy it to take at home.\n\nDexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus who do not need help with their breathing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Professor Chris Whitty This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Recovery Trial, running since March, also looked at the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has subsequently been ditched amid concerns it increases fatalities and heart problems.\n\nThe antiviral drug remdesivir, meanwhile, which appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus, is already being made available on the NHS.\n\nThe first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.\n\nThat is something to celebrate because it means patients across the world could benefit immediately.\n\nAnd that is why the top-line results of this trial have been rushed out - because the implications are so huge globally.\n\nDexamethasone has been used since the early 1960s to treat a wide range of conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma.\n\nHalf of all Covid patients who require a ventilator do not survive, so cutting that risk by a third would have a huge impact.\n\nThe drug is given intravenously in intensive care and in tablet form for less seriously ill patients.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to benefit Covid patients is remdesivir, which has been used for Ebola.\n\nThat has been shown to reduce the duration of coronavirus symptoms from 15 days to 11.\n\nBut the evidence was not strong enough to show whether it reduced mortality.\n\nUnlike dexamethasone, remdesivir is a new drug with limited supplies and a price has yet to be announced.\n• None Effect of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19- Preliminary Report - medRxiv The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A supermarket worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, emailed us to say she had witnessed some customers paying for alcohol with free school meals vouchers.\n\nShe said: \"I appreciate there are so many families in need of food but looking at just how many [vouchers] we have received through the tills and you look at what the customer has bought, very rarely is it what you would class as essential food staples.\n\n\"Their trolleys are packed with clothes, alcohol, toys and electronics and they are using the school meal vouchers to pay for this.\"\n\n\"There is no block on what items they can purchase and we are not allowed to judge them or question their purchases,\" she said.\n\n\"They can purchase what ever items they like and the vouchers will scan.\"\n\nA statement from the Department for Education said: \"We are still fine-tuning details on how to ensure vouchers will be restricted to food provision. We'll set out details in due course.\"\n\nYou can send us your views via email or twitter.", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that can be breathed in and may spread infection, such as coronavirus, say researchers.\n\nChinese scientists calculate that flushing can propel a plume of spray up and out of the toilet bowl, reaching head height and beyond.\n\nDroplets can travel up to 3ft - or 91cm - from ground level, according to the computer model used by the scientists from Yangzhou University.\n\nShutting the lid would avoid this.\n\nThe work is published in the journal Physics of Fluids.\n\nCoronavirus is spread through airborne droplets from coughs and sneezes, or objects that are contaminated with them.\n\nPeople who are infected can also have traces of the virus in their faeces, although it is not yet clear whether this might be another way to pass the disease on to others.\n\nScientists around the world are testing sewage and wastewater to determine how some people might have become infected with coronavirus.\n\nOther viruses can be spread by poor toilet hygiene, known as faecal-oral transmission.\n\nAs water pours into the toilet bowl during a flush, it strikes the side, creating turbulence and droplets. The droplets are so small they typically float in the air for more than a minute, according to study author Ji-Xiang Wang and colleagues from Yangzhou University, China.\n\nDr Bryan Bzdek, from the Bristol Aerosol Research Centre at the University of Bristol, said although there was no clear evidence that coronavirus might spread in this way, it made sense to take precautions.\n\n\"The study authors suggest that, whenever possible, we should keep the toilet seat down when we flush, clean the toilet seat and any other contact areas frequently, and wash our hands after using the toilet.\n\n\"While this study is unable to demonstrate that these measures will reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many other viruses are transmitted though the faecal-oral route, so these are good hygiene practices to have anyway.\"\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "There have been six books about James Bowen and his companion Bob to date\n\nA pet that inspired the book A Street Cat Named Bob has died aged 14.\n\nJames Bowen met Bob in 2007 during his battle with drug addiction when he found the cat abandoned and injured and decided to look after him.\n\nHe began taking the ginger cat with him when busking or selling The Big Issue in London.\n\nBowen eventually wrote a book about their relationship which became a smash hit and was made into a film, featuring Bob, in 2016.\n\nA Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life was published in 2012, and there have since been five further books released in more than forty different languages.\n\nA second film, A Gift from Bob, which also features the eponymous feline, is due to be released later this year.\n\nBob accompanied his owner on the red carpet for the premiere of his film\n\nBowen credits his scarf-wearing companion with aiding his own recovery.\n\nIn a statement on the official Facebook page for his books, the author said Bob had saved his life.\n\n\"It's as simple as that. He gave me so much more than companionship. With him at my side, I found a direction and purpose that I'd been missing.\"\n\n\"He's met thousands of people, touched millions of lives. \"There's never been a cat like him. And never will again.\n\n\"I feel like the light has gone out in my life. I will never forget him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jo Cox was killed as she arrived at a constituency surgery in June 2016\n\nJo Cox's sister has urged people to \"pull together with compassion and kindness\" on the fourth anniversary of the MP's murder.\n\nThe Labour MP for Batley and Spen was shot and stabbed by a far-right extremist.\n\nHe shouted \"Britain first\" in the attack, which took place a week before the EU referendum vote.\n\nKim Leadbeater said it was time for people to be more tolerant and listen to the point of view of others.\n\nShe said: \"How can we still be living in a world where people are abused, attacked and killed because of the colour of their skin?\n\nKim Leadbeater said her older sister Jo was always the shy one\n\n\"How can we still be living in a world where we are supposedly better connected than ever yet so many people feel lonely?\"\n\n\"I know that I have still got a huge amount of work to do in terms of dealing with the senseless murder of my sister.\n\n\"But I sometimes feel that I can't even begin to deal with the grieving process while there is still so much work to be done on the issues Jo cared about during her life.\"\n\nMs Leadbeater added: \"Four years on since Jo's murder... I do continue to be inspired by how, when faced with tragedy and crisis, people often also show the best of humanity.\"\n\nShe was speaking ahead of the fourth Great Get Together, which began in 2017 to reinforce the Mrs Cox's Commons speech saying we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThis year's event - which runs from 19-21 June - will comprise events which comply with social distancing rules.\n\nThey include a street bingo evening in Llantwit, Vale of Glamorgan, and a project to send letters and cards to care homes in Harleston, Norfolk.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The economy minister says there is “very little gap” between Wales and England in the way businesses are reopening.\n\nNon-essential shops re-opened yesterday in England but a date has not been set for them to do so in Wales.\n\nHe said First Minister Mark Drakeford would give more detail on Friday about plans for re-opening non-essential retail, the housing market and “outdoor economic activity” such as markets and car sales.\n\nHe said: “We do not wish to be in a position where we have to u-turn and renege on our promises here in Wales because businesses need certainty and they need to know, to have confidence in government to know that when we declare that part of the economy can reopen that will indeed happen.\n\n“I'm confident that when we give the go-ahead for businesses to reopen we do so knowing that businesses will be able to carry out reopening in a very safe and orderly way.\n\n“We've published guidance to enable that to happen.\n\n“We're working with sector bodies, we're working with employer groups, to ensure that the reopening of businesses in Wales does not put at severe risk the hard work that we have all contributed to in reducing that R number and limiting infection rates.”", "About 1.3 million children will be eligible for free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nThe Manchester United player spoke to Boris Johnson over the phone on Tuesday morning.\n\nMarcus told BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about his call with the prime minister.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on BBC Breakfast on BBC One on 17 June.", "Twenty-six people have been charged with historical child sex offences.\n\nThe offences relate to several young people who West Midlands Police say suffered physical and emotional abuse between 2008 and 2016.\n\nFourteen men and 12 women, mainly from the Walsall area and aged between 20 and 69, are those charged.\n\nOthers are from West Bromwich; Wolverhampton; Bilston; and Redcar on Teesside. They will appear before magistrates at a later date.\n\nCharges include sexual assault of a child under 13, conspiracy to cause or incite children to engage in sexual activity, conspiracy to cause children to watch sexual acts, cruelty to a person under 16 and the rape of a child under 13, police said.\n\nCh Insp Jo Floyd said: \"This is a complex investigation involving several young people who have suffered physical and emotional abuse.\n\n\"We understand that this investigation will cause concern in the local community and I would like to reassure anyone affected by it that we take all reports of abuse seriously, no matter how long ago it happened.\"\n\nThe group are due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 22 and 23 June.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis has sparked the biggest protest about racism in the US for a generation.\n\nWith the help of people in the neighbourhood, Panorama has pieced together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death.\n\nYou can watch B Panorama - George Floyd- A Killing That Shook the World in full on BBC iplayer in the UK.", "Reni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to top UK's best-seller list since the official book chart was launched in 1998.\n\nLast week, Eddo-Lodge's book Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race topped the paperback non-fiction chart, following protests about racism.\n\nThe 2017 work has now become the best-selling title in the UK overall, according to Nielsen BookScan.\n\nThe author said it felt \"absolutely wild to have broken this record\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reni Eddo-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\n\"My work stands on the shoulders of so many Black British literary giants,\" Eddo-Lodge wrote on Twitter. \"Bernadine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Stella Dadzie, Stuart Hall, Linton K Johnson, Jackie Kay, Gary Younge - to name a few.\"\n\nFellow author Nikesh Shukla congratulated her, adding: \"Bewildering it's taken so long for this to happen but it couldn't happen to a better writer and person.\"\n\nAfter she topped the paperback non-fiction chart last week, Eddo-Lodge criticised the UK publishing industry for the fact it had taken so long for a black author to achieve the feat.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" that the achievement only came about under \"tragic circumstances\" - referring to the death of George Floyd.\n\nRenewed interest in the title was sparked following protests around the death of Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAfter her book topped the non-fiction chart, Eddo-Lodge said: \"The fact that it's 2020 and I'm the first. Let's be honest. Reader demand aside, that it took this long is a horrible indictment of the publishing industry.\"\n\nSince 1998, only one other black author, former US first lady Michelle Obama, has scored the overall best-selling book in the UK, with her 2018 memoir Becoming.\n\nEddo-Lodge's book explores the links between gender, class and race in the UK and around the world.\n\nLast month, the writer posted online that she had noticed an upsurge in sales, which she found unsettling.\n\n\"This book financially transformed my life and I really don't like the idea of personally profiting every time a video of a black person's death goes viral,\" she wrote, urging readers to offer a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.\n\nOn Monday, the newly-formed Black Writers' Guild sent an open letter to publishers raising concerns that the companies were \"raising awareness of racial inequality without significantly addressing their own\".\n\nThe letter was signed by authors including Evaristo, Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman.\n\nLast week, fellow author Dorothy Koomson posted an open letter to the publishing industry, in which she called it an \"extremely damaging\" environment for black authors.\n\nAlso last week, Evaristo became the first female writer of colour to top the mass market fiction chart with Girl, Woman, Other.\n\nHer novel jointly won the Booker Prize last year, together with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None ‘Britain is in denial about race’", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the EU and UK are “not actually that far apart”\n\nUK and EU leaders have said new momentum is needed in negotiations on their future relationship, after high-level talks on Monday.\n\nThe PM, who met EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen virtually, said there was a \"very good\" chance of getting a trade deal by December.\n\nHe said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\", after the sides agreed to intensify talks next month.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said they \"agreed to deliver the best deal\" for citizens.\n\nThe EU also noted the UK's decision not to extend the transition period, which ends in December.\n\nIn a joint statement issued after Monday's meeting via video conference, the UK and EU \"welcomed the constructive discussions on the future relationship that had taken place\".\n\n\"The parties agreed nevertheless that new momentum was required,\" it said.\n\nThe high-level meeting was via video link\n\nThey have agreed to intensify talks in July, and to find an \"early understanding on the principles\" underlying any deal.\n\nThe UK government has said the talks in July will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow.\n\nMr Johnson said the EU and the UK were \"not that far apart\" with regards to the future relationship, but he added that \"a bit of oomph\" was needed in the talks.\n\nCalling on the EU to \"put a tiger in the tank\", the prime minister said the chances of getting a trade deal by the end of the year were \"very good\", provided both sides focus now and \"get on and do it\".\n\nAsked what the cut-off date would be by which the UK government will give business certainty of what they can expect, Mr Johnson said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\".\n\n\"I certainly don't want to see it going on until the Autumn/Winter as I think perhaps in Brussels they would like. I don't see any point in that so let's get it done.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who joined Mrs von der Leyen on the call along with European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli, said a \"broad and ambitious agreement\" was \"in our mutual interest\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Mr Sassoli tweeted in Latin that \"agreements must be kept\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 David Sassoli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street earlier said Mr Johnson would reiterate that the UK's ambition is for a high quality free trade agreement consistent with others the EU have agreed.\n\nMr Johnson was also due to make clear that the UK is ready to start trading on World Trade Organisation rules from 1 January if a deal cannot be reached.\n\nThis was Boris Johnson's first meeting with EU leaders since trade negotiations started back in March.\n\nSo, did we have an \"aha moment\"? A glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel of deadlocked talks?\n\nWell, not exactly. But this was always going to be a stocktaking moment, rather than high level negotiation.\n\nThe EU was buoyed to hear the prime minister express commitment to finding a deal.\n\nAnd while Brussels privately regards as unrealistic, the UK aim of having the outline of that deal in place by the end of the summer, EU insiders say negotiators will try everything to find agreement as soon as possible.\n\nYou wouldn't expect them to say anything less.\n\nBut notably absent from today's declarations was to what extent each side is willing to compromise.\n\nAnd that, of course, will be key.\n\nWithout some concessions, from both sides, today's high-level declaration of intent to reach an EU-UK deal, is rather empty.\n\nBut a French former Europe minister has said the EU is preparing itself for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are ready either for an agreement or for a no-deal and we are getting prepared more actively to a no-deal considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We believe it is possible to have an agreement - it has to be ready in October so that parliaments on both sides can ratify it.\n\n\"We believe it is possible because we have the political declaration which we negotiated together, signed together and should respect together - so, yes, the framework is here.\"\n\nMonday's virtual meeting comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at the last negotiating round earlier this month.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart David Frost had said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will meet in London on Thursday.\n\nThe French president will travel to London to attend official commemorations of 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.\n\nThe 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018.\n\nThe trend is strongest among young people. It said nearly a quarter of UK 18-24-year-olds used Instagram as a source of news about coronavirus.\n\nBut social media platforms were also among the least-trusted sources.\n\nJust 26% of people said they trusted social media as a source of information about the virus. A similar percentage said they trusted news that had been shared via chat apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.\n\nNational governments and news organisations, by contrast, were both trusted by about 59% of respondents.\n\nInstagram is now used by more than a third of all people who answered the survey, and two-thirds of under-25s. And 11% use it for news, putting it just one point behind Twitter.\n\n\"Instagram's become very popular with younger people\", said Nic Newman, lead author of the report. \"They really respond well to stories that are told simply and well with visual images\".\n\nStand-out visual stories in recent months have helped - climate change, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the coronavirus have all seen massive engagement on the platform.\n\n\"It's not that one necessarily replaces the other,\" Mr Newman said. \"They might use Facebook and Instagram, or might use Twitter and Instagram.\"\n\nInstagram is owned by Facebook, which now reaches 85% of people each week. The company's dominance in how stories are being told \"remains incredibly important\", he added. The firm also owns WhatsApp.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic also seems to have offered a temporary reprieve to a downward trend in how much news organisations are trusted.\n\nOnly 38% of people said they trusted the news most of the time. Less than half - 46% - said they trusted their favoured news source.\n\nIn total, 40 countries were surveyed. Only in six of them did a majority say they could trust \"most of the news most of the time\".\n\nThe case was particularly poor in the UK, where only 28% of respondents backed the statement. That figure was 12 percentage points lower than the nation's response in the 2019 report.\n\nThat plummet in confidence was only matched by Chile and Hong Kong, which have both seen violent street protests - and still rank more highly than the UK, on 30% each.\n\nBut things changed substantially once the coronavirus crisis hit.\n\nA slightly differently worded question in April - about the level of trust in information about the coronavirus - saw news organisations surge to a 59% trust rating, on a par with national governments.\n\nThe report's authors speculate the identical levels of trust as a result of news organisations amplifying public health advice.\n\nBut that sudden high has already started to fall.\n\nTrust is a precious commodity for journalists which, like all social goods, is easily destroyed, but not easily created. Maintaining trust in the era of social media gets harder every day, as conspiracy theories go viral, accuracy is too often sacrificed at the altar of virality, and the very idea of truth is so contested.\n\nThis report shows a curious paradox in relation to trust. It is true that trust in what is sometimes disparagingly referred to as mainstream journalism is falling; yet the huge audiences for those outlets at the start of the pandemic are nothing if not a verdict on the public appetite for reliable, trustworthy news. In Britain, with its regulated broadcasting, there is still a lot of it about.\n\nThe deeper question is whether a young audience will consume it.\n\nReuters show the remarkable growth of Instagram as a news source, which makes Facebook's purchase of it look ever more like one of the greatest bargains in history. If, as the authors predict, Instagram overtakes Twitter next year, that might be the moment for journalists to finally realise that the latter, though their favoured platform, resembles public opinion less and less.\n\n\"What we're seeing is relatively high levels of trust - at the time of the lockdowns - in the media and national governments. But we have some polling since then, which shows that trust in the media fell 11 percentage points between April and May,\" Mr Newman said.\n\nWhile not officially part of the report, that recent polling suggests that the \"moment of national unity\" may have passed.\n\nAmid all this analysis of trust issues, most people - what the report calls the \"silent majority\" - prefer what they consider \"objective\" news.\n\nThe authors of the report had not asked this question since 2013, since when the use of opinion and open stances on news reporting has grown.\n\nIn nine countries where this was explored, all said they preferred news from sources with \"no point of view\".\n\nThe strongest preference was in Germany, Japan, the UK and Denmark. These are \"all countries with strong and independent public broadcasters\", the report noted.\n\nIn contrast, the US - \"where both politics and the media have become increasingly partisan over the years\" - many more people said they prefer news which shares their point of view.\n\nBBC News, which contributed data to the study, remained the most trusted news brand in the UK, with 64% trust.\n\n\"Despite the fact that the BBC has come under a lot of criticism, what we find consistently is the BBC remains, with most people, highly trusted,\" Mr Newman said. \"[It], along with broadcasters like ITV, tends to be the most trusted.\n\n\"But obviously, we have seen that eroding - particularly with a particularly vocal minority on both left and right, that in the last few years have trusted the BBC less.\"\n\nThe decline is particularly marked in those on the political left. Since the 2019 election, the left saw their confidence in the news dive to just 15%, the report found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Couples are asking when they will be allowed to marry again\n\nCoronavirus restrictions should be eased for \"small weddings\" in Wales, say a couple who have already postponed their big day.\n\nIan Choi and Elizabeth Facer are just one of hundreds of couples who have had to pause their plans.\n\nThe engaged couple said it was \"frustrating\" trying to plan when nobody knows when weddings will be allowed to take place.\n\nThe Welsh Government said \"changes will only be made when it is safe to do so\".\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate is that we're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married,\" said 22-year-old Ms Facer.\n\nShe has started a petition with her 23-year-old fiancé calling for small weddings to be allowed to take place, after they scrapped their original plans for a wedding with 300 guests - including family flying in from Hong Kong.\n\nWaiting for their big day - Elizabeth Facer and Ian Choi have been forced to delay their marriage due to coronavirus rules in Wales\n\nThe Cardiff couple said their Christian faith means they want to get married as soon as they can, and hope to proceed with a small ceremony with just a registrar, pastor and witnesses.\n\nThey have delayed the wedding day for another week, in the hope the Welsh Government's next review on Friday will relax the rules.\n\nUntil then, the only weddings to take place are under exceptional circumstances, such as when a partner is terminally ill.\n\nFor Ms Facer, if the small ceremony goes ahead it will still mean her father will not be able to walk her down the aisle. And for Mr Choi, it means his parents will have to watch their son marry on the internet.\n\n\"When we think about the people that won't be able to be there, it is quite sad,\" she said.\n\n\"But I think at this point we've just got to take what we can and be grateful for that.\"\n\nIn Newport, plans for a much bigger wedding are also on hold.\n\nSarema Mustafa, 24, was hoping to have tied the knot in July.\n\nShe and her fiancé are Muslim, and their wedding celebrations were due to span a month, with the largest event hosting 1,200 guests.\n\nShe said her parents had invested \"thousands of pounds\" in the wedding, even extending their family home to accommodate guests from Pakistan.\n\n\"My parents were really excited to have all their friends and family from all over the world, all over the country, come to celebrate this wedding,\" said Ms Mustafa.\n\n\"Now, that is so far from what's going to happen.\"\n\nCovid restrictions mean a year \"without income\", says wedding supplier Lynne Morgan\n\nWedding supplier and one of the founders of the Wedding Guild of Wales, Lynne Morgan, said the current climate has been difficult for the wedding industry in Wales, and across the UK.\n\nShe has had 140 weddings she was working on cancelled: \"Most weddings have now been postponed to next year, which means that we're not having any real income this year that we'd forecasted for.\n\n\"And next year, it's going to have the impact that we can't take on as many new bookings as we would normally. So we are going to have a year without income.\"\n\nResponding, a Welsh Government official said: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus. Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\"\n\nWedding days could look very different when Covid-19 rules are eased\n\nHowever, when weddings do return - small or large - they may look very different.\n\nMost councils in Wales said there is personal protective equipment ready to be used by registrars, while ceremony rooms have been rearranged to allow for social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff, Newport, Caerphilly, Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd councils have said they are looking into how ceremonies at register offices could eventually be streamed online.", "The production stars Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has criticised a TV listing as \"unacceptable\" and \"abhorrent\" after it described the cast of one of its productions as \"garishly diverse\".\n\nThe piece appeared in a Sunday Times preview ahead of a showing of Macbeth on BBC Four.\n\nIt stated the play was \"less garishly diverse in casting than last Sunday's Romeo and Juliet\".\n\nThe Sunday Times has apologised for what was said to be a production error.\n\nThe 2018 Romeo and Juliet production is a modern-day interpretation of the classic love story.\n\nThe publication said the listing has been removed from its online edition\n\nThe cast includes British Asian actor Bally Gill as Romeo and Glaswegian Karen Fishwick as Juliet, while Mercutio is portrayed as a woman by Charlotte Josephine.\n\nIn a statement the RSC said it was \"shocked and appalled\" at the language.\n\nIt said: \"John Dugdale previewing Polly Findlay's 2018 RSC production of Macbeth, describes it as 'less garishly diverse in casting' than Erica Whyman's production of Romeo and Juliet the previous week.\n\n\"Such deliberate and offensive use of language demonstrates clear prejudice and devalues people, in this case specifically devaluing the work of RSC artists.\"\n\nThe theatre added it aims to reflect the nation's talent in all its diversity \"such that the audiences which we serve are all able to recognise themselves on stage\".\n\nIn a statement a Sunday Times spokesperson said: \"We are sorry that an inappropriate reference appeared in our review of Macbeth. It has been removed from our online edition.\"\n\nRSC productions have been broadcast as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project which aims to bring arts and culture to people's homes during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple faces two European Commission probes into whether it has broken competition rules.\n\nOne investigation centres on iPad and iPhones being limited to installing apps from Apple's own App Store, among other restrictions imposed on third-party developers.\n\nThe other involves Apple Pay, with one issue being that other services cannot use the iPhone's tap-and-go facility.\n\nApple said it was \"disappointing\" the EU was \"advancing baseless complaints\".\n\nAnd it accused companies that had raised allegations against it of wanting a \"free ride\".\n\n\"Our goal is simple: for our customers to have access to the best app or service of their choice, in a safe and secure environment.\"\n\nApple is also under scrutiny in the US where the House Judiciary Committee is reported to have asked for its chief executive Tim Cook to appear alongside other tech leaders to answer questions about anti-trust concerns.\n\nAmazon has said that its chief executive Jeff Bezos is willing to testify, so long as Mr Cook and his counterparts at Facebook and Google also give evidence.\n\nThe latest development comes days before Apple holds its annual developers conference.\n\nThe investigation into Apple's App Store stems from a complaint raised by the music streaming service Spotify.\n\nUnlike Android, iOS does not offer a way to easily \"sideload\" apps that are not distributed via the official store\n\nLast year, it raised two specific concerns:\n\nApple typically charges apps a 30% cut of any sales, although that rate falls to 15% for the second and later years of any subscription.\n\nPublishers often sell media and other digital goods at a lower price when bought outside of their apps, but consumers can be unaware of the fact.\n\nSince Apple only allows apps to be downloaded from its own store, and has repeatedly updated its mobile operating system to prevent \"jailbreaks\" that circumvent this rule, it is argued that third-parties have little option but to comply with its conditions.\n\nThe only alternative is to offer their products as web-based services, which can limit their functionality.\n\nThe Financial Times has reported that Rakuten's online bookstore Kobo recently contacted the European Commission with similar concerns.\n\n\"Apple's anti-competitive behaviour has intentionally disadvantaged competitors, created an unlevel playing field, and deprived consumers of meaningful choice for far too long,\" said Spotify in response to the latest development.\n\n\"We welcome the European Commission's decision to formally investigate Apple, and hope they'll act with urgency to ensure fair competition on the iOS platform for all participants in the digital economy.\"\n\nThe Apple Pay investigation centres on a technology that allows iPhones and Apple Watches to make tap-and-go payments. It also lets users buy goods via an app or website without having to give their payment card details to the seller.\n\nApple Pay allows iPhone owners to transfer funds from their bank to a store without using a physical card\n\nThe European Commission has concerns about the conditions imposed on services that have added the facility.\n\nIt also has reservations that alternative payment tech cannot make use of the near field communication (NFC) chips in Apple's products to work with contactless payment terminals.\n\nBy contrast, Samsung phones - for example - let their NFC chips be used for both Samsung Pay and Google Pay.\n\n\"It is important that Apple's measures do not deny consumers the benefit of new payment technologies, including better choice, quality, innovation and competitive prices,\" said Margrethe Vestager, the EU's Competition Commissioner and Executive Vice President.\n\nThe commissioner added that she had not set a deadline for the investigations to be completed.\n\nWhat today's move is about is the huge power over prices and innovation that control of a platform gives to a tech giant.\n\nEver tried to buy a Kindle book via Amazon's iPhone apps? You can't because Amazon doesn't want to see Apple walk away with a 30% cut of the purchase price.\n\nApp developers big and small have protested over the years about what they see as Apple's abuse of its position as a gatekeeper to its iOS platform.\n\nSimilarly, the tech giant's strict controls on the way NFC works on its phones has sparked complaints that Apple Pay has huge advantages over what could be more innovative payment systems.\n\nComplaints about this behaviour aren't limited to Europe, but once again Margrethe Vestager has shown that she wants to set the pace in pushing back against the power of the big tech platforms.\n\nAnd another American behemoth may be about to feel the heat - all the signs are that Ms Vestager is about to determine the outcome of an existing probe into how Amazon controls its online retailing platform.\n\nThe twin inquiries follow an earlier case in which Brussels ordered Apple to pay 13bn euros ($14.4bn; £11.4bn) after claims that Ireland had given the company illegal state aid by failing to tax it properly. The Irish government and Apple have appealed the ruling.\n\nThe latest probes are likely to cast a shadow over the firm's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which begins on Monday.\n\nApple is holding a virtual event for WWDC this year because of the coronavirus pandemic\n\nApple has already claimed its app ecosystem generated more than half a trillion dollars in sales and other billings last year, saying the vast majority of that was not subject to it taking a commission.\n\nBut its relationships with some developers have become strained.\n\nIn recent days, one has called on Apple to reduce its standard cut from 30% to 20% while another has accused the firm of operating a \"capricious and inconsistent review process\" that can cause delays to the release of even minor app updates.\n\nIn an interview pegged to last year's WWDC, Mr Cook said that he thought that scrutiny of the firm was fair but added that regulators should bear in mind it does not have a monopoly of any market.", "A man was shot in the leg by police after a lorry was stolen at gunpoint\n\nA man has been shot by police after a lorry was stolen in an armed robbery.\n\nOfficers were called to the Rivermead Industrial Estate in Westlea, Swindon, at 17:00 BST after the vehicle was stolen by a man with a gun.\n\nPolice intercepted the lorry in Ridge Green and a man in his 50s was shot in the leg. He has been airlifted to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nWiltshire Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nSupt Phil Staynings said: \"I want to reassure the community that this incident was dealt with swiftly. Nobody else was injured and the incident is now contained.\n\n\"However, people living in the area will have seen a heavy police presence, which will continue throughout the evening.\n\n\"Due to the fact that a police firearm was discharged, we have automatically referred the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nIn video circulating on social media officers can be repeatedly heard shouting \"put the gun down\".\n\nResidents living nearby told the BBC they heard \"at least one gunshot\".\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC, which has launched an independent investigation into the shooting, said: \"We understand, at this time, that officers from Wiltshire Police were called to a disturbance shortly after 5pm today following reports of an armed robbery in Rivermead Industrial Estate, Westlea.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene and to the post-incident procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The final closing time: General manager Jackie Cunliffe stacks chairs in the Beresford Hotel dining room\n\nThree months after lockdown shut down large parts of the UK economy, job losses are beginning to bite - nowhere more so than in the Cornish town of Newquay where more than half of those employed work in the badly affected sectors such as tourism and hospitality.\n\nStanding in the dining room, amid a sea of upturned chair legs, piled on once bustling tables, Jackie Cunliffe reflects on the 30 years she spent working in Newquay's Beresford Hotel.\n\n\"It belonged to Shearings holidays, but actually it didn't. It belonged to us.\n\n\"We managed it, we owned it, we cared for it.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old general manager is widely respected and held in great affection by the 50 staff who lost their jobs when the hotel closed in May, after Shearings' parent company went into administration.\n\n\"We should have 200 people in here, having their breakfast, going out on tours all around Cornwall.\n\n\"We have diaries full of people asking for tables-for-two, specific rooms. All of it has just gone.\"\n\nSome of the staff had gathered in the hotel ballroom to join a conference call on 22 May, when the chief executive of Shearings' parent company, Specialist Leisure Group (SLG), told nearly 2,500 employees across the UK that efforts to save the group had failed.\n\nJust three years after reporting record sales and profits, the group - owned by American private equity firm Lone Star Funds - called in administrators, bringing to an end a company whose origins can be traced back 117 years.\n\nRemembering happier times - Caroline Tansley was a key member of the Beresford team\n\nAmong those in tears at the news was Caroline Tansley, who worked at The Beresford for 20 years - primarily as a receptionist, though she often pitched in with the entertainment: singing, dancing, bingo, comedy, and as 'Mother Christmas', handing out presents to guests.\n\nAs well as losing her job, Caroline is losing her accommodation and is obliged to move out by 3 July.\n\n\"Normally at this time of year, with the lovely weather we've been having, it would be heaving.\n\n\"To the see the hotel standing empty is just heart-breaking,\" she says.\n\nHer partner, Darren Philips, is in the same boat.\n\nA part-time assistant manager at the hotel, he says the company were brilliant when he lost the sight in his left eye 10 years ago, and even developed a role specially for him.\n\nThe hotel's part-time assistant manger, Darren Philips, fears he will not work again\n\nThe sight in his right eye isn't great either, and he fears he may not work again.\n\n\"I can't use computers. Anything that needs me to see really, I struggle with.\n\n\"I've worked here for so long, I know the building like the back of my hand. I'd struggle if I went to a different building, with steps. I'd end up falling down.\"\n\nThe 107-room Beresford Hotel is one of two hotels in Newquay that have been forced to close due to SLG's demise.\n\nA few yards along the same road, the 52 rooms of the Marina Hotel are empty too, the front doors directing any questions to the administrators in Wigan.\n\nTwo other hotels owned by the group in Cornwall have also shut - some 150 jobs are estimated to have been lost.\n\nNewquay has seen at least two hotels close this year\n\nWhile Covid-19 has been less of a health crisis in the south west of England than many had feared, the pandemic is predicted to hammer the local economy.\n\nCornwall Council will consider a report on Wednesday that indicates as many as 72,800 jobs - 27% of all jobs in the county - are at risk due to the ongoing lockdown.\n\nIt calculates that the all-important tourism sector will lose £630m by the end of June.\n\nData released last month showed a 61% increase in applications for Universal Credit across Cornwall; the rise in applications between March and April in Bodmin, Bude, Penzance and Newquay was over 1000%.\n\nAnd a report in April from think tank, the Centre for Towns predicts Newquay will suffer the greatest economic hit of any town in England and Wales.\n\nNo surprise then, that hopes of finding a new job quickly are not high among the Beresford's former employees.\n\nSome are being told they are competing with up to 500 people for jobs in local supermarkets - an intimidating prospect for the many staff who have not faced a job interview in decades.\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne says he is losing his pride\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne, who spent 18 years at the hotel and took great pride in teaching culinary skills to the many international staff who passed through, says the past few weeks have been demoralising.\n\n\"To have no security, and no jobs in the area, is very hard to swallow.\n\n\"You feel as though your pride's been taken away a bit.\n\n\"You're up at 6 o'clock in the morning because your pattern is still the same, and you're on the internet going through every single website looking for work.\"\n\nPhillip led a kitchen team that could serve 190 covers in around 90 minutes on a busy day.\n\nThe hotel mainly catered for older visitors, who often returned year after year for the comfort and familiarity which The Beresford offered.\n\nAt the height of the summer, Shearings could bring 1,000 people to Cornwall every week.\n\nFormer head housekeeper Katie Korvisia has been offered work cleaning holiday homes\n\nThere is hope, if the lockdown is further eased next month and tourists begin to return, that some jobs will open up.\n\nKatie Kovisia, the hotel's former head housekeeper, has been offered a cleaning job at a holiday park for the summer, or she could clean holiday cottages on a self-employed basis.\n\nNeither prospect is particularly appealing for the 15-year veteran of the Beresford, but she realises she may not have many options: \"Here I was part of a family. It's been my life. It's very sad.\"", "The so-called \"rough sex gone wrong\" defence will be outlawed in new domestic abuse legislation, a justice minister has told MPs.\n\nAlex Chalk said it was \"unconscionable\" that the defence can be used in court to justify or excuse the death of a woman \"simply because she consented\".\n\nHe said it would be made \"crystal clear\" in the Domestic Abuse Bill that it was not acceptable.\n\nThe bill, for England and Wales, is due to become law later this year.\n\nJess Phillips, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, spoke on an amendment proposed by Labour MP Harriet Harman and Conservative MP Mark Garnier to the legislation, to prevent lawyers from using the defence, but withdrew it following assurances from Mr Chalk.\n\nThe campaign group We Can't Consent To This, which wants the defence outlawed, said the minister's response was \"a big step forward\".\n\nThe group says the \"rough sex\" defence can result in a lesser sentence.\n\nCampaigners want to make it the expectation that murder charges are brought against those suspected of killing a person during sex.\n\nAs it stands, if someone kills another person during sexual activity they could be charged with manslaughter alone. To murder someone, there needs to have been an intention to kill that person or to cause them grievous bodily harm (GBH).\n\nWe Can't Consent To This has collated 60 examples of women \"who were killed during so-called 'sex games gone wrong'\" in the UK, since 1972.\n\nThe group claims that 45% of these cases ended in a \"lesser charge of manslaughter, a lighter sentence or the death not being investigated as a crime at all\".\n\nThere are also 115 people - all but one of whom were women - who have had to attend court where it is claimed they consented to violent injury, the group has said.\n\nThe violence used in the non-fatal assaults included waterboarding, wounding, strangulation, beating and asphyxiation.\n\nSpeaking to MPs at the Commons' Public Bill Committee, Jess Phillips said: \"The law should be clear to all - you cannot consent to serious injury or death, but the case law is not up to the task.\"\n\nShe said when a woman is dead \"she can't speak for herself\" but any man charged with killing a woman or a current or former partner could \"simply say she wanted it\".\n\n\"This is why we must change the law,\" she said.\n\nAlex Chalk, replying for the government, said: \"It is unconscionable for defendants to suggest that the death of a woman is justified, excusable or legally defensible because that woman had engaged in violent and harmful sexual activity which resulted in her death, simply because she consented.\"\n\nHe said that would be made \"crystal clear\" in the Domestic Abuse Bill but he was concerned the wording of the amendment would allow defence lawyers \"wiggle room\".\n\nHe said the government's approach would be set out by the report stage - the next stage in the bill's progression through Parliament. Ms Phillips said she was satisfied with this assurance.\n\nThe We Can't Consent to This campaign group said what had happened in Parliament \"was genuinely a big step forward\", adding: \"We should know within weeks what their proposals are and if they've gone far enough.\"\n\nEarlier this month at Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative MP Laura Farris said the government had taken a lead on tackling domestic abuse, but said there was \"an ugly dimension that remains unresolved\" on the issue of the rough sex defence.\n\nIn response, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are committed to ensuring that the law is made clear and that defence is inexcusable.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned against any \"reckless\" move to ease lockdown in Scotland despite a growing \"economic crisis\" and rising unemployment.\n\nThe first minister spoke after the release of the latest jobless figures.\n\nThe unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in Scotland between February and April, compared with a UK-wide rate of 3.9%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said easing the lockdown \"too quickly\" would risk a resurgence of the virus which would cost lives and economic productivity.\n\nShe said the progress made in suppressing Covid-19 so far could help build a \"sustainable economy recovery\".\n\nAnd she called on the UK government to extend the job retention \"furlough\" scheme, saying it was \"almost certain\" to be needed beyond October.\n\nScotland is expected to move to the second phase of the government's \"route map\" towards lifting lockdown on Thursday, which could see a \"safe re-opening\" of more shops and workplaces.\n\nThe latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggested that unemployment in Scotland had risen by 30,000 to 127,000 between February and April, covering the period when lockdown first hit the labour market.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was important to be \"cautious\" about drawing conclusions from the data.\n\nShe said the protection of the furlough scheme \"means these figures are likely to be an underestimate of the full impact of Covid-19 on business activity\".\n\nHowever, she said it \"undoubtedly\" showed that \"dealing with the public health crisis of Covid has created an economic crisis that demands our full focus and attention\".\n\nShe said: \"These kinds of statistics and generally increasing economic anxiety will lead some to argue for a quicker than planned exit from lockdown.\n\n\"But difficult though all this is, we must guard against a reckless relaxation of lockdown. If we ease restrictions too quickly and allow the virus to run out of control again, that would be economically unproductive and would cost more lives.\n\n\"The progress we have made is an essential foundation for the sustainable economic recovery we want - the more we can suppress this virus now, the more normality we can restore as we do open up the economy and society.\"\n\nThe latest review of Scotland's lockdown is to be held on Thursday, with the first minister saying she would \"hope and expect\" that Scotland could move to the second phase of her government's \"route map\".\n\nMeasures included in phase two include letting people meet in larger groups outdoors, and with another household indoors. It could also see factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops re-open and the construction industry begin to re-start.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Not all major changes will happen overnight, but I do hope in the coming weeks that further important restrictions will be lifted so workers can return to factories, with strict hygiene and physical distancing measures in place, so the construction industry can continue its restart plan, and non-essential shops have a date for safe re-opening.\n\n\"None of this will restore the economy immediately to full health but will be a sustainable improvement on our current position.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.\n\nThe first minister said she had \"zero interest in keeping any part of the country in lockdown any longer than is necessary\", but said \"patience will pay dividends in the future\".\n\nShe said: \"A gradual re-emergence is crucial - it allows our businesses to start to operate and make money again, but we know that because this re-emergence is by necessity gradual it must be accompanied by continued support for business.\n\n\"We have welcomed assistance from the UK government such as the job retention scheme, but it's essential this is extended if that proves necessary - which I think is almost certain.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said the UK government was providing \"comprehensive coronavirus support packages\" and that the furlough scheme and a similar system for the self-employed had \"saved nearly 800,000 jobs across Scotland\".\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK's workforce is now covered by the furlough scheme, which is due to run until the end of October - although the amount of money firms have to contribute is to increase each month.\n\nMs Sturgeon also resisted calls to relax the 2m (6ft) physical distancing rule, saying it would hit businesses harder if the virus were to start spreading out of control again.\n\nThe Scottish Chambers of Commerce said it was \"essential\" this rule be relaxed \"to prevent wholesale economic collapse\" of the retail, hotel and restaurant sectors.\n\nThe Scottish Beer and Pub Association said the limit \"simply does not make financial sense\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the rule would be kept under review, but said it was better to re-open the economy \"sustainably\" than to \"run the risk of having to shut it again weeks or months later\" because of a resurgence of the virus.", "A lack of personal interaction with teachers is one of the many ways children are missing out\n\nThe vast majority of teachers (90%) say their pupils are doing less or much less work than they would normally at this time of the year, a study finds.\n\nThe report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) says head teachers believe around a third of pupils are not engaging with set work.\n\nLimited or no access to technology was a problem for around a quarter (23%) of pupils, school leaders told the NFER.\n\nThe government says it has committed over £100m to help home learning.\n\nThe NFER report is based on findings from a survey of 1,233 school leaders and 1,821 teachers in England's state schools, carried out between 7 and 17 May.\n\nIt raises particular concern about the impact of school closures, due to Covid 19, on the learning of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas, saying pupil engagement is lower in schools with the highest levels of deprivation.\n\nSecondary schools with the highest number of children eligible for free school meals reported that 48% of pupils were engaged with learning activities, compared with 66% and 77% of pupils at schools in the middle and lowest brackets.\n\nTeachers told researchers the following pupils were finding it particularly difficult to engage in remote learning, compared to their peers:\n\nTeachers say just over half (55%) of their pupils' parents are engaged with their children's home learning, according to the report.\n\nBut teachers from the most deprived schools report a lower parental engagement, at 41%, than those from the least deprived schools, at 62%.\n\nThere is concern that many young people are disengaging without the school routine\n\nNFER chief executive Carole Willis said: \"There are considerable differences in the levels of pupil engagement in remote learning, particularly amongst the most disadvantaged pupils.\"\n\nThere is a risk that the attainment gap will widen as a result of the pandemic, she added, calling for a \"comprehensive and long-term plan to address this issue\".\n\nJosh Hillman, director of education at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the research, said: \"The shift to remote learning during lockdown has made the implications of children and young people's unequal access to IT equipment and connectivity even more stark.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the heads' union ASCL, backed a national plan \"to help these children to catch up\".\n\n\"This analysis shows that children who already face the greatest challenges have suffered the worst impact to their learning during the lockdown, and that the digital divide is largely to blame.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"We will do whatever we can to make sure no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"We are also considering, with a range of partner organisations, what more is required to support all pupils who have been affected by school closures.\"\n\nThe NFER study comes as a research paper from University College London's Institute of Education finds pupils across the UK are studying for an average of 2.5 hours a day during lockdown.\n\nThis figure is about half that indicated by a previous survey by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, suggesting that learning losses could be much greater than previously thought.\n\nThe UCL research, which examined data from a UK household longitudinal study covering 4,559 children, says one fifth of pupils (around two million children in the UK) did no schoolwork or less than an hour a day at home, while 17% put in more than four hours a day.\n\nIt finds that the variability in the amount of schoolwork being done at home is adding to existing regional and socioeconomic inequalities, with pupils in London, the South East of England and Northern Ireland receiving more offline schoolwork, such as assignments, worksheets and watching videos, than elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn the South East, for example, 28% of children were receiving four or more pieces of offline schoolwork per day, compared with the countrywide average of 20%.\n\nThe report also says children eligible for free school meals \"appear to be additionally disadvantaged during lockdown\", with 15% receiving four or more pieces of offline schoolwork compared with 21% of children not eligible for free meals.\n\nProf Francis Green, who led the research, said it \"painted a gloomy picture of lost schooling and low amounts of schoolwork at home\".\n\n\"The closure of schools, and their only-partial re-opening, constitute a potential threat to the educational development of a generation of children.\n\n\"Everyone is losing out in this generation, some much more than others.\n\n\"Better home schoolwork provision, and better still an early safe return to school for as many as possible, should now become a top priority for government.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Tue-Fri: Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 14:55-16:20 including three race commentaries; further coverage on Radio 5 Live on Saturday; Daily live text updates on BBC Sport website.\n\nWhen a jubilant Frankie Dettori and his mount Stradivarius were saluted by a 70,000 crowd at Royal Ascot a year ago, life was very different.\n\nCovid-19 and social distancing were unheard of. Now flat racing's biggest meeting is set to take place behind closed doors with jockeys wearing face masks.\n\nOn Tuesday, there will be no Queen, Royal procession or much of the glitz and glamour so associated with one of Britain's most famous sporting occasions, but there will be elite sport and plenty of it.\n\nAn expanded programme sees six additional races for a total of 36 contests over five days.\n\nStill Royal - but no procession\n\nFor the first time in her 68-year reign, the Queen will not be present at her favourite meeting.\n\nWhile the fixture retains its regal title and branding, it is out with the top hats and in with the temperature checks as numbers at the meeting are restricted to the hundreds.\n\n\"The attention of the world is on the biggest sporting event globally to take place since sport resumed,\" says Ascot director of racing Nick Smith.\n\n\"That is a heavy responsibility for us but it is a statement that racing is back. We must put on the best show we can.\"\n\nThe fixture will retain an international feel - horses can travel from the United States, France and the Republic of Ireland even if there are restrictions keeping their trainers away.\n\nTelevision coverage is on ITV and Sky, with pictures broadcast in 120 countries, including the United States, Australia and India, and countries in the Middle East and the Caribbean.\n\nLike other racehorse owners, the Queen is expected to follow from home - in her case down the road at Windsor Castle.\n\nOwners will be able to follow horses in the parade ring with a live 360-degree camera feed, while some trainers and jockeys are expected to give post-race debriefs by Facetime video calls.\n\nPunters are being urged to wear a hat and dress up at home as part of the racecourse's #StyledWithThanks initiative which will benefit four frontline charities.\n\n\"It's going to be strange behind closed doors but will still be a great meeting with high-quality racing,\" says jockey Jim Crowley.\n\nHe is back to one meal a day after the \"novelty\" of three daily during the 76-day suspension of racing before the sport returned on 1 June.\n\n\"I put on about half a stone - it was lovely being able to have a fry-up in the morning,\" adds Crowley, whose racing weight is 8st 10lb.\n\nThe 2016 champion jockey, who grew up just a furlong or two from Ascot, admits it has been strange adhering to the new safety protocols.\n\n\"It's different wearing masks in a race, and sometimes your goggles steam up. You can't have showers which can be a bit uncomfortable if you've had six or seven rides, but it's good to be back,\" he tells BBC Sport.\n\nThe lack of a big crowd could suit his mount, Battaash, odds-on favourite for Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes, one of eight top-level Group One races at the meeting which are part of the British Champions Series.\n\n\"I think it will be a positive as it should help him in the preliminaries. The first year he ran at York, he was close to the crowd and he boiled over,\" said Crowley.\n\nA quieter atmosphere could help the horse settle, and Blue Point - who beat him into second twice at Royal Ascot - is not around this time.\n\n\"When Battaash does win, it's explosive. He's put in some monster performances. If he's on his A game, nothing can beat him, \" said Crowley.\n\nThe going at the track was described as good to soft on Tuesday morning after 10mm of rain overnight.\n• Tuesday - Circus Maximus, trained by Aidan O'Brien, bids for a second straight Royal Ascot win - this time in the Queen Anne Stakes but Terrebulum looks a big danger under Dettori.\n• Wednesday - Japan, Headman and Barney Roy head the runners in the Prince of Wales's Stakes while Hollie Doyle will bid to become only the third female jockey to win at the meeting when she partners Win 'O 'Clock in the King George V Stakes.\n• Thursday - Dettori, who clocked up a historic four-timer on this day last year, seeks a third consecutive Gold Cup win on Stradivarius, trained by John Gosden.\n• Friday - American trainer Wesley Ward aims for an 11th Royal Ascot win, with Kimari his big hope in the Commonwealth Cup for three-year-old sprinters.\n• Saturday - The Coronation Stakes, with US runner Sharing and home hope Quadrilateral among the entries, heads a Group One triple-header. The 2,000 Guineas runner-up Wichita and third Pinatubo face off again in the St James's Palace Stakes while bargain buy Sceptical, snapped up by his Irish owners for just £2,800, competes for a first prize of £150,000 in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We tolerate a risk of our left and right hands working independently\".\n\nThe government department responsible for overseas aid is to be merged with the Foreign Office (FCO), the PM has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs abolishing the separate Department for International Development (DfID) would mean aid spending better reflected UK aims.\n\nHe said the \"long overdue reform\" would ensure \"maximum value\" for taxpayers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the move would weaken UK influence, and he would re-establish DfID if elected PM.\n\nThree former prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Tony Blair - have also criticised the move.\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nMinisters are aiming to set up the new joint department - called the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - by September.\n\nThe move to combine the two, which have a previous history of being merged and split up again, has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nAnnouncing the plan in the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new joint department would lend \"extra throw-weight and kilowattage\" to the UK's aims overseas.\n\nHe added that it was \"outdated\" to keep the departments separate, with other developed countries already running aid as part of their foreign ministries.\n\nFor too long, he said, UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nHowever he pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the FCO - would be maintained, with the UK committed to continuing to spend 0.7% of national income on aid projects.\n\nBoris Johnson has wanted to merge the Foreign Office and Department for International Development for years.\n\nHe believes that it is wrong to have two arms of UK foreign policy acting independently, and wants more coherence so the UK can speak with one voice on overseas matters.\n\nBut critics within the aid sector fear this merger may see more of the money focused on UK national interests and less on poverty reduction. As such, this is a politically controversial move.\n\nSome will see it as a sensible reordering of Whitehall, to ensure joined up policy and more effective aid spending, helping the most vulnerable while also promoting Britain abroad.\n\nOthers will see it as a bureaucratic distraction that will potentially weaken the UK's global reputation as an aid superpower.\n\nIn response, Sir Keir said there was \"no rationale\" for the merger, which he said was being made now to \"deflect attention\" from the government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe said DfID had proved one of the UK's \"best performing departments,\" and abolishing it represented \"the tactics of pure distraction\".\n\n\"Abolishing DfID diminishes Britain's place in the world,\" he told MPs.\n\nAsked later on Tuesday whether he would undo the merger if elected PM, he replied: \"Yes, we introduced DfID for a reason.\n\n\"This was cross-party consensus for many many years that DfID did good work. Of course it should be reinstated.\"\n\nTory MP Andrew Mitchell, who was in charge of DfID between 2010 and 2012, said abolishing the department would be a \"quite extraordinary mistake\".\n\nBut fellow Conservative Jeremy Hunt, who said he had \"wrested with this issue\" as a former foreign secretary, said the merger was the \"right thing to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOxfam, which has delivered development projects using money from DfID, said the merger would harm the fight to reduce global poverty.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said the move was \"scarcely believable\" at a time when the world was focused on fighting coronavirus.\n\n\"This decision puts politics above the needs of the poorest people and will mean more people around the world will die unnecessarily from hunger and disease.\"\n\n\"The Foreign Office may be excellent at diplomacy, but it has a patchy record of aid delivery and is not as transparent as DfID\", he said.\n\nFormer Labour PM Tony Blair - who carved DfID out of the Foreign Office during his time in Downing Street - also called the move \"wrong and regressive\".\n\n\"The strategic aims of alignment with diplomacy and focus on new areas of strategic interest to Britain could be accomplished without its abolition,\" he said.\n\nHis successor Gordon Brown said the decision to axe DfID was \"sad,\" adding it had been \"one of the UK's great international assets.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the move represented the UK \"turning its back on the world and to those most in need\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said that \"confusing\" aid objectives with foreign policy decisions was a \"massive step backwards\".\n\nThe department now known as DfID began life under Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964 as the Ministry of Overseas Development (ODM).\n\nIt was later merged with the Foreign Office under Ted Heath's Conservative government in 1970, but was re-established as a separate ministry by Mr Wilson after his return to Downing Street in 1974.\n\nIt was re-merged with the Foreign Office again however after the election of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979.\n\nIt obtained its current name of the Department for International Development (DfID) in 1997 after the carve-out under Mr Blair.", "Young people can feel isolated from friends despite the presence of social media\n\nThe delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a \"national disaster\" that is putting their mental health at risk, say leading psychologists.\n\nIn an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, they say the isolation of lockdown is harming already vulnerable young people.\n\nHighlighting the low risk to children of Covid-19, they call for social distancing measures to be minimised.\n\nAnd for a return to normal life.\n\nIn the letter, signed by more than 100 specialists in psychology, mental health and neuroscience, and published in The Sunday Times, they write: \"As experts working across disciplines, we are united as we urge you to reconsider your decision and to release children and young people from lockdown.\n\n\"Allow them to play together and continue their education by returning to preschool, school, college and university, and enjoy extra-curricular activities including sport and music as normally, and as soon, as possible.\"\n\nIt comes after an opinion piece in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health warned of the damaging long-term consequences of a lack of face-to-face contact among young people and their peers.\n\nProf Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, who organised the letter, said mental health problems such as anxiety were already rising in young people before lockdown.\n\nShe told the BBC there was evidence that growing feelings of loneliness and social isolation as a result of school closures during the pandemic could be making that worse, especially among teenagers.\n\nAnd she described hearing some \"heart-breaking stories\" of children struggling.\n\nThe letter also points to evidence that children are at low risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Suicide is already the leading cause of death in 5-19 year olds in England and the second leading cause of death in young people globally; thankfully, Covid-19 will never claim this many young lives,\" it says.\n\nThe letter goes on to say that children are being \"neglected in this crisis\" and \"their futures must now be given priority\".\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.\n\nSignatories to the letter include Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, Prof Rory O'Connor, chair in health psychology at Glasgow University, broadcaster and author Prof Tanya Byron and Prof Uta Frith, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.\n\nFrom now on, young people must be included in making decisions involving them, they say.\n\n\"We need to recognise the sacrifice that children have already made for others and we should not ask for that sacrifice to continue.\n\n\"When many of this cohort enter adulthood, we will be deep in recession, so they will need mental resilience and educational preparedness.\n\n\"Instead we are damaging both, with lifelong consequences for them and society,\" the letter ends.", "Prince Charles has still not fully regained his sense of smell and taste after having coronavirus in March, he revealed on a visit to NHS staff.\n\nThe prince discussed his personal experience with the virus as he met workers at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital - at a 2m distance.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who said the staff had showed \"Britain at its best\".\n\nIt was the couple's first face-to-face public engagement since lockdown began.\n\nThey met front-line staff and key workers from several NHS trusts, including consultants, nurses and cleaners, at the hospital near Prince Charles's Highgrove estate.\n\nSocial distancing rules were observed, with those waiting to meet them standing on yellow dots to ensure they were 2m apart.\n\nPrince Charles greeted some of those he met with a \"namaste\" - clasping his hands together - instead of a handshake.\n\nJeff Mills, 47, a healthcare assistant from Cheltenham General Hospital, said: \"He did speak of his personal experience, so first-hand experience for him.\n\n\"He also spoke about his loss of smell and taste and, sort of, still felt he's still got it now.\"\n\nThey're never the most natural of meetings. Even at the best of times, royal visits can be a touch artificial. It's all that protocol: what do you call them; must one bow/curtsey; what does one talk about?\n\nAnd now it's become ever so slightly more complicated thanks to the requirements of social distancing.\n\nWhen Charles and Camilla turned up at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital they were greeted by staff who looked as though they were taking part in a military parade… they were formed up in impeccably well-presented ranks, each person 2m from each other.\n\nEveryone understood and the royal guests joked about taking a salute or telling everyone to \"fall out\".\n\nBut the important thing was that it didn't interfere with the essential message of the occasion.\n\nPrince William too had resumed face to face royal visits, meeting first responders at an ambulance station in Norfolk.\n\nConversations may not be at their most relaxed when the speakers are standing apart but no amount of protocol or \"distancing\" can dilute the underlying message of gratitude to all those who've been in the coronavirus front line.\n\nThe 71-year-old prince was diagnosed with Covid-19 near the start of the outbreak, after suffering mild symptoms. A loss of smell is thought to be one of the key symptoms.\n\nHe later said he had \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nAsked if the country's appreciation of the NHS had changed for good, the duchess said: \"I think it has, you can tell by all the people coming out every week to clap - they've done the most remarkable things.\n\n\"The way they've looked after people, the way they've sort of kept control of the whole thing... it's a question of not panicking and getting on with it and I think they are Britain at its best.\"\n\nShe also revealed the couple had their first socially-distanced reunion with their grandchildren last weekend, saying it had been a \"great treat\", even though they were not able to hug them.\n\nWith lockdown restrictions being eased, the Royal Family have chosen to take a step towards a return to normality - with a series of face-to-face public engagements.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge visited King's Lynn Ambulance Station in Norfolk - the first time he had met members of the public in person since coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nPrince William's visit to the King's Lynn Ambulance Station was also socially distanced\n\nPrince William joked about how he was looking forward to having a pint in the pub, as he praised staff for \"all your hard work\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone appreciates the NHS, we have an amazing system, it's a great health service and many countries around the world envy what we have.\n\n\"It's not until you have a big crisis, a pandemic, and everyone realises we have to really make sure we value and we show our appreciation.\"\n\nHe also joked: \"I'm worried about the waistline of the nation as well, with all the chocolate and cakes. I've done a lot of baking at home.\"\n\nThe prince recently revealed he had been volunteering for crisis helpline Shout 85258 during the lockdown.", "Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September.\n\nThe firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University.\n\nAstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine this year and next.\n\nInitial trials are under way and AstraZeneca said it recognised that the vaccine might not work.\n\nBut the company said it was committed to advancing the clinical programme.\n\nScientists have warned that a coronavirus vaccine, if developed, might not confer full immunity, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a vaccine might never be found.\n\nDespite these reservations, intensive research continues, with about 80 groups around the world working on possible vaccines.\n\nAstraZeneca indicated that production would take place in more than one country. It thanked the UK and US governments for \"substantial support to accelerate the development and production of the vaccine\".\n\nIt also said it was in discussions with the Serum Institute of India and other potential partners to increase production and distribution.\n\nSpecifically, it said it had received support of more than $1bn from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production and delivery of the vaccine,\n\nAstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\n\"We need to defeat the virus together or it will continue to inflict huge personal suffering and leave long-lasting economic and social scars in every country around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so proud to be collaborating with Oxford University to turn their ground-breaking work into a medicine that can be produced on a global scale.\"", "What is happening with the great majority of children who are missing out on school in England?\n\nThat's not a random question - and, more puzzlingly, it's not one with an answer - because at the moment no-one really knows.\n\nSome parents might see their children learning from a dazzlingly digital, interactive version of the school day, while others will see their children putting in a long hard day on Netflix, with their schoolwork a fast-receding memory.\n\nThere is no consistent approach or anyone even monitoring what's offered for the more than 90% of pupils who are not back in school.\n\nDisquiet about that is rising, not least among parents considering the time lost before important exams.\n\nIt feels as though the changed world of Covid-19 has become semi-permanent, but the approach for schools seems stuck in the makeshift approaches of the first lockdown days in March.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return in the autumn?\n\nThat worked for a while - an online academy was rapidly put together, laptops were promised for the disadvantaged and teachers put in long hours and worked through their holidays to teach pupils online and keep schools open for key workers.\n\nBut speaking privately, school leaders say they felt excluded from big decisions, such as how schools would begin to return.\n\nThe date 1 June had been in discussion for many weeks for a phased return, but when it was also announced that all primary years would return by the end of term, many head teachers immediately warned that with social distancing that it was never going to happen.\n\nIt felt as though political announcements and the realities of classroom capacity had parted ways - and things began to drift.\n\nInstead of taking common ownership of a shared plan, teachers' and head teachers' union leaders found themselves uncertain whether there even was a plan.\n\nThe ditching of proposals to bring back all primary children this week suddenly cast a hard cold light on how long most pupils would be out of school.\n\nThe government has been performing its own balancing act - on the one hand accused by teachers' unions of risking safety by going back to school too soon, while also being under pressure from some parents and employers for not going back quickly enough.\n\nNext week it will try to extricate itself with a promise of summer clubs and catch-up classes. But no matter how big the back of the envelope on which these ideas will be written, it will still be about looking after and supporting children in a temporary way, and not regular lessons with their own teachers.\n\nHow will pupils catch up on lost time for next summer's exams?\n\nBut the really big decision and the most difficult question for schools is what happens in September - will pupils be able to go back in any way that resembles a regular school day?\n\nThis is only 10 weeks away - less time than since the lockdown started - and there are already warnings that if schools are going to have any chance to get ready, decisions will have to be made very soon.\n\nAnd many parents will be worried at the prospect of more temporary timetables and online lessons stretching over the horizon.\n\nIf the 2m social distance is still in place in September, perhaps only half of pupils could return at any one time, maybe not even that many.\n\nThe lack of space that derailed the return of primary classes would apply to secondary years too.\n\nThat would mean rotas and part-time lessons into the autumn, with all the disruption to learning and to parents wanting to get back to work.\n\nWill the return to school still be part-time in September?\n\nEven if the 2m rule is lowered to 1m, some schools warn they will struggle to accommodate all their children.\n\nThere has been talk of taking over church halls and empty buildings close to schools - and it might work in some instances - but many would struggle with the safety issues of creating instant classrooms in nearby sites for hundreds of children each day.\n\nA heads' leader says it's hard enough finding teachers in regular times, so how would they hire an entire parallel staff in a few weeks?\n\nAnd that's before the challenges of deciding what to do about A-levels and GCSEs when such a large chunk of the year has been missed.\n\nA change on social distancing could make a difference to how many could be taught.\n\nBut schools are clamouring for a strategy, and one they can help to shape rather than hearing it announced on television, that would allow them to get ready for a return to school, in whatever form that now might take.\n\nParents brought home their children in March in a great moment of collective uncertainty. Three months later they need much clearer answers about what happens next.", "The lack of routine means many teenagers are sleeping in\n\n\"I'm worried about a lack of motivation - he's not getting up until one o'clock.\"\n\nMany parents across the UK will empathise with mother-of three Louise, who is worried her teenage son is becoming disengaged from his studies, as schools remain closed due to Covid-19.\n\n\"It's hard enough motivating a lazy 17-year-old boy who doesn't really care much about school in normal times,\" says Louise.\n\nWhen schools were closed two weeks before the Easter holidays, few parents were expecting the home school scenario to go on for more than a few weeks.\n\nWhile there is a possibility that some, if not all, primary school year groups in England may go back before the long summer holidays, this is unlikely to be the case in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd it's becoming clear that secondary schools (apart from \"some face-to-face contact\" with teachers for Year 10 and 12 pupils in England) will remain shut until September or even later - but nobody really knows.\n\nLouise, who did not want us to use her full name, says she's worried that not being in school for such a long time will mean some pupils lose interest and give up.\n\n\"These children, they're losing any motivation, so when they do go back to school, I don't think they're really going to care.\n\n\"They need the interaction with the teacher, a bit more more than, 'Here's a worksheet'.\n\n\"I'm worried my son's not going to bother doing any work now before his A-levels next year and frankly, he's having a nice time, he's exercising lots, playing video games, so why would he start working again?\"\n\n\"It's very difficult for parents to get their children to knuckle down sometimes,\" says Rebecca Poole, head teacher of Hampton High in south-west London.\n\n\"But it's important not to panic. I would say that if it's creating unbearable conflict at home, don't force it.\n\n\"As teachers, we will do our best to repair the damage to learning, the important thing is children's wellbeing and safety.\n\n\"Families should hear that, they shouldn't tie themselves in knots - we're in this for a long schlep.\"\n\nCarl Ward, head teacher of Haywood Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, says parents should never feel reluctant to contact the school if learning at home is not going well.\n\n\"My number one piece of advice would be to contact the school, speak to the staff and then students' needs can be looked at.\n\n\"Invoke your right as a parent and ask the school for more work, less work, better work or advice - they're there to help you.\"\n\nHe also says schools are sharing best practice and are working hard to improve the online delivery of lessons.\n\nBut it's not just the educational side of schools being closed that is having an impact on children and young people, the social side of growing up is also curtailed.\n\nMother-of-four Trish Jones told the BBC that her three secondary-school-age children are keen to get back to school and see their friends.\n\n\"They thought there was a glimmer of hope they'd go back to school before the summer, but when they realised that that wasn't going to be happening, they were gutted, really gutted.\n\n\"For them it was the chance to be back with their friends, back to the usual routine in the company of their friends.\"\n\nTrish's school-age girls are keen to see their school friends\n\nTrish also worries that teenagers aren't getting the freedom and privacy they need to develop their independence.\n\n\"It's unbelievable really that we've got all these teenagers stuck at home.\"\n\nLouise says her 17-year-old is losing out on the positive aspects of mingling with his peers.\n\n\"He's decided that he doesn't want to go to university, which may have happened anyway, but I think if he was at school surrounded by his peers, who are clever boys, he'd be pulled along by them.\n\n\"But because he's isolated at home, he's not getting his peer influence - he's got clever, motivated friends who're a good influence, but now he's not seeing them.\"\n\nProf Chris Boyle, educational psychologist at Exeter University's Graduate School of Education, says all is not lost because young people are highly connected online.\n\n\"They're not totally disconnected because they're continually connected online, so it might strengthen their friendships because they can interact in a different way.\"\n\nMissing friends is one of the challenges of the current situation\n\nProf Boyle suggests children and young people try to \"enjoy the space\" that school closures bring and use it as a period of reflection.\n\n\"We could consider this as an opportunity for teenagers to reflect where they're at - with their friends, where they're going in life, what they want from life, what their priorities are.\n\n\"There is hope, there's potential for society to reset itself, for example, in terms of the environment, in terms of looking out for our neighbours.\"\n\nHead teacher Carl Ward, who's been a teacher for 27 years, says it's important never to underestimate the ability of children and young people to recover from difficulties.\n\n\"I'm always astounded by children's ability to bounce back,\" he says.\n\n\"The quicker we can get them back into the normal swing of things, the better, but it's not the end of the world that they've lost some time.\n\n\"They'll be guided and pushed by teachers when they're back in school to make up for that lost time.\"", "The hospitality industry has been badly affected, with restaurants bars and cafes required to close for all but takeaways and deliveries\n\nThe boss of the UK's largest recruitment firm, Reed, has said he fears current trends suggest far more people are going to lose their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nJames Reed predicted the unemployment rate could reach 15%, meaning five million people could be out of work.\n\nHe said recent job cuts by firms were \"perhaps just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nReed has seen job advertisements drop by two-thirds, while applications per job are rising.\n\nThis week Bentley, Aston Martin, car dealership Lookers and engineering giant Rolls-Royce have all announced job cuts.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Reed said more losses could be on the way since small businesses do not have to give advance notice of lay offs, as big companies do.\n\n\"My concern is that the data that we're seeing, which is that the number of jobs advertised is down two-thirds and has been consistently for two months now, suggests that there could be a lot more job losses to come,\" he said.\n\nHe predicts unemployment will rise sharply in the autumn, when the government's furlough scheme comes to an end.\n\nMr Reed said some people had predicted unemployment could reach levels not seen since the 1980s, when the jobless rate reached 11.9%.\n\n\"I fear it could be a lot worse than that, it might be more like the 1930s,\" he said.\n\nCurrently, 8.7 million UK workers are receiving payments on the Job Retention Scheme.\n\nThe government has confirmed the scheme will run to the end of October, but by then employers will be paying a fifth of workers' salaries.\n\n\"It's very difficult for those businesses to re-employ all the people they've got furloughed,\" Mr Reed said. \"So I'm dreading this day of reckoning where they decide they're not going to do that and a lot more people will become unemployed.\"\n\nMr Reed said some industries were seeing a rise in recruitment, particularly in health and logistics, but huge sectors of the economy, such as leisure and tourism, remained completely shut down.\n\nHe added it was important for the economy to get going again in the next two or three months, or it would be hard for some firms to recover, and he called for clarity soon on how businesses can reopen.\n\nIn the early weeks of lockdown, claims for universal credit, the benefit for working-age people, hit a record monthly level of 1.5 million claims.", "As lockdown measures are relaxed across England on Monday, high street shops have reopened with safety measures in place, including plastic screens at the tills and floor markings for social distancing.\n\nSome shoppers took protective precautions to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nA shop worker prepares to serve customers from behind a screen in a sweet shop in York\n\nSome chose to wear face shields, like this florist in York\n\nA customer enters a Brighton gift shop - which has face coverings on display\n\nShoppers get excited as they queue to enter a Primark store in Brighton\n\nIn Southampton, shoppers mill around the high street\n\nCustomers in Loughborough - next to a sign reminding them to stay safe\n\nMonday also marked the day that zoos in England were allowed to open\n\nCustomers follow barriers to safely social distance outside the Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent", "Ex-Tory Leader William Hague says lockdown is an \"economic catastrophe\" and is calling for the two-metre distancing rule to be scrapped.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Lord Hague said lockdown was increasing inequality, social tension and debt.\n\nThe hospitality industry, and some MPs and scientists, have called for the 2m (6ft) rule to be relaxed in England.\n\nNo 10 has said a review into the rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nAnd Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said the government would not amend the restriction until 4 July at the earliest.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the public would be \"rightly very unforgiving\" if the UK experienced a second spike of coronavirus caused by \"rushing\" a change in restrictions.\n\nSo far England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all maintained the two-metre rule.\n\nIt comes as official figures suggest the number of workers on UK payrolls dived more than 600,000 between March and May - reflecting the impact of about six weeks in lockdown.\n\nBut economists say the full impact on employment will not be felt until wage support schemes end in October.\n\nIn his article, Lord Hague said the lockdown had been so \"destructive\" that it could \"only ever be allowed to happen once\".\n\nHe urged the government to scrap the quarantine on international arrivals - which requires all people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days - and the 2m social distancing rule.\n\n\"We can now see that it is not necessary to have a two-metre separation between people to keep the virus in retreat where it is already at a low level,\" he writes.\n\n\"We know this from the experience of countries such as Denmark, France and Germany where the recommended distance is shorter, and we should not have to spend weeks agonising over it.\"\n\nHe said lockdown was \"like Dunkirk - a heroic operation in itself but the result of a massive failure\".\n\nAnd this was a failure \"at multiple levels\" he said, adding: \"A failure by the whole world to prevent the trading of wild animals for consumption; by China to report the initial outbreak openly; by our and many other countries to prepare for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nHe said \"crucial lessons\" had also been learnt, including that some countries - including Germany and South Korea - \"have escaped a good deal of the brutal costs of having to pursue a tight lockdown\" after they were \"much more ambitious about testing\".\n\nFormer Tory Leader Iain Duncan-Smith has warned MPs that they were \"in danger of losing sight of what will happen, probably to the poorest in society\".\n\nEx-defence minister Tobias Ellwood has told the Commons that halving social distancing to 1m would be \"game-changing\" and should be done now.\n\nAnd, in a joint article for the Telegraph, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford said there was no evidence for the 2m rule.\n\nThey said it was \"seriously impacting schools, pubs, restaurants and our ability to go about our daily lives\".\n\n\"Handwashing and encouragement are what we need, not formalised rules.\"\n\nBut Mr Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"People will be, I think rightly very unforgiving about a second spike caused by rushing from two metres to one metre, or what have you.\n\n\"So, what we're doing is - right now, properly reviewing all of the evidence and we're aware that other countries have come to different conclusions.\"\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, has said: \"It is a risk-based assessment on when risk reduces and the risks are associated with distance, so risk falls after 2m.\n\n\"It is wrong to portray this as a scientific rule that says it is 2m or nothing - that is not what the advice has been and it is not what the advice is now.\"", "New Zealand has confirmed two new cases of coronavirus, ending a 24-day run of no new infections in the country.\n\nThe cases relate to two women from the same family, both of whom had travelled from the UK and were given special permission to visit a dying parent.\n\nHealth Minister David Clark said the necessary checks had not taken place and he was suspending compassionate exemptions to the quarantine rules.\n\nLast week New Zealand declared that the country was coronavirus-free.\n\nIt lifted all domestic restrictions. However, strict border restrictions remained in place - with only citizens and essential workers allowed in.\n\nAll arrivals are supposed to be tested for Covid-19 and have to go through a 14-day period of isolation.\n\nExemptions can be granted and Dr Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's director-general of health, said that in this case there had been an \"agreed plan in place as part of the approval process [including] the travel arrangements\".\n\nIt's not known if the patients are citizens of the UK, New Zealand, or elsewhere.\n\nThe women - one in her 30s and one in her 40s - arrived in New Zealand from the UK on the 7 June, via Doha and Brisbane, and entered quarantine.\n\nThey stayed in a managed isolation hotel in Auckland and on 12 June applied for an exemption to visit their dying parent - who died later that night.\n\nThey were granted permission to travel to Wellington on 13 June.\n\nOne of the women had \"mild symptoms\", but put this down to a pre-existing condition.\n\nThey travelled to Wellington in a private vehicle and did not use any public facilities during this journey, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, director-general of health, said on Tuesday,\n\nThey stayed with a single family member in Wellington. That family member has now been placed in self-isolation.\n\nThe women were tested on Monday and the results were confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nDr Bloomfield added that going forward, he had asked for \"anyone being released for compassionate exemption [to be] tested and [have] a negative result\" before they are released.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I did a little dance': Smiling Ardern confirming New Zealand is free of Covid-19 in early June\n\nMr Clark told New Zealand media that he expected all new arrivals in quarantine to be tested for the virus at three days and again at 12 days.\n\nAnnouncing that he was suspending exemptions to the quarantine rules, he said: \"Compassionate exemptions should be rare and rigorous and it appears that this case did not include the checks that we expected to be happening. That's not acceptable.\"\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was clear that checks had not been not adequate in this case.\n\nLate last Monday, New Zealand moved into the lowest tier of its four-tier alert system - making it one of the few countries in the world to return to pre-pandemic normality.\n\nUnder this, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings.\n\nMs Ardern celebrated the move but warned the country would \"certainly see cases again\", adding that \"elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort\".\n\nNew Zealand has been lauded at a success story for its handling of the virus - it was quick to close its borders and implement a strict nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe newest cases bring New Zealand's total number of cases since the outbreak began to 1,506. The death toll remains unchanged at 22.", "Many of Pret's stores have already reopened with stores adapted for social distancing\n\nBosses at restaurant and food chains including Wagamama and Pizza Hut have warned the prime minister the sector faces mass job cuts without more help.\n\nIn a letter to Boris Johnson backed by 90 firms, they say that if social distancing remains they will need action on tax, rents and other support.\n\nWithout more help, the sector faces \"grave damage\", the firms say.\n\nDeliveroo organised the letter, signed by its partner restaurants including Itsu and Pret A Manger.\n\nThe companies, which together represent more than 1,000 outlets, praised government measures already introduced, but said more \"swift action\" was needed while two-metre separation requirements remained in place.\n\nThe government has commissioned a comprehensive review into the two-metre rule, which the prime minister's official spokesman said on Monday would \"look at evidence around transmission of the virus in different environments, incidence rates and international comparisons\". Ministers have said the review will be completed \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nIn the letter, the bosses write: \"Without government support to help restaurants to generate revenue and cover costs, tens of thousands of restaurants may be forced to permanently close their doors in the coming months.\n\n\"This crisis is far from over and the potential consequences are deeply concerning. A huge number of restaurants across the country are facing the prospect of bankruptcy.\"\n\nThe firms own outlets across the UK, but are likely to reopen them at different times. In Northern Ireland, restaurants and cafes can reopen from 3 July, and in England the day after. The Scottish government has outlined a phased approach to pubs and restaurants reopening but there is no date. Nor is there a date for Wales.\n\nThe action called for includes slashing VAT on restaurant food and maintaining the Job Retention Scheme for restaurants while social distancing measures are in place.\n\nThe chains also want \"mortgage holidays\" for landlords, so that this can be passed on in the form of lower rents, and an extension of the moratorium on evictions for as long as social distancing measures prevent restaurants from operating at full capacity.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with the hospitality sector to develop safe ways for restaurants, bars and cafes to reopen as soon as we can from July.\n\n\"These businesses can continue to access our extensive package of support, including our job retention scheme which has been extended until October - meaning it will have been open for eight months and will continue to support businesses as the economy reopens and people return to work.\"\n\nThe spokesperson also pointed out that this was in addition to 100% business rates holidays, loans and tax deferrals.\n\nMany restaurant chains were in trouble before the coronavirus lockdown, which has only exacerbated the pressures. Last week, the owner of Frankie and Benny's, The Restaurant Group, became the latest big name to restructure, announcing 3,000 job cuts and 125 closures.\n\nA recent survey by Deliveroo found more than half of small and independent restaurants said they would have to close within three months without further support.\n\n\"Without government support to help restaurants to generate revenue and cover costs, tens of thousands of restaurants may be forced to permanently close their doors in the coming months,\" it said.\n\nThe signatories pointed out that last year, customers spent £40bn in restaurants, supporting one million employees.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of industry trade body UK Hospitality, said: \"Household name brands on every High Street have been closed and many will be operating at well below capacity once lockdown ends.\n\n\"As these proposals from Deliveroo and their partner restaurants show, restaurants need urgent support from the government so that they can help rebuild economies and give people some much-needed enjoyment. Without it, some will close permanently and people's jobs will be lost.\"", "The Suffolk air base has more than 8,000 US and British military and civilian personnel\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been named as 1st Lt Kenneth Allen.\n\nLt Allen, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed off the East Yorkshire coast on Monday while on a training mission.\n\nHe had been stationed at the base since February and is survived by his wife and parents, the US Air Force said.\n\nIn a tribute on Facebook, Lt Allen's wife Hannah said he was \"perfect\" and her \"absolute best friend\".\n\nMrs Allen said she felt \"beyond blessed to have loved him\" but felt \"shattered\" by her loss.\n\nCol Will Marshall said the whole unit was \"deeply saddened\" by Lt Allen's death.\n\n\"The tremendous outpouring of love and support from our communities has been a ray of light in this time of darkness,\" the commander of 48th Fighter Wing added.\n\nMrs Allen remains in the United States, where the couple recently married, and is being supported by family and the US Air Force, Col Marshall said.\n\nLt Allen, known as Kage, was the assistant chief of weapons and tactics for the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by Follow the Flag - North Ogden\n\nCol Marshall told the BBC that a formal investigation into the cause of the crash had begun but it would \"take some amount of time\" before the results would be known.\n\nRadio data, the wreckage and information from other pilots would form the basis of the investigation, he said.\n\nLt Allen, who had just completed upgraded training for the F-15C Eagle, was on a training exercise with 11 other aircraft when his plane went into the sea 74 nautical miles (85 miles) off the East Yorkshire coast.\n\nThe Coastguard and RNLI lifeboat crews from Bridlington and Scarborough were among those who took part in the search after the plane was reported missing at about 09:30 BST.\n\nThe plane crashed off the coast at Flamborough Head at about 09:30 BST on Monday\n\nWreckage was located before Lt Allen was found dead.\n\nCol Marshall thanked HM Coastguard and the RNLI teams who helped coordinate the search and recovery of Lt Allen \"despite bad weather\".\n\nThe F-15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England striker Marcus Rashford said he would fight on after the government confirmed it would not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nThe Manchester United player wrote an emotional open letter to MPs in which he said \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nBut the Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision.\n\nRashford, 22, responded by tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nRashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn his letter, Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up. He said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSonja from Basingstoke, who has three teenage children, told BBC Radio 5 live Drive she found herself out of work because of the pandemic and does not start her new job until September. She said she was in \"real trouble\" without the vouchers in the meantime.\n\n\"I'm relying on the £60 I get every fortnight from free school meal vouchers to do my food shopping,\" she said.\n\n\"There are lots of us out there that have found ourselves on benefits through no fault of our own. We really are struggling to make ends meet and I'm not sure too many people understand how difficult it is - Marcus obviously does.\"\n\nGary Lineker told BBC Newsnight he was \"very impressed\" with Rashford's efforts.\n\nHe said he understands that \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very, very difficult times\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Rashford said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling - whether the outcome changes or doesn't change, that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\"\n\nA spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low-income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August.\n\nA survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children in the UK have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" added Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "Greggs is to open about 800 shops for takeaways on Thursday after temporary closures during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 outlets, said it planned to reopen all its remaining shops from early July.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Cineworld said it would reopen UK cinemas with social distancing measures from 10 July.\n\nShops and businesses are beginning to to restart as coronavirus restrictions ease.\n\nThe UK government has been gradually easing lockdown measures, and Monday this week saw non-essential High Street shops reopening in England.\n\nLockdown measures in England are due to be eased further from 4 July, when pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels and cinemas could reopen.\n\nFast food restaurants initially closed their doors during the coronavirus crisis, before some started to tentatively reopen.\n\nIn May, McDonald's saw huge queues outside its restaurants as it started to reopen some of its UK drive-through outlets, while rival KFC had started to reopen restaurants for delivery in April.\n\nGreggs began to reopen shops during the coronavirus lockdown in May with a trial of 20 in the Newcastle area.\n\nAfter initially saying it would allow customers into the shops, it then backtracked and said the reopenings would be behind closed doors.\n\nIn April, it said it hoped to reopen 700 stores from 8 June, including 150 franchise shops, and have all stores open again by 1 July, when the government's job retention scheme was due to end. That scheme was subsequently extended to the end of October.\n\nIn its latest update, Greggs said it would now reopen 800 outlets on Thursday. The chain said there would be floor markings in the shops to help people maintain social distancing with protective screens at the counters, PPE equipment for staff, additional cleaning and more hand sanitiser. Customers would be encouraged to make contactless payments, it added.\n\nGreggs chief executive Roger Whiteside said: \"Looking forward, although great uncertainty remains, we are excited to be resuming our service for many customers this week.\"\n\nGreggs has temporarily suspended its new shop opening programme except for shops where it is legally committed or expects strong customer traffic. It said it would open about 60 shops and close about 50 this year.\n\nIt is approaching landlords to make rent reductions, and has speeded up plans for delivery and click and collect services.\n\nUK cinema group Cineworld said that with \"several blockbuster movies including Tenet and Mulan now confirmed for release in the coming weeks\" it planned to reopen in the UK and the US from 10 July.\n\nAlthough Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have different plans to England for easing lockdown restrictions, a Cineworld spokesman said the current plan was to reopen most cinemas across the UK, with delays in a few smaller outlets to make sure they can comply with social distancing expectations.\n\nIts chief executive Mooky Greidinger said: \"We are thrilled to be back and encouraged by recent surveys that show that many people have missed going to the movie theatre.\"\n\nHe added that a \"strong slate\" had been confirmed for the coming weeks, including \"A Quiet Place Part II, Wonder Women 1984, Black Widow, Bond, Soul, [and] Top Gun Maverick\".\n\nAmong other measures, Cineworld said it had \"adapted our daily movie schedules to manage queues and avoid the build-up of crowds in our lobbies and enhanced our cleanliness and sanitation procedures across all of our sites\".\n\nRivals Vue Cinemas said in May that it hoped to reopen in mid-July.\n\nCineworld, which operates about 9,000 screens globally, abandoned a $1.65bn (£1.3bn) deal to buy Canada's Cineplex last week.", "Some 300,000 more UK workers have been furloughed in the past week, raising the total to 8.7 million since the start of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThat means more than a quarter of the workforce is now being supported by the £14bn-a-month scheme.\n\nAnother 200,000 self-employed have taken up government grants, meaning 2.5 million have been handed out.\n\nMeanwhile businesses have borrowed more than £31bn in government-backed loans to help survive the crisis.\n\nLast week, the schemes were extended to October by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe jobs retention scheme was introduced in March to mitigate the effects of coronavirus.\n\nIt allows employees to receive 80% of their monthly salary up to £2,500.\n\nSome £17.5bn has now been claimed by more than a million firms under the scheme, up from £15bn last week, government figures show.\n\nLast Friday, the government confirmed that furloughed workers would continue to get 80% of their pay until the end of October, but by then a fifth of their salary will have to be met by employers.\n\n\"Then, after eight months of this extraordinary intervention of the government stepping in to help pay people's wages, the scheme will close,\" Rishi Sunak said.\n\nThe scheme is expected to have cost a total of about £80bn by the time it is shut down.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds warned last week about job losses when the government support schemes end.\n\n\"It is concerning that there is no commitment within these plans for support to only be scaled back in step with the removal of lockdown,\" she said.\n\nThe Self-Employed Income Support Scheme pays a one-off grant of up to £7,500 amounting to 80% of average three-month profits.\n\nThe 200,000 additional claims for that in the past seven days has cost the government £400m, to bring the total paid out to £7.2bn.\n\nLast week, the government confirmed that eligible self-employed workers would receive a second three-month payment under the scheme.\n\nHowever, it is slightly less generous, covering 70% of the applicant's average monthly trading profits.\n\nIt will also be made in a single payment, covering three months and capped at £2,190 a month, or £6,570 in total.\n\nPeople whose work has been affected by coronavirus will still be able to apply for the lump sum until 13 July.\n\nNearly 750,000 businesses have been approved for loans from coronavirus programmes worth more than £31.3bn, government figures show.\n\nLow interest bounce-back loans of up to £50,000 guaranteed by the government account for the majority.\n\nAlmost 700,000 companies have been approved for £21.3bn-worth of bounce-back loans.\n\nThere were an extra 91,000 granted in the past week, with a total value of £2.8bn.\n\nMeanwhile more than £8.9bn has been lent to nearly 46,000 companies under the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS).\n\nIn the last seven days almost 3,000 CBILS worth a total £770m were approved.\n\nSome £1.1billion has been lent to 191 companies through a similar scheme aimed at larger businesses, called CLBILS.\n\nIn the last week around £300m was borrowed under the scheme by 37 bigger businesses.", "Lee Longlands built the art-deco store on Broad Street in Birmingham in 1932\n\nAn historic furniture company has gone into administration due to coronavirus after almost 120 years in business.\n\nLee Longlands was established in 1902 and opened its flagship store in Birmingham 30 years later.\n\nThe family-run business said it had been forced into administration as a result of the \"the devastating impact of the coronavirus lockdown\".\n\nThe firm has a number of showrooms across the Midlands and was described as \"a household name\" in the region.\n\nThe company's shops have not been able to trade for three months because of lockdown\n\nIts shops in Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Kidderminster, Abingdon, Derby and Cheltenham were closed for three months and have only just re-opened as lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nRobert Lee is the fourth generation to run the business, which was established by Robert Lee and George Longland.\n\n\"For almost 120 years our family business and our employees have put our customers at the heart of everything we do,\" he said, adding that the company would be working to fulfil orders \"to restore our short term finances\".\n\nThe company's founders were pioneers - in 1907 they became the first store outside of London to install window display lighting after closing time.\n\nIts flagship store in Birmingham was used to store food rations during the Second World War, and the company also contributed to the war effort by producing \"blackout fabric\" to cover windows, making it harder for enemy bombers to identify targets.\n\n\"Lee Longlands is a household name across the Midlands,\" Matt Ingram, from administrator Duff and Phelps said.\n\n\"The fact that the appointment of administrators has been necessary, demonstrates the devastating financial impact that this pandemic will leave in its wake.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg talks about how she has spent lockdown in Sweden\n\nGreta Thunberg says the world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency.\n\nThat means the world acting \"with necessary force\", the Swedish climate activist says in an exclusive interview with BBC News.\n\nShe doesn't think any \"green recovery plan\" will solve the crisis alone.\n\nAnd she says the world is now passing a \"social tipping point\" on climate and issues such as Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"People are starting to realise that we cannot keep looking away from these things\", says Ms Thunberg, \"we cannot keep sweeping these injustices under the carpet\".\n\nShe says lockdown has given her time to relax and reflect away from the public gaze.\n\nMs Thunberg has shared with the BBC the text of a deeply personal programme she has made for Swedish Radio.\n\nIn the radio programme, which goes online this morning, Greta looks back on the year in which she became one of the world's most high-profile celebrities.\n\nThe then 16-year-old took a sabbatical from school to spend a tumultuous year campaigning on the climate.\n\nShe sailed across the Atlantic on a racing yacht to address a special UN Climate Action summit in New York in September.\n\nShe describes world leaders queuing to get pictures with her, with Angela Merkel asking whether it was okay to post her photo on social media.\n\nThe climate activist is sceptical of some world leaders' motives\n\nThe climate campaigner is sceptical of their motives. \"Perhaps it makes them forget the shame of their generation letting all future generations down\", she says. \"I guess maybe it helps them to sleep at night.\"\n\nIt was in the UN that she delivered her famous \"how dare you\" speech. \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words\", she told the world leaders gathered in the UN Assembly.\n\nShe appeared on the verge of tears as she continued. \"People are dying,\" she said, \"and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you?\"\n\nShe knew it was a \"lifetime moment\" and decided not to hold anything back, she says now.\n\n\"I am going to let my emotions take control and to really make something big out of this because I won't be able to do this again\".\n\nShe describes travelling back from the UN to her hotel on the subway and seeing people watching the speech on their phones, but says she felt no urge to celebrate.\n\n\"All that is left are empty words\", she says.\n\nThe phrase reflects her deep cynicism about the motives of most world leaders.\n\n\"The level of knowledge and understanding even among people in power is very, very low, much lower than you would think,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta sailed to New York on a zero-emissions yacht in 2019\n\nShe says the only way to reduce emissions on the scale that is necessary is to make fundamental changes to our lifestyles, starting in developed countries. But she doesn't believe any leaders have the nerve to do that.\n\nInstead, she says, they \"simply refrain from reporting the emissions, or move them somewhere else\".\n\nShe claims the UK, Sweden and other countries do this by failing to account for the emissions from ships and aircraft and by choosing not to count the emissions from goods produced in factories abroad.\n\nAs a result, she says in her radio programme, the whole language of debate has been degraded.\n\n\"Words like green, sustainable, 'net-zero', 'environmentally friendly', 'organic', 'climate-neutral' and 'fossil-free' are today so misused and watered down that they have pretty much lost all their meaning. They can imply everything from deforestation to aviation, meat and car industries,\" she said.\n\nMs Thunberg says the only positive that could come out of the coronavirus pandemic would be if it changes how we deal with global crises: \"It shows that in a crisis, you act, and you act with necessary force.\"\n\nShe says she is encouraged that politicians are now stressing the importance of listening to scientists and experts.\n\n\"Suddenly people in power are saying they will do whatever it takes since you cannot put a price on human life.\"\n\nShe hopes that will open up a discussion about the urgency of taking action to help the people who die from illnesses related to climate change and environmental degradation right now as well as in the future.\n\nBut she remains deeply pessimistic about our ability to keep any temperature increases within safe boundaries.\n\nShe says that, even if countries actually deliver the carbon reductions they've promised, we'll still be heading for a \"catastrophic\" global temperature rise of 3-4 degrees.\n\nThe teenager believes the only way to avoid a climate crisis is to tear up contracts and abandon existing deals and agreements that companies and countries have signed up to.\n\n\"The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today's political and economic systems\", the Swedish climate activist argues. \"That isn't an opinion. That's a fact.\"\n\nThunberg talks movingly of a road-trip she and her father took through North America in an electric car borrowed from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood actor turned politician and climate campaigner.\n\nShe visited the charred remains of Paradise, the Californian town destroyed by a wildfire in November 2018.\n\nShe is shocked by the carbon-intensive lifestyles she saw in the US. \"Apart from a few wind power plants and solar panels,\" she says, \"there are no signs whatsoever of any sustainable transition, despite this being the richest country in the world.\"\n\nBut the social inequities struck her just as forcefully.\n\n\"It was very shocking to hear people talk about that they can't afford to put food on the table\", she explained.\n\nYet Greta Thunberg says she has been inspired by the way people have been responding to these injustices, particularly the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in May.\n\nShe believes society has \"passed a social tipping point, we can no longer look away from what our society has been ignoring for so long whether it is equality, justice or sustainability\".\n\nShe describes signs of what she calls an \"awakening\" in which \"people are starting to find their voice, to sort of understand that they can actually have an impact\".\n\nThat is why Greta Thunberg says she still has hope.\n\n\"Humanity has not yet failed\", she argues.\n\nShe concludes her radio documentary in powerful form.\n\n\"Nature does not bargain and you cannot compromise with the laws of physics,\" the teenager asserts.\n\n\"Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible. And that is up to you and me. Because no one else will do it for us.\"\n\nA longer version of Justin Rowlatt's interview with Greta Thunberg will be available next week. You can listen to the English language version of Greta Thunberg's programme for Swedish Radio here.", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been downgraded from four to three, its chief medical officers have said.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nPreviously transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the change was \"a big moment for the country\" and showed that the government's plan was working.\n\nThe decision to reduce the alert level followed a recommendation by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said.\n\n\"There has been a steady decrease in cases we have seen in all four nations, and this continues,\" the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nBut they warned it \"does not mean that the pandemic is over\" and that \"localised outbreaks are likely to occur\".\n\nThe daily UK update provided by the government showed there were 173 coronavirus deaths recorded across the UK on 18 June, taking the total to 42,461.\n\n\"We have made progress against the virus thanks to the efforts of the public and we need the public to continue to follow the guidelines carefully to ensure this progress continues,\" they said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care for England said the alert level would be used by government to inform its decision on \"the continuing easing of lockdown\", but a spokesperson added the two were \"not contingent on each other\".\n\nThe alert level is telling us what we already know - the virus is still here, but at much lower levels.\n\nIt combines all the data on coronavirus in the UK to give a single, clear message about the current threat.\n\nBut how closely it is tied to government decisions is debatable.\n\nBoris Johnson announced the relaxation of a range of measures - including the reopening of shops in England - while we were still at Level 4.\n\nAlthough the decision - by the UK's chief medical officers - would make any decisions to relax the 2m rule or open pubs and restaurants politically easier.\n\nHowever, it doesn't mean that we can all relax and stop social distancing and practising good hygiene. Remember the alert level can go up as well as down.\n\nThere are five coronavirus alert levels in total.\n\nIn determining the UK's alert level, the four chief medical officers considered a number of factors including:\n\nMr Hancock said recent progress in these factors showed \"a real testament to the British people's determination to beat this virus\".\n\n\"Infection rates are rapidly falling, we have protected the NHS and, thanks to the hard work of millions in our health and social care services, we are getting the country back on her feet,\" he added.\n\nThe government is now publishing \"growth rates\" alongside the R number, which indicates how fast cases are rising or falling.\n\nAcross the UK, the growth rate is estimated at between -2% and -4% per day. The growth rate is thought to be negative in every region of England, meaning cases are falling.\n\nThe R number for the UK is currently between 0.7 and 0.9. Anything below 1.0 means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nThe move to level 3 comes weeks after some restrictions were first eased in each UK nation.\n\nAt the end of May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level four to level three tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level and it remained at four until now.\n\nWhen the government first announced the alert system in early May, it also published a three-step plan to ease restrictions.\n\nStep one, the first easing of lockdown, involved allowing people to take unlimited exercise and spend more time outdoors.\n\nStep two permitted the gradual opening of schools and non-essential retail, which is the current situation.\n\nThe third step in the government's published plan, which it said was to take place \"no earlier than 4 July\", includes opening further non-essential services like hairdressers and beauty salons, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities.\n\nMoving to alert level three signals there could be a \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\", according to the government's original plan.\n\nA review is also currently taking place into reducing social distancing guidance from 2m (6ft 6) to 1m (3ft 3).\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, the earliest date that pubs and restaurants can open in England.\n\nOn Friday the prime minister said. \"On the social distancing measures, watch this space. We will be putting in further changes, as the science allows.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a primary school, he said he hoped there would be more guidance published \"very very shortly\" in the run up to July 4th to help businesses.\n\nWhen the review was announced, Mr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"", "A Conservative activist has been suspended after tweeting a British Muslim MP should \"go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe party said they were investigating the comments made by Theodora Dickinson on Twitter about Labour's Naz Shah.\n\nResponding to a GIF of the MP talking about her experience of poverty while growing up in Yorkshire, she wrote if Ms Shah \"hates this country so much why doesn't she go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said such \"blatant racism\" was unacceptable.\n\nThe group - which has previously accused the Conservatives of turning a blind eye to Islamophobia - said it showed there was still a \"serious problem\" within the party.\n\nFormer party chair Baroness Warsi has also suggested the Conservatives are in denial about the extent of Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThe Conservatives have launched an inquiry into all forms of prejudice within the party.\n\nBut critics have said it is not independent and would not specifically address anti-Muslim racism.\n\nMs Dickinson posted the tweet in response to a clip from a speech the MP made in a Commons debate on free school meals.\n\nMs Shah accused ministers of having \"no real understanding, care or emotion\" about the extent of child poverty in the UK.\n\nIn the clip, the Labour politician - who was born in Bradford and now represents the city - spoke of her experience, being \"palmed off\" to social services when she was a child, separated from her family and taken on trips to Scarborough, adding \"that is what poverty is\".\n\nMs Dickinson's comments, which were first reported by the Huffington Post, have since been deleted.\n\nOn her Twitter handle, Ms Dickinson describes herself as a political communications and social media consultant. She is understood to have worked for the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was born in Bradford and now represents the city\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain claimed the party activist had previously shared an Islamophobic conspiracy theory in response to the 2019 terror attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, but no action had been taken against her.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"Will this latest blatant racism elicit action? The party must reflect and consider why it chooses to ignore widespread concerns about its institutional Islamophobia.\n\n\"If a truly independent inquiry is not enacted with its recommendations implemented, there will be a drip-feed of these stories for a long time to come.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"Theodora Dickinson has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\"", "A £1bn fund to help England's children catch up on what they have missed while schools have been closed has been announced by the prime minister.\n\nThe most disadvantaged pupils will have access to tutors through a £350m programme over the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nHead teachers welcomed the funds, but said more details were needed.\n\nLabour said ministers should convene a taskforce - involving trade unions and scientific and health experts - to help all pupils return to school safely as soon as possible.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the plans \"lack detail and appear to be a tiny fraction of the support\" needed and called for a \"detailed national education plan to get children's education and health back on track\".\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson said the fund would help head teachers provide what pupils need.\n\nHe thanked teachers, childcare workers and support staff for their efforts during the pandemic, and said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nAnd during a visit to a school on Friday, Mr Johnson suggested there may be change in the rules on social distancing, with more guidance due \"very, very shortly\", adding: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nIt comes as the Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded, bringing with it a possible relaxation of the rules that have kept many pupils out of school.\n\nThe Scottish Government said it is also looking at social distancing rules in schools, after Northern Ireland decided to reduce its two-metre rule to one metre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she wanted schools to open safely as soon as possible.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Mr Johnson said the government was planning \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nBut the announcement did not include any specific push towards catch-up activities running through the summer break except a expectation that usual summer clubs would be running.\n\nInstead there is a strong push for head teachers to target catch-up help via tutoring from September.\n\nHowever, schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC there was lee-way for heads to set up summer schemes if they so wished.\n\nBut he said: \"If you want children to catch up, it can't just be done over the month of August - it has to be longer term over the academic year\".\n\nResearch by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests the £650m pot represents about £80 extra for each student.\n\nThat is a rise of about 1% but would leave total spending still 3% below 2010 levels in real terms.\n\nEarly years providers and colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds are not included in the plans.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said it would be \"entirely unjustifiable\" to exclude sixth form students from the package.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the government's decision not to include pre-schoolers \"beggars belief\".\n\nBut Mr Gibb said that older age groups had \"fared better with remote education than other age groups\" which is why the government was focused on helping younger pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nChildren in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have begun returning to primary schools in England, and some Year 10 and 12 pupils returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".\n\nPlans for the subsidised National Tutoring Programme have been developed with a group of social mobility organisations and academics led by the charity Education Endowment Fund (EEF).\n\nThe EEF has said that until now, access to tutoring has been the preserve of wealthy families - but this would no longer be the case as schools would be able to seek subsidised tutoring.\n\nHowever, individual schools would be expected to pay 25% of the tutoring costs in the first year, or from their share of the £650m in extra funding being made available to them as part of this package.\n\nThe tutors themselves will be provided by organisations approved by the National Tutoring Programme. Many of them will be students or graduates trained by tutoring groups.\n\nTheir modelling suggests between 550,000 and 650,000 courses, featuring three pupils to one tutor, would run for an hour a week over 15 weeks.\n\n\"Tutoring is the catch-up approach supported by the strongest evidence,\" said the EEF's chief executive, Prof Becky Francis.\n\nShe said the programme hoped to reach more than a million pupils, calling it a tremendous opportunity to create long-lasting change.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed the investment, saying it would help support the work schools are already undertaking on pupil catch-up.\n\nBut he noted that the investment was expected to be spent on tutoring, rather than being left to head teachers to decide.\n\n\"As ever, we suspect the devil will be in the detail and we await further information,\" he said.\n\nHe was also concerned that there was no investment for sixth forms.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, criticised the decision not to include colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds in the plans.\n\nHe said teenage college students deserved as much catch-up support as every other age group and it was \"indefensible\" to overlook them.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said he was pleased ministers had listened to calls for a longer-term response, rather than short-term fixes.\n\n\"This is a considerable sum of money,\" said Mr Whiteman, but he also warned there were many details still to be worked through.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Some construction firms still can’t be trusted to make buildings that are safe from fire, the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has warned.\n\nIts safety head Nick Coombe said some building firms had barely improved since the Grenfell disaster in 2017.\n\nThe Federation of Master Builders, which represents small contractors, said it was trying to create a safer industry, with licensed firms.\n\nBuild UK, which represents the wider industry, declined to comment.\n\nThe National Fire Chiefs Council said the construction industry was “broken” and couldn’t be trusted to follow rules.\n\nMr Coombe said many reforms were needed, especially to building regulations, which allow builders to choose an inspector to certify their building safety.\n\nThe current inspection system was devised by the government in the 1980s to speed up the timetable for buildings.\n\nMinisters were concerned that local council inspectors were delaying projects, so they allowed private inspectors to compete on speed of approval and cost.\n\nThe builder effectively employs the safety inspector: critics say it’s like students choosing who they’ll pay to mark their exams – except people’s lives are risk.\n\nMr Coombe said: “This doesn't drive standards up. It means the developer controls the amount of visits from a building inspector. We have had people shopping around for building controllers who would accept their work.\n\n“If you build a house extension the local authority are all over you. If you build a tower block or a shopping centre there’s a free-for-all.”\n\nIn that document the fire council warn: “It is our opinion that some within the wider industry are not acting responsibly when designing and approving buildings.\n\n“Banning things [such as flammable cladding] is no guarantee that people will follow the rules, and it is our view that much of the combustible cladding on the side of buildings is already banned under the current regime.\n\n“To date, there is little evidence of a culture change [since Grenfell]. There is much more to be done to ensure the safety of building occupants, now and in the future.\n\n“NFCC advocates that the current building control system is overhauled to ensure that it is robust, independent of client and market influence, and has sufficient teeth to enforce appropriate fire safety standards as necessary.”\n\nThe response to the horrific Grenfell fire has had some side-effects. Some building firms report huge delays to construction, while developers, architects and builders argue over liability for safety.\n\nThe Grenfell effect has also deterred architects from designing buildings with wood in the wall construction.\n\nGovernments in the USA, Canada and Europe are promoting the use of timber in buildings to help combat climate change, because it locks in CO2 that trees have taken from the atmosphere.\n\nThe USA, for instance, has certified 17-storey wood framed buildings after extensive fire testing.\n\nMeanwhile in the UK the government proposes that the maximum height of buildings with wood in the walls to be no more than four storeys.\n\nMr Coombe said the NFCC didn’t want to block the use of wood in buildings, but insisted that fire safety tests should be done in the UK to prove the safety of design.\n\nA government spokesperson said: “The Grenfell Tower fire was a devastating tragedy and we are as determined as ever to ensure this can never happen again.\n\n“Safety is paramount – that’s why we’ve announced the biggest changes to building safety in a generation which will deliver meaningful and lasting change for residents.\n\n“We are carefully considering the responses to our consultation and will respond in due course.”\n\nBrian Berry from the Federation of Master Builders said: “Our members, the vast majority of whom work in domestic repair and maintenance or are small house builders, know that quality and safety must be at the heart of building projects.\n\n“We are leading moves to create a more professionalised industry and advocate licensing of all UK construction companies.”\n\nBuildUK has a very broad membership across the industry and on some issues its members find it difficult to reach a consensus.", "People are being warned to be on their guard against scammers posing as NHS contact tracers.\n\nLocal councils in England and Wales have issued alerts following reports of bogus calls and messages asking for money to cover the cost of coronavirus testing kits.\n\nThe councils include Hampshire, Bath and North East Somerset, and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.\n\nOfficial tracers will never ask for payment of any kind or bank details.\n\nThe test and trace system is part of the government's efforts to reduce the spread of coronavirus, with contact tracers getting in touch with those who have had recent close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHowever, a number of fraudsters are using this to their advantage and posing as contact tracers to deceive people into parting with money or personal details.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said the \"ruthless scam\" was \"another worrying and sickening attempt to trick people out of their money by preying on the public's fears\".\n\nA recent survey by Citizens Advice found more than one in three people in the UK have been targeted in various scams since lockdown began.\n\nChairman of the LGA's safer and stronger communities board, Simon Blackburn, said the latest scam to come to light undermined \"vital work to save lives by exploiting people who want to do the right thing and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nIn the scam, a message or phone call claiming to be from the NHS test and trace service informs somebody they have come into contact with coronavirus and need to self-isolate and take a test.\n\nThe scammers ask them to confirm their address so a testing kit can be sent to them. Bank card details are then requested - purportedly to cover the cost of the testing kit.\n\nIn a genuine call, contact tracers will never:\n\nAnyone receiving a call they suspect is not genuine should report the call to Action Fraud.", "Parents will be waiting to find out if schools will have all pupils back in September\n\nThe billion pound school catch-up plan for England aims to drag the return-to-school policy out of a quagmire of indecision.\n\nParents have been increasingly baffled by how few pupils have returned to school this term, confused by what would be offered over the summer and downright horrified at the idea that schools might not even go back full-time in September.\n\nA parent emailed the BBC this week to say she wanted to burst into tears when she got a letter from her school to say pupils were only likely to go back half-time in the autumn.\n\nAnd head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said it was like operating in an \"information black hole\".\n\nSo has this juggernaut of cash put the show back on the road?\n\nIt's a lot of money - but it has to tackle massive disruption to almost nine million children in primary and secondary schools.\n\nAnd every family will want to know what will be done for their children, with many expected to be out of school for almost six months.\n\nFirst of all, there's no mention of extra summer activities. And nothing yet to explain how pupils might all go back in September.\n\nThe big focus is on private tutoring - and for schools, there is no such thing as a free launch.\n\nSecondary schools are back, but pupils are only attending part time\n\nThe £350m for tutoring will fund discounts - it's not added to school budgets. So schools will have to spend their own money to take advantage of the subsidy.\n\nIt's still not entirely clear how much schools will have to pay - but at the most generous, the discount will be 75%. So, based on £50 per session, it would cost schools £12.50 per pupil per session.\n\nBut there is financial support for this, in a £650m one-off payment to schools, otherwise the tutoring scheme would have actually cost schools money.\n\nTutoring businesses and charities can apply to join the new tutoring service, with the criteria for selection not yet published.\n\nHow much tuition will the funding deliver?\n\nThe programme is scheduled to start in the \"autumn\", paid for by the Department for Education and with extra cash from the KPMG Foundation.\n\nLuke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the funding represents a 1% increase in school budgets and will be worth, on average, about £80 per pupil per year.\n\nTo put the £650m in context, the annual pupil premium supplement to schools to help disadvantaged pupils is about £2.4bn per year.\n\nHead teachers and many education researchers are supportive of the idea of providing one-to-one tuition to pupils - to give more pupils the type of help already accessed by many better-off families.\n\nSo how much tutoring will this buy?\n\nIf the total £650m was spent on tutoring, and schools accessed all of the £350m available in subsidies, the IFS says it would mean about £2,400 available per class of 30 for the year.\n\nThis could give one hour each week to about five pupils in a class of 30.\n\nOn average, there are about five pupils eligible for free school meals in each class - so it would provide a real opportunity for them to catch-up, not just on missed school, but also to narrow the wealth related gap in educational attainment.\n\nHead teachers' leaders are supportive - and even with a nervous glance at the funding model, they're backing the idea of subsidised extra lessons.\n\nThere are schools already using their pupil premium money to buy private tutors and the Education Endowment Foundation (which test drives ideas for improving achievement) says there is evidence that such extra tuition works.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute is less impressed.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of the think tank and a former education minister, said the new funding was \"poorly targeted\".\n\nHe disagrees with schools in affluent areas getting the same share as the poorest - and there's no requirement to spend the money on disadvantaged pupils.\n\nBut here's the big question: Is it really a summer catch-up programme at all?\n\nIt might be a positive example of \"never let a crisis go to waste\" - in that it's an opportunity to launch a national tutoring scheme that could make a big difference to those most in need of help.\n\nBut it's not the type of summer educational recovery programme that parents might have been expecting. And there's nothing for early years, sixth forms or further education.\n\nIt might give a few children extra lessons, but what about the rest of the class, including those worrying about exams next year, those who have had only patchy access to online lessons and, well, everybody else who has been out of school for so long?\n\nParents might already feel they've had contradictory messages over schools, with confusion over who was going back and uncertainty about what to expect from lessons at home.\n\nAnd the catch-up plans might not stop them looking anxiously at the clock, ticking away to the autumn term.", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya: \"British visitors can arrive freely and without the need for quarantine\"\n\nUK tourists will be able to visit Spain without having to quarantine on arrival from Sunday, Spanish officials say.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister has told the BBC that British citizens will be allowed to enter the country freely, without the need to self-isolate.\n\nShe said the decision had been made \"out of respect\" for the 400,000 Britons who have second homes in Spain.\n\nBut current rules state that anyone returning to - or entering - the UK still has to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIt is understood the UK's quarantine restrictions will be reviewed on 29 June.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is still warning against all but essential international travel.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister Arancha González Laya said UK visitors will go through a \"triple check\" upon arrival to Spain.\n\nThey will be asked for their country of origin and to register \"so we know we have a contact point to trace them\", she said. They will also undergo a temperature check.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we welcome visitors, but we want to do this in safety and security for them, as well as for the Spaniards,\" she said.\n\nMs González Laya said discussions were continuing with the government about exempting Spanish visitors from the UK's current quarantine travel rules.\n\n\"We do hope that [the British authorities] will be sensitive to the 250,000 Spaniards that are also living in the UK and would very much like to enter the UK without quarantine,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"We also respect that countries look at entry or exit restrictions on the basis of their own data.\"\n\nSpanish officials are also identifying locations in each of the country's regions where travellers \"will be isolated and treated\" should they require hospital treatment, according to Ms González Laya.\n\nMany Britons have homes in Spain - and it is also popular with tourists\n\nSince 8 June, people arriving in the UK have been required to self-isolate for 14 days to help slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is now planning to relax its travel quarantine rules for some countries in early July.\n\nUK officials are talking to their counterparts in Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, and ministers are hoping to make an announcement on 29 June that the government has secured a number of \"travel corridors\".\n\nThe government had previously said that the quarantine would be reviewed every three weeks and 29 June marks the end of the first three-week period.\n\nHowever, one leading British scientist has called on ministers to drop the policy \"as soon as possible\".\n\nProf Peter Piot, who is renowned for his work on Ebola and HIV, said the policy \"only would have made sense\" at the start of the outbreak when there were fewer cases.\n\n\"Today that is not going to contribute much and the damage it causes to the country, to the economy, is going to be enormous,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"Let's hope that rule is dropped as soon as possible and let's concentrate on what works.\"\n\nHis comments follow earlier criticism of the move by UK airlines. British Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's policy.\n\nSpain's latest announcement follows confusion earlier in the week over the country's plans for allowing UK travellers to visit.\n\nSpanish officials had said on Monday that travellers from the UK would not have to quarantine on arrival from Sunday.\n\nBut Spain's foreign affairs minister then suggested the country would impose a two-week quarantine on Britons, if the UK maintained its current travel rules.\n\nThe mixed messages began after Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announced last weekend that Spain's borders would reopen to travellers from all EU countries on Sunday 21 June - with the exception of Portugal.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said the UK's quarantine system was \"informed by science, backed by the public and designed to help prevent a devastating second wave of this disease\".\n\n\"We are supporting tourism businesses through one of the most generous economic packages in the world, and continue to look at options to increase international travel, when it is safe to do so,\" she added.", "The daily testing figures refer to tests carried out in health and social care laboratories\n\nFor the first time since lockdown began, Northern Ireland's coronavirus dashboard has recorded a full 24-hour period without any new Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe dashboard covers tests carried out daily in health trust labs, but it does not include tests on national testing sites as part of NHS-wide initiatives.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann described it as \"significant progress in forcing the virus into retreat\".\n\nThe chief medical officer said NI had \"made important strides forward\".\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned that coronavirus remained a \"very real threat\".\n\nA total of 995 tests were completed between Thursday evening and Friday evening and none had a positive result.\n\nOne further coronavirus-related death was recorded within the same 24-hour accounting period.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths reported by Northern Ireland's Department of Health to 545, but this figure refers mainly to hospital deaths.\n\nMore comprehensive data collated by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) showed the coronavirus-related death toll recently passed 800.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, two further deaths were confirmed on Saturday and one previously reported Covid-19 death was removed from the official death toll.\n\nIt means there have now been 1,715 coronavirus-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland since the outbreak began.\n\nAfter the latest testing statistics were released on Saturday, Northern Ireland's health minister and chief medical officer both welcomed the fact there had been no new cases over a 24-hour period.\n\n\"We continue to make significant progress in forcing the virus into retreat,\" Mr Swann said.\n\n\"This is due to a massive collective effort by people across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is vital that we all maintain this progress and keep following public health advice on social distancing and washing our hands.\"\n\nRobin Swann warned that people must continue to follow public health advice\n\nDr McBride said: \"We have undoubtedly made important strides forward and the people of Northern Ireland deserve great praise for the sacrifices they have made in our response to this virus.\n\n\"Covid-19 remains a very real threat and now is not the time to drop guard.\n\n\"I urge everyone to keep doing the right thing in terms of hand hygiene and social distancing. Please stay safe and save lives.\"\n\nAt the end of each working week, Nisra releases data on the number of deaths in Northern Ireland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nNisra's most recent statistics show that by Friday 12 June, there had been 802 deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nThe Department of Health's death toll refers to patients who have died with 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, whether or no the infection was the cause of their death.", "Singer Alexandra Burke has spoken out about her experiences of racism in the music industry, revealing she was asked to bleach her skin \"to look whiter\".\n\nAfter winning X Factor, Burke said she was told she would \"have to work 10 times harder than a white artist, because of the colour of your skin\".\n\nIn a 15-minute Instagram video, she recalls being told: \"You can't have braids, you can't have an afro.\n\n\"You have to have hair... that appeals to white people.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old star, who won the TV talent show in 2008 at the age of 19, described the experiences as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBurke, who refused to bleach her skin, said she was inspired to tell her story by fellow X Factor contestant Misha B, who recently spoke out about \"being devalued\" at the hands of the music industry.\n\nMisha B claimed the X Factor projected \"this angry black girl narrative\", using words such as \"feisty\" and \"bully\" to describe her after one live performance on the show. The 2011 contestant said it left her feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I could have spoken up much earlier, but was too scared to,\" said Burke, whose Instagram post has attracted a lot of attention, and sympathy, on social media.\n\nThe music star revealed the micro-aggressions she experienced at the hands of record labels, being told regularly that she \"comes across aggressive\".\n\nShe said she was told: \"You can't release this kind of music, because white people don't understand that\", and added: \"I am so upset with myself that I allowed that.\"\n\nBurke, whose hit singles Hallelujah, Bad Boys and All Night Long were all nominated for Brit Awards, also played the lead in the critically acclaimed West End musical The Bodyguard.\n\nThe singer said was told: \"Because you're a black girl, you won't make it that far in the industry... if you were white, you would be bigger than what you are now, you could sell more records, you'd be a Brit Award-winner\".\n\nBurke went on to become a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017\n\nShe was raised in north London by her mother, Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell, who died in August 2017 - just before Burke was due to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nShe recalled how one journalist accused her of \"being a diva\" when she asked not to do any publicity on the show's red carpet, which happened to be taking place on the same day as her mother died.\n\n\"That was the image they had of me, because of the papers.\" she said. \"I was so scared on that show. So many trolls, telling me all kinds of stuff.\n\n\"I have no idea how I got through it. I don't even like thinking about that experience. It's simply because of me being a black, strong woman.\n\n\"I can speak up for myself because that's how I've been taught. But I would never do it in a way that offends people or hurts anyone.\"\n\nShe said the Black Lives Matter movement had persuaded her to share her experiences because \"the truth is all we've got\".\n\n\"I just feel like people need to not see colour,\" said Burke. \"My mum always raised me to never see colour. I will continue that way because that's what makes me happy.\n\n\"People are people. We are all human, we all have feelings. So be kind.\"", "Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States of America and falls on 19 June.\n\nEvents to commemorate the day this year saw hundreds of protesters gather in several states to topple statues associated with slavery.\n\nOne was as high as 75-feet tall, and another was set on fire.", "This is how schools will look with social distancing operating in place\n\nChildren in some Welsh counties will return to classrooms for only three weeks when they go back to school after the coronavirus lockdown on 29 June.\n\nThe Welsh Government wanted to extend the summer term by a week but unions were concerned a 27 July finish would cause problems for staff contracts.\n\nSo far Cardiff, Newport, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, Wrexham and Blaenau Gwent have said their schools will finish on the original end of term 17 July date.\n\nSchools in Anglesey, however, will not reopen as planned after a coronavirus outbreak temporarily shut down a meat processing factory.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"While we continue to recommend four weeks of check in, catch up and prepare, we acknowledge that ultimately this is a decision for local authorities, who are the employers of school staff.\"\n\nThe difference in end-of-term dates follows a disagreement between the Welsh Government and unions and talks are continuing.\n\nBut some councils have made a final decision now, with Wrexham council saying it could not be left \"until the last minute\".\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams wanted the summer term to be extended to 27 July to allow a month of school before the summer holidays.\n\nSome unions questioned the safety and practicality of the proposal and have warned there may not be sufficient numbers of cleaners and teaching assistants to enable schools to open for an extra week.\n\nUnions representing support staff have said they cannot be required to work as their contracts only cover standard term times.\n\nTeachers' unions are also believed to have had concerns about the proposal.\n\nIn a staggered return, a maximum of a third of pupils will be going back at any one time\n\nWrexham council said it put \"schools and the council in a very tough position\".\n\n\"There's no contractual obligation for staff to work the extra week - putting the onus on individual head teachers and staff, which is unfair,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It could also lead to inconsistency and confusion, with some schools able to open for the fourth week, and some not.\n\n\"We know that many parents will be feeling anxious and uncertain about sending their children back to school, and need to know exactly what's happening so they can make arrangements and feel confident.\n\n\"So this isn't something that can be left until the last minute, and it's only fair - to staff, parents and pupils - that we make a decision for the whole of Wrexham now. Not tomorrow, or next week, but today.\"\n\nIn a staggered return, a maximum of a third of pupils will be going back at any one time for \"catch ups\" a for one or two days of the summer term.\n\nThe Welsh Government had said it believed the additional week would be \"hugely important in helping schools take a phased approach in supporting all children and young people\".", "A man was seen with a knife in Mirfield Street\n\nTwo men and a woman have been injured in a stabbing in Liverpool.\n\nPolice were called to Mirfield Street at about 09:30 BST following reports of a man with a knife.\n\nParamedics later found a man with stab wounds to his abdomen and he was taken to hospital. Another man and a woman were found with head injuries, which are not thought to be serious.\n\nA 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both from Liverpool, have been arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nAnother man, aged 32, and a 30-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rave is planned at a remote Black Country location, police said\n\nAn illegal rave has been planned in a remote location on Saturday night, police said, as revellers were reminded they could face prosecution.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it had intelligence to suggest a rave was being planned in the Black Country.\n\nIt follows an event that attracted thousands of people to Carrington, Greater Manchester, last weekend.\n\nThe force said it had launched a dedicated operation to disperse anyone planning to attend Saturday's event.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester, last week\n\nRaves like this are \"unacceptable at any time but even more so during a pandemic,\" West Midlands Police Supt Nick Rowe, said.\n\n\"There is virtually no distancing at all,\" David Jamieson, the force's police and crime commissioner added.\n\n\"I fully understand - and I think it is expected - an upsurge among young people wanting to burst out of being at home,\" he said, but attending gatherings risked not only their families' wellbeing, but also prosecution, he added.\n\nPolice warned the raves \"are not safe\" after a man died and three were stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nThe location for Saturday night's event is believed to be close to the Staffordshire border, so the West Midlands force is working with its counterpart in the county to \"minimise the risk of any anti-social behaviour\".\n\nDrones and dog units will be deployed to the area, Supt Rowe said.\n\nA 20-year-old man died following a suspected drug overdose and three others were stabbed at last week's lockdown rave in Carrington.\n\nBrookhay Woods was left strewn with litter after an illegal rave in Lichfield on 13 June\n\nMore than 1,000 people also gathered in Lichfield, Staffordshire, until the crowd was dispersed by police.\n\n\"These are not safe events,\" Supt Rowe said, and in a direct appeal to parents, he urged them to \"actively deter their children from attending\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThree children have died and their mother is critically ill after a fire at their flat in Paisley.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nThe children's 39-year-old mother was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in a critical condition.\n\nAlex Gibson, their father, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA police spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact officers.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\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. Before and after: Aerial shots show how lockdown changed the use of roads and public spaces\n\nTraffic on Britain's roads is now at a similar level to that seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the AA says.\n\nIt slumped to between 35% and 40% of the pre-coronavirus volume at the beginning of lockdown but has since doubled to around 75%.\n\nAA head of roads policy Jack Cousens told the BBC that traffic could return to normal \"by the end of July\".\n\nBut Friends of the Earth said pollution should not be allowed to \"creep\" back to the pre-pandemic level.\n\nTraffic has gradually increased since early April, as travel restrictions have eased and hundreds of thousands of people have returned to work.\n\nThe government is discouraging people from using public transport if it is avoidable, and has told passengers to wear masks, in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe AA monitors traffic levels on a daily basis - the rolling seven-day average level is denoted by the blue line\n\nMr Cousens said: \"The message to avoid public transport is certainly resonating as, week by week, more people have ventured out in their cars.\"\n\nHe added that \"due to the disappearance of the night-time economy\" there was still \"very little traffic\" after 19:00, while weekends were quieter than usual because of the cancellation of mass events.\n\n\"As shops re-open, while hairdressers and other up-close occupations prepare to return in early July, traffic could reach pre-lockdown levels by the end of July,\" Mr Cousens said.\n\nUK carbon emissions reportedly fell by 31% in April, but have increased since.\n\nMike Childs, head of science at Friends of the Earth, said: \"Any decline in emissions during enforced lockdown will be for nought if levels ramp back up.\n\n\"By saying that people should get behind the wheel now, the government themselves are contributing to increased pollution from road use.\"\n\nThe UK government has pledged £250m for improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure and many towns and cities are making more road space available for pedestrians and those on bikes.", "Three people have died after they were stabbed in a park in Reading in southern England. Three more were injured.\n\nEyewitness Lawrence Wort told the BBC he saw a man stab several people in Forbury Gardens in the town.", "Passengers arriving at UK airports could soon be able to have the same type of saliva swab test used by the NHS to screen for the coronavirus.\n\nCompanies planning a trial of the scheme hope a negative result will allow early release from the government's 14-day travel quarantine.\n\nPeople will have to pay around £140 for a test booked online before travel.\n\nThe government said the quarantine system aims to keep the transmission rate down and prevent a second wave.\n\nBBC News has been told that a trial is expected to begin in a couple of weeks at a major UK airport.\n\nThe aim is to initially test 500 passengers a day.\n\nUnder the proposals, passengers would visit an airport clinic after immigration to take a test and self-isolate at home until they received the result.\n\nA negative result could take as little as five hours. However, the aim will be to notify every participant within 24 hours.\n\nJason Holt, boss of ground-handling firm Swissport UK, which is one of two companies involved, described the scheme as a \"win-win\".\n\n\"We accept that the quarantine is in place,\" he said. \"This will complement it and help put UK aviation back on its feet.\n\n\"If they [the passenger] were Covid-negative we would ask the government to consider them to be free from the quarantine and they would have 13 days plus avoiding the quarantine.\"\n\nThe Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) swab test being used is the type in operation at NHS facilities across the UK.\n\nNurses will carry out the airport swab tests at clinics run by medical firm Collinson.\n\nThe company says the trial is about \"modifying\" the quarantine.\n\n\"People will be able to go on holiday again,\" said Dr Simon Worrell, Collinson's Global Medical Director.\n\nGreece is among the countries to introduce swab testing for passengers arriving at its airports\n\nDr Worrell hopes it will bring \"a degree of normality\" back and show people \"that we've really turned the corner\".\n\nThe two companies are in discussions with several UK airports and the government.\n\nHowever ministers have yet to confirm people who receive a \"negative\" result won't have to self-isolate for the remainder of their two weeks.\n\n\"The critical thing is to get government approval\", said Scott Sunderman, managing director of medical and security assistance at Collinson.\n\nThe Department for Transport said all passengers arriving in the UK - including UK nationals - are being asked to provide an address where they will self-isolate for 14 days.\n\n\"As the Home Secretary made clear when she announced these measures, they will be kept under review and informed by science to keep us all safe,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nCollinson said the testing could be scaled-up after the pilot. It believes it could, at some point in the future, potentially test \"hundreds of thousands\" of people a day arriving into the UK.\n\nSwab tests for passengers are already in place at other airports abroad like Hong Kong and Vienna.\n\nAnother trial began at Jersey airport earlier this month.\n\nThe UK's 14-day quarantine policy, to be enforced with surprise visits and fines of up to £1,000 in England, has been described by some aviation industry bosses as a \"stunt\" and \"unenforceable\".\n\nThe government has said it plans to announce wider exemptions to the quarantine by the end of June.\n\nOfficials are negotiating a number of \"travel corridors\" with countries that have low infection rates.\n\nThey would allow passengers travelling in both directions between the UK and certain countries to avoid having to self-isolate after each journey.\n• None UK set to relax quarantine rule for some countries", "The family are next heading for the Everest Base Camp\n\nA family from Aberdeen have been told they can continue their round-the-world trip after having to spend three months in lockdown in a remote town in Nepal.\n\nKris and Julie Smith and their two children - nine-year-old Erihn and four-year-old Jacob - can now resume their journey to Everest Base Camp.\n\nThey left Aberdeen in almost exactly a year ago to fulfil a \"big crazy dream\" of travelling around the globe.\n\nHowever, coronavirus lockdown measures came into force in March.\n\nSince then, they have been in a hotel next to an airport runway in Lukla - a small town in the Solukhumbu region - thousands of miles from home.\n\nOn Facebook the family wrote: \"After much running about by our friend Kevin Sherpa to achieve many signatures from many authorities we have been given the green light to start walking.\n\n\"After leaving Kathmandu on the 18th March we only managed a 7 day trek before lockdown arrived. A little break in between of 3 months and off we go again\n\n\"Cannot express how excited and grateful we all are that we can continue our walk and our dream to walk onto Sagarmatha National Park and witness the worlds tallest mountain with our own eyes.\"\n\nBefore reaching Nepal, they had been to 18 countries including India, Jordan, Albania, Serbia and Hungary.\n\nMr Smith, 41, had told BBC Scotland this month that conditions in Lukla were \"quite basic\" and they only had a stove in the living-room to keep warm at night.\n\nVietnam and Sri Lanka are among locations the family still hope to reach, added Mrs Smith, 46.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We're going to get our lives back to normal slowly, and it will be a new normal\"\n\nMinisters will announce in the coming week whether the 2m social distancing rule in England will be relaxed, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe government has been reviewing the advice, amid warnings many businesses will not survive under current rules.\n\nMr Sunak said the outcome of the review will \"make an enormous difference\" to businesses \"keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has said it hopes to reopen pubs, restaurants and hotels from the beginning of July, if safe.\n\nIt has yet to give a definitive date for the hospitality sector, but ministers are preparing to ease more coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 4 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to shops in North Yorkshire, the chancellor said although the review was yet to be completed, it was \"something that will make an enormous difference, I think, to many businesses who are keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"very understanding of the calls for action on that, particularly for our hospitality industry, for our pubs, for our restaurants\".\n\nHis comments came after a raft of measures reported in the Times revealed how parts of the hospitality sector could look significantly different compared to pre-lockdown.\n\nPubs could be patrolled and people could be encouraged to use apps to order drinks, according to the newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak toured several shops in North Yorkshire on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson commissioned the review on 14 June, saying there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m social distancing rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe other nations of the UK have not announced any plans to change the 2m distance.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nEarlier, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that the government's review of the 2m rule will be \"concluding shortly, within the coming days\".\n\nOther new measures for the hospitality sector reported in the Times include:\n\nKate Nicholls, CEO of UK Hospitality, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the guidelines seen by the industry involve businesses carrying out their own risk assessments, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for \"everything from a burger van in a park to the Fat Duck in Bray\".\n\nMs Nicholls said a third of pubs and restaurants could not reopen with the 2m rule in place, although all hotels could. But reducing it to 1m meant rather than generating 30% of normal revenue and losing money, businesses could break even at 70% of normal revenue.\n\n\"Every day we have delay and uncertainty about that opening date, the industry is haemorrhaging cash and jobs and livelihoods are at risk,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nProf Calum Semple at the University of Liverpool, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, said he had changed his personal view on the need for social distancing because there were now \"low levels, and sustained low levels, of transmission throughout the country\".\n\nHe said 2m was still safer than 1m, but it was \"now a reasonable political decision to relax these rules\" and to open businesses where the 2m rule is harder to maintain, as long as there are other precautions in place.\n\nIf the UK faces a second wave of infections, Prof Semple said it might consider imposing social distancing rules on a regional basis, with different requirements for London compared to Carlisle, for example.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nTourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level was downgraded from four to three on Friday. Under level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" - whereas in level four transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nOn the day, the government announced that all pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, alongside a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nMore workers have tested positive for coronavirus after an outbreak at a chicken factory on Anglesey.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday the number had risen to 75, Public Health Wales confirmed.\n\nHealth officials said the number of cases was expected to rise and samples have been taken from about 350 staff.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, said the process of taking samples from all workers was \"nearly concluded\" and \"testing was underway\".\n\n\"What's clear is that the system is working as it should - we are actively screening employees at the facility and this is helping us to identify contacts of individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19,\" said Dr Christopher Johnson from Public Health Wales.\n\n\"The advice for these contacts is to self-isolate to prevent further spread. The aim of the testing is to identify more cases and we're likely to see an increase in overall cases in the coming days.\"\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nAnglesey council has also confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"", "The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said \"people are united in their grief\" following the terror attack in Reading.\n\n\"This was a horrific incident, our thoughts and our hearts go out to all those affected, particularly the family and friends of those who tragically died,\" he said.\n\n\"I think across Reading, across the country, people are united in their grief at this incident.”\n\n\"It’s very important that the investigation runs its course, but I will want to work with the government in response to this, to look at whether there’s lessons that can be learned, whether there need to be changes to the law.\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics.\"", "Beyoncé has been vocal throughout the the anti-racism protests that arose from the death of George Floyd\n\nBeyoncé has released a surprise new song, Black Parade, hours after announcing a new initiative to support black-owned businesses.\n\nThe track includes powerful lyrics about black history, police brutality and the George Floyd protests.\n\n\"Put your fists up in the air, show black love,\" sings the star. \"Need peace and reparation for my people.\"\n\nThe song was released on Juneteenth, a holiday marking the official end of slavery in the US.\n\nThe celebration originated in Beyoncé's home state of Texas but is now celebrated annually on 19 June throughout the US, with varying degrees of official recognition, sometimes under the names Emancipation Day or Black Independence Day.\n\nBlack Parade is Beyoncé's first solo release since last year's Homecoming, a live album and documentary covering her blockbuster performance at Coachella in 2018; and The Lion King: The Gift, which accompanied Disney's live action remake of its classic animation.\n\n\"I'm going back to the South, where my roots ain't watered down,\" she sings as the song opens.\n\nThe lyrics go on to reference the Covid-19 pandemic (\"Fly on the runway in my hazmat\"), police brutality (\"Rubber bullets bouncing off me\") and Tamika Mallory, a prominent activist in the Women's March and Black Lives Matter movements.\n\nWarning: The following song contains explicit language.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Beyoncé - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe track appeared on streaming services shortly after the star launched Black Parade Route, an online directory of black-owned businesses selling everything from fashion and beauty products to home furnishings and coffee.\n\n\"Being Black is your activism. Black excellence is a form of protest. Black joy is your right,\" wrote the singer on a tagline on her website.\n\nAccording to the site, the initiative will benefit the star's BeyGOOD's Black Business Impact Fund, which \"support[s] Black-owned small businesses in need.\"\n\n\"Happy Juneteenth Weekend! I hope we continue to share joy and celebrate each other, even in the midst of struggle,\" said the star in an Instagram post announcing the launch.\n\n\"Please continue to remember our beauty, strength and power.\"\n\nBeyoncé has been vocal throughout the the anti-racism protests sparked in May by the death of George Floyd.\n\nIn a video on her Instagram, she said she felt \"broken and disgusted\" and demanded justice for Mr Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\n\"No more senseless killings of human beings,\" she said. \"No more seeing people of colour as less than human. We can no longer look away.\"\n\n\"Continue to pray for peace and compassion and healing for our country.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Gemma Combellack says she was refused a mortgage after criminals stole her identity\n\n\"It just seemed to go on and on, it's just been really upsetting.\" Gemma Combellack, 30, is talking about her six month fight to reclaim her identity after it was stolen by criminals last year.\n\nShe discovered she'd become a victim of ID theft when she was refused a mortgage over a payday loan in her name that she knew nothing about.\n\nA bank account had also been opened by fraudsters using her identity.\n\n\"I've been in tears at my desk at work in terms of the impact it's had on me and my stress levels.\n\n\"At the time it made me so angry, the fact that we were having to go through all this trauma and stress and no one could give me answer.\n\n\"It's just that it was so out of our control and that's the most frustrating thing about it.\"\n\nGemma's not alone. Last year ID theft happened more than 223,000 times, up 18% on the year before, according to Cifas, the counter fraud organisation which runs the National Fraud Database and works with police and financial institutions to try to tackle fraud.\n\nIts chief executive, Mike Haley, says there are a number of factors fuelling that rise.\n\n\"Criminals are using more sophisticated methods, more of us are doing more things online and we're all using cash less which is something fraudsters are able to exploit.\n\n\"Criminals are targeting ID fraud as a lucrative business model and they're getting sophisticated in their use of social engineering [on the phone, text messages or on social media] which involves persuading people to give up personal information,\" Mr Haley said.\n\nCombined with large scale data breaches and data theft from companies and organisations, \"and you have the raw ingredients [for ID theft],\" he added.\n\nVery often criminals carrying out these attacks on people in the UK aren't even based here. \"This can all be done at a distance,\" he said. \"Now you can sit behind a computer anywhere in the world and commit crime on a vast scale.\"\n\nAlso, there is very little risk of getting caught as \"criminals are able to use the anonymity of the internet,\" he said.\n\nFor Gemma, the personal cost of having her identity stolen ran into thousands of pounds. \"In terms of the financial implications we weren't able to get a mortgage and therefore had to continue to pay rent on our property for six months.\n\n\"We'd also instructed a solicitor and had the flat valued so, overall, the costs are looking at the £10,000 mark.\n\n\"It just feels like I haven't progressed in nine months. It feels like we've just been really financially hit by something that was completely out of our hands, and it just seems really unfair.\"\n\nGemma says it took her months of stress and anxiety before she was able to reclaim her identity\n\nGemma's also worried about her financial future.\n\n\"If it can happen once it can happen again,\" she said. \"It's made me really, really nervous about it happening again because there are no signs, you don't know it's happening to you.\"\n\nMike Haley says he expects the number of ID thefts to be even higher this year and next as criminals look to exploit people's vulnerabilities during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"During this period criminals haven't taken a holiday, they've been using this time to harvest information.\n\n\"They've been upping their activity to capitalise on the crisis, we all have our guard down because, understandably, we're all worried about other things.\n\nThe advice from experts is always avoid clicking on links or replying to text messages and phone calls that come out of the blue.\n\nThere is also a national campaign trying to raise awareness of fraud and advice for people on how they can try to help themselves to avoid becoming a victim.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins has been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct policy, the social media giant said.\n\nMs Hopkins, who had more than one million followers, was previously suspended in January for a week.\n\nBut Twitter said her latest ban is permanent.\n\nThe social network did not, however, say which tweets Ms Hopkins had posted, to result in the ban.\n\n\"Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us - abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take action when our rules are broken,\" it said.\n\nThe cited hateful conduct policy bans promotion of violence or direct written attacks and threats on other people, based on a wide range of personal characteristics such as race, gender or sexual orientation.\n\nMs Hopkins is well-known for both her media appearances and controversial right-wing viewpoints.\n\nShe has been re-tweeted by US President Donald Trump on several occasions.\n\nTwitter has recently taken a firmer line against Mr Trump himself over tweets it says break its policies.\n\nThe US President has seen warnings placed on some of his tweets and others hidden from general view, although they remain online.\n\nBut leaving such tweets up in the public interest is an exception Twitter makes for world leaders - other accounts like Ms Hopkins' risk being suspended when they break Twitter's rules.", "A policeman involved in the killing of an African-American woman in the US state of Kentucky will be fired, Louisville city officials have said.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was shot when officers entered her flat on 13 March during a drugs investigation.\n\nMayor Greg Fischer said Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, would lose his badge. The others have been placed on administrative leave.\n\nMs Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at global anti-racism protests.\n\nMayor Fischer did not provide more details regarding the decision to fire Mr Hankison.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I very much would like to see changed, both the Chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment, or even the timing of this decision,\" he said.\n\nBrett Hankison will be fired, officials say\n\nPolice suspected Ms Taylor's flat was being used to receive drugs by a gang based at a different address 10 miles (16km) away. One of the suspects was an ex-boyfriend of Ms Taylor.\n\nShe was one of three people named on the warrant, according to Louisville NBC affiliate Wave 3.\n\nBut Ms Taylor was not the main subject of the investigation, the city's Courier-Journal newspaper reports.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hankison published by the Courier-Journal, Louisville Police interim chief Robert Schroeder wrote that his conduct was \"a shock to the conscience\" that \"demands your termination\".\n\nMr Hankison is accused of \"blindly\" firing 10 rounds into Ms Taylor's apartment, displaying \"an extreme indifference to the value of human life\".\n\n\"I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion,\" Mr Schroeder added.\n\n\"The result of your action seriously impedes the department's goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department.\"\n\nAttorneys for Ms Taylor's family said they want to see the other officers fired as well.\n\n\"We also look forward to these officers being prosecuted for their roles in her untimely death.\"\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, Mr Hankison, along with officers Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, entered Ms Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without permission. Ms Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nPolice said they knocked before using a battering ram to enter the home, though this account has been disputed by Ms Taylor's family and a neighbour.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nDuring the exchange, Ms Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times. She died on her hallway floor.\n\nMr Walker surrendered and was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a police officer.\n\nA lawsuit filed by Ms Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence.\n\nNo drugs were found in the property. The lawsuit also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nLast week, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.\n\nOn Sunday, pop star Beyoncé urged the Kentucky Attorney General to bring charges against the three officers involved.\n\nMs Taylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight again with the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month.", "Michael's mother said he would have believed he was meeting his friends\n\nTwo teenagers have been jailed for murdering a \"vulnerable\" 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death over rumours he had molested a girl.\n\nMichael Irving was lured into a \"Trojan horse\" trap by the boys he thought were his friends, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nThe court heard the teens, now aged 17 and 16, attacked Michael after they heard he had sexually assaulted the older defendant's sister.\n\nMichael had always denied it and nothing was reported to the police.\n\nThe court heard the defendants had arranged to meet Michael outside Westfield Stratford on 3 September last year. They then led him to a residential block 15 minutes away.\n\nProsecutor Hugh Davies QC said: \"The defendants had clearly set Michael up on a friendly but false basis to meet them. It was a Trojan Horse meeting.\"\n\nMichael was fatally stabbed in the heart and had four other injuries.\n\nAfter the defendants ran off, a passer-by stopped, held Michael's hand and comforted him as he died in the street.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds QC said both defendants had \"murder in mind\", adding: \"No motive could justify such a cold-blooded plan.\"\n\nThe younger defendant admitted murder and was detained for a minimum of 10 years and six months.\n\nThe older boy was found guilty of murder following a trial and was detained for at least 14 years and six months.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Michael's mother Leisa Irving said his murder had left a \"large void in all our lives\".\n\n\"My life and all the lives of my family have not been the same since. The constant feeling that something is missing - that something is Michael.\"\n\nMs Irving said her son was vulnerable because of his learning difficulties, which meant that he thought everybody was his friend.\n\nShe said: \"The hardest part was that he believed these people were his friends and he was going to Stratford to be with his friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump supporters have begun camping outside the arena\n\nOklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday in Tulsa, his first since March, can go ahead.\n\nA lawsuit to stop the 20 June event over concerns that it could increase the spread of Covid-19 in the community was filed this week.\n\nVirus cases are rising in Oklahoma, and local health officials have expressed concerns over hosting the rally.\n\nThe Trump campaign says they received over 1m ticket requests for the event.\n\nThe queue for the event at the Bank of Oklahoma Center - which seats 19,000 people - began forming earlier this week.\n\nFacing tough re-election prospects in November, the Republican president is hoping to reboot his campaign after a rocky week that has seen news of sinking opinion poll numbers, twin US Supreme Court defeats, two damning tell-all memoirs and a resurgence in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe lawsuit to cancel his rally was filed by John Hope Franklin for Reconciliation, a nonprofit organisation that promotes racial equality, and a commercial real estate company, the Greenwood Centre.\n\nThey argued the venue should mandate social distancing guidelines in accordance with US public health officials' recommendations, or cancel the event.\n\nBut the Supreme Court said that as the state had begun to reopen, the regulations left social distancing decisions up to individual business owners. Oklahoma has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn response to safety concerns, the Trump campaign has said they will check attendees' temperatures and offer hand sanitiser and masks.\n\nBut people buying tickets for the Tulsa rally online also have to click on a waiver confirming they \"voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19\" and will not hold the president's campaign responsible for \"any illness or injury\".\n\nSome of the president's supporters gathering in Tulsa have been seen wearing masks\n\nThe president himself has pushed back against guidance around masks, calling them a personal choice.\n\nIn an interview with political news outlet Axios released on Friday night, he was asked if he recommended rally attendees wear facial coverings.\n\n\"I recommend people do what they want,\" he replied.\n\nMr Trump also said: \"We're going to have a wild evening tomorrow night at Oklahoma.\"\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has said attendees will be given masks, but they will not be instructed to wear them - and told reporters on Friday that she will not be wearing one either.\n\nTulsa's health department director Dr Bruce Dart told the Tulsa World paper: \"I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large a concern as it is today.\"\n\nTulsa's mayor imposed a curfew on Thursday around the venue, declaring a civil emergency, but the president says the city leader has assured him the measure will not apply to the rally itself.\n\nMayor GT Bynum, a Republican, cited recent \"civil unrest\" and potential opposition protests as he slapped an exclusion zone on a six-block radius near the arena.\n\nBut on Friday afternoon, Mr Bynum said that the Secret Service had asked the city to lift the curfew.\n\n\"Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,\" the mayor said in a statement.\n\n\"Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.\"\n\nThe mayor also said law enforcement had intelligence that \"individuals from organised groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behaviour in other states are planning to travel to the city of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally\".\n\nMeanwhile, a high metal fence was put up to barricade the Trump rally venue.\n\nEarlier on Friday, President Trump posted a warning on Twitter to demonstrators.\n\n\"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,\" the president tweeted.\n\n\"It will be a much different scene!\"\n\nMr Trump originally planned to hold the rally on Friday, but changed the date last week after learning it fell on Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of US slavery.\n\nThe president told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that a black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of the anniversary.\n\nOn Friday, Ms McEnany said the president \"routinely commemorated\" the day and \"he did not just learn about Juneteenth this week\".\n\nTulsa was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A celebration of life. A celebration of freedom': What you need to know about Juneteenth", "Hundreds of people have staged an anti-racism rally in Glasgow city centre despite appeals to stay away because of lockdown restrictions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf, the city council and Police Scotland had called on the public not to gather for the Say No To Racism demonstration.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence following violent scenes from a far-right group on Wednesday, but there have been no reports of any trouble.\n\nA group of around 50 loyalists who went to the Cenotaph were kept apart from the main crowd, while a group of protesters from the Green Brigade - a group who follow Celtic Football Club - were hemmed in by police in the centre of the square.\n\nIn Edinburgh's St Andrew Square, a protest was held at the statue of Henry Dundas, who delayed the abolition of the slave trade.\n\nMeanwhile, the Loyalist Defence League has been staging a \"protect the statues\" demonstration at the Paisley War Memorial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people staged an anti-racism rally in Glasgow city centre despite appeals to stay away due to the lockdown restrictions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf, the city council and Police Scotland had called on the public not to gather for the Say No To Racism demonstration.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence in the square following violent scenes from a far-right group on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers later confirmed one man was arrested in the nearby Gallowgate area.\n\nA second man, aged 62, was arrested in Edinburgh for threatening and abusive behaviour.\n\nThat arrest is believed to be in connection with a separate protest in the capital.\n\nMany protesters wore masks to attend the event\n\nAt about midday a group of protesters from the Green Brigade - a group of ultras who follow Celtic football club - were hemmed in by police in the centre of Glasgow's George Square.\n\nAnti-racism activists outside the cordon chanted: \"Let them go.\"\n\nCh Supt Alan Murray, said: \"We identified a group as football risk supporters, who we believed posed a threat to public safety.\n\n\"We spoke with this group and, at their request, escorted them to the Gallowgate area of the city where they dispersed.\"\n\nLoyalists and members of a far-right group announced online on Friday night that they planned to head to the square to \"protect statues\".\n\nA small group gathered at the war memorial during the rally as lines of riot police separated the two.\n\nPolice officers separated the rally from a small group of loyalists who also gathered in George Square.\n\nMore than 500 people attended the rally, with stewards asking them to stick to social distancing guidelines by following markings on the square.\n\nSupporters include Stand Up To Racism, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, Positive Action in Housing, Afghan Human Rights Foundation and unions.\n\nThey had also been asked to wear masks and not to travel farther than public health advice allows.At the start of the rally, the crowd took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nLater, names of people who died in police custody were read out and attendees chanted \"no justice, no peace, no racist police\".\n\nSpeakers said they \"didn't come here for a fight\" and spoke of securing greater rights for refugees and asylum seekers.They added \"no-one welcomes\" the far-right group and called on police to \"do their job\".\n\nThere were some minor scuffles as police controlled people arriving and leaving but the rally was peaceful.\n\nChief Supt Murray said: \"Significant police resources were deployed at George Square to prevent the disgraceful scenes of violence and disorder witnessed in recent days.\n\n\"Those who turned up to protest were facilitated with an appropriate policing response and I would like to thank all officers involved for their professionalism in preventing trouble and maintaining public safety.\"\n\n\"Our robust response will continue across the country and anyone intent on causing violence and disorder should expect arrest.\"\n\nCharlotte Ahmed, of Stand Up to Racism, Scotland said: \"Today's demonstration was a magnificent expression of the unity, the anti-racism and the anti-fascism of the people of Glasgow.\n\n\"Here, in George Square, the very place where thousands of us welcomed Nelson Mandela to Scotland, we have made it clear: refugees are welcome here, Black Lives Matter, no racists in Glasgow.\"\n\nElsewhere, a protest was held at the statue of Henry Dundas, who delayed the abolition of the slave trade, at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.\n\nAnd the Loyalist Defence League staged a \"protect the statues\" demonstration at the Paisley War Memorial.\n\nOn Friday, Ch Supt Hazel Hendren, divisional commander, said: \"Please do not come to George Square.\"\n\nShe said: \"The lockdown restrictions remain in place and people should leave their homes only for very limited purposes.\n\n\"Anyone who wants to protest should find another way of doing so that keeps everyone safe.\"\n\nAt least six people were arrested on Wednesday following scenes labelled \"disgraceful\" by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nFar-right loyalists targeted a rally in the city's George Square which was calling for improved living conditions for refugees.\n\nThe organisers vowed the rally would \"send a positive anti-racist message from Glasgow's George Square to the world\".", "Some primary school pupils in England began returning to classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nAll pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing, he said the government was \"signed up... to bring every child back, in every year group, in every school\".\n\nGuidance on safety measures will be published in the next fortnight.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister announced a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nMr Williamson also said class size limits - or \"bubbles\" - imposed to curb the spread of the virus could be increased to allow every child to return to school.\n\nUnder current rules imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, class sizes are limited to a maximum of 15 pupils, but the education secretary said ministers were looking at \"expanding those bubbles to include the whole class\".\n\nClass sizes vary in England, but this could be around 30 pupils.\n\nTeachers' unions say the proposals have not been thought through.\n\n\"There is no social distancing if you've got 30 children in one classroom,\" Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC.\n\n\"But then you're going to ask them to abide by social distancing when they go out, I think that won't work and that will mean children aren't looking at social distancing at all.\"\n\nSchools closed to everyone except vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker on 20 March, in response to the pandemic.\n\nAs the lockdown measures started easing at the beginning of this month, children in nursery, reception, Year 1 and Year 6 were encouraged to return to primary schools in England, albeit in smaller class sizes.\n\nSome Year 10 and 12 pupils - selected because they are sitting GCSEs and A-levels respectively next summer - returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nMinisters now want all pupils in England to return to classrooms full-time in the autumn, ending a near six-month absence for many pupils.\n\n\"We have already been very clear that we want to see all children in all classes returning full-time to school in September. That's what we are working towards,\" Mr Williamson told reporters.\n\nIt is a promise that many parents will have been waiting to hear.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has committed to all school pupils in all year groups going back full-time in September.\n\nThe part-time, online, often not-really-anytime lessons will be over.\n\nBut the much trickier question will be how to deliver this.\n\nEven if social distancing is reduced - and class size \"bubbles\" of 15 pupils can be increased - there will still be massive logistical challenges.\n\nHead teachers have warned any social distancing, even 1m, will require additional classrooms and teachers.\n\nAnd they have been exasperated at time ticking away without any clear plan - with heads' leader Geoff Barton complaining schools are working in an \"information black hole\".\n\nWhen the government had to U-turn on bringing back all primary pupils it was because nobody listened to similar warnings about lack of space.\n\nBut a September deadline is now in place - and there will be high political stakes if there is another failure to deliver.\n\nThe education secretary said signs that the spread of coronavirus was reducing meant that ministers could now look at \"making sure that every child returns to school\".\n\nHe said he understood \"there is anxiety still among parents\" about their children going back to school, but stressed: \"I want to assure you that the well-being of your children is the absolute top priority for every single one of us.\"\n\nThe government will publish guidance for schools within the next two weeks on how to bring children back \"so that schools have the maximum amount of time to prepare for the next phase\", Mr Williamson said.\n\nHowever, there was no confirmation of whether the government's 2m social distancing rule was going to be relaxed in schools.\n\nMr Williamson reiterated that a review of the measure is under way, and added that could not provide an exact date for a decision.\n\nCurrent Department for Education (DfE) guidance states that primary school classes should be split in half and contain no fewer than 15 pupils, desks should be spaced as far apart as possible and lunch, break, drop-off and pick-up times should be staggered.\n\nSchools should also consider introducing one-way circulation, or placing a divider down the middle of the corridor, to keep young people apart, it adds.\n\nMr Williamson was speaking after the coronavirus alert level for the UK was downgraded from four to three, paving the way for a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nAt level four, transmission of the virus was thought to be \"high or rising exponentially\"; at three, it is thought be \"in general circulation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's pledge prompted teachers' unions to call for further clarity on the proposals.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said schools and colleges were trying to prepare for September amid an \"information black hole\" from the government.\n\nMr Barton said school and college leaders were preparing for two scenarios for the autumn - using rotas to stagger the return of pupils or bringing students back full-time - amid an \"absence of information\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"The desire to bring everyone back is correct but we need to know what the government is thinking and the scenarios they are planning for.\n\n\"This will give school communities what they need to get through this term and plan for the new academic year in September.\"\n\nMr Courtney, of the NEU, said earlier: \"The prime minister's hopes are not enough.\"\n\n\"If the requirements of social distancing - in order to stop a second peak - are reduced even to 1m, then most schools could not have 30 children in a classroom,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn fund to help England's children catch up will see the most disadvantaged pupils gain access to tutors through a £350m programme in the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba returned to action for first time since 26 December to win the late penalty that earned Manchester United a crucial point at Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nPogba, who had not played for almost six months because of an ankle injury that needed surgery, emerged as a second-half substitute and demonstrated he has the creativity to make a difference as United battle for a place in the top four.\n\nUnited keeper David de Gea was badly at fault when he failed to stop Steven Bergwijn's powerful 27th-minute drive, so there was relief all-round for the visitors when Pogba surged into the area before he was hauled down clumsily by Eric Dier.\n\nIn the cavernous spaces of the deserted Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - as the match was played behind closed doors - Fernandes equalised with an emphatic penalty.\n\nSpurs survived a last-minute scare as referee Jon Moss pointed to the spot again when Dier collided with Fernandes but the video assistant referee correctly reversed a poor decision.\n\nDe Gea made a measure of amends with a superb save from Son Heung-min shortly after his error, while Hugo Lloris made a magnificent flying save from Anthony Martial as United chased an equaliser.\n\nIt finally arrived via that Fernandes spot-kick nine minutes from time to leave United in fifth place, four points ahead of Spurs.\n• None De Gea and Maguire 'should get taxi back to Manchester'\n• None Relive the draw between Tottenham and Manchester United\n• None How you rated the players\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept faith with the side that went 11 games unbeaten in all competitions as their season restarted here in north London - which meant no place for Pogba, despite his recovery from injury.\n\nIt was no surprise, however, when he was called into action just after the hour to inject some zest into what had been a lifeless United performance up to that point.\n\nPogba was right in the fray, having a shot instantly - but he made his most significant contribution when he tricked Dier in the area and drew a foul from the Spurs defender to win that point-saving penalty.\n\nIt was a timely reminder to Solskjaer, should he even need one, of the rare talent he has at his disposal if Pogba could only show consistency and put the speculation about his future behind him.\n\nDe Gea did not have such a good night. There were already questions about his form before this game and he produced another error here - all with Dean Henderson's reputation growing in his loan spell at Sheffield United.\n\nSpurs will be bitterly disappointed to concede a goal so late on, and in such needless fashion, although it could have been worse when referee Moss erroneously awarded that second penalty - before VAR put matters right.\n\nLloris had produced that outstanding save from Martial but Spurs were hardly under siege and manager Jose Mourinho, who stalked the touchline in fury when United were originally awarded that injury-time penalty, will feel an important two points have been cast aside.\n\nMourinho will take some solace in the return of Harry Kane after hamstring surgery and Son after he broke his arm, as well as goalscorer Bergwijn.\n\nSpurs, however, need wins, and this result leaves them in eighth place, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea in the chase for Champions League places.\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live: \"I think difficult to find the word, I have to try to find a nice word - a strange penalty because the team was so compact, so well organised.\n\n\"The players did fantastic work defensively - they had two dangerous shots that Hugo Lloris saved and nothing else. Everything else was under control. I have to admit for the last 15 minutes I would love to have had Lucas Moura here, Dele Alli here. The last 15 minutes were difficult for us.\n\n\"Lucas and Dele are players we need and we could feel that today. when you look to their bench and then to ours the difference in attacking options. Hopefully they will be back for West Ham because in this moment it is very, very important to change players.\n\nOn the penalty for Manchester United: \"Paul Pogba did his job. That is it. I think Jonathan Moss was also trying to do his job the best he could. I think the VAR is a different situation.\"\n\nManchester United on the spot again - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions (W8 D4), scoring 30 goals and conceding just three in that run.\n• None Steven Bergwijn became only the second player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances for Spurs, after Rafael van der Vaart in 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, Manchester United have both taken (23) and scored (16) more penalties than any other Premier League side.\n• None Only Trent Alexander-Arnold (14) has more assists among Premier League defenders in all competitions than Spurs full-back Serge Aurier this season (eight).\n• None Jose Mourinho has won none of his past six matches against his former clubs in all competitions (D2 L4), taking just one point from four Premier League matches against Chelsea and Man Utd this season (D1 L3).\n• None Spurs are winless in seven games in all competitions (D3 L4), their worst run since November 2016 (also seven without a win).\n\nTottenham host West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday, 23 June (20:15 BST) while Manchester United are at home to Sheffield United on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Harry Maguire tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The science of social distancing is pretty straightforward - the further away you are, the lower the risk. So two metres IS safer than one.\n\nThe virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing or even speaking - so the further back you stand, the more likely those droplets will have fallen to the ground before they can reach you.\n\nBased on that, the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.\n\nBut, with background infection levels now much lower, the chances of a face-to-face encounter with someone who has the virus are small. And other measures - ones that many shops and restaurants could operate with - reduce the risk, too.\n\nLimiting the time people spend face to face, being outside, screens, even keeping noise levels low, so no-one has to shout - all these things help prevent droplets passing from person to person.\n\nBut while coronavirus is still around, we will all have to factor it into the choices we make because there is no such thing as zero risk.", "There has been a \"rise in the extent\" that limits are broken during lockdown despite a big drop in the number of fines, according to GoSafe\n\nMotorists have been caught driving at speeds of almost 140mph on Wales' roads during lockdown, police figures show.\n\nWhile there has been a 72% drop in the number of people caught speeding, there has been a \"rise in the extent\" that limits are broken, according to GoSafe.\n\nThe road safety partnership said such behaviour risked putting more pressure on the NHS during the pandemic.\n\nThere were 9,447 fines sent out between 24 March and 24 May, compared to 33,796 for the same period last year.\n\nThe reduction corresponds to a 70% drop in the volume of traffic on Welsh roads, but that is not the whole story, according to GoSafe manager Teresa Ciano.\n\nTravel restrictions which allow people to travel no further than five miles (8km) will not be lifted earlier than 6 July, First Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday.\n\n\"Whilst the offending rate is similar, we have seen a rise in the extent that speed limits have been broken,\" she said.\n\n\"This minority of motorists have been putting themselves and others at risk of serious injury or death at a time when we all need to play our part in reducing road collisions to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nPolice have set up new speed checks where concerns have been raised locally, said GoSafe manager Teresa Ciano\n\nThe highest speeds have been recorded on the M4 near Newport and the A55 in Denbighshire.\n\nIndividual fines issued between 24 March - the day after lockdown was announced - and 25 May include:\n\nThe number of speeding fines issued in the South Wales Police, Gwent Police and Dyfed-Powys Police force areas dropped from 24,371 last year to 6,446 this year - a 73% reduction overall.\n\nThe North Wales Police force area saw a slightly smaller drop of 68% - from 9,425 last year to 3,001 this year.\n\nThe M4 eastbound, between junctions 27 and 26 near Newport, is one of the worst areas for speeding during lockdown, figures suggest\n\nMs Ciano said continued enforcement was having an impact during lockdown.\n\n\"Our casualty reduction officers have been out enforcing the roads of Wales to keep all road users safe and to encourage compliance with the speed limits.\n\n\"Despite the high level of speeding seen on some of our roads, we have seen a number of sites record zero offences, which is a clear indication of enforcement working at its best.\"\n\nShe added that police had set up new speed checks where concerns have been raised locally.", "A Covid-19 tracing software tool has appeared in the settings of both Android phones and iPhones as part of an update of their operating systems.\n\nThe \"exposure notification\" tool is switched off by default, and is not a tracing app itself.\n\nIt enables an app to run in the background while still using Bluetooth.\n\nThis lets the app measure the distance between two handsets - and then alert the phone owner if someone near them later tests positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn the UK there is currently no available contact-tracing app.\n\nThe update has caused some confusion, with people querying the new addition to their handsets on social media.\n\n\"This is not a new app but is an extra element added to the phones' operating systems to enable approved developers to build apps that can potentially warn of proximity to infected individuals,\" said computer scientist Prof Alan Woodward, of Surrey University.\n\n\"Only apps approved by Google and Apple will be included in their app stores where they try to make use of this facility.\"\n\nThe tools (Apple on the left, Android on the right) have appeared in the phone settings\n\nOn iPhones it's found in the settings app, via the privacy menu and then health sub-section. On Android phones it's in the Google (services and preferences) section of the settings menu.\n\nIt does not work with the popular Covid Symptom Study app, which has been downloaded more than 3m times.\n\nA team of NHS developers had built a contact-tracing app and trialled it on the Isle of Wight but the UK government is now planning to incorporate software developed by Apple and Google.\n\nThis tool is part of that collaboration between the tech giants.\n\nIt enables handsets to exchange data and alert people if they have been near someone who is found to have coronavirus.\n\nHowever that data is not stored anywhere centrally - which was what the UK initially wanted to do.", "After months of work, the UK has ditched the way its coronavirus-tracing app works, prompting a blame game between the government and two of the world's biggest tech firms. So what went wrong?\n\nAt the end of March, I got a text from a senior figure in the UK's technology industry. This person said they were helping the NHS \"on a very substantial project that will launch in days and potentially save hundreds of thousands of British lives.\"\n\nThat was the first I knew of the plan to build a contact tracing app, a project that soon appeared to be at the very centre of the government's strategy to beat coronavirus and help us all emerge from lockdown.\n\nThe tech luminary had somehow assumed that I could be an adviser to the project - I made it clear that could not be my role but I was very interested in following its progress.\n\nNow, nearly three months on, after missing deadline after deadline, there has been a radical change in direction. The app that has been developed so far is being scrapped, and a new approach will be tried based on a system created by Apple and Google.\n\nBut there is no guarantee when, if ever, this will be rolled out. So what went wrong?\n\nWhen the team from the NHSX digital division was assembled they were told they were engaged on a vital mission. According to a presentation the team was shown the Covid-19 app would have four aims:\n\nOnce installed on a user's phone, the app would use Bluetooth to keep a record of other people with whom they came into close contact - as long as they too had installed the app. Then when someone tested positive for the virus, alerts would be sent to their close contacts of recent days telling them to go into quarantine.\n\nThe epidemiological expertise was provided by a team of Oxford scientists who had argued that there was an urgent need to identify people who were spreading the virus without knowing. \"Very fast contact tracing was likely to be essential,\" says one of the Oxford team, Dr David Bonsall. \"And smartphones have the technological capability to speed up that process.\"\n\nBut using the Bluetooth connection on smartphones to detect contacts was untested technology. Still, the team was inspired by Singapore, which had released its Trace Together app using that system.\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock announces the development of \"a new NHS app for contact tracing\". The app is launched on the Isle of Wight. It is downloaded by 60,000 people, under half the population of the island, over the following 10 days. Mr Hancock tells BBC Breakfast that if the trial on the Isle of Wight is successful, the app will be rolled out nationwide by the middle of May. He also says the public would have a \"duty\" to download the app and that 60% of people in the country would have to do so for the system to function. PM says test, track and trace will be ‘world-beating’ Boris Johnson says the system will be in place by 1 June Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells Parliament: \"We will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes it will be in place by 1 June.\" He also says there will be 25,000 trackers who \"will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day\". Contact-tracing system is launched without a nationwide app. Anybody who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive will have to self-isolate for 14 days. According to government figures, in the first week tracers contact 5,407 people with the virus. Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the app tested on the Isle of Wight will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\". Speaking on BBC Question Time, the minister says: \"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\" Asked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he says: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\" Minister says the app ‘isn’t the priority’ Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, says the app \"isn’t the priority\". Answering a question about the app from the Science and Technology Committee, the minister says: \"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment.\" He declines to offer a launch date for the app. In a major U-turn, the UK ditches its version and shifts to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google. The Apple-Google design is promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nBut it soon became clear that using Bluetooth was tricky. Reports from Singapore suggested people were reluctant to download the app because it had to be kept open on the phone all the time, draining the battery.\n\nThen on 10 April came a surprising announcement from Google and Apple. The two tech giants - on whose software virtually all the world's smartphones depend - said they were going to develop a system that would help Bluetooth contact-tracing apps work smoothly. But there was a catch - only privacy-focused apps would be allowed to use the platform.\n\nApple and Google favoured decentralised apps, where the matching between infected people and their list of contacts happened between their phones. The alternative was for the matching to be done on a central computer, owned by a health authority, which would end up storing lots of very sensitive information.\n\nThe app the NHS was developing was based on a centralised model, which the Oxford scientists felt was vital if the health service was to be able to monitor virus outbreaks properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nTwo days later, with quite a fanfare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled the plans for the Covid-19 app, promising \"all data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research\".\n\nBut immediately privacy campaigners, politicians and technology experts raised concerns. \"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises,\" said Cambridge University's Prof Ross Anderson.\n\nYet the project was still gathering pace with the first trial of the app at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The trial was held under artificial conditions, with servicemen and women placing phones adjacent to each other on tables to see what happened.\n\nMeanwhile, privacy-conscious Germany became the latest country to switch its app to the decentralised model, using the Apple and Google system. It seemed that Apple had made it clear that it would not cooperate with a centralised app.\n\nMichael Veale, a British academic working with a consortium developing decentralised apps, warned that the NHS app was on the wrong path, asking on Twitter \"will the UK push ahead with an app that will not work on iPhones - which has devastated adoption in Singapore?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut the UK pushed ahead with a trial in the Isle of Wight. As it got underway Mr Hancock told the public they had a \"duty\" to download the app when it became available and that it would be crucial in getting \"our liberty back\" as the lockdown was eased.\n\nFirst sight of the app showed it was very simple, asking users whether they had a fever or a continuous cough. But any symptom alerts sent out to contacts merely echoed the standard \"stay alert\" advice - test results couldn't be entered into the app at this stage. It left many residents confused.\n\nStill, the fact that the app was quickly downloaded by more than half of the island's smartphone users saw the government branding the trial a success.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times revealed that the government had hired a Swiss software developer to build a second app, using the Apple and Google technology. NHS insiders were quick to downplay the significance of this move - although one admitted \"Downing Street is getting nervous\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nWork continued on a second, more sophisticated version of the original app, which was again going to be tested in the Isle of Wight before a national rollout - though the original deadline of mid-May had been missed.\n\nOn 20 May, however, it became clear that the government's focus was switching to manual-contact tracing. The prime minister announced that a \"world beating\" tracing system would be in place by the beginning of June, though Number 10 stressed that the app's contribution to the system would come a bit later.\n\nAs May drew to a close the boss of the wider test and trace programme, Baroness Dido Harding, said the app would be the \"cherry on the cake\" of the project. It was no longer the cake itself.\n\nBy early June, more deadlines for the national release of the app had come and gone. Three weeks into the Isle of Wight trial residents were getting restless, with very little information on how it was going or when an updated version of the app was coming.\n\nFrance launched its centralised Stop-Covid app, which had drawn heavy criticism from privacy campaigners, and digital minister Cedric O said 600,000 downloads in the first few hours was \"a good start\".\n\nOn 4 June, Business Minister Nadhim Zadhawi was coaxed into saying the app should be ready by the end of the month, but that was the last firm deadline that would be promised.\n\nSingapore, which had continued to struggle to make its contact tracing app work, announced plans to give all citizens a wearable device in the hope that this would do a better job than a smartphone.\n\nOn 14 June, Germany became the biggest country to launch a decentralised app on the Apple/Google platform. It quickly outstripped France in terms of downloads with something approaching 10% of the population installing it.\n\nBy now the silence from the UK government about the NHS app was deafening. What was going on?\n\nAround lunchtime on 18 June all became clear. The BBC broke the story that the government was abandoning the centralised app and moving to something based on Google and Apple's technology. Despite all the spin, the Isle of Wight trial had highlighted a disastrous flaw in the app - it failed to detect 96% of contacts with Apple iPhones.\n\nThe blame game has already begun. Mr Hancock and some of the scientists working with the NHS believe Apple should have been more cooperative. Technology experts and privacy campaigners say they warned months ago how this story would end.\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nMeanwhile, there is scant proof from anywhere around the world that smartphone apps using Bluetooth are an effective method of contact tracing. Back in March, it seemed that the hugely powerful devices most of us carry with us might help us emerge from this health crisis. Now it looks as though a human being on the end of a phone is a far better option.", "The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to heading a football and could be regarded as an \"industrial disease,\" a coroner has said.\n\nAlan Jarvis played for Everton and Hull City in the 1960s and 1970s, winning three caps for his country.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who was thought to have dementia, died at a nursing home in Mold, Flintshire, in December.\n\nCoroner John Gittins has opened his inquest at Ruthin.\n\nHe said neuropathology had been undertaken and that Mr Jarvis' death and a possible link to heading a football would be explored further at a full hearing.\n\nMr Jarvis, a midfielder, played for Wales against England's 1966 World Cup winning squad, earning his other caps against Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nHis daughter, Sarah Jarvis, of Northop, Flintshire, said his family had arranged to have his brain donated to researchers at the University of Glasgow after his death.\n\nMs Jarvis said Dr Willie Stewart, who is studying the possible link between heading a football and brain damage, examined it in January and passed his report to the coroner.\n\nShe said she believed heading had been to blame for the difficulties her father faced in later life - including the loss of his speech.\n\nMs Jarvis said the family hoped his inquest would increase \"knowledge\" and that, while heading has been banned for children under 12 during training, changes in the adult game might not be necessary.\n\n\"My family loves watching football, so it's nothing I would want to change, it's more awareness,\" she said.\n\n\"The only thing I want to come out of it, is to look after these players.\n\n\"I know they say the football was heavy back then, but now it's lighter and faster, so who's to say there's not still going to be the same amount of people coming through with dementia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Stewart's research featured in the 2018 BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me.\n\nIn 2019, a study he led found former professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims former West Bromwich Albion striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nThere remains, however, no definitive evidence that heading a ball causes dementia.\n\nFootball authorities have said more research is needed, with the FA saying it is \"committed to doing all it can\" to help provide greater understanding of the issue.", "There is no judgement more important right now than gauging the trade-off between reopening the economy and the measures limiting the spread of coronavirus.\n\nBut the BBC understands that all four chief medical officers of the UK nations, including England's Professor Chris Whitty, opposed the prime minister's hopes of lowering the Covid-19 alert level last week.\n\nLess than a month ago, Boris Johnson announced that any easing of the lockdown would be conditional on a lower alert level, alongside \"five tests\" on the spread of infection being met.\n\nIndeed, when the prime minister promised on 10 May to ease the lockdown around open air markets and primary schools, as happened on Monday, he issued an important caveat: \"If the alert level won't allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right.\"\n\nThe next day, the government's \"Plan to Rebuild\" said that the changes to the lockdown \"must be warranted by the current alert level\".\n\nAt that time the alert level was 4, indicating that \"transmission is high or rising exponentially\".\n\nAt level 3, transmission is no longer considered \"high\" but a Covid-19 epidemic is in general circulation. Level 3 justifies \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\".\n\nOn Wednesday last week, the prime minister told parliament's Liaison Committee that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level 4 to Level 3 tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nThat was in reply to a question from the Northern Ireland Select Committee chair Simon Hoare about the PM's adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level.\n\nThere were two other important meetings that day. One was between the four nations' chief medical officers. The other was between the devolved governments and the PM, and easing the alert level across the UK was expected to be discussed.\n\nChief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has made a point of saying that the number of cases \"remain high - it's not a low number\"\n\n\"It was clear that government wanted to change it and scientists and the chief medical officer didn't,\" said one political source involved.\n\nThis account was later confirmed to me by a scientist involved in pandemic planning, and sources in three governments said that all four chief medical officers from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland did not back the hoped-for move to alert level 3.\n\nThe government itself has not confirmed or denied this account, only suggested that it was \"always clear\" that the alert level was not the primary reason for easing lockdown.\n\nBut the doubts harboured by the country's most senior medical adviser, and other scientists, about lowering the alert level do matter.\n\nThe government pressed on with the modest easing of the lockdown, even after the PM's promise last month that any relaxation would be conditional on a lowering of the alert level.\n\nIn early May measures such as reopening primary schools and markets were promised \"no earlier\" than 1 June.\n\nNHS Medical Director Professor Stephen Powis said the Joint Biosecurity Centre was \"currently under development setting itself up\"\n\nLast week, ministers were left describing how the alert level was \"transitioning to 3\" to justify going ahead with easing the lockdown, even as the level technically remained at 4.\n\nBut at the government's daily coronavirus briefing last Thursday, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance made a point of saying that the number of cases \"remain high - it's not a low number\" and that in some places the transmission rate, or R-value, remained \"close to 1\".\n\nHe added that the UK remained in a \"fragile state\" and should be prepared to re-impose measures if necessary.\n\nOver the weekend, a series of senior members of the Sage advisory committee announced that the easing of lockdown was premature.\n\nThen there is a more significant question about who actually decides the alert level. The prime minister had said last month that it should be the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nWhen I asked at last Friday's government briefing what the centre had said, NHS medical director Prof Stephen Powis replied that the JBC was \"currently under development setting itself up\" and \"feeding information into the four chief medical officers who have to think about alert levels\".\n\nBut on Tuesday, Number 10 confirmed that this would no longer be the case, and it was \"ultimately\" the UK chief medical officers' job to set the alert level using analysis from the JBC which has now \"begun operating\".\n\nAnd that raises another key concern.\n\nIt is my understanding that there are some tensions between administrations, and some of this spilt out into the teleconference last Thursday. The Joint Biosecurity Centre has not been signed off by the devolved administrations.\n\nSome expressed disappointment that the government's Cobra civil contingencies committee had not met in the three-week period before the latest round of lockdown easing was confirmed in Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister pointed to what he saw as particular problems in Scottish care homes, and also mentioned north Wales as a Covid-19 hotspot, although scientists say that this is due to a change in measurement.\n\nThe Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the prime minister \"locked horns\" on the care home issue, I'm told. Another source says the half hour call \"was supposed to be about the alert level, but the doctors and scientists had already killed off the move\".\n\nEven if the medics had agreed, it is quite plausible that the Scottish and Welsh governments would have refused to lower the alert level.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove is expected to make an effort to keep Welsh and Scottish administrations onside.\n\nOther experts point out that applying a terror alert-style system to pandemics simply might not work, as the government's own decisions have a significant direct impact on transmission rates, unlike terrorism.\n\nThe terror alert system also has no transition state between its levels. And there are questions about whether this new system is meant to replace the Sage experts, and why exactly that is happening.\n\nThe fear is that this vital new policy development, designed to clearly communicate risk levels across the nations of the UK to workers, businesses, parents and pensioners has more than just teething problems.\n\nThe government is now downplaying the importance of the system to lifting lockdown. The concern is that the system, explained in some detail by the PM in an address to the nation, now risks being dead on arrival.\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?", "The NHS has introduced a test and trace schemes to help the UK lift lockdown measures and stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThousands of contact tracers have been recruited to notify people - by email, text or by phone - if they've come into contact with someone with Covid-19.\n\nWales launched their system on 1 June and England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have systems up and running.\n\nThe UK's test and trace app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight but isn't ready yet to be rolled out elsewhere.\n\nBBC Health and Science correspondent, Laura Foster, explains what is meant by track and trace, how it works and how it can keep the R number low.", "As lockdown measures begin to ease in the UK, families have taken the opportunity to see loved ones again - at a safe distance.\n\nCate Searle took this photo of her children with their grandmother in Hampshire.\n\n\"My mum is over 70 and has been shielding. It was the first time she saw the boys since February,\" says Cate.\n\nIn Derbyshire, 80-year-old Sheila also saw her grandchildren again for the first time in 10 weeks.\n\nIn Aberdeenshire, the Wilkie and Stephen families wore face masks when they got together.\n\nMargaret Stephen says: \"Eighty-six-year-old Nanny hadn't seen all her grandchildren for 11 weeks\".\n\nWhile there were grandparents who had not seen their grandchildren for some time, there were others who had never seen their new grandchildren.\n\nJamie Riley in Buckinghamshire introduced six-week-old baby Eden to her grandparents.\n\nIn Edinburgh, grandparents Fergus and Judy Gilmour met their four-week-old grandson, Brodie, for the first time.\n\nIn Leicester, baby Luna who was born on 15 April, finally met her grandparents.\n\nAs lockdown restrictions are relaxed, the government continues to reinforce the importance of social distancing.\n\nThe government's advice remains that a person should \"stay two metres apart from anyone outside of [one's] household\".\n• None Lockdown easing to allow groups of six to meet\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. Matt Hancock said the advice was \"the same as to everybody but with more emphasis\"\n\nPeople from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus, a report by Public Health England says.\n\nIt shows age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe impact of Covid-19 is also \"disproportionate\" for other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities. But it remains unclear why.\n\nA trade union for doctors said the report was a \"missed opportunity\" for \"action\" to be taken to protect health workers who are from ethnic minorities.\n\nThe health secretary said the \"troubling\" report was \"timely\" because \"right across the world people are angry about racial injustice\".\n\nOn Monday night, the Department of Health and Social Care denied reports the delay was down to official concerns of potential civil unrest linked to global anger over the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the public was \"understandably angry about injustices\" and that he felt a \"deep responsibility because this pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation\".\n\n\"Black lives matter, as do those of the poorest areas of our country which have worse health outcomes and we need to make sure all of these considerations are taken into account, and action is taken to level-up the health outcomes of people across this country,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Hancock said \"much more work\" needed to be done to understand \"what's driving these disparities\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and find ways of closing this gap,\" he said, adding that he has asked equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to continue working on the issue alongside Public Health England (PHE).\n\nThe BBC's Rianna Croxford pressed Mr Hancock on whether there were any specific recommendations for people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nHe said everyone in \"the different high risk categories\" highlighted in the report should follow social distancing guidelines \"very stringently\".\n\nProf John Newton said although the virus was having a worse impact on black and minority ethnic people, \"that is not necessarily because of their ethnicity\" and could instead be related to their job, for example.\n\nHe said the report's findings needed to be \"widely discussed before deciding exactly what needs to be done\".\n\n\"The report if nothing else emphasises the complexity of what we're seeing, so really we're urging people not to jump to conclusions and institute measures which are not really justified by the data,\" he added.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"lives depend on\" finding out why the virus disproportionately impacts black and minority ethnic people, and what actions the government was taking to stop it.\n\nDavida Wilkins, a 38-year-old district nurse in the West Midlands, told the BBC she felt \"even more anxious\" about doing her job following the report's publication.\n\nShe said she felt \"obligated\" to continue her front-line role but added she cannot minimise the risks posed to her by the virus because \"it's the colour that I am and I can't change it\".\n\nA large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe rapid review was launched when it became clear that some people were getting more sick with coronavirus than others.\n\nPHE reviewed thousands of existing health records and other virus data to look at disparities by:\n\nIt is not possible to combine all of these factors together to judge an individual's risk because of the way the source data is recorded, but the data does reveal clear inequalities.\n\nThe analysis on ethnicity and risk did not consider a person's occupation or obesity, even though both are known risk factors for getting seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe government had been under pressure to publish the findings of this inquiry. It was due to be released by the end of May.\n\nNow it's here, it's not clear why there was a delay. The main findings reinforce what we already know - that belonging to an ethnic minority group is a major risk factor.\n\nIt doesn't move us forward in answering why, though.\n\nThe report acknowledges an important flaw in the analysis - it couldn't factor in important risks, such as a person's job and underlying health conditions, that increase the chance of dying with coronavirus. Where you live and how much you earn are important considerations too.\n\nDeath rates for people living in the most deprived areas of England were more than double the least deprived areas.\n\nThe report says coronavirus has replicated and in some cases increased existing health inequalities. It doesn't mention how to address those to save more lives.\n\nIt acknowledges that more work is needed to understand and advise people about the risks.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the report for not providing recommendations for at-risk groups, adding that the virus \"thrives on inequality\" and \"inequality thrives on inaction\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova said the report was \"notably silent\" on how risks amplified by \"racial and health inequalities\" could be reduced.\n\nShe said the government \"must act immediately\" to mitigate the risks \"so that no more lives are lost\".\n\nWhile Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy said families \"are living in fear\" and the government \"must take urgent action to protect at-risk groups\".\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said while the report's conclusions were \"helpful... it does nothing to protect people\". She said \"clear guidance and support\" from the government should be given to help the NHS tackle the risk to workers.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing pointed out that health care staff from black and ethnic minority groups faced an increased risk from the virus and that \"swift and comprehensive action\" was needed to protect workers.\n\nWhile the council chair of the BMA, the doctors' trade union, said the report was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"The BMA and the wider community were hoping for a clear action plan to tackle the issues, not a re-iteration of what we already know. We need practical guidance,\" Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nThe equality watchdog says the government should produce a \"comprehensive race equality strategy\" in response to the report.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"People are more than statistics, and we cannot afford to ignore the broader context of entrenched race inequality across all areas of life. Only a comprehensive race equality strategy will address these issues.\"\n\nLatest government figures show 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n• None Why are more BAME people dying from coronavirus?", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "The company says the decision was made with \"huge sadness\"\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company has postponed or cancelled planned performances and events due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSummer season plays including The Winter's Tale were called off as well as shows planned for autumn and winter.\n\nThe RSC said the decision had been made with \"huge sadness\" and the box office would be contacting ticket holders.\n\nBut it is looking at a possible earlier reopening of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\n\"The ability to stage the productions in the autumn is dependent on government advice on social distancing and whether it is financially viable for the Company to open its theatres and perform to audiences,\" it said.\n\nIf possible it would re-schedule The Winter's Tale and The Comedy of Errors at the RST, where they were due to open in the spring.\n\nMeanwhile it is moving its planned winter season to next year.\n\nThe RSC was looking into whether its main Stratford theatre could reopen sooner\n\nMany theatres and concert halls are struggling after closing their doors during lockdown, with no clear indication of when shows might resume.\n\nThe RSC said it terminated contracts and furloughed 90% of employees while seeking income from government schemes.\n\nIt has made 17 productions available to watch online, including Richard II with David Tennant, Hamlet and Othello. It has also provided home learning resources.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Grog This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Company's artistic director Gregory Doran and executive director Catherine Mallyon said in a joint statement: \"These are the most difficult times for all theatres and arts venues, whether big or small.\n\n\"It is incredibly sad to see our theatres and those of our partner theatres around the country closed at this time.\n\n\"We continue to do everything we can to bring them back to life as soon as possible, so we can welcome back our audiences to share the experience of live theatre with them.\"\n\nThey added: \"Theatre and the arts give strength to people in difficult times, they lift the spirits and bring a sense of community, which is desperately needed right now.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The queue to vote in the House of Commons stretched into Westminster Hall\n\nMPs who cannot attend Parliament for age or medical reasons will be able to question the government remotely but not vote, says Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nIt came as MPs trooped through the Commons in socially-distanced lines to vote for an end to voting from home.\n\nCommons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said another vote will be held on Wednesday to allow those who cannot attend in person to take part in debates.\n\nBut critics say not allowing that group to vote remotely is \"discriminatory\".\n\nMPs have been using a \"hybrid\" system, with some in the Commons chamber, and some appearing via video link, since mid-April and some votes had been held remotely for the first time in Parliament's history.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg has scrapped that system, saying it does not allow MPs to properly hold the government to account and they must attend Parliament in person.\n\nUnder the new plan, in place until 7 July, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has had to come up with a physical voting method that respects coronavirus guidance from Public Health England.\n\nIt has been strongly criticised by MPs from all sides of the House, who warn it will exclude vulnerable MPs and those with caring responsibilities.\n\nA number of Scottish MPs also said they worried that making the long journey to and from Westminster risked endangering their families and constituents.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"This House plays a invaluable role in holding the government to account and debating legislation which can only properly be fulfilled when members are here in person.\"\n\nA bid by procedure Committee chairwoman Karen Bradley to allow remote voting to be allowed to continue failed to pass by 57 votes.\n\nMPs then voted on the government's plan, which passed by 261 votes to 163.\n\nThirty-one Conservative MPs voted against the government, including Ms Bradley and other select committee chairs such as Tom Tugendhat and Greg Clark, and former ministers such as Tracey Crouch and John Redwood.\n\nDuring the votes, MPs had to queue up outside the Commons chamber to observe social distancing, before walking to the Speaker's chair to say their name and which way they were voting.\n\nThe vote on Ms Bradley's amendment took 46 minutes - compared to the usual time of around 15 minutes before social distancing measures were brought in.\n\nThe vote on the government's plan took 36 minutes.\n\nSome MPs posted pictures of the queue outside the building or in Portcullis House - a building opposite the Houses of Parliament where many MPs' offices are located.\n\nLabour MP Alex Davies-Jones said the way the vote took place had made her \"angry\", telling the BBC: \"The whole voting system has completely fallen apart. It's ridiculous, dangerous and unsafe.\n\n\"If I haven't already had Covid then I'm now resigned to the fact that I definitely will.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Edwards 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jonathan Reynolds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government's motion - set to be voted on on Wednesday - states that only MPs who have \"self-certified that they are unable to attend Westminster for medical or public health reasons\" will be able to take part remotely in some proceedings. They won't be allowed to vote.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant raised further concerns about the government's plans in the chamber, saying many MPs were \"deeply concerned\" that shielding MPs would have to \"justify\" why they were at home, and that parents dealing with childcare problems \"shouldn't have to claim medical reasons\".\n\nThe so-called hybrid proceedings have been in place since mid-April, enabling MPs to join proceedings over Zoom via screens in the chamber, and to take part in votes online.\n\nThe measures were initially due to end on 12 May, but MPs agreed to a motion from the government to extend them until 21 May - the start of the Whitsun recess.\n\nSome MPs welcomed Mr Rees-Mogg's concession allowing some MPs to take part in debates remotely - but many said it did not go far enough.\n\nShe added: \"I don't know if the leader is living in another universe but the pandemic is still going on. It is not right, or just, or fair.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"The government's official line was if you could work from home then you should.\n\n\"Well, we can work from home, we should work from home, because that's the right thing to do - not just for Parliament, but for our family, our colleagues and our constituents.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Tory MP Robert Halfon, who has been shielding at home, told BBC News that scrapping virtual proceedings was \"democratically unjust\" for MPs who could not return to Parliament, leaving them as \"parliamentary eunuchs\".\n\nHe added: \"This stern and unbending attitude of the powers that be is unfortunately why many people sometimes have problems with the Conservative Party.\"", "Deaths of people with learning disabilities in England have increased by 134% during the coronavirus pandemic, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said.\n\nBetween 10 April and 15 May there were 386 deaths, half of them confirmed or suspected Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe CQC said that during the same period in 2019, there were 165 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it was looking at how to \"protect those most at risk\".\n\nThe \"targeted\" analysis by the CQC looked at deaths of people with a learning disability and/or autism that it was notified of via care providers, and also those where a learning disability was indicated on the death notification form.\n\nIt found there had been a 134% increase in deaths, with 53% related to coronavirus.\n\nAdam Brown died in hospital in April at the age of 30\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics for the same time period show Covid-related deaths within the general population in England at 34%.\n\nAdam Brown, 30, died on 29 April in East Surrey Hospital after contracting coronavirus.\n\nHe had learning disabilities and lived in supported living.\n\nWhen he became ill he had a very high temperature but was not tested until he was admitted to hospital where he later died.\n\nHis sister Ruth said: \"He must have felt confused and abandoned. He was having to see new faces, people in gowns and masks, that he doesn't even know.\"\n\nHis other sister, Naomi, added: \"All we wanted to do was see his face or just to hold his hand or to be with him in his last moments.\n\n\"We need awareness for these people, those that don't have voices.\"\n\nKate Terroni of the CQC said: \"We already know that people with a learning disability are at an increased risk of respiratory illnesses, meaning that access to testing could be key to reducing infection and saving lives.\"\n\nTests are currently prioritised for homes that specialise in caring for older people and those living with dementia, but not those with learning disabilities or autism.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said: \"We are working to improve our understanding of how different groups may be affected by the virus, including those with learning disabilities or autism, to ensure we can provide the best support and protect those most at risk.\"\n\nThe CQC said its figures did come with \"limitations\", such as it not being mandatory for providers to inform them the deceased had a learning disability, and added that if both the NHS and care provider reported the same death, duplicates would arise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of visitors flocked to Durdle Door at the weekend, leaving litter scattered on the beach\n\nThe Jurassic Coast has been treated with \"shocking\" disrespect by visitors since lockdown restrictions were eased, conservation groups have said.\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage site has been deluged with crowds in recent days.\n\nThe Jurassic Coast Trust said many were \"determined to arrive at any cost\" and volunteers described \"horrendous\" amounts of litter being abandoned.\n\nCurrent rules state that households can drive any distance in England to destinations such as parks and beaches.\n\nThe Jurassic Coast Unesco World Heritage Site covers 95 miles (150km) of coastline from Devon to Dorset, and features \"rocks and fossils which record 185 million years of Earth's history\".\n\nThe Clean Jurassic Coast group said waste had been buried in the sand, and washed into the sea and caves along the coast.\n\nVolunteers with Clean Jurassic Coast have been collecting waste left by beach-goers\n\nVolunteer Anna Taylor said: \"I was picking things up that I really shouldn't have to pick up.\n\n\"I had litter thrown at me, I had bags and bags of rubbish dumped near me to deal with.\n\n\"I've had people shouting at me when I asked them nicely to take their litter with them.\"\n\nJurassic Coast Trust chief executive Lucy Culkin said it had been a \"difficult and challenging\" weekend.\n\nOn Saturday three people were airlifted to hospital after tombstoning from the limestone arch at Durdle Door Beach.\n\nMs Culkin said the trust received hundreds of complaints about \"appalling\" volumes of litter on beaches, as well as human waste, sanitary items and disposable barbecues on footpaths in dry, hot conditions.\n\n\"It was clear to see that some had all but forgotten the guidelines of social distancing or welfare for themselves and others, or indeed any respect for the natural environment they were visiting,\" she said.\n\n\"To witness the disregard with which Durdle Door, our beaches and coast paths have been treated is shocking.\"\n\nMs Culkin said the trust supported Dorset Council's plea to the prime minister to review unlimited travel guidelines.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Over the course of the pandemic people across the country have made huge sacrifices, and thanks to the efforts of the public the government's five tests are being met and we can begin slowly moving towards the next phase of lifting the lockdown.\n\n\"But we all still need to play our part by staying alert, and continuing to follow social distancing guidelines.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of the public are following the rules, and we expect the police to use their discretion, judgment and experience in enforcing them.\"\n\nThousands flocked to the Jurassic Coast during the weekend sunny weather\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is \"insane\" to make MPs return to the House of Commons to vote, a public health expert claims.\n\nThere has been a \"hybrid\" virtual system since mid-April, but MPs today passed a motion to return to a physical parliament and develop a physical voting method that respects health and safety guidance from Public Health England.\n\nCritics say the move would still be \"discriminatory\" against those unable to attend.\n\nAnd Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, says: \"I thought that was a really insane idea to require people to go back into Westminster, in terms of infection controls.\"\n\nShe adds that the science is evolving but \"it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility that immediately occupying the same space as somebody who's been speaking could be a risk\".\n\nCommenting on some MPs touching the despatch box as they stepped forward to vote, she adds: \"If it was a university environment, we'd be cleaning the podium before the next lecturer came to do their lecture.\"", "Tree loss in Bolivia increased hugely in 2019 because of fires that spread out of control\n\nOlder, carbon-rich tropical forests continue to be lost at a frightening rate, according to satellite data.\n\nIn 2019, an area of primary forest the size of a football pitch was lost every six seconds, the University of Maryland study of trees more than 5 metres says.\n\nBrazil accounted for a third of it, its worst loss in 13 years apart from huge spikes in 2016 and 2017 from fires.\n\nHowever, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo both managed to reduce tree loss.\n\nMeanwhile, Australia saw a sixfold rise in total tree loss, following dramatic wildfires late in 2019, .\n\nAs well as storing massive amounts of carbon, primary, tropical rainforests, where trees can be hundreds or even thousands of years old, are home to species such as orangutans and tigers.\n\nThe study looks at all causes of trees loss, including fires and natural disturbances\n\nThe tropics lost 11.9 million hectares (46,000 square miles) of tree cover, the study found, 3.8 million in older, primary forest areas - the third highest loss of primary trees since 2000 and a slight increase on 2018.\n\n\"The level of forest loss that we saw in 2019 is unacceptable,\" Frances Seymour, from the World Resources Institute, said.\n\n\"And one of the reasons that it's unacceptable is that we actually already know how to turn it around.\n\n\"If governments put into place good policies and enforce the law, forest loss goes down.\n\n\"But if governments relax restrictions on burning, or [are] signalling that they intend to open up indigenous territories for commercial exploration, forest loss goes up.\"\n\nSpeaking about the losses in Brazil, Mikaela Weisse, from Global Forest Watch, said: \"We also noted several new hotspots of primary forest loss within indigenous territories, especially in the state of Pará that were linked to land grabbing and to mining.\n\n\"These incursions are particularly worrisome given that indigenous peoples have been some of the best conservers of forests in Brazil and around the world.\"\n\nIndonesia, however, saw losses remain at historically low levels for the third year in a row, thanks, it seems, to strong government action.\n\nLiz Goldman, from Global Forest Watch, said: \"A number of policies in Indonesia have contributed to this positive story, including increased enforcement to prevent forest fires and land clearing and a forest moratorium to prevent new clearing for oil palm plantations and logging activities, which was first established in 2011 and made permanent just this past year.\"\n\nProtesters in many countries were angry about fires in Brazil\n\nAnd Columbia, which had seen tree losses surge since a peace agreement came into force in 2016, saw a 35% drop in primary forest loss compared with 2018.\n\nBut Bolivia saw losses 80% greater than any other year, after fires set for agricultural clearing spread out of control.\n\nAnd nearly 12% of the Chiquitano dry forest, in eastern Bolivia, home to indigenous peoples, jaguars, giant armadillos and tapirs, was burned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon urges people to stick to the rules\n\nScotland's coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister relaxed restrictions north of the border on Friday, allowing more people to meet up while outdoors.\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" had complied with recommendations not to travel and to keep gatherings small.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was clear that not everyone had complied, with police dispersing more than 2,000 gatherings.\n\nPolice Scotland said there had been 1,391 \"compliant dispersals\" of groups of people over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with another 650 where groups broke up \"after a police warning\".\n\nAnd with car traffic trebling at some beauty spots, the first minister said she would not hesitate to put restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\nScotland took its first step on the government's \"routemap\" out of lockdown over the weekend, with people from two different households allowed to meet up outdoors in groups of no more than eight.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel within their local area for recreation and exercise, although the government \"strongly recommends\" they do not travel more than five miles.\n\nBeaches at Loch Lomond were busy over the weekend\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wanted to thank \"the vast majority\" of people for sticking to the rules.\n\nBut she said it was clear that not everybody was heeding the advice, with police having to move on hundreds of people for not complying with regulations.\n\nShe said the 797 dispersals carried out by police on Saturday was five times the number seen a week previously, and that traffic volumes had risen sharply.\n\nTraffic around beauty spots like Loch Lomond and Glen Coe was \"about three times higher\" than it was the previous weekend, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"hard to see how that was caused by local residents\".\n\nShe said ministers had \"deliberately allowed some flexibility\" and \"left some room for discretion\" when setting out the new guidelines, because they trusted the majority to follow the rules.\n\nBut she said: \"It's worth being clear that if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, or meeting up in larger groups, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to do that if it is necessary for the collective wellbeing of society.\"\n\nPolice said more than 2,000 gatherings had been broke up in total over the weekend.\n\nA total of 16 fixed penalty notice fines were issued, but there were no arrests related to breaches of coronavirus legislation.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said the \"increase in people out and about following the relaxing of some of the restrictions has seen a rise in crime levels\", with increasing demands on police.\n\nHe added: \"We all want to enjoy our outdoor spaces safely and, whilst our officers will continue to robustly tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, please take reasonable steps to keep yourself safe and act responsibly.\"\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in Scotland continues to fall, with just 27 now in intensive care wards.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that the progress which had been made was \"fragile\".\n\n\"The virus is being suppressed, but it has not gone away and it is still extremely dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"The progress we have made so far is simply not guaranteed and is not irreversible. Cases could increase again, it would not take much for that to happen, and that would result in more loss of life.\n\n\"If all of that happens, then restrictions will have to be re-imposed rather than being further relaxed.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"To the minority that flout all of this, it's not just the virus running out of control you're risking - it's taking flexibility away from people who are abiding by the rules.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's message remains that people should \"stay at home\" as much as possible\n\nMs Sturgeon said the issue had been brought home to her after one of her own friends had been diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Until this weekend, I didn't know anybody personally, within my own family or friends network, who had had this virus in a significant way. That changed this weekend.\n\n\"Why am I telling you that? Because it's still there. Even with these numbers going down, there are still people testing positive for this virus.\n\n\"It's still there - it's ready to pounce, and jump across any bridges we offer it. If we want to stop that, we must, must stick to these guidelines.\n\n\"I'm saying this as a citizen as much as as a first minister - please do that, and together we will continue to make this progress.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nEleven-year-old British skateboarder Sky Brown is \"lucky to be alive\" after a horrific fall from a ramp during training in California on Thursday.\n\nBrown, who was hoping to become Britain's youngest summer Olympian in Tokyo, has skull fractures and broke her left wrist and hand.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in a helicopter and was unresponsive on arrival, but should recover fully.\n\n\"Sky landed head-first off a ramp on her hand,\" said her father Stewart.\n\n\"When she first came to hospital, everyone was fearful for her life.\"\n\nBrown added his daughter was \"super positive\" and would have a \"speedy recovery\".\n\n\"Sky had the gnarliest fall she's ever had and is lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\n\"Sky remains positive and strong, the whole medical team is shocked to see her positivity.\"\n\nSky, who posted a video on Instagram from her hospital bed, said she was \"going to push even harder\" when she returns to skateboarding, which will make its Olympic debut in the postponed Tokyo Games.\n\n\"I'm going to push boundaries for girls with my skating and surfing,\" she added. \"I'm going for gold in 2021 and nothing will stop me.\"", "MPs have been able to speak via video link during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nMPs will vote on the future of virtual proceedings later, amid a row over how Commons business can take place safely.\n\nThe government says virtual tools allowing members to debate and vote digitally have been ineffective and will be \"better done face-to-face\".\n\nBut critics say the government plan will exclude vulnerable MPs and those with caring responsibilities.\n\nMPs are now meeting to decide and will use a temporary voting process.\n\nThey will be asked to queue up outside the Commons chamber before entering in order to observe social distancing.\n\nThe cross-party Procedure Committee has tabled an amendment to the government's plan to enable the Commons Speaker to authorise electronic voting and allow MPs unable to get to the chamber to participate \"digitally\".\n\nIt has the support of the opposition, as well as some Conservative MPs.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission has joined calls to ensure MPs can work remotely, saying it would place MPs who are shielding or self-isolating because of age, disability, health conditions or pregnancy \"at a significant disadvantage\" if they can't.\n\nThe watchdog's chief executive, Rebecca Hilsenrath, added: \"We urge the government to agree a revised proposal that upholds the principles of equality and human rights, and ensures the Parliament shows leadership to the rest of the country in inclusive workplaces, especially when the decisions which result affect us all.\"\n\nTory MP Henry Smith told BBC Breakfast virtual proceedings had \"curtailed my ability on behalf of my constituents to scrutinise the government\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't put our system of democracy on hold forever, and as the rest of the country starts to unlock, I think it's only right that MPs should as well.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow Commons leader, Valerie Vaz, told the same programme the government had put forward the proposals \"without any chance for anyone to work out a proper solution\", and there would be a \"whole range of issues about a group of people travelling across the country\" to get to Westminster, possibly spreading the virus.\n\nTory MP Robert Halfon, who has been shielding at home, also told BBC News scrapping virtual proceedings was \"democratically unjust\" for MPs who could not return to Parliament, leaving them as \"parliamentary eunuchs\".\n\nHe added: \"This stern and unbending attitude of the powers that be is unfortunately why many people sometimes have problems with the Conservative Party.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Pete Wishart said he could not get from his rural constituency in Perthshire to London to participate, calling it an \"utterly bizarre\" decision by the government which risked \"disenfranchising millions of people from across the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has warned of the risk of \"deadlock\" over the government's plans, urging MPs to agree on a solution to allow all members to take part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe so-called hybrid proceedings have been in place since mid-April.\n\nThe measures were initially due to end on 12 May, but MPs agreed to a motion from the government to extend them until 21 May - the start of the Whitsun recess.\n\nIn a letter to MPs, Sir Lindsay said the Commons now needed to decide how to conduct its business and its votes in the future, but this could only be done in person, because the previous \"hybrid\" arrangements have formally lapsed.\n\nHowever, the usual practice of voting in corridors either side of the main chamber - the division lobbies - has been ruled unsafe by Public Health England, leaving the Commons in potential limbo as it returns from the Whitsun recess.\n\nSir Lindsay proposed an unprecedented process for the decision, in which MPs will have to queue at a two-metre distance from each other before slowly filing into the chamber to cast their vote.\n\nHe said any vote - which will see MPs start their journey in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster - would take about half an hour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeff 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\"I have had to devise a temporary way forward to break the deadlock - because the House must be able to have its say,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not perfect, it will take time, and members will need to be patient,\" he said. \"But, it is the safest method I can think of to enable members and supporting staff to maintain social distancing.\"\n\nThe current set-up has seen a maximum of 50 MPs allowed in the Commons chamber, with up to 120 taking part via video conferencing technology.\n\nBut writing for the Politics Home website, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said the virtual set-up \"is no longer necessary,\" and physical working would make the Commons \"much more effective\".\n\n\"Politics is better done face-to-face, even if the whites of the ministerial eyes are six feet away,\" he added.\n\nHe also said work was under way with Commons authorities to determine how MPs shielding at home or with health conditions \"can safely continue to contribute\".\n\nIt is understood the government sees the pairing convention - under which absent MPs from opposing parties have their votes cancelled out - as a way to account for MPs who are not able to vote in person.", "The 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Austria on 5 July, the first of a run of eight races in Europe.\n\nAn F1 statement said the championship would begin across three consecutive weekends - two in Austria on 5 and 12 July and a third in Hungary.\n\nThere will then be a two-week break before two consecutive races in Britain and events in Spain, Belgium and Italy.\n\nAll will be run behind closed doors with participants following guidelines to minimise the spread of Covid-19.\n• None Williams up for sale after £13m loss last year\n\nThe British Grands Prix at Silverstone will be held 2 and 9 August, followed immediately by the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona on 16 August.\n\nThe Belgian and Italian Grands Prix will complete the European part of the season on their original dates of 30 August and 6 September.\n\nPlans for the remainder of the season were not announced, because of the uncertainty of the coronavirus situation in the various countries that would have made up the original schedule.\n\nHowever, F1 said it had \"an expectation of having a total of 15-18 races before we complete our season in December\".\n\nIt is understood that F1 is highly confident of finishing the championship with races in Bahrain on 6 December and Abu Dhabi on 13 December.\n\nBefore that, the low incidence of coronavirus in China, Vietnam and Japan makes races in those countries a strong probability in October.\n\nThe Russian Grand Prix, which is pencilled in for after the European events along with the race in Azerbaijan, and those in the US, Mexico and Brazil are more uncertain because of the high rates of infection in those countries.\n\nF1 bosses have also proposed that some races run to a new format, with the grid for the main grand prix on Sunday decided by a shorter race on Saturday.\n\nBut this plan looks unlikely to happen because of opposition from Mercedes - any change to the rules after the start of a year in which a championship takes place requires the unanimous approval of teams.\n\nMcLaren boss Zak Brown told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It would certainly add some jeopardy and some excitement to the sport so I personally would be a fan of experimenting because we might find we go, you know what, this is actually a pretty good idea, let's pull this forward into future use.\"\n\nBut Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has told other senior figures at meetings to discuss the idea that he has two major objections the plan: it will not succeed in improving the racing; and F1 is not broken so does not require gimmicks to 'fix' it.\n\nThe plan would be to try the sprint races at events where there are races on consecutive weekends, such as in Austria and Britain, to avoid the risk of the second one falling into the same pattern as the first.\n\nMercedes' objections are based on their belief that a reverse-grid race would simply lead to the cars from the top three teams running together as they carved through the field before becoming stuck in so-called 'DRS trains'.\n\nThis is where a series of cars of similar performance run in close proximity but are unable to pass because all have the benefit of the DRS overtaking aid so it is negated.\n\nThey also believe it tips the result of the championship too far towards luck because the penalties of being involved in any incident in the 'sprint' race are magnified by also impacting on the driver's chances in the main grand prix.\n\nAnd they point to the fact that many of the races last year were exciting - especially those at the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone, for which the new format is being proposed.\n\nWolff has underlined to fellow bosses that he will not support the idea.\n\nBrown said: \"There are a variety of things we could try this year. You kind of have licence to do it differently because obviously going back to the same track twice in my memory has never happened in a season and if we end up doing this two times, mixing it up is a good idea.\n\n\"A lot of other forms of motorsport do have some form of reverse grid - it may be new to F1 but it's not new to motorsport. And the other forms of motorsport that do it, it works quite well.\"\n\nHe added that he \"understood\" Mercedes' objections, saying: \"They probably have the most to lose, if you like. It is pretty clear they still have the best car on the grid and so will probably be on pole position more often than not. So I understand from their point of view they are probably risking that pole position.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPlans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for the majority of people entering the country, including UK nationals, will be put before Parliament later, but the BBC has learned the government is already considering ways to relax it. Critics, including Conservative MPs, fear it'll do huge damage to the aviation, travel and hospitality industries. So-called \"air bridges\" are among the ideas being looked at. Read more on the quarantine policy and what it means for your summer holiday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will flying look like after lockdown?\n\nAs debate rages around international travel, the domestic tourism sector in Northern Ireland has received a boost. The country has become the first in the UK to set a firm date for hotels and other accommodation to reopen - 20 July. Each nation is taking its own decisions when it comes to easing lockdown and police powers to enforce those rules that remain vary too. Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani explains them all.\n\nThe House of Commons is struggling to come up with a way to allow all members, including those with health conditions, to continue to take part in Parliament. The government wants to end the existing virtual proceedings and return to physical sittings, but that's opposed by large number of MPs. A decision will be taken later.\n\nMPs have been able to speak via video link during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nOxfam stores have been closed since March\n\nIt's three months since the first person in the UK died after testing positive for coronavirus. To pay tribute to all of those who've lost their lives, BBC Breakfast commissioned Hussain Manawer to write and perform a poem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, what is it like to work in a hospital suddenly engulfed with victims? The BBC's Thomas Mackintosh talks to some of those who know - the staff at London's Northwick Park.\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.", "Dating and hook-up app Grindr says it will remove the \"ethnicity filter\" from the next version of its app, following years of criticism from its users.\n\nThe app currently lets people filter potential matches according to their age, height, weight and ethnicity.\n\nBut critics say the ethnicity filter fuels discrimination and that the app does too little to tackle racism.\n\nAnnouncing the change, Grindr said it had a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech\" on its platform.\n\nGrindr specialises in dating for gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people.\n\nFor years, LGBT people of colour have flagged the ethnicity filter as an issue - but they received no response from Grindr. Many even got blocked by the company.\n\nBut some are angry that it has only happened as a result of white people speaking up on social media. Indeed, the most-shared social media posts written to shame Grindr into action were posted by white gay men.\n\nThere are also LGBT people of colour who are disappointed that this change is happening at all.\n\nSome have told me that they used the ethnicity filter to find people like themselves, perhaps not to date but for shared experiences and cultural understanding.\n\nIn some cases it was needed. In February, at a queer club night for Black and Asian people, one party-goer showed me how black men did not appear on his Grindr until the white men had been filtered out.\n\nGrindr is not the only LGBT dating app to allow filtering by race. The spotlight will now move to others that have yet to take a similar stance.\n\nOn 29 May, Grindr had tweeted \"Demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter\", with a link to further information. This had prompted several users to accuse the company of hypocrisy.\n\nOne message saying \"remove the ethnicity filter\" was retweeted 1,000 times.\n\nGrindr later deleted its own tweet and on 1 June posted a new message explaining its change of position.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grindr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral companies have posted messages of their own featuring the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter following six consecutive days of protests across the United States. The events were sparked by the killing of George Floyd - a black man who died after a white officer continued kneeling on is neck even after he had pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nWhile some Grindr users welcomed the removal of the filter, others said the company had taken too long to implement the change, and had done the \"bare minimum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 J Æ IA-02 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US president announces he is deploying the military to quell unrest in Washington, DC.", "The UK's statistics watchdog has criticised the government over its handling of coronavirus testing data.\n\nThe chairman of the UK Statistics Authority says presentation of figures appeared to be aimed at showing \"the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding\".\n\nSir David Norgrove has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock saying the information is \"far from complete\".\n\nThe government says it releases full data.\n\nA spokesman said the government was working with statisticians and that the approach throughout had been to \"increase transparency around the government's response to coronavirus\".\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"continually looking to improve\" the way tests figures were presented.\n\nHe said part of the problem was that because the way the testing system was expanded so rapidly, the way data was reported struggled to keep up.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Hancock announced that the UK had exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nHe described it as \"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus\".\n\nWhile capacity for testing is over 200,000, around 115,000 tests were carried out in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe headline total of tests adds together tests carried out with tests posted out. There are no data on how many of the tests posted out are then successfully completed.\n\nIt is not clear how many people were tested, however, and a person may need to have a few tests in order to get a result.\n\nThe government says reporting on the number of people tested has been \"temporarily paused to ensure consistent reporting across all pillars\" - by pillars it means tests carried out in the community as well as on staff and patients in hospitals or care homes.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hancock, Sir David said there were two main purposes for the testing statistics - to help understand the epidemic and to support the management of the testing programme.\n\n\"The way the data are analysed and presented currently gives them limited value for the first purpose.\n\n\"The aim seems to be to show the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding. It is also hard to believe the statistics work to support the testing programme itself. The statistics and analysis serve neither purpose well.\"\n\nOfficial correspondence on statistics can be dry and opaque.\n\nBut Sir David Norgrove, head of the UK stats watchdog pulls no punches and makes it abundantly clear that he thinks the presentation of testing numbers in England is unacceptable.\n\nThe government has not so far explained how many home test kits sent out to the public have actually been returned. Figures for the number of people tested as opposed to the number of tests carried out are not currently available.\n\nThere has been a dramatic increase in laboratory capacity to process tests which has helped make testing more widely available.\n\nBut the message from the stats watchdog is that public confidence will be undermined if the numbers are not transparent. And that is a vital issue with the government arguing that the new testing and contact tracing programme is a key weapon in the battle to suppress the virus.", "Amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there have been glimmers of hope, unifying gestures and stirring displays of solidarity.", "Water companies are urging people to use water more carefully during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are asking people to avoid hoses and sprinklers, and not to fill paddling pools.\n\nHowever, so far a full hosepipe ban has not been imposed.\n\nCompanies are responding to a double water whammy from the record dry spring and a surge in demand as people spend more time at home during the lockdown.\n\nFebruary this year was the wettest on record and you might have thought the UK had enough H2O - following a drenching winter, rivers and reservoirs were full.\n\nBut then it barely rained for three subsequent months – another record.\n\nThen came coronavirus and lockdown meant people stayed home in the sunshine.\n\nChristine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK, which represents water companies, told BBC News: “We’re seeing truly incredible surges of demand.\n\n“People's patterns of using water have changed with the weather - and more people at home because of Covid.\n\n“It's things like paddling pools and sprinklers that are the biggest challenge. So we’re just asking people to save a little bit of water and that’ll make a huge difference.”\n\nIn some places water demand is said to be 25% higher than normal. Reservoirs are still in a healthy state, but some firms can’t get enough water to the taps and pressure is dropping.\n\nMeanwhile the long-term weather forecast suggests more dry summer months to come.\n\nFarmers are fearing potential drought. In fact, experts say, consumers, industries, water firms and the farmers themselves need to find ways of living with less water as the climate changes.", "Three front-line workers from London will star on the cover of British Vogue next month.\n\nA London Overground train driver, an east London midwife and a King's Cross supermarket worker will all feature on July's front page.\n\nPhotographer Jamie Hawkesworth captured the trio of women for a 20-page portfolio for the fashion magazine.\n\n\"They represent the millions of people in the UK who, at the height of the pandemic, put on their uniforms and went to help,\" Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said.\n\n\"This moment in history required something extra special, a moment of thanks to the new front line.\"\n\nRachel Millar, 24, has worked as a community midwife at Homerton Hospital, in east London, for almost three years.\n\nShe was on shift on one of the delivery suites at the hospital when a team from Vogue came in to take portraits of numerous staff for what she believed was to be a feature on NHS staff.\n\nTalking to the BBC, Rachel, who lives in Leyton, described being on the cover of British Vogue as \"surreal\".\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed - but in a good way. I had no idea it would be what I now know it is,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had so many lovely comments about it and I think people have enjoyed seeing someone from the NHS on the cover.\n\n\"I feel it has given the NHS a lot of recognition and a lot of love to jobs that were perhaps previously overlooked.\"\n\nNarguis Horsford, who has worked for Transport for London for 10 years and driven London Overground trains for the past five, said her manager called her to ask if she would like to do an interview for the magazine.\n\n\"At first I thought he was winding me up,\" she said. \"But it later turned out to be very real.\"\n\nNarguis, who lives Bounds Green, north London, said: \"I feel amazing to be representing the female front-line key workers.\n\n\"It's very important to highlight the hard work and contributions that we do to keep London moving and to provide services that everyone needs.\n\n\"NHS workers are obviously very important, but it's also good to highlight other workers in other sectors.\"\n\nNargius said she initially felt anxious going to work during the coronavirus outbreak but has since gone on to feel an immense sense of pride.\n\n\"I am proud to be a key worker and proud to be a train driver, taking those important workers to work.\"\n\nAlso featuring on the cover is Anisa Omar, who works as supermarket assistant at the London King's Cross branch of Waitrose.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who lives in Islington with her parents, said the pandemic has given her a new sense of pride in her work.\n\n\"My job was not something that was that big of a deal before,\" she said.\n\n\"But now it's like we're important. We have to be here, regardless of what's happening in the world. It's more than just a job now.\"\n\nThe full feature will be available in the July issue of British Vogue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hotels and tourist accommodation in Northern Ireland will be allowed to reopen on 20 July.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive has confirmed the move as part of the relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nIt has been welcomed by the Northern Ireland Hotel Federation (NIHF) as a \"step forward for the industry\".\n\nIn May, the government in the Republic of Ireland confirmed its hotels will also reopen on 20 July.\n\nLast week, the executive said hotels could start taking bookings again but did not say when they could reopen.\n\nThis was met with anger by many in the hospitality trade.\n\nAnnouncing the decision on Monday afternoon, Economy Minister Diane Dodds said she believed it was the right time to provide the tourist accommodation sector with clarity about opening dates following \"unprecedented challenges for our tourism industry\".\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said she wants to reopen the industry in a \"safe and managed way\"\n\n\"I want to build upon the positive progress in managing the spread of the virus and begin to re-open our tourism industry in a safe and managed way,\" she said.\n\nHoliday parks, self-catering properties and caravan parks may open earlier than 20 July, said the minister, depending on scientific advice.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether bars, restaurants and other facilities in hotels will be allowed to open to residents from 20 July.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, hotel bars will remain closed when hotels reopen on 20 July. The hotels will reopen with limited occupancy and social distancing measures will continue\n\nThe hoteliers have their date.\n\nLast week's announcement that they could take take bookings, but without even an indicative reopening date, was met with a mixture of bemusement and anger.\n\nParticularly when rival operators in the Republic were already working towards a reopening date.\n\nThe question now is what sort of experience hotels will be able to offer in seven weeks time.\n\nThe economy minister has talked about working with the industry to 'explore what facilities and amenities can safely be made available.'\n\nWill restaurants be able to open? What about bars or spas?\n\nAnd if food and drink service is to be allowed then restaurateurs will be clamouring for an opening date too.\n\nThe minister stressed, however, that progress on re-opening will depend on controlling the rate of transmission of the virus.\n\nNIHF chief executive Janice Gault said the federation has been working closely with industry colleagues to ensure that businesses can open in a safe and secure manner.\n\nShe said more work was needed around the details of reopening and said safety was paramount.\n\n\"We will continue to work in a collaborative manner so that the visitor economy, including the hotel sector, can return to business and help restore the Northern Ireland economy,\" she said.\n\n\"Having an agreed date will help us to plan, promote and give businesses the opportunity to assess their viability.\"\n\nBill Wolsey, managing director of the Beannchor group, which owns the Merchant Hotel in Belfast, said the announcement \"provides the first glimmer of hope for the recovery of Northern Ireland's hospitality industry\".\n\nNIHF chief executive Janice Gault said the federation has been working closely with industry colleagues\n\nHowever, he said there \"is a need for further clarification around hotel facilities\".\n\nHoward Hastings, managing director of the Hastings Hotel Group, said there were no \"fully bottomed-out guidelines yet, but we can see the way it is working for other sectors, so there are certain preparations we can make now\".\n\n\"Certainly the suppliers to the industry are well geared up to provide us with the sort of additional equipment or PPE (personal protective equipment) that we might need in order to facilitate guests,\" he added.\n\nNeil Moore, from the union Unite, said the furlough period should be used to \"upskill\" hospitality workers by providing good quality training, accessing apprenticeship levy funding and measures to ensure safety when facilities reopen.\n\nHe said: \"These measures must include testing and contact tracing, supply of appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE), meaningful engagement with employees, extensive risk assessments and their effective enforcement, and continuation of job supports - tied to job retention not redundancy.\"\n\nMr Moore later said he had written to all the Northern Ireland Executive ministers to \"protest today's announcement by the economy minister to reopen hotels and other accommodation without any effective means of enforcement on basic infection controls\".\n\n\"Far from being welcomed by hospitality workers, today's announcement has caused widespread fear and concern among those who face the prospect of returning to work in unsafe working conditions,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan's Sunderland plant is \"unsustainable\" without a Brexit trade deal, said Ashwani Gupta.\n\nThe UK's largest car manufacturing plant is \"unsustainable\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a trade deal, owner Nissan says.\n\nThe Japanese company's global chief operating head told the BBC people had to understand the EU was the Sunderland factory's biggest customer.\n\nAshwani Gupta said that Nissan's commitment could not be maintained if there was not tariff-free EU access.\n\nNissan has invested billions of pounds in the plant, which has 7,000 workers.\n\nHis comments come despite the Sunderland site surviving this week's announcement on the Japanese giant's global restructuring programme.\n\nMr Gupta said: \"You know we are the number one carmaker in the UK and we want to continue. We are committed. Having said that, if we are not getting the current tariffs, it's not our intention but the business will not be sustainable. That's what everybody has to understand.\"\n\nHe also said that any plans for its strategic partner and 43%-shareholder Renault to take up spare capacity at Sunderland would be a matter for the French carmaker. The French government has a 15% stake in Renault.\n\nThis is not the first time that Nissan has pleaded with UK and EU negotiators to ensure that the 70% of cars manufactured at Sunderland which are sold in the EU can avoid tariffs of 10% under World Trade Organisation rules - the legal default position if a deal is not struck.\n\nThose talks resumed this week, with the differences between the UK and EU being described on all sides as deep and wide.\n\nLast week, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU would consider a two-year Brexit delay, which was rebuffed by his UK counterpart David Frost, who told MPs the government's policy remains not to extend the transition period beyond the end of the year.\n\nUnder an agreement signed last year, the UK has until the end of this month to decide whether it wants to request such an extension so the coming weeks are crucial.\n\nThe comments by Nissan may dampen hopes raised just last week when the company said that while it was closing plants in Spain and Indonesia, it remained committed to Sunderland.\n\nAn announcement by Nissan that Renault might take the European lead in the companies' global manufacturing alliance (which also includes Mitsubishi) by taking up an estimated 20% spare capacity at Sunderland were quashed for the foreseeable future by Renault last week, when it said it had no current plans to move in to the UK.\n\nMr Gupta confirmed that any decision by its partners would be a matter for them, and that no such deal had been agreed. \"When it comes to the allocation of manufacturing, each company will take the decision based on the competitiveness of the plants.\"\n\nNissan is a huge fan of the Sunderland plant and paid tribute to the efficiency and hard work of the operation. But it reiterated that was not enough to secure its long-term future if tariffs were imposed in a market which it described last week as \"non-core\". It only has a 3% market share of the vehicle market in Europe.\n\nOn a more encouraging note, Mr Gupta said recent sales figures from China showed the world's biggest car market was recovering fast and the company was winning market share. But vehicles for that market are not produced in the UK.\n\nIt is still possible that Renault could decide to move production of certain vehicles to Sunderland. But it is hard to see how a company which is 15%-owned by the French taxpayer could find a way to make that work where Nissan, which has been in Sunderland for 40 years, says it cannot.\n\nNissan's comments are a timely reminder that for many key industries, the Brexit issue - which has not been silenced by coronavirus news - has in many ways been amplified by it.", "Mistajam's BBC 1Xtra show is one of several programmes to reflect the conversation around George Floyd's death\n\nRadio stations and TV channels have changed their programmes to mark \"Blackout Tuesday\", reflecting on George Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nBBC Radio 1Xtra is hosting a series of discussions and debates in support of the black community, with song choices that reflect black pride and identity.\n\nMany record labels and music stars have stopped work to observe the initiative.\n\nMTV went silent for eight minutes - the length of time a white police officer knelt on Mr Floyd's neck.\n\nThe gesture has been replicated on other channels including VH1 and Comedy Central, while 4 Music will pause its output once an hour throughout the day.\n\nThere have also been moments of reflection on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2, while commercial radio stations including Kiss, Magic and Absolute Radio are observing a social media blackout \"to show that racism of any kind cannot be tolerated\".\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\nITV daytime show This Morning briefly went dark, showing a black screen with the words \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nPresenter Alison Hammond later said Mr Floyd's death \"hurt me to the pit of my stomach\".\n\n\"Firstly, I am a mother of a 15-year-old black boy,\" she said. \"When I saw that image of George Floyd, I saw my brothers, I saw my father and I saw my son, I saw everybody's son and I was disgusted to my core.\n\n\"If black lives mattered, we wouldn't be in this 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 2 by Mike J-C 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple Music's Zane Lowe tweeted that he would skip Tuesday's edition of his radio show, saying he stood \"united with his black and brown friends and colleagues\".\n\n\"I will not be on radio. I will be taking part in Blackout Tuesday, listening, learning and looking for solutions to fight racial inequality,\" the DJ added.\n\nOn Radio 1, Clara Amfo gave a powerful speech about the effects of racism and the recent events on her mental health.\n\nThe broadcaster said Mr Floyd's death reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nMusic companies and musicians around the world adopted Tuesday as a day of reflection and protest in the wake of Mr Floyd's death last week in Minneapolis.\n\nKaty Perry posted a plain black square to her Instagram account with the caption: \"I hope that #BlackoutTuesday gives us all (especially in the music industry) an opportunity to take what we're learning and put it into action on Wednesday, and every day going forward.\"\n\nRihanna said her Fenty beauty label would not conduct any business on Tuesday.\n\nApple's iTunes store and its streaming service Apple Music replaced their usual carousels of new music and playlists with a slide stating: \"This moment calls upon us all to speak and act against racism and injustice of all kinds.\"\n\nListeners were then directed to a livestream of the Beats 1 radio station, where the music is focusing on themes of black empowerment and civil rights. (All of the service's usual tracks were still available through the search function, however.)\n\nApple Music has replaced its regular carousel of new music and playlists with a simple message\n\nSpotify, meanwhile, blacked out the artwork for several of its most prominent playlists, including Today's Hits and Rap Caviar.\n\nThe company also inserted a silence of eight minutes and 46 seconds into selected podcasts and playlists \"as a solemn acknowledgement for the length of time that George Floyd was suffocated\".\n\nThe movement began last Friday, when a number of companies and artists shared a statement posted under the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, calling for \"a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community\" and \"an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change\".\n\nThe initiative was started by Atlantic Records marketing executives Brianna Agyemang and Jamila Thomas, and spread by hundreds of artists including Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, producer Quincy Jones and Eminem.\n\n\"Tuesday, June 2nd is meant to intentionally disrupt the work week,\" wrote Agyemang and Thomas.\n\n\"The music industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. An industry that has profited predominantly from Black art. Our mission is to hold the industry at large, including major corporations + their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of black people accountable.\"\n\nThey have subsequently posted several calls to action, including a reading list called Anti-Racism Resources and links to community action groups.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 theshowmustbepaused This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll three major record labels - Universal, Sony and Warner Music, whose combined annual revenues exceed $16bn (£12.75bn) - signed up to the initiative, as did many independent labels, the Glastonbury Festival and event organisers Live Nation.\n\nInterscope Records also vowed to stop releasing new music for a week, while many others donated money to the George Floyd Memorial Fund.\n\nBut some people in the music industry criticised the initiative's lack of clarity and direction, dismissing it as \"virtue signalling\".\n\n\"I love you all, but this music industry shutdown thing feels tone deaf to me,\" wrote indie musician Bon Iver on Twitter, although he later apologised for \"calling out people when they are on the same side as you\".\n\nIndie labels Father/Daughter Records and Don Giovanni also said they did not plan to observe the blackout.\n\n\"If BLM [Blacks Lives Matter] calls for the music industry to take action, we will,\" wrote the latter on its Twitter page. \"But I have no interest in supporting major label record executive white guilt day.\"\n\nHowever, Agyemang and Thomas have stressed the blackout is just the beginning of a larger campaign.\n\n\"This is not just a 24-hour initiative,\" they wrote. \"We are and will be in this fight for the long haul. A plan of action will be announced.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashley Banjo: \"I looked at George Floyd and I saw my dad\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Passengers at Heathrow Airport earlier this year, after being rescued from a cruise ship\n\nThe government is looking at ways to relax the 14-day quarantine rule for people entering the UK over the coming months, BBC Newsnight has learnt.\n\nFrom Monday, most people arriving by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - must self-isolate.\n\nBut some MPs and businesses have expressed concern at the plan, warning it will damage the travel industry.\n\nOne government source told Newsnight that ministers were looking at ways around the coronavirus quarantine.\n\nThis could include expanding the list of workers who are exempt from the 14-day rule, or travel corridors to countries with low infection rates, which the government has previously said it was considering.\n\nAny changes would be guided by the science but one possible date for a relaxation to the rule could be 20 July, coinciding with school holidays, Newsnight was told.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Office for National Statistics figures show the number of deaths each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in England and Wales since March.\n\nThe ONS figures show there were 2,589 deaths in the week ending 22 May, which was the lowest weekly number for seven weeks. The figures show that overall, there have been around 286,700 deaths this year - some 43,800 have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nThe quarantine measures come into force on 8 June, although some professions are exempt, such as lorry drivers, police officers, seasonal farm workers, and healthcare professionals.\n\nAlso exempt will be people coming from the Irish Republic, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n\nTravellers will have to tell the UK government where they will be staying and if they do not provide an address, officials will arrange accommodation.\n\nIn England, there will be random spot checks and £1,000 fines, while governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can impose their own penalties.\n\nHousing minister Simon Clarke told BBC Breakfast that the quarantine policy was \"a proportionate step\" which would minimise the risk of new cases coming into the UK \"just at the time that we are getting a grip on it\".\n\nHe said it was a \"temporary, time-limited measure\", but added that it was \"vital\" it was introduced for as long as required.\n\nThe plan is expected to be set out in more detail when it is laid before Parliament this week. MPs are returning to Westminster on Tuesday after weeks of proceedings taking place virtually.\n\nExtra guidance about what arrivals would be allowed to do is also expected to be set out, including that travellers will be allowed to take public transport if they are unable to get to their accommodation by any other means.\n\nThe quarantine plan is due to be reviewed every three weeks, with the first review due at the end of June.\n\nOn Monday, some primary children returned to school, but had to socially distance\n\nAnnouncing the plan last month, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the measure would \"reduce the risk of cases crossing our border\".\n\nBut there has been criticism from some of the government's own MPs as well as the travel and aviation industry.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told Newsnight the idea was \"daft\" and suggested the government will not \"go to the stake on this\".\n\nMeanwhile, more than 200 business leaders have called on the government to scrap the policy, saying it was \"deeply worrying for our economy and our country\".\n\nThe group of firms - including hotel The Ritz and upmarket travel agent Kuoni - want the government to instead introduce \"air bridges\", an arrangement which would allow visitors from low-risk countries into the UK without having to quarantine for 14 days.\n\nLast month, the bosses of airlines including EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic also said they had \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nThe idea of \"air bridges\" has been around since 18 May, when Transport Secretary Grant told MPs that the government was looking at striking exemption deals with countries with low infection rates.\n\nIf the government can agree a series of \"air bridge\" agreements, then they wouldn't necessarily replace the quarantine altogether.\n\nThis is about moving from a blanket travel quarantine - only the Republic of Ireland will be exempt initially - on 8 June to something more nuanced in a few weeks' time.\n\nOne government source told the BBC that \"a lot of work\" was currently being done on securing safe travel corridors from certain low-risk countries.\n\nThe ambition from certain people in government is that some of these will be in place by the first review date of 29 June.\n\nTesting people for coronavirus when they arrive into the UK from higher risk countries is also being considered.\n\nAt the weekend, former environment secretary Theresa Villiers told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour she thought quarantine rules should be targeted on flights \"from Covid hotspots\".\n\nShe also said the government was \"actively looking at air bridges\".\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said reports in the Portuguese media \"suggest an air bridge with Portugal is on the cards\".\n\nBut, he added, the UK is behind other countries in Europe in terms of controlling the virus and so, in negotiations, \"the ball might not be in the UK's court\".\n\nSpain's tourism minister said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before the country would receive tourists from the UK, while Greece will not allow UK visitors when it opens up later this month.\n\nA UK government spokesman previously said: \"These cross-government public health measures are designed to keep the transmission rate down, stop new cases being brought in from abroad and help prevent a devastating second wave of coronavirus.\n\n\"All of our decisions have been based on the latest scientific evidence.\n\n\"The list of exemptions has been agreed by all government departments in consultation with their stakeholders which will ensure critical supplies and services can continue and will be kept under review.\"\n\nIt comes as the number of people who have died after testing positive for the virus in the UK reached 39,045.\n\nWhat is your reaction to the possible relaxing of the UK travel quarantine rule? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The care home is next to the University Hospital of North Durham\n\nAt least 25 people have died at a care home amid claims from an industry body that a council's actions \"caused\" or \"increased Covid-19 deaths\".\n\nMelbury Court in Durham is thought to be the care home with the highest number of deaths in the UK.\n\nCounty Durham has had the highest number of care home deaths in England and Wales.\n\nDurham County Council said it \"strongly refuted\" the claim by the County Durham Care Home Association (CDCHA).\n\nSome patients went from the nearby University Hospital of North Durham to Melbury Court without being tested for coronavirus or after a positive test.\n\nOwners HC-One said the 87-bed home was now in \"recovery\" with many residents returning to health.\n\nIt is not known how many people there have been ill.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered that in a conference call in late March, council officials were told plans to move hospital patients into care homes without testing would be disastrous.\n\nThe CDCHA offered to find a specific home or homes where Covid-19 positive or untested people could be cared for rather than have them spread around the network.\n\nThis was never acted on and now the CDCHA has calculated there has been an outbreak of coronavirus in 81 of the county's 149 care homes.\n\nMaria Vincent, who runs Crosshill Care Home in Stanhope, told the council in March that care homes were not set up to accept Covid-19 patients, and described it as \"neglect pure and simple\".\n\nShe said: \"They knew at the beginning how vulnerable older people were because in Spain they'd had numerous people who'd died in care homes.\n\n\"With just a little bit of forethought, true collaborative working, we could easily have got through this without the number of deaths we've had.\"\n\nMaria Vincent told the council that care homes were not set up to accept Covid-19 patients\n\nThe latest figures from the Office of National Statistics shows there have been 275 deaths in care homes in County Durham - more than in hospitals.\n\nLocal care providers said deaths in care homes in the county are twice as high as the average for the whole of England.\n\nThe council say high levels of ill health and deprivation are contributory factors.\n\nIn a letter sent to Durham County Council and seen by the BBC, the CDCHA said: \"The council has pursued a policy which has caused and/or increased Covid-19 infections and deaths within care homes in County Durham\".\n\nSamuel Wilson's family said the home took an \"unnecessary risk which cost [him] his life\n\nSamuel Wilson died at Melbury Court in early May, aged 92, after testing positive for Covid-19 following his return from a routine procedure at the University Hospital of North Durham.\n\nSome of the family had objected to him going to hospital, arguing it was too risky amid the pandemic and urged staff to manage his condition in the home, but they were persuaded.\n\nHis granddaughter Tracey O'Kennedy said: \"The home was relentless for a family member to take him into hospital for a non-essential procedure in the middle of full lockdown.\n\n\"In my opinion, they took an unnecessary risk, a risk that cost granddad his life.\"\n\nIn County Durham the council initially tied additional funding for coronavirus-related costs to homes being willing to accept people who had tested positive for the virus or were untested, although this was later changed.\n\nDurham County Council said it \"strongly refuted\" the accusation from the CDHCA that it had contributed to care home deaths.\n\nIt said it had considered the idea of a separate care home for Covid-19 patients but felt it was not appropriate due to the predicted number of cases.\n\nJane Robinson, corporate director for adults and health, said: \"We followed national guidelines and we've done absolutely everything that we can do.\n\n\"We've put in additional financial support, provided PPE, and we've provided training and support and psychological support for our care home staff as well.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "House prices fell 1.7% in May from the previous month, the largest monthly fall for 11 years, according to the Nationwide.\n\nAnnual house price growth halved from 3.7% to 1.8%, as the coronavirus crisis hit market activity.\n\nThe latest HMRC data showed that residential property transactions fell 53% in April compared with 2019.\n\n\"The medium-term outlook for the housing market remains highly uncertain,\" the Nationwide warned.\n\n\"We have already seen a sharp economic contraction as a result of the necessary measures adopted to suppress the spread of the virus,\" said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\nBut he pointed out that the raft of policies adopted to support the economy should \"set the stage for a rebound once the shock passes\" and help limit long-term damage.\n\n\"These same measures should also help ensure the impact on the housing market will ultimately be less than would normally be associated with an economic shock of this magnitude,\" he predicted.\n\nThe figures are based on Nationwide's lending data, do not include cash purchases, and may have a greater volatility owing to the very low levels of activity.\n\nYet, the big month-to-month drop in Nationwide's house price index in May - the largest since February 2009 - \"is just the start of a protracted decline over the remainder of this year,\" warned Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nBefore the pandemic struck the UK, the housing market had been steadily gathering momentum, the Nationwide said.\n\nActivity levels and price growth were edging up thanks to continued robust labour market conditions, low borrowing costs and a more stable political backdrop following the general election.\n\n\"Behavioural changes and social distancing are likely to impact the flow of housing transactions for some time,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\nRecent Nationwide research suggested that one in eight people had put off moving because of the lockdown.\n\nBut the majority saw the current situation as a temporary pause in the market, with would-be buyers planning to wait six months on average before looking to enter the market.\n\nEarly indicators of housing demand have picked up since in-person property viewings were permitted again on 13 May, said Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nIt said the daily volume of Google searches for the three main property portals had increased to be just 13% below its pre-lockdown level, having been down 50% in April.\n\n\"Relatively few people likely will be forced to sell their homes, given that mortgage payment holidays are easily available and home ownership has declined,\" said Mr Tombs.\n\n\"Nonetheless, the huge size of the blow from Covid-19 to households' incomes and the deterioration in consumers' confidence suggests that house prices must drop.\"\n\nHe predicted a 5% fall in prices by the end of the third quarter of the year.\n\nLots of mortgage holders have deferred payments during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nSeparate figures from the Bank of England show how the mortgage market decelerated sharply alongside the house sales shutdown.\n\nSome 15,848 mortgage approvals for house purchases were recorded in April - about 80% below February levels before the coronavirus crisis took hold, the Bank said.\n\nThis was around half the number of approvals taking place in the trough during the financial crisis, and the lowest since the figures started in 1993.\n\nApprovals for re-mortgaging fell by a lesser extent during the month, to 34,400, some 34% lower than in February.\n\nThe UK's financial watchdog has confirmed the support firms should give to mortgage customers who are either coming to the end of a payment holiday or who are yet to request one.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said last month that homeowners struggling financially due to coronavirus would be able to extend their mortgage payment holiday for a further three months, or cut payments.\n\nOn Tuesday, it confirmed customers yet to apply for a payment holiday have until 31 October 2020 to do so. Meanwhile the current ban on lender repossessions of homes will be continued to 31 October.\n\n\"The measures we have confirmed today will mean anyone who needs to can get help from their lender, if they are still struggling to pay their mortgage due to coronavirus,\" said Christopher Woolard, interim chief executive at the FCA.\n\n\"It is important that if a consumer can afford to re-start mortgage payments, it is in their best interests to do so. Customers should talk to their firm about the best option available for them.\"\n\nOn Friday, the Nationwide's chief executive, Joe Garner, argued that it would be prudent for extensions to mortgage holidays to be marked temporarily on a borrower's credit file.\n\nHowever, the FCA said the current guidance - that taking a deferral should not have a negative impact on a borrower's credit file - should continue.\n\nThe regulator pointed out that lenders could still use details obtained from other sources, such as bank account information, when making their decisions on whether to grant other loans.", "BBC Radio 1 host Clara Amfo has been praised for making a candid, emotional speech on air about George Floyd's death and her own mental health.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Amfo said she had been so affected by Mr Floyd's death that she had missed her show on Monday.\n\n\"I didn't have the mental strength to face you guys yesterday,\" said the DJ, her voice breaking with emotion.\n\n\"I was sat on my sofa crying, angry, confused... stuck at the news of yet another brutalised black body.\"\n\nMr Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died last week after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMinneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been sacked and charged with third-degree murder.\n\nAmfo was speaking on \"Blackout Tuesday\", an initiative demanding racial justice and structural change in the wake of the killing.\n\nOriginally organised by the music industry, it has involved stars like Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Drake observing a day of silence, and record labels suspending normal business for 24 hours.\n\nThe movement has now spread across social media, with many users posting a simple black square, alongside messages of solidarity and links to anti-racism resources.\n\nRadio 1 and its sister station 1Xtra have been reflecting the movement by hosting discussions about the issues surrounding Mr Floyd's death, and playing songs that address black empowerment and identity.\n\nSpeaking on her mid-morning show, Amfo said the events in Minneapolis had reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nShe added: \"In other words, you want my talent, but you don't want me.\n\n\"There is a false idea that racism - and in this case anti-blackness - is just name-calling and physical violence, when it is so much more insidious than that.\n\n\"One of my favourite thinkers is a woman called Amanda Seales, and she says this and I feel it deeply when she says, 'You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues'. And I say that with my chest.\"\n\nFellow broadcasters praised Amfo for her candour and bravery.\n\nThe presenter ended her speech by playing Kendrick Lamar's Alright, which became associated with the Black Lives Matter movement after its release.\n\nThe song opens with the line: \"All my life I had to fight,\" and references police officers who \"wanna kill us dead in the street, for sure\".\n\n\"I want to say to our black listeners, I hope you feel seen and heard today,\" Amfo concluded.\n\n\"And to those of you that already let me know that you are doing the work, to be committed to doing better, I see you, so let's do this. Let's all be anti-racist.\"\n\nMusicians including Rihanna and Beyoncé have called for justice for George Floyd, while Ariana Grande joined protests in LA\n\nAmfo's speech was widely praised by listeners and fellow broadcasters, with many saying they had been moved to tears.\n\nFellow Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free said: \"Clara Amfo is an incredible human being who showed the world today a superhuman strength and bravery whilst broadcasting on the radio.\n\n\"The most powerful broadcast I have ever heard and I am in complete awe and adoration of her in every way shape and form. So much love.\"\n\n\"Thank you, Clara Amfo, thank you,\" said ITV news presenter Charlene White.\n\n\"So many people still confused as to why George Floyd's death has hit so many of us hard. Clara sums it up so well. Hear her anger, hear her pain. I feel it too.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people dying each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in the UK since March, figures show.\n\nThe review of death certificates by national statisticians showed 2,872 cases where the virus was mentioned in the week ending 22 May.\n\nOverall there were 13,800 deaths in that week - 2,500 more than normal at this time of the year.\n\nAt the peak of the pandemic double the number were dying than expected.\n\nOverall, there have been 190,000 deaths during the pandemic - nearly 62,000 above what would be expected.\n\nThis is known as the excess death rate and is said to be the best guide to the impact of the virus as it takes into account deaths linked to infections and indirect deaths that maybe related to the lockdown from factors such as lack of access to care for other conditions and mental health problems.\n\nSome 48,000 of the deaths have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nLatest government figures report that 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n\nNick Stripe, of the Office for National Statistics, which compiles the data for England and Wales, said despite the number of overall deaths falling, we were effectively seeing the same number of deaths we would expect to see in winter.\n\nHe also said there were considerable regional variations with the north east currently seeing the highest rates of excess deaths.\n\nDr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive at the Health Foundation think tank, said the reduction in deaths was positive, but the figures were still a \"sobering reminder\" of the impact the virus has had.\n\n\"The UK is now among the worst hit countries in terms of excess mortality and we will need to be forensic in searching for the reasons we have been so badly affected.\n\n\"This data underlines just how dangerous a threat the virus remains unless it is fully contained and further outbreaks can be stopped. Having a fully functioning test and trace system will be critical, as will the willingness and ability of the public to maintain recommended levels of social distancing.\n\n\"Without these, there are real risks of more avoidable deaths.\"", "There were long queues in Manchester\n\nThousands of shoppers have queued for hours to get into Ikea stores after the furniture giant reopened 19 shops in England and Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThey had been warned that only a limited number of shoppers would be welcomed with only one adult and one child from a household allowed in.\n\nBut Ikea was forced to shut car parks at some stores to help ease pressure.\n\nIn Warrington, people arrived at 05:40 to start queuing for the Ikea store to reopen at 09;00.\n\nThe company praised shoppers for their patience.\n\n\"Where we've seen strong demand we've taken appropriate decisions to open early for browsing and to temporarily close our car parks to help ease pressure and reduce waiting times,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"We're incredibly grateful to the public in playing their part to help keep everyone safe.\"\n\nIn Warrington, a line of more than 1,000 people snaked around the car park with similar scenes at Ikea's Wembley store.\n\nOn Twitter, shoppers complained of \"five-mile queues\" in Croydon, Wembley and outside of London.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Midlands police took to Twitter to warn people of large queues at Ikea's Wednesbury branch. The police urged: \"Please consider if you need to go there today as you may be in for a very long wait.\"\n\nThere were long queues outside the Belfast branch, noted BBC reporter Mark Simpson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Manchester one shopper (who didn't want to be named) told the BBC that despite queues outside, inside the shop it was easy to maintain social-distancing.\n\n\"It's very busy with every entrance manned by staff with walkie talkies who were managing the long queues that had formed,\" the shopper said.\n\n\"We arrived just after 11:00 and had to queue for about an hour and a half before we were allowed into the store.\n\n\"However, once inside though the store was much emptier than usual, so it was very easy to stay a safe distance from the other shoppers.\"\n\nBut some criticized the long queues as a sign of runaway consumerism.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Don't understand how a person sees this Ikea queue and actually joins it, rather than… heading home for a beer.\"\n\nOthers warned that people queuing were risking catching coronavirus.\n\nOne said: \"People shopping at Ikea moaning about the people in the queue at Ikea today. It's the 'it's not me, it's everyone else' attitude that will cause the inevitable second wave.\n\n\"Wear a mask and only go out if you have to. It's not that hard, surely?\"\n\nAn Ikea spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our customers and co-workers remains our top priority, which is why we put extensive and enhanced measures in place to create a safe and comfortable experience.\"\n\nThe measures include limiting numbers of customers in stores, a staggered entry system, screens in key areas and social-distancing wardens. All play areas and the restaurants have remained closed.\n\n\"We ask that these measures are respected at all times,\" Ikea said.\n\nIt had asked customers to \"come prepared with ready-made lists and their own bags to help ease waiting times\". It also pleaded with customers wishing to return items, \"to do so at a later date\".\n\n\"While frustrating, these planned measures are in place to ensure everyone's safety,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"To avoid queues, we'd ask those purely wishing to browse, to visit us in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new footfall data from retail analyst Springboard has shown a sharp rise in the number of shoppers as a result of lockdown restrictions in England being eased.\n\nOverall, shopper numbers were up 36% on last week's Bank Holiday Monday and 21% on the week before that. High Streets saw the largest increase, with footfall up 44% on last week and 24% on the week before.\n\nThe increases have come despite only limited reopening allowed in England.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have not yet allowed similar shops to open again.", "Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career'\n\nThe use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says.\n\nECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nDr John Read, of the University of East London said there was \"no place\" for ECT in evidence-based medicine due to risks of brain damage.\n\nBut the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT offers \"life-saving treatment\" and should continue in severe cases.\n\nAt least 1,600 patients were given ECT in the UK and Ireland in 2017, according to psychiatrists.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends the use of ECT for some cases of moderate or severe depression as well as catatonia and mania.\n\nHowever, peer-reviewed research published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry concludes \"the high risk of permanent memory loss and the small mortality risk means that its use should be immediately suspended\".\n\nNICE says their guidance for ECT was last reviewed in 2014 but it would look at it again if new evidence was likely to affect their recommendations.\n\nThe study's lead author, Dr Read, a professor of clinical psychology, describes previous research justifying the use of ECT in the UK and around the world as \"the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career\".\n\nThe paper concedes that \"the severity and significance of the brain damage and memory loss (following ECT) is rarely studied\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A mum of two talks about having electric shock therapy while pregnant\n\nHowever, the researchers go on to say \"it is not hard to find hundreds of personal accounts of debilitating levels of disruption to people's lives\".\n\nIn 2018, a class action case was settled in the US after a federal court ruled that a reasonable jury could find against manufacturers of ECT equipment if they failed to warn of the dangers of brain damage.\n\nOne manufacturer, Somatics, immediately added \"permanent brain damage\" to the list of risks from the treatment.\n\nThe research criticises a British review of the evidence conducted in 2003 for ignoring the lack of data.\n\nCoronation Street actor Beverley Callard has spoken of how she underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat her clinical depression\n\nThe UK ECT Review Group \"fails to acknowledge any of these major problems and unquestioningly included the strong finding in favour of ECT\", it says.\n\nThe article argues the quality of previous studies into ECT is so poor, they \"were wrong to conclude anything about efficacy, either during or beyond the treatment period\".\n\n\"There is no evidence that ECT is effective for its target demographic—older women, or its target diagnostic group—severely depressed people, or for suicidal people, people who have unsuccessfully tried other treatments first, involuntary patients, or children and adolescent\", it says.\n\nThe paper suggests the placebo effect may explain why some patients say they find ECT helpful.\n\nThe study's joint author, Prof Irving Kirsch, an expert on placebo effects based at Harvard Medical School, says \"the failure to find any meaningful benefits in long-term benefits compared to placebo groups are particularly distressing.\n\n\"On the basis of the clinical trial data, ECT should not be used for depressed individuals.\"\n\nIn response to the study, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT should not be suspended for \"some forms of severe mental illness\".\n\nDr Rupert McShane, chair of the college's Committee on ECT and Related Treatments, said there was evidence showing \"most people who receive ECT see an improvement in their condition\".\n\n\"For many, it can be a life-saving treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"As with all treatments for serious medical conditions - from cancer to heart disease - there can be side-effects of differing severity, including memory loss.\"", "Tiger King told of the rivalry between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin\n\nA zoo formerly owned by the star of Netflix documentary Tiger King is to be handed over to the woman he was convicted of trying to have killed.\n\nA federal judge has given Carole Baskin control of Joe Exotic's old zoo in Oklahoma as part of a ruling in a $1m (£800,000) trademark dispute.\n\nJoe Exotic is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot and animal abuse.\n\nThe zoo's current operator has been ordered to leave within 120 days.\n\nTiger King, which became a huge hit on Netflix in March, tells of Joe Exotic's colourful life and his rivalry with Baskin, the owner of an animal sanctuary in Florida.\n\nThe rivalry extended to Exotic - real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage - using logos that resembled those owned by Baskin's Big Cat Rescue company.\n\nBaskin sued Exotic for trademark infringement in 2011, a case that ended two years later with the latter being ordered to pay Big Cat Rescue $1m.\n\nIn 2016, Big Cat Rescue sued Exotic's mother Shirley Schreibvogel, claiming he had fraudulently transferred his zoo to her to avoid paying Baskin and other creditors.\n\nAccording to documents posted online, US District Judge Scott L Palk found the transfer had been made to \"remove [the zoo] from the reach of Big Cat Rescue\".\n\nJeff Lowe, Joe Exotic's former business partner, has been told to vacate the premises in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and remove all of his exotic animals.\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. Spike Lee on George Floyd's death and his new film Da 5 Bloods\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee has said people in the US are angry because they \"live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win\".\n\nThe Oscar-winner said the reasons for the current unrest included the deaths of black people like George Floyd but also wider injustices and inequalities.\n\n\"It's not like you're just born angry,\" he told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.\n\nLee also said President Trump's response showed that \"he's a gangster, he's trying to be a dictator\".\n\nMr Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest across the US.\n\nOn Monday, the president walked from the White House to a nearby fire-damaged church to pose with a Bible, after demonstrators were cleared from his path.\n\nPresident Trump held up a Bible outside the boarded up St John's Church\n\nLee, whose new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods follows a group of African-American war veterans, said: \"I was watching this last night with my family and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged.\n\n\"This show of force - gassing, beating innocent, peaceful bystanders so you could clear the street so you could take a walk to the church. It was ridiculous.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Bible did not look comfortable in his hand, and he didn't look comfortable holding the Bible either. I have never seen something like that before in my life, particularly with a world leader.\"\n\nIn his speech before walking to the church, Mr Trump said: \"I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.\"\n\nMany US cities have seen demonstrations and unrest since the death of 46-year-old Mr Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nOn Sunday, Lee released a short film combining footage of Mr Floyd and Eric Garner, who was killed while being arrested in 2014, with a scene from his 1989 film Do the Right Thing in which the character Radio Raheem is murdered.\n\nA state grand jury declined to press criminal charges against the officer involved in Mr Garner's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm tired of being afraid': Why Americans are protesting\n\n\"Why are people angry?\" Lee said on Tuesday. \"People are angry because black people are being killed left and right, cops walked away free.\n\n\"Black and brown people are angry at the disparity between the haves and have-nots - education, drinking dirty water, racism.\n\n\"People are angry for a reason. It's not like you're just born angry. You're angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win.\n\n\"The life expectancy… There are just so many things that one could make a list of [them] forever - that's where the anger's from.\n\n\"It's a stupid analogy, but if you leave the pot on the stove, the water boils.\"\n\nSocial inequalities have been particularly evident during the coronavirus pandemic, he said, with people from minorities more likely to die after contracting the disease.\n\n\"It's the black and brown people who had to go to work, front-liners of all aspects, they kept this [country] going,\" he said.\n\nAnd racism is far from being unique to the US, he added.\n\n\"Racism is all over the world. This was a global pandemic before corona.\n\n\"I'm a very spiritual person and I don't think that's a coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time.\"\n\nHe traced the inequalities in the US back to the country's foundation.\n\n\"The land was stolen from native people, genocide was committed against the native people, and ancestors were stolen from Africa and brought here to work,\" he said.\n\n\"So the foundation of the United States of America is genocide, stealing land and slavery.\n\n\"Any architect will tell you that if you don't have a strong foundation, the building's going to be shaky, and shaky from day one... This original sin has not been dealt with since the birth of this country.\"\n\nDa 5 Bloods is on Netflix from 12 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US President Donald Trump has previously supported Russia's return to the group\n\nThe UK and Canada have opposed Russia's return to the G7, deepening a rift over US President Donald Trump's wish for the country to rejoin.\n\nMr Trump said on Saturday he would postpone the G7 summit scheduled to take place this month until September.\n\nThe president said the G7's \"outdated group of countries\" should be expanded to include others, including Russia.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin of his plan to invite him to the summit.\n\nThe White House said making \"progress toward convening the G7\" with Russia was among the topics the leaders discussed in a phone call.\n\nThe G7 summit, which the US hosts this year, convenes the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK to discuss matters of co-operation.\n\nBut Mr Trump's invitation to Mr Putin has drawn the ire of the UK and Canada, whose leaders said on Sunday they would not support Russia's readmission to the group.\n\nRussia was expelled from the group - previously known as the G8 - in 2014 in response to its annexation of Crimea.\n\n\"Russia was excluded from the G7 after it invaded Crimea a number of years ago, and its continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules and norms is why it remains outside of the G7, and it will continue to remain out,\" Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he opposes Russia's readmission to the group\n\nEarlier, a spokesman for the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would veto any proposal to allow Russia to rejoin the group.\n\nUnless Russia ceases its \"aggressive and destabilising activity\", the UK would not support the country's readmission to the group, Mr Johnson's spokesman said.\n\n\"Russia was removed from the G7 group of nations following its [2014] annexation of Crimea and we are yet to see evidence of changed behaviour which would justify its readmittance,\" the spokesman told reporters.\n\nNeither the UK or Canadian position rules out Mr Putin's attendance of the summit in the US.\n\nThough representatives of non-G7 members have attended the group's summits before, Mr Putin's presence could prove contentious.\n\nIn recent years, the UK has had an acrimonious relationship with Russia, which it blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England in 2018.\n\nDespite opposition from other G7 members, Mr Trump has repeatedly expressed his support for Russia's return to the group.\n\nAt a G7 summit in 2018, Mr Trump said he thought it \"would be an asset to have Russia back in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump to G7: \"They should let Russia come back in\"\n\nAnnouncing the delay of this year's G7 summit on Saturday, Mr Trump echoed that sentiment.\n\nHe said he did not feel the group \"properly represents what's going on in the world\", suggesting Russia, South Korea, Australia and India should be invited.\n\nThe leaders of South Korea and Australia have expressed interest in attending the summit in the US.\n\nLast week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the president's invitation to attend a summit in person because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe G7 summit was held in France in 2019\n\nThe G7 (or Group of Seven) is an organisation made up of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies.\n\nThe leaders of these countries meet annually at summits to discuss issues of global governance, including climate change, security and the economy.\n\nThe group regards itself as \"a community of values\", with freedom and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and prosperity and sustainable development as its key principles.\n• None G7: What is it doing about Ukraine?", "Londoners were three time more likely to die from coronavirus than those in the south-west of England, a study has found.\n\nUp to 8 May there were 7,369 deaths linked to coronavirus in London, according to Public Health England.\n\nWhen taking into account the usual mortality rate and age of the two areas this was 3.7 times more than the least affected region - the south-west, which saw 2,187 deaths over the same period.\n\nThe study found 9,035 excess deaths in London over the same period. Or to put it another way, nearly 10,000 more Londoners have died this year than you would expect - coronavirus is directly linked to 81.7% of these, but not all.", "British soldiers who have been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq are unlikely to face criminal prosecution.\n\nIndependent investigators were asked to look at thousands of allegations made against the British military after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nBut the director of the Service Prosecution Authority (SPA) said just one remaining case was being examined.\n\nAndrew Cayley said the \"low level\" of offending and lack of credible evidence had led most cases to be dismissed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme, Mr Cayley said most of those cases were sifted out at a very early stage because of the lack of credible evidence or because the offending was \"at such a very low level\".\n\nMore than 1,000 cases were made by former lawyer Phil Shiner and his firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). In 2017 he was struck off as a solicitor after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and dishonesty, including false accounts about the actions of UK soldiers.\n\nMr Cayley said seven remaining cases had been referred to the SPA, but in six of those cases it was concluded that no charges should be brought.\n\nOne case is still being considered, but Mr Cayley admitted that it is now \"quite possible\" that none of the original allegations will lead to a prosecution.\n\nMr Cayley also said he is confident a separate investigation being conducted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague will conclude this year without further action being taken.\n\nIn 2014, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda re-opened a preliminary examination of cases involving alleged British abuses in Iraq.\n\nMr Cayley said he was \"convinced\" that examination would soon be completed without any further action.\n\nHe said: \"My sense is these matters are coming to a conclusion; she will close the preliminary examination this year in respect of Iraq and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe cloud hanging over British service personnel accused of wrongdoing has already left a bitter taste and contributed to political pressure to do more to protect soldiers on the battlefield from criminal and civil prosecution for alleged actions which took place years ago.\n\nEarlier this year the government presented a bill promising to curb historic allegations and tackle what it calls \"vexatious claims\" against armed forces deployed overseas.\n\nThe bill proposes a five-year time limit on any criminal prosecution unless compelling new evidence is brought to light.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Defence said it was strongly opposed to service personnel and veterans being subjected to the threat of repeated investigations and potential prosecutions.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the bill was introduced \"to reduce the uncertainty currently faced by service personnel and veterans in relation to historic allegations\" - and aimed to make sure \"that we never end up in a situation like this again\".\n\nBut human rights groups and some lawyers have already expressed concern - saying the legislation could place the military above the law, and undermine existing international conventions.\n\nDavid Greene, vice-president of the Law Society, said a balance must be struck to ensure charges are only brought when warranted.\n\nBut he added: \"The argument behind time limits for British service personnel deployed overseas is that there has been a rise in historic prosecutions. Based on Andrew Cayley's comments the evidence for such an assertion is lacking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's \"mismanagement\" of the easing of virus restrictions risks a second wave of infections, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned.\n\nIn a Guardian interview, he urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public confidence in ministers' handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut No 10 said it was proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery.\n\nIt comes as the government is to outline further details of its quarantine plans later.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel is to tell MPs that the proposals - which have been met with criticism from many Conservative MPs - are necessary to avoid the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, the majority of those arriving in the UK will be told to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nBut Portugal's foreign minister has told the BBC that his government is talking to Home Office officials about a so-called \"air bridge\" agreement so that tourists returning from his country can avoid the restrictions.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said he hopes people will be able to go on holiday this year but cautioned \"I'm not going to say a particular date on when that might happen\".\n\n\"We will have to be guided by how the disease behaves, controlling any risk of a second wave and controlling the disease,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIn the Guardian, the Labour leader also said there was a growing concern that Mr Johnson was now \"winging it\" over moves to reopen schools and relax shielding advice.\n\nEchoing Sir Keir's criticism of the government, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have seen an exit from the lockdown with no strategy to make it work.\"\n\nThe Labour MP said the easing of lockdown restrictions was \"the time of maximum danger\" and that the party was calling for an \"effective\" test, trace and isolate strategy, \"fast access to testing\" and \"clear\" public messaging.\n\nIn one of his first acts as Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer announced he would not indulge in opposition for opposition's sake.\n\nThis was seen as a decisive break from his own party's recent past.\n\nBut now he wants to create more distance between the government and the opposition.\n\nSome say they have noted a more hostile, less consensual tone towards Boris Johnson from Sir Keir.\n\nBut, in truth, Sir Keir's stated policy of \"constructive criticism\" has already tended to emphasise the latter of those two words at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAnd his approach today has much in common with his approach before - to put down a marker in case things go wrong.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt has stressed the importance of a \"functioning\" test and trace system, which he suggested could be used in place of quarantine measures.\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Mr Hunt highlighted comments by Professor John Newton, the national testing co-ordinator, who said contact tracing for travellers arriving in the UK could be used instead of quarantine rules.\n\n\"If you know that you are going to track down anyone that comes from abroad and isolate them really quickly, then you don't need to have a blanket quarantine measure that stops people going on holiday or doing business trips,\" Mr Hunt, the chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, said.\n\nUnder the quarantine rules, passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days\n\nHe added that turning around coronavirus test results within 24 hours was \"absolutely essential\" for an effective test and trace system.\n\nHe express concerned over the time it is taking for tests results to come back, following Sage - the group of scientists advising government - documents that said keeping the R number below one would require 80% of contacts to be found within 48 hours.\n\n\"If the test results themselves take 48 hours to come back, that is going to be impossible,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said while Labour wanted to see society re-open and businesses begin to get back on their feet, he had deep misgivings about the approach in England, compared with that in Wales and Scotland.\n\nHe said children had returned to schools before the system for identifying new cases and tracing their contacts was fully up and running.\n\nHe also complained that public health officials had been given no notice of the changes to shielding advice for the most vulnerable - which was announced a month before a review had been due to take place.\n\n\"After a week or more of mismanagement, I'm deeply concerned the government has made a difficult situation 10 times worse,\" he said. \"We've called for an exit strategy. What we appear to have got is an exit without a strategy.\"\n\nHe warned that trust in the government had been \"burnt\" at a crucial time by the controversy surrounding the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings and whether he broke the lockdown rules.\n\n\"Like many people across the country, there is a growing concern the government is now winging it,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"At precisely the time when there should have been maximum trust in the government, confidence has collapsed.\n\n\"I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government's handling of the epidemic.\n\n\"If we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate, or a swathe of local lockdowns, responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said its focus was on \"helping the country recover safely from coronavirus and restoring the livelihoods of millions of people across the country\".\n\n\"Now is the time to look to the future and not the past, as we continue to fight this virus while taking cautious steps to ease restrictions. The PM looks forward to hearing any concrete proposals Labour has to offer.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the PM has established two new cabinet committees to support the next phase of the Covid response - one overseeing the strategy for the recovery and the other the delivery of policy.", "Data on how the coronavirus can spread between aircraft passengers is in short supply\n\nAir passengers should have restricted access to toilets on flights as part of wide-ranging coronavirus safety recommendations, a UN agency has said.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines also include limiting or suspending food and drink services on short-haul flights.\n\nThe new guidelines are designed to protect air passengers and workers from the Covid-19 virus as lockdown eases.\n\nAirlines could see revenues plunge £314bn in 2020, the ICAO added.\n\nThe aviation industry has been struggling as lockdown measures around the world have limited flights and passenger numbers.\n\nAs those travel restrictions begin to ease, the ICAO has issued guidelines for governments, with the aim of airlines and airports having a unified response when trying to keep passengers and staff safe from coronavirus.\n\nThe ICAO stopped short of saying that passengers must be socially-distanced on planes, but it did say they should be seated separately \"when occupancy allows it\".\n\nPassengers should travel as lightly as possible, with small hand luggage stowed under their seat. Newspapers and magazines should be removed, and duty free sales should be temporarily limited, the UN's civil aviation body said.\n\nShort-haul food and drinks services should be limited or suspended, or be sold in sealed, pre-packaged containers.\n\nAccess to toilets should also be restricted, the ICAO said. Where possible, one toilet should be set aside for use by cabin crew, and passengers should use a designated lavatory based on which seat they have.\n\nThe new recommendations cover airports, aircraft, crew and cargo.\n\nIn general, face masks should be worn in line with public health guidelines, and social distancing should be made possible where it is feasible, the UN body said.\n\nAreas should be routinely cleaned, and passengers should be checked for signs of coronavirus, by screening temperatures, for example. Contact tracing methods should also be explored.\n\nAt airports, staff should have adequate personal protective equipment, which \"could include gloves, medical masks, goggles or a face shield, and gowns or aprons,\" the guidelines said.\n\nPassengers should be encouraged to check-in before getting to the airport, and to use mobile boarding passes.\n\nAirports should also use contactless technology, including facial and iris scanning, for \"self-service bag drops, various queue access, boarding gates and retail and duty-free outlets\", the guidelines say.\n\n\"This will eliminate or greatly reduce the need for contact with travel documents between staff and passengers,\" the UN agency added.\n\nThe recommendations are extensive and detailed - a blueprint for aviation in the Covid-19 era; and one fact stands out. Flying, for a while at least, is not going to be a whole lot of fun.\n\nFrom the moment you arrive at the terminal building, armed with your pre-printed boarding pass and luggage tags, human contact will be limited, social distancing the norm. Masks will be obligatory, and supplies of hand sanitiser everywhere.\n\nIf you don't like potentially intrusive technology, tough - ICAO suggests that \"contactless biometrics such as facial or iris recognition \" should be used wherever possible, to reduce physical contact between staff and passengers.\n\nAnd it continues on board the plane: there are instructions to \"limit interaction on board\" - so no striking up a conversation with your neighbour - to reduce or suspend food and drink services, and to restrict lavatory access.\n\nWhat ICAO is trying to do here is create a common and consistent framework for the industry to follow around the world - allowing people to travel, while placating even the strictest health authorities.\n\nIt insists the new measures should be temporary.\n\nBut for the moment, anything that was left of the once-lauded romance of flying looks set to disappear in a pungent cloud of disinfectant.\n\nAirlines and aerospace firms have been struggling amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAt the beginning of May, Virgin Atlantic said it would axe 3,000 jobs and quit Gatwick. Later in the month, engine-maker Rolls Royce said it would cut 9,000 jobs.\n\nThere has been a huge reduction in air travel, with daily flights down about 80% since the start of the year.\n\nBut now carriers are making plans to get airborne again, with plans to reintroduce some schedules.", "Zoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues\n\nWhen it comes to its growth rate, video conference company Zoom has lived up to its name.\n\nUse of the firm's software jumped 30-fold in April, as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions to work, learn and socialise remotely.\n\nAt its peak, the firm counted more than 300 million daily participants in virtual meetings, while paying customers have more than tripled.\n\nThe dramatic uptake has the potential to change the firm's path.\n\nZoom said it expects sales as high as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) this year - roughly double what it forecast in March.\n\nMr Yuan didn't intend to create Zoom for the masses.\n\nZoom has made Eric Yuan, whose visa application to the US was denied eight times, a billionaire\n\nA Chinese-born software engineer, Mr Yuan started the company in 2011, after years rising through the ranks at WebEx, one of the first US video conference companies, which was purchased by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2bn.\n\nAt the time, he faced doubts from many investors, who did not see the need for another option in a market already dominated by big players such as Microsoft and Cisco.\n\nBut Mr Yuan - who has credited his interest in video conferencing to the long distances he had to travel to meet up with his now-wife in their youth - was frustrated at Cisco and believed there was demand in the business world for software that would work on mobile phones and be easier to use.\n\nWhen the firm sold its first shares to the public last year, it was valued at $15.9bn. That shot to more than $58bn on Tuesday.\n\n\"What Zoom has done is kind of democratised video conferencing for all kinds of businesses and made it very simple for everyone from yoga instructors through to board room executives to deploy video,\" says Alex Smith, senior director at Canalys.\n\nWhen the lockdowns started, Zoom lifted the limits for the free version of its software in China and for educators in many countries, including the UK, helping to drive its popularity.\n\nBut the firm's bread and butter customers are corporate clients, who pay for subscriptions and enhanced features.\n\nZoom said on Tuesday that sales jumped 169% year-on-year in the three months to 30 April to $328.2m, as it added more than 180,000 customers with more than 10 employees since January - far more than it had expected.\n\nIt also turned a profit of $27m in the quarter - more than it made in all of the prior financial year.\n\nThe massive uptake has also strained the firm, forcing it to invest to expand capacity to meet the needs of new users, many of whom are not paying customers.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nIt has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.\n\nIn April, Mr Yuan, who is a US citizen, apologised for the security lapses and the firm started rolling out a number of changes intended to fix the problems. Zoom has also announced a number of new appointments familiar with Washington politics, including H R McMaster, a retired Army general and former national security adviser to Donald Trump.\n\n\"Navigating this process has been a humbling learning experience,\" Mr Yuan said on an investor call on Tuesday.\n\nAnalysts said they expected the company would overcome these reputational blows.\n\n\"It's had that mishap and the fact that its name is still very much used as verbatim with video technology still gives it a lot of momentum and opportunity to continue,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAnalysts say they expect Zoom to maintain its focus on business customers, since that's how it makes money.\n\nBut the pandemic is likely to create more challenges for Zoom in that market, as increased demand for remote work prompts competitors such as Microsoft and Cisco to pour resources into the field.\n\n\"The stakes are higher and the competition's getting tougher, so we'll see,\" says Ryan Koontz, managing director at Rosenblatt Securities.\n\n\"They were on a very strong trajectory before... and happened to be in the right place at the right time as the whole world decided we needed to communicate well on video,\" he says. \"They have this amazing brand... now they have to leverage that brand and figure out which markets they're going to go after.\"", "President Donald Trump has sparked controversy with his photo shoot\n\nLast night he held a Bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House. Today, he'll visit the Shrine to St John Paul II, also in Washington DC.\n\nBut US President Donald Trump's signalling of religious affiliation has not been welcomed by a range of clerics as the nation struggles to manage the twin challenges of a pandemic and widespread political protest.\n\nThe Episcopal Bishop of Washington, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, said: \"The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.\"\n\nJames Martin, a Jesuit priest and consultant to the Vatican's communications department, tweeted: \"Let me be clear. This is revolting. The Bible is not a prop. A church is not a photo op. Religion is not a political tool. God is not your plaything.\"\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\nRabbi Jack Moline, President of the Interfaith Alliance, said: \"Seeing President Trump standing in front of St John's Episcopal Church while holding a Bible in response to calls for racial justice - right after using military force to clear peaceful protesters - is one of the most flagrant misuses of religion that I have ever seen.\"\n\nPresident Trump does not belong to a particular congregation, only occasionally attends a service and has said many times that he does not like to ask God for forgiveness.\n\nBut while he may not consider church essential to his personal life, it may yet hold the keys to his political future.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trump won 81% of white evangelical votes and exit polls found that white Catholics supported him over Hillary Clinton by 60% to 37%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump declares himself the \"law and order president\"\n\nMr Trump's status, as the champion of evangelical and conservative voters, can seem peculiar given his use of divisive rhetoric, his three marriages, accusations of sexual assault by dozens of women, the hush-money paid to a pornographic film actress, and the record of false statements made during his presidency - more than 18,000 according to the Poynter Institute's Politifact website.\n\nBut he has sealed a powerful bond with religious voters by embracing their political priorities and appointing two Supreme Court justices - Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - and federal judges with their support.\n\nThis may explain why - though an irregular congregant himself - the president has repeatedly demanded the reopening of churches, saying, on 22 May, \"If they don't do it, I will override the governors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nReligious conservatives appear to be the most solid core of Mr Trump's voter base, despite political unrest and the vast number of deaths from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the latest Pew Research Poll, 75% of white evangelical Protestants say he's doing a good job in handling the pandemic - down 6 percentage points from six weeks before.\n\nBut while one voting bloc remains faithful, the country at large is deeply divided. According to analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight, which collates all polling data, 43% of Americans agree with the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, while 53.4% disapprove.\n\nSeveral religious leaders are hoping that Trump's visit to the shrine may encourage him to reflect on the words of then Pope John Paul II, delivered to the United Nations in 1995.\n\n\"The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the 20th Century,\" he said, \"is the common effort to build the civilization of love.\"", "Simon Waddup said he \"kept hearing this voice telling me to buy a lottery ticket\" before playing online\n\nAn electrician who has been unable to work for a year through ill health has won £1m on the Euromillions lottery.\n\nSimon Waddup, 31, of Coventry, said he hoped the win meant he could realise his \"dream\" of buying and doing up old properties.\n\nHe said a rare blood disorder and faulty heart valve had \"constantly held me back\".\n\nMr Waddup added his daughter, 10, hoped the win meant she could go on holiday abroad for the first time.\n\n\"For as long as I can remember I have wanted to buy old properties, do them up and build my own portfolio,\" he said.\n\n\"Friends and family laughed at my dream, especially when I was a teenager.\"\n\nHe studied Design Technology, worked on building sites and trained to become an electrician with this ambition in mind.\n\nHowever, he said ill health had meant he had \"been in and out of hospital a lot over the last few years\" and had been unable to work since last summer.\n\nMr Waddup said he had played the Euromillions game for the first time this month and had been in \"a bit of a daze\" since the win.\n\n\"Due to coronavirus, I can't celebrate with my family and I can't wait to see people and talk about the win - I will definitely be treating my family,\" he said.\n\n\"I will also get a passport for my daughter and, when we can, take a trip abroad - she has already told me that she wants to go to Spain.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "War-torn Yemen was already experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis Image caption: War-torn Yemen was already experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis\n\nThe UN’s secretary-general has warned that there is a “race against time” to combat the coronavirus in Yemen, where a civil war has already caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.\n\nReports indicated that mortality rates from Covid-19 in the second city of Aden were among the highest in the world, António Guterres told a virtual pledging conference .\n\n“That is just one sign of what lies ahead, if we do not act now,” he added.\n\nJust half of Yemen’s health facilities are operational. There are shortages of testing devices, oxygen, ambulances and protective equipment. Many healthcare workers are among those who have been infected. And 50% of the population do not have access to clean water to wash their hands.\n\nHalf of Yemenis do not have access to clean water Image caption: Half of Yemenis do not have access to clean water\n\nGuterres said the UN and its partners urgently need $2.4bn (£1.9bn) in funding to cover their operations for the rest of the year. Otherwise, 30 out of 41 major UN programmes will have to close in the next few weeks in a country where 24 million people depend on aid.\n\nThe UK has pledged £160m, which Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said would “mean the difference between life and death for thousands of Yemenis”.", "Oxfam has asked people to call ahead before donating goods, because storage space at its network of charity shops might be limited.\n\nOxfam stores will begin reopening in England from 15 June.\n\nThe charity said it could not yet confirm which stores would open in the first phase, nor how many of them.\n\nHowever, it said there would be space for social distancing, while staff and volunteers would have the necessary personal protective equipment.\n\nAll surfaces, doors and equipment will be regularly cleaned and donated items will be isolated for 72 hours.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said it was aware that many people had been \"busy decluttering under lockdown\" and the charity was excited about receiving the resulting donations.\n\nHowever, the charity also pointed out that with the need to quarantine donated items, storage space could be restricted, so it asked people to call ahead to check beforehand.\n\nAll Oxfam shops have been closed since 21 March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move to start reopening them comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that non-essential retailers would be able to reopen in England.\n\nOxfam shops in Scotland and Wales will remain closed at this stage, as no dates have yet been set for retailers to reopen there.\n\nOxfam has the third-largest network of charity shops in the UK, with 595 High Street outlets around the country.\n\nOther charities, including British Heart Foundation and Barnardo's, have already announced their own plans to resume operations at a limited number of shops.\n\nOxfam said it would take time to reopen all English branches, as they varied in size and shape. Arrangements to curb the spread of the virus had to be made on a completely individual, shop-by-shop basis, it said.\n\nMr Sriskandarajah said: \"Our shops are a much-loved part of their communities and, at this difficult time, we can't wait to reopen our doors and reconnect with our supporters and shoppers.\n\n\"Our shop staff and volunteers are working hard to make sure we can welcome the public back into Oxfam stores safely.\"\n\nThe charity also said it was appealing for volunteers to help shops get back to business over the summer. Each shop typically has a team of 30 dedicated volunteers and one or two staff, with more than 20,000 volunteers required in all.\n\nThe UK's 11,000 charity shops help raise almost £300m for good causes each year and the people who run them are expecting a surge of donations when they open their doors again,\n\nRobin Osterley, chief executive of the Charity Retail Association, said that shops were expecting to be \"full to bursting\".", "Drug gangs have been on a \"recruitment drive\" during lockdown, targeting vulnerable children and increasingly girls, according to a report.\n\nThey are being groomed to carry drugs, because they are unknown to police, the National Youth Agency says.\n\nAnd social media and \"unsafe outdoor spaces\" are being used to recruit them.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England warned with schools and youth clubs closed, thousands of vulnerable young people had \"simply gone off the radar\".\n\n\"Lockdown removed many of the usual ways of identifying children at risk of being exploited by gangs,\" Anne Longfield added.\n\nThe National Youth Agency report, based on responses from youth workers on the ground, is the first detailed examination of drug gangs during lockdown.\n\nIt has been sent to the government.\n\n\"There is increased concern around the use of girls for gang activity\", it says, because they find it easier to move around during lockdown.\n\nIn Bristol, where children make up nearly a fifth of the population, 65 have been identified as at \"highest risk of criminal exploitation\".\n\nIn a deserted adventure playground, in Hartcliffe, in the south of the city, lead youth worker Rob Farrow remembers, before the lockdown was implemented on 23 March, a safe place buzzing with young people.\n\n\"As soon as they walk in through those gates, they know 100% they are safe,\" he says.\n\n\"It gives them that moment to relax and be children without being worried that they are going to be exploited into a gang.\n\n\"What you might see through crime statistics is everything's gone down\n\n\"Actually, the reality is those at risk are now way more at risk.\n\n\"And those that weren't at risk are now at risk.\n\n\"What we've seen is young females introduced by their young male peers in order to get involved in criminal activity that we hadn't seen previously.\n\n\"The worst thing is, because we're not doing this work, we can't see those kids.\n\nMr Farrow's colleague, Joe Secret, says: \"We now see young people in areas that are hotspots that were never involved in [crime] before\".\n\nAnother youth worker, Omari Cato, says: \"These are very fragile minds that don't quite understand that they're being groomed.\n\nNational Youth Agency chief executive Leigh Middleton said: \"Covid-19 brought youth services in many areas to an abrupt halt, just at the time it was needed most.\n\n\"Without ready access to a youth worker, we fear a surge in violence and exploitation post-lockdown.\"\n\nMeanwhile, police have used new tactics to close down 87 phone lines used to sell drugs.\n\n\"We need to design out the ability to run these lines,\" Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Cressida Dick said.\n\n\"We will work with whoever necessary to restrict the ability of these individuals to carry out this activity and destroy the business model of county lines entirely.\"", "Gyms in Düsseldorf have already reopened\n\nA woman lifts the weights over her head one last time then drops them to ground with a grunt of exhaustion, turning her head towards the slight breeze coming in from the open door.\n\nThis ladies-only gym in Düsseldorf has just reopened. Life in Germany is beginning to look a little like it did before coronavirus silenced its beer gardens, grounded its aircraft and brought production lines to a standstill.\n\nSchools, businesses, restaurants, shops and churches have either reopened or are about to - with strict social distancing measures. There's even the promise of summer holidays elsewhere in Europe.\n\nBut Britta, who's just finished her workout, is unsure about easing restrictions.\n\n\"I'm torn,\" she said. \"I enjoy the new freedoms but at the same time I'm rather scared, maybe it was too early. I think people need to be careful still and mustn't be careless.\"\n\nGermany's calm and successful handling of the pandemic attracted international attention. But its next moves have been chaotic, characterised by squabbling between regional leaders which has culminated in a faster lifting of restrictions than Chancellor Angela Merkel would have liked.\n\nThe leaders of Germany's 16 states have the power to decide how and when they do that.\n\nUnable to agree a common strategy, they've instituted a patchwork of rules and regulations, with people in one state able to, for example, use the gym again, while in another region, fitness centres have remained closed.\n\nIt's fuelled an intense public debate about the \"Lockerung\" or relaxation policy, with many fearing that Germany could squander its initial success.\n\nSome worry Germany is lifting its lockdown restrictions too quickly\n\n\"It's too soon, we're easing up too fast and too much and we risk a second wave,\" said Professor Frank Montgomery, who chairs the World Medical Association.\n\nProfessor Montgomery speaks for many when he says that there's been \"a beauty contest\" from the premiers of the different German states which \"risks all that we have achieved\".\n\nIn the warmth of the early evening sun, cyclists glide around couples and families strolling along Düsseldorf's riverfront. Under a pavement table, a dog opens a lazy eye as a waiter brings beer and wine to cheerful customers.\n\nAs yet, there's been no significantly adverse effect (beyond a couple of outbreaks linked to churches and slaughterhouses) on Germany's infection figures. But, with newly reopened shops and restaurants reporting that customers are cautious and slow to return, it may be too soon to tell.\n\nSurveys suggest that the German public were accepting of the restrictions, that they approved of Angela Merkel's cautious approach, despite the terrible impact on the country's economy.\n\nSo why have some regional politicians been so enthusiastic to open up society again?\n\nSome appear to have been spooked by recent street protests against the measures, perhaps remembering how the small grassroots protest movement Pegida grew into a full-on backlash against Mrs Merkel's refugee policy and seats in parliament for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).\n\nThe anti-lockdown movement - which appears to be dwindling - has brought together left and right wing extremists, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers, and could hardly be said to represent the general population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Berlin has seen small protests against the lockdown\n\nBut many suspect there's another reason for that so-called beauty contest. Angela Merkel is due to stand down next year after four terms in office. The race to succeed her was well under way but the coronavirus crisis has transformed political and public life and, with it, the chances of those with ambitions to the Chancellery.\n\nSome, like the businessman Friedrich Merz, have all but disappeared from the spotlight while others, like the country's health minister Jens Spahn or Bavaria's premier, Markus Söder - who grabbed headlines by announcing the first lockdown in his state - are being talked about as possible chancellors in waiting.\n\nArmin Laschet, whose office overlooks the Düsseldorf waterfront, has been one of the most voluble agitators for a swift relaxation of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe premier of North Rhine-Westphalia - and one of the leading chancellor candidates - denies that his approach has anything to do with trying to maintain a high profile through the crisis.\n\n\"The measures we had to decide now are so important - a matter of life and death - you couldn't act on a tactical basis,\" he said. \"Among the population it was much more popular to close everything down but I thought that was wrong…I acted out of a basic sense of responsibility to this state.\"\n\nArmin Laschet believes lockdown restrictions should be eased more rapidly\n\nHe's a cheerful chap who enthusiastically jabs a finger at official charts showing the downward trend in infection rates. Mr Laschet says it's best that every region, with their differing economies, geographies and infections, should act independently.\n\n\"We have the health problem of the pandemic, the infection, disease, but there are other damages,\" he said.\n\n\"For children from disadvantaged backgrounds: If they can't go to school for 10 weeks they lose chances. Sick people who didn't have Covid-19 didn't get treatment because the hospitals were reserved for Covid-19. People in care homes got lonely, lost the will to live.\"\n\n\"These are damages too and they claimed lives. It's why I always thought you have to consider both sides of the story, not just the virological one,\" he said.\n\nNot far away, in a tent outside a care home, I sit opposite Katharina Resch. A perspex screen divides us but it means we can talk safely, face to face.\n\nKatharina Resch believes politicians are under huge pressure to get things back to normal\n\nThe relaxation has meant her family has now been able to visit the pensioner. But the staff worry. They've kept the virus out but fear the impact of a second lockdown on their residents if general infection levels rise.\n\nKatharina's concerned, likening the rush to lift restrictions to upending a sack of potatoes.\n\n\"I'm sceptical that this head over heels [approach] is a good thing,\" he said. \"But I think politicians are so under pressure that they have to do something.\"\n\nA care worker wheels Katharine back into the home and she waves goodbye. Germany may have got its outbreak under control for now but scientists and politicians are watching anxiously.\n\nIt is, as Angela Merkel has repeatedly acknowledged, a fragile success.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous 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. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, 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 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Up to 3,000 jobs are at risk after one of the country's biggest restaurant operators decided as many as 120 outlets will not reopen after lockdown, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkels, has about 600 outlets across the UK, with about 22,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIt is understood that Frankie & Benny's will bear the brunt of the closures.\n\nThe company, which declined to comment, was due to inform staff on Wednesday,\n\nIn an email to managers seen by the BBC on Tuesday, the company said: \"Many sites are no longer viable to trade and will remain closed permanently.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has significantly impacted our ability to trade profitably, so we've taken the tough decision to close these restaurants now.\"\n\nThe group appears to be speeding up previous plans to shut restaurants as trade suffers due to the pandemic.\n\nThe email was sent to managers in the group's Leisure Division, which includes more than 200 Frankie & Benny's outlets.\n\nIt is not clear which outlets will be shut, or exactly how many, but BBC was told on Wednesday that up to 120 are at risk.\n\nThe group also owns the Wagamama chain and some pub units. Wagamama is not part of the division which received the email and the vast majority of its restaurants are expected to reopen.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said in March that 61 out of 80 branches of its Tex-Mex dining chain Chiquito's would remain closed permanently as it fell into administration.\n\nIt cited the Covid-19 outbreak as having had \"an immediate and significant impact on trading\".\n\nHowever, the group had already announced in February, prior to the introduction of lockdown measures, that it would speed up existing plans to close restaurants.\n\nInitially it had planned to make 150 closures - which were first signalled in 2019 - over a six-year period. It then said it would close 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\n\"I feel completely overwhelmed and upset,\" says Georgia. She has been working as a part-time waitress at one Frankie & Benny's outlet since last April.\n\n\"I'm angry, as they feel as though staff are disposable,\" she says, adding that the lack of certainty around work amid lockdown has created mental stress.\n\n\"I just can't believe that they would send that kind of message to managers without any warning,\" she adds.\n\nThe group had already seen sales falling across many outlets. That came despite stronger revenues across the wider group in its Wagamamas and pub units.\n\nIt said in February that like-for-like sales - which strip out new restaurant openings - in the division that includes Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, fell by 2.8% in 2019.\n\nMany casual dining chains had already been struggling in the face of rising overheads and falling consumer spending.\n\nBut those in the hospitality sector have seen their problems worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic, as customers have been forced to stay at home amid lockdown.\n\nCarluccio's, for example, was bought out of administration by the owner of Giraffe restaurants.\n\nDespite its rescue, more than 1,000 jobs will be lost at the Italian restaurant chain, more than half of its total workforce. 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